Drama

• Flame Trees Of Thika | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the beloved autobiographical novel by Elspeth Huxley, BBC miniseries The Flame Trees of Thika brings an eventful childhood in Eastern Africa to vivid life. In 1913, 11-year-old Elspeth Grant (Holly Aird) traveled with her mother, Tilly (Hayley Mills), from England to Kenya to help build a coffee plantation. (Born in 1907, Huxley was actually six at the time.) Her father, Robin (David Robb), who had preceded them, was waiting to greet his family in the arid town of Thika. Also waiting for them were lions, elephants, giraffes, and countless other creatures (the 18-week production was filmed on location in Kenya). Directed by Roy Ward Baker (A Night To Remember) and written by John Hawkesworth (Upstairs, Downstairs), The Flame Trees of Thika isn't just about one girl, or one family, adrift in an occasionally hostile foreign land, but also about the dangers of colonialism. The Grants, their neighbors, the Palmers (Nicholas Jones and Sharon Maughan), and most of the other Europeans in Thika feel certain they're bringing culture to the uncivilized, without realizing what they're destroying in the process. Ian Crawford (Ben Cross from Chariots of Fire), is one possible exception to the rule, but he brings another kind of danger in his pursuit of Mrs. Palmer. Since their actions are seen through the eyes of a child, The Flame Trees of Thika is never preachy, but the meddling of these adults--however well intentioned--in the affairs of the Masai, the Kikuyu, and other locals frequently creates tension. As Tilly notes, "It's like two whole separate circles revolving around each other--their world and ours--and only just touching occasionally." What began as Elspeth's coming-of-age story, becomes one for her parents, as well, in this sensitive and engaging series. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

• Dil To Pagal Hai | DVD | (28/06/1999) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

• State Of Mind | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Betrayal. Revenge. Murder. A crime of passion or a state of mind? Grace Hazlett reeling from the brutal discovery of her husbands adultery takes their young son Adam to move back to her old family home. Her mother Isabel now widowed is a busy GP and set in her own ways. Home as Grace discovers is not always so sweet...In the midst of this emotional turmoil Grace who is an experienced criminal psycologist is asked by the police to determine the guilt or innocence of Julian

• Pyar To Hona Hi Tha | DVD | (01/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  An Indian remake of 'French Kiss' with Ajay Devgan and Kajol taking up the roles played by Kevin Kline and Meg Ryan in the original. All alone in Paris naturally Sanjana's love is focused on the one person she can call her own - her fiance Rahul. To the distress of Sanjana Rahul has to take a business trip to India ; a trip that she cannot make due to her fear of flying. Despite this Sanjana's life appears to be running smoothly especially as she is about to realize her dream of moving in to her own house. Sanjana's concerns begin to heighten though as Rahul has not contacted her since flying down to India. Four days pass and eventually Rahul calls her drunk. He informs her that he has met someone else Nisha and he has fallen in love with her. He will not be coming back to Paris. Devastated by this revelation Sanjana flies down to India intent on winning him back. On the flight there she meets a charming man Shekhar unbeknown to her he is a jewel thief who exploits the opportunity of meeting her by smuggling a valuable diamond necklace in her luggage. And so begins Pyaar To Hona Hi Tha. A journey that brings about laughter and tears adventure and heartbreak sacrifice and realisation and ultimately love. Can Sanjana win back Rahul and evade the clutches of Shekar and the attentions of the police?

• Cocaine Fiends | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Jane Bradford (Lois January) moves from a small town to a large city and is turned into a cocaine addict by drug running gangsters. When her brother Eddie (Dean Benton) arrives in the city he too becomes addicted and forces his girlfriend into prostitution in order to support their habit. Similar in style to Reefer Madness this has become something of a cult classic with the underlying message being ""There always will be Jane Bradfords until you Mr Citizen co-operate with the forc

• A Family At War - Series 3 - Part 1 | DVD | (11/07/2005) from £14.79   |  Saving you £5.20 (35.16%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A Family At War is the classic ITV series chronicling the fortunes of the Ashton family living in Liverpool during the Second World War. Written by the highly acclaimed John Finch (Coronation Street).

• Green Mile, The / Pay It Forward / Proof Of Life | DVD | (08/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £40.99

  The book was better" has been the complaint of many a reader since the invention of movies. Frank Darabont's second adaptation of a Stephen King prison drama The Green Mile (The Shawshank Redemption was the first) is a very faithful adaptation of King's serial novel. In the middle of the Depression, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) runs death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Into this dreary world walks a mammoth prisoner, John Coffey (Michael Duncan) who, very slowly, reveals a special gift that will change the men working and dying on the mile. With Darabont's superior storytelling abilities, his touch for perfect casting, and a leisurely 188-minute running time, his movie brings to life nearly every character and scene from the novel. Darabont even improves the novel's two endings, creating a more emotionally satisfying experience. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.comPay It Forward is a multi-level marketing scheme of the heart. Beginning as a seventh-grade class assignment to put into action an idea that could change the world, young Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) comes up with a plan to do good deeds for three people who then by way of payment each must do good turns for three other people. These nine people also must pay it forward and so on, ad infinitum. If successful, the resulting network of do-gooders ought to comprise the entire world. While this could have turned into unmitigated schmaltz, the acting elevates this film to mitigated schmaltz. By turns powerful and measured, the performances of Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, and Haley Joel Osment can't make up for the many missteps in a screenplay that sanitises the look of the lower-middle class and expects us to believe that homeless alcoholics and junkies speak in the elevated manner of grad students. One may wonder how it would have been handled by the likes of Frank Capra, who could balance sentiment with humour, clearly Capra would never have let the ending of his version to take the nosedive into cliché and pathos that director Mimi Leder has allowed in this film. --Jim Gay, Amazon.comWhen someone in Proof of Life says "Don't leave me hanging", you can bet they're going to be left hanging. There's little room for delicacy in Tony Gilroy's screenplay, adapted from an article by William Prochnau and the book Long March to Freedom by kidnapping survivor Thomas Hargrove. A hint of romance between Russell Crowe (the soldier-turned-"K&R") and Meg Ryan adds tension as the story shifts back and forth to David Morse's captivity. Avoiding that pitfall, director Taylor Hackford crafts the plot as a latter-day Casablanca that unfolds on a grander canvas (at stunning locations in Ecuador) while favouring an exciting rescue-mission climax over the tragedy of an ill-timed affair. It might have worked better as a straightforward macho action flick (with David Caruso doing lively work as Crowe's gung-ho K&R cohort), but Proof of Life effectively conveys the two-sided torment of a hostage crisis. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

• Hilde's Journey | DVD | (22/05/2006) from £8.07   |  Saving you £9.92 (55.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Carpenter Steff (Oliver Stokowski) is left the estate of his ex-boyfriend Martin Hilde son of a wealthy family along with instructions to scatter his ashes at sea. Instead Steff makes a deal with the family to receive a fraction of the inheritance in exchange for the ashes and no contest of the will. Steff needs the money to start up a business but Martin's last lover Rex refuses to let Steff betray Hilde's last wish and steals the urn. They head off on a journey both intend

• Red Wing | DVD | (08/08/2016) from £8.48   |  Saving you £4.51 (34.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Red Wing is a socially thought-provoking and stirring love story based on the French novella, François le Champi by George Sand. It is set in a small Texas town in present day. It reminds us of how love can be found in the most unusual places. Red Wing follows the troubled journey of an orphan boy into manhood. Despite all odds, when confronted with the ill-will of others, he maintains honor and integrity. We learn that if we let it, love takes over and finds its way.

• Lovin' Molly | DVD | (09/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Molly Taylor is a spirited young woman who enjoys an unusual relationship with two men but is unable to commit herself to either of them. Spanning a period of forty years 'Lovin' Molly' is a beautiful and engrossing story of two men one woman and a love so strong it lasts a lifetime.

• Evil In Clear River | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £4.98   |  Saving you £-0.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  High school teacher and mayor Peter Suvak is a pillar of the community in Clear River Canada. But his popularity is tested when Kate McKinnon the mother of one of his students discovers that he is filling his students' heads with blatent racism..A controversial courtroom drama puts the children of Clear River on the stand and the constitution of Canada to the test.

• Fatal Love | DVD | (23/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  An inspiring commercial artist Alison Gertz was young white and upwardly mobile from a strong upper middle class family. She was heterosexual not promiscuous had never used intravenous drugs and had never had a blood transfusion. Yet her life and the lives of her family and friends are changed radically by her diagnosis as having AIDS at the age of 22.

• 3 Pack: True Stories | DVD | (17/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  A 3 disc boxset of movies based on true stories. Anastasia, Baltic Storm and Flynn

• Crossroads Archive - 1965-1979 | DVD | (02/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £129.99

  Crossroads Archive: 1965 - 1979 (41 Discs)

• Bikini Drive-In | DVD | (02/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

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

  Laxmi (Rishi Kapoor) is branded unlucky by all. Having given birth to a still born child she is warned against having another baby as this would endanger her life. But she is determined to give an heir to her family. Will she succeed?

• The Hiding Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (20/08/2012) from £7.16   |  Saving you £2.83 (39.53%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When Jo witnesses the gruesome murder of her parents, she becomes a key witness against a notorious crime boss. She is placed into the Witness Protection Program and is relocated thousands of miles away from her big city home to the rural countryside of Montana. Now she has a new name, a new look and a new family. Jo slowly begins to make new friends and builds a new life when her past catches up to her and the fight of her life has begun.

• Monsoon Wedding/East Is East/Bhaji on the Beach | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Bhaji On The Beach: A day trip to Blackpool to 'sea' the lights a harmless break from the routine for a minibus full of women from the Asian Women’s Centre. It all seems innocent enough but as the minibus trundles along to a Punjabi rendition of Cliff Richard’s Summer Holiday problems quickly become apparent. Ginder is fleeing her violent husband with her five-year-old son. Hashida is eighteen about to start medical school and has just discovered she is pregnant by her black boyfriend.... Monsoon Wedding: An exuberant drama set in New Delhi where ancient culture and dot.com modernity combine in unique and perfect harmony. The film traces five intersecting stories each navigating different aspects of love as they cross boundaries of class continent and morality. The plot centres around the last minute arranged marriage which joins together the Verma family from all around the world. The family re-unites in New Delhi to join in the celebrations with the bride and groom-to-be. The relentless summer heat mirrors the story's building intensity as the city anticipates the cooling torrent of the monsoons and when the rains come the downpour brings romance revelation and liberation. East Is East: George Khan proud Pakistani and chip shop owner rules his family with a rod of iron. He thinks he's raising his seven children to be respectable Pakistanis - but this is Salford in the North of England in 1971. For the seven kids of George Khan life is one long compromise. Tomboy Meenah prefers playing footie to wearing a sari hippie Saleem pretends to be studying engineering when he's really at art school heart-throb Tariq has got a reputation as a local Casanova and Sajid hasn't even been circumcised yet! In the Khan's cramped terrace house with its scant indoor plumbing anarchy erupts on a daily basis.

• West Is West | Blu Ray | (05/11/2012) from £12.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (81.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sequel to the internationally acclaimed, multi-award winning East is East, West is West takes the Khan family on a journey from Salford, England, to rural Pakistan. West is West is the coming of age story of both 13 year old Sajid and also of his father, 60 year old George ('Ghengis') Khan. Sajid, the youngest Khan has been misbehaving so his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and the family in Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 30 years earlier. Resolved to teach Sajid a lesson, the tables are turned on George as he realises that it is he himself who has much to learn. Special Features: Cast and Crew Interviews Audio Commentary with Producer Leslee Udwin and Writer Ayub Khan Din Photo Gallery Deleted Scenes and Outtakes

• Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming | DVD | (17/09/2012) from £4.97   |  Saving you £5.02 (101.01%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In the countdown to a national step-off, rivalries at Truth University run red hot. The Theta Nus are counting on new pledge Chance Harris (Collins Pennie) to lead the team to victory. But he's too caught up in his own problems to focus. At odds with his father, caught up in romantic troubles and targeted by a street gang for an unpaid debt, Chance must decide what is truly important and make the choices that will shape his life. Stomp the Yard: Homecoming unites a powerful cast featuring Terrence J and Pooch Hall with a soundtrack packed with pulse-pounding tracks.