Drama

• Tu Chor Main Siphai | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Bollywood thriller that is most pleasing. Raja is a thief by profession better known as King whose name spells terror for high society a menace for the rich and benefactor for the poor - a la Rabin Hood style. In his latest robbery he ransacks the house of Home Minister's daughter which infuriates the Police Commissioner to instruct Inspector Amar to arrest Raja dead or alive at any cost! Watch out Raja!

• Upstairs Downstairs - Series 3 - Episodes 1 To 7 | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £13.88   |  Saving you £1.11 (8.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The first part of series 3 of the acclaimed serial spanning the pre-war period of 1912-1914. Episode comprise: Miss Forrest / A House Divided / A Change Of Scene / A Family Secret / Rose's Pigeon / Desirous Of Change / Word Of Honour

• Half Moon | DVD | (25/08/2008) from £33.66   |  Saving you £-20.67 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Mamo an old and legendary Kurdish musician living in Iran plans to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan. After seven months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his ten sons he sets out for the long and troublesome journey in a derelict bus denying a recurring vision of his own death at half moon. Halfway the party halts at a small village to pick up female singer Hesho which will only add to the difficulty of the undertaking as it is forbidden for Iranian women to sing in public let alone in the company of men. A majestic landscape and a sense of premonition pervade a journey informed by experiences of oppression adventure and the transcendent power of music and set against the backdrop of Saddam Hussein's fall from power.

• Some Voices | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Part love story, part comedy, part study of madness, Some Voices is above all a beautifully observed, elegantly written and brilliantly acted low-key British film. The story of Ray (Daniel Craig) and his relationships with his brother Pete (Dave Morrissey) and new girlfriend Laura (Kelly Macdonald) after his release from psychiatric hospital, it is the interaction between the three that forms the cornerstone of the movie. Craig dominates proceedings as his character finds himself needlessly torn between the two, capturing Ray's descent into madness far better than the rather unnecessary over use of visual effects. The interplay between all three is superb, particularly Craig and Macdonald who spend the first two-thirds of the story developing a dependence that is pure sweetness and light before darkness descends. Director Simon Cellan Jones (whose previous credits include Our Friends in the North) allows his first feature film to develop at it's own pace, letting the script and performances dictate the action. The West London setting fizzes with a life that Notting Hill barely hinted at, proving that a movie set in the capital (or indeed made in Britain) doesn't have to rely on mock cockney gangster stereotypes to reflect the city. This is a self-assured, engaging and ultimately moving piece of filmmaking. On the DVD: The accompanying documentary and interviews offer little insight into the process and are edited down to minute-long segments with little attempt to examine the bigger picture. Jones' commentary, however, does provide an interesting insight into the perils of making a film on a small budget. --Phil Udell

• My Forbidden Past | DVD | (08/08/2011) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-4.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A passionate romance starring Ava Gardner as a beautiful heiress driven to extreme lengths when her dreams of true love are cruelly thwarted. New Orleans the 1800's: Barbara Beaurevel (Gardner Mogambo) inherits a fortune from her grandmother a woman with a notorious reputation. Barbara pledges to use the money for good works but her noble intentions are quickly tested... Barbara's in love with Dr Mark Lucas (Mitchum Angel Face); when he returns to the city with a new bride Corinne Barbara becomes desperate. She pays her wicked cousin Paul to seduce Corinne hoping Mark will then abandon his wife. But when Corinne is murdered Mark is blamed. Only Barbara can save him but she could lose everything if she does...

• Scarface/Taxi Driver/Casino/Donnie Brasco/Lock, Stock | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This Greatest Ever... Gangsters Box Set features the following films: Scarface: Al Pacino gives an unforgettable performance as Tony Montana one of the most ruthless gangsters ever depicted on film in this gripping crime epic inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title. Scarface follows the violent career of a small-time Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire... Taxi Driver: In Martin Scorsese's classic 1970s drama insomniac Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) works the nightshift driving his cab throughout decaying mid-'70s New York City wishing for a real rain to wash the scum off the neon-lit streets. Chronically alone Travis cannot connect with anyone not even with such other cabbies as blowhard Wizard (Peter Boyle). He becomes infatuated with vapid blonde presidential campaign worker Betsy (Cybill Shepherd) who agrees to a date and then spurns Travis when he cluelessly takes her to a porno movie. The increasingly paranoid Travis begins to condition himself for his imagined destiny a mission that mutates from assassinating Betsy's candidate Charles Palatine (Leonard Harris) to violently saving teen hooker Iris (Jodie Foster) from her pimp Sport (Harvey Keitel). Travis' bloodbath turns him into a media hero; but has it truly calmed his mind? Casino: Robert De Niro Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in Director Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition white-hot passion and 24-carat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas in 1973 is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob's multi-million dollar casino operation - where fortunes and lives were made and lost with a roll of the dice... Donnie Brasco: The true story of an FBI undercover agent (Johnny Depp) who becomes Donnie Brasco 'The Jewel Man' to infiltrate one of the mob families. Donnie manoeuvres his way into the confidence of ageing hit man Lefty Ruggiero (Al Pacino) who trusts Donnie and vouches for him to the mob. But Lefty and Donnie become friends when they should be enemies. As Donnie moves deeper and deeper into the Mafia chain of command he realises he is not only crossing the line between federal agent and criminal but it also leading his friend Lefty to an almost certain death sentence... Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels: Streetwise charmer and cardshark Eddy (Nick Moran) walks into the biggest card game of his life carrying a stake backed by the life-savings of his three best mates Tom (Jason Flemying) Bacon (Jason Statham) and Soap (Dexter Fletcher). Eddy is the sharpest player on the circuit but the game is set-up and Eddy leaves owing underworld boss Hatchet Harry (P.H. Moriarty) half a million. Harry gives Eddy a week to come up with the money before he starts taking fingers as collateral. Eddy's dad JD (Sting) can cancel the debt by handing over his bar lock stock and barrel to his old adversary Harry JD refuses to give in feeling his street-tough son can get himself out of his own messes. So while Harry sends a couple of petty crooks to steal a pair of antique shotguns to add to his collection Eddy and his mates plan a caper that will enable them to pay off Harry and make out like bandits! In a comedy of errors and a helter-skelter ride through London's gangland the guns cash drugs and identities become all mixed up as a full complement of London's lowlife get involved in a melee which even their menace can't handle.

• Steal This Movie! | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £5.94   |  Saving you £-1.95 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  'Steal This Movie!' is a comic safari through one man's odyssey. Abbie Hoffman leads us through the music sex drugs politics and personal struggle of the late Sixities and Seventies.

• Tiger By The Tail | DVD | (29/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  On assignment to London, American newspaper hack John Desmond, (Larry Parks) meets a mysterious woman (Lisa Daniely) in a nightclub and a brief romance ensues but our mystery lady is part of a counterfeit ring and Desmond is caught up in the whole affair. Desmond along with his English secretary the beautiful (Constance Smith) are kidnapped by the gang who will stop at nothing to retrieve a diary containing vital information. Also stars Alexander Gauge (Friar Tuck) and watch out for farm hand Thora Hird and cleaning lady Margot Bryant (Minnie Caldwell) of Coronation Street fame.

• Grease 2 - Steelbook | Blu Ray | (09/06/2022) from £22.45   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Running | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Mike Andropolis is a failure law school drop-out and jack-of-all-trades about to lose his house and family. In desperation he decides to train for the Olympic Marathon in a last ditch attempt at winning back his family and his self-respect...

• Paul Newman Collection - Hud/Shadow Makers/Twighlight | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Titles Comprise: Hud: Paul Newman is Hud a man at odds with his father tradition and himself. Hud's only interests are fighting drinking hot-rodding his Cadillac and womanising. Melvyn Douglas is the father an old-line cattle rancher and Patricia Neal is the understanding and appealing housekeeper. Academy Awards went to Patricia Neal Melvyn Douglas and James Wong Howe's brilliant cinematography. Shadow Makers: Based on the true events surrounding the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built Shadow Makers is the story of brilliant scientist Robert Oppenheimer who supervised the work on the now infamous Manhattan Project. Directed by Oscar-nominated Roland Joffe the film focuses on the link between the progress of science at all costs deep moral ambiguities and the effects of the project on the individuals involved. Paul Newman plays the military general overseeing the Manhattan Project. His deeply cynical and uncompromising portrayal of a man determined to succeed no matter what is the catalyst for the dramatic tensions in the film. Shadow Makers delicately captures the internal struggles of the individual's experience set-against the dominance of a greater power that manipulates them to its needs and that is eternally present like a sinister shadow in the background of their lives. John Cusack and Laura Dern are excellent in supporting roles and play out the devastating affects of atomic warfare in a sensitive and provoking manner. The authenticity and attention to detail consolidate a gripping and thoughtful view on the true events surrounding the invention of the atom bomb. Twilight Some people can buy their way out of anything. Except the past. Paul Newman plays Harry Ross a burned-out private eye who's plunged into a murder mystery tied to a long-unsolved case of Hollywood dreams schemes and cover-ups. Susan Sarandon and Gene Hackman are among the locals who inhabit a Tinseltown world of privilege and sleaze sexuality and desperation trust and double-cross.

• To Sir, With Love | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A novice teacher faces a class of rowdy, undisciplined working-class teenagers in this classic film that reflected some of the problems and fears that existed among young people in the 1960's. Sidney Poitier gives one of his finest performances as Mark Thackeray, an out-of-work engineer who turns to teaching in London's tough East End.The graduating class, led by Denham (Christian Roberts), Pamela (Judy Geeson) and Barbara (Lulu, who also sings the hit title song), sets out to destroy Thakceray as they did his predecessor, by breaking his spirit. But Thackeray, no stranger to hostility, meets the challenge by treating the students as young adults who will soon enter a work force where they must stand or fall on their own. When offered an engineering job, Thackeray must decide if he wants to stay...

• Jongens | DVD | (03/02/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Salaam Namaste | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set in Australia a Radio Presenter decides to interview a Head Chef as part of her 'Indians living in Melbourne' programme. Unfortunately he doesn't turn up. Despite feeling that this man deserves to learn a few lessons in life she meets up with him at a beach wedding and they are instantly attracted. They fall in love and decide to live together but is their relationship as perfect as they thought?

• Greenberg | Blu Ray | (04/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "Greenberg" brings actor Ben Stiller together with Academy Award-nominated writer/director Noah Baumbach ("The Squid and the Whale") to tell the funny and moving tale of lovable loser Roger Greenberg.

• Passionate Summer | DVD | (08/07/2019) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jamaica, an island paradise...where human emotions are laid bare under the tropical sun! Douglas Lockwood, (Bill Travers) is a gifted teacher at Leonard Pawley's experimental school situated in Jamaica. During one summer, a private plane crashes into the mountains a short distance from the school. Lockwood helps rescue passenger Judy Waring (Virginia McKenna) and quickly develops a romantic interest in her while she convalesces at the school... Meanwhile Leonard Pawley's wife (Yvonne Mitchell) has her own romantic interest in Lockwood and a love triangle quickly develops. The love interest of the adults and the behaviour of the school children see temperatures rise under the burning summer sun.

• Divergence Eve - Vol. 3 | DVD | (26/12/2005) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-12.38 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Seraphim must choose who amongst them can fight the final battle. When the price of losing is certain death only the bravest dare to venture out on sorties. As Misaki battles with ghosts from her past she must watch as Ghouls violate and annihilate her closest friends. She must choose between destroying herself or allowing the Watcher's Nest to be the victim of certain destruction. But someone is about to unlock Misaki's secret...someone who will surely use her power for evil!

• Rivals | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Teenage jealousies can have deadly consequences...On 20 December 1991, having been mercilessly stalked, Laurie Show was mutilated and murdered by her love-rival, Lisa Michelle Lambert. It was a crime of exceptional brutality, made all the more shocking by the fact that both killer and victim were teenagers.Rivals tells the bizarre and tragic story of events leading up to the death of Laurie Show. It starts as Laurie (Jennifer Finnigan, The Bold and the Beautiful) moves with her mother Hazel (Mary-Margaret Humes, Dawson's Creek) to a small town in Pennsylvania. Despite being shy and innocent, Laurie soon realises that Lawrence 'Butch' Yunkin (Rel Hunt, Heartbreak High), one of the most popular boys at her new school, finds her attractive. While Butch's girlfriend, Michelle (Marnette Patterson, Charmed) appears to befriend Laurie, in secret she is insanely jealous of the obvious attraction between Laurie and Butch. At a party, events take an ugly turn: responding violently to Laurie's advances, Butch rapes her. Walking in on the attack, Michelle misreads the situation and accuses Laurie of being a seducer. Michelle and her friend Tabitha (Joanne Vannicola, Love and Human Remains) proceed to ruin Laurie's reputation, branding her a slut and relentlessly harassing her until events bloodily explode on that dark December night. Laurie's stalking and murder occurred before anti-stalking laws were introduced in Pennsylvania.

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

  The Robinsons aren't related to any of the famous Robinsons: Edward G Smokey or even Anne. No they are a run of-the-mill family from Wimbledon South London who have ""done quite well"". All of them that is except the youngest Ed (the Black Sheep of the Family) 32 recently divorced after a disastrous marriage that lasted five-and-a-half months doing a job that he hates and living in his aunt's flat in Bermondsey. What's gone wrong in his life? Really how difficult is it to find

• Cribb - Vol. 1 - Swing, Swing Together | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Alan Dobie stars as Detective Sergeant Cribb a member of Scotland Yard's newly formed CID unit in Victorian London. Known for his wry sense of humour Cribb is aided and at times hindered by the ever-faithful Constable Thackeray... Featuring Episodes Swing Swing Together Abracadaver The Detective Wore Silk Drawers The Horizontal Witness Wobble To Death