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NEW RELEASES 2019
NEW RELEASES 2019
1985 (15) 2018 TAN, YEN £14.99
Having lived openly in the New York gay scene, Adrian faces anxiety over returning to his hometown and his religious family.
BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE (15) 2018 GODDARD, DREW DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £26.99
A group of strangers meet at a hotel situated on the border of California and Nevada. Each one has a secret.
BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (15) 2018 SINGER, BRYAN DVD - £13.99 BLU RAY - £21.99
Blockbuster biopic of the Queen frontman Freddie Mercury
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.
BREXIT - THE UNCIVIL WAR (15) 2018 £19.99
Benedict Cumberbatch plays Dominic Cummings, who masterminded the Vote Leave campaign.
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.
COLETTE (15) 2018 WESTMORELAND, WASH £19.99
Keira Knightley stars Colette, whose first novel, 'Claudine', is published under her husband's pen name becomes an instant bestseller. However Colette fights the strict gender norms and constraints of early 20th-century France to finally achieve recognition.
DISOBEDIENCE (15) 2017 LELIO, SEBASTIAN £15.99
Based on the novel by Naomi Alderman. Following the death of her estranged father, Ronit Krushka (Rachel Weisz) returns from New York to the Orthodox Jewish community in London. Here Ronit rekindles an illicit love affair with married Esti. This causes outrage in the community making both women question their faith and future.
EARLY WOMEN FILMMAKERS 1911-1940 (12) BLU RAY ONLY £44.99
Collection of 25 films featuring some of early cinema's pioneering female directors. The films are: 'Falling Leaves' (1912), 'Making an American Citizen' (1912), 'The Girl in the Armchair' (1912), 'Greater Love Hath No Man' (1911), 'Algie, the Miner' (1912), 'Matrimony's Speed Limit' (1913), 'Ocean Waif' (1913), 'Suspense' (1913), 'Discontent' (1916), 'The Blot' (1921), 'Mabel's Strange Predicament' (1914), 'The Woman Condemned' (1934), 'La Cigarette' (1919), 'La Souriante Mme. Beudet' (1922), 'Le Village Du Peche' (1927), 'Le Roi Des Aulnes' (1929), 'Dance, Girl, Dance' (1940) and 'Parabola' (1937).
IAN RANKIN'S REBUS: THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION - SERIES 1-5 (15) £33.99
All the episodes from the drama series based on the novels by Ian Rankin.
LES MISERABLES (12) 2019 (5051561043239) £19.99
Six-part BBC adaptation of Victor Hugo's novel starring Dominic West, David Oyelowo and Lily Collins.
THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST (15) 2018 AKHAVAN, DESIREE £15.99
Set in 1993, this coming-of-age drama based on the novel by Emily M. Danforth, is about orphaned teenager Cameron Post who is seen kissing another girl. Her guardian, sends Cameron to a conversion camp called God's Promise where she and those around her are subjected to therapies designed to quash their homosexual thoughts.
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.
MORTAL ENGINES (12a) 2018 RIVERS, CHRISTIAN £19.99
Based on a novel by Philip Reeve about a post-apocalyptic world where cities are mobile and travel the world.
PINTER AT THE BBC £43.99
Collection of 10 Harold Pinter plays adapted for the BBC from 1965-1988. The adaptations are: 'Tea Party' (1965), 'The Basement' (1967), 'A Slight Ache' (1967), 'A Night Out' (1967), 'Monologue' (1973), 'Old Times' (1975), 'The Hothouse' (1982), 'Landscape' (1983), 'The Birthday Party' (1987) and 'Mountain Language' (1988).
NEW RELEASES 2018
NEW RELEASES 2018
A CARIBBEAN DREAM (PG) 2018 BOURNE, SHAKIRAH £14.99
Adaptation of William Shakespeare's play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' set on the Caribbean island of Barbados.
A GHOST STORY (12) 2017 LOWERY , DAVID DVD - £16.99 BLU RAY - £23.99
After the death of her husband, his widow is left alone in their house as she grieves. Returning home as a ghost draped in a white sheet, the husband desperately tries to reconnect with his wife as she contemplates what to do next, but becomes increasingly frustrated with his inability to interact meaningfully with the physical world. After his wife eventually decides to move on, the husband remains stranded in the moment, silently watching over the house as a new family moves in.
BITCH (15) 2017 PALKA, MARIANNA £19.99
Provocative tale of a woman who snaps under life’s pressures and assumes the psyche of a vicious dog, in this feminist satire.
BLADE RUNNER 2049 (15) 2017 VILLENEUVE, DENIS £12.99
Sequel to the 1982 sci-fi thriller 'Blade Runner.
DARKEST HOUR (PG) 2017 WRIGHT, JOE (5053083145415) £19.99
Gary Oldman plays British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a crucial junction in World War II.
DETROIT (15) 2017 BIGELOW, KATHRYN DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Set during the 1967 Detroit riot, where a heavy handed police raid on an unlicensed bar, frequented by African-American, leads to widespread violence across the city
DUNKIRK (12) 2017 NOLAN, CHRISTOPHER DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £22.99
Well received film about the Dunkirk evacuation during the Second World War.
HOWARDS END (PG) 2017 £19.99
Matthew Macfadyen and Hayley Atwell star in this four-part drama miniseries adapted from E.M. Forster's novel.
I AM NOT A WITCH (12A) 2017 ZAMBIA RUNGANO, NYONI £12.99
This Zambian film contains elements of magical realist drama, deadpan satire and feminist allegory. Nine-year-old Zambian Shula is exiled to a witch camp after one of her fellow villagers claims she is a witch. At the camp local official decides she is his little witch and parades her around local TV stations, lining his pockets with any fees.
LAUREL AND HARDY: THE COLLECTION (U) (5053083176266) £57.99
21 disc collection of films starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
MOTHER! (18) 2017 ARONOFSKY, DARREN ( 5053083136789) DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £23.99
Psychological thriller staring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem as a couple who live in a fire damaged house in the middle of nowhere.One day, a mysterious stranger is welcomed into the house by the husband.
THE POST (12A) 2017 SPIELBERG, STEVEN £13.99
Set in 1971, this political drama, starring Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks, looks at the Washington Post’s fight against the Nixon regime.
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (15) 2017 MCDONAGH, MARTIN £13.99
One woman's fight to find the murderer of her daughter against the wishes of the local police force.
THE SHAPE OF WATER (15) 2017 TORO, GUILLERMO DEL £13.99
Romantic fantasy drama starring Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer.
STALIN - REIGN OF TERROR (15) 2017 GORRIS, MARLEEN £15.99
Russian author Eugenia Ginzburg (Emily Watson) is sentenced to serve 18 years in a forced labour camp after being accused of being a part of a counter-revolutionary Trotskyist group and working against communism.
TO CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH
TO CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH
SOME FILMS TO WATCH ON DVD
SOME FILMS TO WATCH ON DVD
12 YEARS A SLAVE (15) 2013 MCQUEEN,STEVE DVD - £10.99 BLU RAY - £12.99
Award-winning historical drama of Solomon Northup, an African-American living with a wife and two children in Saratoga, New York, who is kidnapped and sold into slavery.
A CARIBBEAN DREAM (PG) 2018 BOURNE, SHAKIRAH £14.99
Adaptation of William Shakespeare's play 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' set on the Caribbean island of Barbados.
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.
AMERICAN VIOLET (12) 2008 DISNEY, TIM £15.99
Based on a true story of innocent African-American single mother Dee Roberts who is arrested on drug charges but with the help of a American Civil Liberties Union lawyer clears her name.
AMISTAD (15) 1997 SPIELBERG, STEVEN £19.99
Based on actual events. In 1839, a group of fifty-three African slaves held on the ship 'Amistad' revolt and kill the crew, demanding to be returned to Africa. The helmsman misleads them, taking them to America, where the Africans are put on trial.
ANTWONE FISHER (15) 2004 WASHINGTON, DENZEL £17.99
Based on the memoirs of Antwone Fisher, a young African American sailor who has to confront his past in order to deal with his anger.
BANDE DE FILLES/GIRLHOOD (15) 2014 FRANCE SCIAMMA, CÉLINE DVD – £17.99 BLU RAY – 22.99
16-year-old Marieme suffers from abuse at home and failure at school. She only discovers a sense of identity when she befriends a gang of three girls.
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (12) 2012 ZEITLIN, BENH £15.99
Academy Award-nominated fantasy drama about a six-year-old girl, Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis), who struggles to survive in a poverty-stricken swamp area not protected by New Orleans levee system. When a colossal storm threatens she and her sick father take to the water in a makeshift boat fashioned from the back of an old pickup truck.
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.
BOROM SARRET/LA NOIRE DE/BLACK GIRL (15) 1966 SENEGAL SEMBENE, OUSMANE IN FRENCH £19.99
La noire de./Black Girl’ (1966) follows young Senegalese nanny with high-hopes who travels to the Antibes with her white employers. Upon arrival in France, her relationship with her employers deteriorates as they subjugate her to the role of an all-purpose housemaid. The short ‘Sarret’ (1969) follows a day in the life of a poor horse cart driver in Dakar.
THE BUTLER (12) 2013 DANIELS, LEE . DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
The film tells the story of the black butler Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker)'s who worked for 34-years as head butler at the White House.
CARMEN JONES (U) 1954 USA PREMINGER, OTTO £19.99
Modern remake of Bizet opera set in an all-black army camp, where civilian parachute maker Carmen Jones is in love with Joe, who's engaged to sweet Cindy Lou and about to go into pilot training for the Korean War.
CHI-RAQ (15) 2016 USA LEE, SPIKE £14.99
Spike Lee directs this satirical musical drama based on the classical Greek comedy 'Lysistrata' by Aristophanes but set among gangs in present day Chicago.
COLOR PURPLE (15) 1985 SPIELBERG, STEVEN £12.99
Adaptation of Alice Walker's Pulitzer prize-winning novel, which spans 40 years in the life of a poor black woman who endures years of abuse from her father and her husband.
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.
DEAR WHITE PEOPLE (12) 2014 SIMIEN, JUSTIN £17.99
Satirical comedy set at the prestigious and predominantly white Winchester University, black student Sam (Tessa Thompson) tries to shake up her school's student body and confront its widespread racial disparity with her campus radio show 'Dear White People'.
THE DEFIANT ONES (U) 1958 KRAMER, STANLEY £15.99
In America's Deep South two convicts, one black (Sidney Poitier), one white (Tony Curtis), escape from a chain gang and go on the run stillhandcuffed together. Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American to be nominated as best actor for his acting in the film.
DETROIT (15) 2017 BIGELOW, KATHRYN DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Set during the 1967 Detroit riot, where a heavy handed police raid on an unlicensed bar, frequented by African-American, leads to widespread violence across the city.
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.
DO THE RIGHT THING (18) 1989 LEE, SPIKE £9.99
Spike Lee's study of racial tensions takes place on the hottest day of the year in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York.
DRIVING MISS DAISY (U) 1989 BERESFORD, BRUCE £12.99
Set in the Deep South of the 1950s and 60s, the film touches on racism and prejudice but mainly focuses on the developing relationship between the wealthy Jewish woman and her black chauffeur, who she initially ignores, then accepts and finally befriends.
FENCES (12) 2016 WASHINGTON, DENZEL £19.99
Drama adapted from August Wilson's play about a working-class African-American former baseball player struggling to come to terms with events which led him to take up a job as a waste collector in 1950s Pittsburgh.
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.
FRUITVALE STATION (15) 2013 COOGLER, RYAN DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Docudrama that reconstructs the final day in the life of Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old black Oakland resident who was shot in the back by a white officer. The incident sparked outrage and debate about police brutality and civil justice.
THE GREAT DEBATERS (12) 2007 WASHINGTON, DENZEL £19.99
Denzel Washington stars as the maverick college professor who inspires a student debate team against the backdrop of racial segregation in the 1930s American South.
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.
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER (PG) USA 1967 KRAMER, STANLEY £12.99
A crusading publisher and his wife struggle to come to terms with their daughters choice of fiancée, a distinguished black doctor. The mother accepts her daughter's decision, but her father is shocked by this interracial union.
THE HELP (12) 2011 USA TAYLOR, TATE DVD DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett and set in racist Jackson, Mississippi,in 1964. Skeeter (Emma Stone) returns from college and decides to write a book after interviewing black women who have spent their lives working as maids to prominent southern families. I AM NOT A WITCH (12A) 2017 ZAMBIA RUNGANO, NYONI £12.99
This Zambian film contains elements of magical realist drama, deadpan satire and feminist allegory. Nine-year-old Zambian Shula is exiled to a witch camp after one of her fellow villagers claims she is a witch. At the camp local official decides she is his little witch and parades her around local TV stations, lining his pockets with any fees.
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (12) 1967 USA JEWISON, NORMAN £9.99
Rod Steiger plays a small-town Mississippi sheriff who is forced to collaborate on a murder investigation with Virgil Tibbs, a black homicide detective from Philadelphia (Sidney Poitier). The pair at first find themselves totally at odds with each other, but as the investigation proceeds each learns to respect the other's talents.
INVICTUS (12) 2009 USA EASTWOOD, CLINT DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £26.99
In an effort to help unite his racially and economically divided country newly-elected Nelson Mandela joins forces with the captain of the South Africa's rugby team to use the universal language of sport to unite the country.
KILLER OF SHEEP (12) USA 1977 BURNETT, CHARLES £15.99
Examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse.
LOVING (15) 2016 NICHOLS, JEFF £19.99
1950s historical drama about an interracial couple who defy state laws to marry in 1950s Virginia.
MALCOLM X (15) 1992 USA LEE, SPIKE £12.99
Film about the life of the controversial black leader Malcolm X.
MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM (12A) 2013 CHADWICK, JUSTIN £19.99
Idris Elba stars as Mandela in this biopic .
MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA (15) 2008 LEE SPIKE £14.99
Based on James McBride novel about the all-black 92nd Division Buffalo Soldiers who served in Europe from 1944 to the end of the War.
MISSISSIPPI BURNING (18) 1988 PARKER, LANA £9.99
A fictionalised version of the events surrounding the Ku Klux Klan's murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964.
MOONLIGHT (15) 2016 JENKINS, BARRY £15.99
Set in a rough Miami neighbourhood, the film chronicles, from early life to young adulthood, the life of poor African-American Chiron. Chiron is a small withdrawn boy who is bullied at school and who falls under the wings of drug dealer Juan. Juan tries to help Chiron not to accept his lot in life.
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (12) 1959 WISE, ROBERT £19.99
Crime drama starring Harry Belafonte, as black gambler Johnny who takes part in a bank raid with racist ex-con Earl (Robert Ryan)
PARIS BLUES (12) 1961 RITT, MARTIN DUAL FORMAT ED. £19.99
Set in Paris two jazz musicians (played Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier), live for music, but their carefree idyll is disturbed when two American tourists enter their lives.
PIONEERS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN CINEMA(E) 5-DISC DVD SET - £49.99 5-DISC BLU-RAY SET - £69.99
Extensive look at the the landmarks of early African-American cinema, with this newly restored collection of features and shorts.
THE PROUD VALLEY (PG) 1940 UK TENNYSON, PEN £17.99
Paul Robeson plays a African-American seaman who finds work down the mines in a small Welsh village. When the mine closes he helps with the fight to reopening it time to serve the nation's wartime needs.
RACE (PG) 2016 HOPKINS, STEPHEN £12.99
Biopic of the African American athlete Jesse Owens (Stephan James) who overcomes a number of challenges and broke down racial barriers before winning gold at the Nazi Olympics in Berlin in 1936.
RED TAILS (12) 2012 HEMINGWAY, ANTHONY £15.99
World War Two action adventure based on the true story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the squadron of African-American fighter pilots who overcame both American racism and the German Luftwaffe to prove their courage and skills in the air.
SAPPHIRE (PG) 1954 DEARDEN, BASIL £12.99
Graphic portrayal of ethnic tensions in 1950s London
SAVANNAH (12) 2013 HAYWOOD-CARTER, ANNETTE £15.99
Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in this historical drama based on the true story of freed slave Christmas Moultrie.
SELMA (12) 2014 DUVERNAY, AVA DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £21.99
Based on the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965 that led to the passing of the Voting Rights Act, the film follows the story of James Bevel (Common), Hosea Williams (Wendell Pierce) and Martin Luther King Jr (Oyelowo) as they campaigned for their right to vote.
SHADOWS (PG) 1959 USA CASSAVETES, JOHN £19.99
Set in the jazzy, beatnik underground of 50s New York, a black woman (Lelia Goldoni) begins an affair with a white man, creating family and racial tension. The film features a score by Charles Mingus and is widely considered to be a landmark in independent filmmaking.
SHAFT (15) 1971 PARKS, GORDON £12.99
Private detective John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) is called in when the daughter of Harlem gangster is kidnapped. One of the first Blaxploitation film made for a black cinema audience.
SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG (18) 1971 PEEBLES, MELVIN VAN £19.99
Hustler Sweet Sweetback (Melvin Van Peebles) sees two cops beating up a black revolutionary. He takes revenge by killing the cops, but is then forced to go on the run.
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (PG) 1962 USA MULLIGAN, ROBER £19.99
Gregory Peck gives an Oscar winning performance as a lawyer defending a black man accused of assaulting a young white woman.
THE WATERMELON WOMAN (15) 1996 DUNYE, CHERYL £16.99
Aspiring black film-maker Cheryl (Cheryl Dunye) finds herself fascinated by Fae Richards, a black 1930s film star who was only ever billed as the Watermelon Woman. Intrigued, Cheryl decides to make a documentary about the mysterious actress. To support her research, Cheryl gets a job in a video store where she meets and falls in love with customer Diana (Guinevere Turner), and as her work on the Watermelon Woman progresses, Cheryl begins to ask herself important questions about her own life and relationships.
WITHOUT PITY (12) 1948 ITALY LATTUAD, ALBERTO £9.99
Co-written by Federico Fellini the film was deemed controversial upon its release for its love story between a black G.I and a local Italian girl.
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.
NEW DVD RELEASES 2017
NEW DVD RELEASES 2017
A MONSTER CALLS (15) 2016 BAYONA,J.A. £19.99
Based on the bestselling fantasy novel by Siobhan Dowd and Patrick Ness. Conor, is beset by dreams since his mun fell ill. However one night he wakes from his dreams to find a visitor at his window. The visitor is an ancient tree monster which helps Conor face his problems.
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.
ALICE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (15) 1974 SCORSESE, MARTIN £19.99
Key film from the golden age of the 1970s New Hollywood. Alice (Ellen Burstyn), along with her young son leave their home in New Mexico to return as an independent woman to Monterey. However to reach her destination, Alice has to stop off along the way to make enough money for her and Tommy to survive.
AMERICAN HONEY (15) 2016 ARNOLD, ANDREA £19.99
Disillusioned teenager Star (Sasha Lane) meets charismatic salesman Jake (Shia LaBeouf), and joins him as they travel across America selling subscriptions and partying hard.
AMERICAN PASTORAL (15) 2016 MCGREGOR, EWAN £19.99
Ewan McGregor directs and stars in this drama based on the novel by Philip Roth. The film charts the life of Jewish American businessman, and former standout athlete, Seymour 'Swede' Levov (McGregor) whose life begins to unravel during the social and political upheaval of the 1960s.
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.
ARRIVAL (12) 2016 VILLENEUVE, DENIS DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
A mysterious alien spaceship land on Earth and an American linguistics professor finds herself working with the army to decode the aliens' communications.
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.
CHI-RAQ (15) 2016 USA LEE, SPIKE £14.99
Spike Lee directs this satirical musical drama based on the classical Greek comedy 'Lysistrata' by Aristophanes but set among gangs in present day Chicago.
THE ENDLESS SUMMER (E) 1966 BROWN, BRUCE £15.99
Film-maker Bruce Brown follows two surfers around the world as they search for the perfect wave.
ETHEL & ERNEST (PG) 216 MAINWOOD, ROGER £19.99
Hand-drawn animation filmfollows four decades in the lives of an ordinary couple living in London. Based on the autobiographical novel by Raymond Briggs.
FRANKENSTEIN: COMPLETE LEGACY COLLECTION (15) 5 DVDS £39.99
Features - Frankenstein (1931), The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), Son of Frankenstein (1939), Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) and House of Frankenstein (1944).
FENCES (12) 2016 WASHINGTON, DENZEL £19.99
Drama adapted from August Wilson's play about a working-class African-American former baseball player struggling to come to terms with events which led him to take up a job as a waste collector in 1950s Pittsburgh.
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN (15) 2016 TAYLOR, TATE £19.99
Emily Blunt stars in this adaption of Paula Hawkins' psychological thriller.
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.
HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT (18) 2014 SAFDIE, BEN AND JOSHUA £15.99
Powerful drama based on the unpublished memoir of actress Arielle Holmes about her life as a heroin addict living on the streets of New York.
HELL OR HIGH WATER (15) 2016 MACKENZIE, DAVID £19.99
Divorced father and his ex-con brother Tanner stage a string of carefully planned bank robberies in a desperate attempt to save their family's West Texas farm from bank foreclosure. Ageing Texas Ranger Marcus (Jeff Bridges) is assigned to investigate the crimes.
HOUSE OF CARDS: THE COMPLETE FIFTH SEASON (15) 2017 £26.99
All 13 episodes from the fifth season of the award-winning political drama starring Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright.
HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE (12) 2016 WAITITI, TAIKA £17.99
Sam Neill and Julian Dennison star in this comedy drama based on Barry Crump's novel 'Wild Pork and Watercress'.
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 JOURNEY (12) 2017 HAMM, NICK £14.99
Timothy Spall and Colm Meaney star as Irish politicians Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness in this drama about a meeting between the two rivals. The film depicts a fictional account of a real meeting between the Democratic Unionist Party Leader and the Sinn Fein politician during a journey to the airport
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.
LA LA LAND (12) 2016 CHAZELLE, DAMIEN £19.99
Romantic musical about a jazz musician (Ryan Gosling) and an aspiring actress (Emma Stone) who are down on their luck in Los Angeles.
LITTLE WOMEN: THE COMPLETE SERIES (U) 1970 RUSSELL, PADDY £19.99
BBC adaptation of the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott.
LOVING (15) 2016 NICHOLS, JEFF £19.99
1950s historical drama about an interracial couple who defy state laws to marry in 1950s Virginia.
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (15) 2016 LONERGAN, KENNETH £15.99
After the sudden death of his brother, Lee (Ben Affleck) reluctantly becomes the guardian of his brother’s teenage son Patrick and has to grapple with this new role in already complicated life.
MOANA (PG) 2016 CLEMENTS, P./MUSKER, J. £19.99
Disney animated adventure about a fiery ocean demon which threatens Princess Moana’s peaceful island home.
MOONLIGHT (15) 2016 JENKINS, BARRY £15.99
Set in a rough Miami neighbourhood, the film chronicles, from early life to young adulthood, the life of poor African-American Chiron. Chiron is a small withdrawn boy who is bullied at school and who falls under the wings of drug dealer Juan. Juan tries to help Chiron not to accept his lot in life.
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS (15) 2016 FORD , TOM £19.99
Thriller adapted from Austin Wright's novel. Years after leaving her first husband, Susan Morrow receives a letter asking her to read the manuscript of his first novel. Although worried that reading the book may unearth unpleasant memories long forgotten, Susan reluctantly begins to read.
PATERSON (15) 2016 JARMUSCH, JIM £19.99
New Jersey bus driver Paterson has a hidden talent for writing poetry. Following the same routine each day, Paterson uses his observations as inspiration for his writing and is reluctant to publish his work as this might change his comfortable world.
SHACKLETON: THE COMPLETE MIN-SERIES (PG) 1983 £19.99
Four-part drama about explorer Ernest Shackleton's expedition to the Antarctic.
SILENCE (15) 2016 SCORSESE, MARTIN £15.99
17th century Jesuit priests travel to Japan to spread their faith against the backdrop of a Japanese government wishing to suppress any kind of western influences. After the priests face persecution and witness the torture of their followers they question their own believes.
SIX PLAYS BY ALAN BENNETT: THE COMPLETE SERIES (12) £24.99
Collection of six plays written by Alan Bennett and produced by Stephen Frears. The set consists of - 'Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf' (1978), 'Doris and Doreen' (1978), 'The Old Crowd' (1979), 'One Fine Day' (1979), 'Afternoon Off' (1979) and 'All Day On the Sands' (1979).
SNOWDEN (15) 2016 STONE, OLIVER £19.99
Biographical thriller about the whistleblower Edward Snowden
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
SULLY - MIRACLE ON THE HUDSON (12) 2016 EASTWOOD, CLINT £19.99
Tom Hanks stars as pilot'Sully' in this true story of the pilot who successfully landed his passenger plane on the Hudson River.
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.
TOP OF THE LAKE: CHINA GIRL (15) 2017 CAMPION , JANE £19.99
Second series of the Australian crime drama featuring trouble detective Robin Griffin (Elisabeth Moss), as she struggles with motherhood and surrogacy while investigating a murder of a Asian young girl in Sydney.
THE WARSAW GHETTO (15) 2009 HARRISON, JOHN KENT £12.99
Based on the true story of German nurse and social worker Irena Sendler, who provides aid to Poles in German occupied Poland.
WHO'S THAT KNOCKING AT MY DOOR? (15) 1967 SCORSESE, MARTIN £19.99
Powerful drama shot in gritty black and white on the streets of the New York among the Italian community. The film stars Harvey Keitel and introduces us to classic Scorsese themes of Catholic guilt, Italian mother and repressed sexuality in the violent streets of New York.
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.
WIENER-DOG (15) 2016 SOLONDZ, TODD £15.99
Comedy following a loveable Dachshund as it travels around the country, changing the lives of a number of very different owners along the way.
THE WOLF MAN: COMPLETE LEGACY COLLECTION (12) 5 DVDS £39.99
Features - Werewolf of London (1935), The Wolf Man (1941), Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), House of Frankenstein (1944), House of Dracula (1945) and She-Wolf of London (1946).
WONDER WOMAN (12) 2017 JENKINS, PATTY £19.99
Action adventure film starring Gal Gadot as the eponymous DC Comics superheroine.
NEW DVD RELEASES 2016
NEW DVD RELEASES 2016
11.22.63 (15) 2016 £13.99
James Franco and Chris Cooper star in this eight-part sci-fi drama based on Stephen King's novel.
A WALK IN THE WOODS(15) 2015 KWAPIS, KEN £17.99
Robert Redford stars as Bill Bryson in this adaptation of the travel writer's memoirs.
THE A WORD (15) 2016 £19.99
Six-part BBC drama about a family adjusting to life with their autistic son.
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (PG) 2016 BOBIN, JAMES £19.99
Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter reprise their roles in this fantasy adventure sequel based on Lewis Carroll's novel.
ANOMALISA (15) 2015 KAUFMAN, CHARLIE £15.99
Stop-motion animated comedy drama about a motivational speaker in the middle of an existential crisis.
THE BFG (PG) 2016 SPIELBERG, STEVEN £15.99
Adaptation of Roald Dahl's novel starring Mark Rylance as the Big Friendly Giant.
BROOKLYN (12) 2015 CROWLEY, JOHN £19.99
Based on Colm Tóibín novel, this 1950s drama follows young Irish woman as she travels to New York City in search of a better life.
CAROL (15) 2015 HAYNES, TODD £19.99
Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara star in this romantic drama set in the 1950s and adapted from the novel by Patricia Highsmith.
THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER (12A) CORBET, BRADY IN ENGLISH £17.99
Loosely based on Jean-Paul Sartre's short story about a young American boy living a dysfunctional and unhappy childhood with his diplomat father in France just after the end of the First World War. Here he becomes seduced by fascism.
DAVID CRONENBERG'S EARLY WORKS (15) £14.99
Feature short film 'Transfer' (1966) features the story of a doctor and his patient, 'From the Drain' (1967) follows the conversation of two war veterans reminiscing about past conflicts. In 'Stereo' (1969), seven young adults volunteer to undergo brain surgery which will give them telepathic powers and 'Crimes of the Future' (1970), dermatologist Adrian Tripod searches for his mentor after a catastrophic plague wipes out the female population.
CRY OF THE CITY (12) 1948 SIODMAK, ROBERT £19.99
Classic film noir starring Victor Mature and Richard Conte.
THE DANISH GIRL (15) 2015 HOOPER, TOM £19.99
Biographical drama starring Eddie Redmayne as Danish artist, and one of the first recipients of gender reassignment surgery, Einar Wegener.
DARK PLACES (15) 2015 PAQUET-BRENNER, GILLES £17.99
Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult and Christina Hendricks star in this mystery thriller based on the novel by Gillian Flynn.
THE DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL (18) 2015 HELLER, MARIELLE £15.99
Based on Phoebe Gloeckner graphic novel this coming-of-age comedy drama set I the 1970s, about teenager
Minnie embarks on an affair with her mother’s boyfriend.
THE DRESSMAKER (12) 2015 MOORHOUSE, JOCELYN £19.99
Australian comedy starring Kate Winslet as a woman who returns to her hometown to take care of her
ailing mother and to exacting her revenge upon those who have wronged her in the past.
EUREKA (18) 1983 ROEG, NICHOLAS TWO DISC DVD AND BLUE RAY SET £17.99
Gene Hackman stars as a wealthy gold prospector who struggles to find a meaning in his life beyond the accumulation of material wealth.
EVEREST (12) 2015 KORMÁKUR, BALTASAR £19.99
The film tells the story of the 1996 Mount Everest climbing expedition which is hit by a freak storm.
EXPERIMENTER (12) 2015 ALMEREYDA, MICHAEL £15.99
Biographical drama based on the controversial 1961 Milgram experiment about psychologist Stanley Milgram who
conducts experiments at Yale University, exploring authority and compliance on human subjects using electric shock treatment.
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.
FREEHELD (12A) 2014 SOLLETT, PETER £15.99
Based on the true story of a lesbian detective Laurel Hester (Julianne Moore) to have her pension transferred to her domestic partner, mechanic Stacie Andree (Ellen Page), after she is diagnosed with lung cancer.
GAME OF THRONES: THE COMPLETE SIXTH SEASON (18) 2016 £39.99
The complete sixth season of the HBO medieval fantasy drama based on the bestselling novel series 'A Song of Ice and Fire' by George R.R. Martin.
THE GLASS SHIELD (15) 1994 BURNETT, CHARLES £19.99
The first black recruit in his squad, rookie cop J J Johnson (Michael Boatman) struggles to adapt to life on the force when confronted by the inherent prejudices and corruption.
HAIL, CAESAR! (12A) 2015 COEN, E AND J (5053083068851) £19.99
Comedy drama set in 1950s Hollywood film studios .
HOMELAND: THE COMPLETE FIFTH SEASON (15) 2015 £34.99
All 12 episodes from the fifth season of the critically acclaimed US drama centred around the life of CIA agent Carrie Mathison
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 2 (12) 2015 LAWRENCE, FRANCIS DVD - £19.99
Jennifer Lawrence reprises her role as Katniss Everdeen in the fourth and final instalment of the sci-fi film
series based on the novels by Suzanne Collins.
THE LAST COMMAND (PG) 1928 STERNBERG , JOSEF VON DUAL FORMAT BLU-RAY/DVD £19.99
Silent historical drama starring Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent and William Powell.
LOOKING: THE COMPLETE SERIES AND THE MOVIE (18) 2016 £23.99
All 18 episodes from the first two seasons and the feature-length finale of the HBO comedy drama following the lives and loves of three gay men in San Francisco.
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.
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.
MARGIN CALL (15) 2011 CHANDOR, J.C. £5.99
Tense drama which follows the personal struggles of high-ranking employees of an investment
bank during a 24-hour period at the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis.
MEDITERRANEA (15) 2015 CARPIGNANO, JONAS £19.99
Film about two African immigrants as they make the dangerous journey to Italy and their attempt to settle into their new makeshift homes while facing hostility and resentment from the local community.
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (12) 1959 WISE , ROBERT DUAL FORMAT ED. £19.99
This story of a daring robbery gone wrong is considered to be the last of the true 40s and 50s film noirs.
PAPER PLANES (U) 2014 AUSTRALIA CONNOLLY, ROBERT £15.99
A young boy's dream of greatness and when he hears about the World Paper Plane Championships
in Japan, he is determined to become the next champion.
PARIS BLUES (12) 1961 RITT, MARTIN DUAL FORMAT ED. £19.99
Set in Paris two jazz musicians (played Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier), live for music, but their carefree idyll is disturbed when two American tourists enter their lives.
PIONEERS OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN CINEMA(E) 5-DISC DVD SET - £49.99 5-DISC BLU-RAY SET - £69.99
Extensive look at the the landmarks of early African-American cinema, with this newly restored collection of features and shorts.
RACE (PG) 2016 HOPKINS, STEPHEN £12.99
Biopic of the African American athlete Jesse Owens (Stephan James) who overcomes a number of challenges and broke down racial barriers before winning gold at the Nazi Olympics in Berlin in 1936.
THE RAILWAY CHILDREN: YORK THEATRE ROYAL (U) 2015 CRUDEN, DAMIAN £15.99
Stage adaptation of the novel by E. Nesbit in a live recording at the National Railway Museum in York.
THE REVENANT (15) 2015 IÑÁRRITU, ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hardy star in this award-winning epic adventure based on real events.
SHELTER (18) USA 2014 BETTANY, PAUL £15.99
Hannah (Connelly), a homeless drug addict who falls in love with Tahir (Mackie), a Nigerian immigrant
who is also living on the streets of New York. As Tahir seeks to avoid deportation now that his visa has ran
out, Hannah tries desperately to recover from her crippling addiction.
SHOOTING STARS (PG) 1928 ASQUITH, A./BRAMBLE, A.V. £19.99
Set in a movie studio, the story follows the crumbling relationship of married acting duo Mae Feather (Annette Benson) and Julian Gordon (Brian Aherne). Dual format dvd and Blu Ray edition.
SPOTLIGHT (15) 2015 MCCARTHY, THOMAS £17.99
Drama about the Boston Globe's uncovering of a widespread sex abuse scandal within the Catholic Church.
THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT (15) 2015 ALVAREZ, KYLE PATRICK £12.99
In 1971, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University Philip conducts an experiment in which 24 students are randomly assigned roles as prisoners or guards in a mock prison setting. The two-week test, designed to assess whether personality traits of prisoners and guards are the direct cause of negative behaviour between them, quickly gets out of hand.
STAR WARS EPISODE VII - THE FORCE AWAKENS (12) 2016 ABRAMS,J.J. £15.99
Latest instalment of the sci-fi film epic reuniting Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill.
STEVE JOBS (15) 2015 BOYLE, DANNY DVD - £19.99
Award-winning biopic starring Michael Fassbender as Steve Jobs the co-founder of Apple.
TALE OF TALES (15) 2015 GARRONE, MATTEO £15.99
Collection of three tales by Italian writer Giambattista Basile.
TANGERINE (15) M2015 BAKER, SEAN £15.99
Comedy drama set among the transgender sex worker in downtown Los Angeles.
THAT COLD DAY IN THE PARK (15) 1969 ALTMAN, ROBERT DUAL FORMAT BLU-RAY/DVD £19.99
Lonely, middle-aged woman who invites a mute boy to her apartment. She then imprisons the boy and cares for his every need and desire, a role theboy is happy to fulfil.
TRUMBO (15) 2015 ROACH, RAY £17.99
Film about American screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo who became one of the Hollywood Ten in 1947 after refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee during their investigation of communist influences in Hollywood.
NEW DVD RELEASES 2015
NEW DVD RELEASES 2015
12 MONKEYS (15) 2014 £24.99
The series follows time traveller James Cole (Stanford), who travels to the present day from the year 2043 to find the source of a deadly virus which will cause the death of over 90 per cent of the world's population.
A DEADLY GAME (15) 2008 ARRIAGA, GUILLERMO £12.99
Multi-narrative drama starring Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger. The various strands and connections between the characters are gradually revealed throughout the film in Arriaga's signature style, previously seen in his collaborations with director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu: 'Amores Perros', '21 Grams' and 'Babel'. CAN BE PLAYED IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH
A MOST WANTED MAN (15) 2014 CORBIJN, ANTON
DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Espionage thriller starring Daniel Brühl and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
ANNIE (PG) 2014 GLUCK, WILL DVD - £18.99 BLU RAY - £23.99
Modern adaptation of the classic story of young orphan girl Annie.
APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOUR (15) 2014 AKHAVAN, DESIREE £15.99
Brooklyn-set comedy about young woman in her twenties who has just broken up with her girlfriend but still hides the truth about her sexuality from her conservative Iranian parents.
ARDENNES FURY (15) 2014 LAWSON, JOSEPH J £9.99
War film set during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944.
BIG EYES (12A) 2014 BURTON, TIM DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £23.99
Biographical drama about 1960s American artist Margaret Keane who believing that a female artist could not find success and allowed her husband to claim credit for her artwork.
BIRDMAN (15) 2014 IÑÁRRITU, ALEJANDRO GONZÁLEZ
DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £27.99
Michael Keaton stars in this award-winning black comedy.
THE BOXTROLLS (PG) 2014 STACCHI,A/ANNABLE, G
DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Stop-motion animated adventure about the Boxtrolls, a community of cave-dwelling and cardboard box-wearing creatures.
BOYHOOD (15) 2014 LINKLATER,RICHARD DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Filmed over a period of 12 years with the same cast members, the film begins with divorced Olivia moving to Houston, with her son Mason and daughter. From then on we follow Mason as he progresses from a child to a young man while dealing with his parents divorce and the numerous other difficulties of growing up.
BUBBLE (PG) 2005 SODERBERGH, STEVEN £15.99
The lives of three factory employees become entangled in a crime.
CINDERELLA (U) 2015 BRANAGH, KENNETH £18.99
Live-action fairy tale adaptation starring Lily James, Cate Blanchett and Helena Bonham Carter.
CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (15) ASSAYAS , O DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Gripping psychological drama which is also an exploration of the acting profession.
DAMAGE (18) 1992 MALLE, LOUIS £5.99
Passionate tale of an English M.P. Steven Fleming (Jeremy Irons) who has everything, that is until his son turns up one day with the beautiful Anna (Juliette Binoche).
DARK HORSE (15) 2014 ROBERTSON, JAMES NAPIER £15.99
Maori chess champion is used to battling bi-polar disorder, prejudice and violence, however when the future of his beloved chess club is threatened, he vows to do everything in his power it.
DEAR WHITE PEOPLE (12) 2014 SIMIEN, JUSTIN £17.99
Satirical comedy set at the prestigious and predominantly white Winchester University, black student Sam (Tessa Thompson) tries to shake up her school's student body and confront its widespread racial disparity with her campus radio show 'Dear White People'.
DESERT HEARTS (18) 1985 DEITCH, DONNA £15.99
Landmark lesbian love story based on Jane Rule novel “Desert of the Heart”.
DREAMCHILD (PG) 1985 MILLAR, GAVIN £12.99
Set in 1932 on 100th anniversary the birth of Lewis Carroll, 80-year-old Alice Liddell starts to see her relationship with the author in a new way and realizes the vast change between the young Alice and the old.
THE DROP (15) 2014 ROSKAM, MICHAEL R
DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £27.99
Tom Hardy and James Gandolfini star in this crime drama .
ENEMY (15) 2013 DENIS VILLENEUVE £15.99
A university professor comfortable life is shaken when a movie starring a man who looks exactly like him and the professor is compelled to track the actor down.
EXODUS - GODS AND KINGS (15) 2014 SCOTT, RIDLEY £19.99
Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton as Moses and Rhamses in the biblical epic.
FIFTY SHADES OF GREY (18) 2014 TAYLOR-JOHNSON, SAM
DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Erotic drama based on the best-selling book by E. L. James.
FUNNY GAMES (18) 2007 HANEKE, MICHAEL £15.99
1997 US remake delivers a savage critique on the way violence is portrayed in the media.
FURY (15) 2014 AYER, DAVID DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
World War II, a U.S. Army sergeant leads his crew on a mission behind enemy lines.
GEOGRAPHY CLUB (12) 2013 ENTIN, GARY £15.99
Comedy drama about a group of teenagers who form an after school support group to share the many problems in their personal lives.
GOD'S POCKET (15) 2014 SLATTERY, JOHN DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £17.99
Adaptation of Pete Dexter novel, which is set in the working-class town of God's Pocket in the 1970s. Both small time crook, Mickey Scarpato (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and well-known journalist Richard Shellburn (Richard Jenkins) are investigating a death.
GLASSLAND (15) 2014 BARRETT, GERARD £15.99
Dublin-set drama about taxi driver struggling to help his mother overcome her alcohol addiction whilst trying to earn enough for them both.
THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES (12) 2014 JACKSON, PETER DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £25.99
The last of three epic instalments in director Peter Jackson's prequel to 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy.
THE HOMESMAN (15) 2014 JONES, TOMMY LEE DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Western in which Tommy Lee Jones plays an army deserter who is saved from near-death by the headstrong Mary Bee Cuddy (Hilary Swank).
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 (12) 2014 LAWRENCE, FRANCIS DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £23.99
Third part of the sci-fi film series based on the novels by Suzanne Collins.
IF I STAY (12) 2014 CUTLER, R. J. DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £27.99
17-year-old Mia Hall, a musical prodigy whose life is turned upside down when she and her family are involved in a car accident.
THE INTERVIEW (15) 2014 ROGEN, SETH
DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £21.99
Action comedy about a talk show host is offered an interview with President of North Korea Kim Jong-un.
IT FOLLOWS (15) 2014 MITCHELL, DAVID ROBERT £15.99
Psychological horror.
JUPITER ASCENDING (12A) 2014 WACHOWSKI A& L
DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Sci-fi action adventure.
JURASSIC WORLD (12) 2015 TREVORROW, COLIN £19.99
Fourth instalment in the blockbusting dinosaur series
THE LAST ACT (15) 2014 BARRY LEVINSON £15.99
Al Pacino and Greta Gerwig star in this comedy drama adapted from Philip Roth's novel 'The Humbling'.
LOVE & MERCY (12A) 2015 POHLAD, BILL £19.99
Biopic about Brian Wilson, musician, songwriter and founding member of The Beach Boys.
LUCY (12) 2014 BESSON, LUC DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman star in this sci-fi action thriller.
MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (12A) 2014 ALLEN, WOODY
DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Romantic comedy starring Colin Firth and Emma Stone.
MAN OF THE WEST (12) 1958 MANN, ANTHONY 2 DISC DUAL DVD/BLU RAY EDITION £17.99
Classic western starring Gary Cooper.
MAPS TO THE STARS (18) 2014 CRONENBERG, DAVID
DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Julianne Moore stars in this film about the dysfunctional lives of several Hollywood stars
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (15) 2015 MILLER, GEORGE £19.99
Post-apocalyptic action film.
THE MAZE RUNNER (12) 2014 BALL, WES
DVD - £16.99 BLU RAY - £22.99
Sci-fi action thriller about a group of boys who are trapped in a maze.
A MOST WANTED MAN (18) 2014 CORBIJN, ANTON
DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Espionage thriller starring Daniel Brühl and Philip Seymour Hoffman
OBVIOUS CHILD (15) 2014 ROBESPIERRE, GILLIAN £15.99
20-something stand-up comedienne Donna discovers she is pregnant and finds the most challenging thing about growing up is letting people in your life and accepting help.
ROSEWATER (15) 2014 STEWART, JON £17.99
Biographical drama adapted from the memoirs of Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari. The film tells the story behind
Bahari (Gael García Bernal)'s imprisonment by the Iranian government after an appearance on the US late-night talk show .
SELMA (12) 2014 DUVERNAY, AVA
DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £21.99
Based on the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965 that led to the passing of the Voting Rights Act, the film follows the story of James Bevel (Common), Hosea Williams (Wendell Pierce) and Martin Luther King Jr (Oyelowo) as they campaigned for their right to vote.
STILL ALICE(12) 2014 GLATZER,R/WESTMORELAND,W
DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Drama starring Julianne Moore as a linguistics professor who is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease
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.
UNBROKEN (15) 2014 JOLIE, ANGELINA DVD-£19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Second World War film about an Olympic champion who, after surviving a plane crash in the Pacific, becomes a prisoner of war of the Japanese.
THE WATER DIVINER (15) 2014 CROWE, RUSSELL £17.99
Four years after the Battle of Gallipoli, widowed Australian farmer travels to Turkey in search of his three missing sons who were believed to have been killed or captured during the bloody conflict.
WELCOME TO THE WARZONE (15) 2011 CANADA CLATTENBURG, M. £19.99
War drama centred around Canada's presence in the Afghan conflict.
WHITE REINDEER (15) 2013 CLARK, ZACH £15.99
Seasonal black comedy starring Anna Margaret Hollyman.
WILD (15) 2014 VALLÉE, JEAN-MARC
DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £21.99
Academy Award-nominated drama based on the true story of a woman who embarked on a 1,100-mile solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail in a journey of self-discovery
WITHOUT PITY (12) 1948 ITALY LATTUAD, ALBERTO £9.99
Co-written by Federico Fellini the film was deemed controversial upon its release for its love story between a black G.I and a local Italian girl.
ZULU (18) 2013 JÉRÔME SALLE £14.99
Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom star in this crime thriller set in South African.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN RE-ISSUES ON DVD AN BLU RAY.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN RE-ISSUES ON DVD AN BLU RAY.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN: A KING IN NEW YORK (U) 1957 CHAPLIN, CHARLIE DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
When a revolution breaks out in his home country of Estrovia, King Igor Shadov (Chaplin) ventures west to New York City.
With no money, the king is forced to partake in some commercial advertisements and becomes a television sensation.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN: A WOMAN IN PARIS (PG) 1923 CHAPLIN, CHARLIE DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Silent romantic drama
CHARLIE CHAPLIN: CIRCUS (U) 1928 CHAPLIN, CHARLIE DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Charlie Chaplin's Tramp finds refuge from the law with the circus and falls in love with the owner's step-daughter.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN: CITY LIGHTS (U) 1931 CHAPLIN, CHARLIE DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Charlie Chaplin's 'little tramp' falls in love with a blind flower girl (Virginia Cherrill) and befriends a drunken millionaire (Harry Meyers).
CHARLIE CHAPLIN: GOLD RUSH (PG) 1925 CHAPLIN, CHARLIE DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Charlie Chaplin plays hapless pan-handler drawn to Klondike in the famous gold rush of 1898.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN: THE GREAT DICTATOR (PG) 1940 CHAPLIN, CHARLIE DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Rise of Nazism is spoofed when Jewish barber is mistaken for the dictator of Tomania.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN: KID (U) 1921 CHAPLIN, CHARLIE DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Classic first feature that launched the 'kid' of the title, Jackie Coogan, into child stardom.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN: LIMELIGHT (U) 1952 CHAPLIN, CHARLIE DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Set in London, just before the start of the First World War, a former stage clown (Chaplin) rescues a
young dancer (Claire Bloom) from suicide
CHARLIE CHAPLIN: MODERN TIMES (U) 1936 CHAPLIN, CHARLIE DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Chaplin attack on the lack of humanity in modern industry and shows the tramp's struggle with factory machinery,
poverty and starvation in the Depression years.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN: MONSIEUR VERDOUX (PG) 1947 CHAPLIN, CHARLIE DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Oscar-nominated black comedy, in which Chaplin plays a family man who supports his wife and child by
courting rich widows and murdering them.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN: THE MUTUAL FILMS COLLECTION (U) CHAPLIN, CHARLIE DVD - £24.99 BLU RAY - £29.99
Collection of 12 silent short films made by Charlie Chaplin during his partnership with Mutual Films. Features 'The Floorwalker' (1916),
'The Fireman' (1916), 'The Vagabond' (1916), 'One A.M.' (1916), 'The Count' (1916), 'The Pawnshop' (1916), 'Behind the Screen' (1916),
'The Rink' (1916),'Easy Street' (1917), 'The Cure' (1917), 'The Immigrant' (1917) and 'The Adventurer' (1917).
CHARLIE CHAPLIN REVUE (U) CHAPLIN, CHARLIE DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Box set containing seven Charlie Chaplin movies made between 1918 and 1923. Included are such
touchstones as 'Shoulder Arms' (1918) - his popular portrayal of World War I trench life, 'The Idle Class' (1921)
- skewering the rich, 'The Pilgrim' (1923) - lampooning small-town hypocrisy, and the charming and hilarious views of
family life and romance in 'A Dog's Life' (1918), 'A Day's Pleasure' (1919), 'Sunnyside' (1919) and 'Pay Day' (1922).
NEW DVD RELEASES 2013-14
NEW DVD RELEASES 2013-14
NEW RELEASE APRIL - NOVEMBER 2014
1914 (15) 2011 CANADA MCGUIRE, MICHAEL £15.99
Told in real time, Canada's 21st Battalion prepare for the fight ahead at Courcellette during the First World War.
AFTER (15) SMITH, RYAN £15.99
When two bus crash survivors (Steven Strait, Karolina Wydra) awake to discover that they are the only people left in their small town, they must form an unlikely alliance in a race to unravel the truth behind their isolation.
ALL IS LOST (15) 2013 CHANDOR J.C. DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Award-winning adventure drama starring Robert Redford. Redford plays a solitary yachtsman in the middle of the Indian Ocean whose boat is hit by an abandoned shipping container.
AMERICAN HUSTLE (15) 2013 RUSSELL DAVID O.
DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £23.99
Based on the Abscam sting operation of the late 1970s and early 1980s, the story follows FBI agent Richie DiMaso (Cooper) as he blackmails conman Irving Rosenfeld (Bale) and his lover Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) into helping him with a case after a successful investigation into the pair's own foreign banking scam.
DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (15) 2013 VALLEE, JEAN-MARC DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Homophobic cowboy's life is transformed drastically when a work-related accident results in him being diagnosed with AIDS. Given 30 days to live he initially continues his life in a state of denial but as the clock keeps ticking he becomes more and more interested in the background of the disease and its treatments.
DECONSTRUCTING HARRY (18) 1997 ALLEN, WOODY £14.99
Comedy drama about a renowned novelist with a habit for using those around him as inspiration for the characters in his books.
THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (15) 2013 ANDERSON, WES £19.99
Comedy set in 1920s Europe starring Ralph Fiennes as a hotel concierge who finds himself mixed up in the search for a valuable Renaissance painting.
HER (12) 2013 JONZE, SPIKE DVD – £19.99 BLU RAY – £23.99
Award-winning drama following Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a lonely writer who falls in love with a sentient operating system.
HOUSE OF CARDS: SEASON 2 (18) 2013 DVD - £29.99 BLU RAY - £39.99
All 13 episodes from the second series of the US political drama starring Kevin Spacey.
INDEPENDENCIA (15) 2009 MARTIN, RAYA £12.99
During the American invasion of the Philippines a mother and son take refuge in the middle of the jungle and battle for survival.
THE JIM JARMUSCH COLLECTION (18) £64.99
Contains - 'Permanent Vacation' (1980), 'Stranger Than Paradise' (1984), 'Down By Law' (1986), 'Night on Earth' (1991) and 'Dead Man' (1995).
KILLING DARLING (15) 2013 KROKIDAS, JOHN
DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Film set among the Beat Generation and the time Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac spent at Columbia University.
NEBRASKA (15) 2013 PAYNE, ALEXANDER
DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £26.99
Road-trip drama about an aging alcoholic, played by Bruce Dern, who alon with his son travels to Nebraska to collect a prize.
NOAH (12) 2014 ARONOFSKY, DARREN DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £26.99
Biblical epic directed by and starring Russell Crowe,
OLDBOY (18) 2013 LEE, SPIKE DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
English language remake of the thriller based on the manga comic story.
SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (PG) 2013 STILLER, BEN
DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £27.99
Ben Stiller directs and stars in this reimagining of the classic James Thurber story.
SEVE (15) 2014 SPAIN JOHN-PAUL DAVIDSON DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Dramatic retelling of the life and career of Spanish professional golfer Severiano 'Seve' Ballesteros
TOO LATE BLUES (12) 1961 CASSAVETES,JOHN DVD & BLU RAY PACK £17.99
John 'Ghost' Wakefield is a blues musician who wants to leave his band and make it on his own.
WALKING WITH DINOSAURS (U) 2013 NIGHTINGALE, N/COOK, B
DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £27.99
Adventure film based on the 1999 BBC documentary series, which projects computer-animated dinosaurs into live action settings to tell the story of a young Pachyrhinosaurus.
NEW RELEASE JANUARY - MARCH 2014
BLUE JASMINE (15) 2013 ALLEN, WOODY £19.99
Award-winning comedy drama starring Cate Blanchett, Peter Saarsgard and Sally Hawkins.
THE BUTLER (12) 2013 DANIELS, LEE . DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
The film tells the story of Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker)'s 34-year career working as head butler at the White House.
COMPUTER CHESS (15) 2013 BUJALSKI, ANDREW £17.99
Spoof documentary following a group of computer chess programmers as they meet up to test their software against one another.
THE FAMILY (15) 2013 BESSON, LUC £17.99
Crime comedy starring Robert De Niro. As an ex-mafia boss who is moved to rural France under the witness protection program with his family.
THE FIFTH ESTATE (15) 2013 CONDON, BILL £15.99
Political thriller starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Australian publisher and journalist Julian Assange.
GRAVITY (12) 2013 CUARÓN, ALFONSO . DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
George Clooney and Sandra Bullock star in this award-winning sci-fi thriller.
PARKLAND (15) 2013 LANDESMAN, PETER. £15.99
Dramatic retelling of former US President John F. Kennedy's assassination .
WINGS (PG) 1927 WELLMAN, WILLIAM £19.99
Dual format dvd - Blu Ray release of this classic silent war drama .
NEW RELEASES MAY - SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 2013
A LATE QUARTET (15) 2012 USA ZILBERMAN, YARON £15.99
Christopher Walken , Philip Seymour Hoffman and Catherine Keener star in a drama set among a world-renowned string quartet from New York
THE ABCS OF DEATH (18) 2012 DVD - £12.99 BLU RAY - £14.99
Anthology of thematically connected short films. Twenty six directors are assigned a letter of the alphabet each and given a budget of five thousand pounds, the film-makers were asked to shoot a short film exploring death and the many ways of dying.
THE ADJUSTER (18) 1991 EGOYAN, ATOM. £15.99
Tense drama about alienation in the electronic age, directed by Canadian film-maker
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: THE HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERTS - 1986-1998 (E) 1998 £36.99
Six disc collection of benefit concerts held between 1986 and 1998.
ARBITRAGE (15) 2012 JARECKI, NICHOLAS £15.99
Tense financial drama with a twist starring Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon.
BEFORE MIDNIGHT (15) 2013 USA LINKLATER, RICHARD £19.99
Romantic drama starring Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, and sequel 'Before Sunset' (2004). The latest film finds the pair living as a couple in Paris, proud parents to two young girls. However, their lives are far from perfect. Frustrated at her inability to match Jesse's professional success, Céline is considering a change in career.
THE BIRTH OF A NATION (15) 1915 USA DVD - £17.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Both celebrated as a landmark achievement in the development of film form and reviled for its racist characterisations and affirmation of the Ku Klux Klan, D W Griffith's epic account of the American Civil War and its aftermath is still one of the most controversial films ever made
THE BLING RING (15) 2013 USA COPPOLA, SOFIA £17.99
Based on real events, about a group of celebrity-obsessed teens who rob the homes of their idols in order to emulate their lifestyles.
CALENDER (12) 2013 EGOYAN, ATOM DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Newly separated photographer contacts women through an escort agency and invites them to dinner, all while his estranged wife tries reconcile to with him.
EXOTICA (18) 1984 EGOYAN, ATOM DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Canadian writer/director Atom Egoyan continues his examination of human morality and the politics of voyeurism in this thriller, set in a strip club.
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.
FAMILY VIEWING (15) 1988 EGOYAN, ATOM DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Dark psychological drama
FRANKIE (12) 2012 £19.99
Eve Myles stars as district nurse Frankie Maddox in this BBC drama.
HARDY BUCKS: THE MOVIE (18) 2012 COCKAYNE, MIKE £15.99
A big screen outing for the Irish mockumentary TV comedy, following the antics of five rural reprobates who head for Poland to support the Irish football team during Euro 2012.
HAROLD LLOYD'S WORLD OF COMEDY (E) £12.99
Collection of favourite scenes selected by comedy actor Harold Lloyd from his films. Featured in the collection are clips from 'Why Worry?' (1923), 'The Milky Way' (1936), 'Girl Shy' (1924), 'Movie Crazy' (1932), 'Safety Last!' (1923) and 'Feet First' (1930).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
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY (12) 2012 JACKSON, PETER £19.99
The first of three epic instalments in director Peter Jackson's blockbuster prequel to his 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy.
THE HOST (12) 2013 USA NICCOL, ANDREW £19.99
Science fiction romance adapted from the novel by Stephenie Meyer, creator of 'The Twilight Saga'.
JOURNEY INTO FEAR (PG) 1942 FOSTER, NORMAN £12.99
Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten co-wrote and starred in this classic espionage tale.
THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE (15) 1976 CASSAVETES, JOHN £19.99
Receiving its long-overdue High Definition premiere, as part of this Dual Format Edition, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie is John Cassavetes’ uncompromising character study of a gangster.
LINCOLN (12A) 2013 SPIELBERG, STEVEN DVD - £19.99 BLU-RAY - £27.99
Steven Spielberg's Academy Award-winning political biopic stars Daniel Day-Lewis as America's 16th president Abraham Lincoln.
THE MISSING MILLION (E) 1942 BRANDON, PHILIP £9.99
1940s mystery drama based on the story by Edgar Wallace.
NEW BRITISH CINEMA QUARTERLY ANNUAL: ISSUE 3 (15) 2012 £23.99
A collection of British feature films and documentaries.
THE NEWSROOM: SEASON 1 (15) 2012 £39.99
All ten episodes from the first season of the HBO drama created by Aaron Sorkin. The show takes a look behind the scenes of the fictional Altantis Cable News and follows the newsroom staff,
NEXT OF KIN (15) 1984 EGOYAN, ATOM DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Atom Egoyan directs this drama exploring the fluidity of identity and family ties.
OPENING NIGHT (15) 1977 USA CASSAVETES, JOHN £19.99
Broadway actress Myrtle Gordon (Gena Rowlands) rehearses for her latest play about a woman in denial at the onset of her autumn years. When Myrtle witnesses the accidental death of an adoring young fan, it catalyses a crisis of confidence in both her professional and her personal life and threatens to undermine the whole production.
SIDE EFFECTS (15) 2013 USA SODERBERGH, STEVEN £17.99
Psychological thriller following the effects of one woman's mental breakdown on those closest to her.
SIMPLE MEN (15) 1997 HARTLEY, HAL £15.99
Romantic drama following the comic antics of two brothers determined to trace their missing father, a former baseball champion and student radical,
SMALL APARTMENTS (18) 2013 ÅKERLUND, JONAS £15.99
Oddball comedy starring Matt Lucas. Bald and morbidly obese Franklin Franklin (Lucas) lives in an apartment complex filled with other quirky and eccentric characters.
SPEAKING PARTS (15) 1989 EGOYAN, ATOM
DVD - £15.99 BLU-RAY - £19.99
Atom Egoyan’s critically acclaimed psycho-sexual drama becomes entangled in a fatal web of desire.
THE SWEET HEREAFTER (15) 1997 EGOYAN, ATOM DVD - £15.99 BLU RAY - £19.99
Powerful lawyer Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm) arrives in a small town in British Columbia after fourteen children die in a school bus crash. Announcing that he will win compensation for the townsfolk, Stephens investigates the mysterious circumstances surrounding the accident, discovering various dark secrets lurking beneath the surface.
TERRI (15) 2011 JACOBS, AZAZEL £15.99
Coming-of-age comedy drama following the journey of an overweight, outcast teenager who finds an unlikely companion in his vice principal.
TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (15) 1971 HELLMAN, MONTE £9.99
Cult road trip movie beloved of car and music fans for featuring an impressive hot-rodded 1955 Chevy, and for starring James Taylor and Dennis Wilson (Beach Boys)
ZERO DARK THIRTY (15) 2013 BIGELOW, KATHRYN DVD - £19.99 BLU RAY - £24.99
Academy Award-nominated military action thriller about the mission by American special operations forces to capture or kill al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
NEW RELEASE JAN- APRIL 2013
360 (15) 2011 MEIRELLES, FERNANDO £15.99
Drama loosely based on Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 play 'La Ronde' and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz and Ben Foster.
AMATEUR (15) 1984 HARTLEY, HAL £15.99
Quirky comedy thriller staring Isabelle Huppert
ARGO (15) 2012 USA AFFLECK, BEN £15.99
Ben Affleck directs and stars in this Academy Award-nominated political thriller based on real events that took place during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.
AURORA (15) 2011 PUIU, CRISTI £15.99
Dark thriller about deeply troubled father who snaps and he commits murder. The film provides an insight into the mind of a psychopath and questions the motives behind such a violent act.
A YOUNG DOCTOR'S NOTEBOOK (15) 2012 £19.99
Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe star in this darkly comic four-part drama, following the life of a young provincial doctor in pre-revolutionary Russia. Based on the semi-autobiographical memoirs of Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov.
ANNA KARENINA (12A) 2012 WRIGHT JOE £19.99
Tom Stoppard pens this adaptation of Tolstoy's classic story of doomed love. Stars Kiera Knightley and Jude Law.
BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO (15) 2012 UK STRICKLAND, PETER £19.99
Inventive horror in which a sound engineer working in the confines of an Italian movie studio becomes dangerously absorbed in his work. The tale is set in the 1970s, when Italian horror films, particularly those belonging to the 'giallo' genre, were known for being shot soundless, with the effects and language tracks added later so that the movies could be dubbed into multiple languages and marketed more effectively abroad. BLU RAY £19.99
BIRDSONG (15) 2012 MARTIN, PHILIP £19.99
Two-part TV adaptation of Sebastian Faulks's best-selling novel, charting a doomed love story played out against the backdrop of World War One
BLANDINGS (12) 2012 £19.99
Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders star in this six-part British sitcom based on the stories by P.G. Wodehouse
BOXING DAY (15) 2012 ROSE, BERNARD £15.99
Modern retelling of a drama based on the novella by Leo Tolstoy.
CONFESSION OF A CHILD OF THE CENTURY (15) 2011 VERHEYDE, SYLVIE £15.99
Pete Doherty and Charlotte Gainsbourg star in this period drama based on the autobiographical 19th century novel by French writer Alfred de Musset.
DETACHMENT (15) 2011 KAYE, TONY £15.99
A substitute teacher working in a disadvantaged inner city school meets a young prostitute and offers her refuge in his home and a tender father/daughter relationship develops between them.
DOUBLE CONFESSION (PG) 1950 ANNAKIN, KEN £12.99
Film noir, Jim Medway (Farr) discovers his ex-wife has been murdered he tries to find the killer, pointing the finger at mob boss Charlie Durham (Hartnell), who was involved with the deceased. But Inspector Tenby (Naunton Wayne) of Scotland Yard is not convinced he is the culprit.
END OF WATCH (15) 2012 USA AYER, DAVID £17.99
Two LAPD cops find themselves on a drug cartel's death list in this gritty action drama from writer/director David Ayer.
EVERYDAY (15)M 2012 UK WINTERBOTTOM, MICHAEL £15.99
John Simm stars in this emotive drama charting the strains placed on a family relationship due to the father's imprisonment . Filmed a few weeks at a time over a period of five years to accurately reflect both the protagonist's time in prison and the ageing process.
GAMBIT (12A) 2012 HOFFMAN, MICHAEL £17.99
Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz star in this remake of the 1966 romantic comedy caper.
GINGER AND ROSA (12) 2012 UK POTTER, SALLY £15.99
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. BLU RAY £19.99
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (12) 2012 UK NEWELL, MIKE £19.99
Adaptation staring Ralph Fiennes and Helena Bonham Carter.
I, ANNA (15) 2012 UK SOUTHCOMBE, BARNABY £15.99
This London-set noir thriller starring Charlotte Rampling and Gabriel Byrne.
THE IMPOSSIBLE (12) 2012 BAYONA, JUAN ANTONIO £19.99
Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts star in this Academy Award-nominated disaster drama set in Thailand during the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami.
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (12) 1967 USA JEWISON, NORMAN £9.99
Rod Steiger plays a small-town Mississippi sheriff who is forced to collaborate on a murder investigation with Virgil Tibbs, a black homicide detective from Philadelphia (Sidney Poitier). The pair at first find themselves totally at odds with each other, but as the investigation proceeds each learns to respect the other's talents. The film won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Steiger.
JANE EYRE (12) 2011 FUKUNAGA, CARY £19.99
Adaptation of the classic novel by Charlotte Bronte staring Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender.
THE JOY OF SIX (15) 2012 £15.99
Six award winning short films- Long Distance Information (Douglas Hart, 8 mins), Man in Fear (Will Jewell, 11 mins), A Gun For George (Matthew Holness, 18 mins), Scrubber (Romola Garai, 21 mins), The Ellington Kid (Dan Sully, 5 mins), Friend Request Pending (Chris Foggin, 12 mins)
KEYHOLE (18) 2011 CANADA MADDIN,GUY £19.99
Ghosts and gangsters come together in Canadian director Guy Maddin's surreal, noir-ish thriller, loosely based on Homer's 'Odyssey'.
LIFE OF PI (PG) 2012 LEE, ANG £19.99
Academy Award-winning fantasy adventure based on Yann Martel's Booker Prize-winning novel.
MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN (12) 2012 MEHTA, DEEPA £19.99
Based on Salman Rushdie magic realist novel, the film is set against the backdrop of India's independence from British rule and the resulting partition of India.
LES MISÉRABLES (12A) 2012 HOOPER, TOM £19.99
Academy Award-winning big-screen adaptation of the stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel.
ON THE ROAD (15) 2012 SALLES, WALTER £17.99
Brazilian director Walter Salles helms this adaptation of the iconic novel by Jack Kerouac that defined the Beat Generation.
PAN AM: SEASON 1 (15) 2012 £28.99
US period drama starring Christina Ricci as an air stewardess working for Pan American Airways in the 1960s at the dawn of the jet engine and mass public air travel.
QUARTET (12) 2012 HOFFMAN, DUSTIN £19.99
Comedy drama adapted by writer Ronald Harwood from his own stage play of the same name.
SAMSARA/BARAKA (12) 1992/2011 FRICKE, RON £34.99
'Samsara' (2011) - Dispensing with dialogue and descriptive text and filmed in stunning Panavision Super 70 cinematography filmed over a five-year period in 25 countries across five continents we transports us via to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.
'Baraka' (1992), we are shown images which help explore man's relationship with nature.
SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS (15) 2012 MCDONAGH, MARTIN £15.99
Crime caper about a struggling screenwriter who finds himself entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld and carries out an ill-fated dognapping.
TO ROME WITH LOVE (12) 2012 WOODY, ALLEN £15.99
The film follows a number of different characters who form a part of the life of Rome.
THE TV SET (12) 2012 KASDAN, JAKE £15.99
David Duchovny stars in this comedy drama satirising the world of television production.
THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH (15) 1990 USA HARTLEY, HAL DVD - £15.99 BLU-RAY - £19.99
Romantic comedy about a Long Island teenager beset with worries - college, parents, nuclear war - and frustrated by small-town life.
NEW DVD RELEASES 2012
NEW DVD RELEASES 2012
388 ARLETTA AVENUE (15) CANADA 2011 COLE, RANDALL £15.99
Canadian thriller filmed entirely with hand-held and surveillance cameras. A married couple are being watched by an unknown person.
A DANGEROUS METHOD (15) 2011 CRONENBERG, DAVID £19.99
Film is based on the relationship between the two founding fathers of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE (15) 1974 USA CASSAVETES, JOHN £19.99
Although Nick (Peter Falk) and Mabel Longhetti (Gena Rowlands) still love each other, a failure to communicate leads to the deterioration of their marriage when the latter suffers a nervous breakdown. The film won two Academy Award nominations for the real life husband and wife team of John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands.
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: THE SECRET OF THE UNICORN (U) 2011 USA SPIELBERG, STEVEN £19.99
Steven Spielberg brings Hergé's Tintin to the big screen with this animated adventure. With plot lines drawn from three Tintin stories - 'The Crab With the Golden Claws', 'The Secret of the Unicorn' and 'Red Rackham's Treasure'.
THE ATHLETE (PG) 2009 FRANKEL, D/LAKEW, R £15.99
Biographical feature drama about Ethiopian sportsman Abebe Bikila. who becomes a world sensation when he runs barefoot to win Olympic gold in the Rome marathon in 1960, and, four years later in Tokyo, becomes the first person ever to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the marathon. Soon after this, however, a car accident leaves him paralysed from the waist down and unable to walk.
THE ARTIST (PG) 2011 HAZANAVICIUS, MICHEL £19.99
Modern-day silent film comedy recounting the demise of the silent film industry in the late 1920s.
BALLAST (15) 2008 HAMMER, LANCE £15.99
A double prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival and one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2008, Ballast is a stunningly evocative story of personal catastrophe and communal redemption.
A BIGGER SPLASH (15) 1974 HAZAN, JACK £19.99
Director Jack Hazan and writer David Mingay had access to David Hockney and his circle from 1971 to 1973, a critical period for the internationally- acclaimed artist, during which time they crafted this ground-breaking and enthralling docu-drama, celebrating Hockney’s life, work and milieu
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.
BRILLIANT LOVE (18) 2010 UK HORNER, ASHLEY £15.99
An explicitly erotic love story centering on the relationship between two young people and how a chance accident changes their lives forever.
BOARDWALK EMPIRE: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON (18) 2010 USA £39.99
All 12 episodes from the first season of the HBO period drama set during the 1920s Prohibition era.
CHILDREN OF GOD (TBA) 2009 MORTIMER, KAREEM £15.99
Drama about homophobia in the Bahamas.
CHRISTOPHER AND HIS KIND (15) 2010 SAX, GEOFFREY £19.99
BBC drama based on the life of writer Christopher Isherwood (Matt Smith).
DAFUR (15) 2009 BOLL. UWE £19.99
Harrowing drama set in Sudan. A group of six international journalists travel to a small village in Janjaweed territory in Darfur to report on recent atrocities there. On arrival, they begin to question the villagers and are shocked by their accounts of rape, torture and murder inflicted by the government and the rebel militia.
THE DESCENDANTS (15) 2011 USA PAYNE, ALEXANDER £19.99
Comedy drama starring George Clooney as a lawyer forced to rethink his approach to life after his wife is hospitalised following a serious accident.
DUFFER/MOON OVER THE ALLEY(15) 1971/6 UK DESPINS, J /DUMARESQ, W £19.99
Duffer is a bizarre study of obsession that is by turns beautiful and disturbing, featuring sound design from acclaimed electronic composer Delia Derbyshire, while The Moon Over the Alley (1976) is an equally unconventional drama about the problems of the multicultural residents of a West London boarding house with fantastic musical numbers by Galt 'Hair' MacDermot.
THE EXECUTION OF PRIVATE SLOVIK (12) 1974 USA JOHNSON, LAMONT £12.99
Made-for-TV drama based on the real life court-martial and execution of US soldier Eddie Slovik for desertion during WWII.
FACES (15) 1968 USA CASSAVETES, JOHN £19.99
Richard and Maria Forst (John Marley and Lynn Carlin), a middle-aged couple, are both seeking solace outside their sterile 14-year marriage, he with a prostitute (Gena Rowlands), she with a hunk at her local disco (Seymour Cassel). Their behaviour inevitably brings them to the brink of a break-up.
FRENCH FILM - A FRENCHMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE (15) 2009 UK OUDNEY, JACKIE £12.99
British romantic comedy offering a wry look at the different ways in which the French and the British approach love and romance. When he interviews French film director and self-appointed expert on love Thierry Grimandi (Eric Cantona), jaded journalist Jed (Hugh Bonneville) is forced to re-evaluate his relationship with girlfriend Cheryl.
GOD BLESS AMERICA (15) 2011 GOLDTHWAIT, BOBCAT £15.99
Blackly comic critique of modern America and its obsession with reality television, celebrity and consumerism.
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART ONE (12) 2010 YATES, DAVID £24.99
First slice of the two-part final instalment in the fantasy adventure film series based on the bestselling books
by J.K. Rowling. BLU RAY - £24.99
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART TWO (12) 2011 YATES, D. £24.99
The final instalment in the fantasy adventure film series .
HOW ABOUT YOU (15) 2007 IRELAND BYRNE,ANTHONY £19.99
Irish comedy drama based on a short story by Maeve Binchy. Hayley Atwell stars as Ellie, a young woman who ends up in charge of a residential home for the elderly over the Christmas period.
HOWL (15) 2010 EPSTEIN, ROB £15.99
Drama based on the obscenity trial faced by Beat poet Allen Ginsberg following the publication of his poem 'Howl'.
THE HUNGER GAMES (12A) 2011 ROSS, GARY £22.99
Sci-fi action film based on the best-selling novel by Suzanne Collins. Jennifer Lawrence stars as 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, a citizen of the totalitarian post-apocalyptic country of Panem, formerly the United States. Every year, the all-powerful ruling agency known as the Capitol selects one boy and one girl from each of Panem's 12 impoverished rival districts to fight to the death on live national television in a contest known as 'The Hunger Games', in which the winner is given food to feed their entire district for a year. BLU RAY - £27.99
J. EDGAR (15) 2011 USA EASTWOOD, CLINT £19.99
Biopic starring Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover the first ever Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from its inception till his death in 1972.
THE IDES OF MARCH (15) 2012 USA CLOONEY, GEORGE £19.99
Political drama starring Ryan Gosling as an idealistic young press secretary who gets caught up in the cynicism of a modern day election campaign. Based on a play by Beau Willimon
THE ILLUSIONIST (PG) 2010 FRANCE CHOMET, SYLVAIN IN ENGLISH £19.99
Hand-drawn animated feature based on an unproduced script that the French comic Jacques Tati wrote in 1956 for his daughter. Set in the late 1950s, the film tells the story of an ageing Paris illusionist whose career has come under threat from the increasing popularity of cinema and pop music.
IN DARKNESS (15) 2011 HOLLAND, AGNIESZKA £19.99
True story of a sewage worker who saved the lives of 14 Jews in the Polish city of Lvov during the Second World War.
THE IRON LADY (15) 2012 LLODY, PHYLIDA £19.99
Biopic starring Meryl Streep in an Oscar-winning performance as former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
IRVINE WELSH'S ECSTASY (18) 2011 HEYDON, ROB £17.99
Dark-tinged indie romantic comedy based on Irvine Welsh's novella 'The Undefeated'
THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (15) 2010 USA CHOLODENKO, LISA £19.99
Golden winning comedy stars Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as a middle-aged lesbian couple bringing up their two teenage children. BLU RAY - £24.99
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Biopic about Burmese pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.
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World War Two drama from Alfred Hitchcock following the tensions that arise in a lifeboat filled with the survivors of a torpedoed passenger ship.
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Ray Milland stars as a writer and inveterate alcoholic who evades his brother to embark on a binge around New York.
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More tales from the advertising agency in 1960s New York
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Seasons 1-5 of the American drama series set in a prestigious advertising agency in early 1960s New York, where sexism is a way of life and everyone smokes like a chimney.
MALCOLM X (15) 1992 USA LEE, SPIKE £12.99
Spike Lee's film about the life of the controversial black leader Malcolm X, who emerged from the streets to become a powerful voice for the black rights movement in America.
MARCHLANDS (15) 2010 £19.99
Five-part ITV drama following three families who live in the same house during different decades.
MARY AND MAX (12) 2009 AUSTRALIA ELLIOT, ADAM £15
Toni Collette, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Eric Bana and Barry Humphries provide the voice talents for this darkly comic, Australian, claymation-animated feature charting the 20-year correspondence of two extremely unlikely pen pals.
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Ultra-low-budget indie sci-fi film. BLU RAY - £19.99
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This biopic of Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky stars Richard Chamberlain in the title role.
NEVER LET ME GO (12) 2010 ROMANEK, MARK £19.99
Writer Alex Garland adapts Kazuo Ishiguro's novel for the big screen
NEW BRITISH CINEMA QUARTERLY ANNUAL (TBA) 2010 UK £24.99
A four-volume collection of British feature films and documentaries. '1234' (2008) follows the trials and tribulations involved in setting up a band. 'No Greater Love' (2009) is a documentary portrait of daily life at a central London convent. 'Skeletons' (2010), Davis (Ed Gaughan) and Bennett (Andrew Buckley) are a mismatched pair of travelling exorcists who spend their working day performing the unusual business of literally clearing skeletons out of people's closets. 'Brilliantlove' (2010), Manchester (Liam Browne) is a young photographer who meets and falls in love with Noon (Nancy Trotter Landry), a quiet and withdrawn taxidermist.
OLD JOY (15) 2006 USA REICHARDT, KELLY £15.99
Acclaimed US indie drama explores the need to hang onto the spirit of youth in an increasingly complex world.
PRIVATE ROAD (15) UK 1971 PLATTS-MILLS, BARNEY £19.99
British drama which follows the relationship of a young couple. Author Peter (Bruce Robinson) takes time out from working to move in with his receptionist girlfriend, Ann (Susan Penhaligon), against the wishes of her parents. When Ann falls pregnant, Peter is torn between pursuing his artistic passion of writing and committing to the domestic lifestyle.
REVOLUTION: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT (15) 1985 HUDSON, HUGH £19.99
Adventure drama set during the American Revolutionary War.
ROBINSON IN RUINS (U) 2010 UK KEILLER, PATRICK £19.99
Avant-garde British filmmaker Patrick Keiller directs this experimental pseudo-documentary, which takes the viewer on a visual and intellectual pilgrimage through the various landscapes of modern England.
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL (E) £59.99
Live performance of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play, recorded at London's Greenwich
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Live performance of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play, recorded at London's Greenwich Theatre. An Interactive CD-Rom so a student can edit their own version of one of the scenes filmed.
SHADOWS (PG) 1959 USA CASSAVETES, JOHN £19.99
Set in the jazzy, beatnik underground of 50s New York, John Cassavetes' first film features a score by Charles Mingus, improvised performances, a gritty naturalism and is widely considered to be a landmark in independent filmmaking. A black woman (Lelia Goldoni) begins an affair with a white man, creating family and racial tension
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BBC drama based on real events in World War Two. In September 1942, a German U-boat sinks the British ocean liner
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THE SLAP: SERIES 1 (12) 2011 AUSTRALIA £19.99
An adult slapping a child at a family birthday party leads to far reaching consequences.
SOURSWEET (15) 1989 UK NEWELL, MIKE £14.99
British drama following a Chinese couple who emigrate to England. Five years later they have saved enough money to
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SOUTH RIDING (15) 2011 £19.99
Andrew Davies adapts Winifred Holtby's novel for this three-part BBC period drama set after the First World War about a modern, forward-thinking career woman full of drive and ambition.
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Big-screen adaptation of the comic strip by Posy Simmonds. BLU RAY - £19.99
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Acclaimed director Paolo Sorrentino helms this comedy drama about a one-time rockstar who sets out on an unlikely odyssey to track down the Nazi camp guard who tormented his father in Auschwitz.
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All thirteen episodes from the first and second series of the BBC mockumentary comedy following the trials and tribulations of the team responsible for staging the 2012 London Olympic Games.
UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS (PG) 2011 LYN, EUROS £19.99
BBC remake of the 1970s period drama series of the same name, charting the exploits of one middle-class family and their working-class servants in the Victorian/Edwardian era.
WALL STREET: MONEY NEVER SLEEPS (12) 2010 USA STONE, OLIVER £19.99
Oliver Stone's long-awaited sequel to his 1987 hit, 'Wall Street'. The film again follows the infamous Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) as he is released from prison only to discover he is an outsider in the world he once ruled. BLU RAY £28.99
WEST IS WEST (15) 2010 UK DEEMMONY, ANDY £17.99
Eleven years after the hit British-Asian comedy drama, 'East is East' (1999), writer Ayub Khan-Din continues the story of the dysfunctional Khan family and its ongoing struggles with life between two worlds
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Tense thriller/drama based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell, set in the poverty-stricken backwoods of the Ozark.
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Polish director helms this Paris-set psychological thriller adapted from the 2007 book by Douglas Kennedy.
WOODY ALLEN 20 FILM COLLECTION (18) £55.00
A 20-volume set of Woody Allen films. The films featured comprise: 'Alice' (1990), 'Annie Hall' (1977), 'Another Woman' (1988), 'Bananas' (1971), 'Broadway Danny Rose' (1984), 'Crimes and Misdemeanors' (1989), 'Every Thing You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask' (1972), 'Hannah and Her Sisters' (1986), 'Interiors' (1978), 'Love and Death' (1975), 'Manhattan' (1979), 'Melinda and Melinda' (2004), 'A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy' (1982), 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' (1985), 'Radio Days' (1987), 'September' (1987), 'Shadows and Fog' (1991), 'Sleeper' (1973), 'Stardust Memories' (1980) and 'Zelig' (1983).
YOUNG ADULT (15) 2011 REITMAN, JASON £19.99
Charlize Theron stars plays spoiled, self-centred 37-year-old former prom queen
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ADORATION (15) 2008 EGOYAN, ATOM £15.99
Coming-of-age drama.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND USA 2009 BURTON, TIM £21.99
Adventure based on the characters from the Lewis Carroll classics 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass'. BLU RAY £24.99
AN EDUCATION (12) UK 2009 SCHERFIG, LONE £15.99
Coming-of-age drama set in 1960s London, adapted for the screen by novelist Nick Hornby from the memoirs of journalist Lynn Barber.
AVATAR (12) USA 2009 CAMERON, JAMES £19.99
Academy Award sci-fi action adventure. BLU RAY - £29.99
BLACK SWAN (15) 2010 UKA ARONOFSKY, DARREN £19.99
Psychological thriller set in the American ballet world starring Natalie Portman in an award-winning performance.
BRIGHTON ROCK (15) 2010 JOFFE, ROWAN £19.99
Rowan Joffe writes and directs this adaptation of Graham Greene's novel. Updating the story from its original 1930s setting to the mid-1960s world of mods and rockers. BLU RAY - £24.99
BOX (12) USA 2009 KELLY, RICHARD £17.99
From writer/director Richard Kelly ('Donnie Darko') comes this suspense horror, based on a short story by Richard Matheson and starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden.
CITY OF WAR - THE STORY OF JOHN RABE (15) GERMANY 2009 GALLENBERGER, FLORIAN IN ENGLISH £15.99
A World War Two drama based on real events, in which Ulrich Tukur stars as John Rabe, a German businessman and card-carrying member of the Nazi party who uses his influence to save the lives of thousands of Chinese citizens from the brutal offensive.
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Set among a auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York.
CRACKS (15) USA 2009 SCOTT, JORDAN £17.99
Period drama set in an English boarding school for girls in the 1930s.
CRAZY HEART 2009 USA COOPER, SCOTT £19.99
Drama based on the 1987 novel by Thomas Cobb, starring Jeff Bridges as burned-out country singer.
BLU RAY £24.99
DISGRACE (12) 2008 JACOBS, STEVE £12.99
Drama based on the novel by South African author J.M Coetzee.
EDGE OF DARKNESS (15) 2010 USA CAMPBELL, MARTIN £19.99
Political thriller based on the award-winning 1980s BBC series. BLU RAY £19.99
FATHER AND SON(15) UK 2009 BRIAN KIRK £19.99
ITV drama about a gangster who is forced to leave behind his now quiet life in Dublin to return to his hometown, where he must do all he can to save his 15-year-old son from prison and make peace with his own troubled past.
THE FIGHTER (15) 2010 RUSSELL, DAVID O. £19.99
Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale star in this drama based on the lives of professional boxers.
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Adaptation of the novel by Anne Michaels, about a mans memories of the holocaust continue to consume him until he realises that he cannot move on with his life without facing up to the demons of his past.
GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18) 2010 OPLEV, NIELS ARDEN £19.99
Swedish thriller based on the bestseller by Stieg Larsson. In 1966, 16-year old Harriet disappeared without a trace and 40 years later a journalist sets out to find out what happened to her. BLU RAY £23.99
GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE (15) USA 2009 STEVEN SODERBERGH, £17.99
Set against the backdrop of the run-up to the 2008 presidential elections, the film chronicles several days in the life of Chelsea, an ambitious upmarket Manhattan call girl. BLU-RAY - £19.99
THE GREATEST (15) 2009 USA FESTE, SHANA £12.99
Pierce Brosnan and Susan Sarandon star as the Brewers, an affluent couple whose well-ordered life is shattered when their oldest son is killed in a car crash
GREEN ZONE (15) 2010 GREENGRASS, PAUL £19.99
Iraq war thriller loosely based on the book 'Imperial Life in the Emerald City' by Washington Post journalist Rajiv Chandrasekaran. BLU RAY - £23.99
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Based on the true events of the 1981 Hunger Strike at the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland.
HURT LOCKER (15) 2008 USA BIGELOW, KATHRYN £19.99
Tense and gritty war following the lives of an army bomb disposal squad in war-torn Iraq. BLU RAY £24.99
I KNOW YOU KNOW (15) UK 2008 KERRIGAN, JUSTIN £15.99
Bittersweet British drama starring Robert Carlyle. BLU-RAY £19.99
THE INFORMANT! (15) USA 2009 STEVEN SODERBERGH, 2009 £19.99
Comedy crime drama starring Matt Damon and Scott Bakula, based on the true story told in the best-selling book by Kurt Eichenwald .. BLU-RAY - £24.99
INVICTUS (12) 2009 USA EASTWOOD, CLINT £19.99
Drama based on events that took place in South Africa. In an effort to help unite his racially and economically divided country newly-elected Nelson Mandela joins forces with Francois Pienaar captain of South Africa's rugby team to the universal language of sport to help bring his people together BLU RAY £26.99
JULIE AND JULIA (12) USA 2009 NORA EPHRON £19.99
Feelgood drama based on the memoirs of Julie Powell and Julia Child, starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams and Stanley Tucci, about the lives of two women and their passion for cooking. BLU RAY £24.99
KING'S SPEECH (12A) 2010 HOOPER, TOM £19.99
Award-winning drama telling the story of the relationship formed between King George VI (Colin Firth) and his speech therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush). BLU RAY £23.99
KIPPUR (15) 2000 ISRAEL GITAI, AMOS £15.99
War drama based on Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai's personal experiences in the
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KISSES (15) IRELAND 2008 DALY, LANCE £17.99
Irish drama following two children, who run away from their troubled family homes
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LENNON NAKED (15) 2010 £15.99
Christopher Eccleston stars as the enigmatic musician in a defining period of his life, as he moved from Beatle to solo artist.
LIFE DURING WARTIME (15) 2009 SOLONDZ , TODD £19.99
Blackly comic drama. Recently divorced from her jailed husband Bill, Trish is about to remarry Harvey and looks forward to having him as a 'normal' father figure to her two sons.
LOVE ME STILL (TBA) UK 2008 HILLER, DANNY £12.99
Mickey has been in prison for the last eight years, serving a sentence for armed
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As Mickey's release draws closer, he decides to surprise his loved ones, keeping the
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LOVELY BONES (12) 2009 USA JACKSON, PETER £19.99
Drama based on the bestselling novel by Alice Sebold, about a 14-year-old girl who was murdered in 1973 and now watches over her family from heaven, trying to find ways to communicate with them how to find her hidden body and solve her murder. BLU RAY - £24.99
MAN MEN SEASONS 1-3 (15) USA WEINER, MATTHEW £59.99
Seasons 1-3 of the American drama series set in a prestigious advertising agency in early 1960s New York, where sexism is a way of life and everyone smokes like a chimney.
MARGARET (PG) 2009 KENT, JAMES £15.99
Feature-length BBC docudrama based on the last years in the political career of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS (15) USA 2009 HESLOY, GRANT £17.99
Kevin Spacey, George Clooney and Ewan McGregor star in this war spoof based on the non-fiction book by Jon Ronson. - BLU RAY - £24.99
MY FATHER PABLO ESCOBAR (E) 2010 ENTEL, NICOLAS £19.99
Documentary profiling the life and death of the notorious head of the Medelin drug cartel, as told by his son.
NIGHTWATCHING (2-DISC SET) (18) 2007 GREENAWAY, PETER £15.99
Biographical drama exploring the life and work of 19th-century Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn.
NOWHERE BOY (15) UK 2009 TAYLOR WOOD, SAM £17.99
Directorial debut is a chronicle of John Lennon's teenage years in 1950s Liverpool.
BLU RAY - £17.99
A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION (PG) 2006 USA ALTMAN, ROBERT £9.99
Robert Altman directs this comedy about the last night of a long-running country and western radio programme and the characters who have kept it going over the years.
THE ROAD (15) USA 2009 HILLCOAT JOHN £19.99
Adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in the burnt-out wasteland of a post-apocalyptic America. BLU RAY £19.99
ROSALIE GOES SHOPPING (15) 1989 ADLON,PERCY £15.99
Comic satire on the American consumer boom.
SALMONBERRIES (15) 1989 ADLON, PERCY £15.99
A strange androgynous figure (played by K.D. Lang) turns up in the Alaskan
settlement of Kotzebue, demanding information from the widowed German librarian Roswitha. The two begin a friendship and a search through the past for Kotz's true identity.
SAMSON AND DELILAH (15) 2009 THORNTON, WARWICK £15.99
Warwick Thornton's debut feature follows the fledgling romance between two Aboriginal teenagers. BLU-RAY £19.99
A SERIOUS MAN (15) 2009 COEN J/E £15.99
Black comedy about a Midwestern physics professor whose settled life begins to spiral out of control after his wife reveals she is leaving him. BLU-RAY £19.99
SEX AND DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL (15) UK 2009 WHITECROSS, MAT £19.99
Andy Serkis stars as Dury in this biopic of late British singer-songwriter Ian Dury.
SHERLOCK HOLMES (12) 2009 RITCHIE, GUY £19.99
The great Victorian detective returns in this action thriller starring Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law.
BLU RAY £24.99
A SINGLE MAN (12A) USA 2009 FORD, TOM £15.99
Drama based on a short story by Christopher Isherwood, a middle-aged English professor in 1960s Los Angeles is grieving the recent death of his long-time partner Jim. BLU RAY - £19.99
THE SISTERS (15) USA 2005 SEIDELMANN, ARTHUR £9.99
Drama based on the Chekhov play 'The Three Sisters'
THE SOCIAL NETWORK (12) USA 2010 FINCHER, DAVID £19.99
Acclaimed drama is based on the story of the creation of 'Facebook'. who in 2003 developed the social networking site while he was an undergraduate at Harvard. Six years later Zuckerberg is a millionaire but his success is proving to be problematic to his personal life and he finds himself undergoing multiple legal battles.
SOI COWBOY (15) 2008 CLAY, THOMAS £15.99
Brighton-based filmmaker Thomas Clay directs this two-part drama set in
SOUNDS OF SAND (12) 2006 HANSEL, MARION £14.99
An African family sets out across the desert to find a new life.
SUTRA (E) 2008 UK MAY, DEBORAH £19.99
Celebrated Flemish/Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, in collaboration with Turner Prize winning artist Antony Gormley, presents a brand new dance work inspired by the skill, strength and spirituality of Buddhist
Shaolin monks.
TESTAMENT OF YOUTH (PG) UK 1979 ARMSTRONG, MOIRA £19.99
Adaptation of Vera Brittain's autobiography. In 1913, Brittain is set to take up a place at Oxford University, but with the outbreak of the Great War opts to become a volunteer nurse, working at the Western Front. Here Brittain witnesses the harsh realities of war first hand.
TRACK 29 (18) 1988 UK NICOLAS ROEG, £15.99
Dennis Potter penned this psychological drama when a women meets mysterious young British hitchhiker Martin (Gary Oldman), and wonders if he could be the son she gave up for adoption at birth while she was still in her teens
TREME: SEASON 2 (15) 2011 £39.99
Complete second season of the US drama set in New Orleans. The residents of the Treme neighbourhood continue to rebuild their lives after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, now 14 months previously.
TRUE GRIT (15) 2010 USA COEN BROTHERS £19.99
Coen Brothers updating of the classic 1969 western starring Jeff Bridges as U.S. Marshal 'Rooster' Cogburn, originally played by John Wayne.
TWIN PEAKS: DEFINITIVE GOLD BOX EDITION (15) 1991 USA LYNCH, DAVID £70.99
The complete seasons 1 and 2 of David Lynch's landmark murder mystery series.
THE UNLOVED (TBA) UK 2009 MORTON, SAMANTHA £12.99
Drama directed and co-written by Samantha Morton, eleven-year-old Lucy has suffered years of neglect by her unstable parents and finally ends up being taken into care. The film tracks her experiences as she struggles to adapt to life in a children's home, and suffers the indignities of an under-resourced care system.
UNMADE BEDS (15) UK 2009 DOS SANTOS, ALEXIS £15.99
Offbeat British drama about two wide-eyed young expatriates squatting in a London warehouse.
UP IN THE AIR (15) USA 2009 JASON REITMAN £19.99
George Clooney is a corporate downsizing expert - in other words, his job is to fire people from theirs - and he takes his job very seriously. BLU RAY - £26.99
VAN DIEMENS LAND (15) 2009 JONATHAN AUF DER HEIDE £19.99
Australian thriller based on real historical events. In 1822, eight prisoners escape the brutal penal settlement of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania).
VIGO - PASSION FOR LIFE (15) 1997 UK TEMPLE, JULIEN £15.99
Would-be filmmaker Jean Vigo (James Frain), blighted by tuberculosis, seeks a cure in a Pyrenees sanatorium. There he meets fellow sufferer Lydu Lozinka (Romane Bohringer), with whom he begins a passionate relationship..
WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (PG) 1956 USA LANG, FRITZ £11.99
Classic Fritz Lang thriller.
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13 Year old girls learns some hard lessons about what's really important in life.
ADAM AND PAUL (15) 2004 ABRAHAMSON, LEONARD £9.99
Friends since they were small boys, Adam and Paul have withered into two hapless, desperate Dublin junkies, tied together by habit and necessity.
AGE OF STUPID (E) 2009 UK ARMSTRONG, FRANNY £17.99
Docudrama tackling the subject of climate change and the depletion of the earth's fossil fuel supply.
ALAN BENNETT: AT THE BBC (TBA) £28.99
A selection of BBC plays and observational pieces written by celebrated playwright Alan Bennett. The collection includes: 'A Visit From Miss Prothero', 'Sunset Across the Bay', 'A Day Out', 'A Woman of No Importance', 'Our Winnie', 'An Englishman Abroad', 'Dinner at Noon', 'The Insurance Man', '102 Boulevard Haussman', 'A Question of Attribution' and 'Portrait Or Bust'.
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 drama written and directed by Gerry O'Hara, based on his own novel..
AN ENGLISHMAN IN NEW YORK (15) 2009 LAXTON, RICHARD £15.99
John Hurt stars as Quentin Crisp in this biographical drama based on the last 20 years of Crisp's life.
AN INSPECTOR CALLS (PG) 1954 UK HAMILTON, GUY £15.99
Alastair Sim stars in the film adaptation of the J.B. Priestley play.
ANCHORESS (12) 1993 UK NEWBY, CHRIS
This poetic debut feature is the visually arresting story of religious conflict set in the 14th century, in which a young girl's transcendental vision threatens to upset the foundations of her community.
ANDREW MARR'S HISTORY OF MODERN BRITAIN (12) 2009 UK £19.99
Covers key events that have shaped British society since the end of the Second World War, including the collapse of Empire, Britain's uneasy truce with former enemies and allies in Europe, and tensions in the 'special relationship' Britain has with the United States. Episodes are: 'Advance Britannia', 'The Land of Lost Content', 'Paradise Lost', 'Revolution' and 'New Britannia'.
ANDREW MARR'S HISTORY COLLECTION (12) 2009 UK DASHWOOD, ROBIN £29.99
The complete series 1 and 2 of the polemical BBC modern history programme written and presented by political commentator Andrew Marr. Series 1, 'Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain' (2007) looks at the key events that have shaped British society since the end of the Second World War, including the collapse of Empire, Britain's uneasy truce with former enemies and allies in Europe, and tensions in the 'special relationship' Britain has with the United States. Series 2, 'Andrew Marr's Making of Modern Britain' (2009) goes back further in history to examine the turbulent period between 1900 and 1945, from the death of Queen Victoria to the end of the Second World War.
ANGELS AND DEMONS (12) 2009 USA HOWARD, RON £21.99
Mystery thriller based on the bestselling novel by Dan Brown.
ANTICHRIST (18) 2009 USA TRIER, LARS VON £19.99
Lars von Trier's controversial exploration of depression, guilt and sexuality. BLU RAY - £24.99
BEFORE STONEWALL (15) 1984 USA SCHILLER, GRETA £14.99
Revealing and often humorous history of homosexuality in America, from 1920's Harlem through to World War II and the witch hunt trials of the McCarthy era.
BERLIN (E) 2009 UK £15.99
BBC correspondent Matt Frei presents this three-part series that charts the history, architecture and people that have come to define Berlin through the centuries.
BEST OF 16TH RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL SHORTS (E) £14.99
A compilation of short films premiered at the UK's 2009 Raindance independent film festival.
BLINDNESS (18) 2008 USA FERNANDO MEIRELLES £15.99
As a city is ravaged by an epidemic of sudden blindness, its victims are quarantined in a derelict hospital where a woman fakes the illness to rescue her husband.
BLOOD ON THE SUN (PG) 1945 USA LLOYD, FRANK £7.99
Newspaper editor Nick Condon (James Cagney) is based in Tokyo, and puts his life and those of others at risk when he runs a story revealing Japan's plans to conquer China.
BOOM! (TBA) 1968 UK LOSEY, JOSEPH £19.99
Based on Tennessee Williams' play, 'The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More', BOOM! stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
BORZAGE: VOLUME 1 - SEVENTH HEAVEN/STREET ANGEL (PG) 1928 USA BORZAGE, FRANK £17.99
'Seventh Heaven' (1927), Paris street cleaner Chico (Charles Farrell) steps in to rescue prostitute Diane (Janet Gaynor) from the wrath of her sister. When the police subsequently arrive to arrest her, Chico pretends they are both married. In 'Street Angel (1928), prostitute Angela (Janet Gaynor) has to flee Naples when she steals medicine for her dying mother. Takin in by a passing circus, she meets and falls in love with Gino (Charles Farrell), a painter.
CASS (18) 2008 UK BAIRD, JON S £15.99
British drama based on the true story of a Jamaican baby who loses his parents and is subsequently adopted and raised by an elderly white couple in London. Unfortunately, his new way of life eventually leads to an assassination attempt against him. Cass survives but is left with an important choice - to fully embrace the violence that has shaped his life or to make a completely new start.
CAST OFFS (15) 2009 UK BOWEN, MIRANDA/BOYLE, AMANDA £19.99
Controversial Channel 4 mockumentary comedy drama with a cast of six actors each with a different disability.
CATHOLICS (U) UK 1973 GOLD, JACK £9.99
Controversial for its time, The Catholics stars Trevor Howard in a powerhouse
performance as the Abbot in charge of a remote Irish monastery in Mork, Eire.
CHE: PART ONE (15) 2008 USA SODERBERGH, STEVEN £15.99
First instalment of political drama starring Benicio del Toro as iconic revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, based on the memoirs of Guevara.
CHE: PART TWO (15) 2008 USA SODERBERGH, STEVEN £15.99
Second instalment Guevara now moves on to foment revolutions in both Africa and South America, ending up in the mountains of Bolivia while being pursued by CIA-backed counter-insurgency raiders.
CHE PARTS ONE & TWO BOXSET (15) SODERBERGH, STEVEN £24.99
CHEVOLUTION (15) 2008 LOPEZ, LUIS £12.99
Documentary that traces the history of one of the most iconic images of the 20th century - the photo of Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara taken by photographer Alberto Korda. Since then, the bereted head of the martyred leader has appeared on everything from protest banners to t-shirts, becoming the image of choice for both revolutionaries and advertisers alike.
CHARLES DICKENS'S ENGLAND (E) 2009 £15.99
Derek Jacobi presents this documentary exploring the towns, villages and rural locations where novelist Charles Dickens lived and worked, and looking at how he went on to use these places in his novels and stories.
COST OF LIVING (E) 2004 UK NEWSON, LLOYD £14.99
Shot on location in Cromer Eddie is tough, confrontational and not afraid to defend his belief in justice and honesty. David is a dancer who has no legs. A series of inter-linking scenes shows how Eddie and David negotiate life, fall in and out of relationships and survive day to day.
CREATION (PG) 2009 USA JAMIEL, JON £17.99
Biopic explores the crisis of faith suffered by evolutionary scientist Charles Darwin.
BLU -RAY £24.99
CROSSING OVER (18) 2009 USA KRAMER, WAYNE £19.99
Ensemble drama following immigrants from around the globe as they struggle to achieve American residency in the city of Los Angeles.
CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON (12) 2008 USA FINCHER, DAVID £19.99
Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett star in this fantasy drama based on a 1922 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald. BLU RAY - £24.99
DAMNED UNITED (15) 2009 UK HOOPER, TOM £19.99
Michael Sheen stars in this dramatisation of Brian Clough's disastrous 44-day stint as the coach of Leeds United, based on the acclaimed novel by David Peace.
DEAD HOMIEZ (E) 1993 SNYDER, GREG £15.99
Docudrama, based on fact, about the effect gang violence has on the communities involved in South Central Los Angeles.
DESPERATE ROMANTICS (15) 2009 UK £24.99
All six episodes of the BBC period drama series depicting the turbulent lives of four young artists in mid-19th century London.
DESIRE (U) 1936 USA BORZAGE, FRANK £9.99
Classic romantic drama starring Marlene Dietrich as Madeleine de Beaupre, a crafty and calculating jewel thief.
DISTRICT 9 (15) 2009 USA BLOMKAMP, NEILL £19.99
Sci-fi film about the tense relationship between a group of aliens who have lived in a segregated camp in South Africa for 30 years and the humans who have been trying to keep them and under their control.
BLU RAY - £24.99
DONKEY PUNCH (18) 2008 UK BLACKBURN, OLIVER £15.99
British thriller in which a carefree holiday in Spain for three young women turns into a living nightmare.
DORIAN GRAY (15) 2009 UK PARKER, OLIVER £17.99
Ben Barnes takes the title role in this 2009 adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 1891 novel. BLU RAY £24.99
EMMA (U) 2009 UK £24.99
Lavish BBC's period drama, which stars Romola Garai, Jonny Lee Miller and Michael Gambon.
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (U) 2007 HERZOG, WERNER £19.99
Documentary about Antarctica's unique landscape and the history of the world's most southerly continent..
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.
THE FILM NOIR COLLECTION (12) 1945-1950 £29.99
Set containing the essential film noir titles Fallen Angel (Preminger, 1945),
Whirlpool (Preminger, 1949), Night and the City (Dassin, 1950) and Where
the Sidewalk Ends (Preminger, 1950).
FISH TANK (15) 2009 UK ARNOLD, ANDREA £15.99
Gritty, darkly humorous tale of fatal attraction between a 15-year-old and her mothers new boyfriend Connor.
FOUR LIONS (15) 2009 UK MORRIS, CHRIS £19.99
Black comedy about Omar, a devout British-based Muslim who forms a small terrorist group. Omar is an unconvincing leader and his team of fellow terrorists are just as unimpressive. BLU-RAY £24.99
FOR ALL MANKIND (E) USA 1989 REINHART, AL £19.99
Extraordinary NASA footage taken by the various astronauts of the Apollo programme.
FROZEN RIVER (15) 2008 HUNT, COURTNEY £15.99
Drama set on the border of a Mohawk reservation located between New York State and Quebec. Two women living near the border, one white and one Mohawk, are drawn by the lure of ready cash into smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States across the treacherous frozen waters of the St Lawrence river.
GIRL FROM MONDAY (15) 2005 USA HARTLEY, HAL £15.99
Alien from outer space assumes the human form of a beautiful young woman in search of a friend she believes is in trouble.
THE GO-BETWEEN (PG) 1970 UK LOSEY, JOSEPH £15.99
Alan Bates and Julie Christie in this tale of a passionate love affair thwarted by class prejudice. Scripted by Harold Pinter from the LP Hartley's novel.
THE GOLD DIGGERS (U) UK 1983 POTTER, SALLY £19.99
The ground-breaking first feature from the director of Orlando and The Tango Lesson,
The Gold Diggers is a key film of early Eighties feminist cinema.
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.
HAMLET (12) 2009 UK DORAN, GREGORY £19.99
The Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning production stars David Tennant in the title role.
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (15) 2008 USA YATES, DAVID £24.99
The sixth in the sequence of films based on the phenomenally successful books by J.K Rowling.
HELEN (PG) 2008 UK MOLLOY, CHRISTINE/LAWLOR, JOE £19.99
Helen is asked to play a missing woman, Joy, in a police reconstruction. Gradually she immerses herself in the role, and by borrowing elements of Joy's life begins herself to flower.
HENRI TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (E) 2009 £18.49
Profile of the life and work of the great French Post-Impressionist painter.
HENRY FOOL (18) 1998 USA HARTLEY, HAL £15.99
Hal Hartley gathers together a cast of oddballs and eccentrics for this quirky adult comedy.
HERE COME THE GIRLS (18) £15.99
Nine up-and-coming and established female filmmakers bring you a refreshing variety of shorts that look at all aspects of lesbian life and love
HEROSTRATUS (15) 1967 UK LEVY, DON £19.99
A young poet wishing to take his own life soon finds events have overtaken him in this experimental 1960s drama. BLU RAY £24.99
HILLSBOROUGH (TBA) 1996 MACDOUGALL, CHARLES £15.99
Moving, fictionalised account that tells, through the stories of three families, the events of the Hillsborough Stadium disaster, in which 96 fans lost their lives.
HURT LOCKER (15) 2008 USA BIGELOW, KATHRYN £19.99
Tense and gritty war following the lives of an army bomb disposal squad in war-torn Iraq.
I'M NOT THERE (15) 2007 USA HAYNES, TODD £15.99
Impressionistic biopic of Bob Dylan. Blu Ray - £19.99
IN THE LOOP (15) 2009 UK IANNUCCI, ARMANDO £17.99
Big-screen spin-off of the BBC series 'In the Thick of It' - satirising the inner workings of British and American politics as the powers-that-be attempt to 'sell' the deeply unpopular Iraq invasion to the public on both sides of the Atlantic.
IN THE NEWS: BRITISH MILITARY TRADITIONS (E) 1969 £14.99
A collection of cinema newsreel and archive television footage recording official celebrations of Britain's military traditions.
THE INFORMERS (15) 2008 JORDAN, GREGOR £19.99
Ensemble drama co-written by Bret Easton Ellis, based on his 1994 collection of short stories following the adventures of a loosely-connected group of people in 1983 Los Angeles.
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS (18) 2009 USA TARANTINO, QUENTIN £19.99
Ensemble action drama set in Europe during World War Two.
INSIDE LIFE (E) 2009 £12.99
All ten episodes from the CBBC wildlife photography series.
INSTITUTE BENJAMENTA (PG) 1996 BROTHERS QUAY £19.99
The first full-length live action feature from the Brothers Quay, usually famed for their surreal animated shorts. BLU RAY £24.99
JOHN BALDESSARI (E) 2009 £18.49
Documentary about John Baldessari who revolutionised contemporary art in the 1960s.
LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY (12) £17.99
The first BBC drama to be filmed entirely on location in Botswana, which chronicles the adventures of Mma Ramotswe.
LIFE (E) 2009 UK £39.99
Ten-part natural history series that explores the unusual and spectacular behaviour employed by the world's wildlife in order to survive.
LITTLE DORRIT (U) UK 1988 EDZARD, CHRISTINE £24.99
Six Hour adaptation of the Dickens novel.
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.
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.
LOOKING FOR ERIC 2009 UK (15) LOACH, KEN £19.99
Upbeat comedy set in Manchester, about a football-mad postman who receives life coaching from his idol, the enigmatic French footballing legend, Eric Cantona. BLU RAY £24.99
LOOSE CHANGE 9/11 - AN AMERICAN COUP (E) 2009 USA AVERY, DYLAN £12.99
Conspiracy theory documentary, which has existed in different incarnations on the internet since 2005 and has now undergone a 'final cut' for official release. The film examines events surrounding the 9/11 attacks, suggesting that the attacks were planned and conducted by elements within the United States government.
MAD, SAD AND BAD (15) 2008 UK AVIE LUTHRA £12.98
Ensemble comedy about a dysfunctional mixed race family living in Luton.
MADELEINE (U) 1949 UK LEAN, DAVID £12.99
Based on the true story of a Glasgow woman accused of murdering her lover in 1857.
MAN OF VIOLENCE (18) 1971 UK WALKER, PETER £19.99
British crime drama in which a soldier of fortune becomes involved with some bent cops searching for missing gold bullion.
MILK (15) 2008 USA SANT, GUS VAN £15.99
Political biopic telling the story of California's first openly gay elected public official, Harvey Milk.
MONTEZUMA (E) 2009 £15.99
Presenter Dan Snow traces the history and legacy of the last ruler of the Aztec kingdom, Montezuma.
MY SISTER'S KEEPER (12) 2008 USA CASSAVETES, NICK £19.99
Adaptation of Jodi Picoult novel about 13-year-old girl who was conceived by IVF in order to be a genetic match for her older sister who has battled leukemia since childhood. BLU RAY - £24.99
NCB COLLECTION - PORTRAIT OF A MINER (E) 1978 UK £24.49
A five-hour collection of short films, filmed between 1947 and 1978 by the National Coal Board Film Unit, that brings to life the working history of British miners, their families, and the communities that supported them.
NEVER APOLOGIZE (15) UK 2007 KAPLAN, MIKE £12.99
Film of Malcolm McDowell's one-man stand-up tribute to his great friend Lindsay Anderson.
NOEL COWARD TRILOGY (12) 1998 UK £12.99
Three-part BBC documentary, made for the Arena culture series, traces the life, career and legacy of celebrated playwright, composer, actor, occasional filmmaker and wit Noel Coward.
NOOSE (PG) 1948 UK GRÉVILLE, EDMOND T. £11.99
After another body is found washed up in the Thames, nosy news reporter Linda Medbury and her excommando boyfriend Jumbo Hoyle get on the trail of a gang of black marketeers.
OBJECTIFIED (E) HUSTWIT,GARY £17.99
Film takes an in-depth look at industrial art and the design processes of some of society's most iconic consumer durables.
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..
ORLANDO (PG) 1992 POTTER, SALLY £15.99
Sally Potter's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's witty modernist novel took eight years to make it to the screen and is a meticulously crafted commentary on all things English as well as being a wonderfully romantic tale.
THE OTHER MAN (15) 2008 USA EYRE, RICHARD £15.99
Film adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's novel. Liam Neeson stars as a husband looking for his missing wife when he discovers a tangled web of secrets relating to his wife and consequently finds himself forming an unusual bond with her lover.
PART-TIME WIFE (PG) 1961 UK VARNEL, MAX £8.99
British farce in which a man needs an instant wife to impress a moneyed uncle, and an
insurance salesman is only too happy to help by loaning out his wife.
PASSCHENDAELE (15) 2008 CANADA GROSS,PAUL £15.99
Epic drama recounting the First World War battle that became a byword for the carnage of the times. BLU RAY £19.99
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
PERMISSIVE (18) UK 1970 SHONTEFF, LINDSAY £17.99
Suzy arrives in London and is unwittingly plunged into the ruthless world of the ‘groupie'in this dark British countercultural artefact that is shot through with grim authenticity. BLU RAY £22.99
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.
PIET MONDRIAN (E) 2009 £18.49
Documentary about this artist.
PLAYING AWAY (15) 1987 UK OVE, HORACE £19.99
Friendships and hostilities vie for attention when a West Indian cricket team from Brixton plays a team from a Suffolk village.
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.
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.
PRIVILEGE (15) UK 1967 WATKINS, PETER £17.99
Steven Shorter, the biggest pop star of his day, but, in reality he is a Puppet whose popularity is carefully managed by government-backed handlers keen to keep the country's youth under control.
PUBLIC ENEMIES (15) 2009 USA MANN, MICHAEL £19.99
Action thriller set in 1930s gangland America. Johnny Depp stars as the charismatic bank robber John Dillinger. BLU RAY - £24.99
PUFFBALL (18) UK 2007 ROEG, NICOLAS £19.99
Chilling tale of love, lust and loss in rural Ireland.
RESPOND TO SOUND (E) YOUNGE, ADRIAN £15.99
Documentary depicting the evolution of Black American street dance from 1760s to the 1960s, and how it laid the foundation for Hip Hop.
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD (15) 2009 USA MENDES, SAM £17.99
Emotional drama based on the 1961 novel by Richard Yates. Stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet
RIP! - A REMIX MANIFESTO (E) 2009 USA GAYLOR, BRETT £14.99
Documentary exploring the thorny issue of music copyright within the context of the re-mixing, sampling and mash-up media prevalent in popular music today.
SECRET LIFE OF BEES (12) USA 2008 PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD, GINA £19.99
Based on the best-seller novel this female-centric drama stars Dakota Fanning stars as Lily, a 14-year-old girl living with her abusive father in South Carolina in 1964.
SHOOT ON SIGHT (15) UK 2007 MUNDHRA, JAG £17.99
Fictional political thriller based on the London terrorist bombings of 7/7.
SHOT IN BOMBAY (E) UK 2008 Mermin, Liz £15.99
Documentary populated by a charismatic and often surreal cast of characters, goes beyond the glamour of ‘Bollywood' to explore some of the industry's darker sides.
SKIN (12A) 2008 SOUTH AFRICA ANTHONY FABIAN £12.99
Drama based on the true story of Sandra Laing, a black girl born to two white Afrikaaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era. A genetic throwback to the mixed blood of previous generations of her family, Sophie's skin colour causes problems for her bigoted father
SLEEP FURIOUSLY 2008 UK KOPPEL, GIDEON £19.99
Meditative study of a small farming community in mid-Wales that observes the rhythms of country life, and the rhythms of the monthly visits of the mobile library.
SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (15) 2009 UK BOYLE, D./TANDAN, L. £15.99
Mumbai-set, rags-to-possible riches talethat won winner of eight Oscars
SNAPPER (15) 1993 FREARS, STEPHEN £12.99
Second part of Roddy Doyle's 'Barrytown' trilogy.
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (U) 1937 USA £21.99
Disney's classic animated adaptation of the famous fairytale.
SOMERS TOWN (12) 2008 UK MEADOWS, SHANE £15.99
Warmhearted portrait of an unlikely friendship between two boys on the inner London housing estate of Somers Town.
STAR TREK (12) 2009 USA ABRAMS, J.J. £19.99
Big-budget spin-off of the classic 1960s sci-fi adventure series. BLU-RAY - £26.99
STEAL THIS FILM (E) 2006 USA £14.99
Documentary examining what implications the boom in internet piracy.
SUNSHINE CLEANING (15) 2008 USA JEFFS, CHRISTINE £17.99
Slice-of-life comedy drama focusing on the efforts of two sisters to finally make a future for themselves.
BLU-RAY - £22.99
SWASTIKA (E) 1973 BECKER, LUTZ / MORA, PHILIPPE £17.99
Controversial documentary, told exclusively through propaganda archive footage and colour home movies made by Hitler's fiancee Eva Braun.
TELSTAR (15) 2009 UK MORAN, NICK £16.99
Blackly comic, music-infused biopic about the life of maverick British record producer Joe Meek.
THAT KIND OF GIRL(12) UK 1963 O'HARA, GERRY £17.99
1960s London, a beautiful continental au pair finds herself wrestling with the affections of an earnest peace-protester, a dashing young toff and a roguish older man. BLU RAY £22.99
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.
TO HELL AND BACK (PG) 1955 USA DRAKE, CHARLES £15.99
Audie Murphy, the most decorated American soldier in World War Two, stars as himself in this action-packed war drama based on his autobiography.
TRUE BLOOD: SEASON 1(18) 2009 USA LEHMANN, MICHAEL £39.99
All 12 episodes from the first season of the offbeat vampire drama series penned by 'American Beauty' and 'Six Feet Under' writer Alan Ball.
TRUST (15) 1990 USA HARTLEY, HAL £15.99
A humourous offbeat movie that offers an astute comment on various kinds of relationships between men and women in modern America.
TUDORS SEASON 1 AND 2 (15) 2008 UK £39.99
Emmy Award-nominated historical drama series focusing on the life and romances of the young King Henry VIII
TUDORS SEASON 3 (TBA) 2009 UK £29.99
All eight episodes from the third season of this historical drama series.
UNRELATED (15) 2008 UK HOGG, JOANNA £19.99
Anna, a fortyish childless woman who, leaving her partner at home, joins the family of an old friend at a Tuscan villa.Rather than the adults, she finds herself drawn to the company of the teenagers, but discovers she can never really be part of either group.
VALKYRIE (12) 2008 USA SINGER, BRYAN £15.99
Tom Cruise and Kenneth Branagh star in this World War II suspense thriller. At the height of the war, a group of high-ranking German officers, hatched a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler and seize power of the military command in order to end the war and make peace with Allied forces. BLU-RAY £29.99
VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA (12) 2008 ALLEN, WOODY £17.99
Woody Allen writes and directs this romantic comedy drama, his fourth consecutive film to be shot outside the United States.
WAVERIDERS (PG) 2008 CONROY, JOEL £15.99
Documentary examining the semi-Irish roots of today's worldwide surfing phenomenon.
WC (18) 2007 IRELAND O Mochain, Liam
Film about the trials and tribulations of Jack and Katya, two lowly paid toilet attendants at a Dublin jazz bar , one is debt-ridden, the other is an illegal immigrant.
THE WRESTLER (PG) 2008 USA ARONOFSKY, DARREN £15.99
Mickey Rourke plays professional wrestler who had his heyday in the late 1980s as a headlining professional wrestler but is now reduced to eking out a living by performing in high school gyms and community centres in New Jersey. BLU RAY £20.99
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.
THE WORLD UNSEEN (12) 2007 SOUTH AFRICA SARIF, SHAMIM £19.99
Romantic drama set in South Africa in the early 1950s, the beginning of the apartheid era. Two very different women of Indian origin, timid housewife Miriam and the outspoken and headstrong Amina, meet and fall in love despite outrage and disapproval from those around them.
THE WRECKER (U) 1928 UK BOLVARY, VON GEZA £19.99
Silent mystery thriller. which was thought lost for many years, features an early script from Angus MacPhail, who went on to provide the screenplay for the 1949 classic 'Whisky Galore!'.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (15) 2009 GIEDROYC, COKY £19.99
Stars Tom Hardy and Charlotte Riley as the ill-fated Heathcliff and Cathy.
YELLOW BITTERN - THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LIAM CLANCY (E) 2009 GILSERAN, ALAN £19.99
This documentary film charts their remarkable rise to fame from their small-town beginnings in Ireland to the folk hey-day of Greenwich Village.
THE YOUNG VICTORIA (PG) 2009 UK VALLEE, JEAN-MARC £19.99
Emily Blunt plays young Victoria.
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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39 STEPS (12) UK 2008 HAWES, JAMES £15.99
TV adaptation of the spy thriller by John Buchan.
ANGEL (15) UK 2007 OZON, FRANCOIS £19.99
Acclaimed French filmmaker Franþois Ozon directs this lush adaptation of a novel by the English writer Elizabeth Taylor.
ARYAN COUPLE (15) 2004 DALY, JOHN £15.99
Based on the true story of a Jewish Hungarian's forced to hand over his vast wealth to save his family from Nazi death camps only to find his two remaining servants are left trapped in a web of deceit and danger.
AUSTRALIA (12) 2007 USA LUHRMANN, BAZ £19.99
Epic action-romance set in the first half of the 20th century. Nicole Kidman, plays an English
beauty trying to save her Australian ranch by teaming up with a cattle driver, played by Hugh
Jackman. BLU RAY £24.99
BEAT CITY (E) DVD - £12.99
This hour-long programme explores the Merseybeat phenomenon of the early 60s.
BERLIN AIRLIFT (E) £12.99
The complete story of the 1948 blockade of Berlin by the Soviet Union.
BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS (12) HERMON, MARK £17.99
Based upon the novel by John Boyne the film focuses on the unlikely friendship that forms
between the son of a concentration camp commander and a young Jewish boy held in the camp. BLU RAY - £24.99
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED (12) 2008 JARROLD, JULIAN £19.99
New adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh novel BLU RAY - £29.99
BRIMSTONE AND TREACLE (18) 1982 UK LONCRAINE, RICHARD £5.99
Taut, well-made thriller tells the story of a strange young man who befriends a middle-aged couple and tends for their crippled daughter.
BURN AFTER READING (15) USA 2008 COEN BROTHERS £19.99
George Clooney stars in a blackly comic film set in the world of former spys. BLU RAY - £24.99
CELLULOID CLOSET (E) 1995 USA EPSTEIN, ROB/FRIEDMAN, JEFFREY £17.99
Documentary chronicles the way movies have portrayed homosexuals for the past 100 years and how these images, both positive and negative have helped shape America's attitudes toward gays.
CHARLES DARWIN AND THE TREE OF LIFE (PG) 2008 £15.99
Made to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and coming 150 years after the ‘Origin Of The Species’ was first published, this fascinating documentary uncovers the life and work of Darwin and features candid interviews with the likes of David Attenborough and Melvyn Bragg.
CLASSIC LITERATURE - D.H. LAWRENCE (E) £4.99
Exploring the man behind the myth and the context in which works such as LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER and SONS AND LOVERS were written.
DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (PG) UK 2008 JONES, JON £19.99
Five-part BBC drama presents an intimate portrayal of the tragically short life of Anne Frank and her family.
EL CANTANTE (15) USA 2008 ICHASO, LEON £15.99
Based on the life of salsa legend Hector Lavoe who rises through the Bronx's vibrant Latin music scene during the 1960s and '70s. but along the way, he becomes a drug addict, sabotaging not only his music, but his relationships.
ENCHANTED APRIL(U) NEWELL, MIKE £19.99
Charming tale of four women who find Romance, hope and, ultimately, liberation during a month's holiday in an Italian villa overlooking the sea.
ELEGY (15) COIXET, ISABEL £19.99
In this adaptation of Philip Roth's THE DYING ANIMAL, Ben Kingsley stars as a professor who finds his life in upheaval after he begins a romance with a young beauty (Penelope Cruz). BLU RAY - £24.99
F.T.A.(E) £14.99
This documentary chronicles the anti-Vietnam War troupe F.T.A. led by Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland, as they performed their unique brand of protest around early 70's America.
GENERATION KILL (18) USA 2008 £38.99
This gritty, seven-part mini series chronicles the befuddling first 40 days of the Iraq war from the perspective of the Marines' First Recon Batallion.
GOOD ARROWS (15) UK 2008 WELSH, I./GRACE, H £19.99
Sharp, dark, controversial and wickedly hilarious, ‘Good Arrows' also marks Irvine Welsh's first directorial feature.
GAZWRX - THE FILMS OF JEFF KEEN (15) £33.99
Forty-plus films in this set is a truly unique exploration of sex and war, as well as a pushing of traditional narrative boundaries. BLU RAY - £33.99
GREAT ADVENTURERS - ROBERT FALCON SCOTT (E) £10.99
GREAT ADVENTURERS - CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS (E) £10.99
GREAT ADVENTURERS - SIR FRANCES DRAKE (E) £10.99
GREAT ADVENTURERS - SIR WALTER RALEIGH (E) £10.99
GREAT ADVENTURERS - DR DAVID LIVINGSTONE AND STANLEY (E) £10.99
GREAT ADVENTURERS - ERNEST SHACKLETON (E) £10.99
HANDMAID'S TALE (15) 1990 UK SCHLONDORFF, VOLKER £15.99
The end of the 20th Century finds a repressed society run by puritans and the majority of women barren. Under this new regime fertile women are handmaids and are placed among important childless couples to become pregnant. An adaptation of Margaret Atwood's novel, with the screenplay scripted by Harold Pinter.
HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 3 - SENIOR YEAR (U) £19.99
East High Tigers dance their way from the Disney Channel to the silver screen in this feature film BLU RAY - £26.99
HUNGER (15) MCQUEEN, STEVE £19.99
Harrowing drama explores the real life events of the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike at Northern Ireland's Maze Prison.
I.O.U.S.A. (E) 2008 £15.99
Exposing the economic crisis currently facing the United States, I.O.U.S.A. pulls no punches in its grim projection of the country's financial future.
JOHN ADAMS (12) USA 2008 HOOPER, TOM £39.99
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by David McCullough this seven-part series follow John Adams, the second president of the United States, during his leadership of America during some of its most turbulent times.
THE JOY OF SEX EDUCATION (18) £19.99
This anthology provides an informative, albeit amusing, look back at social mores and attitudes towards sex and sexual politics of the time. Britain's reputation as a nation of prudes can be traced all the way back to sex education films of the late 1910s, when filmmakers hid behind euphemism to spare audiences unnecessary embarrassment.
LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORD-SERIES 1 (PG) UK 2008 GREENING, JOHN £34.99
Ten-part BBC adaptation of Flora Thompson's classic novel tells the story of two Oxfordshire communities at the end of the 19th century.
LARK RISE TO CANDLEFORD-SERIES 2 (PG) UK 2008 GREENING, JOHN £34.99
LITTLE DORRIT (12) UK 2008 WALSH D/SMITH A £34.99
Andrew Davies brings to life Dickens's powerful story in this BBC adaptation.
LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER (12) UK 1962 RICHARDSON, T. £19.99
Alan Sillitoe's autobiographical novel about a rebellious 18-year-old living in dreary Lancashire. BLU RAY £22.99
MATISSE-PICASSO (E) FRANCE 2002 £12.99
This documentary studies the similarities in the work between Matisse and Picasso and the impact of their work on their bond of friendship.
OCEANS (E) 2008 £29.99
Stunning BBC series that explores the hidden depths of our world's seas: nature's last true wilderness. Among the eight episodes of this series are: ‘The Indian Ocean', ‘The Atlantic Ocean', ‘The Red Sea', ‘The Sea Of Cortez' and ‘The Mediterranean Sea'.
OPERATION VALKYRIE(E) £9.99
This revealing documentary chronicles the failed attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on July 20th 1944.
PRIDE AND GLORY (15) USA 2008 O'CONNER, GAVIN £19.99
After several New York City cops are killed, one policeman must investigate his own family as he tries to solve a difficult case. BLU RAY - £23.99
PUTIN SYSTEM (E) £12.99
Putin biography explores just how his ascension to leader came about.
QUEER AS FOLK (18) UK 1999 £24.99
The series, which honestly tackles the intricate and complex story of three Manchester gay men and their trials and relationships.
QUEER AS FOLK - TWO (18) UK 1999 Controversial TV drama. £24.99
DVD BOX SET OF SERIES ONE AND TWO - £39.99
QUO VADIS (PG) 1951 USA LEROY, MERVYN £16.99
MGM turned Henry Sinkiewicz's Nobel Prize-winning novel into one of the most extravagant productions in film history. BLU RAY £19.99
RED RIDING TRILOGY (18) UK 2009 £29.99
Three films set in 1974, 1980 and 1983 revolve controversial stories revolving around the manhunt for the brutal Yorkshire Ripper. After a failed attempt to crack Fleet Street, a cynical journalist returns to his homeland of Yorkshire and finds himself assigned to report on the case of a local girl who has gone missing.
RICHARD DAWKINS PRESENTS - THE GENIUS OF CHARLES DARWIN (E) 2008 19.99
Evolutionary biologist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins explores the work of Charles Darwin.
RIGHTEOUS KILL (15) AVNET, JON £19.99
De Niro and Pacino star as two cops who team up to catch a serial killer in this crime thriller.
BLU RAY £21.99
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 hardworking factory worker with a fiercely individualist streak and general contempt for the establishment. BLU RAY £22.99
SCORSESE - RAGING BULL/NEW YORK, NEW YORK/BOXCAR BERTHA/THE LAST WALTZ/THE KING OF COMEDY (18) USA £24.99
A selection of films from director Martin Scorsese
SECRET LIFE OF ELEPHANTS (E) 2008 £19.99
This amazing series filmed in northern Kenya's stunning Samburu National Reserve follows the remarkable lives of wild elephants and the research team trying to help them.
SIR! NO SIR! (E) USA 2005 ZEIGER, DAVID £14.99
Documentary which looks at some of the American soldiers who opposed the Vietnam war, many of whom risked life and limb to make their point heard.
SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (15) 1961 USA KAZAN, ELIA £12.99
Warren Beatty makes his screen debut alongside Natalie Wood in this drama revolving around repressed sexuality and small-town hypocrisy in 1920s America.
SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO (15) 2007 MIIKE, TAKASHI £19.99
Quention Tarantino makes a brief appearance in this film that pays homage to both the spaghetti western and classic Japanese cinema.
TEN EASY WAYS TO HELP YOU IMPROVE YOUR MEMORY (E) £9.99
This fascinating programme offers helpful techniques and advice on improving your memory.
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.
UNRELATED (15) UK 2007 HOGG, JOANNA £19.99
Missed opportunities and forgotten dreams are brought to the forefront of Anna's mind, as she finds herself on holiday in Tuscany with a wealthier, more successful friend and their family.
VICTORIAN FARM (E) £19.99
Historical documentary series challenged a group of experts, including a food historian and two archaeologists, to rediscover the skills and tools of the mid-19th century and run a mock-Victorian farm in Shropshire.
VISITOR (15) USA 2008 MCCARTHY, TOM £19.99
A gentle drama about illegal immigration.
W. (15) USA 2008 STONE, OLIVER £19.99
Star-laden biopic of George W. Bush. John Brolin stars as our eponymous ‘hero' in this critical analysis of Bush's rise from election through his first term as president of the United States. BLU RAY - £24.99
WAR INC.(15) £15.99
Set in a fictionalized Middle East, the film takes United States foreign affairs to comic extremes in a world where corporations rule and wars are completely outsourced.
WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR? (U) USA PAINE, CHRIS £15.99
In the 1990s, following California's passing of the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate and American car companies began producing electric cars for mainstream consumption The documentary looks at the tangled web of interests behind the electric car's untimely demise, laying out convincing cases against the auto industry, big oil, corrupt federal and state governments, and consumers themselves.
ZERO - AN INVESTIGATION INTO 9/11 (12A) USA 2008 FRACASSI F/TRE, F £12.99
Documentary explores the inconsistencies found in the official account of the 2001 terrorist attacks. With evidence and dramatic new witness testimony, the film challenges the events which led to the subsequent war on terror.
NEW RELEASES WINTER 2008/9
A FOREIGN AFFAIR (U) USA 1948 WILDER, BILLY £9.99
Romantic comedy staring Marlene Dietrich
A KIND OF LOVING (15) UK 1962 SCHLESINGER, JOHN £15.99
Alan Bates stars as a young man who must decide whether to follow his heart or his responsibilities when his girlfriend falls pregnant .
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.
A TOUCH OF LOVE (15) UK 1969 HUSSEIN, WARIS £15.99
Student falls pregnant and she decides to keep the baby and raise her child by herself, much to the disapproval of her town
ADULTHOOD (15) UK 2007 CLARKE, NOEL £19.99
Sequel to the hard-hitting drama Kidulthood
ANGEL (U) USA 1937 LUBITSCH, ERNST £9.99
Marlene Dietrich stars in this dry Lubitsch romantic comedy.
ASYLUM (18) UK 2005 MACKENZIE, DAVID £15.99
A psychiatrist's wife encounters one of her husband's charges, an inmate at a maximum security asylum in the outskirts of London. Her curious attraction to this man
BABYLON (15) UK 1981 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.
BAD BOYS (18) 1995 USA BAY, MICHAEL £12.99
When $100 million of seized heroin is stolen from the Miami Police lockup, Detectives Lowrey (Will Smith) and Burnett (Martin Lawrence), Miami's most mismatched cops, are called upon to solve the case
BARACK OBAMA - HIS STORY (E) £9.99
This documentary presents the riveting story of a truly successful political leader who has overcome a troubled adolescence and the challenge of being one of the most notable multiracial politicians of his time.
BEAT STREET (15) USA 1984 LATHAN, STAN £15.99
Rapper Kenny and his break dancing brother Lee are up and coming soul artists. They only need a few good connections and one big break to make it.
BLOOD AND OIL (E) £12.99
The film unearths declassified documents and highlights forgotten passages in prominent presidential doctrines to show how concerns about oil have been at the core of American foreign policy for more that 60 years
CANTERBURY TALES: THE KNIGHTS TALE (15) UK 2003 £5.99
CANTERBURY TALES: THE MAN OF LAWS TALE (15) UK 2003 £5.99
CANTERBURY TALES-MILLER'S TALE (15) UK 2004 £5.99
BBC's highly-acclaimed modern retelling of Chaucer's classic tale
CATHOLICS (U) UK 1973 GOLD, JACK £9.99
Controversial for its time, The Catholics stars Trevor Howard in a powerhouse performance as the Abbot in charge of a remote Irish monastery in Mork, Eire.
CHAPLIN (15) UK 1992 ATTENBOROUGH, RICHARD £12.99
Downey Jr. gives a dazzling performance as Chaplin
CHARLEY BOORMAN - BY ANY MEANS (TBA) £19.99
Travelling from his native Wicklow in Ireland, Charley will drive, sail and ride his way across three continents, finally arriving in Sydney, Australia.
CHOP SUEY CLUB (15)USA 2001 WEBER, BRUCE £19.99
The film takes us deep into his obsessions in this tantalizing assemblage of beautiful images that adds up to a scrapbook of three decades of American cultural life from the point of view of one of its premiere photographers
CINEMA 16 - WORLD SHORT FILMS (E) £19.99
The majority of the films are accompanied by audio commentaries, almost always by the directors themselves. Directors included on the 2 Disc set include Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron and Sylvain Chomet.
CLASSIC LITERATURE: D.H. LAWRENCE (E) - £5.99
CLASSIC LITERATURE - SHAKESPEARE (E) - £5.99
CLASSIC LITERATURE: THOMAS HARDY (E) - £5.99
CLASSIC LITERATURE: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (E) - £5.99
CLOUDED YELLOW (PG) UK 1951 THOMAS, RALPH £15.99
Action-packed thriller ranks alongside Hitchcock's great British thrillers.
CODE 46 (15) UK 2003 WINTERBOTTOM, MICHAEL £9.99
Sci-fi film about a country where control is omnipresent for the good of the populace and genetics forms the basis of laws.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE (15) UK 2008 £19.99
BBC crime drama starring Ben Wishaw and Pete Postlewaite which suspect through the criminal justice system.
DEVIL IS A WOMAN (U) USA 1935 STERNBERG, JOSEF VON £9.99
Set against the surreal and fantastic Carnival in Spain, this film tells the story of an older man's obsession for a woman who is desired by all but can belong to no one.
DUEL IN THE SUN (PG) USA 1946 VIDOR, KING £5.99
Controversial epic Western
EDGE OF LOVE (15) UK 2008 MAYBURG, JOHN £19.99
This biopic tells the story of the romantic complications that arise between Welsh poet Dylan Thomas his young wife.
EINSTEIN AND EDDINGTON (E) £17.99
Story of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, his relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington
ELEGY (15) USA 2008 COIXET, ISOBEL £19.99
Adaptation of Philip Roth's novel, ‘The Dying Animal', about an elderly college professor's affair with his young student.
ERASERHEAD (18) USA 1976 LYNCH, DAVID £19.99
This films post-apocalyptic, dystopian, nightmare vision has amazed and disturbed audiences for over 30 years.
FLOCK (18) USA 2008 LAU, ANDREW £15.99
Emotionally scarred from years of tracking down sex offenders, hyper-vigilant case-worker, Babbage (Richard Gere) battles his own demons as he hunts for a missing girl who he's sure was abducted by one of his ‘flock' of paroled criminals.
GHOSTWRITER (15) USA CUMMING, ALAN £9.99
Darkly comic revenge fantasy.
HANCOCK (12) USA 2008 BERG, PETER £19.99
Will Smith stars as Hancock a reluctant super hero. BLU RAY DISC £24.99
HAPPY-GO-LUCKY (15) UK 2008 LEIGH, MIKE £19.99
Poppy is a cheery North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
HIGH NOON (U) USA 1952 ZINNERMANN, FRED £12.99
Classic western.
HITCHCOCK FRENCH RESISTANCE - BON VOYAGE AND AVENTURE MALGACHE (E) UK 1944 £16.99
Compilation of two wartime shorts Hitchcock made for the Ministry of Information
IRON MAN (12) USA 2008 FAVREAU, JON £19.99
Big screen adaptation of the popular Marvel comic superhero BLU RAY DISC £29.99
JUNIOR BONNER (PG) USA 1972 PECKINPAH, SAM £5.99
Junior Bonner (Steve McQueen), a drifting rodeo star, is on his way to join his family for the Frontier Days Celebration. When he arrives, however, he finds his house abandoned.
KEN BURNS - WAR (E) USA 2007 BURNS, KEN £49.99
World War II as seen through the experiences of four "quintessentially American towns" – Luverne in Minnesota, Mobile in Alabama, Sacramento in California, and Waterbury in Connecticut.
KILLER OF SHEEP (12) USA 1977 BURNETT, CHARLES £15.99
Examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse.
KING LEAR (12) UK 2008 NUNN, TREVOR £19.99
Stars Ian McKellen.
LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY (12) £17.99
The first BBC drama to be filmed entirely on location in Botswana, which chronicles the adventures of Mma Ramotswe.
LAND OF PLENTY (15) USA 2004 WENDERS, WIM £19.99
A personal social commentary from internationally acclaimed director Wim Wenders investigating anxiety and disillusionment in post 9/11 America.
LITTLE DORRIT (U) UK 1988 EDZARD, CHRISTINE £24.99
Six Hour adaptation of the Dickens novel.
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.
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (15) 2007 USA NEWELL, MIKE £19.99
Based on the novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez about a smouldering 50 year romance.
MODIGLIANI (15) USA 2004 DAVIS, MICK £9.99
Andy Garcia stars as the painter Modigliani, an Italian Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a beautiful Catholic girl.
MOROCCO (U) USA 1930 STERNBERG, JOSEF VON £9.99
Marlene Dietrich and Sternberg's first Hollywood collaboration sees Marlene as a cabaret singer who runs to the desert to escape from her past.
MUSIC BOX (U) USA 1989 GAVRAS, COSTA £15.99
Defence lawyer trying to block the extradition of her father, a Hungarian steelworker who is accused of having been a sadistic Nazi torturer during World War II.
MY BROTHER'S WEDDING (12) USA 1983 BURNETT, CHARLES £17.99
Warm,wry drama about a young man torn between obligations to his hard-working family, aspirational brother and criminally-minded friends.
MY WINNIPEG (12) CANADA 2007 MADDIN, GUY £19.99
Extraordinary blend of autobiographical reminiscence, travelogue documentary, polemical essay, surreal satire and pure cinematic poetry.
NEVER APOLOGIZE (15) UK 2007 KAPLAN, MIKE £12.99
Film of Malcolm McDowell's one-man stand-up tribute to his great friend Lindsay Anderson.
NO END IN SIGHT (E) USA 2007 FERGUSON, CHARLES £12.99
First documentary of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy.
ONE WHO SET FORTH: WIM WENDERS EARLY YEARS (12) 2007 USA WEHN, MARCEL £19.99
Documentary sheds an extremely personal and intimate light on the early life and work of Win
Wenders.
PARTITION (12) 2007 SARIN, VIC £15.99
An epic love story caught in the 1949 events that divided India and Pakistan.
PASSION (15) UK 2008 OFFER, MICHAEL £19.99
Critically acclaimed biblical drama from the BBC.
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY II - GLACIERS: CLUES (E) £19.99
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY II - LIFE IN MESOZOIC (E) £19.99
PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY II - WETLANDS, MARSHE (E) £19.99
POLICING LONDON THE 70S - FILMS FROM THE METROPOLITAN POLICE ARCHIVE (E) £14.99
Available for the first time on DVD 4 hard hitting films from the Metropolitan Police archive vividly capturing the work of police officers in London during the 1970's.
POOR COW (15) UK 1967 LOACH, KEN £15.9
Young mother is forced to fend for herself when her brutal and uncaring husband, Tom (John Bindon), is put in jail.
PRAISE (18) AUSTRALIA 1998 CURRAN, JOHN £15.99
Bizarre, erotic tale of two down-on-their-luck individuals whose passionate affair threatens to save or destroy them.
PRIZZI'S HONOR (15) USA 1985 HUSTON, JOHN £5.99
Hit-man Charley Partanna (Jack Nicholson) falls in love with ' (Kathleen Turner), who in fact turns out to be in the same business as him, working for a Mafia family.
PUFFBALL (18) UK 2007 ROEG, NICOLAS £19.99
Chilling tale of love, lust and loss in rural Ireland.
SCARLET EMPRESS (12) usa 1934 STERNBERG, JOSEF VON £9.99
Marlene Dietrich stars as a young Princess of Germany, Sophia, is taken to Russia to marry the Grand Duke Peter, son of the domineering Empress, in an attempt to improve the royal blood line.
SCROOGE (1951) [SPECIAL EDITION] (U) UK 1951 HURST, BRIAN £19.99
Classic Dickens Christmas tale .
SHANGHAI EXPRESS (PG) 1932 STERNBERG, JOSEF VON £9.99
Marlene Dietrich star in this thrilling adventure set on a train travelling from Peking to Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War.
SHINE A LIGHT (12) USA 2006 SCORSES, MARTIN £19.99
Scorsese assembled a legendary team of cinematographers to capture the raw energy of the Rolling Stones playing live at the Beacon Theatre in New York City in 2006.
SHINE A LIGHT - COLLECTORS EDITION (U) £24.99
SHINE A LIGHT [WITH BONUS DIGITAL COPY] (U) BLURAY DVD VERSION £28.99
THE SHORT FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH (15) USA 1967-95 £15.99
Features - Six Men Getting Sick (1967), The Alphabet (1968), The Grandmother (1970), The Amputee (1973), The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988) and Lumiere (1995).
SHOOT ON SIGHT (15) UK 2007 MUNDHRA, JAG £17.99
Fictional political thriller based on the London terrorist bombings of 7/7.
SHOT IN BOMBAY (E) UK 2008 Mermin, Liz £15.99
Documentary populated by a charismatic and often surreal cast of characters, goes beyond the glamour of ‘Bollywood' to explore some of the industry's darker sides.
SILENT RUNNING (U) USA 1974 TRUMBALL, DOUGLAS £19.99
Cult science fiction classic.
SIMON SCHAMA - THE AMERICAN FUTURE (E) UK 2008 £24.99
Historian Simon Schama presents a personal view of how America arrived at where it is today, and the challenges it faces for the future.
SORDID LIVES (15) USA 2000 SHORES, DEL £14.99
Campy white trash comedy cult hit.
SOULS AT SEA (PG) USA 1937 Hathaway, Henry £15.99
Ships captain is accused of the murder of some passengers, but is he really on a secret mission for the government?
STANDING WITH STONES (E) £19.99
Standing with Stones is an exploration of the wealth of Megalithic Britain that lies beyond Stonehenge.
STARFISH HOTEL (15) 2007 WILLIAMS, JOHN £14.99
Thriller in which there is a universe called the Darkland that can only be entered through a hidden tunnel.
STEPHEN FRY - IN AMERICA (E) £24.99
Stephen Fry, travels around each of Americas states in his London taxi in order to discover, in his own inimitable style, what makes the country unique and to get under the skin of American life BLUE RAY DISC £39.99
STRANGE CULTURE (E) USA 2007 HERSHMAN-LEESON, LYNN £14.99
A documentary in which artist Steve Kurtz comes face to face with the very subject of his art: the brave new world of ideological science, corporate capitulation, and Patriot Act paranoia.
STRAW DOGS (18) USA 1971 PECKINPAH, SAM £17.99
An unflinching and uncompromising study of primal, barbaric brutality that is generally regarded as one of the strongest statements about violence ever put on screen.
TEETH (18) USA 2007 LICHTENSTEIN, MITCHELL £15.99
Horror film about a high school student Dawn who is a living example of the vagina dentata myth.
TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES (PG) 2008 £24.99
Very modern BBC version of Thomas Hardy's novel
TUDORS SEASON 1 AND 2 (15) 2008 UK £39.99
Emmy Award-nominated historical drama series focusing on the life and romances of the young King Henry VIII
WHAT? (18) ITALY 1972 POLANSKI, ROMAN £16.99
What? is a mordant absurdist comedy made in the spirit of Roger Vadim and Terry Southern and loosely based on the themes of Alice in Wonderland and Henry James.
NEW RELEASES 2008
NEW RELEASES 2008
101 DALMATIANS (U) USA 1961 REITHERMAN, WOLFGANG £21.99
Classic Disney animation
ALICE IN WONDERLAND (U) UK 1972 STERLING, WILLIAM £7.99
BAFTA-winning musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic novel.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK-THE BRITISH YEARS (PG) £59.99
This unique box set contains 10 of his pre-war British films.
ALL OR NOTHING (18) UK 2002 LEIGH, MIKE £12.99
When an unexpected tragedy occurs, a dysfunctional families lives are sent on an emotional journey that will change their lives forever.
ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (U) 1955 USA SIRK, DOUGLAS £9.99
An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger gardener, much to the disapproval of her children and friends.
AND SOON THE DARKNESS (15) UK 1970 FUEST, ROBERT £12.99
Two young British nurses spend their holiday bicycling through rural France, unaware that another tourist girl was brutally slain in the same region two years earlier.
ANOTHER COUNTRY (15) UK 1984 KANIEVSKA, MAREK £15.99
A film that centres around the life of Guy Burgess and why he became a Russian spy.
AS YOU LIKE IT (PG) 2006 UK BRANAGH,KENNETH £17.99
Shakespeare's play set against a backdrop of 19th Century Japan.
ATONEMENT (15) UK 2007 WRIGHT, JOE £19.99
Adaptation of the novel by Ian McEwan starring Keira Knightley and James McAvoy.
BATTLE FOR HADITHA (15) 2007 UK BROOMFIELD, NICK £19.99
Film follows three stories: that of the U.S. troops, the insurgent who planted the bomb, and a civilian Iraqi family.
BEOWULF (12) USA 2007 ZEMECKIS, ROBERT £23.99
Epic poem gets the blockbuster treatment.
BERTIE & ELIZABETH-STORY OF LOVE AND DESTINY (E) £12.99
Bertie & Elizabeth tells the story of the reign of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth using original archive film.
BLOODY SUNDAY (15) UK 2001 GREENGRASS, PAUL £12.99
James Nesbitt stars in this docu-drama.
BREAD AND ROSES (15) UK 2000 LOACH, KEN £15.99
Film about South American immigrants working as office cleaners in Los Angeles and their struggle against unfair working practices.
BRICK LANE (15) UK 2007 GAVRON, SARAH £19.99
Moving adaptation of Monica Ali's novel about a young Bangladeshi woman who arrives in 1980s Britain to an arranged marriage and a new life.
BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE(15) USA 2007 SIMONEAU, YVES £7.99
Western which centers on the struggles of three characters: Charles Eastman, a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor; Sitting Bull, the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies and Senator Henry Dawes, one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs.
CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR (15) 2007 USA NICHOLS, MIKE £19.99
Oscar nominated drama starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
CLOVERFIELD (15) 2007 USA REEVES, MATT £19.99
Shot by hand held camera, a tale of the night a monstrous creature attacks the city of New York
COAL HOUSE (E) £19.99
This living history documentary transports three families back to the South Wales coalfield of 1927.
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.
CONFIDENTIAL FILMS OF WORLD WAR 2 COLLECTION (E) £24.99
Classified or confidential films covered an enormous range of subjects.
CONTROL (15) UK 2007 CORBIJN, ANTON £19.99
Biopic of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis.
CRANFORD (12) UK BBC 2007 £19.99
BBC dramatisation of three of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels captures the small absurdities and tragedies in the lives of the people of Cranford, a small rural Cheshire town, inhabited largely by women.
DEVIL'S ARITHMETIC (15) 1999 DIETCH, DONNA £4.99
Modern day 13 year-old Jewish Hannah finds she has travelled back in time to 1940s Polish concentration camp she must use her knowledge of the future to survive the past.
DOUBLE X THE NAME OF THE GAME (15) UK 1992 GREWAL SHANI S £9.99
Norman Wisdom star a a retired safecracker who is being hunted by a crime syndicate.
EASTERN PROMISE (18) UK 2007 CRONENBERG, DAVID £19.99
Thriller set among the Russian mafia in London.
ELIZABETH GASKELL BOXSET (12) UK £59.99
Features - Cranford, North And South and Wives And Daughters .
ELIZABETH THE GOLDEN AGE (12) UK 2007 KAPUR, SHEKHAR £19.99
Cate Blanchett reprises her role as the ‘Virgin Queen' in this sequel.
EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION (15) 2007 UK THREAPLETON, JIM £15.99
Thriller about a man abducted from the streets of London and transported via secret flights to an unknown country. Held in solitary confinement he is plunged into a nightmare of detention without trial, interrogation and torture.
FANNY HILL (15) UK BBC 2007 £15.99
Based on the classic novel by John Cleland.
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.
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER ANNIVERSARY EDITION (PG) USA 1967 KRAMER, STANLEY £12.99
A crusading publisher and his wife struggle to come to terms with their daughters choice of her new fiancee, a distinguished black doctor. The mother accepts her daughter's decision, but her father is shocked by this interracial union.
HALLAM FOE (18) UK 2007 MACKENZIE, DAVID £17.99
Hallam Foe is a 17-year-old misfit who likes to watch the world from a tree house in the grounds of his father's house in the Scottish Borders. Hallam is almost over the sudden death of his mother when he begins to suspect that his beautiful step mother may have had a hand in her death.
HARLOT'S PROGRESS (15) UK 2006 £12.99
TV drama looking at the life of artist William Hogarth.
I WAS A FIREMAN (15) 1944 UK JENNINGS, HUMPHREY £15.99
Collection of three documentary ‘I Was a Fireman' , ‘Listen to Britain' and ‘Diary for Timothy'.
IN THE HANDS OF THE GODS (15) UK 2007 TURNER, B & J £15.99
True story of five young British street kids as they go on a journey across the Americas to Argentina in the hope of meeting their hero, Diego Maradona.
IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH (PG) 2007 USA HAGGIS, PAUL £19.99
Soldier goes missing on home leave from service in Baghdad. Facing military indifference to the disappearance his father goes in search of the truth.
INFORMER (PG) 1935 USA FORD, JOHN £9.99
During the Irish Civil War of 1922, a man decides to inform on a rebel in order to obtain the twenty pounds reward and secure his future happiness, but finds himself troubled by his conscience.
INANHOE (12) UK BBC 1997 ORME, STUART £19.99
BBC adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's story
INSIDE THE ACTORS STUDIO BOX SET (E) £19.99
Featuring several acting legends : - Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, Sean Penn, and Russell Crowe.
INVASION (15) USA 2007 HIRSCHBIEGEL, OLIVIER £15.99
Country is threatened by a mysterious epidemic that alters human behavior.
JUNO (15) 2007 USA REITMAN, JASON £19.99
Film tells the story of sixteen-year-old girl Juno and the fallout of her accidental pregnancy.
KITE RUNNER (15) 2007 USA FORSTER, MARC £19.99
Based on Khaled Hosseini's best-selling novel about two boys growing up in Afghanistan.
LAND OF THE BLIND (15) 2006 USA EDWARDS, ROBERT GORDON £15.99
Razor-sharp political thriller with Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland.
LIFE SUPPORT (15) USA 2007 GEORGE, NELSON £7.99
Ana is an HIV-positive former drug addict from Brooklyn desperately struggling with her past and passionately trying to make things right with her involvement in an AIDS outreach group, Life Support. Inspired by a true story.
LIVING IN OBLIVION (15) USA 1995 DICILLO, TOM £15.99
Nick Reve is a luckless low-budget director struggling against all odds to get his artistic vision onto the screen.
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.
MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (U) 1954 USA SIRK, DOUGLAS £9.99
Spoiled rich man wrecks his speed boat, the rescue team resuscitates him with equipment that's then not unavailable to aid a local hero, Dr. Wayne Phillips, who dies as a result.
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.
MAYA DEREN. EXPERIMENTAL FILMS(E) 1943-59 USA £23.99
Contains - Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, Ritual in Transfigured Time, A Study in Choreography for Cinema, Meditation on Violence and The View of Night.
MICHAEL CLAYTON (15) USA 2007 GILROY, TONY £19.99
Michael Clayton is an in-house "fixer" at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York.
MIGHTY HEART (15) USA 2007 WINTERBOTTOM, MICHAEL £19.99
Based on Mariane Pearl's memoir detailing the terrifying and unforgettable story of her husband, Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl's life and death.
MISS AUSTEN REGRETS, (PG) UK 2007 LOVERING, JEREMY £14.99
Film of Jane Austen's romantic life, inspired by the great writer's own novels, letters and diaries.
MISTRESSES (15) BBC 2007 £19.99
Drama about lives and loves of a group of 30-something girlfriends who met at university. But their lives have taken very different turns.
MONSOON WEDDING (15) INDIA 2001 NAIR, MIRA £15.99
Funny and movng film about an arranged marriage in New Delhi which reunites the extended Verma family from around the globe.
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (15) UK 1985 FREARS, STEPHEN £15.99
Set within the Asian community in London this unusual love story is concerned with identity and entrepreneurial spirit during the Thatcher years.
MY NAME IS JOE (15) UK 1998 LOACH, KEN £15.99
Powerfully drama among the long term unemployed in Glasgow.
OLIVER TWIST (12) UK 2007 £19.99
BBC adaptation starring Timothy Spall.
OMAGH(15) UK 2004 TRAVIS, PETE £17.99
Bafta-winning made-for-TV drama that examines the human cost to those who survived the Real IRA bombing in Omagh.
ON THE BLACK HILL (15) USA 1997 GRIEVE, ANDREW £12.99
Adaptation of Bruce Chatwin's novel chronicling the bittersweet marriage of a Welsh farmer and an English lady.
ON COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (18) 2007 USA COEN BROTHERS £19.99
Man stumbles upon a drug transaction gone horribly wrong and a case load of cash, he faces a choice - leave the scene as he found it, or take the money and run.
ON RADIO (18) 1979 UK Petit, Chris £19.99
Film follow a young London DJ on the road to Bristol to investigate the mysterious death of his brother.
ONCE (15) USA 2006 CARNEY, JOHN £19.99
Inspirational drama about two kindred spirits who find each other on the bustling streets of Dublin.
OTHER BOLEYN GIRL (12) USA 2008 CHADWICK, JUSTIN £19.99
The film tells the story of two beautiful sisters, Anne (Natalie Portman) and Mary Boleyn (Scarlett Johansson) who, driven by their family's blind ambition, complete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.
OUR MUTUAL FRIEND (15) 1976 UK £19.99
BBC adaptation of one of Charles Dickens' most celebrated novels.
PALM BEACH STORY (U) 1942 USA STURGERS, PRESTON £9.99
Classic romantic comedy .
PARIS JE T'AIME (15) FRANCE 2006 £15.99
Celebrated directors from around the world, including the Coen Brothers, Gus Van Sant, Gurinder Chadha, Wes Craven, Walter Salles, Alexander Payne and Olivier Assayas, have come together to portray Paris in a way never before imagined.
PLAYER (15) USA 1991 ALTMAN, ROBERT £9.99
When callous movie studio executive Griffin Mill starts receiving anonymous death threats from a rejected screenwriter, his already shaky career begins to crumble.
POISON (18) 1991 USA HAYNES, TODD £17.99
A stylish, violent thriller set in the ruthless Parisian underworld.
RAINING STONES (15) UK 1993 LOACH, KEN £15.99
Comedy about unemployed Bob who is desperate to earn enough money to pay for his daughter Coleen's communion dress.
RIFF RAFF (15) UK 1990 LOACH, KEN £15.99
Young Glaswegian just out of Barlinnie prison, comes down to London and gets a job on a building site. A melting pot of itinerant labourers in Thatcher's Britain.
SENSE & SENSIBILITY (U) BBC 2008 £19.99
From writer Andrew Davies comes this new adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel about love and marriage.
SEPTEMBER (PG) UK 1996 COLIN BUCKSEY £5.99
Verena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter. All the aristocratic families of Strathcroy in the Scottish Highlands are attending, with all their guilty secrets.
SHAKESPEARE BOX SET (15) £39.99
Featrues - HAMLET (1969 - Nicol Williamson), ROMAN POLANSKI'S MACBETH (1971),HENRY V (1989 - Kenneth Branagh), THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (1967 - Zeffirelli), KING LEAR (1970 - Paul Scofield)
SHAKESPEARE CONSPIRACY (E) £19.99
Who was the man who wrote these plays and poems?
SHORT CUTS (18) USA 1993 ALTMAN, ROBERT £9.99
Film interweaves the stories of twenty-two characters struggling to find solace and meaning in contemporary Los Angeles.
STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP-COMPLETE SERIES (12) USA 2007 £54.99
Matthew Perry and Bradley Whitford portray the likable hotshots runing a flagging flagship comedy series.
TARNISHED ANGEL (U) 1953 USA SIRK, DOUGLAS £9.99
Drama based on the novel ‘Pylon' by William Faulker.
THIRD MAN OUT (15) USA 2005 OLIVER, RON £14.99
A gay detective is hired to find who has been been threatening a notorious member of the gay community noted for outing people.
TOMORROW WE LIVE (U) UK 1943 KING, GEORGE £9.99
Classic war drama starring John Clements and Greta Gynt.
WAR ON DEMOCRACY (12) £19.99
Award winning journalist John Pilger examines the role of Washington in America's manipulation of Latin American politics during the last 50 years, and how these same policies are now being used in the Middle East.
WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (PG) 1956 USA LANG, FRITZ £11.99
Classic Fritz Lang thriller.
YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH (15) 2007 USA COPPOLA, FRANCIS £19.99
Set in the late 1930s a seventy-year-old academic is struck by lightning, his ageing process is thrown into reverse, rejuvenating his intellect and bestowing him with previously unknown mental powers.
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