Drama

• In Custody (the Merchant Ivory Collection) | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Drama based on the novel by Anita Desai which follows Deven a teacher at an Indian college and his attempt to interview a famous poet...

• Best Laid Plans | Blu Ray | (20/02/2012) from £11.32   |  Saving you £9.93 (98.71%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this unforgivingly hard-hitting thriller, Danny (Stephen Graham) and his friend Joseph (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), are faced with a terrible ultimatum. To pay off Danny’s mounting debts to crime boss Curtis (David O’Hara), Joseph must battle his way through a number of unliscensed cage fights. As the fights get tougher so their friendship will be tested to the very limit…

• Gracie | DVD | (30/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Gracie Fields was Britain's darling - the funny working-class film star whose boundless energy roguish cheerfulness and ironic songs symbolised the spirit of 1930s England. This film begins at the height of Gracie's fame. In 1939 having suffered a serious illness Gracie decides to take a break. But then war breaks out and exhausted but as enthusiastic as ever Gracie volunteers to do her duty to her fans and country by touring France singing to the troops and raising money for Spitfires. Then after years of friendships she marries the Italian Hollywood director Monty Banks. When Italy enters the war Gracie is forced to choose between loyalty to her husband and loyalty to her country. Starring the internationally renowned Jane Horrocks as the singing laughing heart-breaking Gracie Fields this is a romantic comedy steeped in warm wit dramatic dilemma-filled emotion and vivacious irrepressible energy.

• Bad Timing | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Art Garfunkel plays a moody American psychoanalyst whose mounting obsession with a beautiful fun-loving young girl drives her to the brink of death on a drug overdose. As he waits anxiously at the hospital and tries to answer police questions he recalls the details of the complex and tempestuous affair: their meeting their discovery of physical joy marred by mental anguish their constant separations and reconciliations. Yet is he telling the police the whole truth?

• Flight To Fury | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £9.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Scripted by Jack Nicholson and the director Monte Hellman this film precedes their later collaborations on Ride In The Whirlwind and The Shooting. Joe Gaines (Dewey Martin) becomes entangled in a dangerous web of deceit when a satchel of jewels enters his life. After meeting the outgoing Jay Wickham (Nicholson) in a casino Joe beds a beautiful woman only to find her murdered when he gets out of the shower. Jumping aboard a small plane headed for the P

• The Bible | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £80.98   |  Saving you £-20.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £59.99

  This second star-studded special edition DVD gift set of the award winning Bible series comprises of 7 discs and 14 hours of epic biblical adventure. Consisting of stories of Solomon Jacob St. Paul Jeremiah Esther Apocalypse Revelation plus a seventh bonus title: Genesis: The Creation and the Flood available exclusively with this collection. Presented in a compact and durable gift pack this set offers outstanding star studded entertainment.

• The Last Time I Committed Suicide | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £15.59   |  Saving you £-9.60 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Thomas Jane stars as Beat writer and Jack Kerouac-crony Neal Cassady in The Last Time I Committed Suicide, a promising film that quickly flops. Based on a letter Cassady wrote to Kerouac, this highly stylised feature from director Stephen Kay pretty much follows the former around as he does not much of anything at all. Keanu Reeves is incomprehensible as a friend of Cassady, and Kay's jazzy, angular, colliding style does nothing to illuminate the Beat icon's all-important internal life. If you're new to the whole Kerouac-Cassady-Beat world, this is not a good first stop; slightly better is John Byrum's 1980 Heart Beat, which at least introduces some of the principal figures. --Tom Keogh

• Villian | DVD | (05/12/2011) from £8.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Yuichi (Satoshi Tsumabuki) is a construction worker who has lived his entire life in a dreary fishing village. With no girlfriend or friends, he spends his days working and looking after his grandparents, with no enjoyment in life other than his car. Meanwhile, Mitsuyo (Eri Fukatsu) also lives a monotonous life pacing between the men's clothing store where she works and the apartment where she lives with her sister. When the two lonely souls meet using an online dating site, they immediately fall in love with each other. But there's a secret Yuichi had been keeping from Mitsuyo: Yuichi is the one suspected of killing the woman whose body was found at Mitsue Pass only a few days before...As Yuichi and his new lover try to elude the police, the events that led up to the murder and its aftermath are revealed. We learn the stories of the victim, the murderer, and their families - stories of loneliness, love hotels, violence and desperation, exposing the inner lives of men and woman who are not everything they appear to be.

• Foyle's War - A Lesson In Murder / Eagle Day | DVD | (10/02/2003) from £5.95   |  Saving you £22.03 (744.26%)   |  RRP £24.99

  By this third episode of Foyle's War, series creator Anthony Horowitz has his characters' fundamentals and the wartime milieu well in hand; he rewards himself by taking this remarkable programme to a new high. "A Lesson in Murder" concerns a cluster of terrible deaths--a jailhouse suicide provoked by abusive police, the monstrous killing of a child, the murder of a judge--directly or indirectly tied to a military draft board tainted by scandal. As Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) investigates the linkages, his two prized assistants, driver Sam (Honeysuckle Weeks) and Detective Milner (Anthony Howell), become personally involved with a pair of naive wartime casualties. Intensifying gloom over Germany's imminent declaration of war hovers over everything and a home-front crisis makes heroes of some and scoundrels of others. Fortunately, steadfast Foyle is there to separate one from the other. --Tom Keogh

• Bruiser | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A fast-paced sketch show performed by an energetic young team with much potential. The sketches were dark and zany the preferred style of the times and covered traditional themes (James Bond spoofs paranoia) as well as contemporary subjects (satirising BBC satellite channels and youth programming) all to varying degrees of success. One memorable recurring sketch featured two young TV executives pitching ridiculous ideas for shows (extreme variations and hybrids of existing series)

• Mockingbird Don't Sing | DVD | (16/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  She was the modern day 'Wild Child' and her shocking but true heartbreaking story is told here. Katie has been imprisoned and brutalised by her mentally deluded parents for her entire life - locked in a room and unable to communicate. Even after her release psychiatrists swoop on her to provide the miracle 'cure' but only a young language student can see beyond the abused girl who behaves like a wild animal...

• Les Miserables | DVD | (28/02/2000) from £4.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (20.28%)   |  RRP £5.99

  France 1796: in the Republic poverty is rife and crimes harshly punished. Jean Valjean (Richard Jordan) is sentenced to five years at the gallery for stealing a loaf of bread. There the Inspector of Guards Javert (Anthony Perkins) takes and intense loathing to him - and every rebellion on Jean's part is met with strict punishment and a longer sentence. Jean eventually escapes. Five years later he is living a respectable life as a Mayor when fate intervenes and brings him face to face with his old enemy Javert. Victor Hugo's enduring classic is lavishly recreated and performed by an outstanding cast.

• House With Laughing Windows | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £9.43   |  Saving you £6.56 (69.57%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A remote Italian village harbours unspeakable secrets as young Stefano (Lino Capolicchio) discovers when he arrives to restore a local church's decaying painted fresco depicting the slaughter of St. Sebastian. Townspeople whisper that the original artist painted directly from real life with models tortured and murdered all in the name of art. Suddenly a new terrifying chain of murders begins and Stefano finds himself caught in a chilling web of madness and unspeakable horror from which he may never escape! This exquisite masterpiece of Italian horror seethes with menacing atmosphere and diabolical plot twists guaranteed to haunt your dreams.

• Ally McBeal - Season 2 Part 1 | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  At the start of Series Two of the Boston law firm drama, nothing much had changed at Richard Fish's rather kooky establishment. Ally (Calista Flockhart) was still a skinny, whimsical woman-child looking for Mr Right. Billy (Gil Bellows) was still married to Georgia (Courtney Thorne-Smith), John Cage (Peter McNicol) was still too eccentric to be considered for romantic involvement, Elaine (Jane Krakowski) was still a nosey meddler and Fish (Greg Germann) himself was still looking for ways to make money. Lots of it. Greed prompts him to hire new litigator Nelle (Portia DiRossi), a tall, blonde power-dresser who leaves the other women bristling in her wake. But their antipathy towards their new colleague is nothing compared to the forces of hatred spiky Ling (Lucy Liu) inspires. Before long John (The Biscuit) and Nelle are embarking on a tempestuous romance, Ally is stealing Elaine's new boyfriend before going out with one of Georgia's exes and Billy begins to show the signs of instability which lead to him to bleach his hair blonde in the following season. Ally's outspoken flatmate Renee (Lisa Nicole Carson) got a welcome increase in her time on screen in this second season. Despite the sheer number of episodes David E Kelley and his team turn around each year, this second series consistently provided entertaining viewing to the last, despite--or perhaps because of--some of the characters being so unlikable. The inter-office banter reached new heights of inventive bitchiness, the comic CGI illustrations of Ally's imagination still felt reasonably fresh and the court cases managed to combine oddity with emotional involvement. All in all this group of dysfunctional and rather incestuous workaholics proved curiously engaging yet again. --Emma Perry

• Night Train | DVD | (29/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An aging ex-con John Hurt (The Elephant Man) is released from jail and moves into digs with middle-aged woman Brenda Blethlyn (Saving Grace Secrets and Lies) and her mother Pauline Flanagan. While striking up a tentative relationship with his lonely landlady he finds that unfinished business from his past has come back to haunt him. The mob boss Lorcan Cranitch (Cracker) is closing in on him. Set in Dublin Night Train has this thriller sub plot which keeps the story moving swiftl

• Steel Trap | DVD | (05/01/2009) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (61.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Surviving Each Floor Is The Name Of The Game Only One Can Survive. A New Year's bash in an abandoned high-rise building turns into a grisly bloodbath when five guests receive a mysterious text invite to a VIP party on the 27th floor. Joined by two crashers the strangers soon realize they're trapped and the only way out are the twisted clues left by a murderous psychopath. The catch? Each game leads to one of their own gruesome deaths. With a series of shocking twists Steel Trap holds you in its grip all the way to its mind-blowing ending.

• The Beguiled | DVD | (02/01/2006) from £9.97   |  Saving you £0.02 (0.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  One man... seven women... in a strange house! Set in the Deep South during the Civil War The Beguiled stars Eastwood as John McBurney a severely wounded soldier who is near death when discovered by a teenage girl. She takes him to the mansion that serves as her boarding school where he slowly begins to regain his health under the care of headmistress Martha Farnsworth (Geraldine Page) and the dozen or so girls who live there. As McBurney gets better he begins to charm the girls all of whom are starved for affection because of the war's claim on their men. At length powerful undercurrents of jealousy saturate the atmosphere as the girls and even the headmistress begin to vie for McBurney's attention. He first becomes involved with one of the oldest of the girls Edwina Dabney (Elizabeth Hartman) but ultimately finds it difficult to resist the charms of some of her schoolmates. His promiscuity becomes his undoing.

• Judgment In Berlin | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £4.88   |  Saving you £-2.89 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  An American judge in Germany must decide if the hijacking of an East German plane into West Berlin was justified.

• Abe Lincoln In Illinois | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £13.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (-7.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The double Oscar nominated Abe Lincoln in Illinois portrays the story of Abraham Lincoln, from his early days in backwoods Kentucky to his election as the 16th President of the United States. A stellar performance in the title role from Raymond Massey saw him nominated for the Best Actor award alongside James Wong Howe for Best black and white cinematography. After running livestock to New Orleans, Abe Lincoln settles in New Salem where he falls in love with Ann Rutledge (Mary Howard) and eventually becomes the postmaster. His popularity with the locals leads to him running for and being successfully elected to the State legislature but his victory is overshadowed by Ann's death. Overcome by a sense of doom and a lack of ambition, Lincoln leaves the legislature after his first term and returns to practising law. However, a fateful meeting with Mary Todd (Ruth Gordon), an extremely ambitious woman, changes the course of Abe's life and of America's destiny. By entering politics again Lincoln knows that his taking of a stand on slavery will mean the dissolution of the Union. In a series of electrifying debates with Stephen Douglas (Gene Lockhart), Lincoln is catapulted into the national consciousness of political America and leaves Illinois for Washington, never to return.

• Bombay Talkie (the Merchant Ivory Collection) | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £3.66   |  Saving you £6.33 (172.95%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Bombay Talkie is Merchant Ivory's affectionate bemused view of Bollywood - India's huge dream factory. The film is like a brightly coloured sumptuous Indian sweet covered in gold foil and cameraman Subrata Mitra's ravishing photography has never been surpassed in any other of James Ivory's films. The story set off by elaborate studio numbers is a melodrama echoing those of Bombay's mass audience movies and the sexy best sellers of the film's heroine American authoress Lucia Lane (Jennifer Kendal). A character study about a best-selling English novellist who comes to Bombay in search of creative inspiration she becomes romantically involved with handsome movie star Vikram (Shashi Kapoor). When that doesn't work out she flees to an ashram to take up the spiritual ife. That also - hilariously - doesn't work out and the ill-fated couple get together again with explosive results.