Drama

• Riding In Cars With Boys | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £6.84   |  Saving you £3.15 (46.05%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Drew Barrymore stars in the true life tale of a teen mother who overcame all sorts of hardships and went on to become a succesful writer in later life.

• Ellie Parker | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The talent is real. And so are the tears. Sometimes... In a tour-de-force performance Naomi Watts captures the rhythms trials and tribulations of an actor caught up in the whirlwind of her career before retreating to a personal life that is as chaotic as her professional one. Ellie Parker (Watts) races around town from one audition to another changing make-up clothes and personality as she speeds along barely attending to her whirlwind life as she strives to get cast in

• Sword Of Honour | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £22.08   |  Saving you £-12.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Award-winning novelist and screenwriter William Boyd brings Evelyn Waugh's classic trilogy of the Second World War vividly to life in this epic two-part drama starring Daniel Craig Megan Dodds Leslie Phillips Julian Rhind-Tutt Robert Pugh and Katrina Cartlidge. At the heart of the story is one man's heroic quest: Guy Crouchback (Daniel Craig) returns from his self-imposed exile in Italy in 1939 and joins the army to fight for a deep moral cause and reclaim his self-respect following a shattering divorce from society beauty Virginia Troy (Megan Dodds). But as his encounters with the absurd reality of life in the armed forces in his training at Southend-on-Sea and the Isle of Mugg and in his postings to Dakar Alexandria and Crete prove to be more of a challenge than facing the enemy itself. Virginia has also returned to London from America at the start of the war having parted with husband number three. As Britain's fortunes dwindle so do Virginia's until Guy appears to be her only hope. On his return to London she tracks him down. In strong contrast to the darkly comic nature of his military experience his renewed and passionate acquaintance with his dangerously beautiful ex-wife provokes a personal and moral crisis that tests - to the limits - both his love for Virginia and his profound sense of duty. Sword of Honour is both a war story and a love story - as well as a biting satire on the emergence of the world we live in today.

• Map Of The Human Heart | DVD | (14/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Magical adventure story of Avik and Albertine - and a love that survived decades of time impossible distances and the ravages of war.

• Like It Is / Surveillance - Double Pack | DVD | (24/01/2011) from £22.65   |  Saving you £-7.66 (-51.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Award-winning British director Paul Oremland brings you two gritty and contemporary feature length films that couldn't be any more different save for one similarity - both heroes are gay men.Like It Is follows closeted bare-knuckle fighter Craig (Steve Bell Coronation Street) who falls in love with record executive Matt and follows him to London, despite not being able to handle intimacy and the fact that Matt's friends want Craig gone.In Surveillance, Adam (Tom Harper) hooks up with a handsome guy (Sean Brosnan) only to discover that he is then murdered by the secret police for having information on a supposedly gay member of the Royal Family. Before long, Adam is being followed by special agent spies who want him dead!

• The Perfect Housewife | DVD | (19/03/2007) from £21.02   |  Saving you £-8.03 (-61.80%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ever since domestic science disappeared from the school timetable the art of housekeeping has been lost to generations of young people. But help is at hand! Anthea Turner The Queen of Clean has swept the nation with her no nonsense approach to running a comfortable clean and well ordered home as she shares her tips on how to become The Perfect Housewife. But gender need not be a problem men as well as women can learn how to create a better more efficient environment in their home by following Antheas regimes. This 2DVD collection features all eight episodes of the first series of The Perfect Housewife. Each programme features hapless homemakers who need a helping hand from the Queen of Clean to find the nest that has been lost in a cloud of clutter!

• No Way Home | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £5.79   |  Saving you £0.20 (3.45%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Released from prison after six long years Joey Larabito does not seem the type of guy to have committed a murder. Childlike his every action speaks of innocence and kindness even among the cruel realities and grime of New York. Returning to his childhood home with a mere forty dollars in his pocket Joey hopes to stay with his brother Tommy and his wife Lorraine until he can get back on his feet. Lorraine is reluctant afraid a hardened criminal is in their midst. As the weeks go by she slowly awakens to his kind hard-working nature but realises that all is not what it seems. Joey and Tommy are headed for a collision. As the ties of childhood unravel in a tale of devotion and betrayal one brother fights for the truth the other for his life.

• Mary Higgins Clark - Moonlight Becomes You | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When a chance encounter reunites a long lost daughter Maggie Holloway and her stepmother Nuala both parties are thrilled at the prospect of catching up on years spent apart. However joy turns to devastation when Nuala is found murdered only days before moving to a nearby retirement home...

• Stella Does Tricks | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Kelly Macdonald (Trainspotting) gives a powerful performance as Stella, a gutsy teenage prostitute who can already turn tricks with the best of them but still enjoys a giggle about sex with her girlfriends, a young group ran by oily pimp Mr Peters (James Bolam). Despite an oddly close relationship with Peters, she is desperate to escape from him, and when her best friend is attacked by one of his cronies she decides to make her move - but not before taking a spectacular revenge on the attacker...

• DVD Classic Tales Collection - 10 movies | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Box set features: Alice In Wonderland Merlin Curiosity Shop Animal Farm Arabian Nights Titanic Black Beauty: The Legend Continues Prince Charming Anastasia The Mysteries Of Anna PT Barnum

• A Thousand Times Good Night | Blu Ray | (08/09/2014) from £12.48   |  Saving you £5.50 (52.43%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A Thousand Times Good Night tells the moving story of leading wartime photojournalist Rebecca (Binoche) who is torn between a passion for her dangerous job and her loving but worried family. This affecting film which won the Special Grand Prix of the Jury at the Montreal Film Festival 2013 resonates with Poppe whose own experiences from his years as a wartime photographer for Reuters and other media are reflected in the film. Rebecca is one of the world's top war photographers. On assignment while photographing a female suicide bomber in Kabul she gets to near and gets badly hurt. Back home another bomb drops. Her husband and daughters can no longer bear the thought of her dying while at work. She is given an ultimatum: Her work or her family life. The choice seems obvious. Rebecca swears to Marcus that she will never go to a war zone again. Yet the conviction that her photos can make a difference keeps pulling at her resolve making it difficult for her to live a normal life as a mother and wife. Then comes an offer to photograph a refugee camp in Kenya a place allegedly so safe that daughter Steph is allowed to join her mother...

• Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps has the compelling backdrop of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, features Michael Douglas returning to one of the defining roles of his career, stars two charismatic young actors (Shia LaBeouf, Transformers, and Carey Mulligan, An Education) and some wily old hands (Susan Sarandon, Frank Langella, and Eli Wallach)--so why is the movie such a dud? For one thing, director Oliver Stone doesn't bother to genuinely explore what caused the stock-market crash of 2008; instead, the movie's plot revolves around melodramatic backroom machinations and financial revenge, none of which has any real emotional heft. For another, Stone is possibly the most obvious director of all time. When the characters are talking about financial bubbles, the movie has shots of children in the park blowing bubbles; when the market crashes, the movie cuts to cascading dominoes--Stone beats every metaphor into submission, and if the audience feels bludgeoned at the same time, well, that's just too bad. Add to that portentous dialogue like "He's a monkey dancing on a razorblade," incoherent references to sub-prime mortgages and other financial technobabble, and a woefully mismatched soundtrack by David Byrne and Brian Eno, and the result is muddled, sluggish, and confusing. It's too bad; Douglas is as charmingly reptilian as ever. Also featuring a pointless cameo by Charlie Sheen, star of the original Wall Street. --Bret Fetzer, Amazon.com

• Margaret's Museum | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  In a poor Canadian mining village after the Second World War fragile dreamer Margaret McNeil finds a kindred spirit when a tall Celtic miner serenades her one night in a diner and follows her home. Her mother a viciously misanthropic widow who has lost both a son and husband to the mines views such displays of emotion as folly - futile and soul crushing. Against her mother's wishes Margaret marries the miner who tries to avoid the harsh mining life by getting fired and taking a

• Bee Season | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £3.92   |  Saving you £16.07 (409.95%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Richard Gere and Kate Bosworth star in this family drama from directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel.

• Sorry Angel (OmU) | DVD | (31/01/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Liberty Heights | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-3.54 (-25.30%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Academy Award-winning director Barry Levinson yet again returns to Baltimore for inspiration with the semi-autobiographical Liberty Heights. Set in 1954, it tells the story of two young Jewish boys and their experiences of growing up in an America trying to come to terms with a changing society. The film focuses both on the sweet and innocent (the relationship between younger brother Ben and sole black student Sylvia) and the darker, more vicious side of a nation in flux. The evils of racism form a backdrop to all the intertwining plot lines--not only white against black but also widespread anti-Semitism. The young, largely unknown cast are all excellent--especially Adrien Brody and Ben Foster as the brothers and Rebecka Johnston as the quietly knowing Sylvia. Taking its cue from the great teen movies of the past, the film buzzes with the vitality of youth and of a generation on the verge of a new dawn (music plays a huge part), placing the political problems of the age in the context of adolescence to great effect. This is not Levinson's most high-profile work but certainly one of his best. On the DVD: The music of the period features heavily in the movie and dominates much of the action, so much so that it is possible to watch Liberty Heights with a music-only soundtrack. The film moves effortlessly between light and shade, both metaphorically and physically. Fair attempts have been made to provide an interesting set of extras: a gallery of interviews with the cast and director, deleted scenes and a very brief on-set documentary. --Phil Udell

• Two Came Back | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Susan Clarkson sets off on an adventure she hadn't bargained for when she joins a yacht to cruise from San Diego bound for Vancouver. When a storm hits the engine cuts out so the crew abandon the vessel. Hurt hungry and adrift matters worsen....

• Truth Or Consequences N.M. | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £5.91   |  Saving you £7.08 (54.50%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Actor Kiefer Sutherland makes his directorial debut with Truth or Consequences NM, a ho-hum film about a threadbare subject: a drug heist that goes badly, resulting in the bad guys having to kidnap two people and the ensuing complications. A fine cast assures good performances all around, but it's hard to go down this narrative road for the umpteenth time in the 90s. One bonus is the presence of Kim Dickens, an interesting actress who started becoming more visible in films in 1997 and 1998 (Zero Effect, Great Expectations). The DVD release has optional full-screen and widescreen presentations, optional French and Spanish soundtracks and subtitles, and theatrical trailer. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Vanished Without A Trace | DVD | (26/11/2001) from £6.96   |  Saving you £2.02 (50.88%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a group of school children are kidnapped on their way home from school a nationwide search begins...

• Casque D'Or | Blu Ray | (05/11/2012) from £14.29   |  Saving you £8.70 (60.88%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Casque d'or is a 1952 French film directed by Jacques Becker (Touchez pas au Grisbi). Evoking the Belle Epoque period perfectly, this story of an ill-fated love affair stars Simone Signoret (Room At The Top, Les Diaboliques) as Marie and Serge Reggiani (Les Miserable, The Pianist) as Manda. When gangster’s moll Marie falls for reformed criminal Manda their passion incites an underworld rivalry that leads to treachery and tragedy. Special Features: At the Heart of Emotions - the Legend of Golden Marie Featurette