Drama

• Quiet Flows the Don | DVD | (17/10/2011) from £9.70   |  Saving you £3.29 (25.30%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the Nobel-Prize winning novel by Mikhail A Sholokov, this epic deals with both heroes and villains of the uprisings during WWI, the Bolshevik Revolution and the Russian Civil War.

• O'Horton | DVD | (10/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Odd Horten has driven the same train route every day for so long that the rest of his life has become a routine of comfortable rituals. But the time has come for the 67-year-old engineer to retire after forty years of dutiful service. His orderly solitary existence is about to give way to a future of perplexing questions. How could Horten get himself in such an awkward situation when he should be celebrating his retirement? Will Horten ever travel by plane? Will he finally sell his prized boat? How does Horten end up in a pair of women's red high-heeled shoes? Will he survive a night time drive with a blindfolded man at the wheel? The only thing for certain is that Horten is first in line for some absurd adventures and quirky encounters. And maybe even a new dog and an old love!

• Facing Window | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Desire knows no bounds... 1943 Italy: In the darkest days of the war a young baker's apprentice suddenly murders his employer before taking to the empty midnight streets frantically searching for someone or something...a haunting image of passion rage and desperation. Sixty years later: Passion seems to be missing from the life of Giovanna (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) a young wife and mother of two who appears to have found some sense of domestic peace. Her husband Filippo (F

• Atonement/Pride And Prejudice/Sense And Sensibility | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £5.00   |  Saving you £19.99 (399.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Titles Comprise: Atonement: On the hottest day of the summer of 1935 thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her older sister Cecilia (Kiera Knightley) strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching Cecilia is their housekeeper's son Robbie Turner (James McAvoy) a childhood friend who along with Briony's sister has recently graduated from Cambridge. By the end of that day the lives of all three will have been changed forever. Robbie and Cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had never before dared to approach and will have become victims of the younger girl's scheming imagination and Briony will have committed a dreadful crime the guilt for which will colour her entire life. Pride And Prejudice (2005): The five Bennet sisters - Elizabeth or Lizzie (Keira Knightley) Jane (Rosamund Pike) Lydia (Jena Malone) Mary (Talulah Riley) and Kitty (Carey Mulligan) - have been raised well aware of their mother's (Brenda Blethyn) fixation on finding them husbands and securing set futures. The spirited and intelligent Elizabeth however strives to live her life with a broader perspective as encouraged by her doting father (Donald Sutherland). When wealthy bachelor Mr. Bingley takes up residence in a nearby mansion the Bennets are abuzz. Amongst the man's sophisticated circle of London friends and the influx of young military officers surely there will be no shortage of suitors for the Bennet sisters. Eldest daughter Jane serene and beautiful seems poised to win Mr. Bingley's heart. For her part Lizzie meets with the handsome and it would seem snobbish Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen) and the battle of the sexes is joined. Their encounters are frequent and spirited yet far from encouraging. Lizzie finds herself even less inclined to accept a marriage proposal from a distant cousin Mr. Collins (Tom Hollander) and supported by her father stuns her mother and Mr. Collins by declining. When the previously good-natured Mr. Bingley abruptly departs for London leaving a devastated Jane Lizzie holds Mr. Darcy culpable for contributing to the heartbreak. But a crisis involving youngest sister Lydia soon opens Lizzie's eyes to the true nature of her relationship with Mr. Darcy... Sense And Sensibility : Sense and Sensibility is the story of two sisters: pragmatic Elinor (Emma Thompson) and passionately wilful Marianne (Kate Winslet). When their father Henry Dashwood dies by law his estate must pass to his eldest son from his first marriage. Suddenly homeless and impoverished his current wife and daughters find themselves living in a simple country cottage. The two sisters are soon accepted into their new society. Marianne becomes swept up in a passionate love affair with the dashing Willoughby (Greg Wise) while Elinor struggles to keep a tight rein on the family purse strings and to keep her feelings for Edward Ferrars (Hugh Grant) whom she left behind hidden from her family. Despite their different personalities they both experience great sorrow in their affairs but they learn to mix sense with sensibility in a society that is obsessed with both financial and social status.

• Cary Grant Collection | DVD | (12/10/2009) from £24.48   |  Saving you £-9.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Titles Comprise: 1. Night And Day: Cary Grant portrays famed composer Cole Porter in this biographical film version of his life. 2. Destination Tokyo: World War II drama in which Captain Cassidy leads his submarine crew into the Bay of Tokyo in order to gain information prior to the planned bombing. Once they have completed their espionage they must face the harder task of escaping once their presence has been realised. 3. North By Northwest: Grant plays a Manhattan advertising executive plunged into a realm of spy (James Mason) and counterspy (Eva Marie Saint) and variously abducted framed for murder chased and in another signature set piece crop-dusted. He also holds on for dear life from that famed carved rock (for which back lot sets were used). But don't expect the Master Of Suspense to leave star or audience hanging. 4. Arsenic And Old Lace: Frazzled drama critic Mortimer Brewster (Grant) has two aunts (Josephine Hull and Jean Adair) who ply lonely geezers with poisoned libations one sociopathic brother (Raymond Massey) who looks like Boris Karloff one bonkers brother (John Alexander) who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt one impatient new bride (Priscilla Lane) - and only one night to make it turn out all right. 5. Carry Grant Documentary:

• Hamish Macbeth - Season 2 | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-12.38 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Lochdubh: a frontier town in the wild west of Scotland. One hotel one general store one doctor and one lawman - PC Hamish Macbeth (Robert Carlyle). He's the sherrif along with canine sidekick Wee Jock with his own singular methods of dealing with crime and misdemeanours. If only his love life were so easily solved. But then that's another story... Episodes comprise: 1. A Perfectly Simple Explanation 2. In Search of a Rose 3. Isobel Pulls It Off 4. Radio Lochdubh 5. No Ma

• A Way Of Life | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £5.29   |  Saving you £14.70 (73.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The lives of a single mother and her friends are changed forever after the death of a neighbour which bears all the hallmarks of a racist attack.

• Da Vinci Code, the | Blu Ray | (04/05/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tom Hanks headlines this big screen adaptation of Dan Brown's global hit novel.

• La Cienaga (The Swamp) | DVD | (06/12/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A sober portrait of middle-class torpor and decadence Argentina director Lucrecia Martel's (The Headless Woman La ni'a santa) debut feature offers a glimpse into her country's dysfunctional class dynamics and tortured race relations. The film tells the story of two families' summer holiday spent in a decaying estate in the mountains. Physical details accumulate: the insistent clinking of ice cubes in glasses the scrape of metal chairs on a concrete patio people splayed in beds trying to sleep through the humidity. Before long the crowded domestic situation in both homes strains the families' nerves exposing repressed family mysteries and tensions that threaten to erupt into violence.

• Fringe Season 1 and 2 | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £29.99   |  Saving you £30.00 (100.03%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Fringe Season 1 & 2

• Last Night | Blu Ray | (17/10/2011) from £6.75   |  Saving you £16.24 (240.59%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Joanna (Keira Knightley) and Michael (Sam Worthington) are a married couple in Manhattan who face temptation when they spend a night apart.

• Thieves Highway | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £12.40   |  Saving you £0.59 (4.76%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Former G.I. Nick Garcos (Richard Conte) is a tyro trucker bent on satisfaction from the man responsible for crippling his father: ruthless market operator Mike Figlia (Lee J. Cobb). Along the way he is seduced by siren Rica (Valentina Cortesa) and drawn into the San Francisco produce racket landing him in a web of treachery and heartbreak...

• Daphne | DVD | (30/06/2008) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The story is set just after the second world war and is based on personal letters and biographies of Daphne which highlight her obsession for a glamorous Heiress called Ellen. It shows her inner turmoil and struggle with her sexuality that influenced her writing.

• The Mind Benders | DVD | (02/03/2020) from £10.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Dedicated British scientist Dr. Henry Laidlaw Longman (Sir Dirk Bogarde) tests the possibility of brainwashing. If the experiment succeeds, he will stop loving his wife Oonagh (Mary Ure).

• Obsession | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The love story that will scare the life out of you! Cliff Robertson (soon to be seen in Spiderman) stars as wealthy American businessman Michael Courtland whose life is turned upside-down on his tenth wedding anniversary. After a lavish party Michael and his wife Elizabeth (Genevieve Bujold) hear a scream from their daughter Amy's bedroom. Elizabeth runs to see what's wrong but doesn't return and by the time Michael reaches the room both have disappeared but he finds a ransom note demanding 0 000. In order to save his family Michael arranges to sell his interest in the business to his partner Robert LaSalle (John Lithgow) but Inspector Brie of the New Orleans police advises against giving in to the kidnappers. An attache case filled with fake notes and a radio transmitter is handed over and a furious chase ensues when the kidnapper escape with Elizabeth and Amy ending in a collision with a petrol tanker. The kidnappers' car bursts into flames and plunges into the river apparantly killing Michael's beloved wife and daughter. Sixteen years later Michael and La Salle go to Florence on a business trip. Michael can't resist revisiting the cathedral where he met Elizabeth and it is here that he meets a young Italian woman called Sandra who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife. Sandra (also played by Genevieve Bujold) and Michael fall in love and return to the States and Sandra develops a fascination for Elizabeth even wearing her jewellry and styling her hair in the same way. However Michael's new found happiness is short-lived. During their wedding night Sandra disappears and Michael awakes to find a ransom note.... The haunting music was scored by Bernard Hermann and was nominated for an Oscar for 'Best Original Score' in 1977. Hermann also composed the music for Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo which inspired De Palma to write Obsession.

• The Claude Chabrol Collection Vol.1 | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: Merci Pour le Chocolat: In Claude Chabrol's taut thriller Isabelle Huppert finds herself in the middle of an intricate and murderous web of deception. Betty: A young woman's life is thrown into turmoil when both her husband and in-laws decide to force a divorce onto her. Inspector Lavardin: Jean Poiret plays the inspector who finds himself confronting his ex while solving an unusual murder in a small sleepy village.

• The Hal Hartley Collection (Trust / Henry Fool / The Girl From Monday) | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £49.68   |  Saving you £-14.69 (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The Hal Hartley Collection: Trust / Henry Fool / The Girl From Monday (3 Disc)

• Midsomer Murders : The Glitch | DVD | (26/12/2009) from £4.98   |  Saving you £12.01 (241.16%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Midsomer Murders: The Glitch

• Another Way | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Following the failed 1956 coup in Hungary a militant lesbian journalist returns to her job as a reporter for a Budapest newspaper where she falls mutually in love with the wife of an army officer. Their relationship - and its doomed consequences - reflects the intransigence and oppression of forced Soviet rule over a would-be sovereign nation. For her efforts Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak won Best Actress Winner at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival.

• Jaws 2 Collector's Edition Steelbook | Blu Ray | (17/07/2023) from £21.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.. The horror is far from over as Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary and Murray Hamilton reprise their iconic roles in Jaws 2. Four years after the great white shark terrorized the small resort of Amity, unsuspecting vacationers begin disappearing in an all-too-familiar fashion. Police Chief Brody (Scheider) finds himself in a race against time when a new shark attacks ten sailboats manned by teenagers, including his own two sons. The same heart-stopping suspense and gripping adventure that enthralled movie audiences throughout the world in Jaws returns in this worthy sequel to the original motion picture classic. Product Features Individually numbered edition (limited to 3,000) includes. 4K + Blu-Ray Gloss Steelbook Lenticular Slipcase 40-Page Production Notes Booklet 4x Lobby cards Double-Sided Poster