Drama

• Moonlight And Valentino | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-9.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This is a powerful comedy drama about four women who discover untapped strength within themselves when they finally let go of what divides them. In the blink of an eye the happily married Rebecca Lott becomes a widow or as she puts it 'the w word'. She is not alone for long however when her eccentric friend Sylvia neurotic younger sister Lucy and controlling ex-stepmother Alberta move in with a lot of baggage - both emotional and literal! But when Alberta hires a sexy house painter to raise Rebecca's spirits he inspires unforseen passion - and unexpected compassion - within each of the women as they learn to let down their defences and let go of their innermost fears. Both poetically poignant and fall-down funny Moonlight and Valentino will make its way into your heart.

• Over the Edge | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £7.09   |  Saving you £-1.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  New Grenada is a planned community in the rolling plains west of Denver. It is a soulless oasis of split levels home coffee mornings and crushing blandness where the adults strive to attract investment and their neglected kids are left to make their own entertainment. When the youth centre closes at dusk this manifests in vandalism drug-taking theft and general hooliganism resulting in the accidental shooting of a police officer. When the town's parents gather the next night to discuss the degenerating situation they soon discover the kids have had all they can take. Starring Matt Dillon (Crash Wild Things) in his first screen role Over The Edge is a beautiful yet starkly realised social treatise about the rhythms of teenage life made at a time where youth crime was rampant across middle America. The vastness of the desert setting adds to the sense of hopelessness that engulfs the townsfolk and makes for a ground-breaking and memorial movie that introduced the troubled-teen cinematic genre.

• Sparks: the Price of Passion | DVD | (19/05/2007) from £6.94   |  Saving you £-0.95 (-15.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A romantic thriller in which Patricia Sparks (Victoria Principal) is caught in a rare moment of sexual indiscretion by an enemy's camera and soon finds herself as the victim of a vicious blackmail scheme. Sparks the newly appointed mayor of a tough south-western town with a gang culture that constantly stands in her way is undaunted by threats and is determined to uphold her uncompromising integrity. More trouble is brewing in the form of a series of bizarre murders as one by one women in the public eye are being killed off. As a result a special FBI agent is called in to investigate and to Sparks's surprise it is the same man with whom she shared a night of scandalous passion. Struggling to put her emotions aside she is determined to put an end to the killing spree unaware that as she closes in on the case the killer is closing in on her. Can he be stopped before she becomes his next target?

• Evan Almighty/Buddy/Magic In The Water | DVD | (25/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Evan Almighty: Steve Carell (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) reprising his role as the polished preening newscaster Evan Baxter of Bruce Almighty is the next one anointed by God to accomplish a holy mission in the hilarious new comedy Evan Almighty. Blockbuster comedy director Tom Shadyac (The Nutty Professor Liar Liar Bruce Almighty) returns behind the camera for this next episode of divine intervention. This time however his cast grows two-by-two. Newly elected to Congress Evan leaves Buffalo behind and shepherds his family to suburban northern Virginia. Once there his life gets turned upside-down when God (Morgan Freeman) appears and mysteriously commands him to build an ark. But his befuddled family just can't decide whether Evan is having an extraordinary mid-life crisis or is truly onto something of Biblical proportions... Buddy: A delightful family adventure based on a remarkable true story featuring amazing effects courtesy of Jim Henson's Creature Shop. Rene Russo stars as eccentric socialite Gertrude ""Trudy"" Lintz who adopts a baby gorilla into her already-bustling animal menagerie. Along with chimpanzees Maggie and Joe Buddy gets into all kinds of hilarious monkey business and proceeds to drive everyone bananas. Magic In The Water: Radio psychologist Jack Black (Mark Harmon) takes his children Joshua (Joshua Jackson) and Ashley (Sarah Wayne) on a ""vacation"" to a lake in British Columbia. While he grinds away at work the children discover that the famous local lake monster ""Orky"" may not be just a gimmick to attract tourists after all. In fact Orky may enable them to get closer to their workaholic dad and help keep local polluters from dumping toxic waste into Orky's home.

• The Man In The Glass Booth | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Arthur Goldman a rich Jewish industrialist who lives in luxury in Manhattan and is irreverent about many things Jewish is arrested by Israeli secret agents for allegedly being a Nazi war criminal... Robert Shaw best known for his acting roles in movies such as 'From Russia With Love' and 'Jaws' turned playwright to create this brilliant drama inspired by the trial of Adolf Eichmann concerned with guilt paranoia conspiracy theories and martyrdom. Directed by Arthur Hiller

• Kramer vs Kramer | DVD | (26/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.90

  Kramer vs Kramer is the box office smash that gathered 5 Oscars including Best Picture Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman and Best Supporting Actress for Meryl Streep. Returning home late from work one night a career-obsessed Ted Kramer is told by his wife that she is leaving him. After a life of being 'somebody's daughter' or 'somebody's wife ' she's going off to find herself - leaving Ted to care for their 6 year-old son. Ted while trying to hold down his job gets to really know his son: cooking his meals taking him to the park understanding every need and fear. For the first time in his life he feels like a fulfilled parent. But then Joanna returns. And she wants her son back...

• Mother Joan Of The Angels | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 17th Century Poland a group of nuns are possessed by the devil a situation allegedly caused by a clergyman who sexually enticed the women. Among the group who arrive to do an exorcism is a young and innocent priest - and he has a strange and unorthodox plan to free Satan's victims...

• Pitfall | DVD | (21/03/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A wandering miner looking for work with his young son is pursued and savagely killed by a mysterious silent assassin in a white suit and hat. The killer threatens a female witness to lie to the police and blame it on someone else. As mistrust and more killings spread through the barely populated rundown mining community ghosts of the dead appear and follow the action unheard by the living yet imploring them for answers. Who is the man in white and why does he sow confusion? Te

• Le Grande Bouffe | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Marco Ferreri's greatest international success La Grande Bouffe scandalized audiences when it was released in 1973. Audiences were shocked by its tale of four world-weary middle-aged men (superbly portrayed by Marcello Mastroianni Ugo Tognazzi Michel Piccoli and Philippe Noiret) who decide to gorge themselves to death in one final orgiastic weekend full of gourmet food call girls and a hefty lusty schoolteacher. This blackly humorous parable of modern society's collaps

• All The King's Men | Blu Ray | (08/04/2007) from £13.48   |  Saving you £11.51 (46.10%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The story of larger-than-life politician Willie Stark, who transcended the poverty of the Great Depression to become the governor of Louisiana.

• The Inspector | Blu Ray | (31/12/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Dutch detective Peter Jongman (Stephen Boyd) closely observes the actions of an ex-Nazi suspected of being a white slave trader. He saves Lisa (Dolores Hart), a victim of Nazi experiments after a showdown with the villain in London. Peter takes a liking to the girl since she resembles his late wife who died at the hands of the Nazis during the war. He makes a promise to deliver Lisa to Palestine, and the couple travels to Holland and France in an effort to find someone to smuggle her to her desired destination. Features: High Definition Transfer Posters & Images from Around the World Original Theatrical Trailer

• A Delicate Balance | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £39.39   |  Saving you £-19.40 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The sister who drank too much. The daughter who divorced too much. They're all there when Tobias and Agnes have their little get-together and tear-apart... 'A Delicate Balance' was Edward Albee's first Pullitzer Prize winning play and in it he examines the same waspish middle-class America which he explored to such caustic effect in 'Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?'

• Essential Poems (To Fall In Love With) With Daisy Goodwin | DVD | (02/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Poetry is essential and Daisy Goodwin told us why in Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With). This series was transmitted from 14-18 February 2003 and looks at how poets from William Shakespeare and Andrew Marvell to Maya Angelou and Wendy Cope are still relevant today. Starring Amanda Holden Stephen Tompkinson Ralf Little Jo Whiley and Andrew Lincoln.

• The Devil Came From Akasava | DVD | (08/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A new mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is stolen secret agents are despatched to get it back!

• Betrayal | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £22.96   |  Saving you £-5.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Three people find themselves thrown together by fate and on a cross-country trip from LA to Texas. A mother and son are fleeing a dangerous drug dealer and another apparently harmless hitchhiker begs a lift. But in this twisted thriller nobody is exactly what they seem...

• The Italian Stallion | DVD | (26/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sylvester Stallone's first film role was Party at Kitty and Studs, a sexploitation movie which was shot in 1970 when Sly was 24. Sly's passion for acting was spotted by Stephen Verona when Sly helped a friend at an acting class with a sense from 'Death of a Salesman' at New Yorks' prestigious Herbert Berghof School. Verona remembered Sly and a few months afterwards asked him to audition for 'The lords of Flatbush' and the rest is history. Party at Kitty and Studs was never released, however once Rocky was underway they were re-edited and released as Italian Stallion which was also Sly's nickname prior to Rocky.Sly plays the part of Stud, whose world revolves entirely around sex, sex and more sex, an interest he shares with his way-out friends and his girl Kitty who likes her men mean and muscular. Stallone acknowledged in a Playboy interview that he was paid a mere $200 for his role in the film.

• Meantime | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Meantime centres on a East End family the Pollacks - Mavis Frank and their sons Mark and Colin - and their experience of unemployment poverty and life in early 1980s Britain. When Colin comes under the influence of skinhead Coxy and when Mavis's better off sister Barbara offers Colin work family tensions erupt into conflict. Mike Leigh's first independent film for five years has a superb cast of rising stars including Gary Oldman Alfred Molina Tim Roth and Phil Daniels. First shown on television it is a memorable and closely observed account of life in Thatcher's Britain.

• The Lovejoy Collection - Vol. 12 | DVD | (16/05/2005) from £5.65   |  Saving you £7.34 (129.91%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ian McShane stars as lovable rogue antiques dealer Lovejoy. Features the episodes: 'The Prague Sun (feature length special)' and 'The Napoleonic Commode'.

• Illusion Of Blood | DVD | (02/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From Shiro Toyoda director of the nightmarish Portrait Of Hell comes a chilling story of love betrayal and vengeance. Tatsuya Nakadai stars as the selfish samurai Iyemon who after the loss of his lord has been left impoverished. He become outraged that his father-in-law intends to sell his two daughter's into prostitution. It is not love but respectability that Iyemon desires...

• A Pure Formality | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A young woman has been found murdered and Onoff a famous writer is found wandering aimlessly in the rain with no identification or memory. Called in for questioning he is soon the prime suspect. By dawn the identity of the woman is revealed and now Onoff is faced with even more frightening consequences.