Drama

• Mystery Train | Blu Ray | (23/03/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A sleazy downtown motel in Memphis, Tennessee provides the stopping off point for three very different groups of people: a rock'n'roll obsessed Japanese couple paying a visit to Elvis' home, Graceland; a beautiful Italian widow who has a surprise encounter with the 'King' himself; and an inept gang of thugs seeking refuge in the hotel after a liquor store robbery. Cult director Jim Jarmusch links their stories together by the comic antics of the night clerk and bellboy, played by Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Spike Lee's brother Cinque.

• The District Nurse - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The District Nurse the hit BBC drama arrives on DVD for the first time. In the 1920s District Nurse Megan Roberts (Nerys Hughes) is assigned to a poor Welsh mining village where life has hardly changed since Victorian times. Solace is found in booze and religion. Viewed with deep suspicion by many of the locals she soon finds herself battling against powerful farmers local officials and mine owners who care nothing about the villagers' welfare. Digitally remastered for e

• Gia | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £19.38   |  Saving you £-13.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Gia is a made-for-TV HBO film that stars Angelina Jolie as supermodel model Gia Carangi, who went from high school to the cover of British Vogue in less than two years. Carangi appeared on many more covers of Vogue (French, British, Italian, and American) and Cosmopolitan before dying of complications from AIDs (she was an IV heroin user) in 1986. Jolie comes by her talent honestly: she's the daughter of veteran actor Jon Voight, and her own training as a model serves her well here--she has the moves. Throughout, she's heartbreaking--as no doubt the real Carangi was--effective, and stunning. With good source material (Stephen Fried's A Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia), Jolie's stunning performance, and strong directing by Michael Cristofer, the movie goes beyond the merely sensational. The script was co-written by Cristofer and novelist Jay McInerney, whose Bright Lights, Big City covers similar territory. As a cautionary tale, Gia works. But to watch Jolie in her character's tragic self-destruction is utterly compelling. --NF Mendoza, Amazon.com

• What Have I Done To Deserve This? | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £8.57   |  Saving you £9.42 (109.92%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An erotic and bizarre black comedy which follows a typical Spanish housewife with rather atypical family problems! Nazis homosexuality drug dealing extra-marital affairs and a plot to forge Hitler's diaries: everything you'd expect from Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar's fourth film!

• True Dare Kiss - Series 1 | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  From acclaimed writer Debbie Horsfield (Cutting It)and freely adapted form her 1985 stage play of the same name comes a raw and disturbing new six-part drama serial set in Manchester that slowly unfolds into a saga of intrigue passion revenge & redemption. After a death in the family four sisters and their brother are reunited after 20 years each with a memory of a horrific incident that happened in their youth.

• All The Real Girls | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £7.84   |  Saving you £12.15 (154.97%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the young director of 2000's critically acclaimed "George Washington" comes a love story set in a small country town in Southern America.

• AKA Cassius Clay | DVD | (18/05/2002) from £6.22   |  Saving you £9.77 (157.07%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Made in 1970, just as he was reaching the end of a three-year exile from boxing, AKA Cassius Clay is a documentary about Muhammad Ali's life and career. Produced by Jim Jacobs and Bill Cayton--who would go on to manage Mike Tyson--it includes reams of Jacobs' vast collection of fight footage, some of it familiar, some quite rare, such as flickery images of his earliest bouts. The film intersperses an account of Ali's career with good natured, if combative, sections to camera featuring Ali and future Tyson trainer Cus D'Amato, who plays devil's advocate, arguing with the ex-champ that he would never have beaten Joe Louis in his heyday, or (more dubiously) his own protégé Floyd Patterson. Watching footage of his 1967 bout against Cleveland Williams here, it's hard to believe any champion before or since could have beaten Ali at his height. Ali's familiar story is competently related here (though narrator Richard Kiley has the mildly disconcerting air of a Bond villain): his 1960 Olympic triumph; his defeat of Sonny Liston who was expected to annihilate the young 22-year-old blowhard in 1964; his conversion to the Nation of Islam; and the plainly vindictive decision on the part of the authorities to revise his draft status and call him up for service in Vietnam. Ali refused and faced the possibility of a five-year jail sentence as well as being stripped of his title. The principle pleasure of AKA Cassius Clay is watching Ali in full verbal flow. His maniacal teasing of Liston was a psychological knockout blow. "The man's too ugly to be the world champ. The world champ should be pretty, like me!" On the DVD: extras comprise scene selections and the original trailer. The reproduction is visually adequate, with the sepia tones of the fight footage holding up well; but the dubbing in places is poor. --David Stubbs

• And Now Tomorrow | DVD | (21/01/2013) from £8.71   |  Saving you £4.28 (49.14%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dr Merek Vance runs a clinic for the underprivileged in Pittsburgh. Summoned by a colleague, he returns to Blairtown, where he grew up poor, and finds himself sharing a taxi with wealthy Emily Blair, a snobbish rich girl he never liked while growing up together, but she has since contracted meningitis and is deaf. Emily has postponed her wedding to Jeff Stoddard, a member of high society like herself, while leaving town to seek treatment. In her absence, her sister Janice has fallen in love ...

• The Pride Of Jesse Hallam | DVD | (10/05/2008) from £6.73   |  Saving you £1.26 (18.72%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Johnny Cash stars as Jesse Hallam an impoverished and uneducated mine worker who is forced to move to the big city of Cincinnati so that one of his children can have the surgery she so desperately needs. In order to be able to look after his family he needs to find a job in order to get a job he must first learn to read and write. This is the story of one man's personal battle against his own pride to do what's necessary to achieve the best for himself and his family against all the odds.

• The Charmer | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ralph Gorse a charmer in every sense of the word is handsome suave and stylish. It soon becomes clear however that there is a much darker side to his character: that of a conman seducer and murderer. Whilst staying in Reading he seduces Joan Plumleigh-Bruce much to the disgust of her friend Mr Stimpson and succeeds in swindling a great deal of money from her. Running off to Brighton with the money he soon wastes it all and has to get his old job back working in a car showroom. The owner's daughter Pamela falls for him and on discovering she is pregnant Gorse is forced to marry. After an insurance scam goes terribly wrong Gorse flits again to try and start a new life with a false identity. With Mr Stimpson catching up with him will Gorse succeed or will he finally get his comeuppance?

• Midsomer Murders - Sauce For The Goose | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £5.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (183.64%)   |  RRP £16.99

  David Arquette (Scream) and Jonny Lee Miller (Canterbury Tales) head a stellar cast in this wonderful prequel to Lonesome Dove by the same writer of Brokeback Mountain. Based on Larry McMurty's novel in Dead man's Walk Gus (Arquette) and Call (Miller) are young men coming of age in the days when Texas was still an independent republic. We follow the two men as they embark on their first great adventure. They sign up as Texas Rangers under the command of Caleb Cobb an unpredictable bandit who wants to seize Santa Fe from the Mexicans. This untamed frontier and the wild men who live there - the Indians defending it with unrelenting savagery the Texans attempting to seize and 'civilize' it and the Mexicans threatened by both - are at the heart of this gripping story.

• Beckett On Film | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  A 4 DVD box set comprising of 19 film adaptations of plays by Samuel Beckett. Includes: 1. Waiting for Godot (director Michael Lindsay-Hogg) 2. Not I (director Neil Jordan) 3. Rough for Theatre I (director Kieron J Walsh) 4. Ohio Impromptu (director Charles Sturridge) 5. Krapp's Last Tape (director Atom Egoyan) 6. What Where (director Damien O'Donnell) 7. Footfalls (director Walter Asmus) 8. Come and Go (director John Crowley) 9. Act Without Words I (director Karel Reisz) 10. Happy

• Some Velvet Morning | DVD | (08/09/2014) from £8.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (44.49%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Stanley Tucci stars as a man who surprises his former mistress (Alice Eve) claiming to have left his wife. Before too long a dark history between the two has come into focus.

• Pelo Malo | DVD | (30/03/2015) from £8.50   |  Saving you £7.49 (46.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Junior is nine years old, growing up on a housing project in Venezuela with his recently widowed mother, Marta, and his baby brother. Searching for an identity without a father-figure, Junior feels marginalised by his mother s preoccupation with his younger brother. When school term approaches and Junior s yearbook photo is to be taken, he decides to straighten his stubbornly curly hair. Sharing a love of music and singing, Junior s grandmother introduces him to her favourite sixties crooner, Henry Stephen ( My Lemon, My Lemon Tree ), and suggests he might like to imitate the look for the school photo. As Junior s fixation with his appearance grows it soon puts him at odds with his mother. Overwhelmed with searching for a job to provide for her family, she finds it increasingly difficult to tolerate Junior s personality and tries to induce him into macho ways, convinced his obsessions are in fact signs of his undefined sexuality...

• Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself | DVD | (11/02/2008) from £4.25   |  Saving you £1.74 (40.94%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Harbour and his suicidal brother Wilbur inherit their father's second-hand book shop in Glasgow. Their lives beome entangled with Alice and her daughter Mary after the two women visit the shop. Idealistic young Mary captures Wilbur's disturbed heart and just may help save his life...

• Julia Roberts Collection - Mystic Pizza/Dying Young/Sleeping With The Enemy | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mystic Pizza (Dir. Donald Petrie 1998): Filled with heart and humour Mystic Pizza charts the lives and loves of three unforgettable waitresses in a little town called Mystic. Starring Julia Roberts Annabeth Gish and Lili Taylor Mystic Pizza has all the right ingredients of a main course favourite. For sexy Daisy Araujo (Roberts) her sensible sister Kat (Gish) and their wisecracking friend Jojo (Taylor) the summer after high school is a summer they'll never forget. Slinging pizza at a local restaurant the three girls share their plans for escaping their small town. And when a wealthy young man named Charles sweeps Daisy off her feet they all think she's found her ticket out. But when the girls learn that Charles isn't the man they think he is they discover that with friendship and self-respect not only will they find real happiness (and a way out of Mystic)... they just might find themselves. Dying Young (Dir. Joel Schumacher 1991): With little money a poor education and no luck when it comes to love Hilary O'Neil (Roberts) answers a wanted ad and finds her whole world suddenly changed. Hired as the caretaker to a seriously ill young man (Scott) she unexpectedly discovers they have much in common even though he is wealthy and intelligent. Their growing friendship quietly develops into a deep and powerful romance that ultimately tests the boundaries of true love... Sleeping With The Enemy (Dir. Joseph Ruben 1990): When Laura married Martin she had no way of knowing the depth of his passion for her. On the outside they are the ideal couple. The beautiful and perfect housewife. The handsome successful and seductive husband. But things are not as they appear to be. Inside is a woman living a terrifying secret. And to escape from her nightmare she will risk everything - even her life. Julia Roberts and Patrick Bergin star in the passionate and dangerous thriller - Sleeping With The Enemy.

• Here We Are | DVD | (14/02/2022) from £15.41   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Aharon has devoted his life to raising his son Uri, where they live together in a gentle routine away from the real world. Uri is autistic and now as a young adult, it might be time for him to live in a specialised home. Aharon feels deep down that Uri is not ready for this separation, so on the way to the home, he decides to run away with his son and they hit the road. A journey that has unexpected consequences for Aharon and Uri's quiet life together.

• Out of the Blue | DVD | (12/01/2009) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  On November 13th 1990 in the iddylic town of Aramoana quiet local David Gray took a high-powered automatic weapon and inexplicably shot dead 13 of his neighbours. It remains the worst mass murder in New Zealand's history. As emergency services scrambled desperately to reach the town a handful of local policemen risked their lives trying to apprehend the gunman. Terrified residents were trapped in their homes for 22 hours not knowing where David Gray was - or if they were to become his next victim. Starring Karl Urban Out Of The Blue is the gripping true story of the bravery and compassion of ordinary people in the most extraordinary of situations.

• Public Eye - The Complete 1969 Series | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Public Eye is a private detective series starring Alfred Burke as Frank Marker. The series originally ran on the ABC network during the 1960's resurrected by Thames in 1969 and then produced a further 6 series before the show ended in 1975.

• The Widowmaker | DVD | (06/02/2012) from £21.92   |  Saving you £-8.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Oscar winner John Madden (Prime Suspect, Shakespeare in Love) directs Annabelle Apsion (Shameless) and David Morrissey (Red Riding) in this disturbing, compelling drama which tells the story of a woman coming to terms with the trauma of being married to a mass-murderer. Drawing on a remarkable pool of talent that in-cludes Ted Childs executive producer of Inspector Morse and Lewis and multi-award-winning screenwriter Jer-emy Brock (The Last King of Scotland), The Widowmaker earned a BAFTA nomination for Best Single Drama in 1991.Kathy, a young mother, arrives home to find her house surrounded by police and reporters; she is then told that her husband has been arrested for a series of murders in the local community. How could she have loved a man capable of committing such crimes? Why hadn't she recognised the signs of the madness that was de-veloping? Did she, in any way, provoke his actions? While coping with press intrusion, police questioning and her shocked family and friends, Kathy is haunted by the past in her harrowing search for the truth.