Drama

• L'Humanite | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bruno Dumont's (Life Of Jesus) visionary and hauntingly powerful film tells the story of Pharaon De winter (Emmanuel Schotte) a police detective who lives with his mother in a working-class town in Northern France. With astonishing and raw sensitivity Pharaon agonizes over the evil he must confront every day during the course of his work. His latest case is the brutal rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl a crime so barbarous that Pharaon reels from the madness of it strug

• Quai Des Orfevres | DVD | (05/03/2018) from £11.89   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A marriage that has fallen on hard times is further tested by the couple's implication in a murder. Jenny Lamour (Suzy Delair) is a music hall chanteuse married to her pianist husband Maurice (Bernard Blier). Keen to get ahead, Jenny leaps at the chance when an ageing wealthy businessman (Charles Dullin) offers her the chance of some gigs. However, when she agrees to a meeting at his home and he is found dead later in the evening - Maurice's untamed jealousy is in the frame. A Maigret-esque detective, Antoine, played by Louis Jouvet leaves no stone unturned in his exceedingly private investigations of the down-at-heel showbiz couple's sad, tempestuous life. Features: The Criminal Apogee Of Henri Georges Clouzot

• Cotton Mary | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £4.79   |  Saving you £11.20 (233.82%)   |  RRP £15.99

  1954 the Malabar Coast. British and Anglo-Indian identities blur when an English-woman with a neglectful husband births a sickly baby. Cotton Mary a hospital aide and moralizing Anglophile who claims her father was a British officer takes over the infant's care and without a word to the mother takes the baby daily to her sister to nurse. Mary moves into the English household taking over more and more duties as she plays on the mother's fatigue and lack of spousal counsel: in eff

• Earthly Possessions | DVD | (09/05/2003) from £3.88   |  Saving you £2.11 (54.38%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Charlotte is a seemingly mild-mannered middle-aged housewife - who's decided to leave her husband and skip town. Her mind is made up and all that's left to do is go to the bank and withdraw her money. But while she's waiting in line her plans are suddenly changed when a desperate young man robs the bank - and takes Charlotte along as a hostage. What ensues is a wild and quirky road trip that includes car theft demolition derbies a cat named Murder and maybe even romance...

• Love In Thoughts | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  In the volatile era betweens wars two young men share a romantic view of life and its possibilities. They differ greatly: Paul a shy poet comes from a working-class family while daredevil Guenther hails from the wealthy upper class. Rebellious and passionate both boys reject their parents' empty world. They create a pact: At the point when love fails them they will end their lives. One weekend at a bohemian party this reckless agreement is put to the ultimate test... Based on

• Pretty Poison | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £13.07   |  Saving you £6.92 (52.95%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Did you ever see two kids like Dennis and Sue Ann? We think not... Dennis Pitt (Anthony Perkins) is released from prison following a sentence for his complicity in a suspicious death. Wandering through a small town he befriends and deceives straight-A student Sue Ann (Tuesday Weld). Convincing her that he is in fact a secret agent she decides to joins him. However is Sue Ann using Dennis' own weaknesses for her own evil ends?

• Crossing Guard, The | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £3.79   |  Saving you £16.20 (81.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the Most Powerful Movies of the Year! - Fox-TV. Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson (1997 Best Actor As Good As It Gets) drives this suspenseful critically acclaimed action thriller about one man's unquenchable thirst for revenge! For six agonizing years Freddy Gale (Nicholson) has waited for John Booth (David Morse The Negotiator) the man jailed for a crime that destroyed Freddy's life. Now Booth is out of prison and Freddy's giving him three days before he returns...to even the score! Directed by Sean Penn and starring Academy Award Winner Anjelica Huston (1985 Best Supporting Actress Prizzi's Honor) and sexy Robin Wright (Message In A Bottle) The Crossing Guard is an intense emotionally charged thriller that delivers!

• A Different Loyalty | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £12.45   |  Saving you £0.54 (4.34%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1950's Beirut American artist Sally Tyler (Sharon Stone) encounters the handsome London Times correspondent Leo Cauffield (Rupert Everett) an articulate and educated stranger who was once the head of MI6's counter espionage division. Unable to live with the tormented secrecy of their burgeoning relationship Sally leaves her husband and pursues a life of adventure with the enigmatic Leo until suddenly he disappears without a trace. When told that Leo has defected to Communist Russia Sally is forced to delve into his past and assemble the mysterious jigsaw that hides the shocking truth unmasking one of the most successful and infamous spies of the Cold War era. In a thrilling life-and-death climax she ultimately comes face-to-face with the age-old conflict between love and duty as East and West collide at a unique time in 20th century history. A Different Loyalty is based on documented real-life events.

• Running With Scissors | DVD | (04/05/2009) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A son's story of his bipolar poet mother with delusions of grandeur, who falls into the care of an unorthodox psychiatrist.

• 3 Classic Katherine Hepburn Films - The African Queen / On Golden Pond / Iron Petticoat | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-2.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The African Queen The boozing smoking cussing captain of a tramp steamer Charlie Allnut saves prim and proper Rose Sayer after her brother is killed by German soldiers at the beginning of World War I in Africa. Many quarrels later the two set sail on the Ulonga-Bora in order to sabotage a German ship. Based on the 1935 novel by C.S. Forester the wonderful combination of Hepburn and Bogie (who won an Oscar) makes this a thoroughly enjoyable blend of comedy and adventure. Later came the book (and Clint Eastwood film) White Hunter Black Heart which chronicled screenwriter Peter Viertel's experiences observing Huston throughout the making of the picture. On Golden Pond Family tensions explode for a loving couple Ethel and Norman Thayer (Katherine Hepburn and Henry Fonda in Academy Award winning performance) at their New England summer cabin on Golden Pond. Their daughter Chelsea (Jane Fonda) has come to visit with her new lover Bill (Dabney Coleman) and his tough young son Billy (Doug McKeon). The three generations collide. But what begins as a stubborn battle of wills between Norman and Billy slowly turns into a relationship that Chelsea always wanted with her father and Norman discovers how much he has missed by denying his daughter's love. Iron Petticoat A US Air Force captain forces down a Russian MIG only to be confronted by a Russian fighter ace. The Captain is tasked with converting her to capitalism.

• Danielle Steele Collection | DVD | (28/03/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Five dramas based on novels by Danielle Steel. Patrick Duffy stars in 'Daddy' (1991) as Oliver a successful advertising executive whose perfect family life is suddenly ripped apart at the seams. His wife leaves him his son gets a girl pregnant his daughter takes up with older men and his mother is hit by a bus. These crises convince Oliver to change his outlook - and his life - for the better. 'Changes' (1994) tells the story of a top TV news anchor (Cheryl Ladd) who falls in love with LA's top cardiologist (Michael Nouri). However their relationship is in constant conflict due to their five children from separate marriages. Stacy Haiduk stars in 'A Perfect Stranger' (1994) as Raphaella Phillips the young and beautiful wife of a diplomat 40 years her senior. When her husband has a massive stroke leaving him bedridden and helpless she remains faithful to him for five selfless (and loveless) years. A chance meeting with an exciting mystery man ignites long suppressed passions in her and they embark on a torrid affair which she reluctantly gives up out of a feeling of duty to her husband. However the dying diplomat knows more about the relationship than she realises forming part of a love triangle which could destroy them all. Stephanie Beacham and Christopher Plummer star in 'Secrets' (1992). Set in the world of glamorous prime-time soap operas the drama revolves around the cast of a new show called 'Manhattan'. In 'The Ring' (1996) Ariana Von Gotthard (Nastassja Kinski) is the daughter of a wealthy Berlin man who witnesses the way her country is being torn apart in the run up to the Second World War. Her father decides to help his children escape from Germany and after getting his son to Switzerland he returns to Berlin for Ariana but is executed as a traitor. Unsure as to the fate of both her brother and father Ariana marries a German soldier who is killed in the war. She then flees to America with her unborn child and in New York attempts to build a new life hoping that she will be reunited with her long-lost brother.

• Driftwood | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £86.06   |  Saving you £-69.07 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Searching a desolate area of the Irish coast for driftwood lonely sculptor Sarah (Brochet) discovers an injured man (Spader) lying unconscious on the shore. She rescues the stranger and takes him to her cottage where she begins nursing him back to health. When she learns the man is suffering from amnesia with no knowledge of who or where he is she decides to tell him they are isolated on a remote island visited only by a supply boat every few months. Totally dependent on Sarah the man believes her story and slowly comes to trust and even love her. But when his hunger for more information and a desire to return to civilisation threaten to draw him away the obsessed and seriously disturbed Sarah must take increasingly drastic measures to keep her lover...

• Cleopatra (Special Edition) | DVD | (08/02/2006) from £29.87   |  Saving you £-9.88 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Possibly the most alluring mysterious and powerful woman of all time Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor) changed the course of history when two of the most powerful men in Rome fell in love with her. Rex Harrison is Julius Caesar who wins the Egyptian throne for Cleopatra marries her and provides her with a child Caesarean. Upon returning to his native country Caesar is crowned Dictator of Rome but his desperate desire for even greater power causes a worried Roman Senate to fatally conspire against him on the Ides of March.

• You Will Be My Son | DVD | (29/04/2013) from £7.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Directed by Gilles Legrand, You Will Be My Son stars Niels Arestrup as Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-milion, whom is disheartened by the notion of his son Martin (Lornt Deutsch) taking over the family business. Martin does not seem to have inherited the qualities that Paul esteems in a wine-maker: persistence, creative insight and technical prowess matched with passion for the job and the product, and Paul frequently reminds him of this, whether explicitly or in subtle gestures. When Philippe (Nicolas Bridet) appears at the vineyard, Paul leaps at the chance to name him as his successor, neglecting the wishes of his own son. The tension in this familial triangle comes to a head when an unexpected event changes everything.

• Ozu - The Noriko Trilogy (Late Spring / Early Summer / Tokyo Story) | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A collection of classic movies from lauded Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu. Regarded by many as the world's finest director and renowned for his formalist style Yasujiro Ozu made his first film in 1927 and went on to direct 55 films before his death in 1963. It was only during his final years however that his genius as a film-maker was recognized in the West alongside such contemporaries as Buuel Bergman and fellow countryman Akira Kurosawa. This box set features three works b

• Under The Sand | DVD | (24/09/2001) from £22.78   |  Saving you £-2.79 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Marie, a professor of English literature in a Paris university, has been happily married to Jean for 25 years. During their summer holiday he vanishes. Has he left her? commited suicide? drowned? With no clue she acts as if he is still alive.

• Lady From Louisiana / Flame Of The Barbary Coast | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £9.84   |  Saving you £0.15 (1.52%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Lady From Louisiana (Dir. Bernard Vorhaus 1941): Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution. Flame Of Barbary Coast (Dir. Joseph Kane 1945): A cowboy competes with a gambling tycoon on the Barbary Coast for the hand of a beautiful dance-hall queen. However the 1906 San Francisco earthquake provides a climactic twist though...

• Festen | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £22.96   |  Saving you £0.02 (0.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A man celebrates his sixtieth birthday with friends relatives his wife and children but some unpleasant family truths are revealed...

• Bilitis | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £9.98   |  Saving you £4.01 (40.18%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The story takes place in England around the beginning of the 20th Century. Sensually exploring a young schoolgirl's awakening to love during her summer vacation. The young girl, Bilitis, is shocked when she witnesses her friend Melissa and her husband making love. Melissa encourages Bilitis to discover the aspect of love by seeing a young photographer, Lucas. He tries to make love to Bilitis, and she rebuffs him and runs to Melissa, who in comforting Bilitis finds herself responding to her kisses. But she tells Bilitis there must be nothing more between them. Bilitis discovers Melissa's husband is with another woman, so she decides to find another man for Melissa. Doing so Bilitis is realising she is not yet ready herself for adulthood.The English photographer David Hamilton has achieved unusual visual beauty in making his first motion picture enhanced by the music of Francis Lai.

• Wasted | DVD | (25/06/2012) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Wasted is an uncompromising film about two young lovers, Connor and Suzanne, thrown together by fate as children, they share a secret that will bind them together for life. The story follows them as they reconnect after many years apart . It is a picture of love and its pitiable fate. An unforgettable and moving story of two young people who cling to each other for hope and survival.