Drama

• Sisters | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £10.78   |  Saving you £2.21 (17.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A scary and stylish accolade to female destructiveness De Palma's first foray into horror voyeurism is a stunning amalgam of split screen effects bloody birthday cakes and a chilling score by frequent Hitchcock collaborator Bernard Hermann. Margot Kidder stars as Danielle a beautiful model separated from her Siamese twin Dominique. When a hotshot reporter (Jennifer Salt) suspects Dominique of a brutal murder she becomes dangerously ensnared in the sisters' insidious sibling bo

• Anna Karenina / Pride & Prejudice / Atonement (Triple Pack) | Blu Ray | (04/02/2013) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-6.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £11.33

  Anna Karenina Anna Karenina is acclaimed director Joe Wright's bold, theatrical new vision of the epic story of love, stirringly adapted from Leo Tolstoy's great novel by Academy Award winner Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love). The film marks the third collaboration of the director with Academy Award-nominated actress Keira Knightley and Academy Award-nominated producers Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, and Paul Webster, following their award-winning box office successes Pride and Prejudice and Atonement. The timeless story powerfully explores the capacity for love that surges through the human heart, while illuminating the lavish society that was imperial Russia. The time is 1874. Vibrant and beautiful, Anna Karenina (Ms. Knightley) has what any of her contemporaries would aspire to; she is the wife of Karenin (Jude Law), a high-ranking government official to whom she has borne a son, and her social standing in St. Petersburg could scarcely be higher. She journeys to Moscow after a letter from her philandering brother Oblonsky (Matthew Macfadyen) arrives, asking for Anna to come and help save his marriage to Dolly (Kelly Macdonald). En route, Anna makes the acquaintance of Countess Vronsky (Olivia Williams), who is then met at the train station by her son, the dashing cavalry officer Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). When Anna is introduced to Vronsky, there is a mutual spark of instant attraction that cannot - and will not - be ignored. Special Features: Deleted Scenes Anna Karenina: An Epic Story About Love Adapting Tolstoy Keira As Anna On the Set with Director Joe Wright Dressing Anna Anna Karenina: Time-Lapse Photography Feature Commentary with Director Joe Wright Pride and Prejudice A romance ahead of its time... The five Bennet sisters - Elizabeth, or Lizzie (Keira Knightley), Jane (Rosamund Pike), Lydia (Jena Malone), Mary (Talulah Riley) and Kitty (Carey Mulligan) - have all been raised by their mother with one purpose in life - finding a husband. However, the second eldest Lizzie can think of 100 reasons not to marry. When Mrs Bennet hears the exciting news that a wealthy bachelor and his circle of sophisticated friends are to take up summer residence in a nearby mansion the Bennets are abuzz with the hope that potential suitors will be in full supply. Obligingly, the newcomer, Mr Charles Bingley, is immediately taken with the eldest Jane. However, when Lizzie meets up with the darkly handsome and snobbish Mr Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen), what seems like a match made in heaven quickly becomes divided by pride and prejudice. Can they get past this and can Lizzie finally find a reason to marry? Special Features: Audio Commentary with Director Joe Wright Conversations with the Cast (AKA Onset Diaries) Jane Austen, Ahead of Her Time (AKA Life and Times of Jane Austen) A Bennet Family Portrait (AKA The Bennetts) Pride and Prejudice - A Classic in the Making (HBO First Look) The Politics of Dating (AKA The Politics of 18th Century) The Stately Homes of Pride and Prejudice Alternate US Ending Atonement The year is 1935 and on a hot summer's day a chain of events set in motion. Briony Tallis (Saoirse Ronan) is a young, imaginative preteen writer. She is the younger sister of Cecilia (Keira Knightley) who is an attractive, Cambridge graduate in an upper class family enjoying her life. On this hot summer's day she decides to take a swim in the family fountain. Robbie Turner (James McEvoy), the son of the housekeeper watches the beauty as she goes for a swim and little Briony's imagination runs rampant. It is not long until a few misconceptions and Briony's wild imagination starts rumours which lead to the arrest and conviction of Robbie; An event that will dramatically change the lives of all three people. Five years later in the madness of World War II appears Robbie, as a foot soldier in the army. He is preparing for an evacuation of Dunkirk. Meanwhile the two sisters train as nurses in London, all deeply affected by the events years before. Special Features: Deleted Scenes Deleted Scenes with Commentary Feature Commentary with Director Joe Wright From Novel to Screen: Adapting a Classic Bringing the Past to Life: The Making of Atonement

• I Am Not Madame Bovary | DVD | (02/10/2017) from £7.05   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Acclaimed director feng xiaogang and superstar fan bingbing team up for this razor-sharp, intriguing tale of a wronged woman fighting for justice against her duplicitous husband and the government itself. when li xuelian (fan bingbing) and her husband qin yuhe (li zonghan) stage a fake divorce to secure a second apartment reserved by the government for single people, all seems to go to plan. six months later, qin remarries, as agreed but to a different woman. furious, li files a lawsuit with the county court, but loses the case after the judge remains convinced the divorce papers are in order. refusing to accept the court's findings, li appeals to the chief justice, the county chief, and even the mayor, but fails at every turn. she decides that only qin can give her peace of mind, if he will just acknowledge that the divorce was fake. instead, he publicly accuses her of being a promiscuous woman - an accusation that drives li back to the courts, and to the capital, to redeem her reputation once and for all shot partly in a circular aspect ratio, mirroring the literati paintings of the song dynasty, i am not madame bovary offers a powerful, compelling and hilarious social satire, which transcends all cultures in uniquely stylish fashion.

• We'll Support You Evermore | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A man searches for the truth about his son's death in Northern Ireland.

• Mary Higgins Clark - A Cry In The Night | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £5.34   |  Saving you £0.65 (12.17%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A single mother goes to the country to marry a famous painter with a dead-mother fixation... and strange things start happening.

• It's Kind of a Funny Story | Blu Ray | (06/06/2011) from £5.80   |  Saving you £19.19 (330.86%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

• The Stag | Blu Ray | (21/07/2014) from £9.43   |  Saving you £6.56 (69.57%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Self-confessed metrosexual Fionnan doesn't want a stag do, but would happily attend the Hen. Ruth, the now concerned bride-to-be (Amy Huberman), promptly persuades the, marginally more-macho, best man (Andrew Scott) to organise one. Reluctantly, he agrees but proceeds to do everything he can to stop Ruth's wildly infamous brother, known only as The Machine (Peter McDonald), coming along for their sober, walking-weekend, excuse for a stag party. But The Machine, not so easily foxed, tracks the.

• Mr. Lonely | DVD | (08/03/2010) from £29.93   |  Saving you £-16.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In Paris a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe who invites him to her commune in Scotland where she lives with Charlie Chaplin and her daughter Shirley Temple.

• Guilty of Romance (2011) | DVD | (28/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A dramatic account of three women and their lives seen through the looking glass of sex words madness death and family Guilty Of Romance - the new crime noir from the award-winning director Sion Sono (Love Exposure Cold Fish) - tells the tale of three women entangled in a mystery...a mystery that is the gate to a hell-bound love like no other! Set just before the turn of the 21st century a grisly murder occurs in Maruyama-cho Shibuya - a love hotel district - a woman was found dead in a derelict apartment in the pouring rain. Whilst the police investigate the story interweaves with that of Izumi the wife of a famous romantic novelist whose life seems just a daily repetition without romance. One day to break away from the loveless monotony she decides to follow her desires and accepts a job as a naked model faking sex in front of the camera. Soon she meets with a mentor and starts selling her body to strangers whilst at home she hides behind the facade that she is still the wife she is supposed to be. Bombarding the audience with graphic images and assaulting the emotions with classical music Sion Sono has produced a movie that provokes all your senses blending genres of film noir with drama and mystery and showcasing the directors trademark style and use of vivid colour to portray emotion and mood Guilty Of Romance is the final and most exhilarating part of Sono's hate trilogy.

• French Collection Vol.4 - Emmanuelle Beart | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  The French Collection: Vol.4 - Emmanuel Beart

• Time Regained | DVD | (12/06/2000) from £21.60   |  Saving you £-1.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A mesmerising adaptation of the last two volumes of Proust’s monumental

• Hitch-Hike | DVD | (07/12/2015) from £10.35   |  Saving you £5.64 (54.49%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A psychopath hitch-hiker is picked up at the side of the road by a bickering couple. More than a few speed bumps follow – and anyone seeking a gentle time in front of the television will, doubtlessly, be disappointed by the peddle-to-the-mettle menace and top-gear terror that this road-trip into terror presents. A true standout of Italian suspense-nastiness, complimented by a classic Ennio Morricone soundtrack.

• Corridor Of Mirrors | DVD | (15/06/2015) from £8.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

• The Chairman | DVD | (20/08/2012) from £12.29   |  Saving you £2.70 (18.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Oscar winner Gregory Peck stars in this suspenseful 1969 Cold War spy thriller set deep behind the Bamboo Curtain and directed by Oscar-nominated J.Lee Thompson (The Guns of Navarone).When the Chinese make a scientific discovery that could change the world forever, Nobel Prize-winning scientist John Hathaway (Gregory Peck) is the West's only hope to steal the secret. The Chinese need his expertise to complete the project, so they're willing to let him in to their forbidden country. But will they ever let him out again? With the latest spying equipment wired into his skull, Hathaway is sent in - unaware that his spymasters have also planted a powerful explosive in his body...

• The Messenger | Blu Ray | (17/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Multi-award winning The Messenger is a timeless story that examines universal themes of redemption hope and the resilience of the human spirit. The first film directed by Oren Moverman a combat veteran of the Israeli army whose earlier screenplays include the Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There (2007) and Jesus' Son (1999) The Messenger follows two officers (Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson) faced with the unenviable task of notifying the loved ones of fallen soldiers. The two men form an unlikely bond that is threatened when one of the officers finds himself drawn to a young widow (Samantha Morton) setting off an ethical dilemma that plays out in touching and surprising ways. The film is a deeply moving tale about the complex and unexpected ways that people reach out to and gain strength from each other offering a unique and inspiring vision that deftly balances strong emotion with humour compassion and empathy. The Messenger won the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Screenplay and the Critics Award and Grand Special Prize for Best Film at the Deauville Film Festival whilst Woody Harrelson garnered Best Supporting Actor Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations and won the Best Supporting Male Independent Spirit Award for his portrayal of Captain Tony Stone.

• Naqoyqatsi | DVD | (22/02/2005) from £6.73   |  Saving you £8.26 (122.73%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Using montage techniques Naqoyqatsi combines forms of mass media altered with digital techniques to create a swirling chronicle of the influence of technology reflecting the ever increasing globalisation of the world and the societies contained within it.

• Vincent - Series 2 | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £16.81   |  Saving you £6.17 (44.65%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The daddy of all private investigators. Featuring all the episodes from series 2 Vincent stars Ray Winstone as the eponymous private investigator; a headstrong passionate man whose methods often bring him into conflict with the authorities.

• Tape | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £7.55   |  Saving you £-1.56 (-26.00%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Richard Linklater's Tape doesn't announce itself as a Dogme movie, but it might very well qualify. Acted out in real time in a single setting--a cramped, grimy motel room--with no music score, a cast of just three and shot on grainy digital video, it marks a further step back to basics for Linklater after the woeful miscalculation of his gangster period drama The Newton Boys (1998). It's set in Lansing, Michigan, hometown of petty drug-dealer and part-time firefighter Vince (Ethan Hawke), who's come back for the screening, in Lansing's film festival, of the debut feature of his old school friend Johnny (Robert Sean Leonard), now an indie filmmaker. At least, that's Vince's ostensible reason--but it turns out he's got a hidden agenda that involves Amy (Uma Thurman), the girl they both fancied in high-school, and now the local assistant DA. Tape was adapted from a stage play (by Stephen Belber, who also scripted) and often feels like it, with characters announcing their motivations and reactions in grandstanding, tell-don't-show speeches. The camerawork tends to the tricky, too--tilted angles and way too many whip-pans during dialogue sequences--as if Linklater was worried his single set might get visually boring. But the tight, twisty plotting, compact running time and intense performances keep the film absorbing. Hawke and Leonard's mutual lacerations carry a rancid sense of resentments banked up and brooded on for years, while Thurman's Amy, arriving halfway through the action, visibly relishes setting both men by the ears. As a meditation on the relativity of truth Tape may not be in the Rashomon class, but it shows Linklater doing what he does best, making pungent use of minimal resources. On the DVD: Tape offers no extras on disc, just the trailer. Production-value splendour was obviously never on the menu here, but the 2.0 Dolby Digital sound and 16:9 anamorphic widescreen transfer do the original no disservice. --Philip Kemp

• Brief Encounter | Blu Ray | (09/08/2021) from £19.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Film legends Sophia Loren and Richard Burton star in this moody adaptation of Noel Coward's emotional tale about a chance meeting that progresses from friendship into an unexpected but impossible love. Directed by BAFTA-winning Alan Bridges and scripted by John Bowen (both of whom had worked to great acclaim on TV's Play for Today), Brief Encounter is featured here as a brand-new High Definition remaster from original film elements in its original widescreen theatrical aspect ratio as well as a legacy transfer of the as-filmed full-frame version. When a tiny piece of grit in Anna's eye leads to an unexpected meeting with Alec at the local railway station, neither of them could guess that what begins as a casual friendship could turn so easily into a tormenting relationship.

• Capricorn One | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Thanks to repeated showings on cable television and home video, this speculative thriller has built quite a loyal following since its release in 1978. The provocative "what if?" scenario still packs a punch, even if it is not always believable. James Brolin, Sam Waterston and O J Simpson star as three astronauts who agree to spare the government embarrassment by faking their historic landing on Mars after their spacecraft is determined to be unsafe for blastoff. When a scheming mission controller (Hal Holbrook) plots to kill the astronauts in a staged capsule fire, the trio embarks on a dangerous mission to expose the truth. Elliott Gould costars as the journalist determined to crack the conspiracy, and director Peter Hyams turns up the tension with an exciting chase sequence involving Telly Savalas as an eccentric barnstormer who comes to Gould's aid in his attempt rescue the hoax mission's sole survivor. --Jeff Shannon