Drama

• Bouquet of Barbed Wire/Another Bouquet | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A wealthy publisher is filled with jealous rage over his daughter's marriage and pregnancy. His wife tries desperately to console her husband and keep the fragile pieces of the family together but can she? 'Bouquet of Barbed Wire' and 'Another Bouquet' follow the emotional torments of a wealthy middle class family who spiral deep into a mesh of lies secrets and lurid betrayals. A fantastically successful 70's drama that shocked a nation described as a modern Greek tragedy.

• A Year Without Love | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £29.14   |  Saving you £-11.15 (-62.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Pablo is a young HIV positive poet who decides to write a diary and document his search to cure both his failing love life and health. Pablo unsuccessfully looks for love in bars and personal ads and settles for anonymous sex in porno theatres. He is also discouraged about relying on his father's aid to make ends meet. But he has no choice since he can't get his writing published and he makes so little money as a French teacher. He is also forced to share an apartment (and a love-hat

• London's Burning - The Complete Fifth Series | DVD | (06/08/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Jack Rosenthal's prime-time firefighting drama series returns to DVD for series 5!

• Friends with Benefits (2011) / The Social Network (2010) / Bad Teacher (2011) - Triple Pack | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £7.07   |  Saving you £12.92 (182.74%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise:Friends With Benefits: Dylan (Justin Timberlake) is done with relationships. Jamie (Mila Kunis) decides to stop buying into the Hollywood clichs of true love. When the two become friends they decide to try something new and take advantage of their mutual attraction - but without any emotional attachment. Physical pleasure without the entanglements. Sounds easy enough for two logical adults, right? Not so much. They soon realise romantic comedy stereotypes might exist for a reason.The Social Network: David Fincher's The Social Network is the stunning tale of a new breed of cultural insurgent: a punk genius who sparked a revolution and changed the face of human interaction for a generation, and perhaps forever. Shot through with emotional brutality and unexpected humour, this superbly crafted film chronicles the formation of Facebook and the battles over ownership that followed upon the website's unfathomable success. With a complex, incisive screenplay by Aaron Sorkin and a brilliant cast including Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake, The Social Network bears witness to the birth of an idea that rewove the fabric of society even as it unravelled the friendship of its creators.Bad Teacher: Some teachers just don't give an F. For example, there's Elizabeth (Cameron Diaz).She's foul-mouthed, ruthless, and inappropriate. She drinks, she gets high, and she can't wait to marry her meal ticket and get out of her bogus day job. When she's dumped by her fiance, she sets her plan in motion to win over a rich, handsome subsititute (Justin Timberlake) - competing for his affections with an overly energetic colleague, Amy (Lucy Punch).When Elizabeth also finds herself fighting of the advances of a sarcastic, irreverent gym teacher (Jason Segel), the consequences of her wild and outrageous schemes give her students, her coworkers, and even herself an education like no other.

• A Hazard Of Hearts | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A Hazard of Hearts, dramatised for television in 1987, could hardly be a better demonstration of Barbara Cartland's unique status as the most critically reviled, yet widely read, romantic novelist. The qualities which feed both points of view are present in abundance. There are the certainties of a wafer-thin plot: vulnerable but plucky young heiress falls on hard and tragic times, sails through mortal danger and escapes the clutches of lecherous older man, chastity intact, before claiming enigmatic and devastatingly handsome Lord for her own at the last minute. There are the pantomime characters, atrocious dialogue-by-numbers, set-piece scenes involving duels and smugglers, tight breeches and heaving bosoms. Produced by Lew Grade and the team behind The New Avengers and The Professionals, this is 90 minutes of camp hokum crammed to bursting point with stars clearly having the time of their lives. Helena Bonham Carter, her face like an earnest, worried raisin, is the heroine Serena, with Marcus Gilbert as her paramour. But Diana Rigg's evil Lady Harriet steals the show. To be watched without shame. On the DVD: A Hazard of Hearts is presented in 4:3 video format with a Dolby Digital stereo soundtrack which is splendid for Laurence Johnson's florid themes. The transfer has the appropriately soft-focus look and feel of a 1980s miniseries. The stately home settings certainly provide a sense of quality, but the disc has no extras. --Piers Ford

• Tootsie/To Wong Foo - Thanks For Everything Julie Newmar/Connie And Carla | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tootsie: Sydney Pollack directs this touching gender-bending farce in which Dustin Hoffman plays actor Michael Dorsey. Dorsey who is fine actor but an irreproachable perfectionist can hardly make ends meet; the best he can do for his wallet is take on a couple of jobs as a part-time drama coach and a part-time waiter. But when with the help of a few accessories (including rouge and a padded bra) he transforms himself into Dorothy Michaels everything changes. Dorothy lands a hot job on a soap opera monopolizes the covers of glossy magazines and wins thousands of adoring fans. But when he falls head-over-heels for his co-star Julie (Jessica Lange) he's got a real problem: How can he tell Julie he loves her when she thinks he's a she? Michael desperate to relinquish his disguise proceeds as a she and endures a battle with his agent played by Pollack who refuses to end his contract with the soap; a fight with his best friend who is a woman; unwanted sexual advances from a fellow soap actor; and sweet affections from Julie's father. (Dir. Sydney Pollack 1982) Too Wong Foo Thanks For Everything Julia Newmar: En route from New York City to Hollywood for a drag queen beauty pagent Noxeema Vida and Chi Chi are forced to take an unwelcome detour when their 1967 Cadillac convertible breaks down. Stranded in the tiny midwestern town of Snydersville the three try to make the best of their unfortunate circumstance. And when their glitz and glamour wake up the sleepy local citizens the stage is set for an outrageously funny weekend... (Dir. Beeban Kidron 1995) Connie And Carla: Struggling Chicago dinner theater performers Connie (Vardalos) and Carla (Collette) accidentally witness a mafia hit...and who subsequently hit the road running for their lives. Assuming the killers will never look for them in a place devoid of culture the pair head to Los Angeles where they assume new identities and find their middling talent at song and dance perfectly suited to new careers; as drag queens! Much to their surprise they inadvertently become the toast of the cabaret circuit. As their ruse becomes increasingly difficult to maintain they discover that it is indeed lonely at the top especially after Connie meets Jeff (Duchovny) a guy she'd really like to be a real girl with... With the mafia zeroing in and the line separating their onstage/offstage personas blurring beyond the point of recognition Connie and Carla soon discover the power of not compromising to pursue your dreams fighting the good fight and never ever underestimating the transformative power of cosmetics. (Dir. Michael Lembeck 2004)

• Within These Walls (Googie Withers) - Complete Series 1 Box Set | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Something of a precursor to its contemporary ancestors in Bad Girls this gritty LWT-produced drama series is set in a fictional women's prison HMP Stonepark. However rather than focus on the inmates Within These Walls centres on the staff; exploring both their work and personal lives. Episodes Comprise: 1. Cause for Concern 2. Lesson Number One 3. The Walls Came Tumbling Down 4. In Her Own Right 5. Prisoner by Marriage 6. The Group 7. One Step Forward Two

• Lovers Of The Arctic Circle | DVD | (24/07/2000) from £11.12   |  Saving you £8.87 (79.77%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Basque director Julio Medem makes films like no one else's. Quirky, audacious, visually startling, they play teasing games with themes of doubling and fate. Symbolism runs riot, ironies abound, narratives stop dead to focus on seemingly absurd details--and in fact the whole shebang would risk being terminally pretentious were it not for Medem's subversive humour, inviting us into the joke and daring us to take him seriously.Lovers of the Arctic Circle is typical of his idiosyncratic brand of free-wheeling fantasy. In Madrid, two foster-siblings grow up to find themselves gripped by irresistible, quasi-incestuous passion. Flashbacks reaching back to the Spanish Civil War show us how their destinies, those of the parents, and of their parents' lovers, have become entwined. The siblings are parted by circumstance, but seek each other out in Finland's Arctic north. Medem plays sleight-of-hand with doublings and wordplay, cutting deftly between the past, present and future, constantly challenging us to guess where he's heading next in the circling convolutions of his plot. --Philip Kemp

• Two Bits | DVD | (02/04/2012) from £9.30   |  Saving you £-3.31 (-55.30%)   |  RRP £5.99

  It is a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philadelphia, where 12-year old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandfather (Al Pacino). His grandfather sits outside holding tight to his last quarter, which he has promised to Gennaro so the boy can buy a ticket to a plush new movie theatre. But grandpa is not ready to pass on the quarter or pass on to his final reward. He has some unfinished business with a woman from his past, and he enlists Gennaro to act as his emissary.A brilliantly acted, heartwarming, critically-acclaimed tale about a boy, his grandfather and the lucky quarter that brings them together.

• Infinity | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £9.97   |  Saving you £3.01 (43.12%)   |  RRP £9.99

  He was no ordinary genius. Theirs was no ordinary love. In his stunning directorial debut Matthew Broderick stars in Infinity based on the true-life story of physicist Richard Feynman who as a young man fell madly in love with a beautiful young woman Arline Greenbaum (Patricia Arquette) with whom he shared a very special bond. In 1941 when the United States plunged into World War II Feynman was recruited to work at Los Alamos on the top-secret government project that was to develop the first atomic bomb - a job he accepted in part because it allowed him to resolve the crisis that he and Arline would face alone.

• Kiss Shot | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £11.97   |  Saving you £-9.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  When life has you behind the eight-ball it's time to take your best shot! Out of cash out of a job and soon-to-be out on the street single mother Sarah Collins suddenly finds herself returning to the pool rooms of her youth to pay a massive home mortgage bill. But just as she plays her way into a big-money tournament that could solve all her problems a globe-trotting pool-playing ladies man threatens to disrupt her safe secure life with her daughter - as well as her own fragile peace of mind. And suddenly with everything she holds dear riding on a single shot Sarah realizes she's put herself and her entire world behind the eight-ball.

• Deadly Vows | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £12.58   |  Saving you £-9.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Truck driver Tom Weston has dreams of grandeur: he loves his self-invented nickname he fancies himself as a lethal ladies' man he drives a powerful car and he continually fights against the numbing restraints of his humdrum life. But when he seduces a na''ve young girl named Bobbi Gilbert events take a decidedly more sinister turn as Tom begins to live out dreams in reality. So he starts his dangerous life a life which leads to arson bigamy and even murder...

• Father Of The Bride / Boy's Town / The Old Man And The Sea | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £30.99

  Three classic Spency Tracy films are featured on this fabulous box set. Father Of The Bride: The comic trials and tribulations that beset a family mostly the father prior to their daughter's wedding day. Taylor and Tracy give wonderful performances and it's easy to understand why this was remade in 1991. The colorized version doesn't add much. Academy Award Nominations: 3 including Best Picture Best Actor-Spencer Tracy Best Screenplay. Boy's Town: ""Boys Town"" is a

• Wild One | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £20.19   |  Saving you £-9.20 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  An angry young Marlon Brando scorches the screen as The Wild One in this powerful `50s cult classic. Brando plays Johnny the leader of a vicious biker gang that involves a small sleepy California town. The leather-jacketed young biker seems hell-bent on destruction until he falls for Kathie (Mary Murphy) a ""good-girl"" whose father happens to be a cop. Unfortunately for Johnny his one shot at redemption is threatened by a psychotic rival Chino (Lee Marivn) plus the hostility an

• 15 | DVD | (16/05/2005) from £19.70   |  Saving you £-1.71 (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  '15' follows the misadventures of five teenagers living on the fringe of Singaporean society. Abandoned by the system they seek answers to their aimless existence among the misfits and outsiders of Singapore's underclass. This provocative film performed by real street kids exposes the gritty underbelly of a modern-day Singapore hidden beneath the shadows cast by the gleaming skyscrapers of the city-state. In a nation where the government dictates how its citizens should lead their

• American Soldiers - A Day In Iraq | DVD | (24/04/2006) from £6.80   |  Saving you £6.19 (91.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  What started as a routine day became a fight for survival. Iraq 2004: During a routine sortie a US patrol is ambushed and the young soldiers are forced to put their training and skills into action fast. A determined foe with superior local knowledge the Fedayeen insurgents soon draw them into close quarter combat and a desperate fight for survival...

• Starlet | DVD | (10/03/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Starlet explores the unlikely friendship between a 21-year-old aspiring actress Jane (Dree Hemingway) and elderly widow Sadie (Besedka Johnson) after their worlds collide in California's San Fernando Valley. Jane spends her time getting high with her dysfunctional roommates and taking care of her Chihuahua Starlet while Sadie passes her days alone tending to her garden. After a confrontation at a yard sale Jane finds something unexpected in a relic from Sadie's past. Her curiosity piqued she tries to befriend the caustic older woman. Secrets emerge as their relationship grows revealing that nothing is ever as it seems.

• Shanghai | Blu Ray | (23/07/2012) from £10.75   |  Saving you £14.24 (132.47%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From director Mikael Hafstrom (1408) comes the epic espionage thriller Shanghai staring John Cusack (1408) and international superstars Gong Li (Miami Vice, Memoirs of a Geisha) and Ken Watanabe (Letters from Iwo Jima, The Last Samurai.) Nothing is what it seems in this Casablanca-style international thriller set in the ancient Chinese city a week before the attack on Pearl Harbor. U.S. secret agent Paul Soames (Cusack) has just arrived to investigate the murder of his best friend, only to become quickly immersed in a web of conspiracy and lies that beset the city. Shadowed by a Japanese intelligence officer, Tanaka (Watanabe), Soames' investigation quickly centers on a charismatic local gangster, Anthony Lanting and Lanting's beautiful wife, Anna (Li). Before long, Soames and Anna are involved in an affair that will put everything they have at stake. As national loyalties are traded fast-and-loose for those of the heart, Soames and Annamust race to solve the mystery and make it out of occupied China before the city's collapse.

• Capital City-Series 1 | DVD | (12/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Originally broadcast in 1989 Capital City was a huge success on its original release giving a realistic insight into the fast-paced life of working at an international bank. Set in the offices of London-based Shane Longman the charismatic team of bankers are hired for their blend of style intelligence and verve. They take risks and thrive on the pressure of closing the deal. Experience for yourself the highs and lows of being at the top (and sometimes the bottom) working

• The Positively True Adventures Of The Alleged Texas Cheerleader - Murdering Mom | DVD | (13/09/2002) from £5.63   |  Saving you £-2.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  She wanted to give her daughter the best shot at being a cheerleader... The things you do for your kids. What happens when the pursuit of happiness drives you round the bend? Holly Hunter finds out when she stars as Wanda Holloway a loving mother who wants the best for her daughter -- at almost any price. Wanda and her close neighbor and fellow stage mother Verna each want their own daughter to win a coveted spot on the high school cheerleading team. The battle for the prized pom-poms is so intense that while her daughter is doing the splits Wanda is busy devising a plan to try and guarantee her winning. Her plan leads her to talk of murder. Wanda says it started as a joke but when her brother- in- law Terry (Beau Bridges) goes to the cops Wanda becomes entangled in a trial for solicitation of murder making for a movie that would be tragic -- if it weren't so hysterically funny.