Drama

• A Star Is Born | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Is the price of stardom a broken heart? Janet Gaynor plays smalltown girl Esther Blodgett in this marvellous drama of love versus a lifetime dream. The young Esther is determined to become a star; and her determination pays off when she takes a job as a waitress at a Hollywood party and meets falls in love with and marries her idol filmstar Norman Maine (Fredric March). With Norman's contacts she is soon being film tested and heading toward screen stardom and everything she'

• The Cloud Capped Star (The Criterion Collection) | Blu Ray | (10/09/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Make Up | DVD | (15/09/2014) from £7.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Scandinavian screen idol Nils Asther stars opposite the multi-talented June Clyde in a gripping tale of love and high drama under the big top. Directed by American-born producer screenwriter actor and director Alfred Zeisler this rare feature of 1937 is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Bux is born to a circus life but at the wish of his parents he studies to become a surgeon. Later however he forsakes a brilliant medical career for that of a circus clown. Joy his young ward is secretly in love with him but tries to hide the fact. However when Lorenzo jealous at Bux's popularity tries to poison his animals Joy is prepared to place herself in great danger for the sake of Bux... Special Feature: Image Gallery

• Tideland | DVD | (12/05/2014) from £3.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (69.30%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination. Special Features: Getting Gilliam Documentary Bonus and Extended Scenes

• Van Gogh | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £12.98   |  Saving you £11.01 (84.82%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Pialat's stunningly beautiful portrait of Van Gogh's last days widely acclaimed as the best film about the artist ever made stars Jacques Dutronc whose powerful performance earned him a Cesar award for Best Actor. The film is set between May and July 1890 in the French village of Auvers where Van Gogh went to consult the local physician Dr Gachet and to convalesce from his year long stay in an asylum. This was a period of great activity when he painted a new canvas every day inclu

• Play It To The Bone | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (62.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  No One Hits As Hard As Your Best Friend... Hollywood heavyweights Woody Harrelson and Antonio Banderas bring real comedic punch to this hilarious action-packed hit! Best buddies and sparring partners Vince (Harrelson) and Cesar (Banderas) are a pair of worn-out over-the-hill prizefighters who jump at one last unexpected chance to work in the big time. They just have to be in Las Vegas...now! So before they know what's hit them they're on the road! But when they step into the ring that night friendship is replaced by fierce competition as Vince and Cesar tangle in a dramatic fight to the finish - where only the winner will earn a shot at the title. With sexy Lolita Davidovich (Mystery Alaska) and sultry Lucy Liu (Ally McBeal) along to liven up the ride you won't want to miss any of the knockout entertainment that powers this whirlwind comedy adventure.

• Bridal Wave | DVD | (11/08/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Taggart - Penthouse And Pavement | DVD | (09/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Shattered Trust | DVD | (05/11/2001) from £19.98   |  Saving you £-13.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A young attorney cracks under the strain of her current case and re-discovers the trauma of incest.

• Derailroaded - Inside The Mind Of Larry Wildman Fischer | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £29.14   |  Saving you £-11.15 (-62.00%)   |  RRP £17.99

  My name is Larry. Manic Depressive. Paranoid Schizophrenic. Rock legend. Larry ""Wild Man"" Fischer was a wildly eccentric singer who in 1968 was discovered on the streets of Hollywood by Frank Zappa who was intrigued by Fischer's offer to write and perform original songs for passers-by for a mere ten cents each. After hearing a few dollars' worth Zappa offered Fischer - who had been wandering the edges of the music business for several years with no success - a recording con

• Casino - Steelbook - Universal 100th Anniversary Edition | Blu Ray | (18/02/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Martin Scorsese reunites with members of his GoodFellas gang (writer Nicholas Pileggi; actors Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Frank Vincent) for a three-hour epic about the rise and fall of mobster Sam "Ace" Rothstein (De Niro), a character based on real-life gangster Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal. (It's modeled after on Wiseguy and GoodFellas and Pileggi's true crime book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas.) Through Rothstein, the picture tells the story of how the Mafia seized, and finally lost control of, Las Vegas gambling. The first hour plays like a fascinating documentary, intricately detailing the inner workings of Vegas casinos. Sharon Stone is the stand out among the actors; she nabbed an Oscar nomination for her role as the voracious Ginger, the glitzy call girl who becomes Rothstein's wife. The film is not as fast paced or gripping as Scorsese's earlier gangster pictures (Mean Streets and GoodFellas), but it's still absorbing. And, hey--it's Scorsese! --Jim Emerson

• Separate Lives | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Linda Hamilton stars as a psychiatrist who herself has a split-personality problem: she keeps waking up in strange houses with odd clothes on and weapons. She hires a private detective James Belushi to follow her and he works out the problem quick enough. However the mystery deepens when some of her close friends are found dead. Is her other half the killer?

• Le Fate Ignoranti | DVD | (03/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ozpetek the director of 'Hamam: Turkish Bath' has lived in the melting pot Ostiense district of Rome for 15 years and sets his third film there with considerable observational skill. That's one of the pleasures of his story which has two of Italy's best actors in parts that require the kind of concentration few others could sustain. Antonia is a middle class and happily married wife devastated by her husband's sudden death and further sent into depresssion when she discovers an ol

• The Tree of Wooden Clogs | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A three-hour peasant epic in which nothing very much happens might sound like the ultimate turn-off; but The Tree of Wooden Clogs ("L'Albero degli Zoccoli") is made with so much love and dedication that it rarely flags. Set in the Lombardy countryside in the closing years of the 19th century, the film traces the interconnected lives of four peasant families all living in the same large farmhouse. The most dramatic event, which gives the movie its title, is when a father chops down a tree so that his son can have clogs in which to walk to school, which leads to quiet tragedy in the final reel. The film's director Ermanno Olmi--himself of North Italian peasant stock--based his subject on incidents from his own childhood and tales told him by his grandfather. His cast were non-professionals, real peasants chosen from villages of the Bergamo region, whom he encouraged to improvise their own dialogue. All the shooting was done on location with a 16 mm camera, using natural lighting and direct sound--a revolutionary approach in Italy at the time, when almost all films were studio-bound and heavily dubbed. The results carry a rare conviction, the unselfconsciously simple speech and muted earth-tones of the visuals make the film feel more like documentary than fiction. The hardships of peasant life are never softened, though now and then Olmi's affection for his characters verges on sentimentality. And the unquestioning, submissive Catholicism of director and characters alike tends to cloy. But the sense of dignity and harmony, and the film's unhurried pace, always in step with the seasons, create a moving celebration of a vanished way of life. The Tree of Wooden Clogs took the Palme d'Or at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. On the DVD: The Tree of Wooden Clogs doesn't exactly come packed with extras: cast and technical credits, a stills gallery, and a brief two-minute introduction by Olmi, where he explains why he preferred to record in mono, which still sounds fine on the disc. The images have lost nothing of their muted subtlety, and the transfer is in the full 1.33:1 ratio of the original. --Philip Kemp

• Pride And Prejudice/Sense And Sensibility/Shakespeare In Love | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Pride And Prejudice: A romance ahead of its time... The five Bennet sisters - Elizabeth or Lizzie (Keira Knightley) Jane (Rosamund Pike) Lydia (Jena Malone) Mary (Talulah Riley) and Kitty (Carey Mulligan) - have been raised well aware of their mother's (Brenda Blethyn) fixation on finding them husbands and securing set futures. The spirited and intelligent Elizabeth however strives to live her life with a broader perspective as encouraged by her doting father (Donald Sutherland). When wealthy bachelor Mr. Bingley takes up residence in a nearby mansion the Bennets are abuzz. Amongst the man's sophisticated circle of London friends and the influx of young military officers surely there will be no shortage of suitors for the Bennet sisters. Eldest daughter Jane serene and beautiful seems poised to win Mr. Bingley's heart. For her part Lizzie meets with the handsome and it would seem snobbish Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen) and the battle of the sexes is joined. Their encounters are frequent and spirited yet far from encouraging. Lizzie finds herself even less inclined to accept a marriage proposal from a distant cousin Mr. Collins (Tom Hollander) and supported by her father stuns her mother and Mr. Collins by declining. When the previously good-natured Mr. Bingley abruptly departs for London leaving a devastated Jane Lizzie holds Mr. Darcy culpable for contributing to the heartbreak. But a crisis involving youngest sister Lydia soon opens Lizzie's eyes to the true nature of her relationship with Mr. Darcy... (Dir. Joe Wright 2005) Sense And Sensibility: Sense and Sensibility is the story of two sisters: pragmatic Elinor (Emma Thompson) and passionately wilful Marianne (Kate Winslet). When their father Henry Dashwood dies by law his estate must pass to his eldest son from his first marriage. Suddenly homeless and impoverished his current wife and daughters find themselves living in a simple country cottage. The two sisters are soon accepted into their new society. Marianne becomes swept up in a passionate love affair with the dashing Willoughby (Greg Wise) while Elinor struggles to keep a tight rein on the family purse strings and to keep her feelings for Edward Ferrars (Hugh Grant) whom she left behind hidden from her family. Despite their different personalities they both experience great sorrow in their affairs but they learn to mix sense with sensibility in a society that is obsessed with both financial and social status. (Dir. Ang Lee 1995) Shakespeare In Love: Triumphant winner of 7 Academy Awards - including Best Picture - this witty sexy smash features Oscar-winning Best Actress Gwyneth Paltrow and an amazing cast that includes Academy Award winners Judi Dench Geoffrey Rush and Ben Affleck! When Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola (Paltrow) starts the words flowing like never before! There are just two things he'll have to learn about his new love: not only is she promised to marry someone else she's successfully impersonating a man in order to play the lead in Will's latest production! A truly can't-miss motion picture event with outstanding critical acclaim to match its impressive collection of major awards - everyone will love this funny behind-the-scenes look at the writing of the greatest love story ever told! (Dir. John Madden 1998)

• The Hottest State | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £5.19   |  Saving you £10.80 (67.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Days before his 21st birthday William (Mark Webber) an actor meets and quickly falls madly in love with Sara (Catalina Sandino Moreno) a seductive yet elusive singer/songwriter. The film follows William from a Lower East Side tenement to a Mexican hotel room to a snowbound weekend in Connecticut to a sweltering homecoming in the hottest state of all - Texas - in the pursuit of Sara. His stubborn and sweetly innocent quest to find someone who loves him as much as he loves her may not lead to happiness but surely leads to newfound maturity.

• Lilith | DVD | (03/10/2005) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-0.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Before Eve there was Evil... and her name was Lilith! Available on DVD for the first time. Warren Beatty and Jean Seberg co-star in this haunting drama about the obsessive love between a therapist and his patient. Vincent (Beatty) a war veteran returns to his bleak Maryland hometown and takes a job as an occupational therapist at Poplar Lodge a private mental institution for the wealthy. There Vincent meets a young schizophrenic Lilith (Seberg) an enchanting patient who

• Hukkle | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (85.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An astounding almost lyrical Hungarian film from debut director Gyorgy Palfi which features almost no dialogue in chronicling the lives of a number of residents in a small rural community which are somehow linked by a possible murder...

• Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  In 1990, Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael showed Winona Ryder as cinema's top teenage role model. Her edge was a delinquency-equals-sympathy angle that held true throughout Beetlejuice, Mermaids, Heathers and Edward Scissorhands. Here as Dinky Bossetti she's chasing the ghosts of a past no one can explain. She's adopted; her town of Clyde, Ohio is mysteriously stuck in the 1950s; but weirder still is everyone's fixation with the imminent return of once-famous homecoming girl Roxy Carmichael. Dinky's school peers conform to the John Hughes 80s look and mindset, but it's the retro adult population that really winds her up. Jeff Daniels ought to be a perfectly conditioned suburbanite, but can't get over having once been married to Roxy. Imparting the secret that they'd had a child and given it away, Dinky's own confusions and obsessions suddenly make sense. The tangle of B-plots are given purpose at the same time she is. Her silent admirer (Thomas Wilson Brown) is able to approach her at last, and her school guidance counsellor becomes the friend she's never had. Ultimately the story's about the notion that no teenager ever feels like they fit in. Of course the real problem facing Ryder, Dinky and any viewer is that all teens grow up. What then? On the DVD: This is a bare-bones package with a simple two-channel stereo and 16:9 anamorphic ratio transfer. That said, it looks and sounds just fine. There's only one trailer, but someone's tried with the diner-style menu at least. --Paul Tonks

• Relic Hunter - Vol. 3 | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sydney Fox takes off on another archaelogical adventure!