Drama

• Small Time Obsession | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Erroneously labelled a "gangster film", the independently made British film Small Time Obsession is in fact a thought-provoking essay on generation gaps and loyalties. London's Polish District is the setting, where four long-term friends are used to filling time and their pockets with petty crime. Michael (Alex King) has come to realise he has increasingly less in common with the others, and also with his parents who own a delicatessen. Life's big decisions elude Michael. His exclusively Polish-speaking father wants him to take over the family business, his greyhound Bullitt is starting to win prizes at the track and he's also secretly in love with Ali (Juliette Caton). Unfortunately she's already spoken for by tough guy Chris (Jason Merrells). This love triangle hardly has time to sort itself out since Chris is inadvertently embroiling them all in more Big Time crime. Although the circumstances inevitably lead to bouts of violence , what's refreshing here is that character relationships genuinely resonate with believability. First time writer/director Piotr Szkopiak tells the story with several shades of sympathetic subtlety, sensitively portraying the problems of a generation torn between inheriting their parents' displaced traditions and "fitting in".On the DVD: In this anamorphic widescreen presentation the dirty grey backdrop of London seems to rise up and swamp the characters. A 14-minute documentary ("Behind the Obsession") talks about those locales and how the director and distributor marketed the film. As well as a trailer, the extras package includes numerous text pages devoted to: cast and crew biographies, Production Notes, Locations, Media Reviews and the Polish Community. --Paul Tonks

• In Love And War | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £4.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  North Vietnam 1965. Navy pilot Jim Stockdale suffers the repeated tortures given by his captors but he vows to himself that he will never confess what he knows. Meanwhile his wife Sybil struggles to hold her life together with little or no news of her husbands captivity.

• Namak Halaal | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £8.07   |  Saving you £11.92 (59.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The story is about being loyal tot he hand that feeds you even if you lose everything in the process. Arjun decides to find out who is beghind two attacks on Raja.

• Badal | DVD | (27/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Jaisingh Rana is a trigger-happy cop who kills people for fun. Badal is rendered an orphan by him and is subsequently nurtured by a Mantaveer. Badal turns into a terrorist with a sole mission of avenging the brutal murder of his family by executing Jaisingh. Badal comes over to a village Sundernagar and meets Soni who falls head over heels for Badal and tries every antics in the book to woo him. A.C.P. Ranjeet Singh (Amrish Puri) takes a liking for him and brings him over to his plac

• Eyes Of Laura Mars, The / 8MM / Bitter Moon | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  8mm: Nicholas Cage is Tom Welles a surveillance specialist with a modest home-based business. Respected but still waiting for the big break that will improve his professional status Welles spends most of his time on routine cases. Nothing too dangerous nor too threatening - until a case involving a small innocuous-looking plastic reel of film turns Welles' life upside down sending him down a sordid and terrifying path into society's deepest corners. Drifting away from his family life Welles is aided by streetwise Max California (Joaquin Phoenix) as he pursues a bizarre trail of graphic and disturbing evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his obsession with the case grows Welles enters the seedy world of pornography and sees things beyond his worst nightmares - coming to realise how far-reaching and deadly a small reel of 8mm film can be. Bitter Moon: Roman Polanksi explores the uttermost depths of sexual perversion and experimentation in this erotic drama with more than a hint of black comedy. Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott-Thomas) a repressed English couple eager to rekindle their fading marriage by taking a luxury cruise get more than they bargained for. Enroute they meet Oscar (Peter Coyote) a crippled American and his beautiful wife Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner) who both enthral and appal Nigel with rivetting accounts of their wildly sensuous exploits. Before they reach their journey's end Nigel and Fiona become the unwitting participants in a tragedy with the most extraordinary outcome... Eyes Of Laura Mars: Fashion Photographer Laura Mars (Faye Dunaway) world-renowned for her erotic portraits of transparently-gowned models in settings of urban violence becomes the focal point for a series of bizarre murders. The victims are witnessed by Laura in her mind's eye - as if through the lens of her camera. These terrifying experiences bring Laura together in an intimate relationship with homicide detective John Neville (Tommy Lee Jones) who while unraveling the mystery makes a shocking discovery.

• Garbo Talks | DVD | (23/02/2015) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Anne Bancroft stars in this Sidney Lumet drama about a son who will go to great lengths to fulfil his dying mother's last wish. When Estelle (Bancroft) receives the news that she has an inoperable brain tumour, she decides that she is not going to waste another day and sets about ticking things off her to-do list. Estelle's son Gilbert (Ron Silver), a rather unambitious accountant, is something of a disappointment to his mother, but when he learns she is dying he does everything in his power to fulfil her last wish to meet her life-long idol Greta Garbo.

• Judgement Day (Ellie Nesler Story) | DVD | (01/04/2013) from £6.73   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Drama based on real events in which a mother takes the law into her own hands after her son suffers sexual abuse. When Ellie Nesler (Christine Lahti) finally discovers the cause of her son Brandon (Andrew Ducote)'s increasingly unbalanced behaviour - the abuse he endured at the hands of Daniel (Robert Bockstael) - she naturally takes matters to the police. However, when she learns that Daniel has previously been convicted of a similar offence, for which he received no sterner punishment than ...

• The West Wing - Complete Seasons 1-3 (Amazon.co.uk Exclusive) | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  This box set containing the complete first three series of The West Wing is available exclusively from Amazon.co.uk. Aaron Sorkin's American political drama The West Wing, set in the White House, has won innumerable awards--and rightly so. Its depiction of a well-meaning Democrat administration has warmed the hearts of countless Americans. However, The West Wing is more than mere feel-good viewing for sentimental patriots. It is among the best-written, sharpest, funniest and moving US TV series of all time. Martin Sheen leads a strong ensemble cast: his Jed Bartlet is such an impressively plausible fictional President that polls once expressed a preference for Bartlet over the genuine incumbent. Handled incorrectly, The West Wing could have been turgid, didactic propaganda for The American Way. However, the writers are careful to show that, decent as this administration is, its achievements, though hard-won, are minimal. Moreover, the brisk, staccato-like, almost musical exchanges of dialogue, between Josh and his PA Donna, for instance, as they pace purposefully up and down the corridors are the show's abiding joy. --David Stubbs

• Tohfa | DVD | (29/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Janaki a hardworking and caring orphan does anything to educate her young sister Lalita. Janaki used to love Ram who had gone away for further education. While he was away Janaki looked after his mother. However when Ram returned he and Lalita fell in love but Ram's mother fixes Janaki's wedding with him. Janaki all excited tells her sister. Lalita gets a shock but does not want to hurt her sister with the truth therefore sacrifices her love and marries Kamesh and leaves the vil

• The House Of Eliott - Series 2 - Vol. 2 | DVD | (06/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The House Of Eliott continues with its reputation as the most elegant couture house in London and the Eliott sisters juggle with running their empire keeping the workroom seamstress happy and the bank at bay. Evie meets Lord Alexander Monford at Montford Hall and there is instant chemistry between them. Episode 5: The sisters are designing the costumes for a new abstract ballet and the workroom girls are excitedly making Till's wedding dress. A financial problem results in a

• Family True story 6 dvd Box Set | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Titles Comprise: A Child's Cry: A recently widowed doctor leaves town with her daughter to start at a new hospital. But once there she faces condemnation for her deduction that a boy's illnesses are caused by his mother purposefully in order to satisfy her cravings for attention. When Innocence Is Lost: The story of Erica French who falls pregnant while in high school. She decides to keep the baby but faces a battle from the father as she is not trusted to look after Molly safely. Taming Andrew: When her abducted son finally returns home after 5 years Gail Carlson feels as if her prayers have been answered. However her nightmare is far from over when she is confronted with the emotional and mental trauma her son has endured. Untamed Love: Six-year old Caitlin vandalises property and attacks other children causing devastating injuries. She has been branded psychotic and seems doomed to a life behind bars in a mental hospital. But behind this devilish exterior lies a very different character: a charming child with a near-genius IQ. When Caitlin joins Maggie Bernard's special education class Maggie refuses to give up on a child whom everyone else has abandoned - even if it means challenging the law. Color Me Perfect: the story of a free-spirited childlike woman with limited intelligence who is chosen for a groundbreaking genetic experiment to improve her mental capacity. Amidst controversy the woman becomes a genius and her life is changed forever. Stranger In The Family: A minor car crash has a major impact on the Thompson family when their teenaged son Steve (Neil Patrick Harris Doogie Howser M.D.) sustains a 'simple dose of concussion'. Steve's life goes into freefall as injuries deep in his brain wipe out his memory erasing every element of his identity. His mother Randi (Teri Garr Oscar'' nominee for Tootsie) refuses to give up on her son even if he is now a stranger to his own family. But Randi's well-meaning efforts to restore Steve's old life drive him to breaking point and Randi must face the harsh fact that there's only one way to restore Steve to the heart of his shattered family.

• Kabzaa | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £12.93   |  Saving you £-4.94 (-61.80%)   |  RRP £7.99

  A Bollywood tale of deadly sibling rivalry.

• Do Elephants Pray? | DVD | (20/05/2013) from £3.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (275.69%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Frustrated by the soulless routine of life, advertising executive Callum Cutter is thrown into poetic chaos when he meets free-spirited French seductress Malika who promises to change his life forever providing he keeps her identity a secret. Whilst his employees, lead by the egotistical Marrlen mutiny over a make or break campaign on a seemingly unsellable product, Callum follows Malika to her native France where he is subjected to increasingly demoralizing trials and tribulations. Will he find the hidden meaning of life? Will the unsellable become sellable? A poetically spiritual film set in London and Brittany with stunning imagery.

• Pride And Prejudice/Shakespeare In Love | DVD | (26/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Pride and Prejudice (Dir. Joe Wright 2005): The five Bennet sisters - Elizabeth or Lizzie (Keira Knightley) Jane (Rosamund Pike) Lydia (Jena Malone) Mary (Talulah Riley) and Kitty (Carey Mulligan) - have been raised well aware of their mother's (Brenda Blethyn) fixation on finding them husbands and securing set futures. The spirited and intelligent Elizabeth however strives to live her life with a broader perspective as encouraged by her doting father (Donald Sutherland). When wealthy bachelor Mr. Bingley takes up residence in a nearby mansion the Bennets are abuzz. Amongst the man's sophisticated circle of London friends and the influx of young military officers surely there will be no shortage of suitors for the Bennet sisters. Eldest daughter Jane serene and beautiful seems poised to win Mr. Bingley's heart. For her part Lizzie meets with the handsome and it would seem snobbish Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen) and the battle of the sexes is joined. Their encounters are frequent and spirited yet far from encouraging. Lizzie finds herself even less inclined to accept a marriage proposal from a distant cousin Mr. Collins (Tom Hollander) and supported by her father stuns her mother and Mr. Collins by declining. When the previously good-natured Mr. Bingley abruptly departs for London leaving a devastated Jane Lizzie holds Mr. Darcy culpable for contributing to the heartbreak. But a crisis involving youngest sister Lydia soon opens Lizzie's eyes to the true nature of her relationship with Mr. Darcy... Shakespeare In Love (Dir. John Madden 1998): Triumphant winner of 7 Academy Awards - including Best Picture - this witty sexy smash features Oscar-winning Best Actress Gwyneth Paltrow and an amazing cast that includes Academy Award winners Judi Dench Geoffrey Rush and Ben Affleck! When Will Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) needs passionate inspiration to break a bad case of writer's block a secret romance with the beautiful Lady Viola (Paltrow) starts the words flowing like never before! There are just two things he'll have to learn about his new love: not only is she promised to marry someone else she's successfully impersonating a man in order to play the lead in Will's latest production! A truly can't-miss motion picture event with outstanding critical acclaim to match its impressive collection of major awards - everyone will love this funny behind-the-scenes look at the writing of the greatest love story ever told!

• Joe Strummer - The Future is Unwritten | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Filmmaker Julien Temple chronicles the life of the antiestablishment icon known to the world as Joe Strummer.

• Kidnapped | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When young David Balfour arrives at his uncle's bleak Scottish house to claim his inheritance his relative first tries to murder him and then has him shipped off to be sold as a slave in the colonies. Fortunately for David he strikes up a friendship with Alan Breck (Michael Caine) and together they manage to escape. On arriving back in Scotland they set out for Edinburgh dodging the ruthless Redcoats to claim David's rightful inheritance...

• The Wild West | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The true and dramatic stories of the great figures of the American West! A time of notorious outlaws gunfighters-turned-sheriffs and frontier justice the Wild West has proved a fertile ground for stories of heroism and triumph over adversity to grow. From the most famous outlaw of them all Billy the Kid to vengeful lawman Wyatt Earp audiences have been captivated by these legends. But what of the men behind the myths - and the truth? Blending fast-paced drama with the latest archaeological forensic and ballistic research this series brings the truth to life. Was General Custer little more than an inept vain man the Battle of Little Bighorn nothing more than an attempt to further his career? Which side of the law was Wyatt Earp really on? And find out why the Governor of New Mexico is today considering a pardon for Billy the Kid.

• Girls In Prison | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  21 year old Anne Carson is convicted as an accomplice to a robbery and sent to prison with 3 other cell mates together they plot to escape from the trauma and violence that is all around them....

• The Disappearance Of Flight 412 | DVD | (23/05/2011) from £8.07   |  Saving you £-3.08 (-61.70%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Colonel Pete Moore is commander of the Whitney Radar Test Group which has been experiencing electrical difficulties aboard its aircraft. To ferret out the problem he sends a four-man crew on Flight 412. Shortly into the test the jet picks up three blips on radar and subsequently two fighters scramble and mysteriously disappear.

• Party of Five - Season One: Pilot + Episode 2 - 4 | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  After the sudden loss of their parents the Salingers must band together to keep their own lives on track discovering first loves last calls and themselves along the rocky road to growing up. Headlined by a young sexy cast including Neve Campbell Scott Wolf and Lacey Chabert this highly-rated long-running series (1994-2000) firmly found its place as a pop culture phenomenon for all ages. Episodes Comprise: 1. Pilot 2. Homework 3. Good Sports 4. Worth Waiting For