Drama

• American Gothic | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £11.59   |  Saving you £23.40 (201.90%)   |  RRP £34.99

  In some ways reminiscent of David Lynch's Twin Peaks this eerie drama series concentrated on the dark and often disturbing truths hidden beneath the surface of a small American town. Set in Trinity South Carolina American Gothic succeeded in its one-season run to intrigue viewers with its mysterious storylines and macabre undertones. Gary Cole heads up the cast as Sheriff Lucas Buck Trinity's knight in shining armor. Much of the plot revolves around Buck's attempts

• Wings of Desire | Blu Ray | (12/12/2022) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  This remastered version of Wim Wenders' heart-breaking Berlin masterpiece is a glorious love letter to a city and a time capsule of a bygone era. Damiel (Bruno Ganz at his best) is one of a legion of angels who watches over the lives of residents in a divided city. Set towards the end of the 1980s, before the Berlin Wall came down, the film charts Damiel's desire to feel, just as the subjects he watches over do. In particular, he is enraptured by Solveig Dommartin's Marion, an acrobat in a circus. Although it is only children who can see the angels, Marion is faintly aware of Damiel's presence. As is Peter Falk's actor, filming on location in the city, who has a past that links him with the otherworldly guardians. Outside the central romance, the richness of Wenders' film lies in the snapshots of the lives of Berlin's populace individuals who exist on the periphery of the narrative but who inform Damiel's desire to achieve a human state. Wenders' camera flies above the city (the film's original German title is literally translated as The Sky Over Berlin ), capturing these lives in motion, as Damiel's fellow angel Cassiel (Otto Sander) reminds his friend of what he will lose by achieving a mortal state. Mirroring the shift between colour and black and white first employed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1946 drama A Matter of Life and Death , Wings of Desire matches that film's magical aura not just in its subject matter, but as a work of transcendent cinema.

• Amazing Grace | DVD | (06/08/2007) from £6.60   |  Saving you £13.39 (202.88%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ioan Gruffudd stars as anti-slavery pioneer William Wilberforce in this lavish biopic.

• Bridge of Spies | Blu Ray | (28/03/2016) from £8.59   |  Saving you £20.40 (237.49%)   |  RRP £28.99

  Directed by three-time Academy Award® winner Steven Spielberg BRIDGE OF SPIES is the story of James Donovan (Two time Oscar® winner Tom Hanks), an insurance claims lawyer from Brooklyn who finds himself thrust into the centre of the Cold War when the CIA enlists his support to negotiate the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.

• No Country For Old Men | DVD | (02/06/2008) from £7.05   |  Saving you £12.94 (183.55%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash.

• Titanic (Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray) | Blu Ray | (10/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  When the theatrical release of James Cameron's Titanic was delayed from July to December of 1997, media pundits speculated that Cameron's $200 million disaster epic would cause the director's downfall, signal the end of the blockbuster era and sink Paramount Studios as quickly as the ill-fated luxury liner had sunk on that fateful night of April 14, 1912. Some studio executives were confident, others horrified, but the clarity of hindsight turned Cameron into an Oscar-winning genius, a shrewd businessman and one of the most successful directors in the history of motion pictures. Titanic would surpass the $1 billion mark in global box-office receipts (largely due to multiple viewings, the majority by teenage girls), win 11 Academy Awards including best picture and director, produce the bestselling movie soundtrack of all time and make a global superstar of Leonardo DiCaprio. A bona fide pop-cultural phenomenon, the film has all the ingredients of a blockbuster (romance, passion, luxury, grand scale, a snidely villain and an epic, life-threatening crisis), but Cameron's alchemy of these ingredients proved more popular than anyone could have predicted. His stroke of genius was to combine absolute authenticity with a pair of fictional lovers whose tragic fate would draw viewers into the heart-wrenching reality of the Titanic disaster. As starving artist Jack Dawson and soon-to-be-married socialite Rose DeWitt Bukater, DiCaprio and Kate Winslet won the hearts of viewers around the world and their brief but never-forgotten love affair provides the humanity that Cameron needed to turn Titanic into an emotional experience. Present-day framing scenes (featuring Gloria Stuart as the 101-year-old Rose) add additional resonance to the story and, although some viewers proved vehemently immune to Cameron's manipulations, few can deny the production's impressive achievements. Although some of the computer-generated visual effects look artificial, others--such as the sunset silhouette of Titanic during its first evening at sea, or the climactic splitting of the ship's sinking hull--are state-of-the-art marvels. In terms of sets and costumes alone, the film is never less than astounding. More than anything else, however, the film's overwhelming popularity speaks for itself. Titanic is an event film and a monument to Cameron's risk-taking audacity, blending the tragic irony of the Titanic disaster with just enough narrative invention to give the historical event its fullest and most timeless dramatic impact. Titanic is an epic love story on par with Gone with the Wind, and, like that earlier box-office phenomenon, it's a film for the ages. --Jeff Shannon

• Summertime | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This delicately handled love story was legendary director David Leans first colour film and his own personal favourite. Katherine Hepburn shines in the leading role and both director and star were nominated for Oscars. American spinster Jane Hudson has finally saved enough to take the trip of a lifetime and she hopes Venice will bring a spark of magic into her life. Overwhelmed by the beauty of her surroundings her holiday becomes all the more special when she encounters a charming

• Perfect Strangers | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £14.77   |  Saving you £5.22 (35.34%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Perfect Strangers, Stephen Poliakoff's TV drama, depicts an upper-class English family where distrust, dysfunction and despair are guests at the party. "As you know, in all families, things happen", says the cool Lindsay Duncan. That's the premise: things happen, some of them nasty. The family, once "mini-Rothchilds" and still "drowning in money", are gathered together in an opulent hotel for a grand reunion; the only thing wrong with the idea is that many of them are perfect strangers and the event begins to look more like a conference than an event with heart. Into the blend of well-heeled guests comes the Hillingdon contingent led by Raymond (Michael Gambon), the black ram of the family. His son, Daniel, is a surveyor and true to his profession sets about assessing the fault lines running through the family. Underlying it all is a sense of unease so that even pleasantries come across as deeply unpleasant. Raymond warns us that: "Everybody always lies". Drama arises from the emergence of truth and buried bits of the past, as old photographs are screened to family members provoking curiosity about what lies behind the images. Scratch a surface and everywhere there's pain and mystery. Filmed in lavish London settings where everything is clean and sleek, Perfect Strangers makes for slick visual entertainment. Although the dialogue is stilted and at times surreal, the music by Adrian Johnston cannot be faulted. --Joan Byrne

• Shell | DVD | (08/07/2013) from £8.15   |  Saving you £7.84 (96.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Shell is a 17-year-old woman who lives and works at a petrol station in the desolate Scottish Highlands. Apart from the occasional customers who call by for fuel and a few regulars who acknowledge and catch up with her Shell's only company is her reserved and softly spoken father Pete (Joseph Mawle) to whom she is devoted. A young girl trying to find her place in the world she is on the cusp of womanhood struggling to re-imagine her role within her own family and life in general. Pete meanwhile is damaged goods. He still keenly feels the absence of his wife who ran away when Shell was four while his connection with his daughter is both difficult and disturbing. An assured debut feature starring Joseph Mawle and newcomer Chloe Pirrie Shell marks the arrival of Scottish writer-director Scott Graham as a distinctive new voice in British cinema. Special Features: Short Film Behind the scenes Trailer

• Phantom Thread | Unknown | (24/03/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Footsteps In The Fog | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £21.47   |  Saving you £-11.48 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons star in this compelling thriller set in the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London. As he buries his wife in a rain-soaked London churchyard, Stephen Lowry (Stewart Granger) thinks he has committed the perfect murder. He's wrong. His quick-witted young maid Lily (Jean Simmons) knows that he secretly poisoned his wife - and she has the proof. Now, as the price of her silence, she wants her mistresses' jewels, her mistresses' fine dresses and - most of all - her master himself. Can Stephen give Lily the love she craves? Can she trust a man who has already murdered once? As Stephen begins to court another woman, the thick London fog suddenly echoes to the cries of 'murder!' Featuring real life husband and wife Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons at the height of their international stardom and now available on DVD for the very first time, Footsteps In the Fog is a first rate murder thriller with shocking twists that will keep you guessing until the very last moments. Includes original theatrical trailer

• A Horseman Riding By (Box Set) | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.06

  A Horseman Riding By is a magnificent saga adapted from the book by R.F. Delderfield of rural Edwardian England from 1900 to the end of the Great War. Nigel Havers stars as Paul Craddock invalided out of the army during the Boer War to become Squire of the long neglected Devonshire Estate of Shallowford. The series charts Craddock's new life in the Valley which is challenging because of the Valley's inhabitants and the harsh consequences of war.

• The Virgin Suicides | DVD | (04/12/2000) from £10.79   |  Saving you £2.20 (20.39%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In an ordinary suburban house, on a lovely tree-lined street, in the middle of 1970s America, lived the five beautiful, dreamy Lisbon sisters, whose doomed fates indelibly marked the neighborhood boys who to this day continue to obsess over them.

• Steel | DVD | (23/05/2016) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-4.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An erotic psychological thriller, a tense drama, and, without question, a delicious guilty pleasure, STEEL hits all the right buttons- HARD. Daniel is a sexy, successful TV journalist living life in the fast lane- but he's has fallen into a deep funk, suffering from serious paranoia and panic attacks. Enter Alexander, a hot 19 year old guy, who's about to change Daniel's life forever.

• The Favourite | DVD | (13/05/2019) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Early 18th century. England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving. A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne and her close friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) governs the country while tending to Anne's ill health and mercurial temper. When a new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah. Sarah takes Abigail under her wing and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots.

• Bundy - Legacy Of Evil | DVD | (14/09/2009) from £6.19   |  Saving you £6.80 (109.85%)   |  RRP £12.99

  "Bundy: A Legacy of Evil" tells the shocking true story of Ted Bundy (Corin Nemec) who murdered numerous young women between 1974 and 1978. Out on DVD September 14.

• Jane Got A Gun | Blu Ray | (22/08/2016) from £19.25   |  Saving you £5.74 (29.82%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Young mother Jane Hammond (Natalie Portman) finds herself in a gang's cross-hairs once again when her husband, Bill Ham Hammond (Noah Emmerich) stumbles home riddled with bullets after duelling with the ˜Bishop Boys' and their malicious leader, Colin (Ewan McGregor). With the vengeful crew hot on Ham's trail, Jane has nowhere to turn but to her former fiancée Dan Frost (Joel Edgerton) for help in defending her home against invasion. Jane's survival depends on the man she once loved, but soon she must discover her own inner strength to defend her family.

• Somewhere in Time | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £12.00   |  Saving you £-6.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The story of a young writer who sacrifices his life in the present to find happiness in the past where true love awaits him. Young Richard Collier (Christopher Reeve) is approached by an elderly woman who gives him an antique gold watch and who pleads with him to return in time with her. Years later Richard Collier is overwhelmed by a photograph of a beautiful young woman (Jane Seymour). Another picture of this woman in her later years reveals to him that she is the same woman who had given him the gold watch. Collier then becomes obsessed with returning to 1912 and the beautiful young woman who awaits him there.

• The Brothers - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £16.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (17.66%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Following the death of patriarch Robert Hammond the fallout of his will causes ruptures amongst the brood. While his eldest son Edward (Glyn Owen) prepares to take over the family haulage business Robert's will states that equal shares also be given to his other sons Brian and David as well as his mistress and company secretary Jennifer. Featuring all the episodes from series 1 of The Brothers.

• Four Weddings and A Funeral | Blu Ray | (12/05/2014) from £59.99   |  Saving you £-44.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When it was released in 1994 Four Weddings and a Funeral quickly became a huge international success, pulling in the kind of audiences most British films only dream of. It's proof that sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. In terms of plot, the title pretty much says it all. Revolving around… well, four weddings and a funeral (though not in that order), the film follows Hugh Grant's confirmed bachelor Charles as he falls for visiting American Carrie (Andy McDowell), whom he keeps bumping into at various functions. But with this most basic of premises, screenwriter Richard Curtis has crafted a moving and thoughtful comedy about the perils of singledom and that ever-elusive search for true love. In the wrong hands, it could have been a horribly schmaltzy affair, but Curtis' script--crammed with great one-liners and beautifully judged characterisations--keeps things sharp and snappy, harking back to the sparkling Hollywood romantic comedies of the 1930s and 1940s. The supporting cast, including Kristin Scott Thomas, Simon Callow and Rowan Atkinson (who starred in the Curtis-scripted television show Blackadder) is first rate, at times almost too good--John Hannah's rendition of WH Auden's poem "Funeral Blues" over the coffin of his lover is so moving you think the film will struggle to re-establish its ineffably buoyant mood. But it does, thanks in no small part to Hugh Grant as the bumbling Charles (whose star-making performance compensates for a less-than-dazzling Andie MacDowell). Though it's hardly the fault of Curtis and his team, the success of the Four Weddings did have its downside, triggering a rash of inferior British romantic comedies. In fact, we had to wait until 1999's Notting Hill for another UK film to match its winning charm (scripted, again, by Curtis and also starring Grant). --Edward Lawrenson