Drama

• Billy Wilder Collection - Vol. 2 - The Apartment/The Seven Year Itch/Witness For The Prosecution/The Fortune Cookie/The Pri | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The Apartment: C.C. ""Bud"" Baxter (Jack Lemmon) knows the way to success in business... it's through the door of his apartment! By providing a perfect hideaway for philandering bosses the ambitious young employee reaps a series of undeserved promotions. But when Bud lends the key to big boss J.D. Sheldrake (Fred MacMurray) he not only advances his career but his own love life as well. For Sheldrake's mistress is the lovely Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine) elevator girl and angel of Bud's dreams. Convinced that he is the only man for Fran Bud must make the most important executive decision of his career: lose the girl... or his job. Seven Year Itch: It's every man's fantasy - a summer romance with the sexiest woman he can imagine. Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) is a happily married man whose wife and son are off on vacation when his tempting new neighbor (Monroe) sneaks in one hot summer night to cool off in his air-conditioned apartment. How does an ordinary man deal with this irresistible temptation after seven years of marriage? Witness For The Prosecution: When a wealthy widow is found murdered her married suitor Leonard Vole (Power) is accused of the crime. Vole's only hope for acquittal is the testimony of his wife (Dietrich)... but his airtight alibi shatters when she reveals some shocking secrets of her own! Fortune Cookie: Harry Hinkle (Jack Lemmon) is one lucky guy! When he's accidentally clobbered by a 220-pound halfback all Harry suffers is a slight concussion. All that is until Whiplash Willie (Matthau) -- a legal scoundrel of the first order -- arrives on the scene! For if Harry follows shyster Willie's advice and feigns a crippling injury the two charlatans can split a cool million in phony insurance claims. But can Willie's world-class finagling dispel those ominous words that lie within the fortune cookie on Harry's hospital plate: You can't fool all of the people all of the time? The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes: When a beautiful woman claims that her dear husband has disappeared the investigation takes Sherlock Holmes (Robert Stephens) and Dr. Watson (Colin Blakely) to Scotland where - to their surprise - they uncover a plot involving a clandestine society Her Majesty's Secret Service... and the Loch Ness Monster! But before he can deduce matters to the elementary. Holmes makes an error that may jeopardize the national safety of Britain... and ruin his reputation!

• Behind Convent Walls Blu-ray | Blu Ray | (10/02/2025) from £12.35   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A lushly filmed exploration of the relationship between flesh and spirit from Polish provocateur Walerian Borowczyk, director of Blanche, The Beast, and Immoral Tales. Behind the walls of an apparently serene convent, a zealous abbess tries in vain to keep order and prevent her sexually repressed charges from experiencing the sins of the flesh. When the unfortunate young nuns get out of control, the church inflicts cruel punishment for their carnal crimes. Erotic, colourful and highly charged, Behind Convent Walls features striking handheld cinematography by Luciano Tovoli (Suspiria) and the final performance of Borowczyk's wife, Ligia Branice. SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS - 2K restoration by Arrow Films from the original 35mm camera negatives - High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation - Original lossless English and Italian mono audio options - Optional English subtitles for the Italian soundtrack - Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing for the English soundtrack - Brand new audio commentary by film critic Justine Smith - Anarchic Nuns and the Artistry of Desire, a new appreciation by film scholar Virginie Sélavy - Brief Von Paris (1975), a short film by Walerian Borowczyk - Theatrical trailer - Reversible sleeve featuring two artwork options

• The Tree of Life | DVD | (31/10/2011) from £4.96   |  Saving you £15.03 (303.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The long front lawns of summer afternoons, the flicker of sunlight as it sprays through tree branches, the volcanic surge of the Earth's interior as the planet heaves itself into being--you certainly can't say Terrence Malick lacks for visual expressiveness. The Tree of Life is Malick's long-cherished project, a film that centres on a family in 1950s Waco, Texas, yet also reaches for cosmic significance in the creation of the universe itself. The Texas memories belong to Jack (Sean Penn), a modern man seemingly ground down by the soulless glass-and-metal corporate world that surrounds him. We learn early in the film of a family loss that happened at a later time, but the flashbacks concern only the dark Eden of Jack's childhood: his games with his two younger brothers, his frustrated, bullying father (Brad Pitt), his one-dimensionally radiant mother (Jessica Chastain). None of which unfolds in anything like a conventional narrative, but in a series of disconnected scenes that conjure, with poetry and specificity, a particular childhood realm. The contributions of cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and production designer Jack Fisk cannot be underestimated in that regard, and it should be noted that Brad Pitt contributes his best performance: strong yet haunted. And how does the Big Bang material (especially a long, trippy sequence in the film's first hour) tie into this material? Yes, well, the answer to that question will determine whether you find Malick's film a profound exploration of existence or crazy-ambitious failure full of beautiful things. Malick's sincerity is winning (and so is his exceptional touch with the child actors), yet many of the movie's touches are simultaneously gaseous (amongst the bits of whispered narration is the war between nature and grace, roles assigned to mother and father) and all-too-literal (a dinosaur retreats from nearly killing a fellow creature--the first moments of species kindness, or anthropomorphic poppycock?). The Tree of Life premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Palme d'Or there after receiving boos at its press screening. The debate continues, unabated, from that point. --Robert Horton

• God's Own Country | Blu Ray | (29/01/2018) from £9.05   |  Saving you £-0.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Johnny Saxby (Josh O'Connor) works long hours on his family's remote farm in the north of England. He numbs the daily frustration of his lonely existence with nightly binge-drinking at the local pub and casual sex. But when a handsome Romanian migrant worker (Alec Secareanu) arrives to take up temporary work on the family farm, Johnny suddenly finds himself having to deal with emotions he has never felt before. As they begin working closely together during lambing season, an intense relationship starts to form which could change Johnny's life forever. Captivating and broodingly beautiful, GOD'S OWN COUNTRY is the award winning debut feature from writer/director Francis Lee. Bracingly open hearted, this is a thrillingly romantic story set in the heart of rural Yorkshire. Both poignant and moving, this finely crafted British film features a host of standout performances, marking it out as an absolute must see.

• Dark Skies: The Complete Series | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £25.79   |  Saving you £-9.73 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.06

  Dark Skies: The Complete Series (6 Discs)

• Victoria & Abdul (BD + digital download) | Blu Ray | (22/01/2018) from £5.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Queen Victoria strikes up an an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim. Click Images to Enlarge

• The Black Donnellys - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (28/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  From the Oscar''-winning writers of Crash and the writer of Million Dollar Baby comes a bold and edgy crime-drama series The Black Donnellys. Four very different Irish-American brothers - Kevin Jimmy Tommy and Sean - have sworn to live by the code of 'family first'. But as they become increasingly involved in the ruthless world of New York organized crime their loyalties to their friends to their loved ones and especially to each other will be put to the ultimate test. Available on DVD for the first time this explosive 3-disc set includes all 13 episodes.

• Howards' Way - The Complete Collection | DVD | (02/11/2009) from £79.89   |  Saving you £0.10 (0.13%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Maurice Colborne (Gangsters) stars as Tom Howard recently made redundant as an aircraft designer who decides to ply his trade in the world of boats instead; taking the reigns at a run-down local construction yard. A family of considerable wealth and prestige the Howards struggle to come to terms with Tom's decision and the changing circumstances of their lives.

• Fame - Season 1 | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning TV series portrays the lives of a diverse group of talented high school students at New York's School of the Arts. Training hard for careers onstage the young performers face tough competition and even rejection along with all of the normal teenage dramas.... Episodes comprise: 1. Metamorphosis 2. Passing Grade 3. Tomorrow's Farewell 4. Alone In A Crowd 5. To Soar And Never Falter 6. The Sell Out 7. The Strike 8. Street Kid 9. But Seriously Folks 10. Come One Come All 11. The Crazies 12. Expose 13. A Musical Bridge 14. A Big Finish 15. Reunions 16. A Special Place

• Boogie Nights | Blu Ray | (21/06/2010) from £8.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (100.11%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Even if the notorious 1970s porn-filmmaking milieu doesn't exactly turn you on, don't let it turn you off to this movie's extraordinary virtues, either. Boogie Nights is one of the key movies of the 1990s and among the most ambitious and exuberantly alive American movies in years. It's also the breakthrough for an amazing new director, whose dazzling kaleidoscopic style here recalls the Robert Altman of Nashville and the Martin Scorsese of Good Fellas. Although loosely based on the sleazy life and times of real-life porn legend John Holmes, at heart it's a classic Hollywood rise-and-fall fable: a naive, good-looking young busboy is discovered in a San Fernando Valley disco by a famous motion picture producer, becomes a hotshot movie star, lives the high life and then loses everything when he gets too big for his britches, succumbs to insobriety and is left behind by new times and new technology. Of course, it isn't exactly A Star Is Born or Singin' in the Rain. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson (in only his second feature!) puts his own affectionately sardonic twist on the old showbiz biopic formula: the ambitious upstart changes his name and achieves stardom in porno films as "Dirk Diggler." Instead of drinking to excess, he snorts cocaine (the classic drug of 70s hedonism); and it's the coming of home video (rather than talkies) that helps to dash his big-screen dreams. As for the britches ... well, the controversial "money shot" explains everything. And the cast is one of the great ensembles of the 90s, including Oscar nominees Burt Reynolds and Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg (who really can act--from the waist up, too!), Heather Graham (as Rollergirl), William H. Macy, John C. Reilly and Ricky Jay. --Jim Emerson

• Outside Edge-Series 2 | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Brenda Blethyn (Pride and Prejudice Belonging) and Robert Daws (The Royal Jeeves and Wooster) return as the prim and precise Miriam and Roger Dervish with Josie Lawrence (Marple Holby City) and Timothy Spall (Auf Wiedersehen Pet The Street) as their bright and bohemian friends Maggie and Kevin Costello. This ratings-winning complete second series reunites the Costellos and Dervishes - as different as chalk and cheese but thrust together through the men

• The Caine Mutiny | Blu Ray | (04/06/2012) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Humphrey Bogart is heartbreaking as the tragic Captain Queeg in this 1954 film, based on a novel by Herman Wouk, about a mutiny aboard a navy ship during World War II. Stripped of his authority by two officers under his command (played by Van Johnson and Robert Francis) during a devastating storm, Queeg becomes a crucial witness at a court martial that reveals as much about the invisible injuries of war as anything. Edward Dmytryk (Murder My Sweet, Raintree County) directs the action scenes with a sure hand and nudges his all-male cast toward some of the most well-defined characters of 1950s cinema. The courtroom scenes alone have become the basis for a stage play (and a television movie in 1988), but it is a more satisfying experience to see the entire story in context. --Tom Keogh

• Lark Rise to Candleford | DVD | (07/04/2008) from £5.99   |  Saving you £29.00 (484.14%)   |  RRP £34.99

  This ten-part adaptation of Flora Thompson's classic novel tells the story of two Oxfordshire communities at the end of the 19th century. The birth of a new baby brings financial hardship to the Timmins household obliging eldest daughter Laura (Olivia Hallinan) to leave her home in the quiet hamlet of Lark Rise and embark on a new life in the busy neighbouring market town of Candleford. Her adventurous cousin postmistress Dorcas Lane (Julia Sawalha) takes Laura under her wing and they soon become firm friends experiencing together the romances rivalries and comedies of close-knit rural life.

• Fast Girls | Blu Ray | (08/10/2012) from £19.98   |  Saving you £5.00 (27.79%)   |  RRP £22.99

  When sassy streetwise Shania (Lenora Crichlow) meets ambitious, middle class Lisa (Lily James), their two worlds collide on the athletics track with explosive results.

• The Yakuza | DVD | (19/02/2008) from £9.49   |  Saving you £4.50 (47.42%)   |  RRP £13.99

  REGION 2 UK DVD - OFFICIAL WARNER BROS RELEASE - HARD TO FIND CLASSIC STARRING ROBERT MITCHUM.

• Far From Heaven | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £7.04   |  Saving you £12.95 (183.95%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.

• The Song of Bernadette | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Bernadette Soubirous (Jones) is a sickly 14-year-old who sees a vision of a beautiful lady, and never suffers from her illness again. Moreover, a fountain suddenly materialises near her vision that seems to heal visitors who bathe in it. Unspoiled by her apparent gift, Bernadette nonetheless suffers the prejudices of those around her in this extraordinary, inspiring film that also stars Vicent Price, Charles Bickford and Lee J. Cob

• The Last Emperor | DVD | (24/05/2004) from £16.95   |  Saving you £3.04 (17.94%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bernardo Bertolucci does the nearly impossible with this sweeping, grand epic that tells a very personal tale. The story is a dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the emperors of China. It follows his life from its elite beginnings in the Forbidden City, where he was crowned at age three and worshipped by half a billion people. He was later forced to abdicate and, unable to fend for himself in the outside world, became a dissolute and exploited shell of a man. He died in obscurity, living as a peasant in the People's Republic. We never really warm up to John Lone in the title role, but The Last Emperor focuses more on visuals than characterisation anyway. Filmed in the Forbidden City, it is spectacularly beautiful, filling the screen with saturated colours and exquisite detail. It won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. --Rochelle O'Gorman

• Housekeeping (Dual Format Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (22/05/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Director Bill Forsyth (That Sinking Feeling, Gregory's Girl, Local Hero, Comfort and Joy) made his American film debut with this moving and offbeat adaptation of Marilynne Robinson's acclaimed novel, about two girls who are sent to live with their eccentric aunt (Christine Lahti) after their mother's suicide. High Definition remaster Original stereo audio New interview with director Bill Forsyth (2017, tbc mins) New interview with editor Michael Ellis (2017, tbc mins) New interview with author Marilynne Robinson (2017, tbc mins) Andrina (1981, tbc mins): Bill Forsyth's rare and previously unreleased film made for the BBC, adapted from the story by the great Scottish poet George Mackay Brown Original theatrical trailer Image gallery New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay a by David Archibald World premiere on Blu-ray UK DVD premiere Limited Dual Format Edition of 5,000 copies More TBC

• The Snowman (Digital Download) | DVD | (19/02/2018) from £6.26   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A homicide detective with a checkered past hunts for a sadistic serial killer who mutilates his victims' bodies and fashions them into horrific snowmen.