Drama

• The Bikeriders | Blu Ray | (23/09/2024) from £9.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Inspired by Danny Lyon's titular photography collection and set in 1960s Chicago, The Bikeriders chronicles the story of The Vandals, a fictional motorcycle club that transforms into a more sinister gang over the course of a decade. This gritty tale of romance, violence, and brotherhood stars Emmy® Winner Jodie Comer, Oscar-nominated actors Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, and Michael Shannon, Mike Faist and Norman Reedus.

• Henry V | DVD | (10/08/2015) from £6.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Very few first-time film directors would have been capable of making such a triumphant adaptation of Henry V; but a still-youthful Kenneth Branagh's years of stage experience paid off handsomely and his 1989 version qualifies as a genuine masterpiece, the kind of film that comes along once in a decade. He eschews the theatricality of Laurence Olivier's stirring, fondly remembered 1945 adaptation to establish his own rules: Branagh plays it down and dirty, seeing the Bard's play through revisionist eyes, framing it as an anti-war story in contrast to Olivier's patriotic spectacle. Branagh gives us harsh close-ups of muddied, bloody men, and of himself as Henry, his hardened mouth and wilful eyes revealing much about the personal cost of war. Not that the director-star doesn't provide lighter moments: his scenes introducing the French Princess Katherine (Emma Thompson) trying to learn English quickly from her maid are delightful. What may be the crowning glory of Branagh's adaptation comes when the dazed leader wanders across the battlefield, not even sure who has won. As King Hal carries a dead boy (a young Christian Bale) over the hacked bodies of both the English and French, a panorama of blood and mud and death greet the viewer as Branagh opens up the scene and Patrick Doyle's rousing hymn "Non nobis, Domine" provides marvellous counterpoint (like the director, the composer was another filmic first-timer). A more potent expression of the price of victory could scarcely be imagined. --Rochelle O'Gorman, Amazon.com

• Elizabeth R | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £9.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (200.20%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A chronicle of England's Golden Age during the late 16th century recounting the life and times of the remarkable Elizabeth I in a cycle of six plays. Academy Award-winning actress Glenda Jackson stars in one of the most popular and acclaimed Masterpiece Theatre presentations ever created the story of England's Queen Elizabeth I. Filled with palace intrigue royal romance and stunning historical detail it traces her reign from a young Princess through almost 50 years of rule over

• The Godfather Part II 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (31/10/2022) from £23.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Widely considered the greatest sequel ever made, this visionary Oscar® winner for Best Picture is both a continuation of the saga and a companion piece expanding the legacy of the Corleone family. Director Francis Ford Coppola brings to PART II a two-part talethe roots and rise of a young Don Vito, played with uncanny ability by Robert De Niro in an Oscar®-winning performance, and the ascension of Michael (Al Pacino) as the new Don. Product Features Commentary By Francis Ford Coppola

• Riddle Of The Sands | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £10.98   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Based on the ""classic spy thriller of the 20th century"" that historians hail as the ""tip-off"" that saved Britain from invasion. Two sailboating Englishmen discover a massive German fleet secretly preparing to attack their nation and set out to do something about it not only do they have to thwart the German Navy but Kaiser Wilhelm himself.

• The Five People You Meet In Heaven | DVD | (07/04/2014) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mitch Albom adapts his own novel for this made-for-TV fantasy drama starring Jon Voight, Jeff Daniels and Ellen Burstyn. 83-year-old war veteran Eddie (Voight) works in maintenance at Ruby Pier theme park. When he saves the life of a young girl who is about to be crushed by a malfunctioning ride, Eddie dies and finds himself in heaven. There he meets five individuals he encountered when he was alive and discovers how they shaped the course of his life.

• Clueless 4K UHD | Blu Ray | (07/07/2025) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  If anyone in Beverly Hills is clued in it's Cher Horowitz (Alicia Silverstone). She's almost 16, rich, way popular, and loves letting the world benefit from her expertise in life's important issueslike dating, fashion, and looking good. She believes in doing stuff for other people, but when it comes to matters of the heart, especially her own, she's, well...clueless. Directed by Amy Heckerling (FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH ), this iconic, stylish coming-of-age comedy features Paul Rudd, Stacey Dash, and Brittany Murphy.

• Straw Dogs | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £14.44   |  Saving you £-6.45 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  According to critic Pauline Kael Straw Dogs was "the first American film that is a fascist work of art". Sam Peckinpah's only film shot in Britain is adapted from a novel by Gordon M Williams called The Siege of Trencher's Farm which Peckinpah described as a "lousy book with one good action-adventure sequence". The setting is Cornwall, where mild-mannered US academic David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) has bought a house with his young English wife Amy (Susan George) in the village where she grew up. David is mocked by the locals (one of whom is Amy's ex-boyfriend) and treated with growing contempt by his frustrated wife, but when his house comes under violent siege he finds unexpected reserves of resourcefulness and aggression. The movie, Peckinpah noted, was much influenced by Robert Ardrey's macho-anthropological tract, The Territorial Imperative. Its take on Cornish village life is fairly bizarre--this is a Western in all but name--and many critics balked at the transposition of Peckinpah's trademark blood-and-guts to the supposed peace of the British countryside. A scene where Amy is raped caused particular outrage, not least since it's hinted she consents to it. Not for the first time in Peckinpah's movies there are disquieting elements of misogyny, and it doesn't help that the chemistry between Hoffman and George is non-existent. (Impossible to believe these two would ever have clicked, let alone married.) But taken as a vision of irrational violence irrupting into a civilised way of life Straw Dogs is powerful and unsettling, and the action sequences are executed with all Peckinpah's unfailing flair and venom. Oh, and that title? A quote from Chinese sage Lao-Tze, it seems, "The wise man is ruthless and treats the people as straw dogs." The film was long withheld from home viewing in Britain by nervous censors, but this release presents it complete and uncut. --Philip KempOn the DVD: Straw Dogs is as jam-packed a disc as is possible for a film made before the days of obligatory "making of" features. Both the sound and visuals have transferred well, and, like the script, have aged well. There's a bumbling original interview in the style of Harry Enfield's Mr. Cholmondley-Warner, along with stills and original trailers. The new material includes a feature on the history of the film's censorship and commentaries by Peckinpah's biographers musing over interesting fan-facts (though none of the speakers have any first-hand experience of the making of the film). However, Katy Haber's commentary, and interviews with Susan George and Dan Melnick, offer a much more in-depth and intimate portrayal of the man and the making of the film. --Nikki Disney

• Sanditon: Season 2 | DVD | (19/09/2022) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All six episodes from the second series of the period drama based on Jane Austen's unfinished novel. In this series, Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams) returns to Sanditon eight months after her original visit, this time accompanied by her sister Alison (Rosie Graham). A regiment of soldiers arrive in town which brings both romantic and business opportunities, and artist Charles Lockhart (Alexander Vlahos) tries to woo Georgiana (Crystal Clarke). Meanwhile Charlotte starts a new job as a governess for Alexander Colbourne (Ben Lloyd-Hughes) and struggles to gain the respect of his daughter and niece.

• Stand By Me | Blu Ray | (08/08/2011) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A sleeper hit when released in 1986, Stand by Me is based on Stephen King's novella "The Body" (from the book Different Seasons); but it's more about the joys and pains of boyhood friendship than a morbid fascination with corpses. It's about four boys ages 12 and 13 (Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell) who take an overnight hike through the woods near their Oregon town to find the body of a boy who's been missing for days. Their journey includes a variety of scary adventures (including a ferocious junkyard dog, a swamp full of leeches and a treacherous leap from a train trestle), but it's also a time for personal revelations, quiet interludes and the raucous comradeship of best friends. Set in the 1950s, the movie indulges an overabundance of anachronistic profanity and a kind of idealistic, golden-toned nostalgia (it's told in flashback as a story written by Wheaton's character as an adult, played by Richard Dreyfuss). But it's delightfully entertaining from start to finish, thanks to the rapport among its young cast members and the timeless, universal themes of friendship, family and the building of character and self-esteem. Kiefer Sutherland makes a memorable teenage villain and look closely for John Cusack in a flashback scene as Wheaton's now-deceased and dearly missed brother. A genuine crowd-pleaser, this heartfelt movie led director Rob Reiner to even greater success with his next film, The Princess Bride. --Jeff Shannon

• Gorky Park | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £7.30   |  Saving you £5.69 (77.95%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Martin Cruz Smith's bestselling mystery novel seemed ideal material for a movie version, but in Gorky Park director Michael Apted and the usually reliable writer Dennis Potter couldn't quite solve the problem of taking the story from page to screen. William Hurt plays Renko, a Cold War-era Moscow police detective who must cope with both crooks and Communist party protocol as he tries to solve a murder case in the middle of one of Moscow's public parks that leaves three faceless corpses. The strands of the mystery involve corruption, American money and the fur trade and, ultimately, take Renko to New York. But the tension is never all there, despite a deliciously menacing performance by Lee Marvin as the bad guy and Brian Dennehy as an American cop who becomes Renko's ally. --Marshall Fine

• The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover | Blu Ray | (04/07/2016) from £9.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Peter Greenaway directs this culinary tale of passion and revenge. An arrogant gangster (Michael Gambon) invests in a popular French restaurant, which he begins to frequent with his wife (Helen Mirren) and a band of crooks. He delights in humiliating his spouse, and, when she begins an affair with another patron (Alan Howard), the restaurant's cook (Richard Bohringer) tries to protect them from her husband's wrath.

• The Great Gatsby | DVD | (11/11/2013) from £6.01   |  Saving you £15.24 (320.84%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the uniquely imaginative mind of writer/producer/director Baz Luhrmann comes the new big screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby. The filmmaker created his own distinctive visual interpretation of the classic story bringing the period to life in a way that has never been seen before in a film starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role. The Great Gatsby follows would-be writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922 an era of loosening morals glittering jazz bootleg kings and sky-rocketing stocks. Chasing his own American Dream Nick lands next door to a mysterious party-giving millionaire Jay Gatsby and across the bay from his cousin Daisy and her philandering blue-blooded husband Tom Buchanan. It is thus that Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the super rich their illusions loves and deceits. As Nick bears witness within and without of the world he inhabits he pens a tale of impossible love incorruptible dreams and high-octane tragedy and holds a mirror to our own modern times and struggles. Special Features: Deleted Scenes

• Harry's Game | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Harry's Game is the story of two killers. One is Billy Downes (Derek Thompson) cold-blooded assassin of a British Cabinet Minister. The other is Harry Brown (Ray Lonnen) Captain by rank and with orders to eliminate the IRA hitman in his own backyard - the Falls Road Belfast. Both men believe their cause is just. But only one can win. Harry's game - to find the identity of the killer and destroy him before his cover is blown... With powerful performances from Ray Lon

• The Lucky One | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £3.74   |  Saving you £12.25 (327.54%)   |  RRP £15.99

  U.S. Marine Sergeant Logan Thibault (Zac Efron) returns from his third tour of duty in Iraq, with the one thing he credits with keeping him alive - a photograph he found of a woman he doesn't even know.

• 84 Charing Cross Road | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £9.10   |  Saving you £10.89 (119.67%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft) and Frank Doel (Anthony Hopkins) are lifelong friends who never meet in 84 Charing Cross Road, a unique comedy-drama based on a true story. Hanff and Doel are separated by 3,000 miles of ocean and joined by a passion for old books. Their relationship begins when New- Yorker Hanff orders a copy of Pepys' diary. Doel, as polite and soft-spoken as Hanff is loud and overbearing, fields the request from the titular book shop in London. For the next two decades they correspond without ever actually sitting down for tea and crumpets. Director David Jones (Betrayal) does a reasonably good job of goosing a movie about something as un-cinematic as letter-writing, and the stars have fun chewing scenery on both sides of the Atlantic. The model for this kind of bittersweet relationship is David Lean's Brief Encounter, which, not coincidentally, is glimpsed here when Hanff steps out for a rainy-day matinee. --Glenn Lovell, Amazon.com

• Broadchurch | DVD | (20/05/2013) from £4.65   |  Saving you £21.34 (458.92%)   |  RRP £25.99

  A hot morning in July and the Dorset town of Broadchurch, is bracing itself for the tourist season, when Danny Latimer, an 11 year old schoolboy, goes missing. His mother, Beth, frantically starts to search for him while her best friend, Ellie Miller, a local police officer, arrives at work to discover that the promotion she thought was hers has gone to D.I Alec Hardy, an outsider with a reputation for failure. When Danny's body is found beneath the picturesque cliffs that dominate the town, opposites collide. Both Miller and Hardy are determined to solve the mystery of Danny's murder, Ellie perhaps too sensitive to the people in her community; Alec as efficient as he is blunt. When news of the crime spreads through the town, a chain reaction begins which will put Broadchurch under a national spotlight, pulling the town, its residents and its secrets, apart. Special Features: Broadchurch: Behind the Scenes Cast Filmographies Picture Gallery Subtitles

• Babette's Feast | DVD | (25/02/2013) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Released in 1987, Babette's Feast is a film which depicts so little, yet says so much. Set in a rural Danish community, it centres around the twin sisters of the village pastor and the French women who serves them after fleeing the 1871 revolution. On winning the lottery she plans a feast to mark the centenary of the sisters' father, bringing a dimension of fine living into the lives of the God-fearing Lutherans and healing festering personal animosities in the process. Director Gabriel Axel captures the rugged timelessness of the Jutland landscape, and draws inspired performances from Stéphane Audran as Babette, and Bodil Keyer and Birgitte Federspiel as the sisters Filippa and Martine. Per Norgard's sparse but affecting score captures the mood of the film perfectly. Altogether it's a heart-warming and affecting experience. On the DVD: Babette's Feast on disc reproduces the vivid colour photography well in widescreen. There’s dubbing and subtitles in English, French and Italian. Both the trailers for the English- and Danish-speaking markets are included, the latter an effective summary of the film.--Richard Whitehouse

• Starfish (Based on a True Story) | DVD | (24/04/2017) from £10.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The true and incredibly moving story of Tom and Nicola Ray (Tom Riley, Joanne Froggatt), whose love is tested to the limit when their perfect life falls apart. When Tom puts his small daughter to bed one chilly December evening, he has everything he could ever want - the house of his dreams, the life of a writer, a beautiful wife and a second baby on the way, By the next morning, all of this is in jeopardy as Tom succumbs to the devastating illness that is sepsis. As Tom and Nic battle to hold their family and their marriage together, the strength of their relationship is the only thing that can save them.

• The Eel | Blu Ray | (24/03/2025) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES High-Definition digital transfer Uncompressed mono PCM audio Interview with critic Tony Rayns (2024) Interview with screenwriter Daisuke Tengan (2024) Visual essay by Tom Mes on the year 1997 as a turning point in Japanese cinema (2024) Trailer Newly improved English subtitle translation Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow Limited edition booklet featuring a newly translated archival interview with Imamura Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings