Drama

• Sixth Happiness | DVD | (28/03/2005) from £5.95   |  Saving you £14.04 (235.97%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Firdaus Kanga adapts and stars in this film of his autobiographical novel 'Trying To Grow'. Told with considerable humour the film examines the difficult life of a young gay Parsee with brittle bone disease.

• Brief Encounter | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Sophia Loren (Mrs. Ponti) stars as a bored married woman who embarks upon a brief romantic fling with equally married Richard Burton. Throughout their relationship Loren and Burton are plagued by guilt; ultimately they sacrifice their potential happiness in favor of ""the right thing."" Based on the 1936 Noel Coward playlet Still Life.

• The Letter | DVD | (02/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Don | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When ruthless Don (Amitabh Bachchan) is killed by the police the DSP (Iftekhar) is afraid that another Don will take over when the rest of the gang come to know of his death so he unbeknown to the rest of the police force recruits Don's look-alike Vijay (also Amitabh Bachchan) to become the real Don/ Vijay is at first reluctant but when promised that two children he is caring for will be looked after and educated he agrees. He is successfully re-located back with his gang by feigning injuries and loss of memory. He soon recuperates. Then fate takes an unexpected turn when the DSP is killed and Vijay becomes the suspect; his role as the Don ends as his gang comes to know he is a fraud; Vijay must run for his life - both from the police and Don's gang - for his life and the life of the two children.

• Ann Rule Presents The Stranger Beside Me | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  This fact-based drama deals with the notorious serial killer Ted Bundy who murdered at least 36 women before he was sent to the electric chair in 1989. Based on Ann Rule's novel Stranger Beside Me Bundy was a close friend of the writer and an unassuming law student. Rule stumbled upon the ugly truth in the late 1970s while covering a string of grisly unsolved murders stretching from Utah to Seattle. An ex-cop working at the rape crisis center in Seattle Anne Rule writes true

• Mixed Messsages | DVD | (04/12/2017) from £5.13   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  London dyke Ren navigates the treacherous terrain of the Berlin queer scene. From speed-dating to bondage, meditation to menstrual cup mishaps, each unfortunate adventure adds to Ren's confused love CV until the only way out is to send a few mixed messages of her own. One year single on the Berlin queer scene how hard can it be? This sharp witted and cringingly awkward comedy of ill manners shows the flipside to the hipster image of Berlin.

• Terri | DVD | (29/07/2013) from £11.29   |  Saving you £4.70 (29.40%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A hit at the Sundance Film Festival, Terri, directed by Azazel Jacobs and produced by the team behind Blue Valentine and Half Nelson, is a moving and often funny film about the relationship between Terri (Jacob Wysocki), an oversized teen misfit and the loquacious but well-meaning vice principal (John C. Reilly) who reaches out to him. Resigned to his outsider status, Terri is surprised when vice principal, Mr. Fitzgerald, takes an interest in him. Under Fitzgerald's tutelage, Terri befriends a pair of fellow misfits and finds an unexpected, imperfect bond that reflects the tenuousness, poignance and pathos of the adolescent experience. Deftly combining authentic and candid elements with wry humor and compassion, Jacobs tells Terri's story with delicacy and complex emotionality, as the young man learns to reach outside his insular world. A film about the courage it takes to build relationships TERRI is for anyone who ever felt alone or misunderstood in high school.

• Naked Lie/Stranger In The Family/Change Of Heart/Child's Cry | DVD | (04/06/2007) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-2.09 (-34.90%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Naked Lie - Jo Daniels a beautiful and successful lawyer has everything a woman could wish for including a prominent judge as a lover. But could he be linked to a prostitute who has turned up dead? Stranger in the Family - Steve Thompson's bright future is destroyed when he is injured in a car crash. With no recollection of his former self Steve must try re-establish some kind of meaningful identity. A Change of Heart - Unable to have a child of their own Kim and Keith Lussier are overjoyed when they learn that they can adopt a Korean orphan but a devastating family tragedy threatens to stand in the way. A Child's Cry - There's an early role for Tobey Maguire in which a loving mother brings her sick son to a hospital for treatment and is suspected of deliberately harming her child.

• Ted K. | Blu Ray | (24/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Stage Beauty | DVD | (19/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Audio : english - subtitles : dutch ( removeable ) - 16:9 anamorphic widescreen / extra's - trailer / director's commentary / behind the scenes / interviews ( 21 min ) - B-Roll ( 17 min )

• High Times | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  High Times is a streetwise and affectionate look at the ups and downs of the characters who live in a high-rise in a fictional Glasgow scheme. Winner of the 2004 BAFTA Scotland Award for Television Drama the six part series introduces us to the residents of the Fairmyle housing scheme.RAB Streetwise 28 year old self-unemployed who lives on the topmost floor - the penthouse. Rab is a deep thinker whose philosophising has a tenuous logic to it. Unemployed since leaving school he has become such a fixture at his local DSS office he was once invited to their Christmas party.JAKE Rab's flatmate naive but in an endearing way. Jake is also unemployed but so thick that no employer will have him. And the DSS have given up on him altogether.JIMMY Shy and introverted musician. Has his eye on Claire O'Neill but the arrival of his embarrassing uncle Tex is cramping his style!THE O'NEILLS Menopausal Alice kind-hearted but intimidating and with one look can strike fear into the hearts of those on the receiving end. Husband Eddie former joiner turned professional house-breaker. Daughter Claire attractive 24 year old single mother and a centre of attention for both Rab and Jimmy.THE FARRELS Frank 38 year old security guard and couch potato whose lifestyle embraces every excess in the book. Wife Janet who has managed to retain her youthful appearance despite being married to Frank for 15 years. Daughter Tracy rebellious teenager who thinks of little other than boys and mobile phones.TEX Postman by day take-away delivery man by night. Country & Western fan who can often be seen on his rounds sporting a stetson and cowboy boots. A serial womaniser thrown out by his third wife Tex is now an unwelcome lodger in Jimmy's flat.High times is a gritty surreal unique and above all quality Scottish comedy drama.

• The Last Days Frankie The Fly | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-2.55 (-63.90%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The Last Days Of Frankie The Fly

• Butterfly Kiss | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £5.38   |  Saving you £10.61 (197.21%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Butterfly Kiss

• Trois 2: Pandora's Box | DVD | (09/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  When Mia a successful psychologist takes on Tammy a sultry and mysterious new patient she has no idea how her life is about to be transformed. In an ironic role reversal Tammy takes control of their sessions and puts Mia's own life under the microscope. Desperately yearning to regain a life of passion Mia follows Tammy's persistent advice and enters a forbidden underworld of sex - whereupon she encounters a dark and mysterious stranger. Abandoned by love and blinded by passion

• Caligula | DVD | (30/11/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £18.46

• D.W. Griffith - Monumental Epics | DVD | (24/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  There’s little doubt that much of what we now take for granted about cinema owes much to the vision of director D W Griffith. Monumental Epics collects five of his most influential silent masterpieces. The Birth of a Nation (1915) is also the birth of the epic film. Made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the American Civil War this provocative film unflinchingly shows the humiliation of Southern culture, the "heroism" of the Ku Klux Klan, and links the Union and Confederacy by a common Aryan birthright. All of which has to be viewed in its period context if it is to be viewed at all. Intolerance (1916) is film-making of epic complexity. Human intolerance is related through a modern tale of wrongful conviction, intercut by three stories from Babylonian, Judean, and French history to point up the issue through the ages. The intricacy of the intercutting is breathtaking even now, but those as confused as the first audiences evidently were can opt to see each story separately. Sensitively tinted, this is Griffith's finest three hours. Broken Blossoms (1919) has Griffith venturing into domestic melodrama. Although there's a clear moral to be drawn from this tale of compassion in the face of ignorance and brutality, neither the over-acting of Lillian Gish and Donald Crisp, nor the vein of sentimentality that creeps into their characters' relationship allow the viewer to forget the period-piece nature of the film. Here an appropriately expressive musical score helps keep viewing at an attentive level. Way Down East (1920) shows Griffith moving from the epic to the personal, though still on a large scale. The combining of old-style melodrama with latter-day female emancipation is tellingly brought off, and Lillian Gish excels as the country girl used and abused by male society, until "rescued" by a farmer of true moral scruples. Unconvinced? Then go straight to the climactic snowstorm and ice floe sequences--Eisenstein et al are inconceivable without this as trailblazer. Abraham Lincoln (1930) marked Griffith's entry into the talkie era. Tautly directed, it offers a historically accurate account of the 16th US President's rise to power and his visionary outlook on American society. Civil War scenes are implied rather than enacted, and its Walter Huston's robust yet understated acting that carries the day, with sterling support from Una Merkel as Ann Rutledge and Hobart Bosworth as General Lee. On the DVD: Stylishly packaged, restoration and digital remastering has been carried out to Eureka's usual high standard, and the 4:3 aspect ratio has commendable clarity. Birth of a Nation has Joseph Carl Breil's original orchestral score and a pithy "making of" film by Russell Merritt. Intolerance contains a useful rolling commentary and a great wurlitzer soundtrack too. Way Down East includes a commentary. Abraham Lincoln also has a commentary, though Hugo Riesenfeld's score often verges on the mawkish. Overall this set is a must for anyone remotely interested in film as a living medium.--Richard Whitehouse

• Conspiracy Of Love | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £5.96   |  Saving you £1.02 (34.34%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A young girl and her grandfather are torn apart by her parents divorce. She finally makes a stand for herself which lays the groundwork for mending the fractured ties.

• False Arrest | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Accused of murders she did not commit a woman fights desperately to prove her innocence and hold her family together in this gripping true story of passion and betrayal. Joyce Lukesic seems to have it all: luxurious lifestyle loving husband terrific children. But a triple mafia-style murder brings this secure world of privilege to an abrupt end as an ambitious state investigator links Joyce to the crimess. Despite her pleas of innocence she is brought to trial. Her dream life now a living nightmare Joyce finds herself incarcerated alongside hardened criminals - and unable to trust even those closest to her. Somehow she must find the inner strength to survive the ordeal take on a hostile justice system and reunite her shattered family. Based on a true story...

• Treading Water | DVD | (31/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  An instantly recognizable vision of modern lesbian romance Treading Water is an unforgettable drama that stays with you long after the credits roll . Casey and Alex share an unshakable bond having created a perfect life for themselves in upscale Massachusetts - but demons continue to plague Casey as her mother refuses to accept that her little girl has not turned into the perfect daughter she'd always dreamed of. As Casey tries to sustain each precarious relationship it begins to appear as though the life that she has known may be in danger of falling apart. One of the most honest and subtly moving depictions of a lesbian love affair to come out of the US in the last decade Treading Water has already earned its place as a consummate example of the genre.

• High Hopes (Mike Leigh's) | Blu Ray | (28/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A film by one of Britain's most celebrated film makers and multi-award winning director of Life Is Sweet Naked Secrets and Lies Topsy Turvy and most recently Vera Drake. Fabulous Films presents for the first time on DVD this critically acclaimed slice of life dark comedy Mike Leigh's High Hopes. Wayne left home because of an argument about pies. Cyril would like to machine gun the Royal family. Rupert and Laetitia Boothe-Brain play yuppie sex games while deep in suburbia Valerie fails to arouse her husband Martin with a suggestion that he be Michael Douglas and she a virgin. Mrs Bender gets locked out of her house and is criticised by her neighbour for selfishly occupying a whole house in an increasingly fashionable area. And Cyril's girlfriend Shirley wants to start a family but gets no encouragement from Cyril who feels that the world should be spared more babies until everyone already here has a job a place to live and enough to eat. This disparate cast of characters swim in and out of each others lives against a background of London and its suburbs seamlessly orchestrated by director Mike Leigh.