Drama

• The Royal Collection | DVD | (19/09/2011) from £10.10   |  Saving you £9.89 (97.92%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Elizabeth: This Academy-Award winning portrayal tells the dramatic story of Elizabeth I, from her days as an innocent young woman to her coronation and the formation of her reputation as England's formidable 'Virgin Queen'. Elizabeth The Golden Age: Cate Blanchett returns to her role as Queen Elizabeth I in the story of one woman's crusade to control love, defend her empire and secure her position as a beloved icon of the western world.The Other Boleyn Girl: A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history. Two beautiful sisters compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.Shakespeare in Love: Young Will Shakespeare is the up and coming playwright of the time but has been disastrously struck by the bane of the writer's life - writer's block. What Will needs is a muse - and she appears in the form of the beautiful (and betrothed) Lady Viola.

• Love & Other Impossible Pursuits | DVD | (29/08/2011) from £4.90   |  Saving you £13.09 (267.14%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Academy Award Winner Natalie Portman (Black Swan) lights up the screen in this frank, funny, and heart-wrenching adaptation of bestselling author Ayelet Waldman’s novel about life, loss, and family.Emilia (Portman) is a Harvard law school graduate and a newlywed, after falling in love with her already married high-powered boss Jack (Scott Cohen, Love & Other Drugs), when she began working at his law firm.Unfortunately, Emilia’s life takes an unexpected turn following the sudden death of her and Jack’s newborn daughter. Devastated, Emilia struggles through her grief and tries to forge a connection with her precocious new stepson William (Charlie Tahan, I Am Legend), whilst also trying to cope with the constant interferences of her husband’s angry, jealous ex-wife, Carolyn (Lisa Kudrow, Friends).Can Emilia rediscover her own capacity for love in time to salvage her failing marriage and build a family from the wreckage?

• Taking Woodstock | Blu Ray | (25/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In the heady summer of 1969 the young, broke and trapped Elliot Tiber finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and popular culture, forever. "Taking Woodstock" is released 13th November.

• Crisis | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £8.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (57.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  18 year old Nelly (Inga Landgre) lives a quiet life in a small town with her foster mother. There she makes a living giving piano lessons and letting a room to Ulf (Allan Bohlin) who is in love with her. Despite her financial problems Nelly's foster mother manages to save enough money to buy a new dress to wear at a charity ball. However when Nelly's real mother Jenny (Marianne Lfgren) also buys a dress Nelly wears this instead. Attracted by the glamorous garment and the pr

• Meantime | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Meantime, made in 1983, was only Mike Leigh's second film to reach the big screen, though by now he was far from a novice director. Yet 10 years after his first movie, Bleak Moments (1971), he couldn't get funding for a single cinematic feature and was obliged to make films for television. Meantime, first shown on Channel 4, was given a limited theatrical release, heralding his eventual return to the cinema. The title is a double-edged pun. It suggests the waiting-around no-time-in-particular that the characters inhabit, but it's also Leigh's barbed comment on the mean-spirited politics of the Thatcher era, when millions of people were tossed on the scrapheap of unemployment. Leigh has sometimes been accused of caricaturing and being condescending to his characters, but Meantime is notable for wry compassion in its portrayal of a bunch of no-hopers stuck in their East End limbo. Not a lot happens. Mark (Phil Daniels) and his retarded brother Colin (Tim Roth) hang about the streets and pubs, banter with their skinhead mate Coxy (Gary Oldman), half-heartedly chat up local girls, bicker with their parents. Their aunt Barbara--who bettered herself and moved to the relative poshness of Chigwell--offers Colin a job helping her decorate, but he backs out of it. Nobody's going anywhere much. But the view's not totally forlorn. Leigh leaves us with a brief, unexpected moment of warmth and solidarity between the two brothers. On the DVD: It's paltry stuff. A so-called "trailer" proves to be a plug for other DVD releases in the same series. Otherwise it's just a scene menu, and English subtitles for the hard of hearing. The early 80s TV-quality images are badly shown up by the DVD's visual acuity. --Philip Kemp

• A Killing In A Small Town | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £6.94   |  Saving you £-0.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In a small town a woman is found brutally murdered by an axe. There are no suspects or witnesses to the killing. Based on the novel 'Evidence Of Love' by John Bloom who based the story on the actual events in a small American town.

• W. | Blu Ray | (16/03/2009) from £12.62   |  Saving you £12.37 (98.02%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Whether you love him or hate him, there is no question that George W. Bush is one of the most controversial public figures in recent memory. Oliver Stone, in his patented style, brings the life and times of the President to the big screen.

• Emma | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £6.34   |  Saving you £6.65 (104.89%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An adaptation of Jane Austen's story of marriage and manners set in a picturesque 19th Century village which revolves around a spoilt young woman Emma Woodhouse who delights in influencing the love-lives of her friends with disastrous results.

• Walker | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  William Walker (Harris) and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat...

• Midsomer Murders : The Great and the Good | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £9.94   |  Saving you £7.05 (70.93%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Midsomer Murders: The Great And The Good

• Black Widow | DVD | (22/04/2013) from £26.25   |  Saving you £-13.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bigshot Broadway producer Peter Denver (Van Heflin) meets Nancy (Peggy Ann Garner) at a glamorous show business party. Nancy is an ambitious young writer - and Peter offers her the use of his apartment while his wife Iris (Gene Tierney) is out of town. Iris returns to find a dead body in the apartment and her husband the prime suspect. With Detective Lt. Bruce (George Raft) hot on his trail and his celebrity neighbours (Ginger Rogers and Reginald Gardiner) spreading poisonous rumours, Peter must prove his innocence - by uncovering the real murderer...

• Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £8.95   |  Saving you £11.04 (123.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Fast Runner turns the frozen landscape of northern Canada into the stage for an adventure as sweeping as The Odyssey or Beowulf. Adapted from an Inuit legend, The Fast Runner centres on Atanarjuat, a charismatic young hunter struggling for the affections of Atuat, who has already been promised to Oki, the son of the camp's leader. When Atuat chooses Atanarjuat, Oki seems to accept it, but later events turn his anger and hatred into a murderous spite. This story, as passionate and primal as any film noir, is framed by the daily lives of the Inuit--a struggle for survival that is both simple and vivid, foreign yet immediately understandable. No one in the cast is a professional actor, but the performances are direct and compelling, telling a story that is epic and intimate. --Bret Fetzer

• Recount | DVD | (19/01/2009) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The future of the nation was hanging by a ...chad. Every vote counts... if the votes are counted. In 2000 the election of the U.S. President boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of Florida - and a recount that would add hanging chad to every American's vocabulary. Beginning on Election Day 2000 and culminating with the Supreme Court decision in Bush vs. Gore Recount from HBO Films follows the bizarre 36-day struggle to determine which candidate won Florida... and the presidency. While the nation holds its breath the Republicans led by charismatic Texan James Baker (Oscar nominee Tom Wilkinson Michael Clayton) battle the Democrats headed up by Ron Klain (two-time Oscar winner Kevin Spacey American Beauty) Gore's former chief of staff in a series of escalating protests lawsuits appeals and partisan infighting. The colorful cast of real-life characters includes Florida's Secretary of State Katherine Harris (Oscar nominee Laura Dern Rambling Rose) known to millions of Americans as much for her makeup as for her role in determining the winner. The result is an illuminating entertaining look at the stranger-than-fiction story of the closest race in presidential history.

• Barney's Version | Blu Ray | (23/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The publication of a book accusing him of murder leads schlock television producer Barney Panofsky (Paul Giamatti) to reflect on his tumultuous life--from his troubled first marriage to his best friend sleeping with his second wife to his one true love… and how he destroyed the happiest time in his life. By turns comic and self-lacerating, Panofsky is a richly drawn character given vivid life by Giamatti, who's built a remarkable career on prickly people (Sideways, American Splendor, John Adams). Regrettably, the women in his life aren't as fully realized, but the strong performances from the actresses playing them (Rachelle Lefevre, Minnie Driver, and Rosamund Pike) do a lot to make up for the thinness of how they're written. Rounding out the cast is Dustin Hoffman as Panofsky's father, a crude but vigorous ex-cop who loves his son unreservedly. Adapted from an award-winning Canadian book, Barney's Version feels, in the best sense, like a novel; small details and incidents build up to the picture of a man's life. The movie depicts that life without judgment, never manipulating the audience for cheap laughs or sentiment--and yet it is by turns wildly funny and achingly sad, largely due to Giamatti. He holds the viewer's attention effortlessly, quietly, never showboating his emotions or flaunting his intelligence. He's simply a superb actor, and this is a superb performance. --Bret Fetzer

• Storm In A Teacup | DVD | (25/05/2015) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Gloria Swanson and Laurence Olivier star in this 1930s comedy drama directed by Cyril Gardner. Newlyweds Judy and Nicholas Randall (Swanson and Olivier) seem to have the ideal marriage based on perfect understanding and mutual respect. While away on their honeymoon Nicholas gets drunk and sleeps with his former mistress Stephanie (Nora Swinburne). Overcome with guilt Nicholas confesses to Judy who promptly forgives him although deep down she conceals feelings of anger and betrayal. When Nicholas suspects Judy of having an affair he confronts her and the pair realise that maybe their marriage isn't perfect after all.

• The Flesh Is Weak | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £4.57   |  Saving you £8.42 (184.24%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Tony Giani (John Derek The Ten Commandments) is a pimp who preys on the naive just off the bus young women who come to post-war London for fame and fortune. He wines and dines them gets them a place to stay and even finds them a job. Then he pretends he needs money fast and convinces them to prostitute themselves before long they're a Giani Girl. Marissa Cooper (Millie Vitale War and Peace) is one such girl fresh off the boat from Italy but when she sees Tony for who he really is her life is suddenly put in extreme danger...

• Sound Barrier | DVD | (11/08/2008) from £13.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (14.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Sound Barrier (1952)

• Indian Jones - Diler | DVD | (23/05/2008) from £3.72   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Lady Chatterley (2 Disc) | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £6.14   |  Saving you £15.11 (309.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A woman of means begins an affair with the gamekeeper on her husband's estate, opening herself up physically and emotionally in ways she never imagined possible.

• Keys To The House | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £10.48   |  Saving you £9.51 (47.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Beautifully crafted by acclaimed director Gianni Amelio The Keys to the House is a compassionate exploration of fatherhood and the often surprising nature of disability. The story follows Gianni (Kim Rossi Stuart) a young father attempting to forge a relationship with his physically and psychologically disabled son Paolo whom he meets for the first time as a teenager. Accompanying Paolo to a special hospital in Berlin Gianni meets Nicole (Charlotte Rampling) a woma