Drama

• Out of Africa | Blu Ray | (24/01/2011) from £14.85   |  Saving you £5.14 (34.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Robert Redford and Meryl Streep star in this acclaimed motion picture from Oscar Winning director Sydney Pollack. This masterfully crafted breathtakingly produced story of love and loss earned Oscars for Best Picture Director Screenplay Art Direction and Sound. Out Of Africa is one of the screen's greatest epic romances and tells the fascinating true story of Karen Blixen (Streep) a strong-willed woman who with her philandering husband (Klaus Maria Brandauer) runs a coffee plantation in Kenya circa 1914. To her astonishment she soon discovers herself falling in love with the land it's people and a mysterious hunter (Redford).

• Sulphur and White | Blu Ray | (21/09/2020) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  City of London, trading floor, 2008, in a world of cutthroat deals it takes a unique person to succeed. Single-minded to the point of ruthless, David is this person. But beyond the aura of success lies a secret. There are layers to David once chipped away, what lies behind the facade?

• The Sacrifice | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Set in Sweden Andrei Tarkovsky's last film follows the travails of wealthy patriarch Alexander (Erland Josephson) a former actor and critic who lives in a remote home on the edge of the Baltic Sea. One year on his birthday a sudden television announcement interrupts the celebration with news of a nuclear holocaust. His family and guests suffer through violent fits of hysteria and emotional turmoil in the ensuing days but the previously troubled Alexander finds a clearness of mind

• City of Lies | Blu Ray | (08/06/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Invisible Woman | Blu Ray | (16/06/2014) from £13.48   |  Saving you £8.51 (38.70%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Nelly (Felicity Jones), a happily-married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, take us back in time to follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes).

• Chocky | DVD | (22/03/2010) from £25.90   |  Saving you £-5.91 (-29.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The strange friendship among a young boy of the Earth and a extra-terrestrial from the outer space. Based on the novel by John Wyndham.

• The Desperate Hours | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Director William Wyler's suspense classic marks the only time cinema giants Humphrey Bogart and Fredric March worked together. And the result is everything you'd expect: taut terrifying and terrific. Bogart plays an escaped con who has nothing to lose. March is a suburban Everyman who has everything to lose - his family is held hostage by Bogart. As The Desperate Hours tick by the two men square off in a battle of wills and cunning that tightens into an unforgettable fear-drench

• The Bostonians | Blu Ray | (19/10/2020) from £10.93   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Academy Award®-winning actresses Jessica Tandy, Vanessa Redgrave and Linda Hunt headline an all-star cast alongside Christopher Reeve in this MERCHANT IVORY adaptation of Henry James's novel of political intrigue and forbidden romance in post-Civil War Boston. Olive Chancellor (Redgrave) finds her infatuation with young activist Verena Tarrant (Madeleine Potter) challenged by a Southern lawyer (Reeve) who also loves her. An intricately drawn study of the impact of women's suffrage on society, The Bostonians is also a lush evocation of the late 19th century, with dazzling cinematography by Walter Lassally and a memorable score by Richard Robbins. Cohen Film Collection is proud to present a new restoration of this MERCHANT IVORY classic.

• Someone Else | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £10.47   |  Saving you £8.51 (113.77%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A photographer discovers the grass may not always greener in this acclaimed British comedy drama.

• Loggerheads | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (40.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A young gay drifter and his search for acceptance drives this heartfelt beautifully crafted tale of family rejection and unconditional love. In a North Carolina beach town lonely motel manager George (Michael Kelly) befriends a new arrival: the attractive vagabond Michael (Kip Pardue). While claiming to be in town to protect the endangered Loggerhead turtles Michael may actually be running away from something. Elsewhere in NC preacher's wife Elizabeth (Tess Harper) notices that a pair of gay men has just moved across the street. Elizabeth is appalled by this and another recent neighborhood development but her feelings are masking an even deeper disturbance. Another woman Grace (Bonnie Hunt) is also coming to terms with a deep down pain - she gave up a child for adoption many years ago. So she comes back to her hometown with hopes - and help from a pseudo-detective - to find him. Making his narrative feature debut Tim Kirkman (The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me) cleverly shuffles three sets of characters and timelines that eventually intersect in a powerful profound way. A humanistic and gifted auteur Kirkman coaxes sublime performances from all of his leads including earthy and sexy upcoming indie star Pardue.

• La Ville Est Tranquille | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £13.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (42.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Michele (Ariane Ascaride) works nights in a fish market to finance her daughter's heroin addiction. When that's not enough she sells her body to Paul (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) a striking docker who has turned his back on the cause to become a cabbie. Her supplier is Gerard (Gerard Meylan) a bar owner with a lucrative sideline in contract killing. His latest target is Claude (Pierre Banderet) a wealthy snob whose wife is so disgusted by him she takes up with an ex-convict. Frenc

• The Soft Skin | Blu Ray | (25/08/2014) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hitchcock-influenced thriller from director Francois Truffaut. Pierre (Jean Desailly) is a married middle-aged author who begins an affair with an air stewardess (Francoise Dorleac) while on a lecture tour in Portugal. However when his wife discovers his infidelity she becomes consumed with a desire for revenge.

• Wings - Series 1 | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £17.95   |  Saving you £2.04 (11.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Available to own for the very first time this prestigious and acclaimed 1970s BBC drama series follows the lives of the daring young pilots of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. Spring 1915. In an England still largely untouched by the horrors of the Great War young men dream of flying and joining the new elite - the 'cavalry of the clouds'. Two such young men - working class blacksmith Alan Farmer (Tim Woodward) and Hussars officer Charles Gaylion (Michael Cochrane) - join the RFC to earn their wings still believing in the 'camaraderie of the air...' Their instructor Captain Triggers (Nicholas Jones) knows the truth. German and British pilots and observers are beginning to shoot at each other - and the air war is changing. Soon it will be 'kill or be killed'... With breathtaking aerial film sequences using authentic vintage aircraft replicas and gripping air-to-air filming Wings is one of the very finest war drama series ever produced by British television. The aircraft were provided by Bianchi Aviation Services (Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines The Blue Max) This series was first broadcast on BBC1 from 2nd January 1977 to 20th March 1977 and this set includes all twelve episodes.

• Love On The Run | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The last instalment of the Antoine Doinel story Love On The Run sees Antoine and his wife Christine in the final stages of their divorce after five years together. When he by chance meets up with his first love Collette they reminisce on his past relationships including his infidelities and Antoine realises that he wants to share his life with his new love Sabine.

• Difret | DVD | (29/06/2015) from £5.49   |  Saving you £12.50 (69.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A bright 14-year-old girl is on her way home from school when men on horses swoop in and kidnap her for marriage. The brave Hirut grabs a rifle and tries to escape but ends up shooting her would-be husband. Meaza Ashenafi an empowered and tenacious young lawyer arrives from the city to represent Hirut and argue that she acted in self-defence. Meaza boldly embarks on a collision course between enforcing civil authority and abiding by customary law risking the ongoing work of her women’s legal-aid practice to save Hirut’s life. Based on a real-life story this film goes beneath the layer of polite social customs to explore the complexity of a country’s transformation toward equal rights featuring the courageous generation that dares to own it.

• Pelle The Conqueror | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Winner of the Adademy Award for best Foreign Picture this epic drama about human resilience stars the hypnotic Max Von Sydow as a poor but never downtrodden widower who emigrates with his young son Pelle from the economically depressed Sweden to Denmark at the turn of the century. His illusory quest for the good life leads only to a straw bed in the cold barn of a brutally insensitive farmer. The story centres around the close relationship between the father and son as they attempt to live a happy life amid the oppression. As a hopeful Pelle grows older he wants to see more of the world and sets out on his own full of questions and a need to know and conquer..... Winner of the Palm d'Or at the 1988 Cannes film festival; an Oscar for the Best Foreign Language film in 1989; and a Golden Globe also in 1989.

• No Mercy | DVD | (14/08/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The story line of No Mercy may seem familiar: to avenge his partner's murder and uncover the killer, a tough Chicago cop comes to Louisiana and finds himself embroiled with a beautiful and enigmatic blonde and a creepy crime lord. But the way this film executes a seemingly standard plot is unique, entertaining and effective. Richard Gere as the cop Eddie Jillette is an appropriate fish-out-of-water, uncovering a complex and frightening underworld. Under Richard Pearce's skilful direction both he and Kim Basinger (as Michel Duvall) are credibly drawn to each other as they're accidentally handcuffed and running through the eerie bayou. But also credit James Carabatsos's script which appropriately captures Jillette's grief and obsession, his anger and confusion, his growing understanding and affection for Michel. There's a particularly well-done love scene, borne out of passion and desperation and the chemistry between Gere and Basinger is very evident. Good support comes from William Atherton as the fey attorney Allan Deveneux, Jeroen Krabbé as the evil Losado, George Dzundza as Captain Stemkowski, Bruce McGill as Lieutenant Hall and the late Ray Sharkey as Angles Ryan. No Mercy, like Angel Heart before it, uses its mystical, magical Louisiana setting to its best advantage; it's beautiful, yet frightening; mysterious, yet compelling--like Michel and like the movie itself. --N F Mendoza, Amazon.com

• Adaptation/Being John Malkovich | DVD | (02/06/2008) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-0.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This boxset contains the following films: Adaptation (Dir. Spike Jonze) (2003): Lovelorn screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Cage) turns to his less talented twin brother Donald (also Cage) for help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book go nowhere... Being John Malkovich (Dir. Spike Jonze) (1999): While between jobs master puppeteer Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) takes a job as a filing clerk in an office building in New York City. One day he discovers a strange door behind a filing cabinet a door which takes him into the mind of John Malkovich for 15 minutes then dumps him out on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike. But what can one do with such a portal? Soon Craig is telling others sharing this unique experience. For an admission fee perhaps.

• Pandora and the Flying Dutchman - Dual Format Edition | Blu Ray | (09/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Originally released in 1951, PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN is iconoclastic director Albert Lewin's deliriously romantic and contemporary Technicolor visualisation of the often told legend of the sea.

• Dirty Filthy Love | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Dirty Filthy Love is an offbeat romantic comedy with a difference. Darkly funny quirky and poignant this single drama tells the story of a man with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and Tourette's Syndrome negotiating his way through divorce and redundancy. Then he meets Charlotte who introduces him to love therapy and 'f*cked up neuro-transmitters'!