Drama

• The Survivor | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A 747 Jetliner takes off from an international airport and within minutes it is inexplicably threatening the lives of thousands as it plummets to the ground. The pilot Keller (Robert Powell) manages to avoid total catastrophe by bringing the aircraft down in a field but even so the resulting fire from a ruptured fuel tank ensures that from the plane at least there are no survivors. Except one: the pilot himself. Totured with guilt and unable to explain the reason for the disaster Keller sets upon a course of discovery desperately seeking to overcome the temporary loss of memory that he has sustained. Hobbs (Jennt Agutter) a young woman who tries to help Keller to unravel the mysteries of both his flight and the local events. But tragedy compounds upon tragedy as it seems that the dead passengers will not release their grip on Keller nor on anyone who stands in the path of his investigations. In a final confrontation with both his dead passengers and the responsiblity for the crash the truth is revealed. The collective personality of the dead can rest in peace. And so can Keller....

• Foyle's War - The German Woman / The White Feather | DVD | (10/02/2003) from £9.49   |  Saving you £15.50 (163.33%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen), the sober yet heartening hero of the exemplary mystery series Foyle's War, isn't so much a reserved Englishman as he is an all-round minimalist. He might not approve of lavish praise for himself or Kitchen's sterling portrayal, but he's a man used to spinning gold from disappointment. Stuck investigating murders while lesser colleagues are given key intelligence posts to fight Hitler in 1940, a restless Foyle is faced with the brutal killing of a German woman in a coastal village. Was it misplaced revenge against all of Germany that did her in, a controversial family trust, or something else--something worse? While Foyle deliberates and stews in career frustration, he has a paradoxical, revivifying effect on several human casualties of war and on justice itself. This is a fine mystery with a welcome detective hero. --Tom Keogh

• Fargo - Limited Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (07/04/2014) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £21.99

  William H. Macy plays Jerry Lundegaard, a Minneapolis car salesman who is, by all accounts, a loser. He is desperately in debt, so decides to hires two thugs (who are bigger losers than he is) to kidnap his wife in the hope that his wealthy father-in-law (who bullies him regularly) will pay the ransom. When one of the kidnappers goes off the rails and events career out of control, it falls to Marge Gunderson, Chief of the Brainerd Police Department, to set things right. Arguably the best of...

• The Hexecutioners | DVD | (30/05/2016) from £8.69   |  Saving you £7.30 (84.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two young women working for a company that conducts euthanasia are dispatched to a remote estate to perform a custom assisted-suicide ritual. There they unearth the spirits of an evil death cult that was led by the very man they have been hired to kill.

• Eve's Christmas | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £19.16   |  Saving you £-6.18 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  If Life Gave You a Second Chance... What Would You Wish For... It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere you go... That is except in the eyes of 33-year-old Eve Stevens. She's spending Christmas Eve in a bar knocking back the cocktails. Outside scenes of happy families and couples walking by arm in arm only deepen Eve's inner depression. A single successful professional Eve wonders what material success has brought her. The bar closes early forcing Eve to meander her way through the crowded cheerful streets back to her apartment. Rounding the final corner Eve bumps into a homeless man Brother James. As usual Brother is ranting and raving this time he's on about the lost holiday spirit. Brother pauses to look the tipsy Eve in the eye. He whispers to her wish upon the Christmas Star. Eve hands the man some coins and makes her way home. Alone with no one and nowhere to go Eve pulls out a photo album she hasn't touched in years. It's filled with pictures of her rural hometown. One photo in particular brings tears to Eve's eyes. It's her at 21 posing with her then-fianc''e Scott. Eve walked out on Christmas Eve twelve years ago... the night before their planned Christmas Day wedding. Feeling lonely and upset Eve seeks solace in the darkness of the winter night. She ventures out on her balcony where she spies the lone Christmas Star hanging high in the sky. Remembering Brother James she makes a wish and goes to bed... Will Eve get a second chance?

• For Those In Peril | DVD | (03/03/2014) from £29.93   |  Saving you £-11.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Aaron a young misfit in a remote Scottish community is the lone survivor of a strange fishing accident that claimed the lives of five men including his older brother.  Spurred on by sea-going folklore and local superstition the village blames him for this tragedy making him an outcast amongst his own people.  Steadfastly refusing to believe his brother is dead and possessed by grief madness and magic Aaron sets out to recover him.

• Stand Off | DVD | (02/09/2013) from £5.19   |  Saving you £10.80 (208.09%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In an attempt to protect his family and pay off his gambling debts to a local gangster, Jimbo robs the local fish market unaware that it's owned by the gangster. On the run, he hides out in an antique shop where he takes hostage a group of people.

• Kelly + Victor | DVD | (13/01/2014) from £7.95   |  Saving you £8.04 (101.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Kelly and Victor is a haunting candid depiction of a young couple embarking on a passionate and transgressive love affair from the acclaimed novel by Niall Griffiths. When Kelly (Antonia Campbell-Hughes - 'Bright Star') meets Victor (Julian Morris - '24' 'Once Upon a Time') on the dance floor of a Liverpool nightclub the attraction is instant. After wandering through the night they find themselves at her flat making love with a passion and urgency that neither had experienced before. Both Kelly and Victor are struggling to get by as best they can while the people around them are choosing illegal lifestyles; she is escaping a brutish former lover while he is being dragged into a world of drugs. It's when they make love that their darker instincts take over. Directed by Kieran Evans Kelly and Victor is a devastating story of obsessive love anchored by two complex but tender performances. Special Features: Q&A with Kieran Evans Trailer

• Life And Death of Colonel Blimp, The / A Matter Of Life And Death | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Two masterpieces of British cinema are paired here--Powell and Pressburger's first Technicolor triumph, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) and their even more ambitious A Matter of Life and Death (1946). Both pictures are transcendent examples of the filmmakers' craft, and remain models of great cinema long after their original wartime propaganda brief has expired. Based on a famously satirical cartoon strip that mocked outmoded attitudes of fair play at a time of "total war", Blimp subsequently became notorious as the film Churchill tried to have banned. Because the War Office objected to the screenplay, they refused to allow P&P's first choice for the role, Laurence Olivier, and the duo cast unknown stage actor Roger Livesey in his place. It is Livesey's sympathetic performance that transforms Clive "Sugar" Candy from an object of satire to one of warm affection, effectively reversing the film's intended message about old-fashioned decency versus wartime pragmatism. Anton Walbrook is a profound presence in a role that mirrored the actor's own plight as a German in Britain, while Deborah Kerr is a living leitmotif in the film, playing no fewer than three distinct but deliberately related roles. Briefed by the Ministry of Information to make a film that would foster Anglo-American relations in the post-war period, the duo, known as "the Archers", came up with A Matter of Life and Death, an extravagant and extraordinary fantasy in which David Niven's downed pilot must justify his continuing existence to a heavenly panel because he has made the mistake of falling in love with an American girl (Kim Hunter) when he really should have been dead. National stereotypes are lampooned as the angelic judges squabble over his fate. In a neat reversal of expectations, the heaven sequences are black and white, while earth is seen in Technicolor. Daring cinematography mixes monochrome and colour, incorporates time-lapse images, and even toys with background "time freezes" 50 years before The Matrix. Roger Livesey and Raymond Massey lead the fine supporting cast. On the DVD: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and A Matter of Life and Death are presented in reasonably sharp 4:3 ratio with good mono sound. Blimp comes with a 25-minute documentary feature that tells us nothing revelatory about making the film, but has good new interviews with cinematographer Jack Cardiff (then an apprentice) and eloquent admirer Stephen Fry. Text biographies and stills are also included. Life and Death has no extras. --Mark Walker

• 8.1/2 Women | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Storey Emmenthal and his father travel between Tokyo and Geneva acquiring exotic lovers on the way while their Geneva home becomes a high class brothel...

• Rubber Johnny - Chris Cunningham | DVD | (20/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  'Rubber Johnny' documents a 16-year-old inbred mutant's solitary existence locked in a pitch-black basement by his ashamed parents. They are TV-addict rednecks who occasionally feed Johnny and yell at him for making noise. Johnny's only company in the basement is his little dog. His dog's I.Q. far outstrips Johnny's who is a completely insane bi-polar imbecile. This abstract short film is directed by Chris Cunningham and music is provided by Aphex Twin.

• Studio Classic: Classic Encounters | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £16.15   |  Saving you £18.84 (116.66%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Anastasia (Dir. Anatole Litvak 1956): The world will never know if the real Russian princess Anastasia met her death at the hands of red Russian rebels or if she lived on. Based on fact this story is set against the mystery surrounding this elusive puzzle. Ingrid Bergman portrays the destitute woman who remarkably resembles the true Princess Anastasia. She is chosen by two Russian courtiers to masquerade as the princess in order to gain ten million pounds. Meeting scepticism

• Lost - Series 3 - Complete | Blu Ray | (26/10/2009) from £34.99   |  Saving you £26.00 (74.31%)   |  RRP £60.99

  Jack Kate and Sawyer open the season in captivity as prisoners of The Others. Just who these Others are and what they want are primary questions Season Three will explore. Michael Emerson joins the cast as a regular in his ongoing role as Henry Gale. Romance looms on the horizon as Jack's interests veer towards a mysterious new woman whose motives may be questionable. Sun and Jin will continue to celebrate their pregnancy - but is the child really Jin's? Will the survivors heed Hurley's warning or will they journey across the island in an attempt to free Jack Kate and Sawyer? Charlie will attempt to return into the good graces of Claire and her baby Aaron but can he be trusted to stay clean and sober? The fates of Locke Desmond and Mr. Eko in the aftermath of the implosion of the hatch are answered. Will Penelope Widmore find the island and her long lost love Desmond and can the survivors find a way to interact with the outside world?

• William And Mary - Series 3 | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £12.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (100.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  William Shawcross' (Martin Clunes) search for love is hampered by his work: not many women want to date an undertaker. He decides to take matters into his own hands and regsiters with a dating agency. Things start to look up when he is captivated by dark haried beauty Mary (Julie Graham) on one of the agency videos. Mary's an attractive divorced mother of two; and working as a midwife she only meets men who are expectant fathers and married doctors. Once the two get together there

• Spencer Tracy And Katharine Hepburn Collection | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £22.99   |  Saving you £-9.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Titles Comprise: Woman of the Year: Tess and Sam work on the same newspaper and don't like each other very much. At least the first time because they eventually fall in love and get married. But Tess is a very active woman and one of the most famous feminists in the country; she is even elected as the woman of the year. Being busy all the time she forgets how to really be a woman and Sam begins to feel negleted. Pat and Mike: The sun will sneak by a rooster before sports promoter Mike Conovan lets opportunity pass him by. So the first time he sees genteel Pat Pemberton swing a five-iron he decides to ink her to a pro contract. For this chercest of romantic comedies George Cukor directs Ruth Gordon and Garon Kanin provide the Oscar-nominated screenplay and a deft cat plays various Damon Runyonesque types including Aldo Ray as a dim-bulb palooka and Charles Buchinski as a tough guy who finds Pat tougher. Adam's Rib: Assistant District Attorney Adam Bonner loves his wife Amanda but doesn't care much for his opposing counsel in a sensational attempted-murder trial - an opponent who happens to be Amanda. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn were never more evenly matched than when they brought their sharpened wits and prickly affection to this George Cukor -- directed comedy written by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin. Judy Holliday co-stars as the woman whose shooting of her philandering spouse becomes a feminist cause for Amanda. Hepburn generously saw Holliday's work as a screen test for casting the film of Holliday's stage vehicle Born Yesterday. Hepburn's ploy worked. So does this fine funny movie. Keeper Of The Flame: A determined reporter. A grieving widow. A heart-pounding tale of suspense. Spencer Tracy plays reporter Steve O'Malley who goes investigates the death of a national hero named Robert Forrest. He meets his widow Christine (Katharine Hepburn) and falls in love with her. His investigation reveals that the dead hero may have been plotting to overthrow the government and suspects that Christine may have been involved. He confronts her with his evidence and she refuses to speak out in her own defense. He doesn't know if she is innocent or not.

• Step Up / Honey | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £7.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (38.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Titles Comprise:Step Up: Incredible dancing and awesome music fuel Step Up, the exhilarating and inspiring movie starring Channing Tatum (She's The Man) who sizzles as Tyler Gage, a rough and streetwise hunk with raw talent. When Tyler finds himself doing community service at a school for the performing arts, he also finds Nora, a beautiful and privileged classically trained dancer who's searching for a temporary replacement for her injured dance partner. Spying Tyler's smooth moves, Nora decides to take a chance on him. But as they begin training, tension builds, tempers flare and the differences in their backgrounds explode - igniting this electrifying tale about not giving up on your dreams. Honey: Honey Daniels (Jessica Alba) is a struggling hip-hop dancer who's got all the moves, talent and relentless passion to succeed. She's been waiting all her life to show the world her dance moves and now her dream is just a step away. Inspired by the energy and music of the streets, she risks her shot at the big time to reach out, take a chance and make it on her own terms...

• The Window | DVD | (08/10/2012) from £19.95   |  Saving you £-4.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Little Tommy Woodry (Bobby Driscoll) is a bright kid with a vivid imagination. He's always telling tall tales. Then, one night, he witnesses a brutal murder committed by his seemingly normal neighbours, the Kellersons. When Tommy tells his parents, they think it's just his over-active imagination. When he tells the police, they don't believe him either. Only the Kellersons believe Tommy.And now they're coming to get him.A masterpiece of suspense, packed with gripping plot twists, The Window was a big Box Office hit. The film won both the 1950 BAFTA Best Film Award and the Edgar Allan Poe 'Best Picture' Award the same year, while Bobby Driscoll received a special Oscar as the outstanding juvenile actor of 1949

• Anastasia | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £14.90   |  Saving you £-1.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute suicidal girl to pose as the heir to the Russian throne. However while Prince Bounin coaches her in history etiquette and protocol he comes to believe she is really Anastasia...

• Time Out | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Time Out, which won the Lion of the Year at Venice in 2000, is a midlife crisis film with a difference. Vincent is an out-of-work consultant who fabricates an increasingly complex and unsustainable business life to give his wife and children a secure existence. In the process, old friends are caught up in shady investments and Geneva becomes the focal point of his fugitive career. Then, as the net closes, the eternally routine nature of Vincent's professional life returns to haunt him anew. Aurélien Récoing is persuasively understated in the lead role, conveying a myriad of emotions with his subtle facial gestures. Karin Viard is sympathetic as the trusting Muriel, ready to offer support even when the web of lies has all but unravelled, and there's an engaging contribution from Serge Livrozet--the adept black marketeer sincere in his willingness to help. Laurent Cantet's direction is a fine example of less is more, sustaining the film with relative ease over 129 minutes. Pierre Milon's camerawork makes the most of some stunning scenery on the Franco-Swiss border and Jocelyn Pook's spare but brooding score is a discreetly effective enhancement. As the closing scene ties up loose ends with a neatly barbed irony, you're left in little doubt that Vincent's problems are about to start again. --Richard Whitehouse

• Virtual Girl 2: Naked Vegas | DVD | (09/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Software designer Louis Burke and his beautiful assistant Sharon Tessier have created an unbelievable new virtual program that is set to revolutionise adult entertainment. Sharon has more to offer than just her brains; she is sexy attractive and wickedly intelligent. Sharon takes the new virtual reality program to Las Vegas where she embarks on a one woman mission to entertain perform and make millions.