Drama

• Upstairs Downstairs - Series 5 - Episodes 1 To 8 | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £6.81   |  Saving you £8.18 (120.12%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Episodes 1-8 including: On with the Dance A Place in the World Laugh a Little Louder Please The Joy Ride Wanted-A Good Home An Old Flame Disillusion and Such a Lovely Man. World War I is over and Eaton Place has moved into the 1920's. The uncertainty of this new age is emphasised as Richard Bellamy's plans for the future with his new wife Virginia cause anxiety. James Bellamy on returning from the war looking for a worthwhile occupation decides to follow in his father's footsteps and enters politics. James and Georgina are caught up in the hysterical gaiety of the times and throw a wild fancy dress party which ends in tragedy. James finds himself bored with his life and embarks on an affair with his best friend's wife. Meanwhile below the stairs Hudson becomes enamoured with a new young housemaid and puts his position as butler in danger...

• Deadlocked | DVD | (17/11/2000) from £7.45   |  Saving you £1.53 (34.30%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A young man is arrested for the rape and murder of a woman in a deserted building. All evidence against him seems undisputable but his father is not convinced and in his rage he takes the jury hostage.

• Monkey's Mask | DVD | (06/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A lady detective is drafted in to look into a string of murders within a chain of strip clubs and finds a web of lies, deceit and death.

• George Washington | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-12.38 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £19.99

  For a first feature from a 24-year-old director, George Washington is an amazingly assured piece of work. The title’s misleading: this is no biopic of America’s first President, but a poetic, richly atmospheric rhapsody set in a rundown industrial town in the American South. Given this backdrop, and a predominantly black cast, you might expect an angry study of social deprivation and racial tension, but Green has no such agenda. Instead, he derives a shimmering, heat-hazed beauty from his images of rusting machinery, junkyards and derelict buildings, and if the overall tone is tinged with sadness, it’s mainly from a sense of universal human loss. The action, such as it is, moves at its own slow Southern pace, following a group of youngsters, black and white, over a few high-summer days. Things do happen--a couple decide to elope, one boy’s saved from drowning, another gets killed--but they’re presented in an oblique, understated fashion that owes nothing to conventional Hollywood notions of narrative. With one exception, the cast are all non-professionals, mainly youngsters who director-writer David Gordon Green found in and around the town where the film was made, Winston-Salem in North Carolina. Shooting in a semi-improvised fashion, Green draws from his young cast remarkably spontaneous performances and dialogue (often their own) full of unselfconscious poetry. Drawing on a wide range of influences--among other things he cites Sesame Street, documentaries and such 70s classics as Deliverance, Walkabout and especially Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven--Green has fashioned a film that’s fresh, tender and utterly individual. And it looks just gorgeous: belying the tiny budget, Tim Orr’s widescreen photography lavishes mellow softness on images of dereliction and small-town decay. Never has dead-end poverty been made to look so attractive. On the DVD: George Washington comes on a disc generously loaded with extras. Besides the obvious theatrical trailer we get two of Green’s early short films, Physical Pinball and Pleasant Grove (both clearly dry runs for the main feature), an 18-minute featurette about the film’s reception at the Berlin Film Fest and a deleted scene of a community meeting. This scene, the short Pleasant Grove and the movie itself also offer a director’s commentary--or rather a director’s dialogue, as Green shares the honours with one of his lead actors, Paul Schneider. Their laconic, unpretentious comments enhance the whole experience enormously. The film has been transferred in its full scope ratio (2.35:1) and looks great. --Philip Kemp

• Violence In A Woman's Prison | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Shot back to back with 'Emanuelle In Prison' 'Violence In A Woman's Prison' is along the lines of 'The Concrete Jungle' and such other caged delights. Laura Gemser plays yet another Emanuelle a reporter who goes to prison undercover on trumped up charges to expose the corruption within the prison and to secure a scoop about the bad conditions run by sadistic warden Lorraine De Selle. Naturally the place is a hellhole. Gemser bares her fabulous body has sex with Gabrielle Tinti dumps a bucket of faeces on a guard and spends time in the hole where she is devoured and chewed on by hungry rats! Extremely kinky as expected with Mattei managing to stage a somewhat bizarre art rape-scene which looks like something from a Tinto Brass movie where the warden and her lover gets horny while watching a girl being raped and beaten up by male inmates (oh yes there are male inmates here too!). Lorraine De Selle is great as the evil warden and there's another loud great soundtrack by Luigi Ceccaralli.

• The Heart Of The Lie | DVD | (19/08/2013) from £8.07   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Kisses | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Masmura's debut feature with its stripped down narrative and handheld camerawork sent a shock wave through Japanese cinema in much the same manner as Godard in Europe. With its liberated camera and even more liberated protagonists this is the film which caused Oshima to say of Masumura ""a powerful irresistible force has arrived in Japanese Cinema."" A young boy and girl meet while visiting their respective fathers in prison. The young lovers soon embrace both each other and their mu

• Vivienne Westwood - Do It Yourself! | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £32.37   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Vivienne Westwood is the British queen of fashion. Since 1970, she unceasingly deconstructs couture only to reinvent it. What drives Vivienne ? A hatred of any kind of conformity. Vivienne Westwood isn't a classical fashion designer. She has the soul of a revolutionary. With her corsets and fake-derri�res, she has revived the Spirit of 1789. An eternal agent provocateur, Dame Westwood remains subversive and provocative like the Punk movement she styled in the seventies. This film is an in...

• The Lady Of Musashino | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mizoguchi's dissection of the Japanese reaction to the aftermath of war as a fastidiously moral woman faces upheaval with the changing times brought about by the new post-Imperial period...

• Upstairs Downstairs - The Black And White Episodes | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £9.25   |  Saving you £5.74 (38.30%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Pre-colour episodes from the acclaimed drama series. Featuring The Mistress and the Maids Board Wages The Path of Duty A Suitable Marriage and A Cry for Help.

• King Of Fridges | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A busy bank holiday.... A ham fisted assistant.... Increasing paranoia.... All in a days work... Award winning playwrite Tim Firth (writer of Calendar Girls) creates a new comedy drama set in an electrical superstore. Alan assistant manager at 'Rocket' gets a chance to be the store manager on a busy bank holiday whilst his boss is away. However it seems his boss has laid a trap for Alan in the shape of Frank a mid-60's guy on a trainee scheme. Alan is forced to oversee a man who kn

• Borderline | DVD | (07/05/2007) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Adah a black woman has an affair with a white married man Thorne much to the dismay of his wife and the prejudiced townsfolk. Adah attempts a reconciliation with her partner Pete but eventually leaves both him and the town. Meanwhile Thorne's wife Astrid goes mad attacks her husband and then mysteriously dies. Thorne is tried for her murder...

• Foyle's War - Series 1-4 Complete Boxed Set | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Michael Kitchen stars as the enigmatic Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle who longs to join the war effort but is left frustrated when his application for transfer is refused. To his surprise however he finds the turmoil of conflict means his skills are in demand on the home front. As WW2 rages over Europe one man fights his own battle against murder mystery and betrayal on the south coast of England - in Foyle's War. Episodes Comprise: 1. The German Woman 2. The White Feather 3. A Lesson in Murder 4. Eagle Day 5. Fifty Ships 6. Among the Few 7. War Games 8. The Funk Hole 9. The French Drop 10. Enemy Fire 11. They Fought In the Fields 12. War of Nerves 13. Invasion 14. Bad Blood 15. Bleak Midwinter 16. Casualties Of War

• Wim Wenders Collection | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Best known for such international hits as Wings Of Desire Paris Texas and the Oscar-nominated Buena Vista Social Club Wim Wenders remains one of the most unique and important directors in the world today. In these 10 acclaimed feature films and documentaries - including several available for the first time ever on DVD in the UK - Wenders explores potent themes of mortality and identity fashion and cinema ideology and redemption with a passion and vision all his own.

• Green Mile, The 15th Anniversary | Blu Ray | (06/10/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Limited to 2000 Units & includes exclusive content. Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) is the security guard at Cold Mountain Penitentiary a holding jail for criminals sentenced to the death penalty. When death row inmate John Coffey (Michael Clark Duncan) is convicted for the rape and murder of two young girls he forms a connection with Paul. Despite John's menacing physical appearance Paul sees a tender and harmless nature to John and starts to believe that he is innocent. As the days draw closer to the execution Paul can only look on powerlessly as his new found friend faces his final days. Powerful drama from the Oscar nominated director of The Shawshank Redemption. (Matthew Fairfield). Disc 1 The Green Mile Feature Commentary by Frank Darabont Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile Stephen King: Storyteller The Art of Adaptation Acting on the Mile Designing the Mile The Magic of the Mile The Tail of Mr. Jingles Bitterbuck's Family Says Goodbye Bitterbuck's Family Says Goodbye w/Optional Commentaryby Frank Darabont Coffey's Prayer Coffey's Prayer w/Optional Commentaryby Frank Darabont Michael Clarke Duncan's Screen Tom Hanks' Make-up Tests The Teaser Trailer: A Case Study Teaser Trailer Theatrical Trailer Disc 2 - Exclusive to this Anniversary Release Walking the Mile (Extended Version)

• The Journey Of August King | DVD | (20/07/2004) from £8.18   |  Saving you £6.81 (83.25%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This passionate uplifting celebration of the human spirit received outstanding acclaim from critics coast-to-coast! Jason Patric (SPEED 2: CRUISE CONTROL SLEEPERS) is August King a young man whose life is changed forever when he risks everything to help a beautiful woman (Thandie Newton -- THE TRUTH ABOUT CHARLIE MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II) on a courageous -- and very dangerous -- search for a new life. Desperate yet determined the two set out on a harrowing journey toward freedom ..

• Thatcher: The Final Days | DVD | (30/04/2012) from £8.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  One of the most significant politicians of the 20th century, Margaret Thatcher took Britain out of the turbulent '70s and into a period of war, strikes and increasingly polarised social division. Loved and hated in equal measure, by the early 1990s the knives were out and she was ousted from power in one of the most dramatic episodes in British political history.Featuring a bravura performance from Sylvia Syms as Thatcher, this dramatised documentary features strong performances from John Wood, Trevor Bowen, Paul Daneman, Roland Oliver and Keith Drinkel as John Major.

• The Story Lady | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jessica Tandy plays Grace McQueen, an elderly woman who has grown bored and restless following the death of her husband. Grace has always loved telling stories to children, and as a way of keeping herself occupied she comes up with an idea for a public access television series in which she will read great children's books aloud. The show becomes a local favorite -- enough so that a pair of advertising executives approach her with the idea of selling the show to a major network. Grace agrees, but when the marketing experts and network brass are finished with the idea, the simple format of The Story Lady has been transformed into a garish program called Granny Goodheart, and Grace must decide if she should pursue the money and success that's being offered to her or stand up for her ideals. The Story Lady also features Stephanie Zimbalist, Lisa Jakub, Richard Masur, and Ed Begley, Jr.; Tandy Cronyn, Jessica Tandy's daughter, is appropriately cast as Meg, Grace's daughter.

• Amazon | DVD | (05/01/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Every man has his limits: every dream has its price... Action adventure where Dan (Davi) and his two daughters try to build a new life for themselves in Brazil after the death of his wife but are challenged by greedy developers who are harming the environment.

• Dead Heat On A Merry Go Round | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Eli Kotch plans to use the visit of the Russian premier to aid him in his attempts to rob a bank at Los Angeles airport but can he get away with it?