Drama

• The Clan of the Cave Bear | DVD | (02/04/2012) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  No historian recorded their heartaches, triumphs or names. Yet Ayla and others like her left indelible imprints. They continued humankind's long march toward civilization and away from more primitive groups like 'The Clan Of The Cave Bear'. Daryl Hannah is Ayla inia richly detailed, beautifully filmed screen version of Jean M. Auel's bestseller. Separated from her Cro-Magnon people by a calamitous earthquake, Ayla lives with a less-developed, male-dominated Neanderthal clan. She's different in appearance, in resourcefulness, in her uncommon defiance of social taboos. And from those differences arise conflicts that underscore the Cro-Magnons' evolutionary ascendancy and the Neanderthals' mysterious disappearance from our world.Adapted from Jean M. Auel's novel and scripted by John Sayles (Director of Lone Star), this is a true cult classic that shouldn't be missed by fans of low-budget cinema the way they used to be made...

• Bad Boy Bubby | DVD | (23/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival Bad Boy Bubby with its hard hitting content of deprivation mental illness and incest shocked its audiences to become one of the most daring and controversial cult films of the 1990s. Nicholas Hope gives an astonishing performance as Bubby a demented man-child kept locked for his entire life in a squalid apartment by his depraved mother who uses him for sex. When Bubby who can only communicate by mimicking what others say and do escapes into the outside world he soon discovers young women crime rock'n'roll and pizza. Will this naive 'mad bastard' be destroyed by the realities of our cruel world or does a higher calling ultimately await him in the most unlikely place of all?

• Ward No. 6 | DVD | (11/07/2011) from £7.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (55.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Far on the outskirts of Moscow, Dr. Ragin presides over a mental hospital where thoughtful discussion is in very short supply. His only intellectual stimulation comes from his rich philosophical debates with Gromov, a highly intelligent yet deeply disturbed patient at the asylum. In time, however, Gromov's madness begins to rub off on Dr. Ragin. A bold new take on a literary classic, Ward No. 6 updates the story's original 19th Century setting to present day, and intercuts conversations with actual Moscow mental patients with Chekhov's story to striking effect. Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov and Alexander Gornovsky, adapted from legendary author Anton Chekhov's haunting short story.

• Classic Cuts Collection - Film Noir | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Gilda (Dir. Charles Vidor): The legendary Rita Hayworth sizzles with sensuality and magnetism as she sings ""Put the blame on Mame"" and delivers a dazzling performance as the enticing temptress Gilda. In the story of Gilda Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) goes to work for Ballin Mundson (George MacReady) the proprietor of an illegal gambling casino in a South American city and quickly rises to become Mundson's ""main man"". All is well until Mundson returns from a trip with his new bride Gilda - a woman from Johnny's past. Mundson unaware of the previous love affair assigns Farrell the job of ensuring Gilda is a faithful wife. Fraught with hatred Gilda does her best to antagonize intimidate and instill jealousy in Farrell - until circumstances allow him to get even. In A Lonely Place (Dir. Nicholas Ray): A screenwriter is in need of an alibi after being charged with murder. Laurel Gray a neighbour comes to the rescue and provides an alibi but their closeness casts doubt on his innocence... The Killers (Dir. Robert Siodmak): Two professional killers invade a small town and kill a gas station attendant ""the Swede "" who's expecting them. Insurance investigator Reardon pursues the case against the orders of his boss who considers it trivial. Weaving together threads of the Swede's life Reardon uncovers a complex tale of treachery and crime all linked with gorgeous mysterious Kitty Collins. Double Indemnity (Dir. Billy Wilder): 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...

• Europa | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £17.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The unquiet twin spirits of Fritz Lang and Franz Kafka preside over Europa, Lars von Trier's sardonic, saturnine vision of just-post-WWII Germany. In 1945 Leo Kessler, a young American of German descent, returns to the shattered land of his forebears to help in its reconstruction. Through his uncle, who works for the huge railway network Zentropa, he gets a job as a trainee sleeping-car conductor and also meets the seductive Katharina Hartmann, daughter of Zentropa's owner Max. But acts of sabotage and murder are being planned by unregenerate young Nazis calling themselves Werewolves, and very soon Leo's hapless innocent abroad starts finding out that, in this time and place of shifting loyalties, nothing and no one are what they seem. As if to accentuate this mood of nervous ambiguity, von Trier constantly switches from black and white to colour, and from English to (subtitled) German dialogue, often right in the middle of a scene. The cast boasts several iconic figures of European cinema, including Barbara Sukowa (a Fassbinder favourite) as femme fatale Katharina, and Eddie Constantine (from Godard's Alphaville) as a manipulative American colonel, while a literally hypnotic voice-over is spoken by the great Bergman actor Max von Sydow. There's more than a hint that von Trier intends a mischievous side-glance at today's Europe, and today's European film industry, in resentful thrall to the might of Hollywood. And while Europa is gripping and richly atmospheric, it's never without humour. The long, final episode is a tour de force of tragicomedy, with poor Leo juggling the competing demands of love and loyalty, life and death, while being harassed by his uncle who, horrified that Leo has lost his official peaked cap, forces him to wear a knotted handkerchief on his head, as well as by a pair of punctilious railroad inspectors demanding to know how long it takes him to make up a sleeping-car bunk. Lang and Kafka, sure, but maybe a touch of the Marx Brothers, too. --Philip Kemp

• To Each His Own - Digitally Remastered | DVD | (07/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Josephine Norris (Olivia de Havilland) volunteers for a fire watch with Lord Desham (Ronald Culver) on the rooftops of London during the Blitz. When Lord Desham is nearly killed during the air raid the ageing pair reminisce over the lost loves of their youth. Josephine recalls her first and only love affair with World War I fighter pilot Captain Bart Cosgrove (John Lund). Their whirlwind romance during a fundraising tour for the American war effort lasts only a few days but when Captain Cosgrove returns to the front Josephine finds herself pregnant with an illegitimate child in an American backwater town. When she learns of Captain Cosgrove's death in action Josephine realises that she can never marry the father of her child so she decides to contrive an adoption of the child to herself. But fate plays its own hand...

• Deadlier Than The Male | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A rarely seen 1966 tongue-in-cheek spy thriller starring Richard Johnson as Hugh Bulldog Drummond investigating the attempted sabotage of oil deals and assassination of a Persian King. Elke Sommer co-stars.

• To Paris With Love | DVD | (02/11/2015) from £8.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  British screen legend Alec Guinness gives a sparkling performance in Robert Hamer's romantic comedy set amongst the boulevards of La Ville Lumiere. Co-starring Parisian ingenue Odile Versois and featuring a suitably Gallic score by Edwin Astley, To Paris with Love is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Sir Edgar Fraser, a widowed Scottish baronet, decides that it's about time his 20-year-old son became acquainted with the opposite sex. Not one to do things by halves, he determines that this must be done in Paris, the most romantic city in the world. So off they go, with Sir Edgar determined to find a beautiful, spirited girl for his son. This he certainly does but complications soon arise when he finds that he's falling for her himself! SPECIAL FEATURES: Original Theatrical Trailer Image gallery Promotional material PDFs

• Ivans XTC | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This truly original film tells the story of Ivan Beckman the successful Hollywood agent who has it all: money fame success and power. However when his run of good fortune is shattered by bad news he decides to party even harder....

• Jimi: All Is By My Side | Blu Ray | (26/01/2015) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  OutKast’s André Benjamin stars as Jimi Hendrix in this revealing biopic from Academy Award-winning writer-director John Ridley (“12 Years A Slave”). Covering a year in Hendrix’s life from 1966-67 as an unknown backup guitarist playing New York’s Cheetah Club to making his mark in London’s music scene up until his Monterey Pop triumph the film presents an intimate portrait of the sensitive young musician on the verge of becoming a rock legend.

• The Fallen Sparrow | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A world at war many sparrows must fall ' are the ominous words that open this classic 1943 film noir. Kit McKittrick (John Garfield) a former Spanish Civil War prisoner who arrives back in New York to discover the truth behind the mysterious death of his friend Louie Lepetino. McKittrick is on the verge of near madness following the psychological torture inflicted on him whilst imprisoned in General Franco's civil war jails. Haunted by a sadistic man with a limp McKittrick finds himself surrounded by Nazi spies who want to steal a precious artifact that he has brought with him following his escape from Spain. There is uncertainty with the sinister Dr. Skaas (Walter Slezak) who is fascinated by the effects of psychological torture; and Toni Donne (Maureen O'Hara) an elusive elegant beauty who knows more than she's telling. As McKittrick tries to uncover a nest of Nazi spies whilst retaining his sanity the stakes become higher in this excellent psychological thriller.

• The Night We Called It A Day | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A down-on-his-luck Aussie rock promoter secures the coup of his career in this comedy.

• Adult Beginners | DVD | (25/04/2016) from £7.39   |  Saving you £28.60 (387.01%)   |  RRP £35.99

  A young entrepreneur (Nick Kroll - Kroll Show, The League ) crashes and burns on the eve of his company's big launch. With his entire life in disarray, he leaves Manhattan to move in with his estranged pregnant sister (Rose Byrne - Bad Neighbours 1 & 2, Bridesmaids), brother-in-law (Bobby Cannavale-Vinyl, Ant-Man ) and three year-old nephew in the suburbs - only to become their manny. Faced with real responsibility, he may finally have to grow up - but not without some bad behaviour first.

• Higher Learning | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £8.07   |  Saving you £1.92 (19.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Director John Singleton's Higher Learning follows three very different freshman students in their first term of university who find themselves having to reassess their lives and confront such thought-provoking issues as prejudice racism and sexism... Former high school track star Malik Williams finds that instead of cruising through his first year of an athletic scholarship he's actually going to have to run faster and harder in order to make the grade. Naive Kirstin Conne is ill prepared for a completely different aspect of college life - not only does she discover that male students don't always accept ""no"" for an answer but she also starts to reassess her own sexual leanings. Finally there's Remy the sad quiet kid from Idaho who nobody wants to befriend. Ultimately he turns to the only group that will have him - the trouble-making neo-Nazi skinheads. Among the characters that act as forces in the lives of these three students are Professor Phillips and long-term student Fudge who serve as positive role models as this provocative portrait of modern life builds to its searing and shocking climax.

• X | DVD | (31/12/2000) from £9.11   |  Saving you £8.88 (97.48%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Tokyo is the city where the final battle between the Dragon of Earth and the Dragon of Heaven will take place in the Japanese anime film X, directed by Taro Rin and written by the all-woman writing team Clamp. The Dragon of Earth wants to wipe out humankind because of the damage people have inflicted on the Earth, while the Dragon of Heaven is fighting to protect civilisation. At the centre of all this is Kamui, the chosen one, who must pick a dragon to fight for.Full of dreams and flashbacks that pop up out of nowhere, the structure of X could be considered confusing and needlessly complex if the story weren't so simple. Obviously, we are supposed to root for the Dragon of Heaven to win and save mankind, but the funny thing is, the Dragon of Earth has the better argument. If it were a debate, humanity would lose. But it's not a debate, it's an action film, and many of Tokyo's most famous buildings get destroyed in the battles. As with most anime, the women are either girlishly cute or slutty, but luckily in X, there are no graphic rapes; the love interest is merely crucified three or four times. It may not be the greatest anime film out there, but at least it's never boring. --Andy Spletzer

• The Man From Elysian Fields | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Add The Man from Elysian Fields to the list of essential movies about the pains of writing. This wry comedy-drama charts the frustrations of a financially strapped novelist (Andy Garcia) as he desperately and secretly agrees to be an "escort" for ladies who need, err, escorting. This leads him into a Faustian bargain to help a beautiful client (Olivia Williams) whose husband, a once-great, now-dying writer (a mighty James Coburn), is struggling with a final work. Of course the fact that the men are sharing a project and a woman complicates matters--and Garcia's loyal wife (Julianna Margulies) is curious about all these nights spent away. The movie explores different levels of compromise and betrayal, yet it remains tartly amusing throughout. And it has a glorious casting inspiration: the director of the mysterious escort service is played by Mick Jagger, looking decadently elegant and purring like a vaguely satanic Siamese cat. --Robert Horton

• Skins - Series 1-6 | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  E4's multi-BAFTA award-winning drama series, Skins follows the chaotic lives and loves of hard-partying college students as their teen lives mix with the madness of the adult world around them. Includes all episodes from the six series.

• Scum: 2-disc Collectors Edition (Limited Edition Steelbook Packaging) | DVD | (13/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Raw, violent and shocking, Scum is a compelling story set in a contemporary Borstal.

• Querelle | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Adapted from Jean Genet's novel the final film of director Fassbinder's career is a surreal tale of sex and murder that has become a cult favourite. Brad Davis (Midnight Express Chariots Of Fire) stars as Querelle an enigmatic drug-dealing sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest. Amidst the sultry highly charged atmosphere he embarks on a journey of sexual self-discovery. With its striking iconic imagery set against the orange glow of a permanent sunset Querelle is a d

• Classic British Cinema Crime Collection - 2DVD Set | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A Night Train For Inverness: Ex-convict Roy Lewis (Norman Wooland) heads to London to see his estranged wife Ann (Silvia Francis) and 7-year-old son Ted (Dennis Waterman) but despite Ann's wish to see Roy her mother tells him they want nothing to do with a jailbird. Frustrated by a lack of access to his son Roy kidnaps Ted and takes the night train to Inverness for a new life in Scotland. Unbeknown to Roy Ted is a diabetic and without regular insulin injections his son's health is in serious danger and the panic sets in to find the urgent medical attention needed. The Pursuers: In the dark and uncertain time following the end of World War Two many men suspected of war crimes within the German Army attempted to blend into civilian life by assuming different names occupations and fleeing to other countries. 12 years later these men had made new lives and carved out new careers but evil secrets have a way of rearing their ugly heads especially when a dedicated group of Nazi hunters are on your trail. Where can you run when you have nowhere to hide? A Return Of A Stranger: The serene life of Pam and John Allen is rocked to its core when a mysterious man begins stalking their every move with late night phone calls sudden appearances and sinister behaviour. It transpires that the man Homer Trent was a part of Pam's early life when she was brought up at an orphanage and has spent the last few years in prison for her rape. Now free Trent is intent on taking back what he believes to be his property Pam. Strip Tease Murder: a stripper collapses and dies on stage at the famous Flamingo Club her death is quickly attributed to 'natural causes' but her husband and fellow club employee Bert suspects there were very 'unnatural' forces at work. In order to get the police involved Bert must find evidence of foul play but clues are hard to find when everybody has something to hide.