Drama

• Luis Bunuel DVD Collection - Vol. 2 | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A triple bill of classic Luis Bunuel films, comprising 'That Obscure Object Of Desire', 'Phantom Of Liberty' and 'The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie'. That Obscure Object Of Desire: A passenger on a train pours a bucket of water over a young girl at the platform. Seemingly a random act, the man recounts in flashback how he came to be so obsessed with the girl... Phantom Of Liberty: Perhaps Bunuel's most surreal film, consisting of a series of loosely realted vignettes. <...

• The Lovejoy Collection - Vol. 20 | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £6.39   |  Saving you £6.60 (103.29%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Yet more antiques-related tomfoolery from Lovejoy Eric And Tinker! Episodes comprise: 1. Goose Bumps 2. Swings and Roundabouts 3. Never Judge a Book By Its Cover

• Gazwrx - The Films Of Jeff Keen | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £47.23   |  Saving you £-12.24 (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Jeff Keen began making films at the age of 37 when his art school film society needed things to show. And so began over forty years of unique imaginative irrepressible filmmaking. This release contains over 9 hours of films and videos by the visionary filmmaker from his 60s beatnik movies to the apocalyptic beauty of his multi-layered videos of the 90s - a criminally overdue opportunity to explore the alternative cinematic world of one of Britain's most important experimental filmmakers.

• Fighters / Real Money (2 disc set) | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Two films by British director Ron Peck. Fighters is a documentary feature that follows a group of aspiring young British boxers through training to their first big fight; Real Money is a fictionalised drama starring the boxers from Fighters in a tale of East-End violence and rivalries surrounding a local gym.

• To The Ends Of The Earth | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £21.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the novels by William Golding 'To The Ends Of The Earth' is a three part miniseries in which young seaman Edmund Talbot (Benedict Cumberbatch) sets sail on a dazzling and dangerous sea journey from England to Australia...

• Deep In My Heart | DVD | (20/08/2012) from £9.98   |  Saving you £-3.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  She must face the future, heal the past and find that place in her heart called home. A trio of great actresses - Oscar-winner Anne Bancroft (The Elephant Man, The Graduate), Emmy Award-winner Lynn Whitfield (Stepmom) and Gloria Reuben (who received multiple Emmy Award nominations for her performance as Jeanie Boulet in TV's ER) - unite their talents for this powerful true story of one woman's search, against all the odds, for her emotional roots. Deep In My Heart starts in Boston in 1961, an era of very different racial and social attitudes. A white woman, Gerry Cummins (Bancroft, who won an Emmy Award for her performance) is raped by a black man - an attack that leaves her pregnant. The resulting child of mixed race, Barbara Ann (Reuben), now faces a life of confusion, prejudice and isolation. Given up for adoption and initially raised by Corrine Burrell (Whitfield), a loving foster mother in a black neighbourhood, Barbara Ann is suddenly torn from this happy existence and placed with Annalise Jurgenson (Alice Krige, Chariots Of Fire) and her husband, a white middle-class couple. Although Annalise has acted from the best of motives, her stance is hopelessly idealistic and for Barbara Ann it means a world with no friends, no joy and no sense of family. But Barbara Ann survives and grows up to marry a man she loves deeply and to become the mother of five children. Only then does she find the courage to face up to the hidden traumas of her past, meet with the woman who gave birth to her all those years ago - and find that place in her heart called home. Deep In My Heart is written by the award-winning Ronni Kern (Homeless to Harvard, Guinevere) and directed by Anita W. Addison (Sirens).

• Dancing At The Blue Iguana | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £24.99   |  Saving you £-19.00 (-317.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Welcome to the Blue Iguana! You are about to enter the seedy and shocking world of strippers. Meet the exotic dancers stripping at a lap dancing club in southern California's San Fernando Valley... Featuring an all-star cast Dancing At The Blue Iguana will thrill electrify and touch everyone who pays a visit.

• Strawberries Need Rain | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £12.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (18.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Death comes to take a beautiful young girl and she persuades him to let her live out her fantasies before he finally takes her away.

• Shogun's Samurai | DVD | (21/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  With Shogun Samurai, veteran Japanese director Fukasaku Kinji demonstrated that he could do more than the gritty social realist cop-and-gangster films for which he remains most famous. A deliberately stately historical drama, with a slightly ponderous narrator introducing some of its most powerful scenes, Shogun Samurai shows the succession crisis that followed the death of the second Tokugawa Shogun in the early 17th-century. The Imperial court fans the flames in an attempt to restore the Emperor's power; a young dancer tries to preserve the young prince she loves; a warrior clan take steps to return to their homeland; and the fencing master Yagyu will expend honour and lives, including those of his own children, to ensure that his school is patronised by the new Shogun. The film alternates powerful scenes of intrigue and stagy monomaniac rants by Yagyu with finely choreographed scenes of battle and duel; it has a powerful and tragic sense of the fragile sadness of things and the futility of all ambitions; Sonny Chiba is unusually impressive as Yagyu's most honourable son, the one-eyed Jubel. On the DVD: Shogun Samurai on disc has minimal additional features: a short prose profile of Fukasaku Kinji and some promotional clips. Picture is anamorphic 16:9. --Roz Kaveney

• Redemption | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-0.55 (-9.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Gangster. Death Row inmate Nobel Peace Prize nominee. The fearless reputation of Stan 'Tookie' Williams is transferred from the streets to Death Row. When a journalist is granted an interview with the prisoner however she discovers that he intends to use his criminal knowledge to firmly put his past behind him...Oscar winner Jamie Foxx gives a career-defining performance as the founder of the notorious Crips street gang in this riveting true story.

• One Take Only | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £4.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (202.83%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Mak a street urchin in Bangkok dreams of being a tough gangster. He earns some money as a drugs runner. One day he meets a young prostitute who turns out to live nearby and they fall in love. Made reckless by his sudden wealth Mak and his partners use the girl for a big delivery when everything goes terribly wrong...

• The Hunter | DVD | (28/02/2011) from £7.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (55.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Recently released from prison Ali makes the most of his return amidst much talk of the upcoming elections and promises of change. Despite working nights he tries to spend the most time possible with his beautiful wife and young daughter. To escape the stress of urban living Ali retreats to his favorite pastime of hunting in the secluded forest north of town. Tragedy strikes and Ali's wife Sara is accidentally killed in a police shoot-out with demonstrators. After a long and frustrating experience at the police station Ali's own search for his missing six-year-old daughter ends in horror and pushes him over the edge... In broad daylight overlooking the busy city's surrounding highways Ali randomly shoots and kills two policemen. After a high-speed car chase outside of town Ali flees into the northern forest where he is captured by two police officers. Ali is resigned to his fate and watches quietly as the arguing policemen lose their way in the woods. Situations complicate and the line between hunter and hunted becomes difficult to define...

• Massai | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Faced with a drought that threatens the existence of their community the village ancients send an inexperienced group of warriors on a search for the mythical lion Vitchua incarnation of the Red God to lift the curse and bring the vital rain back to their people...

• Love on a Pillow (Repos du Guerrier)(2012) | DVD | (19/03/2012) from £7.55   |  Saving you £8.44 (111.79%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Directed by Roger Vadim, Love on a Pillow is a story of all-consuming love between a nice upper class girl and a troubled, self-destructive young man. Geneviève (Brigitte Bardot) is on her way to settle an inheritance in Dijon when she walks in the wrong hotel room to find Renaud (Robert Hossein), a young man, having just attempted suicide. She saves him and they quickly embark on an intense affair, against the advice of her friends and her own better judgment. Whilst Geneviève seems determined to follow a self-destructive course and forgives Renaud’s every infidelity, perhaps he too will soon find himself spiraling out of control.

• Man in the Mirror | DVD | (14/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jeremy Dilke (Horton) is a meek mild-mannered businessman who allows everyone to use him for a doormat. While looking into his mirror Dilke is confronted by his brusque assertive alter ego who declares I am the man you have always longed to be. Armed with his newfound confidence Dilke becomes a go-getting dynamo much to the delight of heroine Helen (Genevieve Tobin) who knew he had it in him all along. Moon-faced Alastair Sim plays a wonderful cameo as a foreign interpreter.

• Club Culture - Human Traffic / Sorted / South West 9 | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Featuring an outstanding cast of rapidly rising talent, Sorted is a hallucinogenic cocktail of thriller and insider's eye view of the London club scene. Debut director Alexander Jovy has promoted raves and is a qualified lawyer, so it's unsurprising his club scenes, filmed on real nights at the Ministry of Sound and other clubs, are completely authentic. The story has young lawyer Carl, Matthew Rhys, coming from Yorkshire to investigate the death of his high-flying (in every sense) brother. Jovy portrays the gulf between Carl's world in his relationship with classy, conventional Sunny (Sienna--Take a Girl Like You--Guillory), and the hedonistic fantasyland of the club scene represented by fallen Pre-Raphaelite angel Tiffany (Fay--Eyes Wide Shut--Masterson). Straddling the two worlds is a remarkable Jason Donovan as Martin, customs officer by day, glam transvestite by night. Unfortunately atmospheric drama soon gives way to lightweight thriller conventions while Tim Curry's camp villain (surely a parody of DeNiro's Louis Cypher from Angel Heart), creates expectations of a much darker conclusion. Sorted is ultimately old-fashioned, romantic and soft-centred where it needs far more edge, but is nevertheless so luxuriantly stylish it may mark Jovy as his generation's answer to Ridley Scott. A word of warning: several scenes feature very powerful stroboscopic lighting effects. --Gary S. Dalkin On the DVD: The expansive, beautiful colour-saturated cinematography is well captured by the 2.35:1 anamorphic transfer and the Dolby Digital 5.1 sound mix is stunning. There are 10 text profiles of cast and crew, together with seven video interviews comprising over 45 minutes of footage. Also provided is a 26-page electronic press kit, the original trailer and 10 minutes of deleted scenes, with optional director's commentary. The featurette is actually a montage of behind-the-scenes shots edited to the movie's haunting love theme, while the outtakes edit assorted gaffs to the main dance anthem. The alternately informative and trivial director's commentary also features producer Mark Crowdy; together they make good company. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Bombay Talkie | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Bombay Talkie is Merchant Ivory's affectionate bemused view of bollywood - India's huge dream factory. The film is like a brightly coloured sumptuous Indian sweet covered in gold foil and cameraman Subrata Mitra's ravishing photography has never been surpassed in any other of James Ivory's films. The story set off by elaborate studio numbers is a melodrama echoing those of Bombay's mass audience movies and the sexy best sellers of the film's heroine American authoress Lucia Lane (Jennifer Kendal). Visiting India in search of 'new material' she becomes romantically involved with handsome move star Vikram (Shashi Kapoor). When that doesn't work out she flees to an ashram to take up the spiritual life. That also - hilariously - doesn't work out and the ill-fated couple get together again with explosive results.

• Piedras | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  With a strong cast of Spanish stars Piedras is a pure reality bytes film. Following the story of five different women in Madrid all looking for a new start and a new chance in life - all leading seperate lives but their fates are soon entwined.

• Gagarine | Blu Ray | (03/05/2022) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series 7 | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £19.18   |  Saving you £8.80 (54.35%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Leo Mc Kern stars as the eccentric bibulous Old Bailey defence lawyer Horace Rumpole in the magnificent and hugely popular series penned by the barrister-playwright John Mortimer. This double DVD includes all the episodes from the seventh and final series of 'Rumpole Of The Bailey'. Episodes Featured Rumpole and the Children of the Devil Rumpole and the Miscarriage of Justice Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle Rumpole and the Reform of Joby Jonson Rumpole and the Family Pride Rumpole on Trial