Drama

• Song Of Scheherazade | DVD | (08/08/2016) from £5.75   |  Saving you £7.24 (55.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This feelgood musical drama tells the story of composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's early career as a Russian Naval Academy cadet and an imaginary meeting with an exotic dancer who might have inspired one of his great works. It's 1865, and the young Rimsky-Korsakov (Jean-Pierre Aumont) is a sailor on a two-year world tour with the Russian Navy. When the ship docks in Tangiers, his search for a piano on which to play his latest work brings him into the fold of a family of down-at-heel Spanish aristocrats. The daughter Cara (Yvonne de Carlo) works secretly as a veiled dancer with the stage name Scheherazade in order to support her mother Madame de Talavera (Eve Arden)'s spendthrift habits. Rimsky-Korsakov is captivated by Cara, and her tales from the mysterious East begin to infiltrate his compositions. As the week's furlough flies by, young Nikolai's musical and amorous aspirations come under threat from Brian Donlevy's severe Captain Vladimir Gregorovitch and dashing shipmate Prince Mischetsky (Phillip Reed) but a harmonious ending is on the horizon. Written and directed by Walter Reisch (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Niagara), the film also stars Charles Kullmann, a leading tenor with the Metropolitan Opera, who is smuggled aboard as the ship's doctor to perform many of Rimsky-Korsakov's enduring melodies.

• The Sea Is Watching | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £7.79   |  Saving you £12.20 (156.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Period drama based on a script from legendary director Akira Kurosawa which focuses on the lives of a group of geisha women gathered together in a poor city district. A beautiful young geisha O-Shin (Nagiko Tohno) who harbors a samurai (Hidetaka Yoshioka) seeking refuge. Falling in love with O-Shin the samurai hopes to cleanse her of the sins of her profession. But fate and fortune conspire to keep the lovers apart and when another young man (Masatoshi Nagase) appears a thund

• Dorian Blues | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £5.95   |  Saving you £9.04 (151.93%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Witty knowing and immensely entertaining Dorian Blues is a delightfully off-kilter coming-of-age tale from debut writer-director Tennyson Bardwell. Adolescence is proving a pain for Dorian (Michael McMillian). He's an outcast and the butt of classmates' fag jokes at high school and his football hero brother (Lea Coco) is constantly rescuing him. But everything finally begins to make sense when he realizes that he's gay. Before his arch-conservative dad (Steven C. Fletcher in a hilarious role) can throw him out of the house he's off to NYU where he encounters a new world of cafes sophisticates and handsome men but this life proves just as frustrating as his world back home. From the hysterical dinner table political discussions to the serious family moments and less-than-perfect life in college the writing and acting is directly from the heart and always rings true. Prepare to laugh out loud with this first-rate gay comedy.

• The Michael Caine Collection 2011 (4 DVD Box Set) | DVD | (30/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play. This 4 DVD collection contains the films The Italian Job, Zulu, Alfie and Funeral in Berlin. A Note on Subtitles.   The subtitles available vary with each film, please find details below.   The Italian Job: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish.   Zulu: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish.   Alfie: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Turkish.   Funeral in Berlin: English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.

• The Bible - Joseph Of Nazareth | DVD | (29/11/2010) from £3.95   |  Saving you £4.04 (102.28%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The story of Joseph husband of Mary and Jesus's guardian. As news spreads of the coming of a new messiah King Herod protects his interests by having all of Bethlehem's first-born murdered. However Jospeh and Mary plan to escape with their new-born baby: Jesus the son of God...

• Verdi-La Forza Del Destino | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Lost Highway | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Lost Highway has been described by its director as a 21st century film noir a graphic investigation into parallel identity crises a world where time is dangerously out of control and finally a terrifying ride down the lost highway. With typically Lynchian dreamlike quality Lost Highway expands the horizons of the medium taking its audience on a journey through the unknown and the unknowable. It is not only about the human psyche it seems to take place inside it. S

• Step Up 4: Miami Heat (Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UV Copy) | Blu Ray | (03/12/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Emily (McCormick), the daughter of a wealthy businessman, arrives in Miami with aspirations of becoming a professional dancer, but soon falls in love with Sean (Guzman), a young man who leads a dance crew in elaborate, cutting-edge flash mobs.

• Dancing In The Dark | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £8.33   |  Saving you £-2.34 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Anna suffers an attack and an abuse by her father-in-law. But when she overcomes her fear and tells the story her husband he does not believe her but sets her under psychatric treatment.

• We Think The World Of You | DVD | (04/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Frank's lover Johnny gets sent to prison. Offering to help out Frank begins to visit Johnny's mum and soon sees that his beautiful dog Evie is being neglected. Frank's longing for Johnny mutates into love for the dog. He cares with increasing desperation. His war of nerves with Johnny's wife intensifies. He can give poor Evie a good life! Can't Johnny see that? Can't his family see that? Hilarious yet touching the film carefully preserves the stifling discretion of the era.

• Hereafter | Blu Ray | (13/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Genre master Clint Eastwood tries something different with the languid, introspective Hereafter--and succeeds (for the most part). All of the characters at the heart of Peter Morgan's screenplay, which has the feel of a European art film, have suffered a loss or survived an ordeal. They feel disconnected from those who can't relate, which is most everybody. George Lonegan (Matt Damon, Invictus), a Bay Area factory worker, developed psychic powers after a childhood illness but just wants to lead a normal life, despite his brother Billy's efforts to turn him into a John Edwards-like celebrity (Jay Mohr plays Billy). Marie LeLay (the versatile Cécile De France), a TV reporter, emerges unharmed from 2004's Indian Ocean earthquake, only to find her Parisian existence slipping away from her (the tsunami sequence that opens the film is frightfully convincing). And in London, soft-spoken 12-year-old Marcus (Frankie McLaren) loses his twin, Jason (George McLaren), only to end up in foster care. While George reaches out to a lovely, if insecure woman (the overly jittery Bryce Dallas Howard) he meets in a cooking class, Marie writes a book about her experience, and Marcus seeks spiritual guidance. In a Babel-like turn of events, all three find themselves in the United Kingdom, where they cross paths, but what sounds contrived plays out in a surprisingly believable fashion. Eastwood and Morgan (The Queen) don't presume to know what happens after death, suggesting instead that those who search for answers deserve something other than disrespect and derision. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• Captain Corelli's Mandolin/Chocolat | DVD | (03/04/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Dir. John Madden) (2001): In keeping with Hollywood's time-honored tradition of turning celebrated novels into cinematic spectacles director John Madden brings Louis de Berniere's acclaimed 1994 work 'Captain Corelli's Mandolin' to life. Set on the Greek island of Cephalonia in 1940 the film tells the story of the beautiful Pelagia (Penelope Cruz) who lives with her father Dr. Iannis (John Hurt) and is engaged to local fisherman Mandras (Christian Bale). When Mandras leaves the island to fight for his country against the approaching German army Pelagia is left behind to worry and wait for a letter which never arrives. In the meantime the Italian army occupies Cephalonia and Pelagia and Dr. Iannis receive a new visitor into their home. Captain Antonio Corelli (Nicolas Cage) a romantic opera lover with a passion for playing the mandolin annoys Pelagia with his free-spirited personality but it is this charm that eventually wins her heart. Soon the two are head-over-heels in love only for Mandras to return... Chocolat (Dir. Lasse Hallstrom) (2001): Nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Actress (Juliet Binoche) and Best Supporting Actress (Judi Dench) 'Chocolat' is the beautiful and captivating comedy from the acclaimed director of 'The Cider House Rules'. Nobody could have imagined the impact that the striking Vianne (Binoche) would make when she arrived in a tranquil old-fashioned French town. In her very unusual chocolate shop Vianne begins to create mouth-watering confections that almost magically inspire the straight-laced villagers to abandon themselves to temptation and happiness. But it is not until another stranger the handsome Roux (Johnny Depp) arrives in town that Vianne is finally able to recognise her own desires.

• Girl on Approval | DVD | (16/01/2012) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Sheila's 14. Her father abandoned her as a baby, her mum's in jail and she's stuck in a children's home. Every family that's tried to look after her has found her too difficult. Now Anne and John Howland want to foster Sheila. But if they can't make a home for her, her future looks bleak...Starring Oscar Nominated actress Rachel Roberts (This Sporting Life, O Lucky Man!) as Anne andsensitively directed by Charles Frend (The Cruel Sea, Scott of the Antarctic) Girl on Approval is a major example of the British New Wave, a brilliant study of troubled lives.

• Welcome To Paradise | DVD | (02/05/2016) from £9.29   |  Saving you £9.70 (51.10%)   |  RRP £18.99

  Featuring a stunning Gospel Music score, Crystal Bernard (Wings), Brian Denny (Assault on Precinct 13, Cocoon) and Brad Stine (Christmas with a Capital C, Broken), star in this wholesome, light-hearted feature that reminds us how love and acceptance go a long way in showing our faith. Debbie Laramie uproots her home life in Dallas when she is transferred to a small church in the sleepy town of Paradise, Texas. Once there, Debbie and her teenage son brave a bumpy road as they adjust to a community in need of a guide back to God. The plucky pastor's unique approach to church life polarizes the members evermore, until a dark catastrophic chain of events leaves them without a building at all. An old barn is their only chance to keep the church alive. With the help of her supporters and even a few naysayers, Debbie turns a humbling challenge into an opportunity to breathe new life into the community and inspires her new church to trust in her and God's plan.

• Penmarric | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £16.55   |  Saving you £13.44 (81.21%)   |  RRP £29.99

  An epic tale of obsessive love and grand ambition. Based on the best-selling novel by Susan Howatch Penmarric is a truly epic and sweeping story of love greed and ambition set against the rugged beauty of Cornwall. On the wild Cornish coast stands the grand estate of Penmarric its stately house lands and mines. It offers wealth and power - but it can also destroy those who seek to become its master. Mark Castallack Master of Penmarric marries the fiery Janna daughter of a lowly fisherman. But a terrible secret will tear his family apart and echo down the decades. Love obsession betrayal and tragedy will set husband against wife father against son and brother against brother in the brooding shadows of the great house. One of the BBC's best-loved drama series of all time Penmarric is a powerful and unforgettable saga that spans three generations from Victorian England to the Second World War. Available for the first time on DVD this 3 disc collection includes all twelve episodes plus a special souvenir booklet.

• Indochine | DVD | (30/07/2001) from £7.80   |  Saving you £12.19 (156.28%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Winner of the Academy Award for best foreign-language film in 1992, Indochine is a vast, panoramic love story set in the twilight years of French Indo-China. Comparisons with David Lean are inevitable, considering director Régis Wargnier's use of the setting as a backdrop to the love-triangle between the three main characters. Catherine Deneuve gives a strong, emotionally restrained performance as Eliane, the plantation owner whose colonial paradise is slowly falling apart. Vincent Perez is magnetic yet thoughtful as the young officer Jean-Baptiste, complemented by Jean Yanne's dry cynicism as the Chief of Police knowingly fighting a losing battle for French culture. Linh Dan Pham is affecting as Camille, Eliane's adopted daughter whose journey from aristocratic ancestry to Marxist induction personifies the changing face of South-East Asia in the period around World War Two. Patrick Doyle's score reinforces the expressive sweep of the direction and "orientalisms!" are kept to a minimum. On the DVD The 16:9 wide-screen format reproduces best in the domestic scenes, and there are 30 individual chapter points, detailed in the interactive moving menu. The disc also has detailed filmographies for the main cast and director, including an entertaining "gossip" file for Deneuve. English subtitles are optional. A half-hour location report would have been worthwhile, but overall this is a persuasive presentation of one of the few genuine historical-romantic epics of the 1990s. --Richard Whitehouse

• Untouchables - Series 2 | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The gangs of Chicago didn't know what hit them. Considered one of the best crime series of its time the hit show starred Emmy'' winner Robert Stack (Unsolved Mysteries) as real-life Chicago gangbuster and prohibition agent Eliot Ness famous for bringing down the notorious Al Capone. Executive Produced by Quinn Martin (TV's The Fugitive) and narrated by Walter Winchell whose distinctive voice lent credibility to the show the resulting series depicting 1930s Chicago was dramatic fiction with documentary authenticity... and became an instant classic! Each week Ness and his men wrestled with such flavorful villains as Dutch Schultz Lucky Luciano... even Ma Barker! But these agents could never be bought off. They were The Untouchables!

• Angel | DVD | (11/04/2016) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  England, 1905: Angel Deverell is a gifted young writer who dreams of success, fame and love. But what will happen if all her dreams come true?

• The Ultimate Guvnors Boxset | DVD | (30/11/2015) from £5.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (150.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  THE GUVNORS is a brutal ode to strength of the alpha male. Mitch lives buried in suburban London after turning his back on violence and intimidation in a legendary South East London firm. Beneath his aura of respectability are the echoes of a darker past, until tragedy forces Mitch and his old firm to accept that past demons can never truly be laid to rest. A tale of retribution and honour across the generational divide. BONDED BY BLOOD takes place in Essex, 1995. Known as the most feared criminals across the south of England, Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Ralfe dominate the local crime scene through fear and uncompromised brutality. But in a world where loyalties are constantly tested and cash fortunes are at stake, your closest friend can quickly become your worst enemy, and before long the boys find themselves in a life or death situation that leads to their inevitable downfall. Featuring an all-star cast including Tamer Hassan, Adam Deacon, Terry Stone, Kierston Wareing and Vincent Regan, BONDED BY BLOOD is a brutal portrait of he most notorious firm in British crime history. ST GEORGE'S DAY is a British crime thriller that follows the story of infamous gangster cousins Micky Mannock and Ray Collishaw. Having long since graduated from the terraces they now run the top firm in London. But when they lose a drug shipment belonging to the Russian Mafia, a turf war threatens to tear their empire apart. Their only hope is a potential heist in Berlin that'll clear their debts and set them up for life. Pursued by the Russians and the police they travel undercover with a huge English super firm who are heading across to watch the 3 Lions play Germany on St George's Day. While the police are diverted by the England and German firms going head to head in the mother of all battles, Micky and Ray have one shot at the heist that could save both themselves and everything they've ever fought for. But they hadn't counted on a grass at the heart of their firm whose sole intent is to bring them crashing down.

• Cyberbully - BAFTA Nominated Film (Starring Maisie Williams) | DVD | (08/02/2021) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A