Drama

• Bogart And Bacall Collection | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £39.99   |  Saving you £-26.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Titles Comprise: The Big Sleep: One of the most satisfying and sheerly entertaining movies ever to come out of Hollywood this marvellous 1946 classic adaptation of Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled novel is the perfect vehicle for the real-life team of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall whose sultry zingy dialogue adds spice to what has to be the most intricate and most exciting thriller plot ever filmed. In the hands of screen play writers William Faulkner Leigh Brackett and Jules Furthman and master director Howard Hawks who slings the lamps low and keeps violence crackling this movie zips along down Chandler's mean Los Angelino streets as Bogie's world-weary cynical private eye Philip Marlowe begins a search for a missing chauffeur that turns into a blackmail hunt with a pretty girl at each turn and a corpse on each corner. The sexual undercurrents are torrid the repartee remarkable the whole just simply terrific. To Have And Have Not: Help the Free French? Not world-weary gunrunner Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart). But he changes his mind when a sultry siren-in-distress named Marie asks Anybody got a match? That red-hot match is Bogart and 19-year-old first-time film actress Lauren Bacall. Full of intrigue and racy banter (including Bacall's legendary whistling instructions) this thriller excites further interest for what it has and has not. Cannily directed by Howard Hawks and smartly written by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman it doesn't have much similarity to the Ernest Hemingway novel that inspired it. And it strongly resembles Casablanca: French resistance fighters a piano-playing bluesman (Hoagy Carmichael) and a Martinique bar much like Rick's Cafe Americaine. But first and foremost it showcases Bogart and Bacall carrying on with a passion that smolders from the tips of their cigarettes clear through to their souls. Key Largo: A hurricane swells outside but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco (Edward G. Robinson) holes up and holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple (Lauren Bacall) and ex-GI Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart). McCloud's the one man capable of standing up against the belligerent Rocco. But the postwar world's realities may have taken all the fight out of him. John Huston co-wrote and compellingly directs this film of Maxwell Anderson's 1939 play with a searing Academy Award winning performance by Claire Trevor as Rocco's gold-hearted boozy moll. In Huston's hands it becomes a powerful sweltering classic. The Dark Passage: Bogey's on the lam and Bacall's at his side in Dark Passage Delmer Daves' stylish film-noir thriller that's the third of four films Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall made together. Bogart is Vincent Parry a prison escapee framed for murder who emerges from plastic surgery with a new face. Bacall is Irene Jansen Vincent's lone ally. In a supporting role Agnes Moorehead portrays Madge a venomous harpy who finds pleasure in the unhappiness of others. The chemistry of the leads is undeniable and they augment it here with exceptional tenderness. Exceptional too are the atmospheric San Francisco locations and the imaginative camera work that shows Vincent's point of view - but not his face - until the bandages are removed. Lest Irene get ideas the post-surgery Vincent tells her: Don't change yours. I like it just as it is.

• Lynn + Lucy (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (19/10/2020) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Lynn and Lucy are lifelong best friends, their relationship as intense as any romance. Neither has ventured far from where they grew up. Lynn, who married her first boyfriend and whose daughter is fast growing up, is delighted when the charismatic, volatile Lucy has her first baby, a boy. Lucy, however, does not react to motherhood as Lynn expects. Soon, they find their friendship tested in the most extreme circumstances. A study of escalating hysteria at a societal level, Lynn + Lucy stars Roxanne Scrimshaw in her first ever screen appearance, alongside Nichola Burley (Love and Hate, Wuthering Heights), and this highly anticipated feature by Cannes awardwinning filmmaker Fyzal Boulifa.

• Cat Chaser | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Crime novelist Elmore Leonard co-wrote the script for 'Cat Chaser'(based on his book) and Abel Ferrara directed filling the screen with his usual eye-popping doses of nudity and violence. An American veteran is running a hotel in Miami where he meets a former Dominican Republic general's wife and begins an affair. Unwittingly he is tricked into helping a group of people rip the general off...

• The Attic - The Hiding Of Ann Frank | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £11.03   |  Saving you £1.96 (17.77%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Film portrays the lives of the Frank family before hiding and during hiding in Nazi Occupied Amsterdam

• Hiroshima Mon Amour | DVD | (25/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Alain Resnais' groundbreaking first feature Hiroshima Mon Amour was a springboard for the French New Wave movement and its influence continues to this day. A nameless French actress (Emmanuelle Riva) and Japanese architect (Eiji Okada) engage in a brief passionate affair in post-war Hiroshima. Their deeply intense connection brings out scarred memories of love and suffering which Resnais' communicates with the use of flashback techniques innovative to that time.

• Greek Pete | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £15.55   |  Saving you £0.44 (2.83%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Greek Pete

• Dick Barton | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £19.26   |  Saving you £0.73 (3.79%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Before James Bond there was Dick Barton: Special Agent! Between 1946 and 1951 Dick Barton's thrilling nightly adventures on the BBC's Light Programme attracted a record-breaking 15 million listeners and enthralled an entire nation. The serial proved so popular that it spun off into three hugely successful feature films from the fledgling Hammer Films. While virtually all the original BBC radio shows have been lost these three Hammer feature films still survive and a

• Hell Is A City | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Detective Inspector Martineau (Baker) is tough hard working and one of Manchester's top policeman. So when he hears of a jailbreak involving ruthless criminal and jewel thief Don Starling (John Crawford) whom he helped put away he is convinced Starling will come back to Manchester for one last heist. But when a simple robbery turns to murder Martineau is on the case determined to catch him whatever the cost...

• Scum | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £9.11   |  Saving you £-3.12 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Raw, violent and shocking, Scum is a compelling story set in a contemporary Borstal.

• Scandal | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £5.54   |  Saving you £14.45 (72.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  On holiday in the snow-covered mountains young painter Ichiro Aoye (Toshiro Mifune) has a chance meeting with the popular singer Miyako Saijo (Shirley Yamaguchi). After giving her a ride back to the hotel where they are both staying Ichiro is photographed with Miyako by paparazzi. A magazine creates an expos of their 'secret romance' based around this photograph and the brooding Ichiro ignites a bitter and dirty libel case in order to restore their honour... Akira Kurosawa's

• The Commissioner | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £4.98   |  Saving you £2.27 (61.02%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A member of the British government is sent to Brussels to become British Commissioner to the European Community where he uncovers political and industrial corruption...

• Joe | Blu Ray | (06/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Come and meet Joe a little boy growing up in a big world!This first - ever Joe DVD compilation features the first 3 episodes from the classic early 70's pre-school series:Episode 1 - Joe Moves HouseJoe's family moves house due to the imminent arrival of a new baby.Episode 2 - Joe and the Big FamilyJoe contemplates the advantages of having a large family when it comes to running a seaside pier show.Episode 3 - Joe and the PramJoe finds a new pram - in rather peculiar circumstances!

• The Book Of Love - Starring Maisie Williams, Jessica Biel, Jason Sudeikis and Mary Steenburgen | DVD | (22/04/2019) from £4.80   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Starring Maisie Williams 'Game of Thrones and X Men: New Mutants'. Also starring Jessica Biel The Sinner , Jason Sudeikis Horrible Bosses , Orlando Jones American Gods and Mary Steenburgen Back to the Future. Henry (Jason Sudeikis)is a widowed architect who strikes up a friendship with Millie (Maisie Williams), an independent but troubled teen. Hoping to find her long-lost father, Millie asks Henry to build her a raft that can sail across the ocean. After agreeing to do so, the unlikely duo embark on an incredible adventure that deepens their bond and lifts their spirits. This is an inspiring story about hope and self believe. Soundtrack by Justin Timberlake.

• Stranger On The 3rd Floor | DVD | (23/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A young reporter, Mike Ward (John McGuire) stumbled upon a murder victim and identifies a nervous cabbie (Elisha Cook Jr) as the person he saw previously arguing with the dead man. On the strength of Mike’s testimony, the cabbie is convicted. Mike however is haunted by the the knowledge that he may have sent an innocent man to the electric chair for murder and that means the real maniac is still on the loose! These doubts increase when he runs into a creepy psycho played by Peter Lorre. Things take a turn for the worse when another murder is committed, a murder which may point, ironically enough, back to Mike.

• Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £19.75   |  Saving you £-9.76 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Murder of Roger Ackroyd opens with a retired Poirot (David Suchet) cursing vegetable marrows in his country garden. When his old friend is found stabbed in the neck, Poirot begins an investigation that reunites him with Chief Inspector Japp (Philip Jackson) and uncovers a chain of furtive phone calls and secret romances. Unfortunately, the restructuring necessary to adapt the story from text to film takes away some of the shock value of Christie's original ending, which caused quite a controversy when the book was first published in 1926. --Larisa Lomacky Moore

• Stanley Kubrick - 4 Film Collection | DVD | (16/05/2015) from £23.95   |  Saving you £1.04 (4.34%)   |  RRP £24.99

  2001: A Space Odyssey/1968 A Clockwork Orange/1971 The Shining/1980 Full Metal Jacket/1987

• Assault On Precinct 13 | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Isolated cut off inside an abandoned police station a handful of cops and some convicts on their way to Death Row must join forces and defend themselves against the gang called Street Thunder who have taken a blood oath to destroy. From the director of Halloween and The Thing Assault On Precinct 13 combines elements of the classic western and modern thriller to create a cult favorite.

• Boiler Room | Blu Ray | (07/04/2014) from £22.07   |  Saving you £-4.08 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The intense soundtrack of Boiler Room is a fitting underscore for this movie, which pulses with the vigour of young, rich, amoral men wreaking havoc. This is not the anti-societal havoc of Fight Club, but the more deliberate mayhem that comes from greed run amok. The testosterone-junkie brokers of JT Marlin (the only female in the office is Abby, the receptionist and love interest, played by Nia Long) are out to make the sale, and whether that sale is legal or ethical doesn't matter. Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi) is a 19-year-old college dropout who strives for approval from his father (Ron Rifkin), a judge who is horrified that his son operates a 24-hour illicit casino. When an old friend visits the casino with a fellow broker, Davis is impressed by their wads of money and yellow Ferrari, and decides to join the firm. In no time he's making sales and settling into the groove of the office and all the after-hours perks, but the dream fades when Davis discovers the scam that is making all of the brokers wealthy beyond their dreams. Borrowing heavily from Wall Street and Glengarry Glen Ross, Boiler Room is at its best when dealing with matters of money, and powerful scenes of Davis learning to be a "closer" showcase the significant talent of Ribisi, Nicky Katt, and Vin Diesel. The movie flounders when developing the relationship between Davis and his father, becoming sentimental and trite. However, as a fable of modern society and a nostalgic vehicle about the days of yuppies past, Boiler Room is right on the money. --Jenny Brown, Amazon.com --This text refers to another version of this video.

• Han Gong-Ju | DVD | (13/04/2015) from £12.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (36.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  After being involved in a scandalous incident 17-year-old girl named HAN Gong-ju is forced to change schools. Uncared for by her parents her previous school teacher arranges a place for her to hideaway his mother’s place. Gong-ju’s new friend at school discovers that she’s a talented singer so she secretly creates an online fansite for her friend. But the video of her on the internet reveals her whereabouts and she is hunted down. Bonus Features:

• Shape Of Things | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £6.73   |  Saving you £11.26 (167.31%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A contemporary story of love, sex and art set on a Californian campus from controversial writer/director Neil LaBute.