Drama

• Cavalcade of Variety & Stars on Parade | DVD | (31/01/2011) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-9.29 (-62.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Titles Comprise: Stars On Parade: A 1936 Musical film directed by Oswald Mitchell and Challis Sanderson starring John Rorke Debroy Somers Pat O'Brien Arthur Lucan and Mabel Constanduros. A rare chance to see some of the greatest acts from the Music Hall Years. Cavalcade Of Variety: Presented by Peter Brough - Includes music from the bands of Billy Cotton and Mrs Jack Hylton along with the Macaru and his Dutch Serenaders. Songs from Eve Becke & Phyllis Robins. Precision Dance routines from the Sherman Fisher Girls an amusing number by GS Melwin and a spectacular performance by The Australian Motor Air Aces. This film represents a rare opportunity to see performers who though now largely forgotten were top liners of the day.

• In My Country | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A South African Story of Truth Love and Reconcilliation. In 1996 the South African Government established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate abuses of human rights under apartheid. These hearings would serve as a forum for those accused of murder and torture to be confronted by their victims and by admitting their guilt be granted amnesty under Ubuntu the native custom of forgiveness. Covering the sessions are Langston Whitfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and

• The Onedin Line - Series 1 - Part 2 | DVD | (05/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Welcome to Liverpool in the late 19th century the hub of Great Britain's growing Atlantic trade. But for Captain James Onedin these waters are treacherous indeed. Can he keep his beloved Onedin Line out of the hands of Callon his rival enemy and ex-employer and enter the age of steam unhindered? Or will everything including the elements be against him? This release features Parts Three and Four of the classic BBC drama serial The Onedin Line.

• Champion | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £4.40   |  Saving you £15.59 (78.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'Champion' tells the true story of Kim Deuk-gu a poor man from the countryside that took up boxing and became one of the world's elite fighters. In 1982 after winning fame in the ring and marrying his first love Kim travelled to Las Vegas to fight Ray ""Boom Boom"" Mancini the reigning lightweight world champion. After 14 intense rounds in which Kim refused to give in he fell into a coma from which he would never wake changing the sport of boxing forever and throwing a nation into

• Derby Day | Blu Ray | (13/07/2020) from £13.92   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding star in this classic portmanteau film that portrays the fates and fortunes of a group of disparate characters on their way to the Derby at Epsom Downs. Co-starring Googie Withers and John McCallum and directed by Herbert Wilcox, Neagle's husband and long-time collaborator Derby Day is presented as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited aspect ratio. Each year, thousands of people make their way to Epsom for the greatest fixture on the racing calendar. These little clusters of people, each unknown to the other, are all strangely incongruous. This year, however, some are destined to be intertwined before the day's end in both joy and despair.

• Meantime / Made In Britain | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Meantime: 'Meantime' centres on East End family the Pollacks - Mavis Frank and their sons Mark and Colin - and their experience of unemployment poverty and life in early 1980s Britain. When Colin comes under the influence of skinhead Coxy and when Mavis's better off sister Barbara offers Colin work family tensions erupt into conflict. Mike Leigh's first independent film for five years has a superb cast of rising stars including Gary Oldman Alfred Molina Tim Roth and Phil Daniels. First shown on television it is a memorable and closely observed account of life in Thatcher's Britain. Made In Britain: Trevor is a teenage skinhead. Caught smashing the windows of a Pakistani owned shop he is sent to an assessment centre by social worker Harry where it is discovered he is highly articulate and intelligent. But he escapes steals cars and goes berserk; can Harry still save him?

• Flesh And Blood | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Who you really are can be hard to face Written by Peter Bowker Christopher Eccleston and Emma Cunniffe star in Flesh and Blood which tells the story of a father whose world is turned upside down when he discovers the truth about his origins. Adopted at birth Joe Broughton (Christopher Eccleston) is overwhelmed by an obsessive desire to trace his real parents after the birth of his daughter Marie. When he discovers that his mother and father have learning disabilities and never knew they had a child his world is blown apart. For Joe as well as his wife Cath (Emma Cunniffe) it's the beginning of a rollercoaster journey which challenges not only his preconceptions about disability but also his sense of his own identity.

• Sam Complete Series 1-3 boxset | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £89.99

  From the 1930s to the 1960s Samfollows the life of a young boy growing up in a Yorkshire mining village. But Sam reflects more than just one man's life it captures the qualities and textures of the time weaving and exploring the fabric of a nation. It is 1934 and Sam Wilson is ten years old when his mother Dora leaves her husband and brings Sam to Skellerton the Yorkshire mining village where she grew up. Her father Jack has been unemployed for more than eight years and her family has little enough money to support themselves. Will they manage with another two mouths to feed and how will Sam s childhood change? What happens in Sam s life through post-war Britain the search for his father the passing of people he loves the ever-changing industrial world and a life of austerity that found itself in the 1960s as a country that has never had it so good make this a both compelling and engaging drama. Some stories can take a lifetime - and some lifetimes can tell a story. This is Sam s.

• The Vice - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Police drama set in the sleazy world of the Metropolitan Police Vice Squad. Award-winning actor Ken Stott (Fever Pitch Shallow Grave) stars in The Vice a hard-hitting drama set in the vice unit of the Metropolitan Police based in the heart of London's West End. Prostitution porography and murder are all part of the workload for the vice team as they investigate the capital's darker secrets. The Vice portrays a city of extraordinary social contrasts moving swiftly from the back streets of King's Cross to the bars of Park Lane hotels. Episode 1: Daughters Episode 2: Sons Episode 3: Dabbling.

• Shun Li & The Poet | DVD | (23/09/2013) from £8.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (43.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Shun Li works in a textile factory on the outskirts of Rome and hopes to get Italian citizenship so her eight-year-old son can join her in Italy. When she is suddenly transferred to Chioggia a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon to work as a bartender in a pub she meets Bepi a Slavic fisherman nicknamed 'the Poet' by his friends a regular at that pub for years and a writer of doggerel verse. Shun Li shares with Bepi stories of Qu Yuan China's most celebrated poet and the two strike up a friendship that has the potential to become something more. However the budding relationship is threatened by the objections of both the Chinese immigrant population and the local Italian fishing community.

• Maeve Binchy: The Anner House | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £4.98   |  Saving you £12.01 (241.16%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Anner House is a romantic story of dreams and aspirations. Neil Barry leaves Ireland after a bitter divorce and custody battle to face the demons of his alcoholism in another place Cape Town. A chance meeting with an Irish woman named Ruth Maguire also trying to extricate herself from an unhappy relationship with Nicky helps him embark on a journey of self-healing and personal discovery. Inspired by the colorful locals they encounter and the magical places they visit Neil helps Ruth fulfill her dream to open a boutique hotel set against the stunning Cape landscape. They decide to call it Anner House.

• Night Train To Inverness | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ex-convict Roy Lewis (Norman Wooland) heads to London to see his estranged wife Ann (Silvia Francis) and 7-year-old son Ted (Dennis Waterman) but despite Ann's wish to see Roy her mother tells him they want nothing to do with a jailbird. Frustrated by a lack of access to his son Roy kidnaps Ted and takes the night train to Inverness for a new life in Scotland. Unbeknown to Roy Ted is a diabetic and without regular insulin injections is puts his son's health in serious danger and the panic sets in to find the urgent medical attention needed.

• The Brothers Karamazov | DVD | (05/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Anazapta | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £7.84   |  Saving you £2.15 (21.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Anazapta is a medieval thriller set in England during 1348. It is a tale of lust and revenge that unfolds beneath the shadow of the Black Death. Brought to a small English village as hostage an enigmatic French Nobleman turns out to be an impostor. With a deadly agenda the man embodies the most primal instincts and uses them to exact a merciless revenge on a village cursed for their nefarious past. At his command is the deadliest of weapons the Black Death.

• Sid and Nancy - Special Edition | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Love Kills. Gary Oldman stars as Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious with Chloe Webb as his junkie girlfriend Nancy; social misfits who literally love each other to death in this riveting biography of burnt-out icons Their love affair is one of pure devotion. Sid falls hard for groupie Nancy Spungen who seduces him with her affection - and addiction to heroin. Their inseparable bond - to each other and their drugs - eventually corrodes the band sending Sid and Nancy down a dark road of despair. Out of money hope and options the dependent two hit rock bottom while living in squalor at New York's infamous Chelsea Hotel. But their journey takes yet another tragic turn as they face their final curtain - and attempt to fulfill their destiny of going out in a blaze of glory.

• Turtle Hill, Brooklyn | DVD | (14/07/2014) from £7.18   |  Saving you £11.80 (281.62%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It's a big deal turning 30 - for a gay dude anyway - and Will and his boyfriend Mateo decide to organise a big party in their Brooklyn digs to mark the occasion. On the night between cocktails dips in the pool and the obligatory Piñata the usual subjects come up. Talk of relationships sex and even religion all come up and a lot of laughs are shared. That is until quite unexpectedly a guest turns up and threatens to reveal a secret that could derail Will and Matteo forever.

• Le Paltoquet | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Another stylish crime drama from Michel Deville in which the tensions between characters of disparate professions is played out over a game of bridge... Four men a journalist a doctor a professor and a merchant meet up every evening in a deserted bar to play cards. One night the police arrive with the news that a dead body has been found nearby and the inspector in charge is sure that one of them did it.

• The Vice - The Complete Series | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £110.00   |  Saving you £-60.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The gripping police TV series peeks into the darkest corners of British society as the team led by D.I. Chappel (Ken Stott) aims to uncover the very worst criminals dealing in prostitution and pornography in the London sex trade... Series 1: 1. Daughters (Part 1) 2. Daughters (Part 2) 3. Sons (Part 1) 4. Sons (Part 2) 5. Dabbling (Part 1) 6. Dabbling (Part 2) Series 2: 1. Home Is The Place (Part 1) 2. Home Is The Place (Part 2) 3. Walking On Water (Part 1) 4. Walkin

• The Miseducation of Cameron Post | Blu Ray | (04/02/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Cameron Post (Chloe Grace Moretz) looks the part of a perfect high school girl. But after shes caught with another girl in the back seat of a car on prom night, Cameron is quickly shipped off to a conversion therapy center that treats teens struggling with same-sex attraction. At the facility, Cameron is subjected to outlandish discipline, dubious de-gaying methods, and earnest Christian rock songs but this unusual setting also provides her with an unlikely gay community. For the first time, Cameron connects with peers, and shes able to find her place among fellow outcasts.

• Epicenter | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-16.99 (-425.80%)   |  RRP £3.99

  FBI agent Amanda Foster is escorting Nick Constantine to prison when a massive earthquake hits LA. The unlikely couple are forced to team up to survive whilst being pursued by ruthless assassins and corrupt cops.