War

• China | DVD | (04/08/2014) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set in 1941 China stars Alan Ladd as an American gasoline salesman in China who supplies his wares to the highest bidder - the Japanese. His philosophy is tested on a trip to Shanghai when he meets an American school teacher (Loretta Young) who tells him of Japanese cruelty and inspires him to fight with Chinese guerrillas.

• The Long Voyage Home | Blu Ray | (09/06/2023) from £26.80   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Gert And Daisy's Weekend | DVD | (01/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Legends of British music hall and radio Elsie and Doris Waters are at their very best in this hilarious wartime comedy farce featuring their classic comedy characters Gert and Daisy! As the Blitz rages Gert and Daisy volunteer to escort a rather lively group of evacuee children out of London to the safety of the English countryside. Used to the hardships of London's East End and sheltering from the bombs in Underground stations every night the luxuries of Little Pipham Hall seem like another world. Little Pipham Hall's owner the rather grand Lady Plumtree is also unprepared for the two strange Londoners and their horde of undisciplined children! Soon the grand house is in uproar - and the appearance of a couple of jewel thieves intent on stealing Lady Plumtree's diamonds sets the scene for a grand farce! The best film record of the Water Sisters at the height of their comedy genius Gert and Daisy's Weekend is a precious souvenir of a truly great British comedy double act.

• Robert Redford Collection | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £19.11   |  Saving you £-6.12 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Great Gatsby: Robert Redford is Jay Gatsby the dashing enigmatic millionaire obsessed with the elusive and spoilt Daisy Buchanan (Mia Farrow) in an era in which recklessness with money liquor women and fast cars pervaded the American consciousness... Indecent Proposal: In Las Vegas and desperate for cash a young married couple are faced with a difficult proposition - should the wife have sex with a wealthy man for million... Barefoot in the Park: Robert Redford is Mister Straight. Jane Fonda is his new wife who dedicates her life to the pursuit of fun. As the ecstasy of the honeymoon gives way to the reality of setting up housekeeping in a five-flight walk-up the harmony of marriage turns to comical discord.

• Junebug | Blu Ray | (18/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A dealer in outsider art threatens the equilibrium of her middle-class in-laws in North Carolina.

• Taxi Driver/Casino/Mean Streets | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £12.96   |  Saving you £10.02 (100.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Taxi Driver: 'Taxi Driver' provoked fierce controversy when it was released running into censorship problems in America as some of the scenes of violence were described to be 'as gory as Clockwork Orange and Straw Dogs' (Evening News '76). In addition there was outcry at a 13-year-old schoolgirl actress (Jodie Foster) co-starring as a prostitute. It won Best Picture at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival and received Academy Award nominations for Best Film Best Actor (Robert De Niro) and Best Supporting Actress (Jodie Foster). Considered to be one of the most powerful films in motion picture history 'Taxi Driver' is a film which is '...a savage piece of work - and hellishly brilliant' (Evening News '76). Casino: Robert De Niro Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in Director Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition white-hot passion and 24-carat greed toppled an empire. Las Vegas in 1973 is the setting for this fact-based story about the Mob's multi-million dollar casino operation - where fortunes and lives were made and lost with a roll of the dice... Mean Streets: 'Mean Streets' heralded Martin Scorsese's arrival as a new filmmaking force - and marked his first historic teaming with Robert De Niro. It's a story Scorsese lived a semi-autobiographical tale of first-generation sons and daughters in New York's Little Italy. Harvey Keitel plays Charlie working his way up the ranks of a local mob. Amy Robinson is Teresa the girlfriend his family deems unsuitable because of her epilepsy. And in the starmaking role that won Best Supporting Actor Awards from the New York and National Society of Film Critics De Niro is Johnny Boy a small-time gambler in big-time debt to the loan sharks...

• Lucky Bastard | DVD | (22/02/2010) from £4.98   |  Saving you £12.00 (401.34%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Lucky Bastard is an edgy sensual and salacious exploration of youthful indiscretion sexual indulgence and the high stakes of attraction - a story that rings true to anyone who's ever fallen for the wrong guy for all the right reasons.

• Her Desperate Choice | DVD | (15/09/2008) from £8.08   |  Saving you £-3.09 (-61.90%)   |  RRP £4.99

  When the courts fail to protect her daughter from her suspected paedophile husband a mother is forced to join an underground network that protects mothers and abused children. Jody Murdock is convinced that her ex-husband has been molesting their daughter Samantha - but is unable to prove it. Now Jody feels she has no choice: she takes Samantha and heads 'underground' into a secret and well-run network that provides them with new identities and a safe place to live. But Jody's ex refuses to accept the loss of his daughter and sets off in relentless pursuit of the fugitives. Even if Jody now has a new love in her life will she and Samantha ever gain the peace and security they so desperately need?

• Starfish Hotel | DVD | (27/10/2008) from £13.15   |  Saving you £-6.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Strange things always happen in Jo Kuroda's mystery novels. There is always a sinister rabbit called Mr Trickster; and someone always ends up dead. A man's wife disappears and he finds her working in a brothel deep in the heart of the city. There is a universe called the Darkland that can only be entered through a hidden tunnel. There is a young girl that the man had an affair with in the dead of winter two years ago. She would only meet him in the eerie crumbling Starfish Hotel. Now she's disappeared too. If you meet Jo Kuroda one night don't tell him your dreams.

• Raging Bull | Blu Ray | (09/02/2009) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.65 (-28.30%)   |  RRP £19.98

  "Raging Bull" is arguably the finest work from the Scorsese and De Niro partnership. De Niro gives an amazing portrayal of a man whose animal side lurks just beneath the surface, ever ready to erupt.

• Johnny Got His Gun | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A young American soldier tragically injured by a landmine on the last day of the Great War in 1918 lies in a hospital bed. A quadruple amputee without the use of his eyes ears or mouth yet remaining conscious and still able to reason he tries to communicate to his doctors his wish that he be put on show as a demonstration of the full horrors of war... Starring Donald Sutherland and Timothy Bottoms 'Johnny Got His Gun' was winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festiva

• ANONYMA-EINE FRAU IN BERL - MO | DVD | (23/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• A Secret | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The discovery of a deep family secret and and a passionate story as seen through the eyes of Francois an only child who invents an imaginary brother and imagines his parents' past. The day he reaches 15 a family friend reveals an upsetting truth to the young Francois but one that will make him stronger.

• The Eagle Has Landed | Blu Ray | (06/01/2023) from £63.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Let's Talk About The Rain | DVD | (23/03/2009) from £10.86   |  Saving you £6.39 (66.56%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The multi-talented writer-director-actress Agn''s Jaoui stars as an aspiring politician who reluctantly revisits her roots in this witty intelligent and superbly performed comedy. When she returns to her childhood home in the South of France for an election rally and help her sister with her late mother's affairs Agathe Villanova (Jaoui) is asked to take part in a documentary about successful women. But the ineptitude of the comically amateurish filmmakers (Jamael Debbouze and Jean-Pierre Bacri) manages to exacerbate the tensions of all those around them forcing Agathe to confront the consequences of her own ambitions. Once again collaborating with Jean-Pierre Bacri co-writer and star of Look At Me and Le Go''t des Autres Agnes Jaoui's entertaining film takes a humorous and perceptive look at relationships.

• Souls at Sea | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (48.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  One man is on trial for murder. One man knows the truth... A ship has caught fire and only one lifeboat remains. Now its captain Michael Taylor (Gary Cooper) must decide who will live and who will surely die. The story begins at Taylor's trial where he is charged for the murders of the ship's passengers who perished. But what his prosecutors don't know is that he was actually onboard under British secret orders. Unexpectedly he is awarded a new trial after a representative of the Queen of England steps forward with a detailed account of the tragedy. Next the real story unfolds via brilliantly photographed flashbacks revealing Taylor and his partner's heroic mission to abolish the inhumane business of slave trading. But will the truth be enough to spare Taylor from a life behind bars? With its talented cast and compelling plot Souls at Sea offers a rare combination of intensity humour and thrilling action that is sure to please classic film lovers everywhere.

• D-Day The Sixth of June | DVD | (24/09/2012) from £8.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (42.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The great love story of the Great War.Hollywood once again looks back at the undeniably compelling story of D-Day, this time through the device of two officers facing the coming battle, one American and one British, recalling their love for the same woman.

• Pride and Glory | Blu Ray | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A saga centred on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. When an officer discovers his brother-in-law is involved in a corruption scandal, there is more than the family's good name at stake.

• Battle Cry | DVD | (21/07/2003) from £15.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The most interesting--and entertaining--aspect of Battle Cry, a long, episodic World War II drama, is that it marked the debut of one Justus E McQueen, who subsequently took the name of the good ol' Arkansas boy he played in the movie: LQ Jones. He's only one of eight or nine marine recruits who divide the screen time with commanding officer Van Heflin and James Whitmore as a lifer sergeant named Mac, "just Mac", who ramrods their squad and also delivers the movie's overbearing narration. Unfortunately, the narration is necessary to maintain continuity as the CinemaScope production galumphs its way from rounding up the melting-pot cast to seeing them through basic training and sundry, mostly amatory misadventures in San Diego, to further training in New Zealand and finally to baptism of fire on Guadalcanal. Trouble is, among the recruits only McQueen/Jones (whose job is mostly comic relief) and Aldo Ray (as a brawling lumberjack who's never known family life) have any charisma or acting chops--and that's not forgetting Tab Hunter, whose matinee-idol status at the time does not speak well for the 50s. Battle Cry is also a cardinal example of Hollywood's penchant for buying big, lusty, profane bestsellers (by Leon Uris, in this case) and then bowdlerising all the lustiness and profanity to appease the censors. Raoul Walsh, the poet laureate of lowdown gusto, does what he can in the circumstances, and as one of the first guys ever to direct a widescreen movie (1930's The Big Trail), he makes the battle scenes roar. --Richard T. Jameson

• The Beauty Of Beauties | DVD | (08/04/2024) from £11.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A