Drama

• Hesher | DVD | (13/02/2012) from £11.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (8.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hesher tells the story of a twenty-something long-haired tattooed metal-head who one day unexpectedly enters the life of a grieving family. Hesher (Joseph Gordon-Levitt; 50/50, Inception) is the most unlikely person to help 13-year-old TJ (Devin Brochu) cope with the death of his mother, but he proves to be the only one who can truly free TJ from his overwhelming sadness. With unconventional tactics that make him resemble a convict more than a care-giver, Hesher takes TJ under his wing and gives the young boy and his grieving father (Rainn Wilson; Super, The Office: An American Workplace) a chance to be a family again. Also starring Oscar Winner Natalie Portman (The Black Swan) and 3 time Oscar nominee Piper Laurie (Children of a Lesser God, Carrie, The Hustler).

• Queenie | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £8.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  From humble beginnings in the slums of Calcutta to the lofty heights of Hollywood fame and fortune Queenie achieves a triumph she never imagined. But dark secrets from her past and jealous rivalries threaten to destroy her. Based on the novel by Michael Korda.

• The Last King of Scotland - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (02/06/2014) from £49.72   |  Saving you £-25.47 (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  As Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Forest Whitaker gives 'one of the great performances of modern movie history' (The Wall Street Journal) one that the Associated Press calls 'nothing short of Oscar - worthy.' This is Amin's incredible story as seen through the eyes of Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy) a young Scotsman who becomes the volatile leader's personal physician due in part to Amin's unexpected passion for Scottish culture - Amin even proclaims himself 'The Last King of Scotland.' Seduced by Amin's charisma and blinded by decadence Garrigan's dream life becomes a waking nightmare of betrayal and madness from which there is no escape. Inspired by real people and events this gripping suspenseful stunner is filled with performances you will never forget.

• Walesa - Man Of Hope | DVD | (10/11/2014) from £8.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (66.74%)   |  RRP £14.99

  From lowly shipyard worker to Nobel Peace Prize winner, the rise of the legendary Lech Wałęsa is brilliantly captured in this remarkable biopic by Academy Award-nominated director, Andrzej Wajda. With communist authorities bloodily suppressing workers' uprisings across Poland, political activist Lech is arrested and beaten, eventually forced to collaborate with Security Services. Undeterred, he continues to lead his fellow workers against Soviet oppression. As his reputation grows and his actions begin to forge a path to freedom for citizens across Eastern Europe, the stakes are raised and Lech must decide what price he is willing to pay for freedom.

• Gypo | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £13.47   |  Saving you £7.78 (63.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The story of a Czech refugee in Thanet is told from three different perspectives.

• Victim Of Rage | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £5.45   |  Saving you £0.54 (9.91%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Victim of Rage (AKA Cries Unheard:The Donna Yaklich Story) [DVD]

• Rancid Aluminium | DVD | (17/07/2000) from £5.91   |  Saving you £14.08 (238.24%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rancid Aluminium's unlikely hero, leery Liam Gallagher-look-a-like Pete (Rhys Ifans), is wholly unprepared for promotion to head of the family business after his father dies unexpectedly. To make matters worse, no matter how hard he tries he can't impregnate his wife Sarah (Sadie Frost), and believes he's shooting blanks. Unable to handle responsibility, Pete turns to scheming Irish accountant Deeny (Joseph Fiennes) for help, who recommends that the company seek foreign investment to pay off its debts. What Pete doesn't know is that Deeny is trying to do him out of the business and has arranged a "loan" from a Russian Mafia warlord, Mr Kant (Steven Berkoff), whose raven-haired daughter Masha (Tara Fitzgerald) is set on seducing Pete. Given its all-star British cast (which also includes Dani Behr, Keith Allen and Nick Moran) and bestseller source material, Rancid Aluminium must have looked like a sure-fire comedy hit. But first-time director Ed Thomas (better known as a playwright and theatre director) can't seem to keep a handle on the convoluted plot and the laughs are entirely incidental. Ifans's irritating mockney voiceover doesn't help, nor the fact that Tara Fitzgerald's accent keeps slipping between Stalingrad and Sloane Square. Fans of the James Hawes original may get a thrill from seeing his characters come to life, but it's unlikely anyone else will. --Chris Campion

• The Lookout | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £14.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (33.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the role of a successful school hockey player whose life takes a turn for the worse after a terrifying car crash.

• British Crime - Face/Mean Machine | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Face: At thirty five Ray's learned the tricks and done the time. Now he's a face - a villain to be reckoned with and definitely not to be crossed - ready for the blag the big score that'll really set him and his team up. Although the job goes smooth and sweet the take doesn't scratch the three million the gang had it figured for. And when somebody starts thieving from the thieves and people start getting blown away Ray's got some serious thinking to do before the traitor -

• Secrets and Lies | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £24.71   |  Saving you £-4.72 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mike Leigh's superlative drama at once hysterically funny and profoundly sad examines a wounded contemporary British family. Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) a young black optometrist has just buried her beloved adoptive mother. In her sorrow she embarks on a search for her birth mother who turns out to be Cynthia (Brenda Blethyn) a white factory worker living a lonely life with her surly daughter Roxanne (Claire Rushbrook). No one in the family except Cynthia's brother Mauri

• Hannah Free | DVD | (05/07/2010) from £12.06   |  Saving you £2.93 (24.30%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Hannah and Rachel grew up as little girls in the same small Midwest town where traditional gender expectations eventually challenge their deep love for one another. Hannah becomes an adventurous unapologetic lesbian and Rachel a strong but quiet homemaker. Weaving back and forth between past and present the film reveals how the women maintained their love affair despite a marriage a world war infidelities and family denial.

• Prison Break - Series 2 - Part 2 | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £4.84   |  Saving you £30.15 (622.93%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) is a desperate man in a desperate situation. His brother Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) has been convicted of a sensational murder and subsequently put on death row in the Fox River State Penitentiary. Despite the overwhelming evidence against Lincoln Michael is convinced of his innocence. With no other options and time running out Michael holds up a bank to get himself sent down alongside his brother. Not just content to while away the hours until Lincoln's execution Michael hatches a plan helped in no small part by his skills as a structural engineer. With the blueprints to the prison in his possession Michael plots an elaborate escape to break out Lincoln and prove his brother was framed. The thrilling TV drama is back on DVD for a second season

• Rosamunde Pilcher's Summer Solstice | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £4.96   |  Saving you £12.03 (242.54%)   |  RRP £16.99

  This dramatisation is the sequel to the hugely popular Rosamunde Pilcher's Winter Solstice and features a stellar cast including Jacqueline Bisset (Bullit) Jan Niklas (Plain Truth) Honor Blackman (Goldfinger) Sinead Cusack (North & South) and Jason Durr (Heartbeat).

• On Golden Pond / Sophie's Choice | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The sunny streets of Brooklyn, just after World War II. A young would-be writer named Stingo (Peter MacNicol) shares a boarding house with beautiful Polish immigrant Sophie (Meryl Streep) and her tempestuous lover, Nathan (Kevin Kline); their friendship changes his life. This adaptation of the bestselling novel by William Styron is faithful to the point of being reverential, which is not always the right way to make a film come to life. But director Alan J. Pakula (All the President's Men) provides a steady, intelligent path into the harrowing story of Sophie, whose flashback memories of the horrors of a Nazi concentration camp form the backbone of the movie. Streep's exceptional performance--flawless Polish accent and all--won her an Oscar, and effectively raised the standard for American actresses of her generation. No less impressive is Kevin Kline, in his movie debut, capturing the mercurial moods of the dangerously attractive Nathan. The two worlds of Sophie's Choice, nostalgic Brooklyn and monstrous Europe, are beautifully captured by the gifted cinematographer Néstor Almendros, whose work was Oscar-nominated but didn't win. It should have. --Robert Horton, Amazon.com

• Unknown Pleasures / Xiao Wu | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £42.70   |  Saving you £-17.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Unknown Pleasures: 19 year old friends Bin Bin and Ziao Ji live in the provincial Chinese city of Datong; disaffected and without jobs or ambition they pass their days wandering around town on their motorbikes hanging out at the smoky pool hall dreaming of girls and escape. Around them China is changing television informs them of their nation's rapidly developing political and economic role in the world and the inexorable encroachment of globalisation... Xiao Wu (aka P

• Confessions | DVD | (25/07/2016) from £6.46   |  Saving you £9.53 (147.52%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Take a peak under the surface of any gay man, and who knows what you ll find? CONFESSIONS, an anthology of disclosures from the recesses of the gay male psyche, goes some way to answer that very question. Spanning themes that are dark, sexy, intense, funny, romantic and shocking, CONFESSIONS turns a spotlight on characters you don t often get to see- but will not want to turn away from.

• The Bubble | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £7.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (150.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Emotionally moving and brimming with youthful energy Eytan Fox's (Yossi & Jagger) The Bubble is a snapshot of three Tel Aviv friends. Their lives filled with trendy cafes boutiques and the occasional sexual adventures the trio seek refuge in their metropolitan ""bubble "" isolating them from omnipresent fear of modern warfare around them. But when young Noam falls in love with a Palestinian young man named Ashraf a chain of events is set in motion threatening their nave idealistic existence.

• The Great Raid | DVD | (12/06/2006) from £12.13   |  Saving you £2.86 (23.58%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Following the 1942 Bataan Death March thousands of U.S. and Filipino soldiers were imprisoned by the Japanese in a POW camp in Cabantauan in the Philippines. Brutalized starved and tortured the prisoners languished in the camp for nearly three years. But in January 1945 an American battalion with the help of Filipino guerrillas planned a daring mission - some called it suicide - to rescue the five hundred U.S. soldiers still alive there. This film tells that story in glorious de

• Casualties Of War | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £11.55   |  Saving you £1.44 (12.47%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hailed by critics as a masterpiece Casualties of War is based on the true story of a squad of soldiers caught in the moral quagmire of wartime Vietnam. Witness to a vile crime Private Eriksson (Michael J. Fox) is forced to stand alone against his fellow soldiers and commanding officer Sergeant Meserve (Sean Penn). A powerful and charismatic man pushed over the edge of barbarism by the terror and brutality of combat. With sweeping scope action and raw power master filmmake

• Fatbelly | DVD | (02/08/2010) from £3.94   |  Saving you £13.31 (496.64%)   |  RRP £15.99

  I've done 23 years 9 months in Jail. I've done 10 ' years in H Division. I've been stabbed 13 times in 7 different episodes. I've been hit on the head with iron bars. I've been hit on the head with claw hammers shot once I've been run over. I've survived 60 serves of shock treatment in 6 months 1 serve every 3 days... I've had everything done to me... I wouldn't recommend it to anybody. Fatbelly is a raw unique and gritty portrait of Mark 'Chopper' Read's life in his own words. Fatbelly recounts the most graphic and brutal stories of violence blood love and survival from Australia's most notorious gangster. From mental hospitals to the infamous Pentridge H division this jaw dropping film will leave you with a different understanding of the man that is 'Chopper'.