BRITISH CINEMA ON DVD

BRITISH CINEMA ON DVD

NEW RELEASES 2019

BLACK MIRROR: THE COMPLETE FOURTH SERIES (18) 2018  £18.99

  All six episodes from the fourth series of the sci-fi anthology drama created by Charlie Brooker which explores the role of technology in modern society.

BLUE BLACK PERMANENT (PG) 1992  TAIT, MARGARET     TWO DISC DVD AND BLU RAY  £17.99 

  Scottish drama written and directed by experimental film-maker Margaret Tait, which tells the story of  Barbara who was brought up in Orkney but now lives in Edinburgh and spends her time reflecting on her childhood and trying to come to terms with the mysterious death of her mother, a poet named Greta.

BREXIT - THE UNCIVIL WAR (15) 2018    £19.99

  Benedict Cumberbatch plays Dominic Cummings, who masterminded the Vote Leave campaign. 

CHERNOBYL (15)    2019 £24.99

 Well received five parts miniseries about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 1986 and the aftermath. 

THE CHILDREN ACT (15) 2018  EYRE, RICHARD  £13.99

 A high court judge must make a life-or-death decision on behalf 17-year-old Jehovah's Witness who refuse a life-saving blood transfusion on religious grounds, but is still classed as a child under the British legal system.

GENTLEMAN JACK (15) 2019 £24.99

 Set in the 1830s, this Sally Wainwright written drama based on the secret dairies of landowner Anne Lister, who has become know as "the first modern lesbian"

JARMAN: VOLUME TWO - 1987-1994 (15) BLU RAY ONLY  £62.99

 Collection contains -  'The Last of England' (1987), 'War Requiem' (1989), 'The Garden' (1990),  'Edward II' (1991), 'Wittgenstein' (1993) &  'Blue' (1993) & 'Glitterbug' (1994).

MRS WILSON (15) 2018 £17.99

 Based on a true story of Alison Wilson who falls for and marries Major Alec, a WW2  British intelligence officer. However on Alec’s  death in the 1960s, Alison discovers many hidden secrets about her late husband

NEW RELEASES 2018

ALAN BLEASDALE PRESENTS: BLOOD ON THE DOLE (15) 1994  BROUGHTON, PIP  £12.99 

  Four teenagers struggle to find their paths in life after leaving school.

ALAN BLEASDALE PRESENTS: PLEASURE (15) 1994   SHARP, IAN £12.99

   What happens to Emma Desneuves (Jennifer Ehle) after she answers an advert placed in the lonely hearts.

ALAN BLEASDALE PRESENTS: REQUIEM APACHE(15) 1994  WARD JONES, DAVID    £12.99

   Getaway driver Hamish (Alfred Molina), has retired to the country with wife and son. However when his gangster friends turn up he has a big decision to make: stay or pull one last job.

ALAN BLEASDALE PRESENTS: SELF CATERING (15) 1994   LEFEVRE, ROBIN £12.99

  The film follows the lives of six people after they discover they are the only survivors of a plane crash.

ALAN BLEASDALE PRESENTS: SOFT SAND, BLUE SEA (15) 1998  BROUGHTON, PIP  £12.99

  13-year-old David (Laurence Kinlan) and ten-year-old Danielle (Aimee Mulligan) who are both residents of a children's home. When the friends decide to try to escape the home, they soon find themselves on a journey filled with soft sand and blue sea.

BEDELIA (U) 1946   COMFORT, LANCE  £12.99

 British thriller based on the novel by Vera Caspary.   Margaret Lockwood plays Bedelia, a woman on honeymoon in Monte Carlo, who is approached by a when a mysterious young artist inquiring about her past.

DARKEST HOUR (PG)  2017 WRIGHT,  JOE    £19.99

  Gary Oldman plays British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a crucial junction in  World War II.

THE DEATH OF STALIN (15) 2017 IANNUCCI,  ARMANDO   £12.99

   Dark comedy following the final days of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin (Adrian McLoughlin)'s life and the pandemonium that came after his death. 

DUNKIRK (12)   2017  NOLAN, CHRISTOPHER DVD - £15.99   BLU RAY - £22.99

 Well received film about  the  Dunkirk evacuation during the Second World War.

GOD'S OWN COUNTRY  (15)  2017  LEE, FRANCIS  £13.99

 Young Yorkshire farmer Johnny Saxby hires a Romanian migrant worker Gheorghe Ionescu to assist him through the lambing season. However as they work together in the bleak Yorkshire landscape they begin to have feelings for each other.

JARMAN: VOLUME ONE - 1976-1986  (18)  JARMAN, D/ HUMFRESS, P/ HOBBS, C  2 DISC DUAL FORMAT DVD/BLU RAY £69.99

 Collection of the following films - 'In the Shadow of the Sun' (1974), 'Sebastiane' (1976), 'Jubilee' (1978), 'The Tempest' (1979), 'The Angelic Conversation' (1985) and 'Caravaggio' (1986).

JOURNEY'S END (12) 2017   DIBB, SAUL £17.99

  Set during WWI and adapted from the R. C. Sherriff's play, the film follows new recruit Raleigh who  joins up with his prospective brother-in-law Captain Stanhope. The officers  do their best to keep up moral of the company, all the while knowing the regiment could be sent out into the field at any time with no reinforcements and little hope of survival.

LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION (15) £33.99

  All three series, the Christmas special 'Yule Never Leave!' and the three anniversary specials of the dark BBC cult comedy.

POP AT THE MOVIES: VOLUME 1 (PG)   £12.99

 Collection of British musicals, featuring  'Play It Cool' (1962),  'Three Hats for Lisa' (1966),  '6.5 Special' (1958) and  'Just for You' (1966)

POP AT THE MOVIES: VOLUME 2 (PG)   £12.99

 Collection of four musicals. -  'Up Jumped a Swagman' (1965),  'What a Crazy World' (1963),   'Ballad in Blue' (1964) and 'Charley Moon' (1956).

SANCTUARY (15) 2016 IRELAND COLLIN , LEN  £10.99

 Comedy drama set in Galway in  Ireland.  Intellectual disabled. Sophie (Charlene Kelly) and Larry (Kieran Coppinger) want to send more time with each other, so on a trip to the cinema with a group of other adults with intellectual disabilities,  they sneak away to a hotel room to enjoy some private time together.

THEY CAME TO A CITY (U) 1944   DEARDEN, BASIL 2 DISC DUAL FORMAT SET BLU-RAY/DVD £19.99

 Based on J.B. Priestley’s play, as group of people find themselves in a utopian paradise or their own idea of Hell depending on their backgrounds and their experiences throughout their lives.

VICTORIA: THE COMPLETE SERIES ONE & SERIES TWO (12) 2017   £31.99

  All 16 episodes from the first and second series of the ITV drama starring Jenna-Louise Coleman in the title role.

VICTORIA AND ABDUL (15) 2017   FREARS, STEPHEN   DVD - £19.99   BLU RAY -   £23.99

 The extraordinary true story of an unexpected friendship of Queen Victoria's (Judi Dench) and a young Indian clerk.  As the friendship deepens, the Queen begins to see a changing world through new eyes.

WOODFALLA REVOLUTION IN BRITISH CINEMA (15) 1959-1965  - 8 DVD SET   £69.99    9 DISC BLU-RAY SET - £79.99

   Features - Look Back in Anger (Tony Richardson, 1959),   The Entertainer (Tony Richardson, 1960),   Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Karel Reisz, 1960),  A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson, 1961),   The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Tony Richardson, 1962),  Tom Jones (Tony Richardson, 1963) (New 4K digital restorations of the original theatrical version of the film and the 1989 director's cut),  Girl with Green Eyes (Desmond Davis, 1964),  The Knack...and how to get it (Richard Lester, 1965),

Plus over 20 hours of extra material and an 80-page book featuring essays on all 8 films.

NEW RELEASES 2017

APPLE TREE YARD (15) 2016

  British television drama adapted from Louise Doughty's novel, which star Emily Watson 

as a married academic whose  world is turned upside down however, when a chance meeting with a stranger Mark Costley (Ben Chaplin) leads to a passionate affair.

BLACKBIRD (PG) 2013  CHAMBERS, JAMIE £15.99

 Young Scottish folk singer Ruadhan  becomes increasingly disillusioned with the modernisation of the small fishing village he's always called home.

ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE (15) 1969 UK HICKOX, DOUGLAS  £17.99

 Adaptation of the risqué play by Joe Orton. Kath (Beryl Reid) and Ed (Harry Andrews) are a lonely middle-aged brother and sister who live together. When Kath meets Mr Sloane (Peter McEnery) and falls for his charms, she invites him to become a lodger, where Kath and Ed rival for Sloane's affections.

ETHEL & ERNEST (PG) 216  MAINWOOD, ROGER £19.99

 Hand-drawn animation film follows four decades in the lives of an ordinary couple living in London.  Based on the autobiographical novel by Raymond Briggs.

FRANTZ FANON: BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASK (15) 1995  JULIEN, ISAAC  £15.99 

  Film about Afro-French psychiatrist Frantz Fanon (Colin Salmon) who was heavily involved in the  anti-colonial movements throughout his life in his native Martinique, as well as  Algeria and throughout the  rest of world.   

Despite fighting in the Second World War with the French resistance, he later joined the battle to free Algeria from French rule.  He continuing the struggle after he was exiled to Tunisia and began to become increasingly frustrated with the oppression of black people.

This is an account of his life's work, documented in interviews, archival footage and dramatic reconstructions of key events.

GUERRILLA (15) 2016 UK   £24.99

  Six-part miniseries starring Idris Elba and Freida Pinto which chronicles the British Black Power movements of the 1970s.

I, DANIEL BLAKE (15) 2016 UK LOACH, KEN   £19.99

  Set in the North-East of England, 59-year-old joiner and widower Daniel Blake (Dave Johns) is forced to stop working and we follow him as he tries to navigate the British benefits system jumping through the bureaucratic hoops system puts in his way.

THE INFORMER (PG) UK 1929   ROBINSON, ARTHUR  DUAL DVD + BLU-RAY £19.99

   Gripping silent thriller about love, remorse and betrayal set among a group of revolutionaries in the newly independent Ireland of 1922.  The film is based on Liam O’Flaherty’s novel.

KING CHARLES III (12) 2017  GOOLD, RUPERT £19.99

  Adapted from Mike Bartlett's play which stars Tim Pigott-Smith as Prince Charles becomes king following the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II.

LADY MACBETH (15) 2016 UK OLDROYD, WILLIAM  DVD - £13.99  BLU RAY - £17.99

 Adapted from Nikolai Leskov's novel. Set in the remote English countryside, unhappy teenage bride Katherine is forced to marry shady mining boss,  but she finds an escape in the form of servant Sebastian.

LETTER TO BREZHNEV  (15) UK 1985   BERNARD, CHRIS  DUAL DVD + BLU-RAY £19.99

 Two Liverpool girls (Alexandra Pigg and Margi Clarke are out for a night on the town when they meed two Russian sailors (Alfred Molina and Peter Firth) on shore leave and love blossoms.

LITTLE WOMEN: THE COMPLETE SERIES (U) 1970   RUSSELL, PADDY £19.99

  BBC adaptation of the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott.

LONG SHOT (PG) 1978 UK  HATTON, MAURICE DUAL FORMAT DVD-BLU RAY £19.99

  Satirical drama set during the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival. Two filmakers are looking for funding and on their search they encounter such film pioneers as Wim Wenders, Stephen Frears, John Boorman and Alan Bennett.

LOOT (15)  1970 NARIZZANO, SILVIO  £17.99

  British comedy adapted from the play by Joe Orton. Two bank robbers, Dennis (Hywel Bennett) and Hal (Roy Holder), are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they can stash the cash in Hal's recently-deceased mother's coffin.

THE PROUD VALLEY (PG) 1940 UK  TENNYSON, PEN   £17.99

  Ealing Studios drama set in a coal mining valley.  Paul Robeson plays a African-American seaman who finds work down the mines as  in a small Welsh village.  However the pit is closed  and  the miners march to London in the hope of reopening the mine in time to serve the nation's wartime needs.

STOCKHOLM, MY LOVE (PG) 2016 UK  COUSINS, MARK  DUAL FORMAT DVD-BLU RAY £19.99 

  The film follows the footsteps of Alva Achebe, a Swedish architect fascinated by the way buildings influence lives but haunted by a tragic event from her past. Cousins and award-winning cinematographer Christopher Doyle filmed on the streets of the Swedish capital to create a visually stunning work about loss and rejuvenation, which marks the acting debut of acclaimed

SWALLOWS AND AMAZONS (PG) 2016  LOWTHORPE, PHILIPPA £19.99  

 Family adventure adapted from Arthur Ransome's classic novel set in the 1920s.

T2 TRAINSPOTTING (18) UK  BOYLE, DANNY £19.99

 Sequel to the critically acclaimed 1995 film starring Ewan McGregor. 

A UNITED KINGDOM (12) 2016  ASANTE, AMMA   £13.99

  David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike star in this romantic drama based on the true story of an African prince who fell in love with a white British woman in the 1940s and the prejudice and hate they encountered.

THE WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (15) 2016    £19.99

  Toby Jones, Andrea Riseborough, Billy Howle and Kim Cattrall star in this BBC adaptation of Agatha Christie's crime story.

NEW RELEASES 2016

1930S COLLECTION (U) £15.99

  Collection of four 1930s British dramas. Features -  'Flood Tide' (1934),  'Big Ben Calling', 'The Lash' (1934) and 'The Captain's Table' (1936).

45 YEARS (15)  2015  UK  HAIGH, ANDREW DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

  Kate (Charlotte Rampling)  and Geoff (Tom Courtenay) are a couple coming up to their  45th wedding anniversary.  However the anniversary is shattered  when news that the body of Geoff’s former fiancée has been discovered in the Swiss Alps, 50 years after she disappeared.

THE A WORD (15) 2016 £19.99

  Six-part BBC drama about a family adjusting to life with their autistic son. 

AKENFIELD (12) 1974    HALL, PETER DUAL FORMAT DVD/BLU RAY £19.99 

 Based on the book by Ronald Blythe about a farmhand living in a small Suffolk village with his widowed mother but wants to escape his rural existence.

BEAT GIRL (12) 1960 UK  GRÉVILLE, EDMOND T.   £19.99

  Gillian Hills stars in the title role of this cult British drama that delves into the youth culture of the late 1950s. Dual format dvd and Blu Ray edition.

CHURCHILL'S SECRET (PG) 2015  STURRIDGE,  CHARLES   £17.99

 Drama set in 1953  when Winston Churchill (Michael Gambon) suffered a serious stroke and the incident is hidden from the world. 

THE CYBERBULLY (15) 2015   CHANAN, BEN   £11.99

   Docu drama about a  troubled teenager active on  social media and hungry for attention, who  discovers that her laptop has been hacked and the hacker is watching her with her own webcam. 

THE CRYING GAME (18) 1992 JORDAN, NIEL Dual Format Ed.  £19.99

 IRA terrorist tracks down a dead British soldier’s girlfriend with surprising consequences.

DICKENSIAN (12) 2016   £29.99

  All 20 episodes of the BBC drama set in the combined fictional worlds of Charles Dickens' novels.

DOWNTON ABBEY: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION (12) 2015 £119.99

   All 52 episodes of the award-winning ITV costume drama.

EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO (18) 2015  GREENAWAY, PETER   DVD - £15.99   BLU RAY - £19.99

    Set in Mexico in 1931 during the filming of  'Que Viva Mexico!, the drama looks at  Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein relationship with young actor Jorge Palomino y Cañedo.

FRANTZ FANON: BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASK (15) 1995  JULIEN, ISAAC  £15.99

   Film about Afro-French psychiatrist Frantz Fanon (Colin Salmon) who was heavily involved in anti-colonial movements throughout his life in his native Martinique, Algeria and throughout the  world as he grew increasingly frustrated with the oppression of black people.

GASLIGHT (PG) 1940 UK  DICKINSON, THOROLD   £17.99

   Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard star in this classic British thriller based on Patrick Hamilton's play. 

HAPPY VALLEY: SERIES 2 (15) 2016     £19.99   

  BBC drama starring Sarah Lancashire as a police sergeant in a rural West Yorkshire valley. 

HEADLINE (PG) 1943  HARLOW, JOHN £9.99

   David Farrar stars as an intrepid reporter in this 1940s British crime drama.

THE LADY IN THE VAN (12) 2015  HYTNER, NICHOLAS   £19.99

  British comedy drama adapted from the play by Alan Bennett based on true events from his life about adishevelled woman (Maggie Smith)  living in her van parked opposite Alan Bennetts house .

THE LIBRARY SUICIDES (15) 2016 WALES LYN, EUROS    IN WELSH £17.99

   Welsh thriller starring Catrin Stewart in the dual role of Nan and Ana, twin sister librarians left devastated by the sudden suicide of their mother Elena.

LIFE AND TIMES OF DAVID LLOYD GEORGE: THE COMPLETE SERIES (12) 1981  HEFIN, JOHN  £29.99

The complete nine episodes of the television series charting the life of the controversial liberal politician, with Philip Madoc starring in the titular role. The episodes are: 'Don't Try, Do It...', 'A Wicked War', 'He Is Wise, and Merciful', 'All Flesh Is Grass', 'Well, We're In', 'No. 10', 'An Honourable Peace', 'Win Or Lose' and 'Footnotes of History'.

LOVE & FRIENDSHIP (U) 2016  STILLMAN, WHIT   £19.99

  Witty adaptation of Jane Austen's novella staring Kate Beckinsale  as Lady Susan, a high-class widow whose waning finances threaten her status and lifestyle.

MCQUEEN (15) 2015  CAIRD, JOHN    £19.99

   Film version of the critically acclaimed West End hit which journeys into the mind of British fashion's most notorious and brilliant artist, Alexander McQueen.

MADE (15) 1972   MACKENZIE, JOHN £9.99

  Carol White plays Valerie, a working single mother, and singer-songwriter Roy Harper plays Mike an aspiring pop star. Valerie is wooed by three men in her community - idealistic Mike, local priest Father Dyson who abuses his power to get closer to her, and Madhav an Indian, university-educated immigrant who is Valerie's boss at the switchboard where she works.

MOSLEY: THE COMPLETE SERIES (15) 1998  KNIGHTS, ROBERT   £14.99

 Drama tracing Nazi sympathiser,  Oswald Mosley's rise to being founder and leader of the British Union of Fascists

THE NIGHT MANAGER (15) 2016 £24.99

   All six episodes of the BBC series based on the John le Carré’s spy novel, staring Tom Hiddleston and Hugh Laurie.

ORTHODOX (18) 2015   LEON, DAVID   £15.99

  Bullied young Jewish boy takes up boxing as a way of learning self-defence but his community sees  him as having turning his back on his religion. As he grows older and has a family, he  struggles to balance providing for his family with earning money as a successful boxer with remaining loyal to his faith.

PENDA'S FEN (12) 1974    CLARKE, CLARKE   £19.99

  Alan Clarke directs this BBC drama that was made for the 'Play for Today' programme. Set in the village of Pinvin in Worcestershire, the drama follows pastor's son Stephen Franklin (Spencer Banks) as he has a series of surreal encounters with angels, demons and pagans. The journey he embarks upon forces Stephen to evaluate his place in the world and confront his home country's ancient pagan history.

POLDARK: COMPLETE SERIES 1 AND 2 (12) 2016 £33.99

  All 18 episodes from the first two series of the drama starring Aidan Turner as Captain Ross Poldark

SANDERS OF THE RIVER (U) 1935  KORDA, ZOLTAN £9.99

  British drama set in British Colonial Nigeria.

SPECTRE (12) 2015   MENDES, SAM   DVD - £22.99 BLU RAY - £26.99

  Daniel Craig returns as 007 in the 24th instalment of the James Bond franchise.

SUFFRAGETTE (12) 2015   GAVRON, SARAH  £19.99

   Maud Lancaster was born in the Glasshouse laundry in London and knows nothing of the world other than performing her duties until she hears of a group of women campaigning for the right to vote, she seizes the opportunity to break free from her mundane life and joins the Women's Social and Political Union.

SYMPTOMS (18) UK  1974   LARRAZ, JOSÉ RAMÓN  £19.99

 Sophisticated modern gothic horror was the official 1974 British Palme d’Or entry at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, but it slipped into obscurity soon after. Long considered lost, the original negatives were rediscovered and have now been remastered to 2K. Dual format dvd and Blu Ray edition.

THIRTEEN (15) 2016      £19.99

    Five-part BBC about Ivy Moxam,  a 26-year-old woman who was abducted and held captive for the next 13 years before she escapes.

THIS LIFE: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION (18)     £39.99

 First and second series of the hit BBC drama about  young lawyers sharing a house in London in the 1990s.

TUTANKHAMUN (12) 2016   £19.99

  Four-part ITV miniseries about the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.

VALENTINO (18) 1977    RUSSELL, KEN   DUAL FORMAT VERSION £19.99

   Biographical drama starring Rudolf Nureyev as Italian-American actor Rudolph Valentino.

NEW RELEASES  2015

‘71 (15) 2014    DEMANGE, YANN DVD - £17.99  BLU RAY - £22.99

   Action thriller set in Belfast during the Troubles in 1971.

A SONG FOR JENNY (15) 2015  PERCIVAL, BRIAN   £17.99

    Emily Watson stars as a grieving mother in this emotional drama adapted from memoirs of Bristol priest Julie Nicholson, 

whose daughter died in the terrorist attack on London on July 7th 2005.

ALDWYCH FARCES: VOLUME 2 (PG)   1934   WALLS, TOM   £12.99

   Features a collection of stage comedies from the 1930s. 'A Cup of Kindness' (1934), and  'Dirty Work' (1934).

ALL IN GOOD TIME (12A) 2012 UK   COLE, NIGEL     £17.99

    British comedy adapted by Ayub Khan-Din from his stage comedy 'Rafta, Rafta'. Set in Bolton, the film stars Amara Karan and Reece Ritchie as young newlyweds Vina and Atul, for whom married life is proving far from straightforward. 

THE ANGELS' SHARE (15) 2012 UK     LOACH, KEN        £19.99

    Glasgow-set drama about a young juvenile delinquent who is given one last chance to stay out of jail and carve out a future for himself.

ANGEL WITH THE TRUMPET (PG) 1950 UK BUSHELL, ANTHONY   £9.99

   Eileen Herlie as Henrietta Stein, a young Jewish woman who marries into a wealthy Austrian family much to chagrin of her new husband's parents.

BANANA (15) 2015 £15.99

 A spin-off of the series 'Cucumber' about modern gay life in Manchester.

BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (12A) 2011  MADDEN, JOHN        £19.99

    The film follows the experiences of a group of elderly Brits who arrive to take up residence in a newly-opened retirement home in Bangalore, India. Despite its glossy publicity campaign, the Marigold turns out to be rather different from the refurbished luxury hotel advertised in the brochures.

THE BLACK PANTHER (18) 1977 MERRICK, IAN  £19.99

    Donald Sumpter stars as Donald Nielson, an obsessive ex-army man who uses his 

military skills to rob a string of local post offices after his business flounders.

BLACK SEA (15) 2014 UK MACDONALD, KEVIN  

  DVD - £18.99  BLU RAY - £23.99

   Jude Law stars in this underwater thriller.

CHURCHILL AND THE GENERALS (PG)  1981 GIBSON, ALAN £24.99

   BBC drama staring Timothy West as Winston Churchill and  focuses on his relationship with his generals during pivotal moments of the WW2.

COMPLICIT (15) 2014 UK     MACCORMICK, NIALL   £12.99

This tense  drama explores the  moral compromises that ‘is torture ever justified to protect the country you love’.

CRITICAL (15) 2015 £24.99

    All 13 episodes from the medical drama series set in a state-of-the-art major trauma unit.

CUCUMBER (18) 2015     £15.99

  Eight-part drama series written by Russell T. Davies about modern gay life in Manchester. 

The programme follows middle-aged couple Henry (Vincent Franklin) and Lance (Cyril Nri) whose relationship falls apart after a disastrous night out.

THE DAY WILL DAWN (U) 1942  FRENCH, HAROLD £12.99

   1939 and a new foreign correspondent is  determined to uncover what is going on in Norway and to stop the Nazis in their tracks.

DEEP END (15) 1970    SKOLIMOWSKI, JERZY £17.99

  Comedy drama exploring the dangers of unrequited love. 

DUKE OF BURGUNDY (18) 2014     STRICKLAND, PETER    

  DVD - £14.99   BLU RAY - £18.99

   Dark drama exploring the sadomasochistic relationship of a lesbian couple.

THE EICHMANN SHOW (12)   UK    2014   WILLIAMS, PAUL ANDREW £19.99

    Martin Freeman and Anthony LaPaglia star as two TV producers who televised the 

trial of former Nazi Adolf Eichmann in 1960. 

ELECTRICITY (15)   UK 2014 HIGGINS, BRYN £16.99

   With the death of her mother, Lily, a  young woman  decides to go looking for her younger 

brother in London. The search is risky for Lily as she suffers from severe epilepsy and feels 

vulnerable in the big city.

THE FACE OF AN ANGEL (15) 2014   WINTERBOTTOM, MICHAEL   

 DVD - £17.99  BLU-RAY - £21.99

 Psychological thriller which centres around a fictionalised account of the real-life murder of Meredith Kercher in 2007, in which Thomas (Daniel Brühl) plays a film-maker making a documentary about the murder case .

FASCINATION (U) 1931 UK MANDER,  MILES   £9.99

   The film follows a wife who discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her with another woman. However, instead of scolding her husband about his infidelity she approaches his mistress and suggests that they share him.

THE FLEMISH FARM (PG) 1943  DELL, JEFFREY   £12.99

    Wartime drama with a musical score by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

FRANTZ FANON: BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASK (15) 1995  JULIEN, ISAAC £15.99

   Film about Afro-French psychiatrist Frantz Fanon (Colin Salmon) was heavily involved in 

anti-colonial movements throughout his life; in his native Martinique, Algeria and throughout the world as he grew increasingly frustrated with the oppression of black people. 

FREEDOM RADIO (PG) 1941 ASQUITH, ANTHONY   £12.99

  Wartime propaganda drama.

THE GAME (15) 2014 £19.99

    Six-part spy drama series set during the Cold War.

THE GOOB (18) 2014  MYHILL, GUY   £17.99

   16-year-old school lkeaver, Goob,  spends the summer working in his mother’s  café.   However his relationship with his mother becomes strained when she finds a new boyfriend, who is  cruel and womanising .Meanwhile, Goob falls for Eva (Marama Corlett), a foreign field worker who helps him to imagine a better life.

GOSPEL OF US (15) 2011    MCKEAN, DEAN    £15.99

    Feature-length film version of the Easter Passion play written by Owen Sheers and starring Michael Sheen. Also included is a documentary giving a behind-the scenes look at the Welsh National Theatre's production of  the play, performed in the streets of Port Talbot over Easter 2011.

GREYHAWK (18) UK 2014   PITT, GUY    £19.99

  Alec Newman stars in this British drama about a blind army veteran living on a London council estate. 

GUNPOWDER, TREASON AND PLOT (15) 2004   MACKINNON, GILLIES    £19.99

    BBC historical drama written by Jimmy McGovern writes about the lives of Mary, 

Queen of Scots and her son James I.

HERE WE GO ROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH (15) 1968  DONNER, CLIVE   £17.99

 Comedy following teenager Jamie McGregor (Barry Evans) as he tries to become involved with various girls.

HOLDING ON (15)   1997   SHERGOLD, ADRIAN    £24.99

  Award-winning BBC drama series following the interconnected lives of several characters in 1990s London

INDIAN SUMMERS (15) 2015   £23.99

    All ten episodes of the Channel 4 series set in the  small British colony of Simla at the foot of the Himalayas in  1932.

IMITATION GAME (12) 2014   TYLDUM, MORTEN   

   DVD - £19.99  BLU RAY - £24.99

   Award-winning drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch as codebreaker and Alan Turing.

ITV 60 (15) 2015    12 DISCS   £79.99

A mixture of both classics and rarities (including some programmes thought lost forever), this set contains previously unreleased episodes of Crossroads, Rainbow, Tiswas, Coronation Street, World in Action, The Bill and Whicker's World – together with some exceptionally rare items from the Associated Rediffusion archive: No Hiding Place, Mystery Bag, Crane and Our Man at St. Mark's.

JUST JIM (15) 2015   ROBERTS, CRAIG  £17.99

  Black comedy about a Welsh teenage outcast who falls under the spell of mysterious 

American Dean (Emile Hirsch).

KAJAKI (15) 2014     KATIS, PAUL £15.99

   Modern British war film set during the Afghanistan conflict.

THE KNIFE THAT KILLED ME (15) 2014 UK MONKMAN,K/ROMER, M £11.99

    Adapted from Anthony McGowan’s young-adult novel about 16-year-old Paul (Jack McMullen) who starts at an  inner-city Leeds school and comes to the attention of the school bully.

LUNCH HOUR (U)   1961   HILL, JAMES   £17.99

   Adapted by writer John Mortimer from his own stage play about two people on the brink of an affair when various obstacles and misunderstandings arise to stand in their way.

THE MAGNET (U) 1950  FREND, CHARLES   £17.99

  Gentle Ealing comedy about childhood, guilt and half-truths starring a young James Fox.

MARLEY (15) 2012        MACDONALD, KEVIN        £19.99

    Feature documentary chronicling the life and music of reggae star Bob Marley.

MILLIONS LIKE US (U) 1943  GILLIAT,S/LAUNDER, F   £12.99

   Wartime drama about a shy working-class girl sent to a local factory manufacturing aircraft parts. Here she makes friends with other girls from very different social backgrounds.

MR. TURNER (12) 2014    LEIGH,  MIKE 

  DVD - £19.99  BLU RAY - £24.99

   Timothy Spall plays  J.M.W. Turner in thisa biopic of the acclaimed painter.

MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL (PG) 1952 DUAL FORMAT EDITION  HOELLERING, GEORGE  £19.99

  This adaptation of T S Eliot's classic verse drama recounting the love-hate relationship between 12th century British monarch Henry ll and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket. The film features Eliot's voice as well as music by the internationally renowned composer Làszló Lajtha.

MY OLD LADY (12) 2014 HOROVITZ, ISRAEL £15.99

   Mathias Gold thinks his luck has changed when he inherits an apartment in Paris. He wants to sell the apartment to a developer but he finds Mathilde Girard (Maggie Smith), an old woman, living in the apartment who is entitled to live there.

NEW BRITISH CINEMA QUARTERLY ANNUAL: ISSUE 2 (15)    2012    £24.99

    A four-volume collection of British features -  'Treacle Jr.' (2011), 'Island' (2011), Calum (Colin Morgan), 'Honeymooner' (2010) and 'Junkhearts' (2011).

OUR WORLD WAR (15) 2014 £19.99

      Tense drama revealing the experiences of British soldiers in World War One.

OUT OF THE CLOUDS (U) 1955   DEARDEN, BASIL   £17.99

   Based on the book by John Fores and set in a  fog-bound day at Heathrow airport. 

PADDINGTON (PG) 2014   KING,PAUL    

  DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99

      Nicole Kidman and Hugh Bonneville star in this family comedy based on the popular 

children's books written by Michael Bond. 

POLDARK (12) 2015       £24.99

   New adaption of the  historical novels by Winston Graham which are set in Cornwall. 

Staring Aidan Turner stars as Captain Ross Poldark

RICHARD MASSINGHAM COLLECTION (E)   £19.99

 Britain during the 1940s Richard Massingham starring as a well-meaning but bumbling everyman in a series of imaginative shorts.

PRIDE (15) 2014   UK  WARCHUS, MATTHEW    £19.99

   Film  inspired by events that took place during the 1984 miners' strike. When  a Gay Pride rally in London  raises funds in support of the striking miners,  most mining communities refuse to take money from gay and lesbian groups. However, one Welsh village, Dulais, seem grateful for the support.

RIOT (15) 2011 UK    CALLENDER,  DEVRON         £19.99

    Crime drama about South London's gang culture from first-time director Devron Callender

SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) 2014  MADDEN, JOHN

  DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £22.99

  British comedy drama starring Maggie Smith, Judi Dench  and Dev Patel. 

SECOND COMING (15) 2014   GREEN, DEBBIE TUCKER £15.99

   Mark and Jax (Elba and Marshall) struggle to make ends meet in their sexless marriage.  

When finds out she is pregnant she claims its an immaculate conception.

SECRET MISSION (U) 1942    FRENCH, HAROLD £12.99

    World War Two drama starring James Mason.

SECRET MISSION (U) 1942   FRENCH, HAROLD £12.99

   World War Two drama starring James Mason.

SHADOWS IN THE SUN (12) 2009  ROCKSAVAGE, DAVID £9.99

   Set in 1960s Norfolk, a stranger proves to be the catalyst for a family who have lost their way.

SMALL TOWN STORY (U) 1953   TULLY, MONTGOMERY £9.99

    Football drama about  Canadian ex-military man, who returns to the English town to play for his friend's local football team.

SNOW IN PARADISE (18) 2013  HULME, ANDREW £14.99

   Gritty British crime drama.

STILL LIFE (12) 2013   PASOLINI, UBERTO £14.99

   Eddie Marsan  plays a selfless civil servant, who is responsible for tracking down the next of kin of people who have passed away alone.

THE TALES OF HOFFMAN (U) 1951 POWELL,M/PRESSBURGER,E £17.99

    An adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's opera

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING (12A) 2014  MARSH, JAMES  

  DVD - 19.99    BLU RAY - £24.99

   Award-winning biographical drama starring Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as his first wife Jane.

THEY WERE NOT DIVIDED (PG) 1950  YOUNG, TERENCE £12.99

    World War Two action drama about a daring reconnaissance mission set during the advance on Berlin.

THE TOWER OF TERROR (PG)  1941   HUNTINGTON, L.   £9.99

   Wartime thriller starring  Michael Rennie.

TRASH (15) 2014   CURTIS, R/DALDRY, S (5053083028213)    £19.99

    Set in the Rio, the  film follows 14-year-old Raphael who find a wallet among rubbish.  The wallet lead him to be involved in a mystery concerning corrupt politicians and stolen money.

TURNOUT (18) 2011  UK        SALES, LEE  £14.99

    British drama co-written and directed by Lee Sales. Young Hoxton couple George (George Russo) and Sophie (Ophelia Lovibond) have been saving up to go away on their first holiday together, but unbeknown to Sophie, George is flat broke, and has siphoned off their holiday deposit to fund a drugs deal in a desperate to raise some last-minute cash. Inevitably, the scheme goes wrong - and George is left to face the prospect of a future with no girlfriend, no money and no holiday.

TWO FOR THE ROAD (PG) 1967 UK DONEN, STANLEY   £17.99

    Popular 1960s romantic comedy.

UNPUBLISHED STORY (PG) 1942  FRENCH, HAROLD £12.99 

  War correspondent is outraged to discover that the 'People for Peace Society' in England are campaigning to appease the Germans, and tries to expose them for the fools they are - only to have his newspaper stories censored by Home Security.

W1A (15) 2014    £19.99  

   Mockumentary comedy is in the BBC. 

YOU CAN'T ESCAPE (PG) 1956 UK EADES, WILFRED   £9.99

   Classic British crime drama.

X+Y (12A) 2014    MATTHEWS, MORGAN    £15.99

    Teenage maths prodigy finds it difficult to interact with people, but when he gets the opportunity to represent the UK at the International Mathematical Olympiad  he sets out on a journey of numbers, love and self-discovery.

SOME BLACK BRITISH FILMS FOR  BLACK HISTORY MONTH 

A WAY OF LIFE (15) 2004 UK ASANTE, AMMA £15.99

Controversial British drama that starts with a brutal attack by a group of teenagers on a middle-aged man, and then goes back to fill in the events leading up to the assault.

AMAZING GRACE (PG) 2006 UK APTED, MICHAEL £15.99

Period biopic based on the British slavery abolitionist William Wilberforce.

BABYLON (15) 1981 UK ROSSO, FRANCO £19.99

Set in South London at the start of the '80s, a time when reggae music was at its peak and racism was rife, the film follows Blue, the lead rapper for Ital Lion Sound, in the run-up to a Sound System competition with a rival crew led by Jah Shaka.

BELLE (12A) 2014 UK   ASANTE, AMMA  DVD - £10.99    BLU RAY - £12.99

Period drama inspired by the 1779 painting of Dido Elizabeth Belle and her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray. Dido is an African woman who is sent to be in England to live on the estate of  Lord Mansfield.  Here she quickly realises that her ethnicity is problematic in this upper class society.

BLACK JOY (15) 1977 UK SIMMONS, ANTHONY £12.99

British culture-clash comedy with a social comment. Ben, a young man from Guayana who comes to London in search where he finds himself caught up in all manner of misunderstandings and disasters on the streets of Brixton, before finally learning how to stick up for himself.

BORDERLINE (15) 1930 MACPHERSON, KENNETH £24.99

A groundbreaking silent British avant-garde film with its explicit theme of racial prejudice and with an implicit homoerotic subtext, this is a seething exploration of love, passion and betrayal starring the legendary Paul Robeson. This lost classic tells the story of a tense, inter-racial love triangle and its deadly consequences.

BULLET BOY (15) 2004 UK DIBB, SAUL DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

Ashley Walters stars as Ricky, just released from a young offenders' institute and determined to go straight. Instead, he becomes involved in a clash with a local gang member.

BURNING AN ILLUSION (15) 1982 UK SHABAZZ, MENELIK £19.99

Groundbreaking British feature exploring a black woman's questions of racial identity, set amongst the Notting Hill and Ladbroke Grove areas of West London.

CRY FREEDOM (PG) 1987 UK ATTENBOROUGH, RICHARD £9.99

The story of Steven Biko, a South African black activist, and his friendship with white journalist Donald Woods.

DANCING ON THE EDGE (15) 2012 £19.99

Steven Poliakoff writes this five-part drama set in London in the 1930s following the rise and fall of a black jazz band.

DIRTY PRETTY THINGS (15) 2002 UK FREAR, STEPHEN £15.99

Highly educated Nigerian, Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) can only find work low paid work in London. He shares a room with another illegal immigrant Senay (Audrey Tatou). They both live in fear of being caught.

FLAME IN THE STREETS (PG) 1961 UK BAKER, ROY WARD £12.99

Hard-hitting melodrama about racial tensions in early 1960s England

FRANTZ FANON: BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASK (15) 1995  JULIEN, ISAAC  £15.99

   Film about Afro-French psychiatrist Frantz Fanon (Colin Salmon) was heavily involved in anti-colonial movements throughout his life; in his native Martinique, Algeria and throughout the world as he grew increasingly frustrated with the oppression of black people. 

PRESSURE/BALDWIN'S NIGGER (15) 1975/6 OVÉ, HORACE £19.99

'Pressure' (1975) is widely seen as Britain's first black feature. Set in 1970s London, it follows the daily struggle of young black British youths in an uncaring society.'Baldwin's Nigger' (1969) is a documentary portrait of the writer James Baldwin during his 1969 visit to the UK.

THE PROUD VALLEY (PG) 1940 UK TENNYSON, PEN £15.99

Paul Robeson stars as David Goliath, a charismatic African-American seaman who washes up in a small mining village in Wales.

SAPPHIRE (PG) 1954 DEARDEN, BASIL £12.99

Graphic portrayal of ethnic tensions in 1950s London

YOUNG SOUL REBELS (18) 1991 UK ISAAC JULIEN £19.99 

In the long hot summer of 1977, London prepared for the Silver Jubilee celebrations as social and sexual tensions in the community reach boiling point following the murder of a local black gay man.

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‘71 (15) 2014    DEMANGE, YANN DVD - £17.99  BLU RAY - £22.99

   Action thriller set in Belfast during the Troubles in 1971.

A LIAR'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY: THE UNTRUE STORY OF MONTY PYTHON'S...(15)     2012   £17.99

    Animated biopic of Monty Python's Graham Chapman. Using a number of audio recordings Chapman made before his death, fourteen different animation studios worked together for this film which collects snippets from his autobiography and turns them into a series of comedy skits. Fellow Python members John Cleese, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin also contribute by voicing an assortment of characters who may or may 

not have crossed Chapman's path in life.

A BELFAST STORY (15) 2013        TODD, NATHAN    £15.99

    A  number of murders of former IRA members ignites the suspicions of a city police detective played by Colm Meaney. With the body count rising, it seems whoever is responsible is determined to settle the score once and for all and Meaney is forced to confront the horrors of his own past while seeking out the vigilante killers.

A LONG WAY FROM HOME (12A) 2013   GILBERT, VIRGINIA     £17.99

    Retired couple Joseph (James Fox) and Brenda (Brenda Fricker) move to southern France to live out the rest of their days. Joseph finds himself in a state of boredom, however, until he meets the young and attractive Suzanne (Natalie Dormer).

A SONG FOR JENNY (15) 2015  PERCIVAL, BRIAN   £17.99

    Emily Watson stars as a grieving mother in this emotional drama adapted from memoirs of Bristol priest Julie Nicholson, whose daughter died in the terrorist attack on London on July 7th 2005.

ABOUT TIME (15) 2013  CURTIS, RICHARD     £19.99

    British comedy about a young man who discovers he can time travel.

ACCUSED: SERIES 2 (15) 2012    UK        £19.99

  Second series of the anthology, written by Jimmy McGovern, that follows various characters as they await a verdict on their trial and reflect on how they came to be accused.

ALAN PARTRIDGE: ALPHA PAPA (15) 2013     LOWNEY, DECLAN.   DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99

    Steve Coogan's legendary chat show host and broadcaster finally receives the big screen treatment in this comedy.

BANANA (15) 2015 £15.99

 A spin-off of the series 'Cucumber' about modern gay life in Manchester.

BELLE (12A) 2014 UK   ASANTE, AMMA  DVD - £19.99    BLU RAY - £27.99

Period drama inspired by the 1779 painting of Dido Elizabeth Belle and her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray. Dido is an African woman who is sent to be in England to live on the estate of  Lord Mansfield.  Here she quickly realises that her ethnicity is problematic in this upper class society.

BLACK SEA (15) 2014 UK MACDONALD, KEVIN  

  DVD - £18.99  BLU RAY - £23.99

   Jude Law stars in this underwater thriller.

BLOOD (15) UK 2012        MURPHY, NICK        £15.99

  British crime drama starring Paul Bettany and Stephen Graham as police officer brothers who struggle to maintain their sense of morality while investigating a murder.

BURTON AND TAYLOR (12) 2013 UK    LAXTON, RICHARD   £12.99

    Helena Bonham Carter and Dominic West star in this BBC drama portraying the turbulent relationship between Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

CELLULOID (18) 2013    EYRE-MORGAN,LLOYD        £15.99

    Dawn, a mother, with two teenage children is suffering a mental breakdown caused by being abuse, or in fact is she suffering from false memory syndrome and that her abuse might not be real.

COMPLICIT (15) 2014 UK     MACCORMICK, NIALL   £12.99

This tense  drama explores the  moral compromises that ‘is torture ever justified to protect the country you love’.

CRITICAL (15) 2015 £24.99

    All 13 episodes from the medical drama series set in a state-of-the-art major trauma unit.

CUCUMBER (18) 2015     £15.99

  Eight-part drama series written by Russell T. Davies about modern gay life in Manchester. The programme follows middle-aged couple Henry (Vincent Franklin) and Lance (Cyril Nri) whose relationship falls apart after a disastrous night out.

DANCING ON THE EDGE (15) 2012    £19.99

    Steven Poliakoff writes this five-part drama set in London in the 1930s following the rise and fall of a black jazz band.

DOCTOR WHO: 50TH ANNIVERSARY (PG)   2013        £12.99

    50th anniversary special of the British science fiction television programme

DOWNTON ABBEY: SERIES 4 (12)   2013            £29.99

    The entire fourth series of the ITV costume drama following the lives and loves of those above and below stairs in an English stately home.

DOWNTON ABBEY: SERIES ONE TO FOUR (12)              £49.99

    The first four series, plus the 2012 Christmas special, of the ITV costume drama following the lives and loves of those above and below stairs in an English stately home.

DUKE OF BURGUNDY (18) 2014     STRICKLAND, PETER    

  DVD - £14.99   BLU RAY - £18.99

   Dark drama exploring the sadomasochistic relationship of a lesbian couple.

THE EICHMANN SHOW (12)   UK    2014   WILLIAMS, PAUL ANDREW £19.99

    Martin Freeman and Anthony LaPaglia star as two TV producers who televised the trial of former Nazi Adolf Eichmann in 1960. 

ELECTRICITY (15)   UK 2014 HIGGINS, BRYN £16.99

   With the death of her mother, Lily, a  young woman  decides to go looking for her younger brother in London. The search is risky for Lily as she suffers from severe epilepsy and feels vulnerable in the big city.

EXHIBITION (15) 2013 UK HOGG, JOANNA     DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

D and H (Viv Albertine and Liam Gillick) are two wealthy artists who have lived in their modernist  London house for 18 years. After deciding to sell great resentment and tension between causes the intimacy and communication in their relationship to become almost non-existent.

THE FACE OF AN ANGEL (15) 2014   WINTERBOTTOM, MICHAEL   

 DVD - £17.99  BLU-RAY - £21.99

 Psychological thriller which centres around a fictionalised account of the real-life murder of Meredith Kercher in 2007, in which Thomas (Daniel Brühl) plays a film-maker making a documentary about the murder case .

THE FALL (15) 2012    £19.99   

    BBC Crime drama, starring Gillian Anderson as a Metropolitan Police detective drafted to Belfast to help on a puzzling murder case.

FALL OF EAGLES (12) 1974          £33.99

    All 13 episodes of the 1970s BBC historical drama starring Patrick Stewart. The story charts the decline and fall of the great Houses of Europe - the Hapsburgs, Romanovs and Hohenzollerns

FILTH (18) 2013  BAIRD JON S.  DVD - £19.99    BLU RAY - £24.99

    James McAvoy stars as a corrupt, sociopathic Edinburgh cop in this fast-paced black comedy, adapted from the novel by Irvine Welsh.

FOSSIL (15) 2014  WALKER, ALEX    £15.99

    Paul and Camilla’s marriage is in trouble. They head to a picturesque cottage in the South of France to work through their problems and try to¬ inject some love back into their marriage. As their relationship unravels, the holiday is hijacked by an American and his French girlfriend.

THE GAME (15) 2014 £19.99

    Six-part spy drama series set during the Cold War

GINGER AND ROSA (12) 2012 UK POTTER, SALLY DVD - £15.99   BLU RAY £19.99

    Drama about two teenage girls living in London in the early 1960s. Elle Fanning and Alice Englert star as Ginger and Rosa, best friends who were both born on the day the first atom bomb fell on Hiroshima. The two are inseparable until Rosa falls in love with Ginger's charismatic father Roland (Alessandro Nivola).

Ginger, shattered and alone, becomes increasingly immersed in the anti-nuclear movement, the looming horrors of the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis resonating with her own personal nightmare.

THE GOOB (18) 2014  MYHILL, GUY   £17.99

   16-year-old school lkeaver, Goob,  spends the summer working in his mother’s  café.   However his relationship with his mother becomes strained when she finds a new boyfriend, who is  cruel and womanising .Meanwhile, Goob falls for Eva (Marama Corlett), a foreign field worker who helps him to imagine a better life.

GOOD VIBRATIONS (15) 2012   UK    BARROS D'SA, L/LEYBURN, G   £15.99

    Biopic chronicling the life of the Northern Irish music promoter Terri Hooley, who championed the emerging Belfast punk music scene during the 1970s.

GREYHAWK (18) UK 2014   PITT, GUY    £19.99

  Alec Newman stars in this British drama about a blind army veteran living on a London council estate. 

THE HAPPY LANDS (12) 2012    ROBERT RAE        £17.99

    Drama telling the story of the Fife mining community's fight for better conditions during the General Strike of 1926. Employing amateur cast members from the actual communities involved, the film follows the struggles of three families as they try to survive the dark days of the strike.

HAPPY VALLEY (15) 2014     £19.99

Tense  six-part drama crime drama  written by Sally Wainwright.

HITCHCOCK (12A)  2012   SACHA GERVASI        £19.99

    Anthony Hopkins plays the legendary director in this biopic that chronicles the personal and professional relationship between Hitchcock and his wife

I, ANNA (15) 2012 UK SOUTHCOMBE, BARNABY £15.99

    This London-set noir thriller starring Charlotte Rampling and Gabriel Byrne.

IN THE FLESH: SERIES 1 AND 2 (18) 2014   £19.99

The first two series of the award-winning BBC drama created by Dominic Mitchell. The show is set in the aftermath of an event known as 'The Rising', when a number of people who died in the year 2009 were reanimated and became zombies. 

INDIAN SUMMERS (15) 2015   £23.99

    All ten episodes of the Channel 4 series set in the  small British colony of Simla at the foot of the Himalayas in  1932.

IMITATION GAME (12) 2014   TYLDUM, MORTEN   

   DVD - £19.99  BLU RAY - £24.99

   Award-winning drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch as codebreaker and Alan Turing.

JADOO (12) 2013        GUPTA, AMIT         £12.99

    A daughter tries to reunite her warring family in this food-centred comedy set in Leicester's 'Little India'. After falling out in spectacular fashion, brothers Raja (Harish Patel) and Jagi (Kulvinder Ghir), who both happen to be chefs, decide to divide up the family recipe book and open rival restaurants across the street from one another.

JUST JIM (15) 2015   ROBERTS, CRAIG £17.99

  Black comedy about a Welsh teenage outcast who falls under the spell of mysterious American Dean (Emile Hirsch).

KAJAKI (15) 2014     KATIS, PAUL £15.99

   Modern British war film set during the Afghanistan conflict.

THE KNIFE THAT KILLED ME (15) 2014 UK MONKMAN,K/ROMER, M £11.99

    Adapted from Anthony McGowan’s young-adult novel about 16-year-old Paul (Jack McMullen) who starts at an  inner-city Leeds school and comes to the attention of the school bully.

LAST TANGO IN HALIFAX: SERIES 2 (12) 2013                £19.99

    The second series of the BBC drama starring Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid as an aging man and woman who rediscover the feelings they once had for each other.

LE WEEK-END (15) 2013  MICHELL, ROGER   DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99

    Nick (Jim Broadbent) and Meg (Lindsay Duncan), a married couple approaching 60, return to Paris to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary with hopes of reigniting the spark in their relationship in this Unconventional romantic comedy.

THE LOOK OF LOVE (18) 2013 UK    WINTERBOTTOM, MICHAEL £17.99

  Comedy drama based on the life of the Soho property tycoon and adult magazine publisher Paul Raymond

LOVE IS THE DEVIL (18) 1998  MAYBURY, JOHN  £19.99

  Derek Jacobi stars as Francis Bacon in this biographical drama about his complex 

relationship with his lover George Dyer

LOVE TOMORROW (PG) 2012    PAYNE, CHRISTOPHER    £17.99

    British drama exploring the close relationship that develops between two dancers over an intense, 24-hour period. 

MISSING  (15) 2014 SHANKLAND, TOM   DVD -   £24.99 BLU RAY - £24.99

     All eight episodes of the BBC miniseries about a father researching for his missing five-year-old son in France.

MY BROTHER THE DEVIL (15) 2012    EL HOSAINI , SALLY   £15.99

    Rashid is in a street  gangland in  Hackney and is saving  the money he gains by selling drugs as a way of hopefully putting younger brother Mo through college.

However, Mo admires his older brother and wants to follow in his footsteps.

MR. TURNER (12) 2014    LEIGH,  MIKE 

  DVD - £19.99  BLU RAY - £24.99

   Timothy Spall plays  J.M.W. Turner in thisa biopic of the acclaimed painter.

MY OLD LADY (12) 2014 HOROVITZ, ISRAEL £15.99

   Mathias Gold thinks his luck has changed when he inherits an apartment in Paris. He wants to sell the apartment to a developer but he finds Mathilde Girard (Maggie Smith), an old woman, living in the apartment who is entitled to live there.

NEW BRITISH CINEMA QUARTERLY ANNUAL: ISSUE 3 (15) 2012    £23.99

    A collection of British feature films and documentaries. 

PAPADOPOULOS AND SONS (15) 2013 UK   MARKOU, MARCUS £15.99

  British comedy in which a high-flying businessman is brought down to earth by the financial crisis and forced to re-open a fish and chip shop with his estranged brother.

OUR WORLD WAR (15) 2014 £19.99

      Tense drama revealing the experiences of British soldiers in World War One.

PADDINGTON (PG) 2014   KING,PAUL    

  DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99

      Nicole Kidman and Hugh Bonneville star in this family comedy based on the popular children's books written by Michael Bond. 

THE PATROL (15) 2013    PETCH, TOM   £19.99

    British war drama set in Afghanistan

PHILOMENA (12) 2013     FREARS STEPHEN    DVD - £19.99   BLU RAY - £24.99

    Steve Coogan and Judi Dench star in this Academy Award-nominated drama about a mother's search for the child she was forced to give up by the Catholic Church in Ireland years before.

POLDARK (12) 2015       £24.99

   New adaption of the  historical novels by Winston Graham which are set in Cornwall. Staring Aidan Turner stars as Captain Ross Poldark

PRIDE (15) 2014   UK  WARCHUS, MATTHEW    £19.99

   Film  inspired by events that took place during the 1984 miners' strike. When  a Gay Pride rally in London  raises funds in support of the striking miners,  most mining communities refuse to take money from gay and lesbian groups. However, one Welsh village, Dulais, seem grateful for the support.

REMEMBER ME (15) 2014   £14.99

    Eerie BBC mystery thriller starring Michael Palin.

SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) 2014  MADDEN, JOHN

  DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £22.99

  British comedy drama starring Maggie Smith, Judi Dench  and Dev Patel. 

SECOND COMING (15) 2014   GREEN, DEBBIE TUCKER £15.99

   Mark and Jax (Elba and Marshall) struggle to make ends meet in their sexless marriage.  When finds out she is pregnant she claims its an immaculate conception.

THE SELFISH GIANT (15) 2013        BERNARD, CLIO        £15.99

    Teenage friends have both been excluded from school and now resort to collecting scrap metal as a means of making money. Growing greed between the two friends creates tension and ultimately spells the end of their friendship.

SHADOW DANCER (15) 2012 UK MARSH, JAMES £15.99

    Thriller starring Clive Owen and Angela Riseborough, adapted by Tom Bradby from his own novel. Belfast native Colette McVeigh (Riseborough) comes from a family of well-known IRA sympathisers. After being arrested on  suspicion of carrying a bomb on the London Underground, she is questioned by MI5 operative Mac (Owen), and told that if she does not co-operate with the authorities her young son will be taken from her.

As Colette reluctantly takes on the role of informant for the British secret services, Mac tries to use her as a means of breaking the cycle of violence in 1990s Belfast.

SHELL (15) 2012 UK    GRAHAM , SCOTT     £15.99

    Scott Graham's directorial debut examines the intense relationship between a father and daughter living a secluded life in the Highlands of Scotland.

SHERLOCK: SERIES 3 (12) 2013        £19.99

    All three episodes from the third series of the BBC's fast-paced modernised crime drama based on the characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle. 

BRITISH DVD - 1960 - 1969

A KIND OF LOVING  (15) UK  1962  Schlesinger,  John   £9.99    

     Set in an industrial Lancashire town, the film tells the story of a young working class couple who are 

trapped into marriage  by pregnancy.

A TASTE OF HONEY (15) UK 1961 RICHARDSON, TONY  £15.99

 Based on the play by Shelagh Delaney.about  a pregnant Salford teenager, her mother, and her friendship with a gay man.

A TECHNICOLOUR DREAM (E) UK 1967 £9.99

 Documentary about the underground movement in the UK during the sixties.

ALFIE (15)  UK  1960  GIBLERT, LEWIS    £9.99  

    Michael Caine stars in this 1960s  drama.

ALL THE RIGHT NOISES (12)   1969 UK   O'HARA GERRY £19.99

 Tom Bell stars as a discontented young husband who begins an affair with a 15-year-old girl in this d

rama written and directed by Gerry O'Hara, based on his own novel..

ANIMAL FARM (U)  UK 1962  JOHN HALAS   £15.99

     Animated feature film of the George Orwell book.

BILLY LIAR (PG) 1963   SCHLESINGER, JOHN  £12.99

      Tom Courtenay in this Hall-Waterhouse comedy.

BRIDES OF DRACULA  (12) UK  1960    FISHER, TERENCE  £22.99    

     Stars Peter Cushing. (DUAL BLU-RAY & DVD EDITION)

CATHY COME HOME (PG) 1966 UK        LOACH, KEN    £15.99

    Carol White stars as the bright young bride Cathy, who is driven to despair by the social and economic forces pitted against her as she struggles to keep her children in a housing system that is constantly working against her.

CONE OF SILENCE (U)   UK 1960 FREND, CHARLES   £9.99

     Veteran pilot George Gort faces a Court of Inquiry as the result of the crash of a Phoenix jet airliner.

DARLING (15) UK  1965  Schlesinger,  John   £15.99    

     Model determined to make it to the top uses her sexuality to manipulates powerful men, but in so doing becomes a prisoner of the jet-setting lifestyle.

DAVID LEAN COLLECTION (12) UK  £49.99

     Contains Brief Encounter, The Sound Barrier, Hobson’s Choice, Blithe Spirit, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, 

Madeleine, The Passionate Friends and This Happy Breed.

DEVIL RIDES OUT  (15) UK  1968   FISHER, TERENCE   £12.99    

     Horror movie based on the Dennis Wheatley novel.

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (15) UK  1965   LEAN, DAVID    £19.99    

     Acclaimed  adaptation of the book.

DRACULA PRINCE OF DARKNESS  (15) UK  1966    FISHER, TERENCE  £22.99    

     Stars Christopher Lee as Dracula. (DUAL BLU-RAY & DVD EDITION)

ENTERTAINING MR SLOANE (15) 1969 UK HICKOX, DOUGLAS  £17.99

 Adaptation of the risqué play by Joe Orton. Kath (Beryl Reid) and Ed (Harry Andrews) are a lonely middle-aged brother and sister who live together. When Kath meets Mr Sloane (Peter McEnery) and falls for his charms, she invites him to become a lodger, where Kath and Ed rival for Sloane's affections.

FACE TO FACE (E) 1962 UK £58.99

 All 35 episodes of the landmark BBC interview series broadcast between 1959-1962, in which John Freeman, former politician and editor of The New Statesman, asked probing questions to personalities of the day including Dr Martin Luther King, Adam Faith, King Hussein of Jordan, Carl Jung, Evelyn Waugh, Albert Finney and Tony Hancock

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (U) 1967  SCHLESINGER, JOHN    £9.99 

     Julie Christie and  Peter Finch star in John Schlesinger’s film.

FOUR IN THE MORNING (12) 1965  SIMMONS, ANTHONY    £9.99 

      River police find the body of a young girl left by the ebb tide. Her body is brought ashore and her possessions examined. Who is she? And what drove her to take her own life?

GERRY ANDERSON - THE MONOCHROME YEARS (U) UK   17  DISCS          £99.99

     Containing four of Gerry Anderson’s earliest TV productions :- Torchy the Battery Boy Series ,Four Feather Falls - complete series, Supercar - complete series, Fireball XL5 - complete series.

GEORGY  GIRL  (15)  UK 1966 NARIZZANO, SILVIO  £5.99  

     Comedy featuring a shy, prudent girl who is exposed to a wild time by her sultry room-mate in swinging London.

HARD DAYS NIGHT (U)  UK 1964   LESTER, RICHARD   £19.99 

     Beatles movie.

HER PRIVATE HELL (15) 1967  WARREN, NORMAN J     £19.99

    The cautionary tale of an innocent girl abroad who gets caught up in the sleazy  world of modelling, her private Hell was the début feature of British exploitation director Norman J Warren and the UK’s first narrative sex film. 

HEROSTRATUS    (15) 1967 UK LEVY, DON DVD - £19.99  BLU RAY - £24.99

 A young poet wishing to take his own life soon finds events have overtaken him in this experimental 1960s drama

IF (15)  UK  1968 ANDERSON, LINDSAY  £15.99  

      Set in a boy's private school  where discontent and tension finally gives way to open rebellion.

ITALIAN JOB  (PG)  UK 1969 COLLINSON, PETER £9.99  

     Crime caper.

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA  (PG) UK    1962   LEAN, DAVID £24.99

      Classic movie based on real events, of Lawrence’s struggle to unite the hostile Arab factions to lead them 

to victory over their Turkish oppressors during the first world war.

LIVE IT UP (U)  UK 1963   COMFORT, LANCE    £12.99

 British pop musical in which David Hemmings plays a postman with dreams of the musical big time.

LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER (12) UK 1962 RICHARDSON,  TONY £19.99

 Alan Sillitoe's autobiographical novel about a rebellious 18-year-old living in dreary Lancashire.   BLU RAY £22.99

LONG AND THE SHORT AND THE TALL   (PG) UK 1960 LESLIE, NORMAN  £12.99

     Based on the  play by Willis Hall about a British patrol in Burma who are determined to kill an 

innocent Japanese prisoner in a revenge for atrocities against British prisoners.

LOOK BACK IN ANGER (PG) 1969 UK RICHARDSON, TONY  £15.99

 Richard Burton plays angry young man Jimmy Porter in Tony Richardson's screen-adaptation of 

John Osborne's ground breaking stage play.

LORD OF THE FLIES (PG) UK 1963 B/W  BROOK, PETER   £19.99   

     Classic film version of the book.

LUCKY JIM  (U)  UK  1967  BOULTING, ROY £9.99        

     Adaptation of Kingsley Amis’ classic debut novel

PEEPING TOM (15) 1960  POWELL, MICHAEL   £17.99

     Enter the insane mind of a psycho-killer obsessed with recording on film the most intense fear as it r

egisters on the faces of desirable women.

PETULIA (15) 1968 LESTER, RICHARD £14.99

    A kooky English girl in swinging '60s San Francisco has an affair with a divorced doctor. Julie Christie, 

George C. Scott and Richard Chamberlain star

POOR COW (PG) 1967  LOACH, KEN    £9.99

     Kitchen sink drama.

THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE (12) 1969 UK    NEAME,  RONALD     £16.99

    Maggie Smith stars as the titular Edinburgh schoolmistress, a role for which she received a Best Actress Oscar.

RICHARD LESTER COLLECTION (15) UK 1965-1967     £24.99

     Features - Knack and How to Get It, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 

and How I Won the War.

SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING (PG) UK 1960 REISZ, KAREL £19.99

 Based on the autobiographical novel by Alan Sillitoe,  Albert Finney stars as Arthur, a hard working factory worker

 with a fiercely individualist streak and general contempt for the establishment.  BLU RAY £22.99

SERVANT (15) UK  1963 LOSEY, JOSEPH £15.99 

     Harold Pinter’s study of brooding hatred and hypocrisy in within the class struggle. 

SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS (U)  UK 1960  HAMER, ROBERT  £12.99 

     Ealing comedy.

SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON  (PG) UK 1964      FORBES, BRYAN £12.99

      Tense, supernaturally thriller staring Richard Attenborough and Kim Stanley.

SEPARATION (18)   UK    1968 BOND, JACK  £19.99

      Restored and remastered version of the 1968 film, written by and starring Jane Arden, detailing the 

breakdown of a middle-aged woman after the collapse of her marriage.

SIMON SIMON (U) UK 1966 STARK, GRAHAM £9.99

    British 'silent' comedy featuring cameo appearances from such luminaries as Peter Sellers, 

Michael Caine, Morecambe and Wise and Bob Monkhouse.

SPARROWS CAN'T SING (PG) 1963  LITTLEWOOD, JOAN  £17.99

  Cockney comedy about a man returning home from sea after two years to find his wife has  moved in with bus 

driver and has a new baby.

THIS SPORTING LIFE (12) UK  1963  ANDERSON, LINDSAY £14.99

  Gritty, unblinking look at life in the coal mining region of Northern England as seen through the eyes of 

Frank Machin. Adapted from David Storey's novel.

TWELFTH NIGHT (U) UK  1969  DEXTER, JOHN/SICHEL, JOHN  £12.99

 Includes an all-star cast, with Alec Guinness in the role of Malvolio and Joan Plowright playing Viola.

TWO FOR THE ROAD (PG) 1967 UK DONEN, STANLEY   £17.99

    Popular 1960s romantic comedy.

VICTIM  (18) UK 1961  DEARDEN, BASIL   £12.99

     Dirk Bogarde plays a closeted gay lawyer, at a time when homosexual acts were a crime.

WITCHFINDER GENERAL (18) UK 1968  REEVES, MICHAEL £5.99

     Vincent Price stars in this British horror films.

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (12) 1966  NICHOLS, MIKE £9.99

 Adaptation of Edward Albee's controversial stage play, starring husband-and-wife Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.

BRITISH DVD - 1920 - 1959

1984 (15) UK 1954 ANDERSON, MICHAEL         £12.99

     Early TV version of the Orwell story.

ALEC GUINESS (PG) £24.99  

     Six films starring Alec Guinness. ‘Our Man in Havana’ (1959)  ‘HMS The Defiant’ (1962) 

    ‘Cromwell’ (1970) River Kwai’ (1957) ‘Murder By Death’ (1976)‘The Prisoner’ (1955)

ALFRED HITCHCOCK-THE BRITISH YEARS (PG)   £59.99

     This unique box set contains 10 of his pre-war British films.

AN INSPECTOR CALLS (PG) 1954 UK HAMILTON, GUY £15.99

 Alastair Sim stars in the film  adaptation of the J.B. Priestley  play.

ANGEL WITH THE TRUMPET (PG) 1950 UK BUSHELL, ANTHONY   £9.99

   Eileen Herlie as Henrietta Stein, a young Jewish woman who marries into a wealthy 

Austrian family much to chagrin of her new husband's parents.

ARSENAL STADIUM MYSTERY (PG) UK  1938 DICKINSON, THOROLD      £19.99

     Football murder mystery.

BEDELIA (U) 1946   COMFORT, LANCE  £12.99

 British thriller based on the novel by Vera Caspary.   Margaret Lockwood plays Bedelia, a woman on honeymoon in Monte Carlo, who is approached by a when a mysterious young artist inquiring about her past.

BEST OF BRITISH B MOVIES - THE CORSAIR COLLECTION: VOLUME 1(PG) 1954   £14.99

    Features -  'The Harassed Hero' (1954) and  'The Night Won't Talk' (1952).

BEST OF BRITISH B MOVIES - THE CORSAIR COLLECTION: VOLUME 2 (PG) 1954   £14.99

    Features - 'Meet Mr Malcolm' (1954), and 'I'm a Stranger' (1952).

BLACK NARCISSUS(PG) UK 1947 Powell, E/Pressburger, M                 £19.99

     A group of Anglican nuns in the Himalayas are deeply affected by their physical environment which begins to create disturbances.

BORDERLINE (2 DISCS) (12) 1930 UK MACPHERSON, KENNETH £24.99

 Silent masterpiece depicting love and betrayal

BRIDGE OF THE RIVER KWAI  (PG) UK    1957   LEAN, DAVID £24.99

      Classic war movie staring Alex Guinness.

BRIEF ENCOUNTER (PG) 1945   LEAN, DAVID   £15.99

     Classic love story.

BRIGHTON ROCK (PG) UK  1947   BOULTING, JOHN   £15.99

     Classic Graham Greene thriller.

CASE OF THE FRIGHTENED LADY  (U)  UK 1940 KING, GEORGE  £9.99

     Who is the homicidal maniac, and what sinister motives lurk beneath the servants’ strange behaviour? 

As the police are called in to investigate, the shadows of terror and death lurk in every corner. 

CHAIN OF EVENTS (PG) 1958   THOMAS, GERALD   £9.99

   Crime thriller staring Dermot Walsh  as a bank clerk who unwittingly sets in motion a devastating 

turn of events by refusing to pay a bus fare.

CLOUDED YELLOW (PG)  UK  1951   THOMAS, RALPH   £15.99

 Action-packed thriller ranks alongside Hitchcock's great British thrillers.

CLUNY BROWN (PG) 1946  UK    LUBITSCH,   ERNST     £19.99

     Satire which gently pokes fun at the snobbery that existed in 1930s English society.

COTTAGE ON DARTMOOR (PG)     UK  1929    ASQUITH, ANTHONY £19.99

 One of the very last silent films to be made in Britain before the talkies revolutionised cinema, A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929) is a virtuoso piece of filmmaking, a final passionate cry in defence of an art form soon to be obsolete.

CRUEL SEA (U) UK  1953  FREND,  CHARLES  £12.99

     War story based on the novel by Nicholas Monserrat.

DAM BUSTERS (U) UK 1954  ANDERSO, MICHAEL   £12.99

     A true-life drama, heightened with newsreel footage of the actual raid. 

THE DAY WILL DAWN (U) 1942  FRENCH, HAROLD £12.99

   1939 and a new foreign correspondent is  determined to uncover what is going on in Norway and to stop the Nazis in their tracks.

EALING RARITIES COLLECTION: VOLUME ONE (U)         £14.99

    Range of scarce films from both Basil Dean’s and Michael Balcon’s tenure as studio head. Features -  Escape! (1930), West of Zanzibar (1954), Penny Paradise (1938),  and Cheer Up!(1936)

EALING RARITIES COLLECTION: VOLUME TWO (U)         £14.99

    Features – Midshipman Easy (1935),Brief Ecstasy (1938), The Big Blockade (1942) and  The Four Just Men (1939)

EALING RARITIES COLLECTION: VOLUME THREE (U)         £14.99

    Range of scarce films from both Basil Dean’s and Michael Balcon’s tenure as studio head.  This set features – Cage of Gold (1950), Death Drives Through (1935), The Impassive Footman (1932) and Frieda (1947).

EALING RARITIES COLLECTION: VOLUME FOUR (U) £14.99

    Fourth collection of classic features from the iconic British film studio. Features -  ‘Secret of the Loch’ (1934) ,  

‘Birds of Prey’ (1930) , ‘Davy’ (1957) &  ‘The Loves of Joanna Godden’ (1947).

EALING RARITIES COLLECTION: VOLUME FIVE (U) £14.99

    Features -  'The House of the Spaniard' (1936), 'The Shiralee' (1957),  'The Beloved Vagabond' (1936) & 'The Ware Case' (1938).

EALING RARITIES COLLECTION: VOLUME SIX (U) £14.99

    Features -  'Honeymoon for Three' (1935), 'I Believe in You' (1952), 'The Fortunate Fool' (1933) &  'The Girl in the Taxi' (1937)

EALING RARITIES COLLECTION: VOLUME SEVEN (U) £14.99

    Features -  'Eureka Stockade' (1949),  'Take a Chance' (1937),  'The Gaunt Stranger' (1938) & 'Play Up the Band' (1935).

EALING RARITIES COLLECTION: VOLUME EIGHT (U) £14.99

    Features - 'The Feminine Touch' (1956), 'Young Man's Fancy' (1939),  'There Ain't No Justice' (1939) & . 'The Silent Passenger' (1935).

EALING RARITIES COLLECTION: VOLUME NINE (U) £14.99

    Features -  'Meet Mr Lucifer' (1953), 'Cheer Boys Cheer' (1939), 'Whom the Gods Love' (1936) &  'Honeymoon Adventure' (1931), d

EALING RARITIES COLLECTION: VOLUME TEN (U) £14.99

    Features 'Let's Be Famous' (1939), 'The Divided Heart' (1954),  'His Excellency' (1952) & Saloon Bar' (1940)

EALING RARITIES COLLECTION: VOLUME ELEVEN  (U) £14.99

    Features from the iconic British film studio. Features - 'Calling the Tune' (1936),  'Lease of Life' (1954), 'Lorna Doone' (1934) &  'Return to Yesterday' (1940).

EALING RARITIES COLLECTION: VOLUME TWELVE  (U) £14.99

    Features -  'Three Men in a Boat' (1933), 'The Bailiffs' (1932), 'Loyalties' (1933) & 'Laburnum Grove' (1936).

EARLY HITCHCOCK BOX SET (PG) 1927-31 HITCHCOCK, ALFRED       £34.99

     Contains - Blackmail, Champagne , Murder!, The Ring, The Farmer’s Wife, Rich & Strange,

The Skin Game, The Manxman and Number Seventeen.

EASY VIRTUE  (U) UK 1928       HITCHCOCK, ALFRED SILENT    £6.99

     Early silent Hitchcock.

THE ELSTREE STORY (12) 1952        £9.99

    Actor Richard Todd presents this documentary on the iconic Elstree Studios, where many classic English 

films were made between 1927 and the programme's recording in the 1950s.

END OF THE AFFAIR (PG) UK 1955 DMYTRYK, EDWARD        £12.99

     Adaptation of Graham Greene book.

FALLEN IDOL (PG) UK   1948 REED, CAROL    £12.99

     Classic British film based on a short story by Graham Greene. 

FASCINATION (U) 1931 UK MANDER,  MILES   £9.99

   The film follows a wife who discovers that her husband has been unfaithful to her with another woman. However, instead of scolding her husband about his infidelity she approaches his mistress and suggests that they share him.

THE FLEMISH FARM (PG) 1943  DELL, JEFFREY   £12.99

    Wartime drama with a musical score by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.

FOUR FEATHERS (U) UK 1939  KORDA,  ZOLTAN  £9.99

     Adventure story based on A E W Mason’s novel.

FREEDOM RADIO (PG) 1941 ASQUITH, ANTHONY   £12.99

  Wartime propaganda drama.

THE FRANCHISE AFFAIR (PG) 1951 UK  HUNTINGTON, LAWRENCE   £9.99

   Classic British mystery drama adapted from Josephine Tey's 1948 novel of the same name and starring 

Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray.

FREEDOM RADIO (PG) 1941 ASQUITH, ANTHONY   £12.99

  Wartime propaganda drama.

GASLIGHT (PG) 1940 UK  DICKINSON, THOROLD   £17.99

   Anton Walbrook and Diana Wynyard star in this classic British thriller based on Patrick Hamilton's play. 

GPO FILM UNIT COLLECTION: VOLUME 3 - IF WAR SHOULD COME (E)   £25.99

 A selection of restored vintage shorts made for theatrical release, originally produced by the GPO Film Unit shortly before the outbreak of World War II in September 1939.

GENEVIEVE (U) UK  1953  CORNELIUS, HENRY £15.99

     Gentle comedy.  

GREAT EXPECTATIONS (PG) UK 1946 LEAN, DAVID   £19.99 

     Classic adaptation of the play. 

HEADLINE (PG) 1943  HARLOW, JOHN  £9.99

   David Farrar stars as an intrepid reporter in this 1940s British crime drama.

MISS TULIP STAYS THE NIGHT/THE GREAT GAME (U) 1953/5    £15.99

    Double bill of comedy dramas starring British blonde bombshell Diana Dors.

HOME AND AWAY  (U)  UK 1956  SEWELL, VERON  £.9.99

     British comedy about the affect of a pools win on a family. 

IM ALL RIGHT, JACK (U) UK 1959  BOULTING,  JOHN        £12.99

     Boulting Brothers  satire with Peter Sellers.

THE INFORMER (PG) UK 1929   ROBINSON, ARTHUR  DUAL DVD + BLU-RAY £19.99

   Gripping silent thriller about love, remorse and betrayal set among a group of revolutionaries in the newly independent Ireland of 1922.  The film is based on Liam O’Flaherty’s novel.

JESSIE MATTHEWS REVUE: THE GOOD COMPANIONS/SAILING ALONG (PG) 1938 £12.99

     Double bill of films starring Jessie Matthews. In 'The Good Companions' (1933), a group of musicians come

 together in the hopes of saving their careers. In 'Sailing Along' (1938), barge worker Kay (Matthews) and aspiring

 businessman Steve (Barry MacKay) realise their dreams and their love for one another.

KEEP IT CLEAN (U) UK  1956 PALTENGHI, DAVID  £9.99

     Comedy about an  advertising agency’s wheeler/dealer who is attempting to sell a new invention.

LADYKILLERS (U) UK 1955 MACKENDRICK. ALEXANDER        £12.99

     Ealing comedy about a  gang planning a ‘job’ find themselves living with a little old lady, who thinks they are musicians.

LAND OF PROMISE: THE BRITISH DOCUMENTARY MOVEMENT 1930-1950 (E)   £34.99

      4 discs box set which includes  classic and lesser-known documentaries released between 1930 and 1950.

LAVENDER HILL MOB  (U) UK 1951 CRICHTON, CHARLES        £12.99

     Ealing comedy in which  Alec Guinness stars as a timid bank clerk who has the perfect scheme for stealing gold bullion from the bank of England.

LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (U) 1945 POWELL/PRESSBURGER  £15.99

     Classic war film. 

MADELEINE (U) 1949 UK  LEAN, DAVID £12.99

 Based on the true story of a Glasgow woman accused of murdering her lover in 1857.

THE MAGNET (U) 1950  FREND, CHARLES   £17.99

  Gentle Ealing comedy about childhood, guilt and half-truths starring a young James Fox.

MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT  (U) UK 1951 MACKENDRICK. ALEXANDER        £12.99

     Sidney Stratton works quietly at a textile mill until his mysterious, costly lab experiment is discovered.

MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES (U) UK 1937  MENDES, LOTHAR        £9.99

     Based on a story by HG Wells.   

MANDY (PG)  UK 1952 MACKENDRICK, ALEXANDER   £12.99

     Mandy was born deaf and has been mute for all of her life. Her parents believe she is able to speak if she can 

only be taught, and so enrol her with a special teacher. 

MILLIONS LIKE US (U) 1943  GILLIAT,S/LAUNDER, F   £12.99

   Wartime drama about a shy working-class girl sent to a local factory manufacturing aircraft parts. Here she makes friends with other girls from very different social backgrounds.

MINISTRY OF FEAR (PG) UK 1944    LANG, FRITZ   £12.99

     A man is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't   seem so sane on the outside either.

MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL (PG) 1952 DUAL FORMAT EDITION  HOELLERING, GEORGE  £19.99

  This adaptation of T S Eliot's classic verse drama recounting the love-hate relationship between 12th century British monarch Henry ll and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket. The film features Eliot's voice as well as music by the internationally renowned composer Làszló Lajtha.

NEXT OF KIN (12) Uk  1941 diCKINSON, THOROLD £14.99

     Wartime film graphically illustrating the disastrous effect of careless talk.

NOT WANTED ON VOYAGE (U) UK 1957 ROGERS, MACLEAN £9.99

     Classic comedy adventure with Brian Rix and Ronald Shiner playing two cabin stewards bound for Tangiers .

NOW AND FOREVER (U) 1956 ZAMPI, MARIO  £9.99

  Janette Scott and Vernon Gray star in this classic  romantic drama .

ODD MAN OUT (PG) UK 1945   REED, CAROL   £14.99

     Tense, atmospheric thriller in which James Mason plays a hitman.

OFF THE DOLE (U) UK 1935  MERTZ, ARTHUR   £12.99

     George plays John Willie, a young, work shy smart alec who has spent four glorious years on the dole because he can’t get a job in his own trade.

ONE THAT GOT AWAY (U) Uk  1957  Baker, Roy Ward    £9.99

     Film about the only German prisoner of war to escape from the UK in the 2nd World  War.

ORDERS TO KILL (12) 1958 UK   ASQUITH, ANTHONY  £15.99

 A WWII spy is faced with a moral dilemma in this psychological thriller from British director Anthony Asquith.

OUT OF THE CLOUDS (U) 1955   DEARDEN, BASIL   £17.99

   Based on the book by John Fores and set in a  fog-bound day at Heathrow airport. 

PASSPORT TO PIMLICO (U) 1949 B/W  CORNELIUS, HENRY £15.99 

   Ealing Comedy.

PENNY POINTS TO PARADISE/LET'S GO CRAZY (U) 1951 UK YOUNG, ANTONY £19.99

 Double bill of Peter Sellers comedies.  BLU - RAY £22.99

PICCADILLY (PG)   UK  1929   DUPONT, E.A.  £19.99 - SALE PRICE £10.99

 One of the pinnacles of British silent cinema, 'Piccadilly' is a showbiz melodrama seething with sexual and racial tension.

PLEASURE GARDEN (U) 1957 UK BROUGHTON,  JAMES £15.99

 Filmed among the ruins of The Crystal Palace Terraces, the film  is a playful and poetic ode to desire made by the American poet James Broughton.

POWELL AND PRESSBURGER  (15) UK 1941-66                £59.99

     Features The Tales of Hoffman , Black Narcissus , A Matter of Life & Death , The Life & Death of Colonel

Blimp, A Canterbury Tale, I Know Where I am Going, 49th Parallel, The Battle of the River Plate, Ill Met By

Moonlight, They’re A Weird Mob and The Red Shoes.

THE PROUD VALLEY (PG) 1940 UK  TENNYSON, PEN   £17.99

  Ealing Studios drama set in a coal mining valley.  Paul Robeson plays a African-American seaman who finds work down the mines as  in a small Welsh village.  However the pit is closed  and  the miners march to London in the hope of reopening the mine in time to serve the nation's wartime needs.

PUBLIC INFORMATION FILMS OF THE BRITISH HOME FRONT 1939-1945 (E) £24.99

 Ministry of Information films designed to  encouraging a greater effort from those on the Home Front.

REACH FOR THE SKY(U) UK 1956 GIBLERT, LEWIS £9.99

     Wartime story about Douglas Bader.

RED SHOES (U) 1948 B/W  POWELL/PRESSBURGER £15.99

     One of the all time classic British films. 

REMBRANDT (U) 1936  KORDA, ALEXANDER   £9.99

   Charles Laughton portrays the famous Dutch painter Rembrandt, who is at the peak of his career.

RICHARD MASSINGHAM COLLECTION (E)   £19.99

 Britain during the 1940s Richard Massingham starring as a well-meaning but bumbling everyman in a series 

of imaginative shorts.

ROME EXPRESS (U) 1932 UK   FORDE, WALTER £9.99

   A highly influential British thriller set aboard a speeding train with a host of mysterious passengers

SANDERS OF THE RIVER (U) 1935  KORDA, ZOLTAN £9.99

  British drama set in British Colonial Nigeria.

SAVAGE INNOCENTS   UK 1959     NICHOLAS, RAY    £5.99

     Clash between the primitive Polar world and modern civilisation  as a Eskimo  accidentally

kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.

SCROOGE (1951) [SPECIAL EDITION] (U) UK 1951   HURST, BRIAN  £19.99

 Classic Dickens Christmas tale .

SECRET MISSION (U) 1942   FRENCH, HAROLD £12.99

   World War Two drama starring James Mason.

SILVER DARLINGS  (PG) UK 1947   EVANS C./ ELDER C      £9.99

     Docudrama set on the  Hebrides.

SMALL TOWN STORY (U) 1953   TULLY, MONTGOMERY £9.99

    Football drama about  Canadian ex-military man, who returns to the English town to play for his friend's local football team.

SMASH AND GRAB (U) 1937 UK   WHELAN, TIM    £9.99

   Jack Buchanan and Elsie Randolph star in this classic British comedy drama.

THE TALES OF HOFFMAN (U) 1951 POWELL,M/PRESSBURGER,E £17.99

    An adaptation of Jacques Offenbach's opera.

THEY CAME TO A CITY (U) 1944   DEARDEN, BASIL 2 DISC DUAL FORMAT SET BLU-RAY/DVD £19.99

 Based on J.B. Priestley’s play, as group of people find themselves in a utopian paradise or their own idea of Hell depending on their backgrounds and their experiences throughout their lives.

THEY WERE NOT DIVIDED (PG) 1950  YOUNG, TERENCE £12.99

    World War Two action drama about a daring reconnaissance mission set during the advance on Berlin.

THIRD MAN (PG) 1949 UK  REED, CAROL      £17.99  

     Classic Carol Reed thriller based an a Graham Greene story.

THIRTIES IN COLOUR (E)  £15.99

 BBC documentary series that uses the nascent colour films of the period to provide a snapshot of life in the 1930s.

THIRTY NINE STEPS (U) 1935 B/W UK  HITCHCOCK, ALFRED      £15.99 

    Alfred Hitchcock’s   film version of John  Buchan’s story.

TITFIELD THUNDERBOLT (U) UK 1952 CRICHTON, CHARLES  £12.99

     Villagers save threatened railway line.

TOMORROW WE LIVE (U)  UK 1943 KING, GEORGE £9.99

     War drama starring John Clements and Greta Gynt.

THE TOWER OF TERROR (PG)  1941   HUNTINGTON, L.   £9.99

   Wartime thriller starring  Michael Rennie.

TRENT'S LAST CASE (U)  UK 1952 WILCOX, HERBERT £12.99

     Philip Trent sets out to investigate the mysterious death of an American tycoon.

UNDERGROUND (PG) 1928 UK    ASQUITH, ANTHONY      £19.99

    Introduced as a ‘story of ordinary workaday people’. Anthony Asquith’s Underground masterfully balances the 

light and dark sides of the city life to evoke the daily existence of the average Londoner better than any other film from Britain’s silent canon. Dual format two dvd set Dvd/Blu-ray

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