Drama

• Apollo 13/Philidelphia/The Da Vinci Code | DVD | (12/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Apollo 13 (Dir. Ron Howard) (1995): Stranded 205 000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft astronauts Jim Lovell (Hanks) Fred Haise (Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Bacon) fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile at Mission Control astronaut Ken Mattingly (Sinise) flight director Gene Kranz (Harris) and a heroic ground crew race against time and the odds to bring them home. Philadelphia (Dir. Jonathan Demme) (1993): Up-and-coming young lawyer Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) has just been fired by his prestigious law firm. They say he hasn't got what it takes. Andrew knows it's because he's got AIDS. Determined to defend his professional reputation Andrew hires fierce brilliant personal-injury attorney Joe Miller (Denzel Washington) to sue his former employers for wrongful dismissal. Joe is initially reluctant to take on the case. Although he as grown up knowing the pain of prejudice he's never had to confront his own prejudices against homosexuality and AIDS...until now. The Da Vinci Code (Dir. Ron Howard) (2006): Join symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) and cryptologist Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou) in their heart-racing quest to solve a bizarre murder mystery that will take them from France to England; and behind the veil of a mysterious ancient society where they discover a secret protected since the time of Christ.

• The Large Family - Life With The Large Family | DVD | (05/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Based on the best-selling books by Jill Murphy The Large Family chronicles the hilarious domestic chaos of an all too human elephant family. Just like a typical modern day family the Large family have big dreams high hopes and enormous piles of washing. Mrs Large dashes about like a whirlwind looking after the kids; self-styled 'coolest nine-year-old in town' Lester; resourceful and creative Laura; bright spark Luke; and mischievous baby Lucy. An oasis of tranquillity in the mayhem around him Mr Large manages to stay remarkably calm... at least until his own parents turn up unexpectedly. Produced in 2D cell animation with scripts by Emmy award-winner Nicky Barton this heart-warming delightful series is sure to captivate young viewers.

• Brooklyn's Greatest | DVD | (29/05/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in both the late 80's and the modern era, BACK IN THE DAY is a gritty tale about Anthony Rodriguez, a half Italian - half Puerto Rican young man growing up on the streets of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn-- at the time a very dangerous and racist neighborhood filled with bullies and ballers lining the social clubs where all of the local shots were called. Anthony had to endure an abusive, unemployed, alcoholic father but was blessed with a nurturing, hard-working mother who he loses at a very early age and is devastated by it. As he journeys into adulthood with the nearly impossible goal of achieving a professional boxing career, Anthony manages to not only go pro, but literally fight his way to the top and become a world champion middleweight boxer. But the loss of love, the pain of humiliation, and the fear of retaliation and revenge play roles in his triumphant journey to the top.

• Hired Wife | DVD | (06/06/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Five-time Golden Globe winner Rosalind Russell (His Girl Friday, Auntie Mame) stars in this 1940 romantic comedy as Kendal Browning, the crafty and quick-witted assistant to business tycoon Stephen Dexter (Brian Aherne, Juarez). When Stephen a bigwig bachelor with a penchant for blondes faces a hostile takeover from a rival company, he's advised to enter into a sham marriage, putting his assets in a new wife's name to avoid bankruptcy. Though the CEO fancies model Phyllis Walden (Virginia Bruce), Kendal whose love for Stephen has burned secretly for months has other ideas about her boss's impending engagement. As Kendal wards off Phyllis and Stephen fights to keep his business afloat, sparks fly, and fizzle, and fly again while laughs abound throughout it all. With strong supporting performances from John Carroll (Go West) and Robert Benchley (Foreign Correspondent), who ˜comes close to stealing the show as a comic lawyer-pal' (The Times), Hired Wife remains a timeless, sparkling showcase of some of the era's brightest comic talents.

• Nenette Et Boni | DVD | (25/02/2013) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (48.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  19-year-old Boni is a sex-starved factory worker who combats loneliness by conjuring vivid fantasies involving the baker's wife. Nenette, his estranged 15-year-old sister, is trapped in a boarding school and is pregnant with a child she doesn't want. When their mother dies and fate brings them back together the two warily embark on a journey that will help them heal each other in a most unpredictable yet compelling fashion. A dazzling, mesmerising and deeply moving study of adolescent desire, directed by one of the world's leading contemporary auteur, Clarie Denis.

• Holiday | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £9.50   |  Saving you £0.49 (5.16%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An iconoclastic young man (Cary Grant) who's engaged to a snooty heiress (Doris Nolan) discovers he's really in love with his fianc''e's down-to-earth sister (Katharine Hepburn) in director George Cukor's stylish comedy...

• Martha Marcy May Marlene | Blu Ray | (28/05/2012) from £18.88   |  Saving you £6.11 (24.40%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Martha Marcy May Marlene creates a sense of uneasy suspense within seconds of coming on screen: a young woman, who will be known by all the title names at various times in the movie, is escaping from a rural commune of some sort. And not just a commune, but by the looks of it, a cult--an impression that will grow as Martha flashes back to her experiences once she reaches the safety of her sister's antiseptic country place. It is part of director Sean Durkin's design that we experience the film as Martha's point of view, which means there may be some question about whether she's an emotionally unstable person to begin with or simply in a legitimate terror about the traumatising events that have unfolded for her in recent months. Although the film has one storytelling contrivance (Martha withholds her experiences from her sister, when a little exposition would help matters tremendously), in general Durkin keeps a lid on this simmering situation, and he's got a good compositional eye that only occasionally tips over into preciousness. Sarah Paulson and Hugh Dancy play Martha's complacent but concerned sister and brother-in-law, and John Hawkes (Winter's Bone) is a spellbinder as the commune leader, a manipulator of subtle skill. (With some stories like this, you have a hard time believing cult followers could fall for these creepy charismatics; in this one, Hawkes demonstrates how such things might happen.) The movie's most unexpected and alluring touch is the performance by Elizabeth Olsen, as Martha; this younger sister of the child-star Olsen twins brings a zonked-out centre of gravity to the part. She's got just a bit of blankness, too, which enhances the movie's well-wrought guessing game. --Robert Horton

• Divorce His, Divorce Hers | DVD | (05/06/2008) from £10.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Jane ( Elizabeth Taylor) and Martin Reynolds (Richard Burton ) live La Dolce Vita in Rome in the early 70's and after 18 years come to the slow and painful end of their marriage. This is the story of a crumbling relationship told first from the husband's point of view and then in the second half is told from the wife's. A couple with very different needs, Burton plays a businessman who is uncommunicative and aloof, and Taylor is his wife who will do anything to get his attention, eventually the relationship borders on sadomasochisms as he tires of her manipulative games and she is increasingly frustrated with this dearth of attention and her mundane normal family life...as she tells him at one point, It's no fun behaving badly if you're not going to punish me. The beauty of Taylor is breathtaking and Burton, with his powerful voice, is immensely attractive. Both give terrific performances in this Love Hate scenario and it is fascinating to watch these fabulous on and off screen lovers battle each other, both experts in the chaos of divorce who in a few years time would be facing divorce themselves in their own real life relationship.

• What A Whopper | DVD | (31/01/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Coming after Operation Bullshine and My Wife's Family What A Whopper is a comedy from former documentarist Gilbert Gunn. Adam Faith stars in this tale about a struggling writer who fakes photographs of the Loch Ness monster and then heads for the Highlands to convince the locals so that they'll back his book. Just about every comedy stalwart you can think of crops up in support from Carry On regulars Sid James and Charles Hawtrey to TV favourites Wilfrid Brambell and Terry Scott. Even Spike Milligan has a cameo as a tramp...

• Lord Mountbatten - The Last Viceroy | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This magnificent series is based on Lord Louis Mountbatten's life during his years as Viceroy of India - the final years of the British Raj. Until the Second World War Mountbatten was no more than a name to the British public. He was the grandson of Queen Victoria nephew of the Tsar and cousin to the Prince of Wales. He became the chief British planner of the invasion of Normandy and then the supreme allied commander in Southeast Asia. Known as Mountbatten of Burma because he could

• Broken Blossoms | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £8.95   |  Saving you £4.04 (45.14%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This 1936 Twickenham production Produced by Julius Hagen who put together a fine team of technicians. Hagen a German, called upon several countrymen, Hans Brahm Director, Curt Courant Photography then on screen Dolly Haas, and our own master of the scissors Ralph Kemplen. Comparisons are made to the DW Griffith version which seems unnecessary. The early model work is not the best but enjoy this fine but not pc production. The picture and sound have been restored to a very good quality for a title of this age.

• Born to Be Bad | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When Christabel (Joan Fontaine) comes to live with her cousin Donna Foster (Joan Leslie) she fools everyone with her sugary exterior. But soon the calculating, rapacious Christabel begins to sow seeds of discontent between Donna and her wealthy fianc Curtis (Zachary Scott) by convincing Curtis that his fianc is a gold-digger. When their engagement is broken and Donna leaves for London, Christabel tricks Curtis into marrying her. But it is only his money that Christabel is passionate about because she is in love with Nick (Robert Ryan), a rugged writer who loves her in return, but hates her for what she had done and who she is.

• NCIS - The Complete Second Season | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Featuring all the episodes from Season 2! Episodes Comprise: 1. See No Evil 2. The Good Wives Club 3. Vanished 4. Lt. Jane Doe 5. The Bone Yard 6. Terminal Leave 7. Call Of Silence 8. Heart Break 9. Forced Entry 10. Chained 11. Black Water 12. Doppelganger 13. The Meat Puzzle 14. Witness 15. Caught On Tape 16. Pop Life 17. An Eye For An Eye 18. Bikini Wax 19. Conspiracy Theory 20. Red Cell 21. Hometown Hero 22. SWAK 23. Twilight

• Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Project No. 2: (Insiang / Mysterious Object at Noon / Revenge / Limite / Law of the Border / Taipei Story) (The Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (30/05/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Java Head / Tiger Bay | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Titles Comprise: Java Head: The port city of Bristol England in the 1800s is home to Java Head a sailing ship line company. The owner has two sons. One a handsome seafarer is in love with a local girl but cannot marry her due to a long-running feud between their fathers. After a lengthy voyage he returns with a very exotic noble Chinese wife which scandalizes the conservative town. His other son a landlubber seeks to convert to steamships to the disgust of his father. Even worse he is secretly dealing in contraband. Tiger Bay: A young Englishman abroad Michael visits the local low-life spot of Tiger Bay to test his assertion that the spirit of human romance survives even in the most unpromising of circumstances. He intervenes when a local criminal protection racketeer targets a Chinese nightclub and falls in love with the owner's young English foster-sister. But Olaf's gang have only just started their campaign against Lui Chang the cultured elegant woman who owns the premises... and she is determined not to be intimidated or driven out of business under any circumstances...

• As I Lay Dying | DVD | (23/06/2014) from £5.49   |  Saving you £10.50 (65.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Adapted from the classic novel by William Faulkner As I Lay Dying is the story that chronicles the Bundren family as they traverse the Mississippi countryside to bring the body of their deceased mother Addie to her hometown for burial. Addie's husband Anse (Tim Blake Nelson) and their children Cash (Jim Parrack) Darl (James Franco) and three of their siblings leave the farm with her coffin - each affected by Addie's death in a profound and different way. Their road trip to Jefferson forty miles away is disrupted by every antagonistic force of nature or man: flooded rivers injury and accident a raging barn fire and not least of all - each individual character's personal turmoil which threaten the fabric of the family more than any outside force.

• Somewhere Tomorrow | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £6.55   |  Saving you £-2.56 (-64.20%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A story about loss love forgiveness and moving on. Lori is deeply affected by the loss of her father in a plane crash and she struggles to come to terms with her mother's decision to marry again.

• Judge Priest | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Classic John Ford directed Americana based on the stories of Irvin Cobb. A small town judge in the old south stirs up the place with stinging humour and common sense observations as he tackles prejudices and civil injustices in this warm affectionate and funny look at a slice of American life.

• Pennies From Heaven | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Drifting along on a prayer and a song. Legendary crooner Bing Crosby sings and dances his way though this charming and delightful story of a wanderer who drifts into the lives and hearts of the residents of the small town of Middletown New Jersey. Featuring music and lyrics by Johnny Burke and Arthur Johnston including the classics ""So Do I "" ""Pennies From Heaven"" (Academy Award nominee for Best Music/Song) ""Skeleton In the Closet"" and ""Lets Call A Heart A Heart.""

• Sweet Dreams | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From her beginnings in 1956 as an obscure singer scraping a living in local bars and clubs to her untimely death in a plane crash in 1963 Reisz's biopic traces Patsy Cline's (Jessica Lange) struggle to establish herself as a successful recording artist focusing on the pressures she encountered along the way. Struggling with her turbulent marriage to Charlie Dick (Ed Harris) she tries to balance the needs of her children with the pressures of constant touring. While Patsy's career takes off Charlie's jealousy manifests itself in increasingly drunken abusive behaviour until their inevitable but acrimonious break up. Finally just as her single Sweet Dreams hits the charts comes the tragic conclusion to her meteoric rise to fame...