Drama

• Murder, She Wrote | Blu Ray | (08/10/2018) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

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• Flambards | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Flambards is a delightful tale about a young orphan called Christina (Christine McKenna). Set in the years surrounding the first World War Flambards is a deeply moving story of growing and loving in a world that is continually changing. Christina has been moved from home to home for most of her life until one day she is sent to live at Flambards the once grand country home of her domineering disabled Uncle Russell and his two sons Mark and William. However much as Christina is hoping to find a loving new family she soon discovers the inhabitants at Flambards are an unhappy group torn apart by bitterness and jealousy. Episodes Comprise: 1. Christina 2. The Blooding 3. Entry To A New World 4. Lady Bountiful 5. Point To Point 6. The Cold Light Of Day 7. Edge Of The Cloud 8. Flying High 9. Sing No Sad Songs 10. New Blood 11. Prisoners Of War 12. What Are Servants For? 13. Inheritance

• A Family At War - Series 3 | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  A Family At War is the classic ITV series chronicling the fortunes of the Ashton family living in Liverpool during the Second World War. This eight disc box set features the entire third series.

• Kavanagh Q.C. - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The fact that John Thaw was able to make his eponymous character in Kavanagh QC stand out as a unique personality distinct from the superficially similar Inspector Morse says much about his understated skills as an actor. Thaw brought his trademark mixture of curmudgeonly belligerence and gruff sensitivity to Kavanagh, but the barrister--who first appeared on our screens in 1995 while the Oxford detective was still alive and kicking--is no polished-up Morse. He is far worldlier, is married and has a family. And although he is often troubled by his cases, he is never afraid to play the system. He knows that there are devious, even superficial lawyers, some of them in his own chambers, who he must face across the courtroom, but he acknowledges them as an unavoidable aspect of the world in which he works. The plots are often convoluted, but Kavanagh's wielding of the trusty sword of truth is always irresistible, particularly when the case involves some kind of high-level government aberration. "The End of Law" is a case in point; a particularly nasty tale about an unexceptional businessman framed for a murder which covers up an unpleasant security scandal. It's dark and dirty and full of troubling compromises. In the end, as with most of his cases, Kavanagh's craggy features convey a subtle hint of the sourness which comes with his chosen territory. --Piers Ford

• Q And A | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A grim, disheartening view of the underside of city life, Q & A is a legal drama with a disturbing twist. Not exactly a whodunit--the guilt of policeman Nick Nolte is established early on--the plot follows the closing of the circle around him. Leading the murder investigation is Timothy Hutton’s young, idealistic district attorney Al Reilly, who finds himself battling a fraudulent and cynical culture. Racism, corruption and political machinations are all added to the mix, resulting in a film that is just a little too dense and slow moving to capture the imagination. Director Sidney Lumet creates a feeling of enveloping darkness around Hutton, who slowly manages to let the light in and bring the truth to the surface. With an obviously small budget, the film has more of a made-for-television feel than that of a big blockbuster and some of the performances err too much on the side of cliché. The concept of the New York melting pot is fairly effectively dismissed by the film, painting a picture of distrust between communities that often spills into verbal and physical violence. Not quite as unremittingly bleak as Harvey Kietel’s Bad Lieutenant, Q & A is still a tough, dark piece of cinema. On the DVD: Q & A is very much a film of the night, with much of the action taking place either in the shadows or in rooms with harsh, artificial light. The picture on the DVD reflects that perfectly, although the lack of budget is hard to disguise. The soundtrack quality is good, if not startling, but there are no extras aside from the movie’s theatrical trailer. All in all, it’s a fairly average package. --Phil Udell

• The Caretaker | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Caretaker was the play that made Harold Pinter's name when it was first performed at the Arts Theatre London in 1960 and it remains probably his most famous. Two years later Clive Donner's film version began shooting after producer Michael Birkett had raised the finance from such figures as Noel Coward Richard Burton Elizabeth Taylor Peter Sellers Peter Hall and Leslie Caron - all passionate admirers of the play. For the film two of the cast of the original production

• The Rizen | DVD | (21/08/2017) from £9.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The year is 1955. NATO and the Allied Forces have been conducting secret, occult experiments in a bid to win the Arms Race. Now, they have finally succeeded but what the Army has unleashed threatens to tear our world apart. One woman must lead the only survivors past horrors that the military has no way to control - and fight to close what should never have been opened.

• Touched With Fire | DVD | (22/08/2016) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Carla and Marco are poets whose art is fuelled by their emotional extremes. When they go off their meds, they end up in the same psychiatric hospital. As the chemistry between them stirs up their emotions, it intensifies their mania. Despite doctors' and parents' attempts to separate them, they pursue their beautiful but destructive romance which swings them from fantastical highs to depressive lows, until they have to choose between sanity and love.

• Paul Temple's Triumph | DVD | (23/06/2013) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This film is the final Paul Temple Feature brought to you by renown and was thought to be 'lost' for many years. Time is running out for Paul Temple ( John Bentley) and his wife steve (Dinah sheridan) as they hunt for a kidnapped scientist who has developed a secret formula for controlling atomic weaponry. He has been captured by the malevolent and ruthless 'Z' organisation and is being held at their headquarters. Temple must find the secret base and infiltrate the organization to save both.

• Susana | DVD | (13/02/2011) from £10.00   |  Saving you £7.99 (79.90%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A delinquent girl escapes from a reformatory and hides out on a plantation. Once there she uses her feminine wiles to tempt others and turns the orderly domestic lives of those around her into a frenzied chaos. This powerful melodrama anticipates such Buuel classics as TRISTANA and THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE. This film like many others by Buuel uses the power of eroticism to reveal the hypocrisies of modern society.

• Hamlet | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ethan Hawke stars as a brooding New York filmmaker in this updated take on the classic Shakespeare play.

• Samaritan Girl | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £9.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (100.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From acclaimed Korean director Kim Ki-duk comes this tale of redemption and revenge. Two teenage girls Yeo-jin and Jae-yeong decide to fund their escape to Europe through prostitution with the former conducting the business and the latter ""entertaining"" the clientele. But when Jae-yeong suffers the consequences of their actions Yeo-jin embarks on a quest to redeem herself by tracking down their former clients one by one to replicate the earlier transactions. But when her father discovers what Yeo-jin has been doing he snaps and decides to avenge his daughter's innocence... Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival.

• La Veuve De Saint-Pierre | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The "widow" referred to in the title of La Veuve de Saint-Pierre isn't a woman, but a mechanism--to be exact, the guillotine, (though the title does take on a second meaning in the tragic final moments of the film). We're on the island of Saint-Pierre, a tiny forgotten French colony off the coast of Newfoundland, midway through the 19th century. A senseless drunken murder is committed and the killer is condemned to death, but zut alors!, there's no guillotine on the island. So one must be requested from the slow, bureaucratic authorities in Paris and, once approved, laboriously shipped over. Meanwhile the killer, a simple-minded giant of a man, is placed in the custody of the Captain, whose beautiful wife starts taking an interest in the prisoner. Director Patrice Leconte has always had an acute feel for place and period--he directed the mordantly witty costume drama Ridicule--and La Veuve vividly captures the sense of remoteness and resentful isolation of this blizzard-swept community. The brooding landscape, all slate-blues and greys, is beautifully framed by Eduardo Serra's camera, and Leconte draws affecting performances from his central trio of actors: Daniel Auteuil, with his intriguingly lopsided face, as the Captain; Juliette Binoche, radiantly vulnerable as his wife; and, in an unexpected but remarkably successful bit of casting, Serbian film director Emir Kusturica as the condemned man. La Veuve de Saint-Pierre may be a touch over-solemn at times, and its message is hardly unexpected; but it's an intelligent, engrossing and richly atmospheric piece of filmmaking. --Philip Kemp

• The Bounty - Imprint Limited Edition Blu Ray | Blu Ray | (07/07/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Lady In Cement | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £6.46   |  Saving you £6.53 (101.08%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The suave sleuth Tony Rome makes a shocking discovery while diving for treasure: a beautiful blonde woman anchored in a block of cement. When a local hood hires him to find his missing girlfriend his investigation begins with the mysterious ""Lady in Cement."" But everyone he talks to either is killed or trying to kill him...

• Bram Stoker's Dracula's Guest | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

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• American Buffalo | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Conning Stealing And Lying Are All In A Day's Work. Two-time Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman and two-time Emmy winner Dennis Franz (NYPD Blue) deliver tour-de-force performances as volatile small-time hustlers in this edgy electrifying story of trust betrayal and loyalty gone dangerously awry. American Buffalo is a riveting study in human virtue and vulnerability from Pulitzer-Prize-winning writer David Mamet and director Michael Corrente. For down-and-out junk dealer Don (Franz) life goes from unlucky to unbearable when he discovers that the rare buffalo head nickel he just sold for is worth ten times as much! Refusing to let himself be out-swindled Don enlists the help of a young protege (Nelson) in a scheme to steal the coin back. But their plans are suddenly altered by the intrusion of Teach (Hoffman) a disturbingly aggressive would-be thief who badgers Don into cutting him in on the heist --a decision that carries explosive consequences for everyone involved.

• Something Must Break | DVD | (11/05/2015) from £6.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An emotionally turbulent award-winning film from Swedish director Ester Martin Bergsmark Something Must Break is a love story between two young men: the provocative androgynous Sebastian (with his alter-ego "Ellie") and Andreas who identifies as heterosexual. They bond in their dream of escaping the stultifying boredom of a polished Swedish "Ikeasociety" and over one summer both of them will choose paths that determine their lives forever. Inspired by Eli Leven's book You Are the Roots that Sleep Beneath My Feet and Hold the Earth in Place Something Must Break is a unique and powerfully intimate film. Incorporating the transgender theme in a young protagonist in a way never before addressed in a Nordic film it is a timely exploration of sexual identities in a world so often gripped by fear of the unknown: a story told from the inside by one of the most important voices of the modern Nordic film scene. Special Features: Original theatrical trailer Image gallery

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Mysterious Affair At Styles | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Another intriguing investigation for Agatha Christie's famed Belgian detective... The Mysterious Affair At Styles was Agatha Christie's debut novel and was first published in 1920. The story introduced Poirot her eccentric and fastidious creation to an enthusiastic public. Lieutenant Hastings is recovering from his war injuries when he receives an invitation to visit his old friends the Cavendish family at Styles St Mary. Staying nearby as guests of the Cavendishs' are a group of Belgian refugees including much to Hastings' surprise his old acquaintance from the Belgian Police Hercule Poirot. Before long the pair are pitting their little grey cells against family machinations and manipulation; murder and mayhem; money and mendacity.

• Nell Gwyn | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £4.31   |  Saving you £8.68 (201.39%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Anna Neagle stars as the humble orange seller Nell Gwyn who captures the heart of a king in this bawdy and controversial British historical drama. In a 17th century England revelling in its freedom after years of Puritan domination King Charles II (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) promises to restore to the nation ""its old good nature its old good manners and its old good humour"". Wild and free Nell Gwyn captures his imagination like no other woman. She becomes his mistress and in effect th