Drama

• Devotion | DVD | (05/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The beautiful owner of a vintage clothing shop is troubled by inexplicable visions in her dreams. When she asks a mystic for help she learns that she is experiencing past lives and loves. This is an adult drama....

• Lena - My 100 Children | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £5.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  The end of World War II has come but for many in Poland the suffering has not ceased. Lena Kuchler has come to the Jewish Refugee Centre in search of missing relatives. But she finds 100 starving children - all without families or homes. Kuchlar is determined to help the children.

• My Sister's Keeper | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Two sister's lifelong struggle with mental illness daily hardships and their own conflicted relationship evolves into mutual respect and understanding in this poignant and emotional real life story. Throughout their life Christine and Judy's stern but dutiful devoted mother tries to hide the fact that Christine is not like other girls. Suffering from Schizoaffective Disorder Christine is in and out of hospital for most of her teenage years leaving her younger sister Judy confu

• Another Time, Another Place | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Set during World War II a young Scottish woman married to a rancher falls in love with a passionate Italian prisoner-of-war...

• Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  At a party celebrating Rahul's promotion his fiance Sanjana (Kajol) is distraught that she cannot join him on this trip to India - despite her fears of flying. Despite this everything seems to be running smoothly in her life especially as she is about to realize her dream of moving in to her own house. However Sanjana's concerns are raised by the fact that Rahul has not called her since flying down to India. After four days Sanjana receives a drunken phone call from him he has

• Nada | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Claude Chabrol master of suspense tales set in domestic bourgeois surroundings departs into the arena of political terrorism and violence. Nada is the name of a small terrorist group who plans and executes the kidnapping of the American ambassador to Paris from a brothel secreting him away in an isolated farmhouse while they wait for a response to their demands. As the police close in on the kidnappers it becomes apparent that the French authorities are less concerned with the safe return of the ambassador and more with turning the incident against the Nada leading to an explosive and violent confrontation between the police and the terrorists.

• Man Who Lived At The Ritz | DVD | (31/05/2004) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-9.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  Paris under the Nazis. Our hero is an American art student living at The Ritz Hotel. Suddenly he is trapped by the German occupation and finds The Ritz over-run by Nazis. Torn between his desire to keep his room at this elegant hotel but at the price of helping a morphine crazed Goering requisition France's priceless art treasures and his desire to help his friends fight against the brutality of the Nazi regime Phillip Webber is caught ever deeper into a web of intrigue romance gl

• Doctor Finlay - Series 3 | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Series Three of Doctor Finlay. Based on the characters created by A.J. Cronin and set in the 1940s the series chronicles life in the town of Tannochbrae as people come to terms with post-war problems and Doctor Finlay prepares to cope with upheaval in his personal and professional life.

• Shootdown | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £5.92   |  Saving you £-1.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  At 32 000 feet a Korean 747 passenger jet is blown open by a Soviet missile. The mangled aircraft manages to stay airborne for a few minutes but then plummets into the frigid Japanese sea with no survivors. Officials try to keep the story out of the press but soon the entire world knows. Nan Moore the mother of a passenger from the aircraft begins to search out the answers to her son's meaningless death and she finds that her own government may even be responsible. Nan Moore will stop at nothing not even the law to face the frightening questions and to find the vital answers that are raised through her determination.

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

  Palaces, princesses and politics--on the face of it Indian art cinema doyen Shyam Benegal's maiden foray into Bollywood, Zubeidaa, appears to have all the ingredients of a mainstream success. However, the film is at best an uneasy blend of art-house sensibilities with the full-on spectacle that is commercial Hindi cinema. This is the latest in a series of semi-autobiographical stories by writer Khalid Mohamed that have been directed by Benegal. Here the director charts the story of Zubeidaa, a young aristocratic Muslim woman, whose promising film career is cut short. She is married off young, has a son, is divorced and finally finds love with the married ruler of a princely state in newly independent India. Told in flashback, the film's structure and some key scenes are very similar to the director's masterpiece Bhumika ("The Role", 1976). Karisma Kapoor, hitherto known for her scantily clad raunchy roles, makes her bid for artistic credentials as the eponymous heroine. But much like the film itself, her performance falls between two stools. Veteran actress Rekha who plays her paramour's first wife easily outclasses her in a graceful yet forceful performance. AR Rahman's music is haunting, dreamy and helps create a mood and ambience that the visuals fail to produce. On the DVD: Zubeidaa is presented in a pleasing anamorphic transfer with 5.1 Dolby Digital sound. While the menus are easy enough to navigate, the extras are disappointing, consisting of a faded theatrical trailer and a few television promos complete with dropouts. The subtitling, though largely accurate, makes quite a few errors. For example "cemetery" appears as "symmetry" while the word "diary" consistently appears as "dairy". --Naman Ramachandran

• Coming Of Sin | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Directed by Jose Ramon Larraz (Vampyres) this is Eurotrash cinema at its best. Lorna is a beautiful woman living all alone with only her books and paintings for company. Then one day Triana a wild dark haired gypsy girl comes to stay with her. Soon the pair are lovers. But Triana has a dark secret that manifests itself in frightening dreams of domination and humiliation. Unable to resist the strange passions that consume her Lorna finds herself sucked deeper and deeper into the whirlpool that surrounds her strange lover. A stunning tale of lust and licence from cult director Jose 'Vampyres' Larraz.

• Saraswati Chandra | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Sarawati Chandra is a stirring saga of two made-for-each-other lovers who are repeatedly denied the joys of physical intimacy by destiny and tradition but cannot be kept emotinally and spiritually distant. To appreciate the finer qualities of the film one has to consider the fact that the story was set in the nineteenth century and subsequently some of the morals and values pertain to that era.

• Devdas | DVD | (20/08/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Devdas (Dilip Kumar) and Parvati (Vyjayantimala) had been inseperable as children and as they grew older love blossomed. Devdas is sent away for studies by his parents - he and Parvati are separated. Devdas is a film about how hearts and lives are crushed under parental and social pressures.

• The Man I Love | DVD | (21/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• King Lear | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Adaptation of the Shakespeare drama with Blessed taking the lead role as well as directing the production.

• Choking Man | DVD | (30/03/2009) from £12.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (23.09%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Cited by film director Steven Soderbergh as 'everything an independent film should be' Choking Man blends psychological drama and magical realism creating a distinctive and striking story that encapsulates the contemporary immigrant experience in America.

• Hulchul | DVD | (31/01/2005) from £14.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A comedy of errors which revolves around two villages their families their past and the grudge that is held between them. As two rival families wait for an opportunity to plot their revenge two of thier children fall in love....

• The Debut | DVD | (08/12/2003) from £6.73   |  Saving you £13.26 (197.03%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ben is a talented high school senior who dreams of going to art school. His strict immigrant father wants him to accept a scholarship to medical school. The struggle between his family's Filipino traditions and his own American dreams explodes on the night of his sister's eighteenth birthday party. Pressured by his family to attend his sister's ""debut"" instead of hanging with his white friends Ben gets more than he bargained for including a showdown with a childhood friend-turned-th

• Next Of Kin | DVD | (24/06/2013) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (50.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Catatonically unhappy with his family life a young man named Peter Foster undergoes video therapy with his parents. One day while studying tapes at the hospital he sees the tapes of an Armenian family who feel guilty about surrendering their own son while still an infant to a foster home. Peter decides to present himself to this family as their lost son to finally act out a role different from the one assigned to him in his own life.

• All The Right Noises | Blu Ray | (24/08/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  All The Right Noises is the story of a young married man with two young children who has an affair with a teenage girl. It stars Olivia Hussey in her first post-Romeo And Juliet role as well as the inimitable Tom Bell (The L-Shaped Room Prime Suspect). Very much a film of its time tackling a subject which formed the basis for a number of celebrated and respected films in the 60s this slice of British cultural history is one of only a handful of feature films directed by Gerry O'Hara better known for his assistant director work with the cinema's giants including Tony Richardson Carol Reed and Otto Preminger.