Drama

• I Live In Fear | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £11.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When a wealthy foundry owner and bullying patriarch decides to move his entire family from Tokyo to Brazil to escape the nuclear holocaust which he fears is imminent his family tries to have him declared mentally incompetent... Made at the height of the Cold War when the superpowers were engaged in series of nuclear tests this blazing attack on complacency was one of the director's most deeply-felt but least commercially successful films. Nonetheless it deserves to be more widely

• British Drama Film Collection | DVD | (17/07/2017) from £6.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A great value triple fillm collection of great British horrror films that includes The Silver Darlings, The System and The Quare Fellow. Stars Oliver Reed, David Hemmings, Patrick McGoohan, Sylvia Sym and Hugh Griffith.

• Svengali | DVD | (15/06/2009) from £29.00   |  Saving you £-16.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  gnoring the adoration of Billy, a shy sensetive young man, Trilby O'Ferral falls under the spell of Svengali. Together they develop a concert act and tour successfully, forsaking Trilby's former friends. But Billy's love in unawavering and wins out at last over the dark power of Svengali.

• The Hour-Glass Sanatorium | DVD | (03/11/2008) from £10.95   |  Saving you £2.04 (15.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mr. Bongo Films presents the next installment from the wonderful director Wojciech Has which follows on from the cult classic 'The Saragossa Manuscript''. 'The Hourglass Sanitorium'' is a surrealist head-spin of a film and has been compared to the best works of Gilliam Greenaway and Bunuel. 'The Hourglass Sanatorium'' is an adaptation of Bruno Schulz''s story collection 'Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass''. Schulz was seen as the Polish Kafka he was later murdered by the SS during WWII. The film depicts it''s protagonist Joseph (Jan Nowicki) travelling through a dream-like world taking a dilapidated train to visit his dying father in a sanatorium. When he arrives he finds the entire facility is going to ruin and no one seems to be in charge or even caring for the patients. Time appears to behave in unpredictable ways reanimating the past in an elaborate artificial caprice. The many occurrences in this visually potent phantasmagoria include Joseph re-entering childhood episodes with his eccentric father (who lives with birds) being arrested by mysterious soldiers reflecting on a girl he knew in his boyhood and bringing historic wax figures to life with names from a postage stamp album. Throughout his strange journey an ominous blind train conductor reappears like a death figure. Has also includes a series of reflections on the Holocaust that were not present in the original novel reading Schulz's prose through the prism of the author's tragic death and the destruction of the world he described.

• 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 £19.79   |  Saving you £-17.80 (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 £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  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 £7.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (87.61%)   |  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 £8.85   |  Saving you £7.14 (80.68%)   |  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 £15.58   |  Saving you £4.41 (28.31%)   |  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 £14.60   |  Saving you £2.65 (19.87%)   |  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 £8.33   |  Saving you £7.66 (91.96%)   |  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..