Drama

• City Of God/City Of Men | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £17.97   |  Saving you £1.01 (6.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  City Of God (2002): Youth gangs took over the slums of Rio de Janeiro during the 1960s and didn't relinquish their stronghold until the mid-1980s. Only a sucker wouldn't have turned to crime and this is exactly how naive teen Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues) views himself. His attempts in illegal activity fail as he finds potential victims too friendly. Equally unsuccessful in love he regularly fails to lose his virginity. Blood spills throughout the streets of the Cidade de Deus as gang leader Li'l Ze (Douglas Silva) is challenged by local druglords and a gang of pre-teens known as the Runts. City Of Men (2007): In this long awaited follow up to his Academy Award nominated film City Of God producer Fernando Meirelles returns to the Brazilian Favelas to tell an inspiring tale of friendship and family on the gritty streets of Rio de Janeiro. Growing up in a culture dictated by violence and run by street gangs teenagers Acerola (Douglas Silva) and Laranjinha (Darlan Cunha) have become close as brothers. With their eighteenth birthdays fast approaching Laranjinha sets out to find the father he never met while Acerola struggles to raise his own young son. But when they suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of a gang war the lifelong friends are forced to confront a shocking secret from their shared past.

• Alice Et Martin | DVD | (27/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Staring a radiant Juliette Binoche and first-time actor Alexis Loret, Alice et Martin portrays a love affair that blossoms between the two protagonists and the effects on the relationship of a notable age gap and Martin's tortured past. André Téchiné has delivered some of the most delicate character pieces in recent French cinema, most notably the coming-of-age drama Wild Reeds. However, Alice et Martin, authored with help from Olivier Assayas (Irma Vep), never quite comes together as smoothly as his best work; it ricochets from lovely romantic flirtations to tortured psychodrama to family melodrama while Téchiné's oblique, reserved direction observes without penetrating the heart of the drama. Loret's Martin is more enigma than character, but Mathieu Amalric portral of Martin's long lost brother shows the same shaggy, understated charm he displayed in Late August, Early September and Binoche brings a sensitivity and toughness to the emotionally scuffed Alice. Her radiant presence gives the film its moments of emotional frisson a discreet, subtle power. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• To The Shores Of Tripoli | DVD | (04/07/2005) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When a carefree playboy (John Payne) joins the Marine Corps he tests the skill and patience of the tough veteran sergeant (Randolph Scott) who tries to whip him into a real Marine. But as his training proceeds the recruit's cocky selfishness is replaced by selfless valour and he eventually earns the love of a beautiful Navy nurse (Maureen O'Hara). Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography 'To The Shores Of Tripoli' was shot with the co-operation of the US Marine

• Burn | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Manipulative English mercenary Sir William Walker (Marlon Brando) is posted to a Portuguese colony in the Caribbean. Once there he uses his skills to engineer a slave revolt as part of his calculated plans for the English to seize control of the colony. 'Burn' glows with the fires of Pontecorvo's unique filmmaking genius and Brando's portrayal of a man who is both gentleman and scoundrel revolutionary and colonialist ranks amongst his best performances. Ennio Morricone's haunting

• Rage | DVD | (28/09/2009) from £27.90   |  Saving you £-11.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A schoolboy armed with a mobile phone, goes behind the scenes at a New York fashion show during which an accident on the catwalk turns into a murder investigation, and his interviews with key players become a funny expose of an industry in crisis.

• The Magician | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A film student follows a Melbourne-based hitman in this Australian hit.

• Best of 15th Raindance Film Festival Shorts | DVD | (11/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The sixth in the Raindance DVD series, The Best Of The 15th Raindance Film Festival Shorts is a unique collection of innovative short films from the 2007 festival. This eclectic mix includes festival award winners, award nominees, the 2007 festival trailer, and a behind-the-scenes peak of the making of the festival directed by Jonathan Caouette. The Raindance Film Festival is the largest independent film festival in the UK and continues to discover and foster new filmmakers. Set Co.

• Sort Of Season 2 | DVD | (16/01/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Big-hearted Sabi is a fluid millennial who straddles various identities from part-time bartender, to the youngest child in a large Pakistani family, and being the de facto parent of a downtown hipster family. Sabi feels like they're in transition in every aspect of their life. But when Sabi is presented with an opportunity to live and find themselves in Berlin, they have a choice to make. Well, sort of. A unmissable coming-of-age story, Sort Of exposes the labels we once poured ourselves into as no longer applicable... to anyone.

• Odyssey True Stories (Box Set) | DVD | (13/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  This box set contains the following four titles: Fifteen And Pregnant: At 14 Tina's a happy care free kid. By the time she's 15 she's pregnant and faces life as a lonely single parent. A searing true story of teen parenthood. Baby Snatcher: A woman desperate to have a child hatches a sinister plan to steal someone else's baby. David's Mother: An outspoken single mother's life is dominated by her brain damaged son. No One Could Protect Her: Jessica is raped and almost killed in her own home by an intruder... and he's coming back. But this time she will be waiting for him.

• The Light At The Edge Of The World | DVD | (09/08/2004) from £39.99   |  Saving you £-30.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A pirate takes over a lighthouse near Cape Horn intent on luring ships to their destruction. A beautiful woman used as bait by the pirate traps a sole survivor who is attempting to foil the actions of this cunning pirate.

• Floating Weeds | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Floating Weeds is one of the final films directed by the legendary Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu. A remake of one of his own silent features it tells the story of a travelling Kabuki acting troupe led by Komajuro who arrive in a small coastal town. There Komajuro is reunited with his former lover Oyoshi and their illegitimate son who is unaware that the itinerant actor is his father. But the reunion provokes the jealousy of Sumiko Komanjuro's current mistress who plots a devas

• Scarlet Street | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £12.63   |  Saving you £-7.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

• A Place in the Sun - Paramount Originals (includes Limited Edition reproduction film poster) | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £17.97   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  George Stevens' stunning adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's 'An American Tragedy' garnered six Academy Awards (including Best Director and Best Screenplay) and guaranteed immortality for screen lovers Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Clift stars as George Eastman a poor young man determined to win a place in respectable society and the heart of a beautiful socialite (Elizabeth Taylor). Shelley Winters plays the factory girl whose dark secret threatens Eastman's professional and

• Groove | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £11.58   |  Saving you £8.41 (72.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Parties are not always as fun as they look like they should be. Case in point: Groove. The distinction lies in the realm between watching people have fun and actually having fun. Set in San Francisco over the course of one night, this is the story of a rave, plain and simple. Preparation includes inhabiting an empty warehouse, finding the power supply and sending out coded invitations. The film kicks in as the party does, when people start arriving and the DJs start spinning. There's a nice moment early on when a cop shows up asking for the owner of the building, who is then taken on a tour of "a new Internet start-up". It becomes even funnier when the cop turns out to be smarter and more compassionate than anyone would expect. Writer-director Greg Harrison cleverly focuses the story on David, a novice who's never been to a rave before, which breaks the story out of what could have been the suffocating, insular world of rave culture. Unknowingly dosed by someone, David is adopted by Layla, an attractive but lonely East Coaster who has begun to regret her party lifestyle. Other characters include a guy who's just proposed to his girlfriend, a college teaching assistant selling his own manufactured drugs, a DJ who gets to meet his idol and a gay couple having trouble finding the party. If the characters turn out to be just character types, that's OK because the film itself floats by on its own high-octane enthusiasm. Groove is light and frothy entertainment with a beat you can dance to. --Andy Spletzer, Amazon.com

• Spivs | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £6.83   |  Saving you £2.42 (43.45%)   |  RRP £7.99

  You can't cheat an honest man. Jack Steve and Goat are East-End Spivs. They spend their time wheeling and dealing wherever and whenever they can. It's not until Jack and the others get involved with a guy called Villa and they are landed with a big payday they have been waiting for when they realise what a mess they are into. At the back of the lorry they have smuggled goods in they find illigal immegrants. Most of them escape but they are left with 2 kids; a boy and a girl and have to decide what to do with them...Are they going to look after them and feed them clothe them and love them? Or are they going to leave them on the streets of East-End London...

• Bones - Season 5 | Blu Ray | (18/10/2010) from £22.02   |  Saving you £27.97 (56.00%)   |  RRP £49.99

  From executive producers Hart Hanson Barry Josephson and Stephen Nathan comes the fifth exciting season of Bones a darkly amusing procedural with humor heart and character inspired by real-life forensic anthropologist and novelist Kathy Reichs. As Season Five begins Booth and Brennan contend with the emotional fallout resulting from the sea-change in their relationship brought about by events at the end of last season: Brennan's request to have Booth father her child as well as the strange profound - almost psychic - link they shared during Booth's coma which left both of them wondering what thoughts and emotions the other is experiencing. While Booth endeavors to come to grips with these unleashed emotions Brennan insists the two of them focus their attention and energy on their main job: catching murderers that no one else can catch.

• WTC View | DVD | (21/07/2008) from £8.98   |  Saving you £11.00 (157.37%)   |  RRP £17.99

  On the night before 9/11 a young man living in SoHo takes out an ad for a new roommate for his 2-bedroom apartment. On the day after 9/11 he has 5 messages on his machine from people who want to come see the apartment despite the fact that the neighborhood is practically shut down. Based on a critically acclaimed stage play the film explores life in New York after 9/11 through the struggles of one man as he tries to find a roommate and keep his emotional balance during the strange days that followed the devastating attack on the city.

• Forever Strong | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £6.46   |  Saving you £3.53 (35.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Rick Penning (Sean Faris) lives life just like he plays rugby; fast hard-hitting and intense. When life on the edge lands him in jail prison warden Marcus Tate (Sean Austin) offers him a chance to get back in the game by playing for a long-time rival team Highland Rugby. Reluctantly Rick joins the team where he must adopt the gruelling training schedule and unique code of conduct that Highland's legendary coach (Gary Cole) demands. Egos clash and bitter competitors struggle to find the meaning of team. As on-field battles rage hearts are challenged and loyalties are tried. Rick Penning must decide between the life he lived and the life that stands before him. With a national championship on the line he will learn that the greatest victories are born in the heart.

• Born And Bred - Complete Boxed Set Series 1-4 | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  GP Arthur Gilder has lived in the Lancashire village of Ormston all of his life. His son Tom who is also a doctor lives in Manchester. Arthur misses his family and is determined to hand the practice over to Tom. However following in his father's footsteps is the last thing on Tom's mind - until he retraces his steps to the picturesque home where he grew up. Series 1: 1. The Best Man 2. Nothing Like The Son 3. The Inspector Calls 4. Buried Treasure 5. Brother In Arms 6. Judgment Day Series 2: 1. Lost Souls 2. Home To Roost 3. Blood Relations 4. Fertility Rites 5. His Brother's Keeper 6. Old Flames 7. The Miracle Of Ormston 8. The Magnificent Colin 9. The Last Hurrah (Part 1) 10. The Last Hurrah (Part 2) Series 3: 1. A Very Ormston Christmas 2. A Little Touch Of Harry 3. No Regrets 4. A Small Flourish 5. Thick As Thieves 6. The Doctor Is Now Departing 7. And Is There Honey Still For Tea? 8. More Than You Know 9. A House Divded 10. Something Old Series 4: 1. The Great Leap Forward 2. Flying Home 3. Community Spirits 4. Never Seek To Tell 5. Apple Day 6. The Milk Of Human Kindness 7. Love Is Where It Falls 8. The Element Of Surprise 9. A Wrathful God 10. Someone To Watch Over Me

• One From The Heart | DVD | (14/03/2005) from £9.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The breakup of a Las Vegas couple (Teri Garr Frederic Forrest) on the 4th of July leads them both to a night on the strip in pursuit of their romantic fantasies (Raul Julia Nastassia Kinski). But in this town of gamblers and dreamers should they bet it all on dreams or give true love another roll of the dice? Featuring breathtaking design show stopping set-pieces the stunning photography of Vittorio Storaro (Apocalypse Now The Last Emperor) and accompanied by the Oscar-nomina