Drama

• Music In Darkness | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Made in 1948 Ingmar Bergman's fourth feature proved highly popular in his native Sweden and helped cement his position as one of the world's most promising direcctors. The film tells the heartwrenching story of a blind piano teacher who falls in love with one of his students a tale laden with masterfully directed dream sequences and breathtaking imagery.

• Little White Lies | Blu Ray | (22/08/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  From award-winning director Guillaume Canet (Tell No One) comes Little White Lies a joyous portrayal of friendship and humanity. Featuring a truly exceptional ensemble cast; including the Academy and BAFTA award winning actress Marion Cotillard (Inception); and the Csar 'Best Actor' award winner Franois Cluzet. Walking the fine line between laughter and tears Canet directs some of France's most skillful performers to deliver startlingly intimate performances. Every year Max (Franois Cluzet) a successful restaurant owner invites his family and friends to his beautiful beach house. But this year the vacation is not all fun in the sun as each guest raises the veil that for years has covered their true feelings. Their relationships convictions and friendships are sorely tested when finally forced to own up to the little white lies they have been telling each other.

• Fifty Shades Darker + Fifty Shades of Grey UHD Double Pack 4K UHD + BD + Digital Copy | 4K UHD | (26/06/2017) from £10.98   |  Saving you £26.00 (289.21%)   |  RRP £34.99

  FIFTY SHADES OF GREY - Literature student Anastasia Steele's life changes forever when she meets handsome, yet tormented, billionaire Christian Grey. FIFTY SHADES DARKER - While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront the anger and envy of the women who came before her.

• La Dolce Vita | Blu Ray | (07/09/2020) from £20.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Fellini was one of the most original and creative minds of the 20th century and he is recognized as one of the greatest directors of all time. La Dolce Vitais Federico Fellini's epoch-making, signature masterpiece which is always at the very top of film polls and considered one of the best and most influential films ever made. It s a spectacular and acutely relevant portrait of celebrity-obsessed culture. Starring Marcello Matroianni as the handsome tabloid journalist who gets his sensationalist gossip stories by non-stop partying and sleeping with socialites. But this apparent sweet life, this dolce vita , both excites and repels him In celebration of the Fellini Centenary, one of the most influential and celebrated films of all times - filled with iconic images of the 1960s such as the mesmerizing sequence of Anita Ekberg dancing in the Trevi Fountain - is released on Blu-ray from unique restored 4K version made for Scorsese s nonprofit institute, The Film Foundation. Makes this the benchmark release. Extras/Episodes: Exclusive in depth own-produced original (and last-ever) interview with star Anita Ekberg Definitive version from restored 4K source licensed from Scorsese s Film Foundation New updated English subtitles Fellini & other classics Trailers including: 8 1/2, JULIET OF THE SPIRITS, I VITELLONI Fellini s La Dolce Vita became a universal expression, it created the word Paparazzi and introduced Fellini-esque as cultural reference!

• Beijing Bicycle | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Beijing Bicycle kicks off like an updated Chinese reworking of the 1948 Italian neo-realist classic Bicycle Thieves: a worker, dependent on his bike for his job, has it stolen and doggedly sets out to get it back. But pretty soon Wang Xiaoshuai's film mutates into something more elemental: a battle of wills between peasant lad Guei, original owner of the bike, and Jian, a surly urban schoolkid who claims to have bought it second-hand. For both the bike is status: for Guei it secures him his job as a courier, while for Jian it lets him keep up with his peers and chat up the girl he fancies. Each sees himself as the rightful owner and neither will give way, so the bike swaps hands back and forth, stolen and re-stolen, as the duel waxes increasingly personal. There's a diverting subplot about a beautiful, stylishly dressed girl glimpsed by Guei who turns out be something other than she seems, but essentially the battle over the bike is the meat of the film. The fascination of Beijing Bicycle--perhaps especially for non-Chinese viewers--is its portrait of present-day Beijing as a buzzing, high-pressure, neo-capitalist boomtown, impersonal and seemingly as lawless as any Wild West frontier burg. At no point, in all the thefts and counter-thefts and mounting violence, does anyone think to call the police--everyone is left to fight his own battles. Wang, one can't help suspecting, is slipping in a hint of social criticism in this vision of an uncaring society where possessions are all that matter. On the DVD: Beijing Bicycle on disc has the original theatrical trailer (the French version, oddly enough), filmographies for the director and four of his lead actors, notes on the film by Nick Bradshaw and trailers for other Metro Tartan foreign-language DVD releases. The transfer's in the full anamorphic widescreen of the original, with good Dolby Digital sound. --Philip Kemp

• The Last Castle | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £12.25   |  Saving you £5.74 (46.86%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Robert Redford stars as a wrongly convicted five star General who turns his fellow inmates into an army and threatens to take over the prison.

• Faust | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Murnau's last German film features astonishing photography magnificent art direction and special effects which retain the power to amaze. Freed from the constraints of psychological narrative Murnau's mastery of cinematic technique places Faust at the pinnacle of the silent era its barrage of visceral and apocryphal imagery contrasting with the simplicity and directness of its spiritual theme. Faust's tale is a classic one of a man who sells his soul to the devil. In an attempt

• Vincere | DVD | (13/09/2010) from £8.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (78.66%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An unusual new perspective on the life of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Viewed via the story of Ida Mussolini's mistress-cum-wife who had a relationship with him through his early years and rise to power. Director Marco Bellocchio brilliantly conjures up this extraordinary period in Italian history while managing to convey a very intimate and personal story. Highly acclaimed on it's Cannes debut Vincere is another significant film in the ultra-impressive canon of it's directors work.

• The Big Chance | DVD | (24/03/2014) from £9.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A fast paced 1950’s Noir thriller starring screen siren Adrienne Corri. How many people live as they want? Not Bill Anderson (William Russell) he has a mundane job as a clerk in a travel agency. Trapped in his loveless marriage Bill dreamt of a more exciting existence. His opportunity comes quite by chance. A client at the travel agency changes his travel plans and returns tickets to Panama just before a bank holiday. Bill figures he can steal the tickets be on a faraway beach before he is discovered. His plan is working he arrives at the airport with passport money and tickets. However his gaze is drawn to a beautiful woman (Adrienne Corri). They strike up a conversation. He quickly falls under her spell and when their flight is postponed for 24 hours she entices him away from the airport but all is not as it seems. Will Bill eventually escape the monotony of his existence or will he realise he is not cut out for life on the run?

• William And Mary - Series 2 | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £5.47   |  Saving you £14.52 (265.45%)   |  RRP £19.99

  William Shawcross' (Martin Clunes) search for love is hampered by his work: not many women want to date an undertaker. He decides to take matters into his own hands and regsiters with a dating agency. Things start to look up when he is captivated by dark haried beauty Mary (Julie Graham) on one of the agency videos. Mary's an attractive divorced mother of two; and working as a midwife she only meets men who are expectant fathers and married doctors. Once the two get together there

• 3 Classics Of The Silver Screen - Vol. 4 - A Farewell To Arms / The Groom Wore Spurs | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £3.20   |  Saving you £1.79 (55.94%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Farewell To Arms: Ernest Hemingway's tragic wartime romance comes to vivid life in this classic 1932 film starring Oscar winners Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. The cataclysm of WW1 sets the stage for an impassioned story of star-crossed love between a daring American ambulance driver (Cooper) and an English nurse (Hayes) in an army hospital. The tumult of war conspires to push the pair together and then wrench them apart in what becomes an ultimate test of love. Boasting beautif

• Gone To Earth | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hazel Woodus is a peculiar young girl living on the Welsh border at the turn of the century. Dominated by superstitions and lore which she reads from a book she is devoted to her pet fox and to all the local creatures. One of the legends she reads says she must marry the first man who proposes. This turns out to be the mild mannered minister Marston and fearing the legend she agrees to marry him. Hazel feels no true desire for her husband and cannot resist the advances of the r

• Dragon's Return (Drak sa vracia) | DVD | (24/08/2015) from £14.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of the most exciting discoveries in Slovak cinema, Eduard Gre ner's Dragon's Return is an elemental ballad of love, hatred, revenge and desire. A reclusive potter, Martin Lepi - nicknamed 'Dragon' - returns to his isolated community years after being wrongly accused of a crime, punished and shunned by his village. His return immediately engenders an atmosphere of suspicion, fear, and simmering violence. Gre ner's hauntingly poetic film is also a revealing account of peasant life in a world isolated from history and the mainstream of socio-political events - beautifully realised by Vincent Rosinec s luminous monochrome cinematography, and enhanced by an award-winning score from Ilja Zeljenka. The story based on Dobroslav Chrobák s 1940s novella - was later adapted by filmmaker Alain Robbe-Grillet in The Man Who Lies (L homme qui ment, 1968), and Eden and After (L'éden et après, 1970). The fourth in a series of essential Slovak classic films to be released by Second Run DVD. A compelling film, surely as exciting today as it was originally Senses of Cinema A beautifully poetic piece, big on atmosphere and intense psychological reflection... Just as relevant, exciting, and far more emotionally compelling than most of what gets released today. Another truly special film from a truly special time Bonjour Tristesse It is a work of great visual culture, a slide-show of pure cinematic images. It resembles a classic tragedy yet at the same time thanks to its ideas, it is a contemporary piece R. Hassmann: Gre ner True to Chrobák It lures by its look, enchants by its music, challenges by its defense of the fates of its characters Ivan Gerlach, Gre ner s Film Ballad, ud Extras: New HD master; Booklet essay more TBC Special Features: New filmed introduction by Czechoslovak film expert Peter Hames.

• Double Indemnity/All I Desire | DVD | (26/12/2006) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Double Indemnity (Dir. Billy Wilder 1944): From the Moment they met it was Murder! Director Billy Wilder and writer Raymond Chandler ('The Big Sleep') adapted James M. Cain's hard-boiled novel into this wildly thrilling story of insurance man Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) who schemes the perfect murder with the beautiful dame Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck): kill Dietrichson's husband and make off with the insurance money. But of course in these plots things never quite go as planned and Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) is the wily insurance investigator who has a feeling that not all is as it seems... All I Desire (Dir. Douglas Sirk 1953): In 1900 Naomi Murdoch deserted her small-town family to go on the stage. Some ten years later daughter Lily invites Naomi back to see her in the Riverdale high school play. Her arrival sets the whole town abuzz wakes up old conflicts and sets off new emotional storms.

• Revolutionary Road | DVD | (07/05/2013) from £15.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (14.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Academy Award nominee Leonardo DiCaprio and Academy Award winner Kate Winslet reunite for two powerful, groundbreaking performances in Revolutionary Road. Based on the bestseller by Richard Yates and directed by Academy Award winner Sam Mendes, this mesmerising and moving story follows the lives of a passionate young couple living in suburban Connecticut who decide to risk everything to pursue their dreams. They're willing to break away from the ordinary - but can they do it without breaking apart? Nominated for 3 Academy Awards and acclaimed by critics, Revolutionary Road is hailed as one of the best films of the year. (Chicago Sun-Times) Special Features: Commentary with Director Sam Mendes and Screenwriter Justin Haythe Lives of Quiet Desperation: The Making of Revolutionary Road Deleted Scenes

• Tetro | DVD | (27/09/2010) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-1.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Seventeen year old Italian-American Bennie arrives in Buenos Aires in search of his prodigal brother poet Tetro. On finding him the pair reflect on their troubled past with composer father Carlo.

• Is Anybody There? | Blu Ray | (14/09/2009) from £13.93   |  Saving you £11.06 (79.40%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From the producer of Little Miss Sunshine and the Harry Potter movies and the director of Channel 4's acclaimed Boy A, Is Anybody There? is the surprising and touching story about two unexpected friends who inspire each other to live life to the fullest.

• Sholay | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The greatest story ever told. 'Sholay' tells the story of Jai (Amitabh Bacchchan) and Veeru (Dharmendra) two small time crooks called in by Thakur Baldev Singh (Sanjeev Kumar) to fight the tyranny of Gabbar Singh (Amjad Khan). It tells of a village who realise that non-violence does not mean cowardice as they stand up to terror and lawless killers...

• The Admiral | DVD | (20/07/2009) from £7.11   |  Saving you £5.88 (82.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Admiral Koltchak was the most formidable commanding officer the world had ever seen. Choosing to fight for a country mired in war and revolution, Koltchak took on a mighty enemy and defeated them with invention, cunning and tactical genius.

• RKO 281 | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Orson Welles arrives in Hollywood hailed as the boy genius but is stuck for the subject of his first movie. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle he has an argument with Hearst and decides to make a film about him. Some time later he gets the green light and starts to make his movie but Hearst gets to find out more about the film and sets about making sure that the whole project is stopped.