Drama

• New Street Law - Series Two | DVD | (08/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From the BAFTA-winning creator of Judge John Deed G.F. Newman and former barrister Matthew Hall New Street Law is a gripping legal drama follows the exploits and cases of two rival barristers' chambers the well-to-do family enterprise run by Laurence Scammell (Paul Freeman) and the dysfunctional collective headed by Scammell's former protege Jack Roper (John Hannah)...

• Babel (2 Disc Collector's Edition) | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £8.07   |  Saving you £14.92 (64.90%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Four separate groups of strangers on three different continents collide in this multi-stranded drama.

• Cherry Blossoms | DVD | (12/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Only Trudi knows that her husband Rudi is suffering from a terminal illness. It is up to her to tell him or not. The doctor suggests that they do something together perhaps something they were long planning to do...

• The Big Bounce | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £8.50   |  Saving you £5.49 (64.59%)   |  RRP £13.99

  A likeable drifter whose talents lie just outside the law heads to Hawaii for a change of scenery but soon discovers that whether he is looking for a new con or a little romance, temptation is everywhere.

• RoGoPaG | Blu Ray | (27/08/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Conceived by the legendary Italian producer Alfredo Bini, the multi-director portmanteau film Let's Wash Our Brains: RoGoPaG (Laviamoci il cervello: RoGoPaG) brought together four giants of European cinema to contribute comic episodes reflective of the swinging post-boom era. The resulting omnibus collectively examines social anxieties around sex, nuclear war, religion, urbanisation - and the promise of a modern cinema.Roberto Rossellini's Illibatezza [Virginity] follows an airline stewardess plagued by an obsessed American tourist whose 8mm camera enables the indulgence of a personal, and solipsistic, vision of the Ideal. Jean-Luc Godard's Il nuovo mondo [The New World] takes place in an Italian-dubbed Paris beset by nuclear fallout, and wittily chronicles the changes that take place in the lives - and medicine cabinet - of a handsome young couple. Pier Paolo Pasolini's scandalous La ricotta [Ricotta, as in the curded cheese] presents the goings-on around a film shoot devoted to the Crucifixion and presided over by none other than Orson Welles (playing a kind of stand-in for Pasolini himself); it is this episode that landed Pasolini with a suspended four-month prison sentence. Lastly, Ugo Gregoretti's Il pollo ruspante [Free-Range Chicken] depicts a middle-class Milanese family flirting with the purchase of real-estate and engaging catastrophically with an antagonistic consumeristinfrastructure.

• Berlin Express | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set in the immediate post-war occupied Germany a group of international passengers become entwined with a Nazi plot to assassinate a German peace campaigner Dr Bernhardt on an express train from Paris to occupied Berlin. As time runs out the five must comb the shadowy ruins of bombed-out Frankfurt to uncover a loyalist Nazi spy ring.

• Together With You | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £5.44   |  Saving you £4.55 (83.64%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When a 13-year-old violin prodigy moves with his father to Beijing, he realizes how he truly feels about music and comes to understand the strength of his father's love.

• Career Girls | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £9.41   |  Saving you £3.57 (55.61%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This simple comedy by British filmmaker Mike Leigh (Secrets and Lies) concerns the reunion of two women friends from university days who try hard, although awkwardly, to rediscover their early closeness. They succeed beautifully and experience a series of chance encounters with old friends and lovers whom they once knew together. Katrin Cartlidge (Breaking the Waves) and Lynda Steadman are outstanding, playing their characters via flashback in their grungy, early 20s as well as their more polished, contemporary selves at age 30. Following the complex ambitions of Secrets and Lies, Career Girls almost looks like a holiday for Leigh, but it is no less the rich product of his now-famous process of symbiotic rehearsal and writing. The film is also graced by some of the most delicate passages of remembered love between two people seen in a long time. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• World War II Classics - Above Us The Waves / In Which We Serve | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Even if all written and documentary evidence were to disappear, you could still get a real insight into Britain's involvement in the Second World War through feature films such as Above Us the Waves (1955) and In Which We Serve (1942). Directed by Ralph Thomas, Above Us the Waves tells of a Royal Navy mission to sink the "invincible" German battleship Tirpitz off the Norwegian coast. John Mills is calm and confident as the mission commander, with strong support from John Gregson and Donald Sinden--all treated by the German personnel as fellow gentlemen when captured. Despite stirring music from Arthur Benjamin, the action sequences are visually no more than adequate, and the film is only a partial success compared with the naval and domestic drama of the earlier In Which We Serve. Noël Coward wrote the screenplay and musical score, co-directed (with David Lean) and gave possibly his finest screen performance as the commander of HMS Torrin. His speech to the survivors of the sunken ship, as they prepare for reassignment, is just the highlight of a film packed with memorable visuals and perceptive dialogue. On the DVD: Though there are no additional features the black-and-white prints have come up excellently in the 4:3 video aspect ratio. There are 15 access points for each film, though the lack of subtitles is an unfortunate omission. These are period pieces that capture the mood of an era.--Richard Whitehouse

• Judy Garland:Me and My Shadows | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £5.38   |  Saving you £14.61 (73.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dorothy found the rainbow; Judy spent her life looking for it. 'Life With Judy' follows the amazing life story of American icon Judy Garland. Based on New York Times best seller from daughter Lorna Luft 'Life With Judy' is a deeply moving testament to the healing powers of embracing one's past facing one's demons and charting a course of self-love and discovery.

• Dead Hooker In A Trunk | DVD | (23/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set in beautiful Vancouver four friends set out on an everyday errand and end up in a fight for their lives when they discover the body of a dead hooker left in their trunk. Lead by a sexy impulsive Badass her distant Geek twin sister their bible thumping Jesus loving Goody Two Shoes friend and a chaotic rock star Junkie pal the group has to put aside their differences to dispose of the body before they're next. Thrown into their own personal purgatory they face off against persistent police a sleazy motel manager chainsaw wielding triads and a brutal serial killer. All the while they are followed by a mysterious Cowboy Pimp who wants to claim the corpse for his own. Will they uncover the truth behind the body and be able to stand up to their demons? Buckle up and get ready for the ride of your life filled with gun fights extreme violence blood guts gore and goats.

• Lenny Blue | DVD | (15/10/2008) from £7.28   |  Saving you £2.71 (37.23%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Two part police drama featuring the character of Detective Constable Lenny Milton.

• Final Appointment / Murder On The Campus | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £13.05   |  Saving you £-0.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Final Appointment: A newspaper journalist and his wisecracking assistant team up with the police to solve a perplexing murder case involving war veterans, each killed on the same date each year. Murder On The Campus: A reporter learns that his brother, a student, has committed suicide. Unconvinced, he begins his own investigation when the police dismiss his suspicions. Could a killer be on the loose in Cambridge?

• Platform | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £17.87   |  Saving you £2.12 (11.86%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jia Zhang Ke's ambitious film follows the lives of four friends over a turbulent 10 year period of Chinese history from 1979 to 1989. In the small town of Fenyang in the remote western province of Shanxi the teenage members of a state theatre troupe stage propoganda plays in praise of Mao. But as the country opens up to the free market and implements wide-ranging reform their lives are irrevocably changed as the world around them is transformed by the music fashions and other cul

• Stardust / Ondine | DVD | (30/05/2011) from £2.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (77.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Stardust: A young man named Tristan tries to win the heart of Victoria the beautiful but cold object of his desire by going on a quest to retrieve a fallen star. His journey takes him to a mysterious and forbidden land beyond the walls of his village. On his odyssey Tristan finds the star which has transformed into a striking girl named Yvaine. However Tristan is not the only one seeking the star. A king's four living sons - not to mention the ghosts of their three dead brothers - all need the star as they vie for the throne. Tristan must also overcome the evil witch Lamia who needs the star to make her young again. As Tristan battles to survive these threats encountering a pirate named Captain Shakespeare and a shady trader named Ferdy the Fence along the way his quest changes. He must now win the heart of the star for himself as he discovers the meaning of true love. Ondine: Ondine is a lyrical modern fairy tale that tells the story of Syracuse (Colin Farrell) an Irish fisherman whose life is transformed when he catches a beautiful and mysterious woman (Alicja Bachleda) in his nets. His daughter Annie (Alison Barry) comes to believe that the woman is a magical creature while Syracuse falls helplessly in love. However like all fairy tales enchantment and darkness go hand in hand.

• Ma Vie En Rose | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ludo lives with his loving family in a candy coloured Paris suburb. Life is sweet. But there's a problem. Ludo knows what he wants. He has a dream. Ludo wants to be a girl... Hilarious and heart-rending a beautiful bittersweet story of magic desire and difference the award-winning 'Ma Vie En Rose' features a truly stunning performance from the extraordinary Georges Du Fresne.

• The Long Dark Hall | Blu Ray | (15/07/2019) from £8.49   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A disquieting story of obsession and manipulation unfolds in a critically acclaimed thriller based on a novel by crime writer Edgar Lustgarten. Oscar and Golden Globe winner Rex Harrison plays a man accused of murdering his mistress, with Lilli Palmer (then Harrison's wife) as the woman who stands by her husband as he fights for his life in the courtroom. An outstanding Brit-Noir, The Long Dark Hall is presented here as a High Definition transfer from the original film elements. When Arthur Groome finds his girlfriend murdered at her Earls Court flat he is stricken with grief and fear. When the police question him about the crime, Arthur, a married man, denies all knowledge of the girl. Soon, however, he finds himself charged with murder and inexorably drawn towards the gallows... SPECIAL FEATURE: Image Gallery

• All Or Nothing | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £6.85   |  Saving you £13.14 (191.82%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A 2002 Mike Leigh drama, All or Nothing is at times almost unbearably bleak and poignant, yet funny, truthful and richly rewarding. The film's revolves around Timothy Spall's mini-cab driver, his family and the various characters and acquaintances on the South-east London estate where he lives. It's perhaps even better than Secrets and Lies, in which Spall also starred, which was marred a little by some of the tearful excesses of Brenda Blethyn's bravura performance. It's evidence that Leigh has matured and improved with age, rather than mellowed and softened. He's developed into a highly distinctive but rounded and humane filmmaker. Spall's cabbie is too gentle and thoughtful to be described as a slob, but his lack of even the most basic ambition and stoic non-resistance to life has created an unspoken rift between him and wife Penny (Lesley Manville). Working on a supermarket checkout, she must cook dinner and fend off insults from her fat, frustrated, obnoxious 18-year-old son Rory. She receives only passive sympathy from her older daughter Rachel. Only when Rory is taken ill is Phil snapped out of his torpor as the family pull together. A host of minor characters also feature; fatuous cabbie Ron (Paul Jesson) his alcoholic wife and sluttish daughter, as well as the wonderfully good-humoured and resilient Maureen, Penny's best friend, concerned at her daughter's relationship with a violent boyfriend. Once accused of caricaturing his "lower class" characters, here Leigh (with the collaborative assistance of his actors) exhibits them in all their authentic complexity, neither idealising nor sentimentalising them. On the DVD: All or Nothing's extras include the original trailer, as well as interviews with several members of the cast. Timothy Spall is interesting on the unnerving process of collaboration favoured by Leigh, whereby characters are "built from zero" by the actors. The smart and rather posh Lesley Manville strikes quite a contrast in real life with her mousey, put-upon character. There's also a meticulous and absorbing commentary from Mike Leigh, who talks about filming in Greenwich and how he has moved away from some of the more dogmatic ideas about filmmaking of his earlier, avant-garde days. --David Stubbs

• Imagining Argentina | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £11.60   |  Saving you £-1.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A theatre director must rely on his imagination when his wife becomes one of the 'disappeared' during the political upheavals of 1970s Argentina.

• Despair | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-4.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Chocolate, cuckoldry and doppelganger delusion abound in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's stunning English language adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov interwar novel. The chocolate business has been good to Russian exile Hermann. He enjoys the good life with his beautiful wife Lydia. But Hermann is addicted to out-of-body experiences and when he meets a tramp on a business trip, he develops an insane plan of escape. Featuring international stars Dirk Bogarde (Death in Venice) and Andra Ferrol (La Grande Bouffe) and adapted by British dramatist Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love), Fassbinder’s Despair is a vivid off-kilter masterwork set against the background of the Nazis in ascendance. This DVD version of Fassbinder’s ‘most optimistic film’ is accompanied by exclusive bonus material. Extras: Documentary “The Cinema and It’ Double” (70 minutes) Image gallery