Drama

• Le Crime De Monsieur Lange | DVD | (27/08/2018) from £8.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  One of Jean Renoir's lesser known films, Le Crime de Monsieur Lange is truly a hidden gem. This brand new restoration showcases the brilliance of the great French Director's social commentary, heavily influenced by the French political spirit of the 1930s. Monsieur Lange is a publishing house clerk who writes cheap Western novels in his spare time. When his untrustworthy boss, Batala avoids his debt collectors by pretending to be dead, Lange and his co-workers take over the business themselves and thrive on the popularity of Lange's pulp stories until Batala returns to demand his share of the profits. Features: LANGE, OR THE SPIRIT OF THE POPULAR FRONT

• The Solitary Child | DVD | (24/08/2015) from £10.85   |  Saving you £-0.86 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Horror icon Barbara Shelley takes an early starring role as a top model whose marriage sends shockwaves through Society in this gripping mystery drama from the late 1950s. Adapted from the novel by Nina Bawden and directed by Gerald Thomas, The Solitary Child is featured in a brand-new digital transfer in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. The marriage of Harriet, a celebrated London model, to Captain James Random causes a sensation: only two years previously, the gentleman farmer was acquitted in rather dubious circumstances of the murder of his fi rst wife and there is still a widespread suspicion among the public that Random is a man who 'got away with it'...

• Jonathan Creek - Series 3 And 4 | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £60.73   |  Saving you £-15.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Jonathan Creek - Series 3: Jonathan Creek teams up once again with unorthodox investigative writer Maddy Magellan to solve seemingly impossible crimes. With Maddy's inquiring mind and Jonathan's ability to `think round corners' they continue to investigate strange cases: a man who sells his soul to the Devil an old lady who has the power to predict death through her dreams an alien-life form that miraculously disappears and the death of an elderly hermit. Jonathan C

• p.s | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Uncermoniously dumped by his sometime girlfriend, a cynical copywriter and self-confessed modern Casanova starts to teach his 16-year-old nephew the ways of women - with surprising results.

• Mindscape | DVD | (25/08/2014) from £11.57   |  Saving you £4.42 (38.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  John is a recently widowed man with the ability to enter people's memories. In the past John used his abilities to solve criminal cases but after a stroke during a session gone wrong that leaves him incapacitated and financially broken he is left a shell of his former self. Desperate for an assignment John asks his superior Sebastian for a new job. The case he receives is that of a troubled girl Anna who has begun a hunger strike. While the parameters of the job seem quite simple Anna proves to be much more challenging than John expected. She's intelligent insightful... and possibly one of the most conniving and manipulative people that he's come across in his career. As John delves deeper into her memories to discover the reason for her hunger strike everyone surrounding Anna's life becomes a suspect - her family her nurse even his old mentor Sebastian himself.

• Eat, Pray, Love (2011) / Closer (2004) / Erin Brockovich (2000) - Triple Pack | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £3.49   |  Saving you £16.50 (82.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise:Eat Pray Love: Based on the best selling book. After several personal disappointments and a broken heart, 35 year old Elizabeth Gilbert decides to venture out alone on a year long journey of self discovery. In Italy, she explores the art of pleasure through food, language and friendship. In India, she goes to her guru's ashram to study the art of spiritual devotion and finds peace with herself through the help of unlikely strangers. In Bali she learns the art of balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence... and accidentally finds her true love along the way.Closer: If you believe in love at first sight, you'll never stop looking...Writer Patrick Marber adapted the screenplay from his own scathing stageplay in which a chance meeting between Englishman Dan (Jude Law) and American visitor Alice blossoms into a troubled relationship, bringing together and then affecting a second couple involving Larry (Clive Owen) and Anna (Julia Roberts). Sex and love are explored, capturing all the vulnerability and brutality of people falling in and out of love...Erin Brockovich: She brought a small town to its feet and a huge corporation to its knees.A research assistant (Roberts) helps an attorney (Finney) in a lawsuit against a large utility company blamed for causing an outbreak of cancer and other illnesses in a small community.

• Price Of Glory | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £6.55   |  Saving you £13.44 (67.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In Price of Glory a promising young boxer is knocked out of contention thanks to a sleazy manager who cashed out on his potential by pushing him into a big-money fight before he was ready. Thirteen years later that very same boxer, Arturo Ortega (Jimmy Smits), has three sons whom he's training to be boxers too. His schoolteacher wife wants to make sure they get good grades, but Arturo is sure that boxing is their best chance to get out of the barrio. Flash-forward another 10 years, and the training is paying off. The three boys, Jimmy (Clifton Collins Jr.), Sonny (Jon Seda), and especially Johnny (Ernesto Hernández) have grown into smart and talented boxers. Obviously, Arturo is a good and a tough trainer, but the question of whether he's got his own or his sons' best interests at heart arises when a slick promoter (Ron Perlman) offers him big money first for his sons' contracts and then for a series of title fights. Price of Glory does an admirable job of riding that conundrum throughout, offering no easy answers. There is solid acting throughout and it's nice to see such a Latino-heavy cast, but at just over two hours the pace lags and the central themes are repeated one or two too many times. Aside from a late subplot about corruption and violence that comes across as a bit contrived, this is a good family film about boxing. --Andy Spletzer, Amazon.com

• The Last Chance | DVD | (08/09/2014) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A suspenseful tale of murder and wrongful accusation The Last Chance features leading roles for Australian-born actors Frank Leighton and Judy Kelly with typically polished performances from stage and screen star Billy Milton and veteran character player Laurence Hanray. The film is presented here in a brand-new digital transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Alan Burmister leaves Devon on a secret gun-running expedition immediately after his engagement to Mary Perrin is announced; he returns at Christmas to find himself accused of the murder of Ivor Connel a moneylender. Mary's father had always hoped that his daughter would marry John Worrall a rising barrister. Worrall is briefed for the defence but when he loses the case and Alan is condemned to penal servitude for life no one but the judge realises that he has not made use of the best piece of defence evidence...

• The United States Of Leland | DVD | (26/12/2005) from £5.00   |  Saving you £7.99 (159.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A teacher tries to uncover the reason behind a 15-year-old's chilling crime.

• Tycoon (John Wayne) | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £6.12   |  Saving you £3.87 (63.24%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An action-packed romantic movie about an engineer's attempt to build a railroad tunnel in the Andes Mountains. Johnny Munroe is a tough builder who along with partner Pop Mathews has been hired by tycoon Frederick Alexander to pull off the difficult task. Although Johnny and Pop think that it would be far easier to lay the train tracks on a bridge spanning a river Frederick insists on a tunnel.

• Kavanagh Q.C. - The Complete Series 2 - Episodes 1 To 6 | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £13.25   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From a northern working-class background James Kavanagh has climbed to the top of an elite profession through hard work and a love of the law. But his dedication to work the long hours and difficult cases have taken their toll on his life at home with his wife and two teenage children. Episodes comprise: True Commitment Men Of Substance The Burning Deck A Sense Of Loss A Stranger In The Family Job Satisfaction.

• The Craic | DVD | (07/12/2009) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-3.19 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

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• Donkey Skin | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jacques Demy's ode to the fairy tale by 17th Century author Charles Perrault comes to life with breathtaking brilliance! This epic tale overflows with dazzling colour elaborate costumes and an enchanting score by Oscar-winning composer Michel Legrand (The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg). Catherine Deneuve stars as a Princess whose father the King (Jean Marais) seeks her hand in marriage after promising his dying wife to only wed a woman more beautiful than she. Listening to her godmother

• Doppelganger | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Suspected of brutally murdering her mother Holly Gooding a beautiful and mysterious young woman moves to Los Angeles to try and bury her horrific past. Her new flatmate Patrick finds her unpredictable - she is shy and innocent one minute and explosive with uncontrollable rage and passion the next. Patrick determines to find out more about her...

• Hitchcock | Blu Ray | (02/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Hitchcock is a love story about one of the most influential film makers of the last century, Alfred Hitchcock, and his wife and partner Alma Reville. The film takes place during the making of Hitchcock's seminal movie Psycho.

• By The Sea | Blu Ray | (20/06/2016) from £13.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (78.63%)   |  RRP £24.99

  By the Sea follows an American writer named Roland (Pitt) and his wife, Vanessa (Jolie Pitt), who arrive in a tranquil and picturesque seaside resort in 1970s France, their marriage in apparent crisis.

• Across the Line - The Exodus of Charlie Wright | DVD | (01/08/2011) from £5.00   |  Saving you £7.99 (61.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Charlie (Aiden Quinn) a Los Angeles billionaire financial whiz goes into self-imposed exile in Tijuana after his empire is revealed to have been a Ponzi scheme. While looking for the woman he abandoned there 25 years before Charlie is pursued by a Mexican gangster a federal agent and thugs sent by a former client looking to retrieve his money...But who will find him first?

• Ten | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (65.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A perceptive and revealing portrait of contemporary Iran set in Tehran 'Ten' begins with a beautiful and articulate female driver picking up her young son from school. After boldly revealing in a less than harmonious exchange that the woman has divorced her husband the film goes on to meditatively explore the relationships that develop between the driver and her disparate passengers over the course of ten brief but intricately mapped-out journeys. Set entirely within the single l

• Dirty Dancing 2: Havana Nights | Blu Ray | (15/10/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This sequel to Dirty Dancing stars a hot young cast and has a sizzling style and rhythm all of its own. In pre-revolution Cuba, Katey Miller (Romola Garai, Vanity Fair) is about to defy everyone's expectations. Instead of a parent-approved suitor(Jonathan Jackson, Tuck Everlasting), Katey is drawn to the sexy Javier, a waiter who spends his nights dancing in Havana's nightclubs. And as Katey secretly learns to dance with Javier, she learns the meanings of love,sensuality and independence. Also starring January Jones (Mad Men), Mika Boorem (Sleepover) and Grammy Award-winning singer Mya.

• The Grissom Gang | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Grissom Gang is director Robert Aldrich's take on British author James Hadley Chase's once-notorious novel No Orchids for Miss Blandish, which was itself a synthesis of the plot of William Faulkner's Sanctuary with the lurid exposes of the criminal rampage of Arizona Clark "Ma" Barker and her alleged criminal brood. Aldrich sticks surprisingly close to Chase's plot, although he considerably deepens all the characterisations and cuts through the prurient sex sensation to create a surprisingly moving and complicated relationship between kidnapped heiress Barbara Blandish (Kim Darby) and the homicidally psychopathic but also childish Slim Grissom (Scott Wilson), the most feared member of the gang headed by the grotesquely horrible Ma (Irene Dailey). Barbara is abducted after a jewel heist gone wrong by a trio of inept small-timers, who are swiftly rubbed out by the more organised Grissom mob, and though Ma insists that after the girl's father has come across with the million-dollar ransom she will be mercilessly put down, Slim becomes enchanted with the girl, who eventually becomes his lover. In the book, the girl was drugged and raped, but here we get a delicate, creepy shifting of power to the point when Miss Blandish can browbeat her fearsome captor into mixing her a perfect martini, and the new attachment between crook and captive creates a rift with the rest of the gang that inevitably pays off in various hails of machine gunfire as the plan falls apart and the authorities close in. Aldrich manages the kind of claustrophobic black comedy games of terror and flirtation he perfected in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, but attacks the rat-tat-tat tommy gun scenes with action skills honed on The Dirty Dozen. Most of these films trusted costumes, cars and music to evoke the 1920s, but screenwriter Leon Griffiths takes care with period slang and the supporting cast have a real Depression era Warner Brothers feel, with Connie Stevens as a dumb but ferocious blonde showgirl, Tony Musante as the slick-haired official ladykiller in the gang and Robert Lansing as an impeccably down-at-heel but compassionate private detective. On the DVD: The advertised extras--notes, trivia and photo gallery--are disappointingly thin, but the 16:9 letterboxed print is almost flawless, with lovely pastels for the clothes and sets and bright scarlet for the many bursts of blood. --Kim Newman