Drama

• Closed Curtain | DVD | (26/10/2015) from £8.85   |  Saving you £7.14 (80.68%)   |  RRP £15.99

  They are both on the run: the man with the dog he is not allowed to own because Islamic law deems it to be unclean, and the young woman who took part in an illicit party on the shores of the Caspian Sea. They barricade themselves in a secluded villa with curtained windows and eye each other suspiciously. Why has he shaved his head? How does she know he is being followed by the police? They are now prisoners in a house without a view in the midst of a hostile environment. The voices of police can be heard in the distance, but so too can the calming sound of the sea. One time they look at the night sky full of stars before again withdrawing behind their protective walls.Are we looking at outlaws, or are the man and the young woman merely phantoms, figments of the imagination of a filmmaker who is no longer allowed to work?

• GATE OF HELL | DVD | (03/12/2012) from £22.93   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of the key works of the early 1950s wave of Japanese films to first reach foreign markets, director Kinugasa's sumptuous period drama astonished audiences with its dramatic force and spectacular colour cinematography.During feudal unrest in the 12th century, samurai warrior Morit (Kazuo Hasegawa) manages to thwart a palace rebellion and save the life of the empress, using loyal subject Lady Kesa (Machiko Ky) as a decoy. When Morit is offered anything he should desire as reward, he requests Kesa's hand in marriage. Informed that she is already married to a fellow samurai (Isao Yamagata), he refuses to withdraw his request, setting in motion a tragic chain of events.Three decades after the director's iconic A Page of Madness, Kinugasa's striking tale of feudal intrigue, political machinations, and erotic obsession won the Grand Prix at Cannes, two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film and Costume Design, and has since been named by Martin Scorsese as one of the ten greatest colour achievements in world cinema. Gate of Hell's blazing palette is proudly presented afresh by The Masters of Cinema Series in a magnificent new restoration.

• The Best of Foyle's War (6 Disc Collection) | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £39.93   |  Saving you £0.06 (0.15%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The Best Of Foyle's War (6 Discs)

• Thief | DVD | (21/07/2003) from £12.10   |  Saving you £3.88 (42.59%)   |  RRP £12.99

  James Caan stars as Frank a professional thief specialising in high profile jewel jobs. Desperate for one last glorious high paying job so that he can settle down for good with his girlfriend Frank gets involved with vicious gangland bosses. But his final job turns into a nightmare when he finds that getting away from the mob is harder than he thought...

• The River | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £11.72   |  Saving you £-5.73 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This emotionally-charged film celebrates the triumph of a young rural couple as they face nature's greatest ravages the threat of poverty and a wrenching separation. Sissy Spacek Mel Gibson and Scott Glenn star in this moving tribute to love faith determination and the vanishing America of the independent farm family. Tom and Mae Garvey (Gibson and Spacek) are struggling to keep their homestead safe from the local power authority who wants to flood their land. When Mae's former beau John Wade (Glenn) turns out to be in charge of the plan to acquire the property tensions run high climaxing in a devastating confrontation on the flooded river banks. Directed by On Golden Pond's Mark Rydell 'The River' features magnificent location photography by Vilmos Zsigmond and an outstanding score by John Williams.

• The Isle | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £31.16   |  Saving you £-16.17 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  'The Isle' tells a tale of a beautiful woman who lives on an eerie remote lake selling food to fisherman by day and her body by night. When the woman becomes obsessed with a suicidal former police officer haunted by the murder of his unfaithful girlfriend what develops is a perversely intriguing love story... Visually arresting shocking visceral and original Kim Ki-duk's 'The Isle' is extreme Korean cinema at its very best!

• Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £14.83   |  Saving you £2.16 (14.57%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This drama is based on the best-selling novel by Agatha Christie and starring Sir John Gielgud (Summer's Lease) Rula Lenska (Footballers Wives TV) Terence Alexander (Bergerac) Cheryl Campbell (William and Mary) and Christopher Scoular (A Dorothy L Sayers Mystery: Strong Poison). This stylish thriller is set in the midst of a high society weekend party. All appears to be going swimmingly until one of the guests fails to appear for breakfast and is later found dead. Broadcast at peak time on ITV in 1981 this is available for the first time on DVD in the UK.

• Teachers: Series 1 | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Depending on where you get your recommendations, you'll see Teachers described as a comedy, a drama, an irresponsible depiction of the teaching profession and a (fairly) sympathetic reminder of how teachers are expected to be morally unimpeachable despite being ordinary human beings like the rest of us. In fact, it's all of the above, which perhaps does more for the show's realism than all its supposedly controversial elements put together. The series stars Andrew (This Life) Lincoln as the feckless Simon, who, like several of his colleagues, is no more mature or advanced in terms of his ability to manage his own life than his pupils. The staff at the fictitious Bristol school are given to in-fighting, petty factionalism, bad behaviour, inappropriate nookie and dishonesty, both on and off-duty. That said, they also have to wrestle with professional and moral dilemmas and deal with their dysfunctional relationships: sometimes they succeed, often they don't. It makes for a superb, bittersweet concoction. If you want yet more social comment, it's worth noting that the series was filmed in a disused, empty LEA school. On the DVD: Teachers, Series 1 bucks the take-it-or-leave-it convention of many television series releases by actually providing some interview material as part of this two-disc set. Simple extras such as this cost little enough to include and do at least add some value to the package. --Roger Thomas

• Ambush In Waco - In The Line Of Duty | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £14.76   |  Saving you £-12.77 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  This riveting fact-based drama concentrates on the transformation of Vernon Howell into the self-made cult leader David Koresh. Failing as a musician Howell turns back to his strictly religious upbringing and uses his predatory charm to organise churches under his own leadership. But his ministry is tainted with both his obsession with rock-and-roll and his driven sexual appetites. This corrupt prophet eventually accumulates 19 wives in a frenzy of misguided devotion and a calculatingly cruel madness that eventually results in tragedy.

• Message In A Bottle / Tin Cup | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £16.22   |  Saving you £-2.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Message In A Bottle: Grieving widower Garret Blake builds boats for a living. Rebuilding his life - that's another matter. But that's before Theresa Osborne comes to his North Carolina village. Theresa a lonely divorcee and researcher for the Chicago Tribune knows Garret is the author of the message she found inside a bottle on Cape Cod beach. And she knows the message spoke to her in a way that profoundly touched her heart. Kevin Costner as Garret and Robin Wright Penn as T

• The Pact | DVD | (14/04/2008) from £4.94   |  Saving you £0.05 (1.01%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Chris Harte and Emily Gold grew up together in seeming suburban bliss sheltered by the love and support of their parents. Unsurprisingly the deep friendship shared between the two blossomed into a high school romance but the peace and tranquility of the families' lives is brought to a devastating halt by a late night call from the emergency room. Emily is dead at 17 from a gunshot wound to the head inflicted by Chris as part of an apparent suicide pact.

• The Stolen Assignment | DVD | (19/01/2015) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Directed by future Hammer stalwart Terence Fisher, this entertaining, light-hearted crime thriller centres around the adventures of sleuthing reporters Mike Billings (John Bentley) and Jenny Drew (Hy Hazell) as they try to unravel the alibi of a suspected murderer... Stolen Assignment is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?

• Melrose Place - Season 1 | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £25.46   |  Saving you £24.53 (96.35%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Aaron Spelling's drama series about the lives careers trials and tribulations of a group of young people living in an apartment building in the trendy neighbourhood of Melrose Place. A spin-off of Beverly Hills 90210 Melrose Place starred Heather Locklear as the scheming Amanda Woodward head of her own advertising agency and owner of the apartment building. Episodes Comprise: 1. Pilot 2. Friends and Lovers 3. Lost and Found 4. For Love or Money 5. Leap of Faith 6. Second Chances 7. My Way 8. Lonely Hearts 9. Responsibly Yours 10. Burned 11. A Promise Broken 12. Polluted Affairs 13. Dreams Come True 14. Drawing the Line 15. House of God 16. The Whole Truth 17. Jake vs. Jake 18. A Melrose Place Christmas 19. Single White Sister 20. Peanut Butter and Jealousy 21. Picture Imperfect 22. Three's a Crowd 23. My New Partner 24. Bye Bye Billy 25. Irreconcilable Similarites 26. End Game 27. The Test 28. Pushing Boundaries 29. Pas de Trois 30. Carpe Diem 31. State of Need 32. Suspicious Minds

• Contraband Spain | Blu Ray | (17/02/2020) from £14.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Richard Greene stars as an FBI agent hot on the trail of his brother's killer in this thrilling crime drama from the mid '50s. Made concurrently with Greene's phenomenally successful TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood, Contraband Spain also stars Anouk Aimée and Michael Denison. It is is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. A member of a smuggling gang is found murdered on the Franco-Spanish border with counterfeit bills in his pocket. Agent Lee Scott the dead smuggler's brother is assigned to investigate.

• Nowhere To Go | DVD | (14/01/2013) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Directed by Seth Holt (The Nanny and Blood From The Mummy's Tomb), Nowhere To Go is a stylish, grimy tale of deception and betrayal. A rare, late excursion into film noir for Ealing Studios, scripted by first-time director Holt and critic Ken Tynan. This is the digitally remastered, previously unreleased original 100 minute version of the film. Paul Gregory (George Nader, Robot Monster) is a thief and conman. He has come to London from Canada in order to rob Harriet Jefferson (Bessie Love, The Lost World) of her rare coin collection. Having sold the coins, he puts the money in a safe deposit box and waits to be arrested, expecting to be out in five years. Sentenced instead to ten years, Gregory breaks out of prison with the help of Victor Sloane (Bernard Lee, The Third Man, Dr, No, Goldfinger, From Russia with Love), planning to collect the money then leave the country. A series of accidents and double-crosses sends Gregory spinning through London’s criminal underworld, before he ends up on the run in the Welsh countryside with socialite Bridget Howard (Maggie Smith, TV's Downton Abbey, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie). Special Features: Revisiting Nowhere to Go (A new Featurette including Crew Interviews)

• Nighthawks/Strip Jack Naked - Nighthawks 2 | DVD | (30/03/2009) from £22.96   |  Saving you £0.03 (0.13%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Nighthawks: After the end of his workday staid schoolteacher Jim explores the disco's and secret meeting places of London's gay underground unable to reconcile his sexual identity with the rest of his life - until the strain of living a lie threatens to take its toll at last. Nighthawks 2: British director Ron Peck's look back at at the production of his groundbreaking Nighthawks which candidly explored a closeted gay schoolteacher's inner conflicts. The director tells very poignantly his own story of self-discovery and coming out. Most striking is the story of how much effort and determination it took to get Nighthawks made and why there are hundreds of names in the closing credits that the producers would like to give thanks to - they are people who sent in small amounts of money after reading in a London gay paper that the filmmakers needed funds to continue the project.

• Honeydripper | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £8.22   |  Saving you £7.77 (94.53%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's 1950 and it's a make or break weekend for Tyrone Purvis (Danny Glover), the proprietor of the Honeydripper Lounge. Deep in debt, Tyrone is desperate to bring back the crowds that used to come to his place.

• Death In Love | DVD | (16/08/2010) from £3.06   |  Saving you £6.19 (343.89%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Death In Love

• Stand By Me | DVD | (10/12/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  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

• Fortress | DVD | (16/05/2011) from £6.73   |  Saving you £9.26 (137.59%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Fortress