Drama

• Autumn Sun | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A love story for the young at heart. Clara a middle aged Jewish woman feels the need to create a contrived relationship with a man of her own faith because her American brother is coming to visit her. Perfectly happy alone she knows it will please her brother if he finds her with someone. So she places an ad in the paper and meets Raul who though handsome and charming is also a Gentile. Clara decodes to give him a crash course in Judaism and soon an unexpected relations

• Hometown Story | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Jeffery Lynn plays an ex-politician who blames big business for his failure to get re-elected. To expose big business as an evil monster he joins his uncle's newspaper. When his little sister is caught in a cave-in the town's largest company comes to her aid and he must now reconsider.

• Nuns On The Run / Time Bandits | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Nuns On The Run (Dir. Jonathan Lynn 1990): Following in the great Carry On... tradition with a bit of Monty Python thrown in for good measure Nuns On The Run is a classic slice of slapstick comedy starring Eric Idle and Robbie Coltrane. Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to leave he sets them up to be killed after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. Brian and Charlie decide to steal the money for themselves but when their escape doesn't go to plan they have to seek refuge in a nuns' teacher training school. Disguised as nuns Brian and Charlie have to avoid their boss Triads police and Brian's girlfriend. There's also the problem of them being men disguised as nuns in an all women institution. Time Bandits (Dir. Terry Gilliam 1981): All the dreams you've ever had.... and not just the good ones. The first of three Terry Gilliam films collectively referred to as his Trilogy of the Imagination (along with 'Brazil' and 'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen') 'Time Bandits' is a wonderfully inventive fantasy with a massive cult following and universal appeal. A sleeper hit in 1981 the film grossed well over eight times its million budget. Co-written by Gilliam and fellow Monty Python veteran Michael Palin (who also appears in the film) 'Time Bandits' tells the story of Kevin (Craig Warnock) a young imaginative boy kidnapped by a band of mischievous dwarves who have stolen a map of the universe detailing the locations of holes in the space-time continuum from the Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson). The dwarves with Kevin in tow set off on a bizarre journey back and forth though time with the intention of looting the fortunes of history's rich and famous. Along the way they meet the likes of King Agamemnon (Sean Connery) Robin Hood (John Cleese) and Napoleon (Ian Holm) among others and even get to sail on the Titanic moments prior to its unfortunate encounter with an iceberg. Unknowingly the diminutive bandits are being watched by the spectre of Evil Genius (David Warner) who wants the map for his own typically wicked purposes...

• One Of Her Own | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £6.24   |  Saving you £-3.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  When Toni Stroud a young dedicated cop is viciously raped by a drunken colleague she is prevented from turning him in by the force's unwritten code a 'blue wall of silence': you never rat on a fellow officer. Another female cop quickly becomes the rapist's next victim. And when Toni is asked to falsify a robbery report incriminating the women she decides to reveal the truth... A compelling true story of one woman's courageous battle to bring a brutal male-dominated system to justice.

• Goodbye Solo | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £5.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (300.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  On the lonely roads of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an improbable friendship that will change both of their lives forever.

• Strange Report | DVD | (31/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Anthony Quayle stars as criminologist Adam Strange solving cases that are out of the ordinary sometimes bizarre always intriguing in this classic ITC crime adventure series from 1969.

• The Matchmaker | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The most successful matchmaker in Ireland is about to hit a brick wall... An acerbic Boston spin doctor arrives in the rural hamlet of Ballinagra Ireland in search of local colour to use as fodder in her employer's flagging Senatorial campaign. But what she finds is a rustic nightmare as her arrival coincides with the town's hectic matchmaking festival. What's more the local matchmaker has a bet riding on his ability to pair her off with her annoying hotel neighbour an equ

• Foyle's War - Fifty Ships / Among the Few | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £11.36   |  Saving you £13.63 (119.98%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Michael Kitchen stars as the thoughtful and enigmatic Chief Superintendent Foyle. England is in the grip of the Second World War and Foyle is anxious to join the war effort. However his applications have been repeatedly turned down and he returns home to the South Coast feeling frustrated and guilty. It soon becomes apparent that his detective skills are vitally needed on the home front. Fifty Ships: September 1940. An American millionaire a German spy an old flame and a bo

• Passenger Side | DVD | (09/05/2011) from £2.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (81.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two brothers spend the day driving around Los Angeles county looking for the meaning of their lives or cheap street drugs depending on who you happen to believe.

• Tenko - Series 3 - Part 2 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £19.75   |  Saving you £5.24 (26.53%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The women are now relocated in Singopore and trying to get back to normal life. Dorothy is bullied for being a collaborator and Mrs Van Meyer continues to gossip. Clifford tries to discourage Marion from seeing the others. Featuring Episodes 6-10 of the Third Series (plus the 1950 Reunion).

• Sleep Stalker | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £5.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Young boy Griffin witnesses the slaughter of his parents at the hands of a serial killer dubbed 'The Sandman'. Years later Griffin is now a young man at peace knowing that the murderer who has spent the last years languishing on death row and is about to die. At the very moment of the Sandman's execution evil is reborn as he becomes the malevolent 'Sleep Stalker'. Freed from mortal chains and capable of unimaginable powers he sets off to finish the job he started years ago - to kill Griffin.

• Three Colours Blue | Blu Ray | (09/12/2013) from £11.89   |  Saving you £8.10 (68.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The first instalment of the late Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy on Liberty Equality and Fraternity the three colours of the French flag. Blue is the most sombre of the three a movie dominated by feelings of grief. As the film begins a car accident claims the life of a well-known composer. His wife played by Juliette Binoche (Oscar winner for The English Patient) does not so much put the pieces of her life back together as start an entirely new existence. She moves to Paris where she dissolves into a wordless life virtually without other people. Kieslowski attaches an almost subconscious significance to the colour blue but primarily he focuses on Binoche's luminous face and the way her subtle shifts in emotion flicker and disappear. The picture may be more enigmatic than the follow-ups White and Red but Binoche's quiet heartbreaking presence becomes spellbinding; her performance won the best actress prize at the Venice Film Festival in 1993.

• The Lovejoy Collection - Vol. 8 | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £6.20   |  Saving you £6.79 (109.52%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ian McShane stars as lovable rogue antiques dealer Lovejoy in three 55 minut episodes - Friends In High Places Out To Lunch and No Strings. The episodes feature Lovejoy with his associates Tinker Dell Eric Catchpole and Lady Jane Felsham.

• Strictly Ballroom | DVD | (09/04/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  While the plot of this Australian film may seem a bit familiar (the Ugly Duckling meets Dirty Dancing), the whimsical tone and superb dance sequences will make you forget the movie's predictability. Scott (Paul Mercurio) is a champion ballroom dancer who wants to dance "his own steps". Fran is the homely, beginning dancer who convinces Scott that he should dance his own steps... with her. Complicating matters are Scott's domineering mother (Pat Thompson), a former dancer herself, who wants her son to win the Australian Pan Pacific Championship (the same contest she lost years ago), and a conniving dance committee that is determined that "there are no new steps!" The dancing is enjoyable, yet not overwhelming, and the movie strives hard not to take itself too seriously (the beginning of the film is even styled as a pseudo-documentary). Strictly Ballroom, while not so subtly imparting its moral ("A life lived in fear is a life half-lived"), is a laughable romp that's sure to be a crowd pleaser. --Jenny Brown, Amazon.com

• The Christmas Shoes | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £8.07   |  Saving you £-2.08 (-34.70%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Workaholic lawyer Robert Layton didn't even know he needed a miracle until it happened. But when it did it transformed his life opened both his eyes and heart to a totally new world and made him realise what matters most in life. The heart-warming - and often heart-breaking - story of how this happened is told in The Christmas Shoes a delightful 'festive season' drama for all the family.

• Midsomer Murders The Axeman Cometh | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £6.82   |  Saving you £10.17 (149.12%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Badger's Drift plays host to the Midsomer Rock Festival - with murderous consequences.

• Humphrey Bogart Signature Collection - Casablanca/Treasure Of Sierra Madre/Maltese Falcon/High Sierra | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Casablanca::easy to enter but much harder to leave especially if your name is on the Nazis' most wanted list. Atop that list is Czech resistance leader Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) whose only hope is Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) a cynical American who sticks his neck out for no one especially Victor's wife Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) the ex-lover who broke his heart. So when Ilsa offers herself in exchange for Laszlo's safe transport out of the country the bitter Rick must decide what's more important - his own happiness or the countless lives that hang in the balance... Treasure of Sierra Madre:Dobbs and Curtin meet up in Mexico and go to work for a contractor MacClane who takes them away to remote site and tells them they will be paid when the job is finished. When they are finished they return to town to find MacClane to get their wages. MacClane gives them a few dollars and says he'll just go to the bank and pick up the payroll for them. Dobbs and Curtin then meet up with an old prospector who claims the hills are still full of gold and if they can get the cash he'll go with them. They eventually get the cash from MacClane after a little ""persuasion"" and all three set off for the hills as good friends but will they return that way? The Maltese Falcon:A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who's gonna take the fall. This third screen version of Dashiell Hammett's novel is a film of firsts: John Huston's directorial debut rotund 62-year-old Sydney Greenstreet's screen debut film history's first film noir and Bogart's breakthrough role after years as a Warner contract player. When George Raft refused to work with a first-time director Bogart took on the role of Spade - and launched the most acclaimed period of his career. High Sierra:A seminal gangster film that focused attention on Bogart and writer Huston. Bogart plays a violent criminal just released from prison who knows he's got just one more job in him. An aging gang boss wants Bogart to lead a jewel heist at a resort. When he sees the inexperienced men he'll be leading (and fends off the attentions of Lupino the girlfriend of one of the thugs) Bogart suspects there will be trouble and there is when a cop is killed during the robbery. A manhunt drives Bogart to the highest peak in the High Sierras where he awaits death at the hands of the police. A gripping portrait of a desperate outlaw and a breakthrough for its creators.

• The Jury | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A 15 year-old boy has been killed in cold blood. His classmate a quiet reclusive Sikh boy is on trial for murder. It is a trial that becomes a tinderbox for the justice system and race relations in the country. The decision falls with the jury and hangs on a knife-edge. The twelve jurors find themselves the focus of national attention. They have to cope with intense pressure threats and intimidation as they embark on the biggest soul searching experience of their lives. The Jury is a complex and hard-hitting drama with a difference a highly charged and emotive story following the impact of the case on it's jury members.

• Strangers - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Don Henderson stars as the eccentric police Detective DCI George Bulman in this gritty and violent series from the 1970's. Episodes Comprise: 1. The Paradise Set 2. Duty Roster 3. Silver Lining 4. Accidental Death 5. Briscoe 6. Right And Wrong 7. Paying Guests

• Raise The Titanic | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Adapted from Clive Cussler's international best-seller 'Raise the Titanic' depicts the amazing efforts of an American special agent to recover vital material for the United States' defence. It was believed that the mighty 'unsinkable' ship contained vital material which could be used to make the US impregnable to atomic attack. The ship is down too deep for divers so the only solution is to raise it. The Herculean project must be managed in absolute secrecy despite interference from a rival nation and the need to invent technology never before conceived. The extraordinary task is interlaced with the stories of the people and the forces working against them.