Drama

• The Long Farewell (Vintage World Cinema) | DVD | (18/09/2023) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Singing Detective | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £8.97   |  Saving you £7.02 (78.26%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a film adaptation of Dennis Potter's famous TV series, a hospitalized novelist reworks his first book and becomes feverishly confused with his novel's protaganist, a detective investigating a murder in 1950s L.A.

• Night Watch | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £9.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (50.20%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Mop-haired hustler Victor plies his trade amidst the seedy nocturnal denizens of Buenos Aires with the grim threat of violence simmering just below the surface. Threatening strangers an attempted murder and the remembrance of a past love combine to send Victor on a soul-searching surreal urban odyssey in this sharp drama helmed by veteran Argentine director Edgardo Cozarinsky.

• Coronation Street - 1970 | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £23.21   |  Saving you £-10.22 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Coronation Street was first broadcast in December of 1960 and since then has gone from strength to strength in establishing itself as the nation's favourite soap opera. With a more light hearted slant on the genre Coronation Street has always drawn viewers from across the generations and its longevity is tribute to it's across the board appeal. On this DVD we take a look back to 1970 and eight classic episodes from that year.

• The Sherlock Holmes Catalogue - The Sign Of Four | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Sign of Four is a 1987 feature-length version of Conan Doyle's second Sherlock Holmes novel, and is faithful to the original story except in one important detail: Dr Watson (Edward Hardwicke) does not get the girl. Otherwise, the familiar tale of the death of Bartholomew Sholto and the theft of the Agra treasure is all here, featuring a snappy performance by Jeremy Brett as Holmes doing some of the finest investigative work of his career. The famous climax, a chase on the Thames in which Holmes is almost struck dead by an exotic weapon, is handled very well. Sherlockians may have a hard time not seeing Watson's romantic pursuit of Mary Morstan (Lila Kaye), his first wife according to Doyle's book, but it would hardly have been practical in the context of the long-running Granada Television series. The rest is to be enjoyed, however. --Tom Keogh

• A Chance Of Snow | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A heartwarming story of love at Christmas time.The story of a special Christmas that offers an unforgettable lesson in love and trust. Maddie Parker (Jobeth Williams The Big Chill Poltergeist) and her daughters are going to visit her mother (Dina Merrill The Player) for the holidays Coincidentally they run into her soon-to-be-ex-husband Mitch (Michael Ontkean Postcards From The Edge) who is heading in the opposite direction. Thanks to a blanket of snow and a closed airport these two weary travellers discover that they have nothing to do... except fall in love again - and make their two heartbroken children very happy again. As the snow begins to melt outside so too do the hearts of two adults and two happy children! It's Christmas and they are together again.

• Snow Cake | DVD | (29/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver star in this movie about a two people touched by loss - one a quiet, brooding man, the other a highly functioning autistic woman.

• Museum Hours | DVD | (13/01/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An enigmatic visitor and a guard at Vienna's grand art museum form a life-changing friendship in this extraordinary film from festival favourite Jem Cohen. Using a lightly experimental fusion of drama and documentary the film cleverly observes how art and modern day life interconnect. Starring music legend Mary Margaret O'Hara Museum Hours is intelligent gently humorous engaging and offbeat.

• 2046 | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £12.39   |  Saving you £0.60 (4.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  2046 continues the story of Chow Mo Wan (Tony Leung - Hero) from Wong Kar-Wai's previous film In The Mood for Love a few years after his ephemeral affair with Maggie Cheung's Su Li-zhen. Set in late-1960's Hong Kong Chow is now an out of work journalist and pulp fiction writer living in a cheap hotel. Bruised and battered by love he pursues a playboy lifestyle of zero commitment and one-night stands. He develops a passion for a beautiful call girl (Zi Yi Zhang - House Of The Flying Daggers) enjoys a breezy summer with the hotel manager's eldest daughter (Faye Wong) and happens across the path of a professional gambler (Gong Li) who he met in Singapore some years before. In the meantime Chow works on a science fiction novel about a mysterious hi-tech train that transports people to the year 2046 to reclaim their lost memories.

• Dante's Inferno | Blu Ray | (08/02/2010) from £10.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (81.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Limbo Lust Gluttony Greed Anger Heresy Violence Fraud and Treachery! These are the 9 Circles of Hell made famous by Dante Alighieri in his famed masterpiece Dante's Inferno his first story of The Divine Comedy. Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic will take you on a harrowing trip through Hell as Dante braves the forces of evil slaying demons and monsters of extraordinary imagination all to save his love Beatrice from the clutches of Hell's master - Lucifer. The companion piece to the hit Electronic Arts game Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic is inventively told through the eyes of visionary animation directors from around the world - including the creative teams behind some of the boldest animated movies of all time (Ghost In The Shell Blood: The Last Vampire Tales Of The Black Freighter and Samurai Champloo). 6 Directors 6 terrifying visions of Hell 1 heart-stopping epic adventure!

• The Trial | DVD | (11/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Josef K awakes one morning to be arrested by the police. He is to be put on trial but no one will tell him what it is he is accused of. His attempts to profess his innocence of any charge only alienates him from his friends and his whole world becomes a nightmare.

• Mortal Thoughts | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Demi Moore Glenne Headly Bruce Willis and Harvey Keitel star in this riveting psychological thriller about two best friends caught in a complex web of violence and betrayal. Told in a series of haunting flashbacks the story unfolds as a determined police detective (Keitel) questions New Jersey housewife Cynthia Kellogg (Moore) about the death of her best friend's abusive husband (brilliantly played by Willis). Reluctant to incriminate her friend Cynthia weaves a net of lies tha

• The Phantom Of The Opera | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £12.32   |  Saving you £-2.33 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The original and best version of Gaston Leroux's legendary book The Phantom Of The Opera is an awesome monument to the Golden Age of Hollywood starring ""The Man of a Thousand Faces"" Lon Chaney. In the film Chaney is Erik the horribly disfigured Phantom who leads a menacing existence in the catacombs and dungeons beneath the Paris Opera. When Erik falls in love with a beautiful prima donna (Mary Philbin) he kidnaps her and holds her hostage in his lair where he is destined to have

• Romeo And Juliet | Blu Ray | (03/02/2014) from £3.09   |  Saving you £21.90 (87.60%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Romeo and Juliet secretly wed despite the sworn contempt their families hold for each another. It is not long, however, before a chain of fateful events changes the lives of both families forever.

• Chicken Tikka Masala | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Jimmy is to become a doctor and has reluctantly agrees to marry the girl his grandmother has chosen for him - Rosie. She is perfect in every way except one. She is not Jack-Jimmy's one true love.The wedding is set the relatives are flying in from India abd the Patel family has never been this happy. Jimmy can't get himself to break his family's heart nor can he give up Jack. Will Jimmy finally come clean?Will he tell his family the truth? Will things get sorted for him and Jack?

• Kingpin, Complete Series 1 - The Producer's Cut | DVD | (22/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Pitched as a gritty, hard-hitting crime drama series about a mob family, Kingpin invites inevitable comparisons with The Sopranos--the pilot episode is even directed by Sopranos alumnus Allen Coulter--but the basic premise is more a south-of-the-border Godfather, with Miguel Cadena (Yancey Arias) as the conflicted Michael Corleone-type character who finds himself inexorably but somewhat reluctantly taking charge of his family's Mexican drug cartel. Written and produced by David Mills, a graduate of NYPD Blue and Homicide: Life on the Street, the show has all the right credentials for a successful TV drama, combining a colourful ensemble cast and evocative locations on either side of the Rio Grande, but somehow it failed to find enough of an audience in the US to get beyond one season (a similar fate befell the equally praiseworthy Boomtown). Unlike Tony Soprano, Miguel's (American) wife Marlene (Sheryl Lee, still best known as Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks) supports her husband's position with Machiavellian schemes of her own, though both parents strive to shelter their eight-year-old son from involvement in the messier side of the family business. After a bloody coup in the pilot episode, Miguel and his ruthless brother Chato (Bobby Cannavale) cement their hold over the business while struggling with the twin threats of family infighting and law enforcement pressure. As in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, the DEA agents--principally go-getting Delia Flores (Angela Alvarado Rosa)--are significant characters in their own right. Also north of the border is cowardly plastic surgeon Dr Heywood Klein (Brian Benben), who enjoys the lifestyle too much to break his illicit connection with the Cadena family. It's all gripping, bloody, amoral stuff that makes for compelling viewing. Unfortunately, Kingpin never quite attains the effortlessly sublime levels of its northern predecessor and thus never quite breaks free from the long shadow of The Sopranos. --Mark Walker

• In The Name Of The Father | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  If it had been written as a piece of fiction no one would have believed it, but In the Name of the Father is the true story of one of the most shocking episodes in British legal history. Dealing with the events surrounding the Guildford pub bombing in 1974 and the subsequent 15-year fight for justice, the film portrays a nation in the grip of an anti-system, desperate to find culprits at any cost, however immoral, illegal or brutal. By playing out the drama in personal as well as political terms--the relationship between Gerry Conlon (Day-Lewis) and his father (Pete Postlethwaite) becomes the story's centrepiece--the film works on numerous levels, but the events are no less shameful for it. The court case that ultimately freed the three men and one woman only takes centre stage for the last 20 minutes but despite that--and the fact that the outcome is no secret--it is high drama and completely gripping. This is an unmissable example of genuinely courageous cinema. On the DVD: Where the real-life events behind the film might have offered huge scope for additional material, the DVD provides little beyond production and cast notes. The film's re-creation of both 1970s Belfast and London is very realistic, intensified by the anamorphic screen ratio, and the excellent soundtrack (including Bono, Sinead O'Connor and Thin Lizzy), which helps drive the action, is intensified by the Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack. --Phil Udell

• In Old Chicago | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The great American motion picture! The O'Leary family are pioneer settlers whose eldest boys achieve notoriety and power in bustling Chicago. After Jack (Don Ameche) gets elected mayor with the help of his popular brother Dion (Tyrone Power) the two lock horns over the future of Chicago's slums. Using his cabaret singer wife (Alice Faye) as a pawniin their dispute Dion accelerates their intense rivalry as the whole town takes sides. It is not until a massive fire wipes out a

• 3 Classic Crime Films Of The Silver Screen - The Speckled Band / Silver Blaze / Blake Of Scotland Yard | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £21.98   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A triple-bill of murder mysteries featuring the very best of celluloid detectives Sherlock Holmes and Sir James Blake.

• Stay Hungry | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  If you've got an appetite for life: Stay Hungry. A syndicate wants to buy a whole district to rebuild it. They've bought every house except the small gym ""Olympic"" where Mr. Austria Joe Santo prepares for the Mr. Universe championships a month ahead. The rich sunny-boy Craig Blake is brought in by the syndicate as a dummy to buy the gym. But then he starts to like the people and falls in love with Joe's friend Marie-Tate...