Drama

• The Rizen | DVD | (21/08/2017) from £6.98   |  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 £8.98   |  Saving you £9.01 (100.33%)   |  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 £14.09   |  Saving you £-4.10 (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 £9.28   |  Saving you £10.71 (115.41%)   |  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 £6.78   |  Saving you £3.21 (47.35%)   |  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

• Lady In Cement | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £6.29   |  Saving you £6.70 (106.52%)   |  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

  Dracula's Guest

• 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

• Turtles Can Fly | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £8.98   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Horror and humour honour and compassion all come to light in this powerful and compelling film about 13 year old Kak (Ebrahim) who faces life in a refugee camp on the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of the American invasion...

• Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £6.29   |  Saving you £6.70 (106.52%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Charlotte Hollis (Bette Davis) has been closeted in her mansion a deteriorating Southern plantation since the grisly murder of her married lover many years earlier. When the country wants to tear down the house to build a highway the spinster's relatives and friends appear to rally behind her but each slowly preys on her mind until the gruesome rumorus of the last forty years appear to be coming true... On hand are cousin Miriam (Olivia de Havilland) Dr. Drew Bayliss (Joseph Cott

• Inside The Osmonds | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Guided by their strict yet level headed father George (Bruce McGill) and supported by mother Olive (Veronia Cartwright) the Osmond Brothers Group consisting of Alan Wayne Merrill Jay and young Donny are looking to make it big on their own in the world of Rock and Roll. But due to their squeaky clean religious image the future looks dim. Enter Mike Curb a major record label owner who has faith in the Osmond Brothers. With your Marie and Jimmy destined to join them and a number one hit in the states this original boy band begins a meteoric rise to international stardom...

• Melrose Place Season 2 | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The complete second season of Melrose Place. Episodes Comprise: 1. Much Ado About Everything 2. A Long Night's Journey 3. Revenge 4. Fire Power 5. Of Bikes and Men 6. Hot and Bothered 7. Flirting with Disaster 8. No Bed of Roses 9. Married to It 10. The Tangled Web 11. Collision Course 12. Cold Turkey 13. Duet for One 14. Strange Bedfellows 15. Under the Mistletoe 16. Reunion Blues 17. Michael's Game 18. Arousing Suspicions 19. The Young Men and the Sea 20. Parting Glances 21. Swept Away 22. With This Ball and Chain 23. Otherwise Engaged 24. Love Mancini Style 25. The Two Mrs. Mancinis 26. In Bed with the Enemy 27. Psycho-Therapy 28. The Bitch Is Back 29. Imperfect Strangers

• Saturday Night Fever / Save The Last Dance / Footloose / Flashdance | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £8.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (177.98%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Definitive Dance Collection! 4 Discs of pure dancing magic... Footloose: Teenager Ren MacCormack sends ripples through Bomont a small Midwestern town that could stand some shaking up when he arrives from Chicago with his mother Ethel to settle with her relatives. The adults tend to view him with suspicion as a possible contaminant from the outer world. Some of his male peers eye him as a threat and most of the girls just plain eye him. It's a tough time for Ren

• Pelle The Conqueror | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-14.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Pelle the Conqueror is a Scandinavian drama which won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language film and a Best Actor nomination for Max (The Exorcist) Von Sydow. Set at the end of the 19th century, it tells of a widowed Swedish farmer who goes looking for a better life in Denmark with his young son, Pelle (a fine Pelle Hvenegaard). Much like Life is Beautiful (1998) the heart of the film is the bond between father and son and their dreams for a better world. Although the photography brings an austere beauty to the bleak coastlands of Denmark, the story, a 150-minute intimate epic, is intense and harrowing; the antithesis of the feel-good father-son relationship of a movie like Billy Elliot.On the DVD: Unfortunately, rather than the subtitles of the cinema release, this DVD is dubbed for the American market, which significantly diminishes the performances and undermines the emotional impact. This is particularly regrettable given that both subtitled and dubbed versions could exist on the same disc. The only feature is a Photo Library of full-frame screen-grabs. The stated ratio of 1:1.85 is incorrect, the film being cropped from the original cinema 1:1.66 to 4:3 TV ratio. The sound is unremarkable stereo. The picture, transferred from an already imperfect print, is crawling with grain and littered with compression artefacts, making it no better than many videos. Without even a booklet, this release does no justice to a landmark film. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Rewind To The 80s Collection | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £34.95   |  Saving you £25.04 (71.65%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Rewind To The 80's Collection (10 Disc)