Drama

• The Mighty Macs | DVD | (14/04/2014) from £4.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (300.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Carla Gugino, David Boreanaz and Ellen Burstyn star in this drama based on a true story. In 1971 Cathy Rush (Gugino) becomes the head coach of the Mighty Macs basketball team at all-girl's Catholic college Immaculata. The rag-tag team will meet tough opposition at the upcoming national championships and Cathy faces her own challenges as their coach with little financial help or support from the Mother Superior. Can she get her players in shape in time for the tournament?

• Beyond the Hills | Blu Ray | (10/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A powerful Romanian drama centred on the friendship between two young women whose lives and sexualities are put to the test when one of them finds religion. From acclaimed director Christian Mungiu (4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Day) and winner of the Best Actress and Best Screenplay award at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

• Life in Emergency Ward 10 | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This film is based on the popular British TV series Emergency Ward 10 and stars Michael Craig and Dorothy Alison. A surgeon arrives from America with a new heart-lung machine in order to save a young boy who has a hole in his heart. The doctor is treated coolly by a jealous rival and an old man dies while on the new life-saving machine. Controversy erupts among his more traditional colleagues over the American doctor's experimental methods. Romance humour and drama surround the doctors nurses and patients all leading to an inevitable hospital party.

• Mary Bryant | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £5.13   |  Saving you £12.86 (250.68%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Her courage paved the way to their freedom. Mary Bryant is the true story of a remarkable woman's fight for freedom and dignity in the first colony in Australia. An action-packed film with an all-star cast including Jack Davenport (This Life) Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) and Romola Garai as Mary this is the biggest mini-series ever filmed in Australia.

• Stockholm My Love (DVD + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (26/06/2017) from £18.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The latest film by British auteur Mark Cousins (I am Belfast, The Story of Film). Stockholm My Love follows the footsteps of Alva Achebe (Neneh Cherry), a Swedish architect fascinated by the way buildings influence lives, but haunted by a tragic event from her past. Filmed on the streets of the Swedish capital by Cousins and acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle (best known for his work with Wong Kai Wai on In the Mood for Love), Stockholm My Love is a visually stunning essay film about loss and rejuvenation. The film marks the acting debut of acclaimed musician and singer Neneh Cherry. Special Features: Behind-the-scenes making of featurette (2016) Mini films of key locations that feature in the film (2016) Filmed bus tour around Stockholm with Mark Cousins, produced by the Swedish Film Institute (2016) Theatrical and teaser trailers Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film by critic Ian Christie and full film credits

• A Line In The Sand | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

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• Cleopatra | Blu Ray | (24/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A pre-code film that sneaked onto screens just as the censorious Hays Office began cracking down on Hollywood's racier propositions, Cleopatra is a libertine paean to decadence and depravity that can still send a viewer's mind reeling and pulse thumping – all courtesy of the Golden Age's swampiest psychosexual auteur, Cecil B. DeMille (The Ten Commandments; The Greatest Show on Earth; The King of Kings). Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night; The Palm Beach Story; Drums Along the Mohawk) presides over the most outrageous spectacle this side of The Scarlet Empress as the eponymous pharaoh queen who speeds from Julius Caesar (Warren William) to Marc Antony (Henry Wilcoxon), from Egypt to Rome, from war-room to bedroom… The whiff of incense permeates every scene, with each connected to the next in a veritable matrix of whips, blindfolds, and bindings – the crazed arrangement laying bare all the fetish inklings of the moving-picture dream.

• Saint Elsewhere - Season 1 | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Set in St. Eligius Hospital South Boston St. Elsewhere was another ensemble drama in a similar vein to Hill Street Blues. Following the lifes loves and careers of a group of doctors and nurses the show earned much acclaim for its articulate controversial and innovative scripts. Featuring a plethora of Movie and television actors of some note it operated as a springboard for a number of big-name stars and character-actors including: Denzel Washington David Morse and Ed Begley Jr; not to mention an incredibly talented number of directors and scriptwriters such as: Kevin Hooks (Lost 24) and Tom Fontana (the creator of HBO's Oz). Many have noted the influence it has had on E.R. and several other hospital-based dramas which followed in its success. The comparisons are not misguided as this is just as good as its contemporary offspring if not better. Featuring all the episodes from the first season. Episodes comprise: 1. Pilot 2. Bypass 3. Down's Syndrome 4. Cora and Arnie 5. Samuels and the Kid 6. Legionnaires 7. Legionnaires 8. Tweety and Ralph 9. Rain 10. Hearts 11. Graveyard 12. Release 13. Family History 14. Remission 15. Monday Tuesday Sven's Day 16. The Count 17. Brothers 18. Dog Day Hospital 19. Working 20. Craig in Love 21. Baron Von Munchausen 22. Addiction

• Novo | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sergei Eisenstein's revolutionary sophomore feature has so long stood as a textbook example of montage editing that many have forgotten what an invigoratingly cinematic experience he created. A 20th-anniversary tribute to the 1905 revolution, Eisenstein portrays the revolt in microcosm with a dramatisation of the real-life mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin. The story tells a familiar party-line message of the oppressed working class (in this case the enlisted sailors) banding together to overthrow their oppressors (the ship's officers), led by proto-revolutionary Vakulinchuk. When he dies in the shipboard struggle the crew lays his body to rest on the pier, a moody, moving scene where the citizens of Odessa slowly emerge from the fog to pay their respects. As the crowd grows Eisenstein turns the tenor from mourning a fallen comrade to celebrating the collective achievement. The government responds by sending soldiers and ships to deal with the mutinous crew and the supportive townspeople, which climaxes in the justly famous (and often imitated and parodied) Odessa Steps massacre. Eisenstein edits carefully orchestrated motions within the frame to create broad swaths of movement, shots of varying length to build the rhythm, close-ups for perspective and shock effect, and symbolic imagery for commentary, all to create one of the most cinematically exciting sequences in film history. Eisenstein's film is Marxist propaganda to be sure but the power of this masterpiece lies not in its preaching but its poetry. --Sean Axmaker

• Macbeth | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £14.12   |  Saving you £-1.13 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An adaptation of William Shakespeare's classic which depicts the crumbling of an obsessed man's sanity and the chronicling of his moral disintegration.

• Madame Bovary | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £14.97   |  Saving you £1.02 (6.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Gustav Flaubert's celebrated novel of obsessive ardour undergoes a dazzling retrofit for the screen, courtesy of French neurosis-master Claude Chabrol. The basic story (a woman's selfish quest for happiness ends up obliterating all she holds dear) may be the same but Chabrol's talent for biting through to the dark marrow of passion makes this a startling experience, even for people familiar with the source material or the numerous other cinematic adaptations. Casting Isabelle Huppert in the title role (she's at least a decade older than the standard conception of this wilfully tragic heroine) was a potentially risky gambit that paid off big; underneath her glorious surface lies a startling foundation of brilliant ice. The same can be said about this stunning film. Viewers intrigued by this potent actress-director pairing may also want to check out The Story of Women and the wonderful La Ceremonie. The film is in French with English subtitles. --Andrew Wright

• O - Othello | DVD | (10/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Odin James (Mekhi Phifer)is a black basketball player on an all-white school team and while trying to earn a college scholarship he must face jealousies and betrayals. None come more damaging than from the coach's son Hugo (Josh Hartnett), feeling his talent is overlooked in favour of Odin, who connives a cunning scheme to destroy his team mate...

• Dillinger | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £11.79   |  Saving you £1.20 (10.18%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The rise of John Dillinger from petty criminal (including unforgiveably holding up a cinema) via prison and bank robbery with his new convict associates to the accolade of Public Enemy Number One.

• Bitter Harvest | DVD | (12/06/2017) from £8.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?

• Stolen From The Heart | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £8.07   |  Saving you £0.91 (17.91%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When college student Leslie Wagner discovers she is pregnant by dashing rodeo star Brian she just can't wait to become a wife and mother. But when Brian mysteriously disappears Leslie's dreams of happiness seem shattered. What she doesn't realise is that Brian has been forced to leave town after a run-in with former prostitute Karen Ravetch the devious wife of a local drug-lord Cody. Karen who cannot herself have children yet is desperate to give birth becomes fascinated with Le

• Jack Said | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £3.85   |  Saving you £9.14 (237.40%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Cop. Gangster. Lover. Killer. Who says you have to choose? Danny Dyer and Simon Phillips star in this all-action sequel to the comic book-inspired "Jack Says".

• You Can't Escape Lithuania | DVD | (10/07/2017) from £6.78   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After his star actress, Indre, murders her mother, rich-kid filmmaker Romas plans her escape from Lithuania. His sexy Mexican boyfriend Carlos helps them reluctantly. On the road, Romas begins shooting an improvised experimental film of the trip with his smartphone. As events take an unexpected turn, their secrets, memories and emotions make this journey wilder than any film Romas could have imagined.

• Hamlet | DVD | (15/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  'With a daring and depth few of his American contemporaries seem set to match, Kevin Kline has both starred in and directed Hamlet for the N.Y. Shakespeare Festival. Now with the felicitous addition of Kirk Browning as co-director, he has brought his indelible Hamlet to television, where, as The New York Times, stated, 'it is eloquent, moving and at times thrilling. The shrewdly edited version uses tight close-ups and captures small crowd scenes without a sense of confinement. The teleplay ...

• Mouchette | DVD | (26/08/2013) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (32.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Mouchette is one of Robert Bresson’s greatest cinematic achievements, plumbing immense emotional depths in a searing, heartbreaking portrait of human frailty. Hemmed in by a dying mother, an alcoholic father and a baby brother in need of care, the adolescent Mouchette searches for sanctuary in nature and domestic chores. As the delicate intricacies of her life are played out a touching, tender and tragic portrait is painted, making her of one of cinema’s most memorable tragic heroines. An essential piece of classic French filmmaking.

• FAQ's | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Moroccan immigrant in France enlists his adolescent son Rda to drive him across seven countries as he undertakes the journey from Hajj to Mecca. What should be a peaceful purposeful and solemn pilgrimage for the father is an incomprehensible waste of time for his son. Along the way the pair's stark differences and attituides towards life become blisteringly apparent and what they come to understand about one another has implication far greater than the journey itself. Nico