Drama

• Abouna | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mahamat-Saleh Haroun's second feature following the award winning 'Bye Bye Africa' offers confirmation of the arrival of a visually assured and highly sophisticated talent in world cinema. Set in Haroun's native Chad the sensuous 'Abouna' begins with the striking image of a man in Western dress crossing a desert in the Southern Sahara. The man who pauses briefly to powerfully stare down the camera lens is the father of 15 year-old Tahir (Ahidjo Mahamat Moussa) and Tahir's eight-yea

• Comes a Bright Day | DVD | (06/08/2012) from £2.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (81.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An offbeat, coming-of-age love story set during an armed robbery of one of London's most exclusive jewelers. Sometimes funny, often dark, always captivating and never what you expect. Directed by Simon Aboud.

• The Alain Resnais Collection (4 disc box set) | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Films Comprise: I Want to Go Home Life Is a Bed of Roses Love unto Death Melo

• The Bostonians (the Merchant Ivory Collection) | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £17.97   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The daughter of a faith healer is forced to choose between her mother's religious activities and her desire to use her speaking ability to further the women's suffragette movement. To complicate matters more the man she loves is strongly opposed to the feminist cause.

• The Tide Of Life | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Catherine Cookson's heart-rending tale of Emily Kennedy and her relationship with three different men.

• Whiplash | Blu Ray | (01/06/2015) from £29.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (-7.10%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Andrew is an ambitious young jazz drummer, single-minded in his pursuit to rise to the top of his elite east coast music conservatory. Plagued by the failed writing career of his father, Andrew hungers day and night to become one of the greats. Terence Fletcher, an instructor equally known for his teaching talents as for his terrifying methods, leads the top jazz ensemble in the school. Fletcher discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer into his band, forever changing the young man's life. Andrew's passion to achieve perfection quickly spirals into obsession, as his ruthless teacher continues to push him to the brink of both his ability-and his sanity.

• Dances With Wolves (DVD/CD) (1990) (Movies & Music - The Movie On DVD + The CD Soundtrack) | DVD | (04/11/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  BOX SET - The complete experience on 2 discs - DVD :the film + special features including Kevin Cosner profile - CD : soundtrack , 18 tracks.

• Death Of A Cheerleader | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  When Stacey Lockwood the cheerleader and beauty from Santa Mira High is murdered the chief suspect is another pupil. At the trial the whole community is under scrutiny for the pressure it places on the young. Based on a true story.

• The Switch | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £5.71   |  Saving you £3.27 (120.22%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A life in a wheelchair paralysed from the neck down and robbed of any sense of self-worth self-determination and dignity would be most people's idea of a living death. The Switch tells the inspirational true story of how through sheer courage and determination one man dealt with such a nightmarish reality and where others had failed turned it into a personal triumph.

• Till Human Voices Wake Us | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Til Human Voices Wake Us is a ghostly romance from Australia. Guy Pearce plays a brooding psychiatrist who must go back to his family's summer home to bury his father and settle some lingering childhood traumas. Helena Bonham Carter is the mysterious woman he meets on his journey, twice: once in a fleeting encounter on a train, again as she takes a dive off a trestle into a river. By the way, she's amnesiac--Guy Pearce just can't shake that Memento feel. For viewers susceptible to this kind of thing, director Michael Petroni's lofty literary tone might just work (the breathless pauses are broken by quotations from TS Eliot); otherwise, it will look like a skeletal take on a potentially interesting subject. The two fine actors give it a go and they're always good to look at, but finally one wonders what they saw in this very slim proposition. --Robert Horton

• The Autobiography Of Miss Jane Pittman | DVD | (18/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This highly acclaimed drama based on the epic novel by Ernest J. Gaines eloquently covers the story of the Black Experience-from the Civil War to the civil rights movement-all told from the memories of a fictional 110 year-old slave played by Cicely Tyson. Ms.Tyson's tour-de-force performance her most memorable earned her an Emmy. All total this incredible made-for-TV film earned nine Emmys including one for director Korty and one for Tracy Keenan Wynn's intelligent script.

• Behind The Mask | DVD | (30/01/2012) from £4.25   |  Saving you £13.50 (542.17%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Redgrave stars alongside her father Michael in this drama set behind the scenes of London Great Hospital.

• The Right of the Weakest | DVD | (31/12/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Unemployed men attempt a heist in The Right Of The Weakest a dry but thought-provoking Belgian drama. Taking time to develop its characters it sees two former steel workers team up with an ex con in an attempt to help Patrick a broke house husband who dreams of buying his wife a new moped. Their struggles are convincing and fittingly amusing but don't come here looking for laughs: the conclusion is sobering stuff. The Right Of The Weakest opens like a po-faced Belgian version of The Full Monty pleading for sympathy for its out-of-work heroes who are desperate for both cash and respect. Clubbing together to play the lottery they soon realise more drastic means are called for and turn to former robber Marc Pirmet (writer/director Lucas Belvaux) for advice.

• The Criminal | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £5.54   |  Saving you £17.44 (683.92%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Despite being overshadowed by the welter of inferior, identikit cockney gangster movies, The Criminal is an invigorating and sophisticated crime thriller; deftly handling its theme of conspiracy, tinged with subtle comic moments, yet rife with tension and paranoia. In an assured performance of complexity, Steven Mackintosh plays J, a musician whose chance meeting with a beautiful blonde (Natasha Little in perfect femme-fatale form) brings some adventure in to his uneventful life. When she is brutally murdered, the unsuspecting and confused J is thrust in to a nightmare of corruption and conspiracy, doggedly pursued by two police officers (the superbly foul-mouthed Bernard Hill and Holly Aird) as well as a shadowy criminal elite (watch for a wonderful cameo from comedian Eddie Izzard as a shady informant). A thoroughly impressive debut from director Julian Simpson, the film maintains an uneasy, claustrophobic atmosphere, bolstered by Simpson's ear for decent dialogue (particularly the innovative opening), storytelling prowess and visual flair. Fresh, imaginative and enthralling, The Criminal is a gem waiting to be discovered and a perfect antidote to lazy gangster cash-ins. On The DVD: director Simpson offers an informative and chatty commentary that provides excellent insight into how such a visually stylish film was made so economically. The cast and crew also offer interview soundbites, as well as biographies and a trailer. --Danny Graydon

• C'mon C'mon | Blu Ray | (12/04/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Falling In Love Again | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A married man on a trip to New York suddenly comes to the bleak realisation that 'you can't go home again'. A sensitive tale of love and romance which frequently blends scenes from the past with the present.

• Paranoid | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £6.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Paranoid tells the story of Chloe a fashion model who tired from her hectic schedule agrees to spend a weekend in the country with her new boyfriend and some of his friends. Things soon start to turn bad when his wife arrives and Chloe is left alone in a house full of people she doesn't know.

• Don't Worry About Me | DVD | (08/03/2010) from £7.02   |  Saving you £8.97 (127.78%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Don't Worry About Me

• High Season | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  On the Island of Rhodes Katherine is an expatriate English photographer living with her daughter. In an attempt to encourage tourism a sculpture is commissioned for the Town Square only the sculptor turns out to be Kath's ex-husband. The events that follow ensure that Katherine's dreams of an idyllic escape are well and truly shattered!

• The End Of Summer | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This penultimate film by Japanese master director Yasujiro Ozu examines the difficulties faced by the Kohayagawa family as they struggle to adapt their traditional values to a rapidly changing post-war Japan. As the family's generations-old sake making business begins to fail in the face of increasingly fierce competition Manbei the incorrigible elderly patriarch rekindles an affair with an old flame much to the disapproval of his daughter Fumiko. He is further distracted by his a