Drama

• Classic Bergman - 5 Disc Set | Blu Ray | (07/06/2012) from £39.95   |  Saving you £31.04 (77.70%)   |  RRP £70.99

  Legendary auteur Ingmar Bergman emerged in the late '40s as an art-house icon and remained one for more than four decades. This set includes four early masterpieces available on Blu-ray for the very first time. It Rains On Our Love (1946)A Ship Bound For India (1947)Sawdust And Tinsel (1953)Dreams (1955)So Close To Life (1958)

• Atlantic City | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  French New Wave director Louis Malle made two pieces of memorable Americana in mid-career, Atlantic City (1980) and Pretty Baby (1978). Atlantic City stars Burt Lancaster in one of his greatest screen performances: as an ageing crook now working the numbers racket from a seedy apartment in the casino town of Atlantic City. Susan Sarandon is a waitress whose brother is on the run from the mob, having stolen a cache of drugs. She and Lancaster form an odd but engaging couple and hatch a plot to beat the odds stacked against them. Atmospheric, bittersweet, with lots of character and some neat action: it all adds up to a pretty classy offering. On the DVD: Unfortunately, the picture and sound quality on the DVD are only average. The image is 14:9 ratio and has been taken from a print of variable quality in which some reels are barely adequate. There are no additional features. --Ed Buscombe

• L'Ennui | DVD | (17/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Engrossing, erotic and sometimes comic, 'L'Ennui' tells the story of restless philosophy professor Martin (Charles Berling), tired of teaching and troubled by the happiness of his ex-wife (Arielle Dombasle). His mid-life crises takes a turn when he meets the young, enigmatic and far from intellectual Cecilia (Sophie Guillemin), with whom he embarks upon a sexually-charged affair. Enlisting his ex-wife as a reluctant confidante, Martin claims that he is bored by Cecilia, yet continues to see her, fascinated by her uncomplicated attitude toward love, life and sex. But, upon learning that Cecilia is also seeing a much younger man, Martin's desire becomes tainted with jealousy and eventually becomes an uncontrollable obsession that threatens to consume him. French Soundtrack with English Subtitles

• Sleuth | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Adapted by Anthony Shaffer from his own hit stage play, Sleuth (1972) is a reflexively self-aware send-up of the murder-mystery genre, which risks everything on the tour de force performances of its small cast. Director Joseph L Mankiewicz doesn't attempt to escape the theatrical confines of Shaffer's clever and convoluted screenplay; instead he concentrates--or diverts?--our attention with close-up details of the setting. Is he showing us clues or just more red herrings? Like Agatha Christie's Mousetrap--which it rivalled in popularity on the West End stage--to say anything more about Sleuth would be to spoil the fun. But even when you've untangled the many and dizzying twists and turns, thanks to its literate screenplay and the magnetic performances of the leads this is a film that rewards repeated viewings. --Mark Walker

• I Am The Law | DVD | (25/10/2010) from £13.95   |  Saving you £-0.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  I Am The Law

• The Years Between | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £18.96   |  Saving you £-2.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Michael Redgrave Valerie Hobson Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne Du Maurier. After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all...

• Kill For Me | DVD | (27/05/2013) from £6.00   |  Saving you £6.99 (116.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A riveting roller coaster of suspense and twists is set in motion when two college girls become roommates and they make a pack to protect each other at all costs. Addison, a junior in college and also a member of a popular sorority on campus, becomes the primary suspect in the disappearance of her abusive boyfriend when the new girl, Hayden, kills him, expecting that Addison will now kill Hayden's abusive dad. Directed by: Michael Greenspan.

• All Over Me | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £12.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (54.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Coming-of-age themes are an obvious choice for movie-makers but All Over Me is far from being run of the mill. It follows the friendship and codependence of two 15-year-old New York girls, one (Claude) gradually coming to terms with the fact that she's gay, the other (Ellen), getting sucked into a world of boys, violence and drugs. It brilliantly and sympathetically realised by film-maker sisters Alex and Sylvia Sichel, with superb performances by the two leads, Alison Folland and Tara Subkoff. When the violent, homophobic murder of the girls' new-found friend, Jesse (Wilson Cruz) threatens to rip them apart, Ellen embarks on a trail of self-destruction while Claude finally seems able to come to terms with her own destiny, ultimately getting together with the pretty, magenta-haired punk musician, Lucy (a superbly empathetic performance from Leisha Hailey). It's a film that's saved from introspective self-indulgence by the brutal interruption of the outside world, and it's not just a thought-provoking hour-and-a-half, it's a compelling narrative experience. The only weakness is the two-dimensional characterization of Ellen's psychotic boyfriend, well enough played by Cole Hauser, but intrinsically limited in scope. Ann Dowd is superb as Claude's man-chasing mother and the film is topped off by a funky soundtrack. On the DVD: All over Me doesn't just offer the "usual theatrical trailer" for the film in question but instead offers trailers for two related films, Better than Chocolate and Trick, both of which deal truthfully with gay issues offering a light and often humorous touch. However, that's it as far as additional goodies are concerned, which is a shame, but the vibrant soundtrack is presented in a great Dolby Digital sound. --Harriet Smith

• Neruda | Blu Ray | (10/07/2017) from £6.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Chile, 1948: Senator Pablo Neruda, diplomat and future Nobel Prize-winning poet, accuses the government of betraying the Communist Party and is swiftly impeached. Pursued by the police, Neruda and his artist wife are forced into hiding and an intimate game of cat and mouse begins. In Europe, the legend of the poet hounded by the policeman grows and artists led by Picasso call for his freedom. Neruda, meanwhile, inspired by his transformative new life as a fugitive, writes his epic collection of poems, Canto General, capturing the turmoil of a Latin America in crisis. Paying homage to a mercurial creator who is impossible to pin down in conventional biography, this playful, inventive feature by Oscar-nominated Pablo Larrain is the story of the escape, the investigation and the literary legend of a man once hailed as the greatest poet of the 20th century . Starring Luis Gnecco and Gael Garcia Bernal, the film plays out like a road movie, inviting us to soar alongside Neruda in his poetry, his memory, and his deeply held sometimes paradoxical political ideals.

• Quartet | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Four film versions of W. Somerset Maugham are brought together and introduced by the man himself: 'The Facts of Life' features a young tennis player who escapes from his domineering partner and absconds to Monaco; 'The Alien Corn' features Dirk Bogarde playing a man with the ambition to be a top pianist but he is rejected by music scholars; 'The Kite' stars George Cole as a man with an obsession for kites and little time for his wife; 'The Colonel's Lady' revolves around a stuffy colonel's search for the man his wife has been writing passionate poems about.

• River's Edge | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In a small rural town the local clique of layabout teens is pulled apart when Samson kills his girlfriend on the banks of the river and then callously shows off the dead body to his friends. The teens are so numb and ambivalent to the reality of their situation that they remain relatively unphased by the murder of one of their own...

• Stay Lucky | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Stay Lucky: Series 1

• Breathless | Blu Ray | (13/09/2010) from £29.68   |  Saving you £-4.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Stylish and sexy Breathless [A Bout De Souffle] is the epitome of cinematic cool. A fast tale of a young man on the run in Paris at the end of the 50's Breathless shook up the film world upon its release and has made a lasting impression on cinema history. Starring Jean Paul Belmondo the film was produced by Godard from an original treatment by Fran''ois Truffaut in a production that united the four initiators of the 'nouvelle Vague' - Claude Chabrol acted as artistic director while acclaimed director Jean Pierre Melville appeared in front of camera.

• Photo Kano Collection | DVD | (07/11/2016) from £19.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  It's time to capture the moment. Kazuya Maeda plans to make his second year in high school a memorable one. Armed with a new camera from his dad, Kazuya is hoping to turn his social life around when he joins the school's photography club. But new friends aren't the only things in development as Kazuya has caught himself in a tangle of emotions with one of his female classmates.

• Lorna Doone | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Set in the late 17th Century Exmoor the Doones a family of outlaws begin to plague the land. This is the romantic story of John Ridd who falls in love with Lorna Doone and must rescue her from her cruel family. Starring Emily Richard (The Strauss Dynasty) John Sommerville (Great Expectations) and Rhoda Lewis (The Bretts) Lorna Doone is based on the best-selling novel by R D Blackmore.

• The Jack Nicholson Collection | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.23

  One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Batman, The Bucket List & Mars Attacks

• A Family At War - Series 2 - Part 1 | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £18.51   |  Saving you £1.48 (8.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The second series of this classic ITV series chronicling the fortunes of the Ashton family living in Liverpool during the Second World War. Features the first 5 episodes.

• The Claim | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £7.14   |  Saving you £-1.15 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Set in a remote Californian town in the late ninteenth century this is tale of a man who sold his family for the claim to a gold mine years earlier.

• Awaydays | Blu Ray | (28/09/2009) from £6.00   |  Saving you £18.99 (316.50%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A gritty and hard-hitting coming-of-age story about one young man looking for answers in all the wrong places as he falls in with a violent gang

• Rails And Ties | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £8.38   |  Saving you £7.60 (141.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  On a beautiful stretch of California coastline a suicidal mother parks her car on a railroad crossing and awaits the arrival of a speeding train the sleek and unstoppable Coastal Starlight. Thus begins the story of two families in physical emotional and psychological collision - of the victim''s relatives and of the train engineer who couldn''t possibly have stopped the train in time.