Drama

• Neighbours - 20th Anniversary Special | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Cops Uncut - Episodes 16 To 20 | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Blood On The Sun | DVD | (12/10/2009) from £5.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (33.39%)   |  RRP £7.99

  James Cagney is Nick Condon an American newspaper editor working in Japan between World War I & World War II. While investigating the double murder of a fellow reporter and his wife Condon discovers the insidious Tanaka Plan which plainly states the Japanese aims of World domination. If he is to warn the world about this Japanese plot he must stay alive with the help of Iris (Sylvia Sidney) a beautiful Chinese American spy.

• Tirez Sur Le Pianiste | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The opening of Shoot the Piano Player, François Truffaut's second feature film, is one of the signal moments of the French New Wave--an inspired intersection of grim fatality and happy accident, location shooting and lurid melodrama, movie convention and frowzy, uncontainable life. A man runs through deserted night streets, stalked by the lights of a car. It's a definitive film noir situation, promptly sidetracked--yet curiously not undercut--by real-life slapstick: watching over his shoulder for pursuers, the running man charges smack into a lamppost. The figure that helps him to his feet is not one of the pursuers (they've oddly disappeared) but an anonymous passer-by, who proceeds to escort him for a block or two, genially schmoozing about the mundane, slow-blooming glories of marriage. The Good Samaritan departs at the next turning, never to be identified and never to be seen again. And the first man--who, despite this evocative introduction, is not even destined to be the main character of the movie--immediately resumes his helter-skelter flight from an as-yet-unspecified and unseen menace. At this point in his career--right after The 400 Blows, just before his great Jules and Jim--the world seemed wide for Truffaut, as wide as the Dyaliscope screen that he and cinematographer Raoul Coutard deployed with unprecedented spontaneity and lyricism. Anything might wander into frame and become part of the flow: an oddball digression, an unexpected change of mood, a small miracle of poetic insight. The official agenda of the movie is adapting a noir-ish story by American writer David Goodis, about a celebrated concert musician (Charles Aznavour) hiding out as a piano player in a saloon. He's on the run as much as the guy--his older brother--in the first scene. But whereas the brother is worried about a couple of buffoonish gangsters, Charlie Koller is ducking out on life, love and the possibility that he might be hurt, or cause hurt, again. Decades after its original release, Shoot the Piano Player remains as fresh, exhilarating, and heartbreaking--as open to the magic of movies and life--as ever. --Richard T Jameson

• Nina Takes A Lover | DVD | (27/05/2002) from £12.85   |  Saving you £7.14 (35.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Ramji Londonwaley | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A delicious comedy! Ramji a small town cook from Takipur finds himself in England searching for a job without a place to stay and limited knowledge of the language and culture. If only he could raise enough money to pay for his sister's dowry - at the furious request of his sister's father-in-law! Needless to say it's going to get a lot worse for poor Ramji before it gets any better!

• Dangerfield - Series 3 | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Let's Enjoy | DVD | (29/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This fun film is for the young and the young at heart. The jargon conversation clothes everything about this film is young and bubbly. This is the stuff that the youth are made of today. The film is about the goings on at a farmhouse party showing everyone either on their way or getting ready for it. Boasting many characters the main being the host of the party and his ex-girlfriend. This will be their first meeting in four years so he is anticipating it while she is dreading it

• Straw Dogs | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  According to critic Pauline Kael Straw Dogs was "the first American film that is a fascist work of art". Sam Peckinpah's only film shot in Britain is adapted from a novel by Gordon M Williams called The Siege of Trencher's Farm which Peckinpah described as a "lousy book with one good action-adventure sequence". The setting is Cornwall, where mild-mannered US academic David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) has bought a house with his young English wife Amy (Susan George) in the village where she grew up. David is mocked by the locals (one of whom is Amy's ex-boyfriend) and treated with growing contempt by his frustrated wife, but when his house comes under violent siege he finds unexpected reserves of resourcefulness and aggression. The movie, Peckinpah noted, was much influenced by Robert Ardrey's macho-anthropological tract, The Territorial Imperative. Its take on Cornish village life is fairly bizarre--this is a Western in all but name--and many critics balked at the transposition of Peckinpah's trademark blood-and-guts to the supposed peace of the British countryside. A scene where Amy is raped caused particular outrage, not least since it's hinted she consents to it. Not for the first time in Peckinpah's movies there are disquieting elements of misogyny, and it doesn't help that the chemistry between Hoffman and George is non-existent. (Impossible to believe these two would ever have clicked, let alone married.) But taken as a vision of irrational violence irrupting into a civilised way of life Straw Dogs is powerful and unsettling, and the action sequences are executed with all Peckinpah's unfailing flair and venom. Oh, and that title? A quote from Chinese sage Lao-Tze, it seems, "The wise man is ruthless and treats the people as straw dogs." The film was long withheld from home viewing in Britain by nervous censors, but this release presents it complete and uncut. --Philip KempOn the DVD: Straw Dogs is as jam-packed a disc as is possible for a film made before the days of obligatory "making of" features. Both the sound and visuals have transferred well, and, like the script, have aged well. There's a bumbling original interview in the style of Harry Enfield's Mr. Cholmondley-Warner, along with stills and original trailers. The new material includes a feature on the history of the film's censorship and commentaries by Peckinpah's biographers musing over interesting fan-facts (though none of the speakers have any first-hand experience of the making of the film). However, Katy Haber's commentary, and interviews with Susan George and Dan Melnick, offer a much more in-depth and intimate portrayal of the man and the making of the film. --Nikki Disney

• Blue Planet | DVD | (29/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Not to be confused with the epic BBC series, this Blue Planet is a 41-minute IMAX documentary from 1990. It’s a cautionary message about what's happening to the face of the planet, which is seen here from space with the camera in the hands of astronauts. From their unique vantage point 200 miles above we see the Earth in all its glory. Jaw-dropping views of Sri Lanka, India, Hawaii and Africa are enough to convince the viewer of the narrator's assertion that this is a place of great beauty. Then we dive down into the heart of things, and are shown how human evolution has affected that beauty in a very small period of time. Great open plains of land that once teemed with animal life have given way to us. Logging and pollution has taken an enormous toll. While changes in climate are shown to offer clues to what the future may hold, the film's saddest conclusion is on a global scale only visible from space. Quite simply, our prized life-giving watery blue is fading. On the DVD: the only extra is a trailer for the feature. The quality of sound and picture is as superb as you'd expect from the IMAX experience, presented in Dolby 5.1 and 1.33:1 screen ratio. --Paul Tonks

• Black Brigade | DVD | (01/01/2020) from £9.43   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Mambo Kings, The (DVD) | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  With a suitcase full of song and hearts filled with passion two brothers come to America in search of a dream... In 1952 Cuban brothers Cesar and Nestor Castillo arrive in America with a suitcase full of songs and an ambition to make their fortune. By day they work hard but by night as the rhythms pound they dream of the money women and fame that their exciting haunting and sultry brand of mambo music will bring... Based on Oscar Hijuelo's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Mambo Kings Play Songs Of Love.

• Nasty Neighbours | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

• Black Hole High - Vol. 1 | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Soul Of The Game | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1945 the world of baseball was divided between the Majors and the Negro Leagues - but the time has come for change. Will Satchel Paige Josh Gibson or Jackie Robinson be the first to take the field in the Majors?

• Cinema Collection - Vol. 4 | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Experience an amazing collection of Academy Award winning and Academy Award nominated features compiled in one box!

• Playing Away | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The tale of a West Indian cricket team from Brixton travelling to a Suffolk village to play against the local team as the culmination of the village's 'Third World Week' and the inevitable culture clash that takes place. They get into all kinds of confrontations in the pub at the vicar's stuffy reception and over women but that is nothing compared to what happens during the big match.

• Aaltra | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £14.69   |  Saving you £3.30 (18.30%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Two neighbours live opposite each other on a country road somewhere in Northern France. They hate each other and life for them is nothing but a daily painful confrontation. One day in the course of a violent dispute an agricultural trailer knocks them over and sends them both to hospital. They are both released in wheelchairs paralysed from the waist down. Giving up on the idea of suicide they each decide to embark on a personal journey. However before they know it they both end up on the same platform waiting for the same train. Neighbours once again for better or worse. An unpredictable odyssey then starts taking them all the way to Finland where they intend to obtain financial compensation from the manufacturers of the agricultural machinery for their accident...

• Nightingale Sang In Berkeley, Square | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

• Silver City | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Vote early. Vote often. American iconoclastic director John Sayles (Lone Star) takes aim at contemporary politics and corporate influence with more than a vague reference to George W. Bush and contemporary Republican politics. Grammatically challenged user friendly gubernatorial candidate Dicky Pilager has just launched a campaign for the citizens of the New West. But things take an unexpected turn when the taping of an environmental political advert ends up with Pilager reeling in a long-dead corpse. Enter his ferocious campaign manager Chuck Raven who hires an idealistic journalist turned rumpled private detective Danny O'Brien to investigate potential links between the corpse and the Pilager family's enemies. In the tradition of Chinatown Danny's investigation pulls him deeper and deeper into a complex web of influence and corruption involving high-stakes lobbyists media conglomerates environmental plunderers and undocumented migrant workers.