Drama

• Mister Johnson | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  British East Africa 1923. Harry Rudbeck an ambitious army officer wants to build a road to bring the outside world to the backwater town where he is posted. Struggling to find ways around Foreign Service bureaucracy he relies on his resourceful African clerk Mr. Johnson. But when Johnson's can-do attitude runs afoul of British law Rudbeck must make a painful decision.

• Ghost / Sliding Doors | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sliding Doors: The split-second moments that can take a life down one path instead of another form the tantalising 'what if?' in this delightful romantic comedy starring Gwyneth Paltrow. Paltrow plays London publicist Helen effortlessly sliding between parallel storylines that show what happens if she does or does not catch a morning train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. All come into focus as the two stories shift back and forth overlap then surprisingly converge in the most romantic comedy in years. Don't miss it - romance was never this much fun! Ghost: A romantic thriller in which yuppie banker Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) is murdered but returns to Earth as a ghost to protect his grief-stricken young girlfriend Molly (Demi Moore) and solve his own murder. As he cannot communicate directly with his love he turns to fake medium Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg) for help. Nobody is more shocked than Oda Mae to discover she has the genuine power to contact the dead. Goldberg won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance and Bruce Joel Rubin won the statuette for Best Original Screenplay.

• Moonlight Serenade | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £3.49   |  Saving you £12.50 (358.17%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Nate (Alec Newman) is a successful financial manager by day and a closet musician by night. One evening he hears a beautiful voice outside his apartment window accompanying his piano playing. The mysterious voice turns out to be the coat check girl, Chloe (Amy Adams), from the local jazz club. Chloe strikes a deal with Nate to perform with her at the club. Their chemistry is undeniable and with every song they play, the closer they become.

• Gopi Kishan | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £12.93   |  Saving you £-4.94 (-61.80%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Barkha is the only daughter of the City's Police Commissioner and is spoiled to say the least. One day her pranks get her in trouble with the law and she is arrested and held in custody by Inspector Gopinath. Enraged by the arrogance of Gopinath in arresting his daughter her dad storms in to the Police Station and get's his daughter released. Barkha admires Gopinath's guts and his sense of duty and falls in love with him. Eventually Gopinath also falls in love with her. Unknown to

• A Touch of Love | DVD | (30/08/2021) from £7.80   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Women Of Brewster Place | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The Women Of Brewster Place is a gripping and loving group portrait of seven women whose backs are literally against the wall: a surrounding wall whose brick facade has turned the address of Brewster Place into both a real and symbolic dead end. It is a street overflowing with tales of courage and anguish. For the women who call this home (played by Oprah Winfrey Robin Givens and Cicely Tyson among others) Brewster Place is a source of conflicts amid the dark and overcrowded tenements. Despite their different backgrounds these women are ultimately united in a single act of courage against the walls of racism sexism and violence in a stirring climax.

• Nevada | DVD | (05/05/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A beautiful and mysterious woman comes into a miss-if-blink Nevada town with a secret that threatens the status quo of the tightly knit group of women who run the town Monday through to Friday. Their men work at a dam a few hours away and can only return on the weekends for rowdy fun and raucous love. Her beauty and demeanour make Christy the obvious scapegoat for several of the women's frustrations and loneliness. Several others see her as a beacon of hope in an otherwise downtrodden existence. The ensuing conflicts sends their normally placid lives into a state of chaos. 'Nevada' is an insightful and witty exploration of the choices women must make in their lives as mothers lovers wives and as individuals.

• The Crooked Sky/Scarlet Web | DVD | (29/07/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Crooked Sky: Filmed at Merton Park this Crime Drama was scripted by Norman Hudis who went on to become a key scribe in both the Carry On and Man from U.N.C.L.E. series. Fake pound notes are flooding Britain a US treasury man (Wayne Morris) and a Scotland Yard detective (Bruce Seton) centre their enquiries on an airlane company whose radio operators are getting murdered... Scarlet Web: A fortress films production This Crime Noir filmed at Nettlefold Studios tells the story of an insurance investigator (Griffith Jones) finds himself framed for murder after seductive Laura Vane (Zena Marshall) pays him to recover a letter from a blackmailer. Also stars Michael Balfour.

• Anarchy Girls | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £13.83   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two young women from different sides of the socio-political coin; a tomboy anarchist and a goody-two-shoes med student, find themselves inexplicably drawn to each other after meeting in the dangerous suburbs of modern-day Vilnius.Wide eyed and intelligent student Vil moves from the Lithuanian countryside to the city keen to start a new degree. Unable to afford the rent in desirable downtown, she finds a room in a notorious council estate district. Her landlord is the mysterious Sandra - renegade, punk and anarchist. Despite their differences, the unlikely pair become fast friends, and under Sandra's protective wing, Vil sheds her provincial shyness and begins to immerse herself in the underground politics and gangs of Vilnius. Yet as the women's relationship hots up, hidden truths begin to surface, resulting in a fiery denouement where tables are turned and scores settled.

• Jacknife | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Fifteen years previously three friends were drafted into the Vietnam War and only two came home. Still traumatised by their experiences and estranged from each other for many years Dave and 'Jacknife' meet again in a confrontation which will test their friendship and shape their futures.

• Levity | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £4.59   |  Saving you £11.40 (248.37%)   |  RRP £15.99

  How you gonna make it right? Available on DVD for the first time! Billy Bob Thornton stars in 'Levity' as Manual Jordan an ex-con recently released from a 21-year jail sentence who is seeking redemption from Adele Easley (Holly Hunter) the sister of the guy he murdered. His mild manner and passivity make him immune to the new freedoms he'll experience outside of jail and so his release seems like more of a punishment than a reward. By a stroke of luck he meets a spiritual man (Morgan Freeman) who runs a soup kitchen and community center. He is given a job as a parking attendant for the nearby nightclub. This job is the catalyst that brings him in touch with a young girl Sofia (Kirsten Dunst) whose difficult home life has turned her into a self-destructive wreck wasting her life on booze and drugs. However her faith is restored by Manual's gentle way of looking out for her. Little by little Manual's goodness - the result of years of guilt spent reflecting on his crime in prison - casts a ray of new light on everyone involved including the young and troubled son of Adele.

• The Mudlark | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £25.00   |  Saving you £-12.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A little orphan boy (Andrew Ray) who survives by scavenging on the River Thames, decides to walk to Windsor Castle to see Queen Victoria (Irene Dunne). For many years, Queen Victoria has shut herself away in the castle, in mourning for her beloved husband Albert - and England is suffering. Despite the best advice of Prime Minister Disraeli (Alec Guinness) and her close friend John Brown (Finlay Currie), the queen refuses to return to her people. Can one small and desperately lonely child change her heart when the highest in the land have failed?

• Life of Pi - Limited Edition Steelbook (Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray + UV Copy) | Blu Ray | (29/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  There are only so many filmmakers fearless or foolhardy enough to tackle a challenging novel, like Yann Martel's Life of Pi, but adaptation specialist Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) was well positioned to take it on. As a structuring device, he uses an interview between a journalist (Rafe Spall) and Pi Patel (The Namesake's Irrfan Khan), a Montreal immigrant with an unusual back story. As he tells the writer, his parents oversaw a zoo in French-Indian Pondicherry, and he found himself drawn to the Bengal tiger, Richard Parker--the name resulted from a clerical error--but his father (Adil Hussain) warned him to stay away. On his own, Pi became entranced by Islam, Hinduism, and Catholicism, which comes in handy when his family relocates to Canada by freighter and a brutal storm--as believably horrific as anything in Titanic--leaves Pi (now played by Suraj Sharma) stranded in a lifeboat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena, and the tiger. Soon, it's just Richard and Pi struggling against the elements for 227 days, and since he doesn't want to end up as cat food, he spends most of his time in a makeshift raft attached to the boat. It's giving nothing away to say that he makes it out alive, but the point of the journey remains more enigmatic, since fate tests Pi's faith at every turn. Whether that makes this visually spectacular film a religious allegory or not, Richard (a marvel of CGI technology) remains the biggest mystery of all. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• Mug | DVD | (01/04/2019) from £12.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jacek loves heavy metal, his girlfriend and his dog. His family, his small hometown, his fellow parishioners all see him as an amusing freak. Jacek works at the construction site for what is supposed to become the tallest statue of Jesus in the World. When a severe accident disfigures him completely, all eyes turn to him as he undergoes the first facial transplant in the country. MUG (TWARZ) is a blackly comic, biting and emotional drama from award-winning director Małgorzata Szumowska (Body, Elles, In the Name Of) which won the Silver Bear Jury Grand Prix at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival and features stunning performances from Mateusz Kościukiewicz, Agnieszka Podsiadlik and Małgorzata Gorol.

• Scrubbers | DVD | (02/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It's a crime what prison can do to a girl! 1983 marked a landmark in cinematic history - the birth of the 'Chicks in Chains' genre. The idea of babes behind bars trapped in close confines with the ever present threat of violence and promise of titillation proved a massive hit with audiences who flocked to see Chained Heat in the US and on our side of the pond Scrubbers. Scrubbers was a bleak look at life in an English girls' borstal and despite it's fair share of bare breasts demanded by the genre it is perhaps most notable for the early career appearances by the likes of Kathy Burke Robbie Coltrane Miriam Margolyes and Pam St. Clement (Pat Butcher in Eastenders) and for appearing uncannily like a youth version of the cult Australian TV series Prisoner: Cell Block H. Taking this caged heat idea to a new level Scrubbers actually sees a recently released lesbian inmate breaking back into the prison to be reunited with her lover. Meanwhile another inmate moved to a separate cell from her girlfriend breaks out of prison re-offends and is luckily incarcerated only one cell block away from her beloved. Unfortunately her former lover has since found a new companion. As passions burn and tensions run high betrayal bitchiness and jealousy all play their part in leading the inmates into a vicious feud that can only end in tears.

• Little Buddha | DVD | (21/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Lama Norbu comes to Seattle in search of the reincarnation of his dead teacher, Lama Dorje. His search leads him to young Jesse Conrad.

• Captain Bill | DVD | (09/03/2015) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Thames provides a backdrop to the high-spirited clowning of rubber-faced vaudevillian Leslie Fuller in this breezy nautical comedy co-scripted by BAFTA nominee Val Valentine and Fuller's regular collaborator Syd Courtenay. Direction comes from silent-era and Hal Roach/Laurel & Hardy veteran Ralph Ceder. Made at the height of his fame in 1935 Captain Bill features Fuller in the hugely popular role of the dim-witted Cockney – this time as a luckless bargee who unwittingly gets himself involved with a gang of gun-runners! Also starring Fuller's stalwart sidekick Hal Gordon this classic comedy feature is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Special Features: Image Gallery Promotional Material PDFs

• My Girlfriend's Boyfriend | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £8.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (43.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In the outskirts of Paris a young clerk befriends Lea (Sophie Renoir). Lea is going steady with Fabien (Eric Viellard) who is a friend to Alexandre (Franois-Eric Gendron) who is going steady with Adrienne (Anne-Laure Meury) but is loved by Blanche (Emmanuelle Chaulet). Somehow a way has to be found to get out of this emotional chaos...

• Crime Story - Series One | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Following the phenomenal success of Miami Vice executive producer Michael Mann returned to the small screen with a new kind of gritty police drama one that talked tougher and hit harder than anything TV had ever seen before. 'Crime Story' is the hard boiled saga of hair-trigger cop Mike Torello (Dennis Farina) and his obsessive pursuit of ruthless gangster Ray Luca (Anthony Dennison) from the mean street of early 1960s Chicago to the neon nights of mob paradise Las Vegas. The

• Don't Move | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £22.93   |  Saving you £-4.94 (-27.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  An Italian doctor must face his past when tragedy strikes in this drama.