Drama

• Red Monarch | DVD | (06/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In a Russia where fear has become the everyday currency Stalin and Beria are the two double acts to end them all. With the Kremlin as their stage and the Politburo as their stooges Stalin signs death warrants while Beria chases women. United by their Georgian heritage and moral depravity they trust each other only as much as they have to. A humorous look at Stalin dictator and family man.

• Mary, Mother Of Jesus | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £19.59   |  Saving you £-17.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  The world's greatest story seen from the eyes of the Virgin Mary as she watches her infant son Jesus grow to manhood inspiring the known world with his miracles and teachings on the Word of God. The Angel Gabriel visits the 16 year-old Mary and tells her that she has been chosen to give birth to the Son of God. The child is born in Bethlehem and so begins a very human and touching story of love sacrifice and inspirational faith highlighting a real mother's concern for a son who knows that he must die on the cross so he can be born again.

• Fitzcarraldo | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £6.98   |  Saving you £13.01 (186.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Werner Herzog's lengthy 1982 fever dream is typical of the director's passion for boundless experience: the story concerns the title character's determination to open a shipping route over the Amazon as well as build an opera house (worthy of Caruso) at a river trading post. Klaus Kinski (star of Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God) plays the visionary/madman with a spooky dignity, and Herzog--as always--thrills to the mystic possibilities of filming where no one else would even think of placing a camera. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• For Maddie With Love: The Complete Series | DVD | (29/07/2019) from £29.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hard-hitting and unsentimental, For Maddie With Love is the story of a woman who knows she is dying and, in doing so, rediscovers the love she has for her husband and family. Showcasing memorable performances from Nyree Dawn Porter and Ian Hendry and an affecting, stylishly minimalist design ethic, this daytime afternoon drama which ran twice-weekly through much of 1980 became compulsive viewing due to its powerful take on terminal illness, self-determined euthanasia and the aftermath of a death in the family. This set contains all 48 episodes from both series of this classic drama. Special feature Limited edition booklet by archive television historian Billy Smart.

• The Andrei Tarkovsky Collection | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Titles Comprise: Ivan's Childhood Andrei Rublev Mirror Solaris Stalker Nostalgia The Sacrifice

• Pink String And Sealing Wax | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A drunken abusive tavern-keeper's adulterous wife uses the backward son of a rigid puritanical pharmacist who makes his entire family miserable.

• The Land of Hope | DVD | (26/08/2013) from £7.00   |  Saving you £7.99 (114.14%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Prolific Japanese director Sion Sono (Love Exposure, Himizu) departs from his usual style for this movingly restrained drama of a rural family's struggle to survive in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake and the resulting nuclear crisis.

• Hide Your Smiling Faces | DVD | (27/10/2014) from £10.48   |  Saving you £5.51 (34.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hide Your Smiling Faces vividly depicts the young lives of two brothers as they abruptly come of age through the experience of a friend's mysterious death. The event ripples under the surface of their town unsettling the brothers and their friends in a way that they can't fully understand. Once familiar interactions begin to take on a macabre tone in light of the tragic accident leading Eric and Tommy to retreat into their wild surroundings. As the two brothers vocally face the questions they have about mortality they simultaneously hold their own silent debates within their minds that build into seemingly insurmountable moral peaks. Hide Your Smiling Faces is a true headlong glimpse into the raw spirit of youth as well as the calluses that one often develops as a result of an unfiltered past.

• The Last Metro | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £16.93   |  Saving you £3.06 (18.07%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Winning an incredible ten French Academy Awards in 1981 The Last Metro is one of Truffaut's most highly acclaimed and popular films. Starring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu in magnetic performances the story is set in Paris 1942 during the Nazi occupation of France. When Lucas Steiner (Heinz Bennett) the Jewish owner of the Montparnasse Theatre is forced into hiding his wife and lead actress Marion (Deneuve) takes over. Desperate to keep both the troupe and Lucas alive she stages a new play which must be a success to continue. She hires the womanising actor Bernard Granger (Depardieu) for the lead in their next production. Just as the actors begin their rehearsals an anti-semitic journalist ensconces himself in the theatre creating an atmosphere of fear and insecurity. Will he discover Lucas' hideaway and the political affiliations of the group's lead actor? Truffaut delivers a captivating study of artists (the actors) struggling against the odds (the Nazis) and a compelling insight into the atmosphere of wartime Paris and the theatre set against a backdrop of exquisite period detail.

• The Long Way Home | DVD | (28/05/2007) from £4.85   |  Saving you £11.14 (229.69%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Long Way Home was the recipient of the 1997 Academy Award for best feature documentary. The film examines the critical post World War II period from 1945 - 1948 and the plight of tens of thousands of refugees who survived the Nazi Holocaust and their often-illegal attempts to get to the Jewish homeland. It explores how much of the world turned its back on the tragedy of these forgotten people and the world events that led to the creation of the state of Israel.

• Revengers Tragedy | DVD | (14/02/2005) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-14.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An adaptation from maverick Alex Cox of Thomas Middleton's celebrated play from 1607 Revenger's Tragedy tells the story of a man whose wife is murdered on their wedding day and his desire to exact revenge on the murderer. In a post-apocalyptic Liverpool of the future Vindici (Christopher Eccleston) returns from a self-imposed exile to bring down those responsible for his wife's murder. While Vindici's family have fallen on hard times the murderer - known as the Duke (Derek Jacobi) - has become rich powerful and virtually untouchable. Employing all his wit and cunning Vindici sets out to gain the Duke's confidence and get close enough to kill him. Vibrant and pulsating with colour and style Revenger's Tragedy is a masterpiece of reinvention set to astound and astonish.

• Breaking Point/Man from Tangier | DVD | (18/04/2011) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Breaking Point A 1961 Butchers production made at Walton Studios. Peter Reynolds plays a 'nar do well' nephew of a successful printing company owner. His marriage to Johanna Dunham - who went on to star in the series Van Der Valk -is on the rocks his work at the printing firm is rather mundane until a small Eastern state Lalvador wanting plates made for their currency is the target of hostile forces. Reyonds is set up by the spies meanwhile Dermot Walsh of Richard The Lionheart fame closes in on Reynolds wife...typical B feature of the era, picture and sound of good quality.Man From Tangier Action starts in Tangier with a murder and a robbery. Voss (Martin Benson) one of the master crooks is after the thief who stole the plates and Michele (Lisa Gastoni) his unwilling moll is sent to retrieve them.Enter Collins (Robert Hutton) an American stunt man who, whilst having a haircut, his coat is accidentally switched which puts him right in the middle of the intrigue.. Good shots of Victoria station, Humber hawks etc. The story moves at a good pace and the picture and sound are of good quality.

• Sarfarosh | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  'Sarfarosh' is based on a true story. For the first time a Hindi film dares to take an honest and courageous look at some of the real reasons behind terrorism. It shows how guns and drugs are smuggled in across the border of Rajasthan and reaches the interiors of India. This is the story of an honest young man Ajay whose life is never the same after an encounter with terrorists a meeting which leaves in it's wake a dead brother and a paraplegic father. Despite the odds Ajay find

• And God Created Woman | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £11.60   |  Saving you £5.65 (54.64%)   |  RRP £15.99

  On The Seventh Day He Got Creative. A beautiful free spirit whose only want is to play Rock 'n' Roll finds her spontaneous style always gets her in trouble. With a smitten politician in one hand and a husband in the other she creates her own rules - then breaks them. Director Roger Vadim's (Barbarella) remake of his 1956 Bardot classic And God Created Woman achieves the right balance between retaining the original eroticism whilst accounting for an independent modern woman's approach to life.

• Fausto 5.0 | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A nightmarish journey set in a futuristic city following a doctor named Faust When a stranger agrees to turn any of his desires into reality, Dr Faust starts a journey from which he will certainly not come out unscathed.

• Bounce | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ben Affleck is a man who switches plane tickets with another who dies in a plane crash. A year later he seeks out the widow (Gwyneth Paltrow) and begins to fall in love with her..

• The Man Who Haunted Himself | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £9.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Stalked by fear and terror - night and day! Based on an episode from TV's 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' The Man Who Haunted Himself was written and directed by Basil Dearden. After a horrific car crash where he almost dies Harold Pelham returns home to find his life has been overturned. People have seen him places where he cannot have possibly been and his business has been taken over a move which he had opposed before the accident. It soon becomes clear that there is another ""Ha

• Love Liza | DVD | (14/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting award at the 2002 Sundance film festival, Love Liza features a tour de force performance by Philip Seymour Hoffman, as Wilson Joel - a man in trouble.

• The 33 Miners | DVD | (25/01/2016) from £4.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (256.12%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A riveting film about the desperate condition of the thirty three miners trapped, after an explosion, 2,300 feet below the surface at the San Jose mine in Northern Chile, and the ensuing rescue effort spanning sixty nine days to rescue the men. A true life story that captures all of the drama, suspense and heroic efforts of all who worked to return the miners safely to their families, that captured the attention of the entire world.

• Bad Habits | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £8.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (100.11%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Nothing is quite what it seems in this early Almodovar comedy in which the unconventional nuns of a dilapidated Madrid convent write soft porn get high and still find time to design fabulous evening wear!