Drama

• Welcome To New York | Blu Ray | (20/10/2014) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  May 2011: A man is arrested for sexually assaulting a hotel chambermaid... Mr. Devereaux is a powerful man. A man who handles billions of dollars every day. A man who controls the economic fate of nations cannot, it seems, control his own sexual appetite. The events that followed laid bare his failures and ultimately led to his dismissal from public office. Welcome To New York: Directed by Abel Ferrara, legendary actor Gerard Depardieu plays Devereaux: a man consumed by his own ego, arrogance and believing nothing is out of his reach be it political power or the objects of his lust. This film was inspired by a court case, the public stages of which have been filmed, broadcast, reported and commented on throughout the media worldwide. Nonetheless, the characters portrayed in the film and all sequences depicting their private lives remain entirely fictional, no one being able to claim the ability to recreate the complex truth of the lives of the protagonists and witnesses in this case, about which everyone has his or her own point-of-view.

• Quiz (UK Mini-Series) | DVD | (15/06/2020) from £12.41   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  EPISODE 1 When new ITV quiz show ˜Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?' makes its television debut, one family's much-loved pub-quiz hobby turns into outright obsession. EPISODE 2 When seemingly hopeless contestant Charles Ingram returns for his second night in the hotseat, he is a brand new man with a brand new strategy. EPISODE 3 Charged with stealing a million pounds and persecuted by the public and press, the Ingrams head to court. Features: Including New Bonus Features With 3 Behind The Scenes Featurettes

• Jacob's Ladder | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £7.55   |  Saving you £5.44 (72.05%)   |  RRP £12.99

  'Jacob's Ladder' tells the truely terrifying story of a traumatised Vietnam war veteran who as he returns to civilian life begins to hallucinate. Visualising horned creatures and visited by his dead son Jacob Singer downwardly spirals into a life of confusion and horror as he searches for the truth behind his Vietnam experience and tries to make sense of what is happening to him. 'Jacob's Ladder' is a thriller a horror and a 'Twilight-Zone'-style mystery all rolled into this one classic film.... Directed by Adrian Lyne ('Fatal Attraction' '9 1/2 Weeks' 'Unfaithful') and written and produced by Bruce Joel Rubin ('Ghost' 'Deep Impact')... need we say more?

• Miss You Already | DVD | (01/02/2016) from £7.05   |  Saving you £10.94 (155.18%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Friends since childhood Jess and Milly can't remember a time they didn't share everything secrets, clothes, even boyfriends. Their differences are the glue that binds them together. That is until Milly is hit with the life changing news that she has breast cancer and needs Jess's support more than ever. As Jess tries to balance her own life as well as being there for Milly it is only a matter of time before the pressure on their bond takes its toll.

• Lynda La Plante - Trial And Retribution | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £33.77   |  Saving you £16.22 (48.03%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Drawing TV audiences of up to 11 million viewers 'Trial And Retribution' is a gritty urban drama that deals with graphic topics from abduction to serial murders and internal police corruption to psychological illness. Breaking new ground in terms of content and style each episode traces the entire trajectory of a serious crime from the act being committed to a detailed investigation and arrest before arriving at the law courts for a dramatic finale. Trial And Retributio

• Vera: Series 11 (Eps 1 & 2) | DVD | (27/09/2021) from £13.85   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Knives Out 4K | Blu Ray | (30/03/2020) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Acclaimed writer and director Rhian Johnson (Brick, Looper, The Last Jedi) pays tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie in KNIVES OUT, a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death. With an all-star ensemble cast including Chris Evans, Ana De Armas, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Toni Collette, LaKeith Stanfield, Katherine Langford and Jaeden Martell, KNIVES OUT is a witty and stylish whodunnit guaranteed to keep audiences guessing until the very end.

• Raised by Wolves: Season 2 | DVD | (12/12/2022) from £17.64   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  After a great religious war finds the human race teetering on the edge of extinction, an atheistic android architect sends two of his creations, Mother (Amanda Collin) and Father (Abubakar Salim), to start a peaceful, godless colony on the planet Kepler-22b.From executive producer Ridley Scott, RAISED BY WOLVES follows Mother and Father as they attempt to raise human children in this mysterious virgin land a treacherous and difficult task that's jeopardized by the arrival of the Mithraic, a deeply devout religious group of surviving humans.As the androids make contact with this zealous and dangerous order, they struggle to control the beliefs of their fiercely self-determining children.

• Fame - Season 2 | DVD | (18/01/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning TV series portrays the lives of a diverse group of talented high school students at New York's School of the Arts. Training hard for careers onstage the young performers face tough competition and even rejection along with all of the normal teenage dramas.

• Nebraska | DVD | (14/04/2014) from £19.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  From Academy Award Winner Alexander Payne the director of Sideways and The Descendants comes the film that critics are calling 'a triumph'. When a father (Bruce Dern) and his adult son (Will Forte) embark on a journey to claim a million-dollar prize what begins as a fool's errand becomes a search for the road to redemption.

• The Admirable Crichton | DVD | (30/10/2023) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Dalgliesh: Series 3 | DVD | (23/12/2024) from £16.15   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Happy Prince | DVD | (15/10/2018) from £17.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a cheap Parisian hotel room Oscar Wilde lies on his death bed and the past floods back, transporting him to other times and places. Was he once the most famous man in London? The artist crucified by a society that once worshipped him? The lover imprisoned and freed, yet still running towards ruin in the final chapter of his life? Under the microscope of death he reviews the failed attempt to reconcile with his long suffering wife Constance, the ensuing reprisal of his fatal love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas and the warmth and devotion of Robbie Ross who tried and failed to save him from himself. From Dieppe to Naples to Paris freedom is elusive and Oscar is a penniless vagabond, always moving on, shunned by his old acquaintance, but revered by a strange group of outlaws and urchins to whom he tells the old stories - his incomparable wit still sharp. THE HAPPY PRINCE is a portrait of the dark side of a genius who lived and died for love in the last days of the nineteenth century.

• Intolerance (Loves struggle throughout the ages) | Blu Ray | (08/12/2014) from £11.45   |  Saving you £8.54 (74.59%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A fter shaking the world with his hugely controversial epic The Birth of a Nation pioneer filmmaker D. W. Griffith spared no expense in putting together his next project Intolerance (Love’s struggle throughout the ages): a powerful examination of intolerance as it has persisted throughout civilisation set across four parallel storylines that span 2500 years. There is the Babylonian story depicting nothing less than the fall of Babylon; the Judean story which revolves around the crucifixion of Christ; the French story which presents the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in all its horror; and a modern American story of class struggle crime and the plight of life in the early 20th century set within urban slums and the prison system. Starring such luminaries as Lillian Gish Constance Talmadge and Miriam Cooper who share screentime with an enormous main cast and some 3 000 extras Griffith's film — the most expensive motion picture ever produced at the time — went on to become a critical success whose influence has only grown in the decades since. The Masters of Cinema Series are proud to present the 2013 restoration of Kevin Brownlow's and David Gill's preserved Intolerance featuring Carl Davis's orchestral score for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK. Bonus Features: New high-definition 1080p presentation of the acclaimed Brownlow and Gill Thames Silents restoration of the film. Orchestral score by the esteemed composer Carl Davis • Two feature-length films by Griffith that act as companion pieces to Intolerance and take their material from the main film: The Fall of Babylon and The Mother and the Law accompanied by new scores by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. Three Hours That Shook the World: Observations on 'Intolerance' a 2013 documentary featuring preservationist Kevin Brownlow discussing the film. 56-PAGE BOOKLET filled with vintage and modern reports reflections and essays on the film.

• The Artist And The Model | DVD | (25/11/2013) from £15.29   |  Saving you £0.70 (4.58%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1943 an old sculptor and his wife live in a small town on the border between occupied France and Franco's Spain. 80 year-old Marc Cros has not sculpted for years; disillusioned by two world wars, the artist has lost all faith in art, life and humanity. But when his wife Lea finds a Spanish woman, Merce, on the run from Franco's army and offers her the chance to live in the artist's studio, Marc inadvertently finds himself with an attractive young model for what will be his last sculpture. ...

• Black Swan (DVD + Digital Copy) | DVD | (16/05/2011) from £4.24   |  Saving you £15.75 (371.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Feverish worlds such as espionage and warfare have nothing on the hothouse realm of ballet, as director Darren Aronofsky makes clear in Black Swan, his over-the-top delve into a particularly fraught production of Swan Lake. At the very moment hard-working ballerina Nina (Natalie Portman) lands the plum role of the White Swan, her company director (Vincent Cassel) informs her that she'll also play the Black Swan--and while Nina's precise, almost virginal technique will serve her well in the former role, the latter will require a looser, lustier attack. The strain of reaching within herself for these feelings, along with nattering comments from her mother (Barbara Hershey) and the perceived rivalry from a new dancer (Mila Kunis), are enough to make anybody crack… and tracing out the fault lines of Nina's breakdown is right in Aronofsky's wheelhouse. Those cracks are broad indeed, as Nina's psychological instability is telegraphed with blunt-force emphasis in this neurotic roller-coaster ride. The characters are stick figures--literally, in the case of the dancers, but also as single-note stereotypes in the horror show: witchy bad mummy, sexually intimidating male boss, wacko diva (Winona Ryder, as the prima ballerina Nina is replacing). Yet the film does work up some crazed momentum (and undeniably earned its share of critical raves), and the final sequence is one juicy curtain-dropper. A good part of the reason for this is the superbly all-or-nothing performance by Natalie Portman, who packs an enormous amount of ferocity into her small body. Kudos, too, to Tchaikovsky's incredibly durable music, which has meshed well with psychological horror at least since being excerpted for the memorably moody opening credits of the 1931 Dracula, another pirouette through the dark side. --Robert Horton

• When In Rome | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £6.64   |  Saving you £5.35 (80.57%)   |  RRP £11.99

  An ambitious young New Yorker (Kristen Bell), disillusioned with romance, takes a whirlwind trip to Rome in search of love...only to get more than she bargained for!

• Winter's Bone | DVD | (31/01/2011) from £8.95   |  Saving you £7.04 (78.66%)   |  RRP £15.99

  17 year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) embarks on a mission to find her father after he uses their family house as a way of securing his bail and disappears without a trace. Faced with the possibility of losing her home and being turned out into the Ozark woods Ree challenges her outlaw kin's code of silence and risks her life to save her family. She hacks through the lies evasions and threats offered by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth. Winner of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award Winter's Bone is directed by Debra Granik (Down To The Bone) and adapted for the screen by Granik and Anne Rosellini. Based on the best-selling novel by Daniel Woodrell this tense naturalistic thriller stars Jennifer Lawrence John Hawkes Kevin Breznahan Dale Dickey Garret Dillahunt Sheryl Lee and Tate Taylor.

• Breathe | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £10.98   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge) and Claire Foy (The Crown) star in this warm, funny and uplifting true story. BREATHE follows the life of Robin Cavendish (Garfield) and his wife Diana (Foy), an adventurous and determined couple who refuse to give up when Robin contracts polio and is given just months to live. Against all advice, Diana brings him home from hospital where her devotion and witty determination transcends his disability. Together and with the help of Diana's hilarious twin brothers, both played by Tom Hollander, (The Night Manager) and the pioneering ideas of their friend and inventor Teddy Hall, (Hugh Bonneville, Paddington, Downton Abbey) they find a way to live a full and passionate life.

• The Monocled Mutineer | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £7.65   |  Saving you £12.34 (161.31%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A soldier in the First World War Percy Toplis was a rake rogue and master of disguise who became the most wanted man in Britain. This is a BAFTA-winning story of high romance hilarious impudence and savage retribution. Adapted by Alan Bleasdale from the book by William Allison and John Fairley.