Drama

• Certified Copy | Blu Ray | (17/01/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From acclaimed director Abbis Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry The Wind Will Carry Us) comes the story of a couple's apparent chance meeting in beautiful Tusccany. He (William Shimell) is a British author in town to talk about his new book. She (Juliette Binoche) is a French gallery owner in search of originality. Together they tour the local galleries cafes and museums and discover that nothing is quite what it seems and truth like art is always open to interpretation. A captivating film Certified Copy marries post-modern reality games with mature romantic comedy in a single playful and provocative package.

• Detachment | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Director Tony Kaye's (American History X) long-awaited film Detachment stars Academy Award winner Adrien Brody as Henry Barthes, a substitute teacher who conveniently avoids any emotional connections by never staying anywhere long enough to form a bond with either his students or colleagues. A lost soul grappling with a troubled past, Henry finds himself at a public school where an apathetic student body has created a frustrated, burned-out administration. Inadvertently becoming a role model to his students, while also bonding with a runaway teen who is just as lost as he is, Henry finds that he's not alone in a life and death struggle to find beauty in a seemingly vicious and loveless world.Kaye has molded a contemporary vision of people who become increasingly distant from others while still feeling the need to connect. Detachment features a stellar ensemble cast, including Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden, Christina Hendricks, William Petersen, Bryan Cranston, Tim Blake Nelson, Lucy Liu, Blythe Danner, James Caan, and newcomers Sami Gayle and Betty Kaye.

• The Errol Morris Collection | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The Thin Blue Line (1988): Academy Award-winner Errol Morris broke new ground with this film that dramatically reenacts the crime scene and investigation of a police officer's murder in Dallas. The Thin Blue Line was so powerful and convincing that it helped free an innocent man from prison. (Anamorphic Widescreen. Dolby Digital (2.0) Stereo) On November 28 1976 when drifter Randall Dale Adams was picked up by teenage runaway David Harris his fate was sealed. That

• Looking for Richard | DVD | (17/10/2016) from £13.59   |  Saving you £-3.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Looking for Richard, a strange and charming documentary by Al Pacino in which he also stars, is an exploration of several topics: Shakespeare and his humpbacked villain, the impulse to act, the way actors work--and Pacino's single-minded effort to make the Bard accessible to all audiences and not just the effete few. Over the course of the film, Pacino alternately discusses the role and the text, roams Manhattan talking about Shakespeare with everyone from scholars to street people and re-creates scenes from the play in a production staged at the Cloisters, an evocative castle-like museum on the north end of Manhattan. He assembles a cast that includes Kevin Spacey, Winona Ryder, Estelle Parsons and Alec Baldwin to perform the scenes, slipping back and forth between text and discussion of the play in a way that makes Shakespeare comprehensible and fascinating to viewers who know or care nothing about his writing. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Personal Services | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Julie Walters gives a sterling performance in this riotous comedy which takes a look behind the scenes at the sex-life of the British inspired by the life the notorious Madam Cynthia Payne...

• American Cousins | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £17.89   |  Saving you £-4.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two American mafiosi take refuge in the Glasgow cafe owned by their cousin but find their relative isn't the tough guy they'd expected.

• Come on Eileen | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £3.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (150.38%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Eileen is a mother of two children, who are both about to fly the nest. A new relationship suddenly comes into her life, and briefly she blooms. However Bill the new boyfriend, a pot smoking ex-cricketer has his own problems.Their fling opens the door to insecurity and paranoia for Eileen and she lapses back to her troubled past and starts to unravel.This touching film treads between darkness, humour and pathos as it follows Eileen attempts to reunite her family and get her life back on track.

• Strays | DVD | (19/05/2008) from £5.62   |  Saving you £7.37 (131.14%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Written, produced and directed by Vin Diesel, this personal coming-of-age tale takes an uncompromising look at Diesel's own experiences growing up in New York City.

• THIS IS ENGLAND - MOVIE | DVD | (23/10/2008) from £9.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Small Apartments | DVD | (29/07/2013) from £3.05   |  Saving you £14.20 (793.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Trapped in a seedy LA apartment Franklin Franklin (Matt Lucas) has a dead landlord on the kitchen floor and is surrounded by eccentric neighbours: the stoner (Johnny Knoxville) the wanna-be stripper (Juno Temple) and the artist (James Caan). To add to his chaos a drunk investigator (Billy Crystal) is questioning him. But none of this fazes Franklin. He dreams of Switzerland and waits each day for an envelope from his institutionalized brother. Then one day the envelope doesn't come and Franklin becomes unhinged. Little does he know...his crazy brother has the secret that will set him free.

• Friday Night Lights Season 1/Friday Night Light Feature Film Pack | DVD | (25/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Friday Night Lights Season 1Friday Night Lights touches down on DVD with all 22 episodes in Season One! In the small town of Dillon, everyone comes together on Friday nights when the Dillon High Panthers play. But life is not a game; and the charismatic players, new coach Eric Taylor (Kyle Chandler), and the passionate fans find that their biggest challenges and obstacles come off the field in the compelling day-to-day dramas of their tight-knit community. From Peter Berg (Battleship) comes the critically acclaimed TV series starring Taylor Kitsch (Battleship).Friday Night Lights Feature FilmAcademy Award-winning* producer Brian Grazer (8 Mile) and director Peter Berg (The Rundown, Very Bad Things) team up with Oscar winner Billy Bob Thornton (Bandits, Bad Santa) to create what Newsweek called one of the top ten films of the year. Friday Night Lights chronicles the 1988 season of a courageous bunch of friends, the Permian High Panthers, the most successful football team in Texas' history. For the young men of the team, every play is a chance to transcend their small town and the fleeting dream of gridiron stardom whose pinnacle may be reached by the time they turn 18. The movie paints a vivid portrait of Odessa and places like it across America where once a week during the fall season, the town and its hopes come alive beneath the dazzling Friday night lights.

• Antartica | DVD | (31/08/2009) from £5.19   |  Saving you £9.80 (65.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Introverted and inexperienced Omer has just turned 30 but is still looking for that elusive spark with another man. On the busy streets of Tel Aviv Omer meets Danny an energetic dancer and his ex-boyfriend Ronen a handsome journalist. Things get complicated when Omer is unable to make up his mind over who to fall for - the youthful Danny or the seductive Ronen who happens to be seeing Omer's best friend Mickey. Life is just as difficult for Omer's lesbian sister Shirley who can't decide whether to settle down with her boss or follow her dreams of travelling to Antarctica. It takes the mother figure of the group drag queen Yoam Huberman to resolve these messy love conflicts and finally set her children free..

• Abhijan | DVD | (29/05/2006) from £20.24   |  Saving you £-0.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Abhijan was Satyajit Ray's most popular film in Bengal: a ""conscious"" effort to communicate with a wider audience. The project was originally conceived by his friends and Ray stepped in when they panicked at the prospect of directing. Ray's mastery turned a starkly conventional plot into a subtly nuanced story which topped the Bengali box office for months. Set on the Bihar-Bengal border where Marwari businessmen - a powerful Hindi-dialect community of entrepreneurs much disl

• Rafiki | DVD | (31/05/2019) from £14.18   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Suzhou River | DVD | (08/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A film from China directed by Lou Ye, Suzhou River is a story of doomed romantic love very different from the social realism of many contemporary Chinese films. Set in modern Shanghai, it's about Mardar, a motorcycle courier who gets involved with Moudan, the daughter of a businessman. When she learns he's implicated in a scheme to kidnap her, she jumps off a bridge into the river. Devastated, Mardar refuses to believe Moudan has drowned and eventually thinks he's found her, now performing a mermaid act in a sleazy bar. But the narrator of the story tells him she's Meimei, another woman. Which of them is right? The story has strong echoes of the Hitchcock classic Vertigo, in which James Stewart searches for his lost love. Stylishly shot, teasingly told, this is an intriguing film with a melancholy ending, though Zhou Xun, who plays both female parts, doesn't quite have the charisma of Vertigo's Kim Novak. --Ed Buscombe

• All The Pretty Horses | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Matt Damon and Henry Thomas star as John Grady Cole and Lacey Rawlins, two young cowboys in 1949 who ride from Texas into Mexico in search of what may be left of the Old West.

• The Farewell | DVD | (26/12/2001) from £10.11   |  Saving you £9.88 (97.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On one of the last days of an exceptionally hot summer in 1956 Bertolt Brecht prepares to leave his tranquil lakeside house in Brandenburg for Berlin and the upcoming theatre season. Most of the many women in his life are there: his wife daughter old lovers and latest flames including a beautiful young actress and a women whose affections and body he shares with her political activist husband. The serenity of the countryside stands a stark contrast to the deep volatile emotions o

• 21 Jump Street - The Complete Fifth Series | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  It was the show that became a sensation made Johnny Depp an overnight star and remains one of the coolest cultural phenomena of the 1980s. And it all leads here the undercover cops of Jump Street Chapel - Doug Penhall (Peter DeLuise) Judy Hoffs (Holly Robinson) Captain Fuller (Steven Williams) and new rookie officers Joey Penhall (Michael DeLuise) and Tony 'Mac' McCann (Michael Bendetti) - are caught up in some of the most explosive action and drama in the show's history! In addition this collection contains three episodes filmed during Season 4 but aired during Season 5 including the still-controversial ""Blackout"" which features Johnny Depp's final series appearance.

• Chrismas In Canaan | DVD | (03/11/2014) from £7.09   |  Saving you £-0.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Made-for-TV Christmas feature starring Billy Ray Cyrus. After a fight between classmates DJ and Rodney (Jaishon Fisher and Zak Ludwig), their parents take action to make them spend time together and attempt to overcome the racial barriers that are plaguing their surrounding rural Texas in the 1960s. The pair's differing personalities and their town of Canaan don't make it easy for them to get along, but caring for a wounded puppy brings them together over the festive period. The boys form an unlikely friendship but will it be strong enough to have any affect on the wide-reaching racial tension in Canaan?

• The Bounty | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £11.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Bounty is the third screen version of one of the best-known stories in naval history, here with Anthony Hopkins as Lieutenant William Bligh and Mel Gibson as Fletcher Christian heading an extraordinary cast including Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis, Liam Neeson, Bernard Hill and Dexter Fletcher. HMS Bounty's voyage to Tahiti of 1787-9 and its infamous consequences are recounted with far greater historical accuracy than in the 1935 or 1962 Mutiny on the Bounty. The movie is gorgeously shot on location in Tahiti, England and New Zealand as well as on a full-size recreation of the original Bounty. Roger Donaldson's film benefits from a literate screenplay by Robert Bolt, who here as in Lawrence of Arabia (1962), brings real insight into the English institutional mind in conflict. Hopkins is at his complex best and Gibson offers more depth than his usual two-dimensional hero persona; here Bligh and Christian emerge as complex men gripped by circumstances beyond their control. The haunting score by Vangelis contributes immensely to a very underrated film which deserves to be considered a modern classic. On the DVD: There is an excellent 52-minute "making of" documentary that mixes historical information with on-location interviews. A 12-minute overview of previous screen versions of the story is narrated by the film's historical consultant, Stephen Walters, who also provides a somewhat stilted but nevertheless informative audio commentary. The second audio commentary is from director Roger Donaldson, Producer Bernie Williams and Production Designer John Graysmark, who genuinely appear to enjoy reminiscing and have real enthusiasm for the movie. Also included is a fascinating 28-page booklet. This is the stuff Special Editions should always be made of, and this would be one of the finest DVDs on the market were it not for the transfer of the film itself, which appears to be a reprocessed version of the same NTSC anamorphic 2.35:1 transfer found on the bare-bones Region 1 DVD, with no sign of PAL speed-up. The picture not only shows considerable grain in some scenes, but also demonstrates marked compression artefacting and enhancement shimmer on all horizontal lines, making some scenes extremely ugly. For such a beautiful film it is a most disappointing transition to the digital format. Most unusually for a UK release, the disc is region free.--Gary S Dalkin