Drama

• Tiresia | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  According to Greek mythology Tiresia is at the same time both woman and man. In this unusual Brazilian tale Tiresia is a transexual living in the outskirts of Paris. Following a kidnapping by the obsessed Terranova which denies her vital hormone dosage medication Tiresia begins to change back into male form. Disgusted Terranova abandons her in the countryside where her travails are far from over...

• Scum (Standard Edition) | Blu Ray | (28/08/2023) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After the banning of their original 1977 BBC TV version, director Alan Clarke (The Firm) and writer Roy Minton (Funny Farm) set out to remake their drama for the big screen to ensure that their vision got the audience it deserved. The resulting film was an even more vitriolic portrait of a corrupt and violent institution which stunned cinema audiences and caused outrage. Uncompromising in its depiction of everyday violence, retribution, suicide and sexual assault, Scum remains a cornerstone of the British realist cinema movement, and a savage and still shocking indictment of institutionalised violence and abuse. Product Features 2K restoration from the original negative, newly re-graded and approved by director of photography Phil Méheux Original mono audio Audio commentary with actor Ray Winstone and film critic Nigel Floyd (2006) No Luxuries (2019, 20 mins): actor Mick Ford looks at his character of Archer and his working relationship with director Alan Clarke An Outbreak of Acting (2019, 16 mins): actor Ray Burdis on returning to the role of Eckersley for the feature film Smashing Windows (2019, 12 mins): actor Perry Benson recalls the daily experiences of being on set Continuous Tension (2019, 18 mins): director of photography Phil Méheux analyses the documentary approach of his cinematography Criminal Record (2019, 10 mins): associate producer Martin Campbell on remaking the banned teleplay for the big screen Back to Borstal (2019, 32 mins): executive producer Don Boyd reflects on his efforts to reinvigorate British cinema in the late seventies Concealing the Art (2019, 30 mins): veteran editor Michael Bradsell recalls collaborating with Alan Clarke That Kind of Casting (2019, 22 mins): casting director Esta Charkham on the influence the Anna Scher Theatre had on production Interview with Roy Minton and Clive Parsons (1999, 16 mins): the writer and producer look back on Scum twenty years after its release Interview with Roy Minton (2005, 20 mins) Interview with Davina Belling and Clive Parsons (2005, 9 mins): the producers of Scum discuss its transition from banned teleplay to feature film Interview with Don Boyd (2005, 13 mins) Cast Memories (2005, 17 mins): archival documentary featuring interviews with Phil Daniels, Julian Firth, Mick Ford and David Threlfall Original 'U' and 'X' certificate theatrical trailers Image gallery: promotional and publicity material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing

• Rosetta / La Promesse | DVD | (17/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Winner of the 1999 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and widely hailed as a masterpiece 'Rosetta' is an extraordinary portrait of a resourceful teenage girl struggling to find her way in a tough world. Both compelling and moving the film stars newcomer Emilie Dequenne whose outstanding realization of the title role earned her a Best Actress award at Cannes. Crafted with skill and energy by writer/director brothers Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne who adopt a virtuoso visual style t

• The Story Of Sin | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £9.43   |  Saving you £10.56 (111.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Passionate Melodrama surrealist erotica and the rapturous strains of Mendelssohn collide head on in Story of Sin - the story of Ewa whose betrayal in love drives her to murder and prostitution. Based on a novel placed on the Index by the Church Borowczyk's only feature to be shot in Poland meticulously recreates a time in which his country had no official existence casting a cynical eye on a corrupt society commited to exploiting the innocent and repressing the erotic.

• The Business of Strangers | DVD | (19/05/2003) from £6.48   |  Saving you £9.51 (146.76%)   |  RRP £15.99

  High flying corporate climber Julie Styron has to perform well at her next presentation to clinch the deal of a lifetime. When her new assistant Paula arrives late with her presentation materials Julie promptly fires her. However when the two meet by chance later in a hotel bar Julie attempts a reconciliation but Paula swiftly turns the tables on her. As the night progresses things take a dark turn as a complex battle of power authority and wits emerges.

• My Girl & My Girl 2 | DVD | (05/11/2018) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Black And White | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £7.93   |  Saving you £4.06 (33.90%)   |  RRP £11.99

  One man's conviction divided a nation Australia 1958. A nine year old white girl is found murdered in a remote cave and the local police are quick to arrest an illegitimate Aborigine by the name of Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the the killing and signs the statement that will send him to the gallows. With no Court of Appeal established in the country and a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics from institutional racism gifted but naive lawyers David O'Sullivan (Carlyle) and Helen Devaney (Fox) are put to the test in their efforts to take the case all the way to the Privy Council in London... This compelling real-life drama is based on a landmark case that irrevocably changed a nation.

• Salary Man Kintaro - Part 1 | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on the popular manga by Motomiya Hiroshi the animated series of Kintaro (otherwise known as 'Sarariiman Kintaro' in the native Japanese) comes to DVD! Yajima Kintaro is the former leader of a feared biker gang. After his beloved wife passes away he decides on an alternative path to be a responsible father for his young son. Taking up employment as a white collar worker (sarariiman) Kintaro finds that despite going straight his old ways are never far behind! Includes episode

• Chaos Factor | DVD | (01/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  While clearing land mines in Cambodia Army intelligence agent Jack Poynt makes a gruesome discovery. Not only does he inadvertently uncover a virtual killing field of toxically poisoned bodies - the remnants of a top secret CIA installation from the Vietnam era - he also uncovers an incriminating journal that exposes the madness and atrocities of Max Camden the man responsible for the disaster. Sickened by his discoveries Jack realizes that the fiercely anti-Asian Camden now the trusted Defense Secretary to President Vanhorn is deliberately instigating a war between the U.S. and China. Now protecting the journal only Jack can expose the whole world pays a terrible price. When the all-powerful Camden learns the journal has surfaced he immediately targets Jack for death. Jack and Kim a beautiful Chinese agent who is also out to stop Camden devise a plan to confront him at a U.N. peace meeting covered by the world media - the outcome will be the difference between war and peace.

• Joshua's Heart | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £4.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  When Claudia meets Tom it's love at first sight. But Tom's 10 year old son Joshua is distant and wary of her. To him Claudia is just another in the long string of female 'friends' his father brings home. She slowly gets to know this lonely little boy aching to love someone who will honestly love him back. In time she realises that Tom is not all she originally cracked him up to be and is not much of a father to Joshua either. With her relationship with Tom on the rocks Claudia is faced with a heart rendering dilemma: Should she fight to keep Joshua in her life or let go of him and risk breaking his heart along with her own? This is the touching story of the painful realities of love and responsibilities in today's throw away world.

• Double Confession | DVD | (11/02/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ken Annakin directed this 1950 production. He went on to direct many pictures including Battle of the Bulge and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. Derek Farr stars in this story of murder and criminal gangs around British seaside resorts. Filmed mostly in Hastings and Bexhill, Farr visits his ex wife only to find her murdered. In his attempts to find the killer he meets gang boss William Hartnell and his physco side kick played by Peter Lorre. This long lost film has been restored to a very high standard.

• Wild Grass | DVD | (08/11/2010) from £15.29   |  Saving you £0.70 (4.58%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Adapted from a novel, L'Incident by the French author Christian Gailly, the film playfully examines the complications that ensue from the discovery by Georges (Andre Dussollier) of Marguerite's (Sabine Azema) stolen purse.

• Nostalgia | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Tarkovsky's unforgettably haunting film his first to be made outside Russia explores the melancholy of the expatriate through the film's protagonist Gorchakov a Russian poet researching in Italy. Arriving at a Tuscan village spa with Eugenia his beautiful Italian interpreter Gorchakov is visited by memories of Russia and of his wife and children and he encounters the local mystic who sets him a challenging task. The film is filled with a series of mysterious and extraordinary

• One Desire | DVD | (04/07/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Anne Baxter and Rock Hudson star in this lively Wild West tale of a pair of loved-up chancers who set out to escape their shady past. At the turn of the 20th century, child runaway Nugget Saunders (Barry Curtis) arrives in an Oklahoma boomtown to find his elder brother Clint (Hudson) running a casino in a bawdy house where his lover Tacey Cromwell (Baxter) is madam. Deciding to go straight, Clint and Tacey head for a new town and a new lifestyle, with Nugget in tow. When they encounter orphan Seely Dowder (Natalie Wood), whose father was killed in a mining accident, they take her in too. Clint gets a respectable job at the town's new bank, where he encounters the scheming and viperish Judith Watrous (Julie Adams), the senator and bank owner's daughter. Judith has eyes for Clint, and she hatches a plan to use her father's money and power to gain legal custody of the children and to drive Tacey out of town as an unfit mother. Clint makes a miserable marriage to Judith in order to look after the kids. But Tacey is primed for her next gamble. A turbulent tearjerker, beautifully staged and shot, with young Natalie Wood a cool and commanding presence amid the melodrama.

• Novocaine | DVD | (23/06/2003) from £10.75   |  Saving you £2.24 (20.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Frank (Steve Martin) is living the American dream. Blessed with a thriving dental practice and luxury home and happily engaged to his beautiful assistant Jean (Laura Dern). But his perfect life quickly unravels when Susan Ivey (Helena Bonham Carter) a seductive new patient with an appetite for painkillers settles into his dentist chair. Before long Frank is wanted by the police plunging him into a shadowy world of sex drugs and violence...

• Errol Flynn Collection | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Titles Comprise: 1. Captain Blood 2. Private Lives Of Elizabeth & Essex 3. The Sea Hawk 4. They Died With Their Boots On 5. Dodge City 6. Dive Bomber

• Alfie / Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £7.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (50.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Alfie (Dir. Charles Shyer 2004): A humorous sexy and often touching tale (a remake of the Michael Caine classic) of Alfie a philosophical Cockney womaniser who is forced to question his seemingly carefree existence... Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow - 1 Disc Edition (Dir. Kerry Conran 2004): Famous scientists around the globe have mysteriously disappeared and Chronicle reporter Polly Perkins (Paltrow) along with ace aviator Sky Captain (Jude Law) is on the c

• Kiss of the Spider Woman | DVD | (25/01/2016) from £54.99   |  Saving you £-35.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two cell mates in a South American prison are wildly different men. Luis is a trans individual who is found guilty of immoral behavior and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape reality Luis invents romantic movies, while Valentin tries to keep his mind on the situation he's in. However, during the time they spend together, the two men come to understand and respect one another more than they ever knew they could.

• Lady Is A Square, The | DVD | (03/01/2011) from £11.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (25.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Lady Is A Square marked Anna Neagle's last big screen appearance and a fine conclusion to a hugely successful career. Neagle stars as Frances Baring a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orchestra going. Reluctantly she enlists the help of a young pop singer (Frankie Vaughan in a rare starring role) who has fallen for Baring's daughter Joanna played by a young Janette Scott.

• Easy Rider | DVD | (11/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Originally released in 1969, Easy Rider is widely regarded as the original road movie and, based on the cult following it developed, it was soon copied by other Hollywood studios.Written by Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda and Terry Southern (Dr Strangelove), Fonda produced the low-budget production whilst Hopper took on directing duties, receiving an award at Cannes for his first work. Since its release, Easy Rider has been regarded as a symbol of free-spirited reaction against society, and even for those too young to remember its original release, it maintains its status as a classic film which characterises the attitude of a decade. Now, after 30 years, Easy Rider has been remastered and is presented here in High Definition with both clearer picture and sound quality.