Drama

• The Railroad Man | Blu Ray | (19/05/2025) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Pietro Germi (The Facts of Murder) directs and stars in this deeply affecting drama about a train driver. Living modestly with his wife Sara (Luisa Della Noce), Andrea Marcocci's life is thrown into turmoil when he witnesses a suicide on the tracks ahead of him. Tenderly narrated from the perspective of his young son Sandro (Edoardo Nevola), the incident has repercussions on Andrea and his extended family - including his unemployed son Marcello (Renato Speziali) and pregnant daughter Giulia (Sylva Koscina) - who he is expected to support. A huge success on release, with a tough, muscular performance by Germi at its centre, The Railroad Man should sit alongside the likes of Bicycle Thieves and La terra trema in the pantheon of great neorealistic classics. LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES New 4K restoration by Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Surf Film at L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory Original uncompressed PCM mono audio Trailer New interview with Pietro Germi expert Mario Sesti (2025) New interview with actor Edoardo Nevola (2025) Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by John Bleasdale and archival writing on Alfredo Giannetti by Simone Starace Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

• The Fabelmans | Blu Ray | (05/06/2023) from £10.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Inspired by Steven Spielberg's own childhood, rediscover the magic of movies in The Fabelmans, a coming-of-age story about a young man uncovering a shattering family secret and the power of film and imagination to help us see the truth about ourselves and each other. With a star-studded cast featuring Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle and Judd Hirsch, The Fabelmans tells a timeless tale of heartbreak, healing, and hope for the dreamer inside all of us.

• Pride And Prejudice : 10th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £9.13   |  Saving you £10.86 (118.95%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The arrival of the wealthy Mr. Darcy in the neighbourhood causes great excitement within the Bennet family. One of her five daughters Mrs Bennet feels is sure to capture the heart of the wealthy young aristocrat. That fate befalls the spirited Elizabeth. Judging him on first impressions and the malicious gossip of friends she rejects his advances. However as she busies herself with the stormy romances and scandal of her sisters she once again finds herself in his company. Graduall

• Housewife 49 | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £3.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (225.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Award winning writer and performer Victoria Wood (Dinnerladies Acorn Antiques Pat and Margaret) has written and stars in her first ITV drama for 25 years set in a wartime northern English town. Housewife 49 is based on the real diary of a Lancashire housewife and follows Nella Last's struggles to recover from a nervous breakdown a difficult marriage and the realisation that her two sons are now grown up and no longer need her. Nella joins the local Women's Voluntary Service run by Mrs Waite (Stephanie Cole - Doc Martin Back Home Tenko) and Mrs Lord (Marcia Warren - The All Together Murder In Suburbia ) and the companionship and sense of purpose she finds there gives her the joy and energy that is missing from her difficult marriage. As her relationship with her husband goes through painful changes Barrow suffers its own blitz and Nella happily ensconced with her WVS chums Nella realises war is not the stuff of newsreels there are no heroics no Vera Lynn. Its about a woman in her kitchen scribbling on bits of paper with a stubby pencil trying to find the courage to face up to what she really is.

• The Apu Trilogy (Criterion Collection) UK Only | Blu Ray | (25/05/2020) from £59.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two decades after its original negatives were burned in a fire, Satyajit Ray's breathtaking milestone of world cinema rises from the ashes in a meticulously reconstructed new restoration. The Apu Trilogy brought India into the golden age of international art-house film, following one indelible character, a free-spirited child in rural Bengal who matures into an adolescent urban student and finally a sensitive man of the world. These delicate masterworks- Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road), Aparajito (The Unvanquished), and Apur Sansar (The World of Apu)-based on two books by Bibhutibhusan Banerjee, were shot over the course of five years, and each stands on its own as a tender, visually radiant journey. They are among the most achingly beautiful, richly humane movies ever made-essential works for any film lover. Pather Panchali The release in 1955 of Satyajit Ray's debut, Pather Panchali, introduced to the world an eloquent and important new cinematic voice. A depiction of rural Bengali life in a style inspired by Italian neorealism, this naturalistic but poetic evocation of a number of years in the life of a family introduces us to both little Apu and, just as essentially, the women who will help shape him: his independent older sister, Durga; his harried mother, Sarbajaya, who, with her husband away, must hold the family together; and his kindly and mischievous elderly auntie, Indir-vivid, multifaceted characters all. With resplendent photography informed by its young protagonist's perpetual sense of discovery, the Cannes-awarded Pather Panchali is an immersive cinematic experience and a film of elemental power. Aparajito Satyajit Ray had not planned to make a sequel to Pather Panchali, but after the film's international success, he decided to continue Apu's narrative. Aparajito picks up where the first film leaves off, with Apu and his family having moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Varanasi (then known as Benares). As Apu progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, as well as the growing complexity of his relationship with his mother. This tenderly expressive, often heart-wrenching film, which won three top prizes at the Venice Film Festival, including the Golden Lion, not only extends but also spiritually deepens the tale of Apu. Apur Sansar By the time Apur Sansar was released, Satyajit Ray had directed not only the first two Apu films but also the masterpiece The Music Room, and was well on his way to becoming a legend. This extraordinary final chapter brings our protagonist's journey full circle. Apu is now in his early twenties, out of college, and hoping to live as a writer. Alongside his professional ambitions, the film charts his romantic awakening, which occurs as the result of a most unlikely turn of events, and his eventual, fraught fatherhood. Featuring soon to be Ray regulars Soumitra Chatterjee and Sharmila Tagore in star-making performances, and demonstrating Ray's ever more impressive skills as a crafter of pure cinematic imagery, Apur Sansar is a moving conclusion to this monumental trilogy. Special Features: New 4K digital restorations of all three films, undertaken in collaboration with the Academy Film Archive at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and L'Immagine Ritrovata, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on the Blu-rays Audio recordings from 1958 of director Satyajit Ray reading his essay A Long Time on the Little Road and in conversation with film historian Gideon Bachmann New interviews with actors Soumitra Chatterjee, Shampa Srivastava, and Sharmila Tagore; camera assistant Soumendu Roy; and film writer Ujjal Chakraborty New video essay by Ray biographer Andrew Robinson on the trilogy's evolution and production The Apu Trilogy : A Closer Look, a new program featuring filmmaker, producer, and teacher Mamoun Hassan Excerpts from the 2003 documentary The Song of the Little Road, featuring composer Ravi Shankar The Creative Person: Satyajit Ray, a 1967 half-hour documentary by James Beveridge, featuring interviews with Ray, several of his actors, members of his creative team, and film critic Chidananda Das Gupta Footage of Ray receiving an honorary Oscar in 1992 New program on the restorations by filmmaker :: kogonada New English subtitle translations PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics Terrence Rafferty and Girish Shambu

• Topsy-Turvy | DVD | (11/09/2000) from £18.37   |  Saving you £-5.38 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  1880's London. The popular comic operas of Gilbert (words) and Sullivan (music) have never failed, but their latest, 'Princess Ida' receives a lukewarm press.

• Local Hero | DVD | (22/07/2019) from £3.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Knox Oil and Gas of Houston is far removed from the North Sea oil it desires - and the sleepy Scottish seaside village it wants to buy and replace with a refinery. So Knox sends it's ace dealmaker (Peter Riegert) to negotiate. He finds cheerful future millionaires, awesome northern lights, a lusty innkeeper, a stubborn beachcomber and a mermaid with webbed toes. Forsyth's touch is perfect: whether showing us a tycoon (Burt Lancaster) with his head in the stars or bridging generations at an all-night ceilidh dance.

• Transformers: 4-Movie Collection | Blu Ray | (19/06/2017) from £15.98   |  Saving you £-4.73 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.26

  ALL 4 ACTION-PACKED MOVIES FROM THE TRANSFORMERS SAGA TRANSFORMERS From director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg comes a thrilling battle between the AUTOBOTS™ and the DECEPTICONS™. When their epic struggle comes to Earth, all that stands between the evil DECEPTICONS™ and ultimate power is a clue held by Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf). Join the fight for mankind in the extraordinary adventure that is this summer's coolest film FHM. TRANSFORMERS 2- REVENGE OF THE FALLEN The battle for Earth continues in this action-packed blockbuster from director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg. When college-bound Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) learns the truth about the ancient origins of the Transformers, he must accept his destiny and join Optimus Prime and Bumblebee in their epic battle against the Decepticons, who have returned stronger than ever with a plan to destroy our world. TRANSFORMERS 3- DARK OF THE MOON A mysterious event from Earth's past threatens to ignite a war so big that the TRANSFORMERS alone will not be able to save the planet. Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and the AUTOBOTS™ must fight against the darkness to defend our world from the DECEPTICONS'™ all-consuming evil in the smash hit from director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg. TRANSFORMERS 4- AGE OF EXTINCTION From director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg comes the hugely entertaining* Transformers: Age of Extinction. With humanity facing extinction from a terrifying new threat, it's up to Optimus Prime and the Autobots to save the world. But now that the government has turned against them, they'll need a new team of allies, including inventor Cade Yeager ( Mark Wahlberg ) and the fearsome Dinobots!

• The Equalizer: Season 2 | DVD | (29/05/2023) from £24.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Le Mepris (60th Anniversary) (Vintage World Cinema) | DVD | (26/06/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Darjeeling Limited | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £8.25   |  Saving you £11.74 (142.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman stars in this emotional comedy about three brothers re-forging family bonds.

• The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die | DVD | (29/04/2024) from £12.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Young and Innocent | Blu Ray | (19/01/2015) from £9.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (87.61%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Celebrated for the macabre tour-de-force plots and sublime twist endings that would come to define the very genre of suspense Alfred Hitchcock is one of cinema's greatest auteurs his career spanning six decades and over sixty films. One of Hitchcock's most significant pre-war thrillers – a series of films that would help pave the way to even greater success in Hollywood – Young and Innocent stars Derrick de Marney as Robert Tisdall a man who turns fugitive after he finds the body of a young woman washed up on a beach and is promptly accused of her murder; Nova Pilbeam is the beautiful young lady whose help he enlists and George Curzon features in one of his best-known British film roles as the jealous ex-husband who harbours a terrible secret...

• Moneyball | DVD | (19/03/2012) from £6.24   |  Saving you £13.75 (220.35%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The story of Oakland A's general manager, Billy Beane, successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

• Black Mass | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.45   |  Saving you £14.54 (266.79%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A true-crime saga about FBI corruption and the uniquely savage New England mob scene involving James 'Whitey' Bulger.

• Ikiru | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  ""Sometimes I think of my death "" wrote Akira Kurosawa ""I think of ceasing to be... and it is from these thoughts that Ikiru came."" The story of a man diagnosed with stomach cancer Kurosawa's film is a serious contemplation of the nature of existence and the question of how we find meaning in our lives. Opening with a shot of an x-ray showing the main character's stomach 'Ikiru' tells the tale of a dedicated downtrodden civil servant who diagnosed with a fatal cancer learns to c

• Going Straight - The Complete Series | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Winner of two BAFTAs - this sequel to Porridge sees Norman Stanley Fletcher released from jail having served 3 years 8 months and 4 days. Following his release from Slade after numerous spells in prison and at the age of 45 Fletcher tries to stick to the straight and narrow but it isn't easy! Life in the outside world is just not the same as it used to be...

• Cracks | DVD | (29/03/2010) from £6.19   |  Saving you £11.80 (190.63%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Dazzling debut from Jordan Scott (daughter of legendary director Ridley Scott), stars Eva Green ("The Golden Compass", "Casino Royale") as the mesmerizing Miss G, a liberating force in a staid but idyllic British boarding school.

• Poor Things | DVD | (25/03/2024) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Shakespeare & Hathaway: The Christmas Special | DVD | (13/11/2023) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A