Drama

• New Worlds | DVD | (04/10/2021) from £9.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Set in England and America in the 1680's, New Worlds is a gripping story of love, loss and the human price paid in the struggle for justice and liberty.We follow the fortunes of four young people Abe, Beth, Ned and Hope from across both sides of the Atlantic, as we see them torn between love and ideals in the harsh reality of the changing, turbulent world.In England, the restored monarchy of Charles II has betrayed its promises to the people. Behind the decadence of the Court, a terror machine led by the hanging Judge Jeffreys is repressing the freedoms won with so much blood shed during the Civil War of England.In America, the tentacles of state terror reach the English colonists of New England who are determined to throw off the shackles of the English Crown. At the same time the colonists are ruthlessly staking their claim to the territories occupied by the Native American Indians, in a chilling echo of the tyrannical behaviour that they sought to escape from when they crossed the Atlantic.

• Titanic (ITV) | DVD | (16/04/2012) from £11.97   |  Saving you £8.02 (67.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titanic is a four part serial created by BAFTA-winning producer Nigel Stafford-Clark (Warriors; The Way We Live Now; Bleak House) and written by Oscar and Emmy winner Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park; Downton Abbey) to mark the hundredth anniversary of the world's most famous maritime disaster in April 1912. It sets out to tell the story not just of a single ship, but of an entire society - one that was heading towards its own nemesis in the shape of the First World War as carelessly as Titanic towards the iceberg.This world, soon to vanish forever, is brought alive by a cast of over 80, featuring the cream of acting talent from Britain and beyond, including Linus Roache (Law & Order; Batman Begins), Geraldine Somerville (Harry Potter; Cracker), Celia Imrie (Bridget Jones's Diary; Kingdom), Toby Jones (My Week with Marilyn; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; Captain America), Maria Doyle Kennedy (The Tudors; The Commitments), Perdita Weeks (The Promise; The Tudors; Lost in Austen), Jenna-Louise Coleman (Waterloo Road; Emmerdale), Steven Waddington (Sleepy Hollow; Last of the Mohicans), Lyndsey Marshal (Hereafter; Being Human; Rome), Ruth Bradley (Primeval), Peter McDonald (The Damned United; City of Vice) and Timothy West (Bleak House; Ever After; The Day of the Jackal) amongst many others.All human life is on Titanic as she sets out on her maiden voyage. The upper-class family with their suffragette daughter and their warring servants; the wealthy elite of American society; the Irish lawyer in Second Class with his embittered wife; the young cabin steward and the impetuous Italian waiter who falls for her; the Catholic engineer fleeing Belfast with his wife and family to escape the sectarian conflict; the mysterious stranger in Steerage fleeing who knows what. And then there are the officers and crew. As their stories interweave and we find our first impressions are often undermined by what we learn, there is one thing that we know for certain and they do not - that not all of them will survive.

• Away From Her | DVD | (26/12/2008) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (11.34%)   |  RRP £5.99

  "Away From Her" is a moving love story that deals with memory and the circuitous, unnamable, paths of a long marriage.

• The Most Reluctant Convert: The Untold Story of C. S. Lewis | DVD | (03/06/2022) from £11.04   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Alfred Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection Box Set | Blu Ray | (12/11/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £27.59

  The Ultimate Collection of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films, including Psycho, Vertigo, Frenzy, Rear Window and The Birds come together on Blu-ray in perfect High-Definition picture and sound. With hours of bonus features.Saboteur: Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane goes on the run across the United States when he is wrongly accused of a fire that killed his best friend.Shadow of a Doubt: A young woman discovers her visiting Uncle Charlie may not be the man he initially seemed to be.Rope: Two young men strangle their classmate, hide his body in their apartment and invite his closest friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the perfection of their crime.Rear Window: A wheelchair bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his window and becomes convinced one of them has committed a serious murder.The Trouble with Harry: The trouble with Harry is that everyone seems to have a different idea of what needs to be done with his body.The Man Who Knew Too Much: A family holidaying in Morocco stumble on to an assassination plot and the conspirators are determined to prevent them from interfering.Vertigo: A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the activities of an old friend's wife, whilst becoming dangerously obsessed with her.Psycho: A young woman steals $40,000 from her client and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor who has been too long under the presence and domination of his mother.The Birds: A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a Northern California town that takes a bizarre turn when birds of all kinds begin to attack people in increasing numbers and with increasing viciousness.Marnie: Mark marries Marnie, although she is a thief and possesses serious psychological problems, Mark tries to help her confront and resolve the issues.Torn Curtain: An American scientist defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin and has to figure out a plan to escape back West.Topaz: A French intelligence agent becomes embroiled in Cold War politics first uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up a Russian spy ring.Frenzy: A serial killer is murdering women in London with a necktie, the police have a suspect but he isn't the correct man...Family Plot: Suspense film about a phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend who encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while following a missing heir in California.

• Escape From Huang Shi | DVD | (11/05/2009) from £4.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on real events The Children of Huang Shi is a sweeping but intimate story set against war-torn China in the 1930's. The film centers on a young English journalist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) an American nurse (Radha Mitchell) and the leader of a Chinese partisan group (Chow Yun Fat) who meet in desperate and unexpected circumstances. Together they rescue 60 orphaned children leading them on an extraordinary journey across hundreds of miles of treacherous terrain through snow-covered mountains and an unforgiving desert. Along the way they discover the true meaning of love responsibility and courage.

• Woman Of Straw | DVD | (06/04/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Sean Connery and Gina Lollobrigida star in this 1960s drama based on the novel by Catherine Arley. When Anthony Richmond (Connery) learns of his wealthy uncle Charles (Ralph Richardson)'s ill-health, he plots a way to get his fortune after his death. Employing attractive young nurse Maria (Lollobrigida) to care for Charles in his final days Anthony encourages his uncle to fall in love with and marry Maria. As Anthony realises that he, too, is falling for Maria, a love triangle emerges and complications arise.

• House of Gucci | DVD | (21/02/2022) from £3.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  House of Gucci is inspired by the shocking true story of the family empire behind the Italian fashion house of Gucci. Spanning three decades of love, betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately murder, we see what a name means, what it's worth, and how far a family will go for control.

• Becoming Jane | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £4.98   |  Saving you £15.01 (301.41%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Before becoming a famous novelist, a young Jane Austen becomes embroiled in a passionate love affair with an Irish lawyer, Tom Lefroy, that inspires her career.

• Themroc | Blu Ray | (19/05/2025) from £17.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Living at home with his mother, bachelor house painter Themroc (Michel Piccoli, Belle de Jour) leads a dull life. One day, after an unearned run-in with his boss, the usually docile Themroc rebels and dismantles his myopic world. Made on a shoestring budget with no intelligible dialogue, Claude Faraldo's cult taboo-busting satire about a French blue-collar worker-turned-urban caveman anarchically eviscerates mid-century labour and gender politics. Never released on home video in the UK, Themroc may be familiar to British audiences from Channel 4's infamous Red Triangle showings, intended for adults only; now this savage satire can be seen again, newly presented on Blu-ray from a 4K restoration. LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES 4K Restoration from the original negative by StudioCanal Uncompressed mono PCM audio Interview with critic and filmmaker David Thompson (2025) Archival TV interview with actor Michel Piccoli and director Claude Faraldo (1973) Interview with Manuela Lazic on Michel Piccoli (2025) Gallery Trailer Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sam Smith Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Alison Smith, author of French Cinema in the 1970s The echoes of May Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

• The Secret Life Of Bees | DVD | (30/03/2009) from £4.07   |  Saving you £15.92 (391.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  "The Secret Life of Bees," based on the New York Times best selling novel and set in South Carolina in 1964, is the moving tale of Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning) a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother.

• The Harder They Fall | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £7.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (62.58%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A movie that proved a fine swansong for Humphrey Bogart, The Harder They Fall is a gripping drama set against a background of fixed boxing matches. Not so much about the fights as the exploitation of the sport, the film is based on a novel by Budd Schulberg, whose Oscar-winning screenplay for On the Waterfront (1954) helped turn Rod Steiger into a star. Here Steiger delivers an equally bravura performance as the chillingly corrupt manager, Nick Benko, a man who will do anything to turn a buck. Bogart meanwhile is outstanding as unemployed sports writer Eddie Willis, hired against his better judgement to promote a no-hope Argentinean boxer, Toro Moreno (Mike Lane). Powerfully written, if built around the unlikely premise of building a 10th-rate fighter into a world-class contender, the drama is essentially a battle for Willis's soul as he is torn between money and conscience. Though the scenes with Bogart and Steiger facing off are the strongest and a veritable masterclass of hardboiled characterisation, Mark Robson, who also helmed the Kirk Douglas boxing classic Champion (1949), directs with a convincingly dirty realism, the final punishing and bloody match a clear influence on Scorsese's Raging Bull (1980). On the DVD: The Harder They Fall's anamorphic 1.77:1 transfer is excellent with only one brief scene showing any significant print damage. Burnett Guffey's noir-ish black-and-white cinematography looks sharp and fresh as the day it was shot, with only minimal grain. The mono sound is strong and clear, without a hint of distortion or compression. The only extra is a scored gallery of posters and lobby cards from other Bogart films available on Columbia. There are dubbed versions in French, German, Spanish and Italian, and a plethora of subtitle options. --Gary S Dalkin

• Shameless: Series 1-11 (Repackage) | DVD | (19/02/2024) from £59.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Pickup On South Street (1953) | Blu Ray | (17/08/2015) from £17.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  If you refuse to cooperate you'll be as guilty as the traitors who gave Stalin the A-bomb. Are you waving the flag at ME?! Samuel Fuller's sensational film noir casts a steely eye at America in the dawn of the Cold War and brings 1950s New York City alive on the screen in a manner rarely equalled in the annals of film. In one of his greatest roles Richard Widmark plays Skip McCoy a seasoned pickpocket who unknowingly filches some radioactive loot: microfilm of top-secret government documents. Soon after Skip finds himself mixed up with federal agents Commie agents and a professional stoolpigeon by the name of Moe (played by Thelma Ritter in her finest role this side of Rear Window). With its complex ideology outrageous dialogue and electric action sequences Pickup on South Street crackles in a way that only a Sam Fuller movie can and is widely considered one of the director's finest achievements. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Pickup on South Street on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK in a Dual Format special edition. Bonus Features: New 1080p presentation of the film on the Blu-ray 25 Minute Video Interview with François Guérif Original Theatrical Trailer 1980 audio interview with Samuel Fuller 36-PAGE BOOKLET featuring writing by Samuel Fuller archival interviews and more

• Scandalous Diary Of Miss Lister | DVD | (07/06/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.95

  A thoroughly modern woman. Maxine Peake stars in a profoundly moving drama based on the real diaries of Anne Lister: a landowning woman who defied the conventions of her 19th century life to great scandal...for Anne was a lesbian. Her affair with 'soul mate' Marianna Belcombe keeps society guessing but when it is announced that Marianna is to be married to the older corpulent and wealthy Charles Lawton Anne is distraught. Set in the small elite world of high society The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister is an inspiring story of 'the first modern lesbian' - a woman who challenged convention and was determined to simply be herself.

• Miles Ahead | DVD | (22/08/2016) from £3.49   |  Saving you £12.50 (358.17%)   |  RRP £15.99

  All Rolling Stone reporter Dave Braden wants is an exclusive interview with the jazz legend himself, Miles Davis. hat he gets instead is a wild and dangerous ride-along with a recording artist living at his edge.

• Inside | Unknown | (11/08/2025) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Transferred from juvenile to adult prison, young offender Mel is taken under the wing of Australia's most despised criminal, Mark Shepard, and Warren Murfett, a soon-to-be paroled inmate. When Murfett is forced into murdering Shepard to pay his debts, he finds a surprising accomplice in Mel. However the transformative paternal love triangle that blossoms between them may be their undoing.A fantastic character study that uniquely subverts prison movie tropes, and a profound exploration of the Australian incarceration system, this superbly crafted drama stars Guy Pearce (Memento, The Hurt Locker), Cosmo Jarvis (Shogun, Persuasion), and Toby Wallace (Babyteeth).★★★★★ Perfection Energetically fresh SCREENHUB★★★★★ Brutal brilliance Unforgettable THE CURB★★★★ Captivating THE GUARDIAN Filled with astounding performances FILMINK

• Disney's Cruella UHD | Blu Ray | (16/08/2021) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Emma Stone stars as one of cinema's most notorious and stylish villains, Cruella de Vil. Determined to become a successful fashion designer, a creative young grifter named Estella (Stone) teams with a pair of mischievous thieves to survive on the London streets. But when her flair for fashion catches the eye of the legendary designer Baroness von Hellman (Emma Thompson), Estella rises to become the raucous, revenge-bent Cruella. Special Features The Two Emmas The Sidekick Angle Cruella Couture The World Of Cruella New Dogs Old Tricks Cruella 101 Deleted Scenes x 2 Bloopers

• Chocolat | Blu Ray | (08/08/2011) from £13.48   |  Saving you £11.51 (85.39%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A young single mother (Juliette Binoche), with her 6-year-old daughter in tow, moves to a small French village and opens an unusual chocolate shop.

• Big Little Lies: Seasons 1-2 | DVD | (06/01/2020) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on Liane Moriarty's bestselling book, this subversive, darkly comedic dramaseries tells the tale of three mothers of first-graders whose seemingly perfect lives unravel to the point of murder. Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman and Shailene Woodley head up a stellar cast in this Monterey-set dramathat begins with a suspicious homicide at an elementary-school fundraiser. Though the victim and the perpetrator initially remain a mystery, it appears that the murder was spawned by rivalries and secrets surrounding the trio of young moms.