Drama

• Stolen Innocence | DVD | (18/12/2003) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-12.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A teenage girl becomes infatuated with a criminal who attempts to extract money from her parents...

• Grimm Fairy Tales - Vol. 2 | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Think of Grimm's Fairy Tales and everyone can list their all-time favourites and this second volume of the world famous brother's delightful stories is sure to please. Open the pages of this DVD edition and watch the characters of these great traditional tales come to life before your very eyes and let the world of magic and make-believe thrill the entire family.The four classic stories featured are The Frog Prince Sleeping Beauty Cinderella and Snow White. Each Grimm's Fairy Tale has been adapted in traditional style but given a contemporary twist to capture the imagination of even the most multi-media obsessed youngsters of our 21st Century generation.A good story only gets better with age and on each occasion it's told the narrative improves and evolves in keeping with its own time and place. Grimm's Fairy Tales certainly prove the point so without further ado let the storytelling commence...

• Tera Mera Saath Rahen | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £31.70   |  Saving you £-11.71 (-58.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'Tera Mera Saath Rahen' depicts the changes in relationship through time. Raj lives in Mumbai with 14-year old brother Rahul who suffers from Cerebral Palsy. Raj spends most of his time taking care of Rahul due to which his own life takes a backseat. Rahul is totally dependent on Raj. The two are loved by all and neighboring Guptas their daughter Suman and their son treat them as their extended family. Suman loves Raj but Raj always shrugs her off as for him his life is dedicated to Rahul. Life takes a turn for Raj when his ex-boss Mr. Khanna asks Raj to meet his niece Madhuri who has come from Delhi after a broken engagement. With time both Raj and Madhuri take a liking for each other. Rahul also accepts Madhuri. Suman however is not happy. Madhuri makes Raj aware that Rahul needs to be educated and made self-dependent and there are institutions for 'special' children. Raj initially disapproves of the idea but finally accepts that admitting Rahul to such institution will help. But Rahul refuses to be admitted. Despite his refusal Raj takes Rahul to the institute. Once separated a sea of turmoil engulfs Raj. Which way the tide turns in the lives of Raj Rahul Madhuri and Suman forms the crux of this sentimental drama.

• The Man With The Golden Arm | DVD | (17/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Frank Sinatra stars with Kim Novak and Eleanor Parker in this riveting drama about a poker dealer/jazz musician who descends to skid row after becoming addicted to heroin. Will he make it back into the spotlight -- or even survive? Based upon the classic American novel by Nelson Algren The Man With The Golden Arm was far ahead of its time with its depiction of what drugs can do to even an ambitious person. Its cautionary tale still holds up today as heroin has come back to haunt not

• Une Femme Mariée | Blu Ray | (25/01/2010) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Long out-of-circulation and unavailable on home-video Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 masterpiece Une femme mari''e fragments d'un film tourn'' en 1964 en noir et blanc [A Married Woman: Fragments of a Film Shot in 1964 in Black and White] has until now represented the ostensibly 'missing' key work from the first zeitgeist-defining phase of JLG's filmography. The feature which bridges the gap between Bande '' part and Alphaville Une femme mari''e is nevertheless a galaxy or gallery unto itself - a lucid complex profoundly funny series of portraits etched with Godardian acids of the wife that represents either a singular case or a universal example of a/the married woman and the men in her orbit. Macha M''ril (later of Pialat's Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble and Varda's Sans toit ni loi) plays Charlotte - the title character. She's married to aviator Pierre (Philippe Leroy of Becker's Le Trou). She sleeps with thespian Robert (Bernard No''l). She talks intelligence with renowned critic-filmmaker Roger Leenhardt and takes part in a fashion-shoot at a public pool. The fragments of the film's subtitle are chapters episodes vignettes tableaux; Une femme mari''e is a pile of magazines made into a film and a film turned into a magazine - the table of contents reading: Alfred Hitchcock. Jean Racine. La Peau douce. A Peruvian serum. Nuit et brouillard. The Eloquence bra. The quartets of Beethoven. Madame C''line. Fant''mas. Robert Bresson. A Volkswagen making a right turn. - A film shot in 1964 and in black and white. Designed with Raoul Coutard's breathtaking cinematography Godard's picture captures a moment in time - but all its mysteries its truths its beauty comedy and grace serve to resolve into a work of art for the ages. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Jean-Luc Godard's classic Une femme mari''e in a magnificent new Gaumont restoration for the first time on blu-ray

• The Takeshi Kitano Collection (3 discs) | DVD | (08/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Titles Comprise: Dolls: Bound by a long red cord a young couple wanders in search of something they have forgotten. An aging Yakuza returns to the park where he used to meet his long-lost girlfriend. A disfigured pop star confronts the phenomenal devotion of her biggest fan... Zatoichi: Masterless samurai Zatoichi comes to a village that is on the brink of gang war. Always on the run and looking for the next dice game a blind masseur and swordsman soon finds himself a wanted man in town when he protects his landlord's nephew in a slaughter at the makeshift casino. At the same time two geishas come to town to seek revenge for the deaths of their family ten years previously. As they begin to hunt down those responsible Zatoichi and the geishas find themselves targets in a final bloody showdown... Takeshis' i: Beat Takeshi a prominent actor meets a lookalike named Kitano who is a struggling actor but after the meeting Kitano's dreams take a violent surreal turn.

• Subhuman | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Monsters. Zombies. Chainsaws. Somebody doesn't love Lucy. Testing an experimental implant that gives people complete control over their environment a secret agency assemble five strangers. According to profiling of reading habits employment histories and shopping records they are five of the most balanced people in England. These five are offered an opportunity to spend a week in a specially designed house in which they will have ultimate power during set hours of the day

• Vengeance Is Mine | Blu Ray | (02/08/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Based on the true story of Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) and his murderous rampage which sparked a 78-day nationwide manhunt Shohei Imamura's disturbing gem Vengeance Is Mine won every major award in Japan on the year of its release. Both seducing and repelling with its unusual story and grisly humour Imamura uncovers a seedy underbelly of civilised Japanese society. Unfolding through multiple flashbacks Ogata delivers a career-defining performance as a day-labourer and smalltime con-artist who after killing two of his co-workers embarks on a psychopathic spree of rape and murder. Eluding the police and public Japan's infamous King of Criminals passes himself off as a Kyoto University professor only to become entangled with an innkeeper and her perverted mother. Five years in the making Vengeance Is Mine transcends the limitations of run-of-the-mill criminal studies by presenting a portrait of a killer imbued with a poignant tragic banality.

• The Merchant Ivory Collection | DVD | (20/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £169.99

• Army | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Renowned for his bravery major Arjun Singh (Shahrukh Khan) ranks among the elite group of officers in the armed forces. He falls in love with Geeta (Sridevi) a lawyer and they soon tie the knot. Arjun Singh has a unique sense of humour and pretends to be dead on a number of occasions! Geeta hates this prank which one day becomes a reality when he is assassinated by a terrorist gang. She assembles a group of men who will be her Army and carry out her revenge.

• Cinema Collection - Vol. 3 | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Features eight movies. In 'Take Out The Beast' two men returning home in a cosmic station are ordered to kill the biorobot that is accompanying them. Unfortunately for them the robot is more human than they think... Also features: 'Under The Car' 'On Hope' 'Override' 'Present Tense Past Perfect' 'Evening Class' 'Peacock Blues' and 'Partners'.

• Escape From Taliban | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Military thriller from India.

• Absence of Light | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When scientists discover how to create life, two competing organizations bent on world dominance attempt to steal the secret and create a race of inhuman super soldiers that will make slaves of the world.

• 1746 - The Last Highland Charge | DVD | (02/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A nation is divided as Scotland is at war...This is the epic story of a family torn apart by one man's quest for a lost throne. A tale of passion duty courage and love set against the violent backdrop of the last Jacobite rising and the death of the Highland Clans.

• Stars True Story 6 dvd Box Set | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £18.88   |  Saving you £-0.89 (-4.90%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Titles Comprise: Too Young To Die? By the age of 14 Amanda Sue Bradley has already suffered a lifetime of cruelty and neglect. She's alone in the world and desperate for love. All too easily she falls prey to a seductive hustler who introduces her to a tawdry world of strip joints and drug abuse. One night high on speed and alcohol they take off on a murderous spree. Their victim: the one man who has ever shown Amanda love and compassion. Amanda is arrested for the kill and the crime is so brutal that despite her age she face trial as an adult. Darkness Before Dawn: Mary Ann Thompson 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 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. Nicholas' Gift: 7-year-old Nicholas Green an American tourist became the victim of would-be robbers who fired the fateful shots while trying to intercept a jewelry shipment. Under the worst circumstances Reg and Maggie Green make the most courageous decision possible: They will donate Nicholas' organs a practice almost unheard of in Italy at that time. Baby Snatcher: A woman is delighted when she gives birth to a baby girl but her delight soon turns into a nightmare when her child goes missing. All She Ever Wanted: Rachel and Tom Stockman are the perfect couple. The only thing they lack is a child. But Rachel has a rare mental disorder which can cause irreversible birth defects. With all the odds against them it seems that Tom and Rachel must be reconciled to being childless. But Rachel is determined to have a baby - in fact she is prepared to risk everything to become pregnant: her marriage her health even her sanity. So can she prove the medical community wrong? Can she beat the demons inside her own head? Or will she have a terrible price to pay? Dancing In The Dark: Anna suffers attacks and abuse from her father-in-law. But when she overcomes her fear and tells the story to her husband he does not believe her and sends her for psychatric treatment.

• Nate And Margaret | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £4.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (71.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Nate is a 19 year old student and Margaret is a 52-year-old aspiring comedian. In spite of their age difference, they have a perfectly functioning friendship – that is, until Nate finds a new boyfriend and Margaret’s career starts taking off, putting their friendship on the rocks.

• Taggart - Compensation | DVD | (16/04/2007) from £7.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  FARMER IAN COUTES is found burned to death in a suspicious house fire. The Taggart team is called to the small village of Fenmore to investigate. It quickly becomes apparent that Fenmore is a divided community. Foot and mouth disease has destroyed generations of farming and heightened animosity between locals and incomers, in particular against Mark Andrews who works for a land development company which is buying up local farm land. The investigation team discovers that the dean man had been in serious debt and had sold most of his land to the company. A second farmer is murdered and when DCI Burke discovers that Andrews has a criminal record for intimidation, it puts him at the top of the suspect list. However, when a third farmer is murdered it becomes clear that something more sinister is going on in Fenmore. The city of Glasgow backdrop with its characteristic wit, combines with the menacing nature of the cases, make Taggart unique in style, and it is now the longest running detective drama on UK television

• The Touch | DVD | (14/06/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  The creative forces behind `DANCES WITH WOLVES (writer Michael Blake director and producer Jim Wilson and star Kevin Costner) bring you `THE TOUCH. Will Bonner (Kevin Costner in his first major role) is a gambler who sees a great deal of potential in the card-counting Stacy Lancaster and takes her under his wing. Stacy a seemingly shy girl possesses an uncanny skill at playing blackjack and together the two set up an ingenious sting operation. Will and Stacy seem unstoppable that is until a crooked and greedy casino owner who has lost a great deal of money to the duo comes up with a plan to halt their winning ways.

• Five Minarets in New York | Blu Ray | (07/11/2011) from £22.19   |  Saving you £2.80 (12.62%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Istanbul Turkey; Two of Turkey's top Secret Police Officers undertake covert anti-terror operations to uncover the true identity of a dangerous Islamic leader known only as 'Dajjal'. Through violent raids and brutal interrogations they uncover his real name. New York; Led by Agent Becker (Robert Patrick Terminator 2; Judgement Day) the FBI arrest a prominent Muslim scholar and family man Hadji Gumush in connection with an international arrest warrant issued by Interpol. Have the FBI found Dajjal? The Turkish secret police officers are swiftly dispatched to New York to assist in the extradition but the handover is far from simple. With the support of his wife (Gina Gershon Face/Off) and close friend Marcus (Danny Glover Lethal Weapon) Hadji manages to elude the authorities and go into hiding. But one of the officers did not travel all that way to just let him disappear quietly into the night; a lifetime of vengeance is about to be unleashed. In this nail biting action-thriller hunter and prey realise they have more in common than they first thought setting them on a violent course that will force them to face the heart of their faith.

• Rampage | DVD | (19/04/2013) from £6.74   |  Saving you £3.25 (32.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  During the making of ""Soundtrack to War"" director Gittoes asks soldier Elliot Lovett how it feels to be in Iraq getting shot at Elliot's reply ""man I get shot at less here in Baghdad than at home in Miami"" sparks Gittoes imagination and he heads to Brownsville Miami to find out what is so bad about ""Brown Sub"" that would make Baghdad during the height of the second Iraq war feel safer. What Gittoes finds will stand testament to an America few want to acknowledge and none want to experience first hand.