Drama

• Nowhere Boy | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £4.97   |  Saving you £13.02 (261.97%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The highly anticipated feature debut from artist Sam Taylor-Wood, "Nowhere Boy" is a sensitive and sprightly look at the formative years of one of Britain's cultural icons.

• The Penguin Lessons | Blu Ray | (14/07/2025) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring Oscar nominee Steve Coogan, this poignant dramedy from director Peter Cattaneo (Military Wives, TIFF '19) follows an Englishman's personal and political awakening after he adopts a penguin during a cataclysmic period in Argentine history.

• The Grand Budapest Hotel | DVD | (07/07/2014) from £8.25   |  Saving you £11.74 (142.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL recounts the adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.

• For Whom The Bell Tolls | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £5.34   |  Saving you £4.65 (87.08%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on the best-selling controversial novel by Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' graces the screen with legendary stars Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. The story follows expatriate American demolition expert Robert Jordan who aides anti-fascist freedom fighters of Spain. Assisting him is a band of warriors including the strong-willed Pilar (Katina Paxinou in an Oscar winning performance) the dangerously undependable Pablo and th

• The Godfather 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (31/10/2022) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  No movie changed Hollywood more than THE GODFATHER. From the best-sellingvnovel by Mario Puzo to box office blockbuster, its influential legacy endures to this day. Starring Marlon Brando in his Oscar®-winning performance as the patriarch of the Corleone family, this first installment in the three-movie saga paints a dramatic portrait of the Sicilian clan's rise and near fall from power in America. Balanced between the Corleone's commitment to family and the ugly crime business in which they are engaged, it features career-making performances by Al Pacino, James Caan, Talia Shire, Diane Keaton and Robert Duvall. This searing and brilliant masterpiece garnered ten Oscar® nominations and won three, including Best Picture. Product Features Introduction From Francis Ford Coppola Commentary By Francis Ford Coppola

• Tulsa King: Season One Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (05/06/2023) from £15.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  TULSA KING follows New York mafia capo Dwight The General Manfredi (Oscar® nominee* Sylvester Stallone) just after he is released from prison after 25 years and unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Realising that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a crew from a group of unlikely characters to help him establish a new criminal empire in a place that to him might as well be another planet. This Season 1 release includes all 9 episodes with over 90 minutes of bonus content that goes behind the scenes with the cast and crew in 6 never-before-seen making-of featurettes. Special Features Stranger in a Strange Land: Genesis Carpe D.M.: Stallone Mercy and Malice: The Cast Haberdashery: Costume Design Outthink Your Enemy: Stunts The Here and Now: On Location in Tulsa Plus, Behind the Story For Every Episode

• Silent Witness - Series 5 and 6 | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £10.89   |  Saving you £14.10 (129.48%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Series 5: Sam's cases involve a series of revenge killings by a former Auschwitz prisoner; the mysterious deaths of teenage girls killed 15 years apart in Norway; a suspicious suicide and a beautiful Nun in a convent by the sea - very different stories all employing Sam's expertise to the maximum. Series 6: Sam Ryan is in constant demand. Dedicated and driven she wants to know about the person behind the dead body and how and why they died. Now she has two dynamic new colleagues to assist her: Dr Leo Dalton and junior pathologist Harry Cunningham. Mysteries facing the team include a severed arm which exposes a police cover-up and prostitution ring; a seven-year-old corpse linked to a violent armed robbery; and the mass murder of a family the investigation of which reunites Sam with a former love.

• Full Metal Jacket Steelbook | Blu Ray | (31/03/2025) from £25.00   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Director Stanley Kubrick rips the skin from the face of war to expose the dehumanizing effect of the military on the people fed to its emotional meat grinder in Full Metal Jacket. Through the eyes of an 18-year-old recruit--from his first days in the seeming hell of Marine Corps boot camp as his superiors try to strip of him his individuality and re-create him as a Marine, to the hell of the 1968 Tet offensive, Kubrick reveals the damage done to the collective human soul by the inhumanity of war.

• The Man Who Invented Christmas | DVD | (12/11/2018) from £7.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey, Beauty and the Beast) as Charles Dickens, The Man Who Invented Christmas tells the true story of how the iconic author came to write the seminal yuletide novel A Christmas Carol in only six weeks. Set in 1840s London, Dickens had been struggling to come up with fresh ideas after the failure of his last three works. However, when he's inspired by the vision of a story that would fire the hearts of humanity, he set out to write and self-publish a book that would reignite his career. As the likes of Ebenezer Scrooge (played by Academy Award-winner Christopher Plummer) and The Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present and Future start coming to life in his head, Dickens began creating a masterpiece that gave birth to the Christmas we know and love today.

• August Rush | DVD | (31/03/2008) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A drama with fairy tale elements as an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding his birth parents.

• The Apartment | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £8.00   |  Saving you £7.99 (99.88%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Romance at its most anti-romantic--that is the Billy Wilder stamp of genius, and this Best Picture Academy Award winner from 1960 is no exception. Set in a decidedly unsavoury world of corporate climbing and philandering, the great filmmaker's trenchant, witty satire-melodrama takes the office politics of a corporation and plays them out in the apartment of lonely clerk CC Baxter (Jack Lemmon). By lending out his digs to the higher-ups for nightly extramarital flings with their secretaries, Baxter has managed to ascend the business ladder faster than even he imagined. The story turns even uglier, though, when Baxter's crush on the building's melancholy elevator operator (Shirley MacLaine) runs up against her long-standing affair with the big boss (a superbly smarmy Fred MacMurray). The situation comes to a head when she tries to commit suicide in Baxter's apartment. Not the happiest or cleanest of scenarios, and one that earned the famously caustic and cynically humoured Wilder his share of outraged responses, but looking at it now, it is a funny, startlingly clear-eyed vision of urban emptiness and is unfailingly understanding of the crazy decisions our hearts sometimes make. Lemmon and MacLaine are ideally matched and while everyone cites Wilder's Some Like It Hot closing line "Nobody's perfect" as his best, MacLaine's no-nonsense final words--"Shut up and deal"--are every bit as memorable. Wilder won three Oscars for The Apartment, for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay (cowritten with long-time collaborator I A L Diamond). --Robert Abele

• Blue Bloods: The Thirteenth Season | DVD | (27/11/2023) from £21.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All 21 episodes from the 13th season of the US drama following a family of New York cops headed by Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck). As well as the head of the family, Frank is the New York City Police Commissioner, following in the footsteps of his father. Frank's children also share his passion for law and order: Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) is an NYC detective, Erin (Bridget Moynahan) works in the District Attorney's office and Frank's youngest son Jamie (Will Estes) works undercover. In this season Jamie is hospitalised after working a case, Frank decides not to endorse a candidate for District Attorney, and Erin's relationship with Jack (Peter Hermann) comes under strain. The episodes are: 'Keeping the Faith', 'First Blush', 'Ghosted', 'Life During Wartime', 'Homefront', 'On Dangerous Ground', 'Heroes', 'Poetic Justice', 'Nothing Sacred', 'Fake It 'Til You Make It', 'Lost Ones', 'The Big Leagues', 'Past History', 'Collision Course', 'Close to Home', 'The Naked Truth', 'Smoke and Mirros', 'Family Matters', 'Fire Drill', 'Irish Exists' and 'Forgive Us Our Tresspasses'.

• A History of Violence | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £4.96   |  Saving you £15.03 (303.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Viggo Mortensen stars in this stylized thriller from director David Cronenberg.

• Control | DVD | (11/02/2008) from £7.55   |  Saving you £12.44 (164.77%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Joy Division's Ian Curtis is the subject of this tough and moving biopic which stars Sam Riley as the enigmatic musician.

• The West Wing - Complete Series 2 | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £12.20   |  Saving you £49.79 (408.11%)   |  RRP £61.99

  The second season of The West Wing takes up literally where the first season left off and, after a few moments of patriotic sentimentalism, maintains the series' astonishingly high standards in depicting the everyday life of the White House staff of a Democratic administration. The two-part opener covers the immediate aftermath of the assassination attempt on President Bartlet (Martin Sheen), switching between the anxious wait on the injured and flashbacks to Bartlet's campaign for the Presidency. Other peaks in a series exceedingly short on lows include "Noel," the episode in which Alan Arkin's psychiatrist forces Josh Lynam to confront his post-traumatic stress disorder and the episodes in which President Bartlet, following a tragic car accident, rails angrily against God in Latin. Other new aspects include the introduction of Ainsley Hayes, a young Republican counsel hired after she beats communications deputy Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe) in a TV debate ("Sam's getting his ass kicked by a girl!" crow his colleagues), as well as the revelation that the President has been suffering from multiple sclerosis. Tensions grow between him and the First Lady (Stockard Channing) as she realizes, in the episode "Third State of the Union," that he intends to run for a second term in office. It becomes clear to Bartlet that he must go public with his MS, and his staff is forced to come to terms with this, as well as deal with the usual plethora of domestic and international incidents, which apparently preclude any of them from having any sort of private lives. These include crises in Haiti and Columbia, an obstinate filibuster, and a Surgeon General's excessively frank remarks about the drug situation. Thankfully, the splendid Lord John Marbury (Roger Rees) is on hand to make chief of staff Leo McGarry's life more of a misery in "The Drop-In." These episodes, though occasionally marred by a sentimental soundtrack and an earnest and wishfully high regard for the Presidential office, are master classes in drama and dialogue, ranging from the wittily staccato to the magnificently grave, capturing authentically the hectic pace of political intrigue and the often vain efforts of decent, brilliant people to do the right thing. The West Wing is one of the all-time great TV dramas. --David Stubbs

• House of Mirth | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Gillian Anderson and Eric Stoltz star in this adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel about the hypocrisy at the heart of New York society at the start of the last century.

• Raise Your Voice | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £14.36   |  Saving you £1.63 (11.35%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Perky teen starlet Hilary Duff wholeheartedly embraces the kind of earnest innocence all parents wish their daughters had. In Raise Your Voice, Terri Fletcher yearns to go to a prestigious music conservatory in Los Angeles. Her father won't let her because L.A. is a bad place, but her loving mom and kooky aunt sneak her away. Once there, she gets a sassy roommate-of-colour, geeky cool friends, a snooty rival, and a sexy British boyfriend. Of course, all conflicts with family and friends come to a head at a big competition at which Terri rediscovers herself. Formulaic? Yes. Bland? Yes. Will preteen girls enjoy it anyway? Maybe, because Duff plays it so sincere. --Bret Fetzer, amazon.com

• Desperate Housewives: Season 5 | DVD | (09/11/2009) from £9.99   |  Saving you £30.00 (300.30%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Years may pass but desperation is timeless. Experience the rare cultural phenomenon that is also a hit with the critics as the women of Wisteria Lane return in a sexy and stormy seven-disc DVD set that will have you begging for more. Bound by enduring friendships and shared secrets the Housewives are always there for each other. How will their alliances be challenged by the arrival of Edie's mysterious new husband and who will go head-tohead for Housewife Of The Year? It promises to be the most wonderfully wicked season yet for the sirens of suburbia. Wisteria Lane's neatly manicured lawns can no longer hide the dirt of television's hottest women. Dig deep into every provocative episode complete with never-before-seen bonus features and enjoy Desperate Housewives like never before on DVD.

• Lemon Popsicle | DVD | (24/04/2023) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Madness of King George | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £12.77   |  Saving you £3.22 (25.22%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In The Madness of King George George III (Nigel Hawthorne) begins to behave in an odd manner thirty years into his rule over England shouting obscenities at people spouting garbled rubbish and attacking his wife's young Mistress of the Robes Lady Pembroke (Amanda Donohoe). The Prince of Wales (Rupert Everett) is determined to see that his father is declared unfit to rule so he can become Regent and denies him access to those close to him. The Prime Minister is forced to i