Drama

• Dreamgirls: Director's Cut | Blu Ray | (05/02/2018) from £6.21   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  DIRECTOR'S EXTENDED EDITION Grammy® winner Beyoncé Knowles, Academy Award® winner Jamie Foxx* and Golden Globe® winner Eddie Murphy shine in unforgettable roles that display their matchless talents. And Jennifer Hudson is a revelation, in the breakthrough performance that earned her the 2006 Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress. Based on the Tony Award®-winning Broadway hit and directed by Academy Award® winner Bill Condon** (Beauty and the Beast), the Oscar®-winning Dreamgirls is a triumph of movie entertainment that will dazzle you again and again. Includes Photobook with select song lyrics Extended and Alternate Scenes (in Director's Extended Edition) Jennifer Hudson's NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN audition and screen test footage Building The Dream (HD) Dream Logic: Film Editing (HD) Dressing The Dreams: Costume Design (HD) Center Stage: Theatrical Lighting (HD) Auditions and Screen Tests Previsualization Sequences Easter Egg - Jamie Foxx Kidding Around with Jennifer Hudson (HD)

• Bernard And Doris | DVD | (01/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Inspired by the true story of tobacco billionairess Doris Duke and her devoted Irish butler Bernard Lafferty the touching HBO Films drama Bernard and Doris stars Oscar'' winner Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking) and Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient). After failed relationships with her previous waitstaff Doris meets Lafferty fresh out of rehab and without a penny to his name. She takes him on as her butler and he is put in the unenviable position of having to convince the notoriously demanding Duke to keep him in her employ. Directed by Bob Balaban (Gosford Park) the film effectively captures the elegance of a bygone era and is scored with countless musical standards such as Peggy Lee's The Best Is Yet To Come. Bernard and Doris tells the witty and endearing tale of an unconventional bond between a society princess and her flawed pauper of a butler.

• People Next Door | DVD | (17/09/2012) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Trust is their weapon. Innocence is their victim. Hollywood grande dame Faye Dunaway, the Oscar-winning star of such cinematic milestones as Bonnie and Clyde and Chinatown, gives a typically powerful performance as a domineering parent in this explosive drama about two lethal con-artists who kidnap the children of a struggling single mother, played by Desperate Housewives' Nicollette Sheridan. Garrett James (Oscar nominee Michael O'Keefe, Too Young To Die?) and his wife Donna seem the perfect neighbours. Kind, generous and desperate for children of their own, they are eagerly befriended by Anna Morse (Sheridan), a lonely waitress with three daughters who is fleeing from an abusive husband and who receives nothing but cold disapproval from her mother, Ellen (Dunaway). But the charismatic Jameses hide terrible secrets: they are wanted criminals, guilty of larceny and other, more deadly, schemes. Within no time at all, they have insinuated themselves into the children's lives while subtly undermining Anna's security. Suddenly, Garrett and Donna vanish, taking Anna's daughters with them. Receiving little help from the police or her mother, Anna has only one ally: Jack Driscoll (Ernie Lively, Overkill: The Aileen Wuornos Story), a hard-bitten cop who follows an intriguing trail of leads and uncovers horrific details of Garrett's psychotic past. Forced to cope with the realisation that her daughters are in the hands of a murderer, Anna must struggle to hold her life together while launching a valiant race against time to save them. The People Next Door is written by Fred Mills (Overkill: the Aileen Wuornos Story) and directed by Tim Hunter, whose controversial 1986 feature River's Edge (starring Keanu Reeves) was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival.

• Verdict of the Sea | DVD | (22/02/2016) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A silent-era idol whose enormous popularity was undiminished by the advent of sound, John Stuart stars as a former doctor who meets with unexpected adventure when he joins the crew of a tramp steamer in this rare early British talkie. Verdict of the Sea is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio.When 'Gentleman' Burton boards the Capri his aura of mystery makes the crew curious about his origins and makes him especially attractive to the Captain's daughter. But he little realises the danger that is to unfold when the Captain conceals diamonds on board as a favour...SPECIAL FEATURES Image Gallery Original Script PDF

• Chaplin | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £10.92   |  Saving you £2.07 (18.96%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Chaplin, Sir Richard Attenborough's biographical film of the life and times of the famous comic, is a little thin as a narrative, but it is so charmingly creative and ultimately moving that it's hard to worry about the deficits. Robert Downey Jr does an excellent job re-creating Chaplin's graceful slapstick and getting inside the silent-film superstar's head over the years of triumph, defeat, scandal, official persecution, exile and inner peace. A huge cast portray the allies, friends, lovers and enemies in Chaplin's life, including Moira Kelly as his final, long-time wife Oona, Kevin Kline as Douglas Fairbanks, Geraldine Chaplin as Charlie's mother and James Woods as a prosecutor working hard to nail Chaplin for anti-American sentiments. Attenborough declines to tell the story in a flat, linear way, employing such clever techniques as detailing one chapter in Chaplin's life as a silent comedy. The climactic scene set at an Oscar tribute for Chaplin will get the tears flowing. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• The Disappearance Of Flight 412 | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Whitney Airforce Base 10.30 hours: Shadow Delta One prepares for take off on a routine mission. 11.56 hours: Blanco Vista Marine Airbase picks up three blips pacing Shadow Delta One. A squadron of Marine Jets is scrambled to investigate but both they and the UFO's disappear when they are about to make contact. What follows is a tense drama to discover the truth...

• The Story of Ruth | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £9.43   |  Saving you £0.56 (5.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An unforgettable tale of love, faith and courage.In a stunning retelling of the epic Old Testament story, Elana Eden portrays the beautiful Ruth, who, as a young girl, is sold to worshippers of the stone god Chemosh. As a young woman, however, she is moved by the plight of a Jewish slave named Mahlon (Tom Tryon), renounces her idolatry, frees him and befriends his mother, Naomi (Peggy Wood).When tragedy compels the women to make the arduous journey to Jerusalem, Ruth meets Boaz (Stuart Whitman) and falls in love. But as she is promised to another, she must rely on her courage, wits and newfound faith to find the peace she's longed for since she can remember.Both heartbreaking and compelling, The Story Of Ruth is a riveting film you won't soon forget!

• What's Left Of Us | DVD | (11/05/2015) from £4.79   |  Saving you £8.20 (63.10%)   |  RRP £12.99

  As far as they know Axel, Jonathan and Ana are the last three human beings. Together, they live in a claustrophobic bunker in a post-apocalyptic hell. Outside lies a perilous, urban landscape filled with the undead, where they must scavenge and hunt for food and supplies. In order to survive they have to learn to live together and overcome explosive human emotions; love, anger and even hate for one another. So Ana invents the therapy room , a place for them to privately record their confessions, which are then locked away. But as boredom overtakes, they play a dangerous game by capturing and bringing a member of the undead into their home. Their new pet is one risk too far. What s Left Of Us is a gripping and terrifying drama that convincingly portrays what life would be like at the end of the world. Previously known as El Desierto

• Just Henry | DVD | (26/12/2011) from £13.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (32.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the best selling and award winning novel by Michelle Magorian (Goodnight Mr Tom), Just Henry is an engaging story about one boy's discovery that will alter his family life forever.Set in post-Second World War Britain, Henry is growing up in a fraught and unsettled household that consists of his mother Maureen, stepfather Bill and his paternal grandmother. A troubled young man, Henry suffers from bad nightmares which everyone attributes to the aftermath of living through a war and the fact that he's never really overcome his father's death, or his mother's subsequent remarriage. When his father's war medal for bravery gets posted through the door Henry wants to know more about the circumstances of his father's death, something that his mother has always preferred him not to know too much about...this will lead him on a mysterious mission to unlock the truth.

• The Rat Pack | DVD | (09/10/2007) from £15.97   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In the 1950's and 1960's Frank Sinatra was the head of the infamous Rat Pack. He Sammy Davis Jr. Dean Martin Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop worked and played together. This film dramatizes their volatile relationships with each other and the Kennedys Marilyn Monroe mobster Sam Giancano Judith Cambell and the FBI. Sinatra helps John Kennedy get elected in 1960 with a little help from Giancano. Lawford married to a Kennedy is an unhappy go-between. Davis is fighting racism and insecurity. Cambell is sleeping with both Giancano and JFK who is also sleeping with Monroe.

• Last Exit to Brooklyn | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The setting is a working-class neighbourhood of New York in the 1950s. Among the characters are prostitute Tralala her brutal pimp Vinnie an effiminate homosexual and a corrupt union official. Based on the book by Hubert Selby Jr. (author of 'Requiem For A Dream') this is an extremely disturbing and effective adaption of his once-banned novel.

• Redemption | DVD | (16/05/2005) from £29.99   |  Saving you £-24.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Gangster. Death Row inmate Nobel Peace Prize nominee. The fearless reputation of Stan 'Tookie' Williams is transferred from the streets to Death Row. When a journalist is granted an interview with the prisoner however she discovers that he intends to use his criminal knowledge to firmly put his past behind him... Oscar winner Jamie Foxx gives a career-defining performance as the founder of the notorious Crips street gang in this riveting true story.

• The Captive | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £34.19   |  Saving you £-14.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Chantal Akerman's La Captive is a deceptively simple story following the fascination of a wealthy young man for his apparently innocent and lovely girlfriend. Only loosely drawn from Proust's La Prisonniere, the Proustian elements are often largely submerged. Yet as a study in obsession it is balanced somewhere between Death in Venice and Vertigo. A chase through the streets of--an apparently timeless but actually contemporary--Paris, this is a picture of inexplicable obsession, moved along by fragments of whispered dialogue and a glimpse of bizarre daily ritual. With much of the story framed within the odd anti-hero Simon's grandiose apartment (which he appropriately shares with an ailing, rarely glimpsed grandmother), the film cleverly avoids suffocating its viewers by giving odd gasps of breath from the cheeky, light encounters between his girlfriend Ariane and the beautiful Andree--friends, or possibly sometime lovers. As a portrait of a relationship, La Captive will keep its viewers absorbed with its elegant tone and its intriguing and inexplicable story; but it might just as easily frustrate with its unresolved twists and turns.--Tricia Tuttle

• Alpha Male | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £3.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (401.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When a boy's father dies he is prematurely burdened with the responsibility of looking after the family.

• Double: Cadillac Records/ Ray (2004) | DVD | (10/10/2011) from £11.93   |  Saving you £-1.94 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Titles Comprise:Cadillac Records:In the 1950's Leonard Chess' record label 'Chess Records' was at the forefront of blues, soul and rhythm and blues in the States. With a fine musical ear and canny business acumen, Chess managed to collate a roster which included such legendary stars as Etta James (Beyonce Knowles) and Chuck Berry (Mos Def). Sex, violence and rock 'n' roll hit hard in this dramatic telling of a famous music empires' rise and fall.Ray: Riding high on a wave of Oscar buzz, Foxx proved himself worthy of all the hype by portraying blind R&B legend Ray Charles in a warts-and-all performance that Charles approved shortly before his death in June 2004.

• In Deep - The Complete Series Two | DVD | (10/10/2011) from £6.48   |  Saving you £20.50 (456.57%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Nick Berry and Stephen Tompkinson return for a second series of the intense BBC crime drama, In Deep.Liam (Berry) and Garth (Tompkinson) continue to go undercover to capture murderers and criminals including a drug dealer, played brilliantly by Lovejoy's Ian McShane. Garth is left fighting for his life, while Liam's relationship with his wife (Lisa Maxwell) is at an all-time low. Will Garth survive? And will Liam's love life have a happy ending?Episodes comprise:UntouchedJekyllsBlood LossAbuse Of Trust

• The Battle of Ardennes | DVD | (01/08/2016) from £6.19   |  Saving you £9.80 (158.32%)   |  RRP £15.99

  On Christmas Eve 1944, US Soldier John Myers and his platoon of men become trapped behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge. A ferocious Nazi offensive, snow and shells rain down as The Allied troops seek refuge wherever they can, desperate to hold the front line. When Captain Myers stumbles into a cottage on the edge of the forest, he meets Alina, a young woman who offers him shelter from the raging battle. As morning arrives, a hush spreads through the trees as the German forces agree to a brief Christmas truce and the last guns fall silent. Soon enough, Myers and Alina find themselves in love, but World War II is far from over. As each side re-engages in battle, Myers and Alina make a pact to meet on the next Christmas Eve, little do they realise the tragedy that lies ahead.

• Summer | DVD | (02/03/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  "Summer" is a film about a man full of intelligence and potential struggling to reclaim his life.

• The Lion of the Desert (Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (02/07/2012) from £12.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (23.09%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Destined to remain a dubious footnote in books of movie trivia, Lion of the Desert--an occasionally impressive epic from 1981--was financed with a budget of $35 million by Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, who previously attempted the role of movie producer with the critically roasted Mohammad: Messenger of God. This effort didn't fare much better (it grossed approximately $1 million worldwide), and although some of its wartime action sequences are intelligently filmed, it's not likely to gain much more of a reputation on home video. Under a shaggy Muslim beard, Anthony Quinn stars as Omar Mukhtar, the Arab hero and guerrilla fighter who defended Libya against Benito Mussolini and Italy's attempted conquests during World War II. As straightforward biography, the movie's got an admirable epic sweep, but a cliché-ridden script and uniformly bad performances (from a cast that includes John Gielgud, Oliver Reed and Rod Steiger) make this little more than a curiosity for those wanting to learn more about Libyan history. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Mere Jeevan Saathi | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Who will take the final step? Who will decide Vicky's jeevan saathi? Will it be Natasha who will do anything for the sake of love - even take a life? Will it be Anjali who will do everything for the sake of love even give up her own life? Or will it be Vicky who will do anything and everything to save his one true love?