Drama

• Sunrise | Blu Ray | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The culmination of one of the greatest careers in film history F. W. Murnau's Sunrise blends a story of fable-like simplicity with unparalleled visual imagination and technical ingenuity. Invited to Hollywood by William Fox and given total artistic freedom on any project he wished Murnau's tale of the idyllic marriage of a peasant couple (George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor) threatened by a Machiavellian seductress from the city (Margaret Livingston) created a milestone of film expressionism. Made in the twilight of the silent era it became both a swan song for a vanishing medium and one of the few films to instantly achieve legendary status. Winner of three Oscars for Best Actress (Gaynor) Cinematography and a never-repeated award for Unique and Artistic Picture its influence and stature has only grown with each passing year. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present a new 2-disc special edition of the film including an all-new alternate version recently discovered in a Czech archive of a higher visual quality than any other known source.

• Luther | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Rebel. Genius. Liberator. An all-star cast feature in this classic tale of a man who defined history. The film follows Martin Luther the 16th century priest who led the Christian Reformation and opened up new possibilities in exploration of faith. The film begins with his vow to become a monk and continues through his struggles to reconcile his desire for sanctification with his increasing abhorrence of the corruption and hypocrisy pervading the Church's hierarchy. He is ultimate

• Darkness Before Dawn | DVD | (12/05/2008) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-9.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Sometimes you have to strip away everything before you find the truth... Darkness Before Dawn is a story of love determination and ultimately survival. It is the story of a woman trapped in a private hell -- with only the man she loves to save her. Mary Ann Thompson (Meredith Baxter Family Ties A Passion For Innocence) is a nurse at a methadone clinic who's haunted by a troubled past. She escapes from her sad childhood memories under the veil of drug addition. The deception is so successful that no one suspects her of being a junkie. When Mary Ann falls for one of her patients Guy Grand (Stephen Lang Manhunter Last Exit to Brooklyn) her problems begin to escalate. She inspires him to kick his heroin habit while hiding her own addiction. The two soon marry and are determined to live a clean life. But when their baby is born addicted to heroine Mary Ann's worst nightmare becomes a reality.

• Gladiator | Blu Ray | (29/07/2013) from £14.83   |  Saving you £10.16 (40.70%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Set in the Roman chariot days of films like 'Ben Hur' and 'Spartacus' and in which a Roman general is the presiding Caesar's most fearsome and respected warrior. When Caesar Aurelius Marcus dies suddenly his son Commodus imprisons General Maximus - the most successful and popular of his late father's court. Maximus finds himself in the gladiators arena fighting for his life - but soon becomes triumphant and the most famed gladiator of the time. He then uses his influence to weaken Commodus' weak grasp on the Roman Empire. Threatened Commodus challenges Maximus to a trial in the Arena... Special Features: Theatrical Feature Commentary Extended Feature Commentary Visions from the Elysium Topic Maker Intro by Ridley Scott Scrolls of Knowledge Are You Not Entertained Behind the Scene Historical Pod

• Shall We Dance/Sweet Home Alabama | DVD | (20/08/2007) from £12.13   |  Saving you £7.86 (64.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Shall We Dance (Dir. Peter Chelsom) (2004): An overworked Chicago accountant (Gere) tired of the boring routine that his life has become sees a beautiful dance teacher (Lopez) through a window and decides to start taking lessons from her in order to get to know her better and as the joy of dancing enters his life he discovers that it might just be the secret to saving his troubled marriage. As the accountant's skill as a dancer improves he eventually signs up for the Chicago Crystal Ball Dance Competition. Will he win? Sweet Home Alabama (Dir. Andrew Tennant) (2002): Melanie Carmicheal (Reese Witherspoon) is a New York fashion designer with the ideal glamourous life; beautiful successful and newly engaged to perfect-on-paper bachelor Andrew (Patrick Dempsey). All would be perfect if not for her past life with Jake (Josh Lucas) the redneck husband she married in high school who refuses to give her a divorce. When the too-good-to-be-true Andrew son of Mayor Kate Hennings (Candice Bergen) sweeps her off her feet by proposing Melanie goes back to her roots to track down her estranged husband and fix the only obstacle in her path to her future happiness. Initially frustrated by her old memories Melanie slowly warms to and accepts her past as a necessary part of her future...

• Forrest Gump | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The world will never be the same once you've seen it through the eyes of 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. Winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director (Robert Zemeckis) and Best Actor (Tom Hanks).

• The Best Day Of My Life | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £4.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (301.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Troubled matriarch and widowed grandmother Irene lives alone in a decaying family villa. Since the death of her husband her eldest daughter Sara has lived in emotional solitude unable to open up even to her adolescent son marco. She fills the gap by obsessing about whether he might have an accident that he might be on drugs - or worse still - that he might be gay like his uncle Claudio. Claudio has never managed somehow to tell his mother about his sexual orientation and even tho

• Page 3 | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Page 3 takes a behind-the-scenes look at the lifestyle of the A-list celebrities in metro cities. It explores the networking and the power play between the air-kissing champagne-swilling celebrities and the media all witnesses through the eyes of an entertainment journalist Madhavi Sharma. Page 3 will make you laugh and it will make you cry as you witness the plastic life of high society through the eyes of Madhavi Sharma. Given a chance to shatter the

• Heimat 3 | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  The concluding part of the Heimat saga detailing a decisive decade in the upheaval of the years 1989-1999. Beginning in 1989 on the night that the Wall came down this 6-part series tells of the climate of disruption that followed the dreams of the people in the East & West and their attempts to realise them. Featuring familiar faces from Heimat 1 & 2 as well as a handful of unforgettable new characters Heimat 3 stands as an extraordinar

• One Day In Europe | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  4 cities 8 languages and a wave of robberies on the day of football's Champion's League final. Welcome to Europe! Four colourful and light-hearted stories about quirky characters and the amusing misunderstandings that cross-cultural communication often provides. All take place on one single day in different cities and in each case those language barriers are compounded by a chaos of another sort: on this particular day the whole of Europe is in high fever over football's Champion

• Dil Jo Bhi Kahey | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £32.37   |  Saving you £-26.38 (-440.40%)   |  RRP £5.99

  This Romesh Sharma film is based on culture chaos with a contemporary Mauritian setting. Jai Sinha (Karan Sharma) falls in love with Sophie Besson (Annabelle Wallis) while both of them are studying in Stockholm. The pair finds itself clashing with their respective parents. She happens to be the daughter of a prominent white family. While Jai's father Shekhar Sinha (Amitabh Bachchan) has a liberal view on marriage and approves the relationship with zero hesitation his mom Sandhya (R

• The Sopranos: Series 2 (Vols. 4-6) | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £33.99

  The second series of The Sopranos, David Chase's ultra-cool and ultra-modern take on New Jersey gangster life, matches the brilliance of the first, although it's marginally less violent, with more emphasis given to the stories and obsessions of supporting characters. Sadly, the programme makers were forced to throttle back on the appalling struggle between gang boss Tony Soprano and his Gorgon-like Mother Livia, the very stuff of Greek theatre, following actress Nancy Marchand's unsuccessful battle against cancer. Taking up her slack, however, is Tony's big sister Janice, a New Age victim and arrant schemer and sponger, who takes up with the twitchy, Scarface-wannabe Richie Aprile, brother of former boss Jackie, out of prison and a minor pain in Tony's ass. Other running sub-plots include soldier Chris (Michael Imperioli) hapless efforts to sell his real-life Mafia story to Hollywood, the return and treachery of Big Pussy and Tony's wife Carmela's ruthlessness in placing daughter Meadow in the right college. Even with the action so dispersed, however, James Gandofini is still toweringly dominant as Tony. The genius of his performance, and of the programme makers, is that, despite Tony being a whoring, unscrupulous, sexist boor, a crime boss and a murderer, we somehow end up feeling and rooting for him, because he's also a family man with a bratty brood to feed, who's getting his balls busted on all sides, to say nothing of keeping the Government off his back. He's the kind of crime boss we'd like to feel we would be. Tony's decent Italian-American therapist Dr Melfi's (Loraine Bracco) perverse attraction with her gangster-patient reflects our own and, in her case, causes her to lose her first series cool and turn to drink this time around. Effortlessly multi-dimensional, funny and frightening, devoid of the sentimentality that afflicts even great American TV like The West Wing, The Sopranos is boss of bosses in its televisual era. --David Stubbs

• Raging Angels | DVD | (17/01/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Two musicians are unknowingly drawn into a supernatural scheme which threatens to enslave the earth's mortal population...

• Lorenzo's Oil | DVD | (24/12/2001) from £12.73   |  Saving you £0.26 (2.04%)   |  RRP £12.99

• Being Cyrus | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Being Cyrus is Saif Ali Khans follow up film to the hugely successful Salaam Namaste and marks his debut in English cinema. Dinshaw Sethna (Naseerudin Shah) is a retired sculptor who lives in isolation around the small hill station of Panchgani. Dinshaw opens his house to a stranger Cyrus (Saif Ali Khan) who gratefully accepts his invitation as well as that of his wife Katy (Dimple Kapadia). The tale revolves around the rather dysfunctional Sethna family and swings between

• Sabu | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A psychological period drama adapted from the classic rites of passage novel by Shuguro Yamamoto set during the Tokugawa era from enfant terrible of Japanese cinema Takashi Miike. Framed for a crime he did not commit Eiji is subjected to the harsh realities of the Ishikawa Island workhouse. Sabu Eiji's long-term friend must discover who is responsible for Eiji's incarceration before prison life consumes him completely...

• Morris From America | DVD | (16/01/2017) from £8.40   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Morris Gentry is thirteen and fancies himself as the next Notorious B.I.G. Having recently moved to Germany where nobody looks or acts like him, Morris relies on his father Curtis (Craig Robinson, Sausage Party, This Is The End) to share his love of music. That is until Morris meets fifteen-year-old Katrin, rebellious and cool, and falls instantly in love. As adolescence, a new town and the dream of hip hop stardom grow, Morris and his father struggle to see eye to eye in this heartwarming and hilarious coming-of-age tale.

• Indiscretions | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  In the glamorous world of fashion beautiful models bare it all as they try to amke it to the top by any means necessary...

• Mezzo - Vol. 1 | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Her name is Mikura and she's all about service with a smile. So what if that service is cracking skulls and the smile happens to be on the other end of a loaded gun? With a killer body vicious skills and an attitude to match Mikura who's part of the Danger Service Agency (DSA) gets away with murder (literally). It's a good thing too; in the world of Mezzo staying alive is never easy! Mikura and her teammates - Harada a gear-happy engineer always ready for action with a high-t

• The Man With The Golden Arm | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99