Drama

• 8.5 Hours | DVD | (31/12/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  8.5 Hours is an intense controversial drama set in modern Ireland about one day in the lives of four characters who work together in a small soft-ware company. During one Monday in Dublin each character experiences a devastating series of events which unfold throughout their working day of 9:00am - 5:30pm (the 8.5 hours of the title). The four stories deal with themes of ambition sex and betrayal in a time of economic uncertainty. These four parallel narratives intertwine and build to a series of thought-provoking and haunting climaxes.

• Buttercup Bill | DVD | (12/10/2015) from £11.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (33.40%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A twisted romance in America's deep south, Buttercup Bill follows mutually obsessed friends struggling to find something like love beneath the wreckage of a broken past. After the suicide of a childhood playmate, Pernilla (Remy Bennett) loiters in the seedy underbelly of New York's nightlife until she calls on estranged Patrick (Evan Louison) and arrives on the doorstep of his isolated Louisiana cabin. Shut in there together, surrounded by the peeling walls of Southern religion and the bottle, they re-light what they once had. What is at first innocent and playful gives way to cruel games of sexual jealousy as the pair attempt to reconcile a terrible secret that haunts them both. With a breakthrough performance from lead and co-director Remy Bennett, Buttercup Bill is a stylish, provocative and unflinching portrayal of infatuation rusted with guilt.

• Waqt | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Waqt ("Time") is a serious candidate for inclusion in any list of great Hindi movies. An early example of a "multi-starrer", it has four top heroes and two great heroines. Its melodramatic plot, based on a lost and found theme of a family separated by an earthquake in pre-partition Punjab and reunited later in Mumbai (Bombay), takes the viewer through a whole range of emotions. It set a whole new look for Hindi films, with a glamorous lifestyle that featured American cars, houses with sunken seating areas, red velvet carpets, grand pianos and lavish parties. Its songs are still much played today, especially "Ae mere zohrajabeen" ("My Beauty") and "Aage bhi jaane na tum" ("You Don't Know What Lies Ahead"). This was the first colour film made by BR Films and established Yash Chopra as a major filmmaker, a position he still holds some 40 years later. On the DVD:Waqt on DVD has good sound and picture quality and the eight songs can all be accessed separately from the menu. The subtitles are adequate and are given for both dialogue and songs. There's a theatrical trailer and an interview with Karan Johar (Kuch kuch hota hai, Kabhi khushi kabhie gham), one of the new generation of directors inspired by Yash Chopra. --Anika Puri

• A Map Of The World | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £6.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Sigourney Weaver stars as Alice Goodwin a mother of two and part-time school nurse who has moved from the city to help her husband Howard (David Strathairn) run a farm in rural Wisconsin. Single minded and outspoken Alice has her own way of looking at life and not everyone in the community takes to her. Tragedy strikes when Alice is minding the children of her best friend and neighbour Theresa Collins (Julianne Moore) and Theresa'a two year old daughter Lizzy strays into a pond

• Kati Patang | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Madhavi is the bearer of a series of unfortunate incidents. On the day before her wedding Madhavi receives an emotional letter from her lover Kailash stating that he is in love with her and cannot live without her. On her wedding day Madhavi disobeys her common sense and escapes from the wedding. As she arrives at Kailash's house she catches him in the act with his girlfriend. Madhavi's dreams are shattered and she finds herself all alone until she meets Kamal who changes her life with joy and happiness.

• Bob Le Flambeur / Un Flic | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A double bill of Jean-Pierre Melville classics including 'Bob Le Flambeur' and the hardboiled thriller 'Un Flic'. Bob Le Flambeur (1955): Once a renowned criminal Bob the Gambler now contents himself with gambling frequenting casinos in the shady districts of Paris. He is convinced his gangster days are over - until he meets up with an old accomplice who has news which interests him. The casino at Deauville has a safe which is loaded with several hundred million francs. Short of cash Bob decides to plan one last great robbery. He recruits a number of former fellow criminals and plans the theft to the greatest detail. Unfortunately on the day of the robbery things rapidly begin to go wrong. Bob's luck appears to have taken an unexpected turn - for the better. Un Flic: Melville's last film returns to the genre in which he made the classic Le Samourai. A band of crooks carry out a bank robbery and then an incredible hold-up on a train. When he investigates the crimes Parisian detective Commissaire Coleman discovers that they were masterminded by his friend - the night club owner Simon abetted by his seductive girlfriend Cathy...

• The Harrad Experiment | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  At Harrad college the students are given classes on sexual freedom and are freely encouraged to experiment on themselves! Based on Robert Rimmer's novel of the same name. This drama stars Tippi Hedren and James Whitmore as heads of an experimental college that decides to promote sexual freedom. Mixed sharing of dorm rooms group marriages and wife swapping are eagerly promoted amongst the students but some students are rebelling....

• Inugami | DVD | (14/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Bonomiya family hails from a long line of ancestors extending back thousands of years. All family members are bound by certain traditions that they must uphold. They have for example rejected the use of many modern conveniences. It is said that the women in the family are supposed to watch over evil spirits (inugami). If they do not or use spirits for questionable purposes the spirits go on a bloodthirsty rampage throughout the village. From this lineage has come Miki a mid

• I Am Waiting No More | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-2.55 (-63.90%)   |  RRP £3.99

  This is a hilarious comedy about a man who suffers from a severe identity crisis as his 30th birthday apparoaches.

• Wildflower | DVD | (11/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  When Ellie Perkins came across a shed that she has been forbidden to approach she makes a discovery that shall forever change her and lives of those around her. Locked inside is 17 year old Alice Guthrie epileptic and partly deaf imprisoned like a wild animal by her abusive stepfather and ignored by her mother..

• Taggart - Vol. 32 - Out Of Bounds | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A skeleton is discovered buried in the grounds of an exclusive boys' boarding school. Then three masters all old boys from the same house are found dead in bizarre circumstances. What is the dark connection betwen these three men and who is the murderer?

• Friendly Fire | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £7.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This poignant television film tells the true story of Peg and Gene Mullen, the parents of an Iowa farm boy killed in the Vietnam War in 1970, charting their painful battle to uncover the truth about how their son died and their increasing engagement in the anti-War movement.In a departure from the more familiar roles of singer and comedienne, Carol Burnett stars as the mother whose despair gives way to activism, supported by the Oscar-nominated Ned Beatty, as husband Gene, and Oscar winner Timothy Hutton as surviving son, John. The winner of four Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Special, Friendly Fire is based on the 1976 book of the same title by journalist Courtlandt Bryan, who conducted interviews with Peg Mullen and highlighted the family's ordeal in a series of articles for The New Yorker; Bryan shared the 1980 Peabody Award with the ABC network in recognition of the film's outstanding achievement.

• Sam Complete Series 3 | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  From the 1930s to the 1960s Sam follows the life of a young boy growing up in a Yorkshire mining village. But Sam reflects more than just one man s life it captures the qualities and textures of the time weaving and exploring the fabric of a nation. It's 1960. Harold MacMillan is Prime Minister and Britain has never had it so good. Sam is offered promotion at work but isn't interested. George suffers a fatal accident at the foundry and Pat returns to uncover the truth about her father s accident. Cassie returns from Australia and Sam's long lost father Harry returns from South Africa after more than 20 years absence. Sam attends a seminar in Norway and decides to take his family including Granddad and Ethel along with him for a trip. The seriousness of Sarah's illness becomes apparent to all the family and Tom discovers the truth about his father.

• My Son The Fanatic | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Farid (Akbar Kurtha) is a seething and disillusioned twenty-something Asian man living in northern England. Looking for inspiration after a disastrous falling out with his white fiancee's family he turns to religion. His father Parvez (Om Puri) a good-natured taxi driver is becoming increasingly estranged from his wife Minoo (Gopi Desai) and finds affection with the local prostitute Bettina (Rachel Griffiths). Islamic fundamentalism is caught head on with western hedonism over the kitchen table of this Asian family as father and son realise the extremity of their differences. Farid and his fanatical friends begin an aggressive campaign to rid the streets of prostitutes just as Parvez realises he could be falling in love with Bettina. Meanwhile visiting German businessman Schitz (Stellan Skarsgard) has his own plans for the girl and her colleagues in his search for pleasure. My Son The Fanatic is a heartwarming story of love against the odds set against a comic clash of generations and culture.

• Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The story opens with Vijay Chopra returning from the USA to join his family business. The only son of the widower industrialist Vishwanath Chopra Vijay carries home with him the attitude of the western world some good like the equality of a man and a woman in a relationship and some bad like failure to recognise marriage as an institution. Vishwanath hopes to bring some stability into his sons life through marriage and Vijay is all the more reluctant to tie the knot. A compromis

• Paramount 90th Anniversary | DVD | (02/12/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Tomb Raider Exploring lost empires finding priceless treasures punishing villains in mortal combat: it's all in a day's work for adventurer Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie). A secret from her father's (Jon Voight) past is about to lead Lara to her greatest challenge: the Triangle of Light a legendary artefact with the power to alter space and time. Lara must find the Triangle before it falls in to the clutch of the Illuminati a secret society bent on world domination. To stop the Illuminati Lara will have to survive a cross-continental chase filled with unimaginable danger. But for the Tomb Raider danger is the name of the game. Mission Impossible 2 How do you prevent terrorists from unleashing mayhem on the entire world? You don't. This is a job for IMF agent Ethan Hunt. The world's greatest spy returns in the movie event of the year M:I-2. Top action director John Woo brings his own brand of excitement to the mission that finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) partnering up with the beautiful Nyah Hall (Thandie Newton) to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) from releasing a new kind of terror on an unsuspecting world. But before the mission is complete they'll traverse the globe and have to choose between everything they love and everything they believe. Top Gun Top Gun takes a look at the danger and excitement that awaits every pilot at the Navy's prestigious fighter weapons school. Tom Cruise is superb as Maverick Mitchell a daring young fighter who's out to become the best. And Kelly McGillis sizzles as the civilian instructor who teaches Maverick a few things you can't learn in a classroom. Forrest Gump Forrest Gump is the movie triumph that became a phenomenon. Tom Hanks gives an astonishing performance as Forrest an everyman whose simple innocence comes to embody a generation... The Untouchables Brian De Palma's 'The Untouchables' is a must-see masterpiece: set to a classic Ennio Morricone score this is the glorious and fierce depiction of the larger than life mob warlord who ruled Prohibition-era Chicago - and the law enforcer who vowed to bring him down. This classic confrontation between good and evil stars Kevin Costner as federal agent Eliot Ness Robert De Niro as gangland kingpin Al Capone and Sean Connery winning an Oscar as Malone the cop who teaches Ness how to beat the mob: shoot fast and shoot first.

• Man Of Miracles | DVD | (16/01/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £1.00 (20.04%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Lampedusa | DVD | (09/10/2017) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Two-part Italian drama starring Claudio Amendola and Carolina Crescentini. After moving to the small Italian island of Lampedusa, coast guard Serra (Amendola) finds himself pushed to the limit as the island is overwhelmed with migrants desperately trying to make it to Europe from northern Africa. With hundreds of people arriving each day, Serra and local reception centre officer Viola (Crescentini) do their best to help as many people as they can. The cast also includes Antonino Bruschetta and Farid Elouardi.

• Dark Waters | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Nature's perfect killing machine has now become man's greatest weapon... For many years the US Navy has been training Dolphins for mine sweeping. But what if a more deadly maritime creature could be trained as an attack weapon? One such creature exists today; a prehistoric creature that has outlived the dinosaur; a creature that is the perfect killing machine... the shark. Bio-engineer Jim Castle has developed the 'warrior shark'. Bred from replicated DNA samples these sharks are bigger than a Killer Whale and 10 times as deadly! However when Castle's creations break out of the facility and head for the Florida coastline a battle is set in motion between an army of monster sharks and those who created them.

• Yellow | DVD | (30/07/2007) from £6.73   |  Saving you £9.26 (57.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Roselyn Sanchez and D.B. Sweeney star in this romantic drama about a young dancer who travels from her native Puerto Rico to the Big Apple in search of a new life after the death of her crippled father once a great ballet star in New York City. Upon her arrival in New York with no job and nowhere to live Amaryllis (Sanchez) turns to working in a strip club to make ends meet. Amaryllis quickly creates a new family in New York by befriending an older man in her building a washed-out poetry professor named Miles Emory as well as her co-workers at the strip club. Increasingly desperate Amaryllis seriously injures herself during a performance one night at the club only to be saved by Christian (Sweeney) a doctor in the audience. Miles' poem 'Yellow' inspires Amaryllis to seek a Broadway dancing job and her emotional connection to Miles helps to give him a reason for living that eluded her father. As Amaryllis' relationship with Christian turns into a love affair she must make a choice between the security of his love and following her dream.