Drama

• Five Obstructions | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £8.45   |  Saving you £12.80 (178.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Once upon a time--1967, to be precise--Danish director Jørgen Leth released The Perfect Human. In The Five Obstructions, fellow countryman Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves) challenges his "hero" to remake the short five times and provides a different set of "obstructions" for each. Because Leth likes cigars, von Trier suggests the first be made in Cuba. For the second, however, he sends Leth to "the worst place on earth"--Bombay's red light district. The obstructions keep coming, interspersed with conversation and clips from the original film, in which actors engage in a variety of activities, like eating and dancing, while the narrator posits oblique questions like "Why is joy so whimsical?" (Von Trier claims to have watched it "at least 20 times.") In the end, the two Danes have whipped up an unclassifiable concoction that plays less like documentary and more like a duel between friendly adversaries. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• Good Vibrations | Blu Ray | (05/08/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Eager to shift thoughts away from those of the Troubles during the 1970s music fanatic Terri Hooley (Richard Dormer TV's Game of Thrones) opens a record store 'Good Vibrations' in the heart of one of Belfast's roughest districts. As the shop gains a loyal following Terri decides to start a small record label with the aim of launching some of the local bands he's discovered including The Undertones whose first single 'Teenage Kicks' is soon championed by legendary Radio 1 DJ John Peel... A heart-warming and hilarious true story Good Vibrations is not a feel-good film - it's a feel-great film! Special Features: Interview with Terri Hooley Interviews with Cast and Crew

• Circle Of Two | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  True love knows no bounds. A rebellious 16 yr. old finds comfort in an ageing artist leading to an ill-fated romance where 2 people so wrong for each other are really so right.

• Scum | Blu Ray | (30/09/2013) from £29.68   |  Saving you £-7.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Ray Winstone stars in one of the most violent explosive and controversial British films of all time. After assaulting a warder young offender Carlin (Ray Winstone) is transferred to a tough British borstal where the staff decides to break him - with savage and relentless violence. At the same time the existing 'Daddy' on Carlin's prison wing Banks (John Blundell) - the thug who controls all the other inmates - sees the newcomer as a threat and singles him out for more vicious beatings to smash him down. Now Carlin knows that there is only one way to survive. He must fight back destroy Banks - and become the new 'Daddy' on the wing... Based on an original TV play that was banned by the BBC for its graphic violence and sexual content Scum remains as shocking and powerful today as the day it was first released. Scum has been fully restored and graded at 2K from the original negatives by Pinewood Studios and includes the original audio mix and newly created 5.1 surround mix.

• Katie Tippel | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £14.59   |  Saving you £5.40 (37.01%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Made in 1975 and directed by Paul Verhoeven, Katie Tippel ("Katie the Streetwalker") is a handsome period drama set in 19th-century Holland, based on a true story. The second eldest daughter in a poor, Friesland family who move to Amsterdam, Katie (Monique Van de Ven) must find whatever work is going to make ends meet. She has already learnt to have no faith in her weak father. Now, as she enters a succession of jobs in which she experiences both exploitation and sexual harassment, she learns that men want her only for one thing. Duly, at the behest of her own mother, she enters into prostitution. However, when she becomes model to an artist, she is finally able to escape the poverty trap and ascend the social ladder, particularly when banker Hugo (Rutger Hauer) takes her as his lover. All this is set against a backdrop of social foment as the workers' impatience at poor social conditions increases. Although director Verhoeven, as well as Hauer and cinematographer Jan De Bont eventually became involved in mainstream American movies, Katie Tippel is very much of the European school of filmmaking: episodic and harsh in its depiction of everyday poverty. The dead puppy at the beginning definitely marks it out as being contrary to Hollywood's near-zero canine mortality rate. The sexual scenes are graphic to the point of gratuitousness but always grimly non-titillating. Budgetary limits cramp some of the mass street scenes, but generally the film is beautifully shot and ageless in feel. A far cry, certainly, from Showgirls, for which Verhoeven was later responsible. --David Stubbs

• Discreet | DVD | (09/07/2018) from £7.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  From the acclaimed director of I Want Your Love and Interior. Leather Bar comes an eerie and powerful thriller that offers a disturbing insight into the dark heart of Trump s America. Filmmaker Alex lives in a van. He sets up his camera in rural areas in the US, in the no-man s land near highways. During a visit to his mother, she shares with him a well-kept secret from his childhood, a secret that threatens to unravel him. Feeling desperate and unstable, Alex is determined to right the wrongs of his past and, through his confusion and increasingly tenuous grip on reality, confront a looming shadow that he has been running from all his life.

• Days of Thunder - 80s Collection | DVD | (27/08/2018) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Return to the disco days of the 1980s in this exclusive collection, featuring ALL NEW ARTWORK that celebrates Generation X's neon dream decade, and the movies that defined it. Director Ridley Scott, who created two of Hollywood's most impactful and stylish adventure thrillers, Alien and Blade Runner, hits the mark again in Black Rain. Academy Award-winner Michael Douglas (Fatal Attraction, Wall Street) and Andy Garcia (Internal Affairs, The Untouchables) play New York cops whose job to escort a vicious assassin back to his native Japan leads the two Americans into Osaka's exotic underworld and straight into the center of a raging, brutal Yakuza gangland battle.

• Lovely, Still | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £4.98   |  Saving you £13.00 (434.78%)   |  RRP £15.99

  With the approach of Christmas causing him to feel lonely in life and love Robert Malone braves the wintery snow to arrive home from his job at the grocery store only to find a stranger standing in his home. What begins as an odd and awkward encounter quickly blossoms into what appears to be a romantic late life love affair that takes us on a heartfelt and wonderful journey which takes an unexpected turn. Featuring outstanding performances from Academy Award Winners Martin Landau and Ellen Burstyn this beautifully crafted holiday fable reminds us all how precious life is. Skillfully and sensitively directed by Nik Fackler the film also stars Elizabeth Banks and Adam Scott and features original music by Conor Oberst and a score by Nate Walcott and Mike Mogis of Bright Eyes.

• Meryl Streep - It's Complicated/Out Of Africa/Julie & Julia/Kramer Vs Kramer/Postcards From The Edge/Adaptation | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Titles Comprise: It's Complicated: Two-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep (Mamma Mia! The Devil Wears Prada) Steve Martin (The Pink Panther Cheaper By The Dozen) and Alec Baldwin (My Sister's Keeper 30 Rock) star in this hilarious look at marriage divorce and everything in between. With a thriving bakery a new romance and her divorce finally behind her Jane Adler (Streep) has her life all figured out... until her ex-husband Jake (Baldwin) decides he'll stop at nothing to win her back. Out Of Africa: Meryl Streep stars as Karen Blixen the restless wife of European aristocrat and plantation owner Baron Bror Blixen (Brandauer). When Bror departs to hunt big game and chase women the running of their East African coffee plantation falls to Karen. She throws herself into this task with the same determination and spirit she brings to her passionate but sporadic affair with free-spirited British hunter Denys Finch Hatton (Robert Redford). While enduring her husband's infidelities and the eventual destruction of their beloved land she entertains Denys and befriends the workers. Hatton shares Karen's profound love for the African landscape but is unwilling to sacrifice his independence for their relationship... Julie & Julia: Meryl Streep is Julia Child and Amy Adams is Julie Powell in writer-director Nora Ephron's adaptation of two bestselling memoirs: Powell's Julie & Julia and My Life in France by Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme. Based on two true stories Julie & Julia intertwines the lives of two women who though separated by time and space are both at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion fearlessness and butter anything is possible. Kramer Vs Kramer: Returning home late from work one night a career-obsessed Ted Kramer is told by his wife that she is leaving him. After a life of being 'somebody's daughter' or 'somebody's wife ' she's going off to find herself - leaving Ted to care for their 6 year-old son. Ted while trying to hold down his job gets to really know his son: cooking his meals taking him to the park understanding every need and fear. For the first time in his life he feels like a fulfilled parent. But then Joanna returns. And she wants her son back... Postcards From The Edge: Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine star as daughter and mother in this wickedly witty expos'' of life in the Hollywood fast lane based on the autobiographical book by Carrie Fisher. Adaptation: Lovelorn screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Cage) turns to his less talented twin brother Donald (also Cage) for help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book go nowhere...

• Powder Blue | DVD | (25/01/2010) from £6.73   |  Saving you £9.26 (137.59%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• A Star is Born | DVD | (01/01/2020) from £9.43   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Legend Of Bruce Lee | DVD | (09/01/2012) from £5.89   |  Saving you £12.10 (67.30%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Bringing an iconic figure to life, The Legend of Bruce Lee tells the whole amazing story of the martial-arts film stars slow rise to fame to become an international superstar. From his early start in the movie industry, appearing in a string of films in his childhood and early teens, to founding his own martial arts school, developing his own technique and continuing to be a rising star in blockbuster movies. Bruce Lee remains a revered martial arts philosopher as well as a loved and respected public figure. This well-choreographed and fiercely acted movie follows his entire amazing life through to his sudden death at age 32.

• Rudo And Cursi | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £3.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (350.88%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In a Mexican all-star dream team, the hilarious Rudo & Cursi reunites Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna and Carlos Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien), from Alfonso Cuaron, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Guillermo Del Toro's new production company, CHA CHA CHA.

• The Leonardo DiCaprio Collection | DVD | (16/05/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.00

  The Leonardo DiCaprio Collection: Inception Blood Diamond Body of Lies J.Edgar

• Miss Julie | DVD | (30/04/2001) from £6.26   |  Saving you £9.73 (155.43%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Miss Julie is a claustrophobic class study set within a 19th-century Count's kitchen. It chronicles the events of one midsummer night when the housemistress--an obstinate and confused Julie (Saffron Burrows)--is beaten in a round of sexual gaming with footman Peter Mullan. Based on the play by August Strindberg, the film maintains a constant sense of theatre by only having three speaking parts (the other coming from Maria Doyle Kennedy as Christine, the long-suffering cook and fiancée), just one set and a penchant for hand-held camerawork by director Mike Figgis. Known for his experimental approach to storytelling, this is technically a predecessor to Figgis' Timecode, since the all-important rape scene is conveyed through a disorientating split-screen technique. He'd worked with fellow Brit Burrows before on The Loss of Sexual Innocence and One Night Stand, but gives the gal with the outsized cheekbones top billing here and is rewarded with a thoroughly rounded performance. Backed by the director's own musical score, this melodrama has a very personal feel to it. --Paul Tonks

• Ashes to Ashes Series 1& 2 Boxset | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £39.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (50.01%)   |  RRP £59.99

  The follow up to Life On Mars Ashes To Ashes sees the return of DCI Gene Hunt (Philip Glenister)! But he's no longer the self styled 'Sheriff Of Manchester' - drawn by the action and intrigue of the London Met Gene's turned his attentions to taking on the 'southern nancy' criminal scum! He is joined by his faithful sidekicks Ray Carling (Dean Andrews) and Chris Skelton (Marshall Lancaster). DCI Alex Drake is thrown into the mix - after suffering a horrific accident in 2008 she finds herself in 1981 alongside Hunt and his team.

• Thursday's Child | DVD | (20/07/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Thought-provoking family drama Thursday's Child features the film debut of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang star Sally Ann Howes as a quiet studious young girl who finds fame beating a path to her door – much to the chagrin of her star-struck elder sister. Also starring Gainsborough favourite Stewart Granger Wilfrid Lawson Felix Aylmer and much-loved Cockney comic actor Ronald Shiner this critically acclaimed film was originally released in 1942 and re-edited for re-release in 1946. Both versions are included here with the re-release presented as a brand-new transfer from the original nitrate film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. When twelve-year-old Fennis Wilson unintentionally becomes a star she is delighted by the fantastic life she begins to lead. But all too soon she makes the heartbreaking discovery that her success has shattered her previously happy family life...

• Country Strong | Blu Ray | (18/07/2011) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (111.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A drama centered on a rising country-music songwriter (Garrett Hedlund) who sparks with a fallen star (Gwyneth Paltrow).

• Due South - Series 1 | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Benton Fraser - an uptight Canadian mountie with a bizzare way of doing things - comes to Chicago in an attempt to find out who killed his father. After solving the murder he decides to stick around and work for the local Canadian consulate. Making friends with the local detective Ray Vecchio a cynical man with a distrust of the outdoors Benton is often confused by how things are done south of the border and adversely Vecchio is equally perplexed by the mountie's approach to police

• Oyster Farmer | DVD | (17/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  He Had Everything To Hide And Nothing To Lose...Until He Met Her A delightfully winning comedy Oyster Farmer is the story of Jack Flange an enterprising young man who robs a fish market and mails the cash to a secluded close-knit community of oyster farmers. When the parcel goes missing and the police start coming around he suspects the precious package was found by one of his neighbours a local beauty named Pearl to whom he becomes irresistibly attracted. Filmed along Australia's breathtakingly beautiful Hawkesbury River Anna Reeves' deliciously surprising Oyster Farmer is a comedy about love community and freshly-shucked oysters. x