Drama

• Cruel Intentions / Cruel Intentions 2 / Cruel Intentions 3 | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Cruel Intentions: Kathryn Merteuil and Sebastian Valmont are two gorgeous filthy rich manipulative stepsiblings from Manhattan's upper east side. Bored of the girls he has so easily seduced in the past Sebastian has set his sights on the ultimate challenge - the beautiful virginal headmasters daughter Annette Hargrove. Kathryn sees the perfect opportunity for a wager. If Sebastian fails to lure Annette into his bed he will have to surrender his priceless vintage Jaguar;

• Capote/All The King's Men/Ghandi | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Capote (Dir. Bennett Miller) (2005): In 1959 Truman Capote a popular writer for The New Yorker learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb Kansas. Inspired by the story material Capote and his partner Harper Lee travel to the town to research for an article. However as Capote digs deeper into the story he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work 'In Cold Blood'. To that end he arranges extensive interviews with the prisoners especially with Perry Smith a quiet and articulate man with a troubled history. As he works on his book Capote feels some compassion for Perry which in part prompts him to help the prisoners to some degree. However that feeling deeply conflicts with his need for closure for the book which only an execution can provide. The conflict and mixed motives for both interviewer and subject make for a troubling experience that would produce a literary account that redefined modern non-fiction.... All The Kings Men (Dir. Steven Zaillian) (2006): Absolute power corrupts absolutely in writer-director Steven Zaillian's (Schindler's List) adaptation of Robert Penn Warren's classic novel ""All the King's Men"" featuring an all-star cast led by Sean Penn Jude Law Kate Winslet Patricia Clarkson James Gandolfini Mark Ruffalo Anthony Hopkins. All the King's Men charts the spectacular rise and fall of a charismatic Southern politician ""Boss"" Willie Stark (Penn). Law co-stars as Jack Burden the once idealistic now embittered ex-reporter who unwittingly fuels Stark's corrupt political ambitions. Gandhi (Dir. Richard Attenborough) (1982): In South Africa a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Upon his return to his native India and fed up with the unjust political system he joins the Indian Congress Party which encourages social change through passive resistance. When his ""subversive"" activities land him in jail masses of low-skilled workers strike to support his non-violent yet revolutionary position. Back in India Gandhi renounces the Western way of life and struggles to organize Indian labor against British colonialism. A strike costs many British soldiers their lives so the crown responds by slaughtering 1 500 Indians. Enraged the ascetic spiritual leader continues to preach pacifism until he has lead India out from under the tyranny of British imperialism.

• The Art Of Being Straight | DVD | (21/09/2009) from £5.29   |  Saving you £9.70 (64.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A touching but funny drama following two college friends who are questioning their careers as well as their sexuality.

• Ghar Ghar Ki Kahani | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Ravi the son of a respectful office manager cannot understand why he and his brother and sister cannot have the luxuries in life that their friends have. Ravi's father gives him the responsibilities that are not usually given to someone at such a young age. In this movie you see how two families live parallel lives one depending on hard work and honesty and the other living on bribes and dishonesty. See the results in this touching film as it shows how hard work and honesty achieve what crime and dishonesty cannot.

• Lunch Box | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-9.29 (-62.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A thirty five year old woman becomes romantically involved with a young man but when he leaves her she is incapable of letting go. A bizarre story of an almost mute woman who works in a post office and whose fascination with a co-worker leads to a passionate affair which consists of nothing but eating and sex. The object of her obsession soon tires of his continuous diet of sex and food and he tries to leave her. The mute woman seeks solace and answers from a number of talking bowling balls...

• The Boxer | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £22.95   |  Saving you £0.03 (0.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Director Jim Sheridan links up once more with Daniel Day-Lewis for 1997's The Boxer, a study of a violent Belfast's uneasy crossover into the peace process (they had previously worked on My Left Foot among other films). Day-Lewis stars as Danny Flynn, imprisoned in his late teens for terrorism, now out after 14 years. A once promising boxer, he's initially looking to resume what's left of his career. However, his rekindled love for Maggie (Emily Watson), daughter of local IRA boss (Brian Cox), is coupled with a need to be a part of the healing process in Northern Ireland. With the help of his former trainer (Ken Stott), he reopens a non-sectarian gym. However, the non-pacific wing of the IRA, personified by Gerard McSorley, resents Flynn, not least for consorting with Maggie, who is another IRA prisoner's wife. Day-Lewis plays Flynn as an almost spiritual figure, still caught in the introspection that enshrouded him during his years in jail. Ironically, the well-executed boxing scenes provide a respite from the air of serious violence that pervades the rest of the film, symbolised by the ominous rotorblades of the ever-present helicopters, from which much of the action of this sad, yet gripping and ultimately uplifting movie, is shot.On the DVD: Generous extras include commentaries from producer Arthur Lappin, who offers a tourist's guide to various locations, as well as one from director Jim Sheridan, who offers technical info and remarks drily of a brief, tart exchange between Maggie and Flynn, "This is an Irish love scene". There's also an alternative (though not that alternative) ending, extra scenes which probably deserved to stay on the cutting room floor and, most illuminatingly, a featurette on the movie. This reveals that the career of Barry McGuigan (boxing advisor here) provided Sheridan with the impetus to make The Boxer, inspired by the courage and grace he showed in the ring to rise above partisanship. --David Stubbs

• London's Burning - Series 13 | DVD | (15/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  All sixteen episodes from the thirteenth series of the hit TV show focusing on the exploits of a group of London firemen.

• Snapshots | DVD | (14/08/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Another Bouquet: The Complete Series | DVD | (04/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Andrea Newman's controversial series explores the tangled sexual and emotional relationships of a middle-class family as it is torn apart by its own tangled sexual relationships. It has been six months since Prue died following the birth of her daughter who is now being cared for by Cassie Prue's mother. Cassie's husband Peter still grieving over Prue's death makes a decision while Gavin Prue's husband begins to have problems with his baby daughter. Another Bouquet continues Newman's powerful examination of the fragility of family unity and the destructive consequences of forbidden desire. Sheila Allen and Frank Finlay give spellbinding performances and this sequel to Bouquet of Barbed Wire continued to be popular with both the viewing public and critics.

• James Mason - The Screen Icons Collection | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  A collection of films starring one of Britain's finest actors James Mason.

• Rockers | DVD | (01/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Writer-director Theodoros Bafaloukos responded to Jamaica's siren call all the way over in Greece and came to the island to make this 1977 movie about a band of Rasta men/Robin Hoods getting their own back at the expense of those perennial bloodsuckers, the "uptown top rankings", as men of money and position are called in Jamaica. The reggae star-studded cast is undoubtedly the movie's most rewarding feature, though some fans have objected to the demeaning sight of the incomparable late singer Jacob Miller threatening a friend with a knife over a purloined chicken leg or the equally great singer Gregory Isaacs exacting chump change for unlocking a tourist's rental car. However, these and other great reggae figures are also seen here in full and glorious performance at their peak. In fact, this film provides our only extended visual record of Miller's kinetic performance style and one of the best pieces of footage on Isaacs. Although Rockers doesn't approach the multi-layered complexity of The Harder They Come and it does betray a little superiority now and then to its characters, there are plenty of laughs as well as insights into life at the time for Jamaica's growing Rastafarian movement. Drummer Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace makes an unlikely though quintessentially Jamaican leading man as he moves between wooing the rich man's virginal daughter and making pit stops at the shack he shares with his wife and children. His band of accomplices is priceless, and the scene in which each struts in his own "stylee" to Peter Tosh's "Stepping Razor" is alone worth the price. --Elena Oumano

• The Battleaxe | DVD | (19/10/2009) from £10.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (-9.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Francis Matthews and Jill Ireland star as Tony Evers and Audrey Page an engaged couple whose pre-marital bliss is shattered by the future bride's domineering mother. Unable to withstand this wicked witch of the Northlands Matthews tries to weasel out of the marriage by suing for breach of promise: the broken promise being that mother would stop meddling. Joan Haythorne plays the domineering mother in-law Mrs Page who has made it her business to keep the two apart and ensure her daughter doesn't marry such a crooked character.

• Agency | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £5.60   |  Saving you £-1.61 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Set in the high pressure world of Madison Avenue Advertising Robert Mitchum stars in this provocative thriller based on the effects of subliminal messaging in TV commercials.

• Hunting | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £9.91   |  Saving you £3.34 (38.61%)   |  RRP £11.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! An erotic game of death and desire. A beautiful married woman is seduced into a torrid love affair with a charismatic but ruthless business magnate. Tension mounts as the entanglement leads her deeper and deeper into a dark underworld of blackmail forbidden lust and murder.

• The Sopranos: Series 2 (Vol. 2) | DVD | (21/05/2001) from £6.03   |  Saving you £6.96 (115.42%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The second series of The Sopranos, David Chase's ultra-cool and ultra-modern take on New Jersey gangster life, matches the brilliance of the first, although it's marginally less violent, with more emphasis given to the stories and obsessions of supporting characters. Sadly, the programme makers were forced to throttle back on the appalling struggle between gang boss Tony Soprano and his Gorgon-like Mother Livia, the very stuff of Greek theatre, following actress Nancy Marchand's unsuccessful battle against cancer. Taking up her slack, however, is Tony's big sister Janice, a New Age victim and arrant schemer and sponger, who takes up with the twitchy, Scarface-wannabe Richie Aprile, brother of former boss Jackie, out of prison and a minor pain in Tony's ass. Other running sub-plots include soldier Chris (Michael Imperioli) hapless efforts to sell his real-life Mafia story to Hollywood, the return and treachery of Big Pussy and Tony's wife Carmela's ruthlessness in placing daughter Meadow in the right college. Even with the action so dispersed, however, James Gandofini is still toweringly dominant as Tony. The genius of his performance, and of the programme makers, is that, despite Tony being a whoring, unscrupulous, sexist boor, a crime boss and a murderer, we somehow end up feeling and rooting for him, because he's also a family man with a bratty brood to feed, who's getting his balls busted on all sides, to say nothing of keeping the Government off his back. He's the kind of crime boss we'd like to feel we would be. Tony's decent Italian-American therapist Dr Melfi's (Loraine Bracco) perverse attraction with her gangster-patient reflects our own and, in her case, causes her to lose her first series cool and turn to drink this time around. Effortlessly multi-dimensional, funny and frightening, devoid of the sentimentality that afflicts even great American TV like The West Wing, The Sopranos is boss of bosses in its televisual era. --David Stubbs

• The Time Of Your Life | DVD | (30/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Time of Your Life is a gripping emotional thriller about the pain and confusion one woman faces after waking from a 18-year long coma to a world where nothing is the same. Meet Kate (Genevieve O'Reilly) who at the age of 36 has spent half her life lying motionless in her childhood bedroom. Kate discovers that everything around her has changed: her parents Eileen (Geraldine James) and Toby (Robert Pugh) look like her grandparents; her friends have succumbed to the jobs a

• Om Jai Jagish | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Om has the sole responsibility of bringing up his two younger brothers Jai and Jagdish. He works for a music company and has a gift for spotting great talent. He's ready to sacrifice everything he has for his brothers. Jai is crazy about cars and would love to study automobile engineering abroad. Jagdish is a computer geek. The brothers fall in love with three lovely girls but when the younger brothers find that their ambitions and ideas are clashing with Om's their relationship begin

• The Aviator's Wife | DVD | (12/04/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-10.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  La Femme de l'aviateur was the first in Eric Rohmer's celebrated Comedies and Proverbs series. Francois (Philippe Marlaud) loves Anne (Marie Rivire). However his nightshift job at the post office means they rarely get to spend much time together. One day he sees her leaving home with her ex Christian (Mathieu Carrire) who had come to break up with her for good. Reeling from the news Anne lets Francois fall prey to his jealous imagination. Obsessed with the idea that she may hav

• Adoration | DVD | (10/05/2010) from £7.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  ADORATION speaks to our connections---with each other, with our family history, with technology and with the modern world.

• An Unflinching Eye - The films Of Richard Woolley | DVD | (28/03/2011) from £22.98   |  Saving you £10.00 (50.03%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This comprehensive 4-DVD collection finally sees the long-overdue release of the work of controversial British independent filmmaker Richard Woolley. In these stylistically and politically radical films Woolley explores themes of class and gender in contemporary society and offers the viewer an uncompromising and thought-provoking perspective on the world around them. The films included here are Illusive Crime (1976) Telling Tales (1978) Brothers and Sisters (1981) Waiting for Alan (1984) and Girl from the South (1988). The collection also includes Woolley's experimental early short films and interviews with the director.