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Best of British Film

The Basketball Diaries

  • £14.99 £12.99

A rebellious teenager at a catholic school becomes a heroin addict,prostitute and thief. Finally a stint in Riker's Juvenile Reformatory andhis written account of a life spinning out of control...

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Borstal Boy

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Peter Sheridan, the acclaimed Irish theatre director and brother of film director Jim Sheridan (MY LEFT FOOT) makes his feature directorial debut with an adaptation of playwright, novelist, and...

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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

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Forgive me father, for I am 14.In mid-1970s Savannah two bright but rebellious boys fight boredom,hormones and harsh teachers as they struggle to find something meaningfulbeyond the walls of...

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This Is England

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This Is England tells the story of Shaun (Thomas Turgoose), an 11 year old kid growing up in the North of England. Set during the summer holidays of 1983, it follows his journey from a shaggy...

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16 Years of Alcohol

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Set in Edinburgh in three periods in the life of Frankie Mac, 16 Years of Alcohol provides a challenging introduction to a man's belief in the meaning of hope. As a young boy Frankie Mac (Kevin...

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1984

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This stunning film adaptation journeys straight to the heart of the nightmare portrayed in George Orwell's terrifying classic. John Hurt is "perfectly cast" (Radio Times) as the doomed rebel, and...

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9 Songs

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Within the audience of a rock concert at Brixton Academy, American student Lisa meets Matt, and so begins their highly charged, passionate relationship... The first sexually explicit British film...

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A Clockwork Orange

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Stomping, whomping, stealing, singing, tap-dancing, violating. Derby-topped teddy-boy hooligan Alex has his own way of having a good time. He has it at the tragic expense of others. Alex's...

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A Room With A View [Special Edition]

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The prestigious film-making trio of producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala had made other critically acclaimed films before A Room with a View was...

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AFFINITY

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Set in 1874, Affinity tells the story of a bored young single woman who becomes a visitor in a female prison and becomes obsessed with a prisoner with horrendous repercussions.

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After Life

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On the verge of the breakthrough of his career, ambitious young journalist Kenny (Kevin McKidd: Kingdom of Heaven, Trainspotting) learns that his mother May (Lindsay Duncan) is dying of cancer....

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Angelic Conversation

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A Jarman MUST HAVE: Intense, dreamlike, and poetic, The Angelic Conversation is one of the most artistic of Derek Jarman's films. With his painter's eye Jarman conjured, in a beautiful palette of...

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Another Country

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Another Country tells the story of Guy Bennett (Rupert Everett) and Tommy Judd Colin Firth), teenage friends at an elite English public school during the summer of 1931. Clever, hedonistic and...

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Asylum

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In the late 1950s, when her husband Max (Hugh Bonneville) takes up his post as deputy superintendent of a psychiatric hospital, Stella Raphael (Natasha Richardson) and her young son, Charlie ...

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Beckett on Film

  • £99.99 £74.99

A 4 DVD box set comprising of 19 film adaptations of plays by Samuel Beckett. Includes: 1. Waiting for Godot (director Michael Lindsay-Hogg) 2. Not I (director Neil Jordan) 3. Rough for...

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Billy Elliot

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When Billy Elliot chooses ballet classes over boxing lessons his life is changed forever. He decides to keep the lessons secret from his father, a coal miner, but when his ballet instructor...

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Billy Elliot Special Edition

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This 2-DVD special edition comes packed with loads of extra features! When Billy Elliot chooses ballet classes over boxing lessons his life is changed forever. He decides to keep the lessons...

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Bleak Moments

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A spinster, a wannabe pop and a tongue-tied schoolteacher are just some of Mike Leigh's brilliantly conceived gallery of suburban types, living lives of quiet desperation and frequent absurdity....

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Blind Flight

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Based on the true-life, best-selling memoirs of Brian Keenan and John McCarthy, Blind Flight tells the harrowing, but ultimately uplifting, story of the Irish teacher and the English journalist...

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Blue

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A courageous personal testimony about his experiences with AIDS, 'Blue' is Derek Jarman's most radical and daring film and was hailed as a masterpiece when it premiered at the Venice Biennale. A...

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Boy Eats Girl

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School's out, and so are the zombies! It's a hard life when you're only seventeen, in love and one of the walking dead. Tssk - kids, eh?

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Brideshead Revisited [Collectors Edition]

  • £39.99 £35.99

John Mortimer adapted Evelyn Waugh's tale of Oxford undergrads into this multi-award winning TV miniseries, collected here in one volume.

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Brighton Beach Memoirs

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Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and...

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The Browning Version [1951]

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Michael Redgrave gives the performance of a lifetime in this classic adaptation of Terence Rattigan's play. Public schoolmaster Crocker-Harris has become a bitter, disillusioned man. Stuck in a...

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Bullet Boy

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Ricky (Ashley Walters, aka So Solid Crew's Asher D), just out of a young offenders' institute and heading home to Hackney, is determined to go straight. Instead, he heads into trouble when he...

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The Business

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Set in the Thatcherite Eighties this small-time gangster flick takes a cool look at the characters in the sex and drug soaked Costa Del Crime.

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Caravaggio

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A must have in all great gay dvd collections. One of Jarman's most accessible works, Caravaggio is a ravishingly shot depicition of the painter's life as he reminisces in jail cell. The look of...

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Carrington

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She was a gifted artist, he was an eminent writer and together they created a controversy that sent shock waves through polite society. This is the true story of Dora Carrington and Lytton...

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Casanova

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Who'd have thought the new Doctor Who could be so sexy? We didn't until we saw this. The complete series.

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The Cement Garden

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Teenage siblings Jack and Julie are faced with a quandary when their parents both die: report the deaths to the authorities, which would lead to the family's separation, or keep the truth hidden....

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Chromophobia

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Directed by Martha Fiennes and with an all-star British cast, Chromophobia is a darkly comedic drama set in contemporary London, where money, beauty and success have replaced traditional values...

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The Constant Gardener

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From the director of City of Men and City of God, Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz star in this BAFTA-nominated globe-spanning thriller based on the novel by John le Carré.

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Control

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Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the...

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Cowboys & Angels

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This charming Irish coming-of-age tale follows two best friends - one straight, one gay - from their youthful career ambitions to their entanglements with the law. Shane (Michael Legge, Angela...

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Cranford

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This is the DVD of the lavish BBC costume drama, Cranford, based on three of Elizabeth Gaskell's novels including Cranford itself. The cast boasts some of Britain's best-loved and most...

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The Crying Game [Special Edition]

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The Crying Game is the unpredictable, unconventional, multi-Oscar-nominated masterpiece that became the sleeper hit of the year. Starring Stephen Rea and Miranda Richardson as Irish terrorists,...

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Death At A Funeral

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How would you feel if you found out your father, who you thought was happily married to your mother, was actually gay? Some of you would probably be delighted. What about the fact he liked to...

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Destricted

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The Porn vs Art debate is inflamed by this wide range of uncensored short films distinctive and entirely explicit in their portrayals of different points of view, revealing diverse atitudes...

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The Early Films of Peter Greenaway - Part 1

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Before Peter Greenaway made his name with the international arthouse hit 'The Draughtsman's Contract', he had established a reputation for highly innovative and witty short films. The subject...

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The Early Films of Peter Greenaway - Volumet 2

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Before Peter Greenaway made his name with the international arthouse hit 'The Draughtsman's Contract', he had established a reputation for highly innovative and witty short films. The subject...

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East is East

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George Khan, proud Pakistani and chip shop owner, rules his family with a rod of iron. He thinks he's raising his seven children to be respectable Pakistanis, but this is Salford, in the North of...

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Enduring Love

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Joe and Claire are enjoying a romantic picnic when they notice a hot air balloon in considerable distress. Together with a group of onlookers, Joe rushes to its aid. A sudden gust of wind places...

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Everything

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...comes at a price. When Richard visits Naomi, a prostitute, nine times in nine days without once soliciting a single sexual favour, something is awry.

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Festival

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A comedy that highlights there is often more drama in surviving the Edinburgh festival than there ever hopes to be in the actual shows.

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Fetishes [Special Edition]

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Filmed at Pandora's Box, an S & M parlour in New York, Fetishes reveal in both a humorous and informative manner the full range of fetishes, from rubber and infantilism to asphyxiation and...

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The Garden

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Filmed in the stark environs of Derek Jarman's coastal home in the shadow of Dungeness power station, 'The Garden' is a powerful and moving series of allegorical dreamscapes. The narrative...

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Get Carter

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Double Academy Award winner Michael Caine plays the relentless title character, an ice-cold, efficiently lethal London mobster investigating his brother's death in the seedy Newcastle underworld.

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The Girl in the Cafe

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Award-winning screenwriter Richard Curtis combines his unique comedic touch with a powerful humanitarian message in his first film since Love Actually. The film stars Bill Nighy and Kelly...

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Goldfish Memory

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Exploring the comical nature of love, straight, gay and in-between, "GOLDFISH MEMORY" brings life to the saying what goes around, comes around...and around...and around... “GOLDFISH MEMORY”...

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Gosford Park

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Robert Altman goes all British on us and the result is a BAFTA-Oscar winning smash. It's 1932 and Sir William and his wife Lady Sylvia are hosting a weekend shooting party....

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The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael

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The great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael is the debut feature from director Thomas Clay. Unlike any British film in recent memory this uncompromising insight into bored and disaffected youth is a...

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The History Boys

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FMEMORABLE QUOTE FROM PLAY/FILM [Posner has confessed to Irwin that he thinks he is homosexual and in love with Dakin] Posner: Do you ever look at your life? Tom Irwin: I thought everybody did....

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Howard's End

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"Only connect". This famous command is the catalyst which brings together two very different Edwardian families - the one passionate and progressive, the other hidebound by wealth and social...

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If....

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The Palme D’Or-winning British classic, If...’s long wait for a DVD release is finally over, this incredible film takes a look at British boarding school and three unruly seniors who fail to...

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Intimacy

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Jay and Claire are complete strangers, but every Wednesday they meet to have sex. Passionate, wordless and - until Jay begins to follow her home - seemingly meaningless sex. Being the manager of...

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Jubilee

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Derek Jarman's 'Jubilee' is the original punk film and the one closest to the movement's anti-establishment, nihilistic attitude. The story sees Queen Elizabeth I transported by the angel Ariel...

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Kidulthood [Special Edition]

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Following the death of a classmate prone to their bullying, a group of Notting Hill schoolkids hit the streets for a day of drinking, drug-taking, bad underage sex and crime...

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The Killing of Sister George

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Dramatic story of an ageing lesbian actress whose world collapses when she is written out of a popular TV serial.

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Kinky Boots

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Quirky and very English comedy about the owner of a shoe factory stumbling on a very novel way to save his ailing business.

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Klimt

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A portrait of the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt whose lavish, sexual paintings came to symbolize the art nouveau style of the late 19th and early 20th century. Director Raul Ruiz transports us...

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The Last of England

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One of Derek Jarman's most personal and innovative films, The Last of England is a devastating vision of 80's Britain. Images of war and urban decay are intercut with Jarman's own childhood home...

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Lawless Heart

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Shocked by the death of a friend, three men try to take their lives in hand. A gay man falls under the spell of a young woman. A happily married man encounters a wonderful French woman at the...

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Layer Cake

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From the producer of Snatch, Matthew Vaughn makes his directorial debut in the stylish crime thriller Layer Cake. Based upon J.J. Connolly's London crime novel, 'Layer Cake' is about a successful...

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Like It Is

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Craig, a cute, closeted bare-knuckle fighter lives in a violent world, where winning is everything - but losing can mean death. When Craig meets Matt, attraction is instant, but Craig can't...

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The Line of Beauty

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Adapted by Andrew Davies from the book by Alan Hollingurst for the BBC - the critically acclaimed and sexually controversial three part series is the story of two gay lovers in 1980s London. A...

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Little Voice

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World-class stars Michael Caine, Brenda Blethyn and Ewan McGregor deliver acclaimed performances in an inspirational story about a painfully shy young woman, 'Little Voice' (Jane Horrocks). A...

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Loaded

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A group of seven young school leavers decide to take over a rambling old country mansion for a few days to shoot a horror video. After a tense day's shooting, the group decides to break the...

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Looking For Langston

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Award-winning British filmmaker Isaac Julien's film is both critically acclaimed, and controversial. A lyrical and poetic consideration of the life of revered Harlem Renaissance poet Langston...

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Loot

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A host of stars appear in this seventies adaptation of Joe Orton's farcical comedy. OK - you've robbed the bank, where you gonna hide the loot?

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Love is the Devil

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Derek Jacobi stars as artist Francis Bacon, who, upon discovering a burglar (007 - Daniel Craig) in his studio, tells him to sheds his clothes and he can have anything he wants.

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Madagascar Skin

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MADAGASCAR SKIN is the story of an unlikely gay couple, Harry and Flint. Harry, is a young and shy man who can't seem to fit into his local gay scene. Flint on the other hand is a older man with...

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The Magic Christian

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In this adaptation of Terry Southern's offbeat novel, an eccentric millionaire adopts a down-and-out vagrant he stumbles upon in the park as his son. The pair embark on a series of practical...

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Mansfield Park

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This fun and sexy comedy tells a timelessly entertaining story where wealth, secret passions and mischievous women put love to the test...with delightfully surprising results! When a spirited...

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Maurice

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Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I English society, E.M. Forster's Maurice is a story of coming to terms with one's sexuality and identity in the face of disapproval and...

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McLibel

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A great documentary about two ordinary members of the British public who took on the multinational fast food giant and refused to back down and say McSorry.

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Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

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1942: British soldier Jack Celliers (David Bowie) arrives at a Japanese POW camp run by the disciplinarian Yonoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto), who believes the prisoners are cowards because they have...

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The Mighty Celt

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It's been likened to a Kes for the 21st Century, The Mighty Celt tells the story of a Belfast lad who hides his pain by training greyhounds for the local races.

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Mrs Henderson Presents

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The extraordinary story of the Windmill Theatre, its owner, Laura Henderson (Judi Dench), and her manager, Vivian Van Damm (Bob Hoskins), who together put naked girls onstage in a non-stop revue,...

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My Beautiful Laundrette

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Hanif Kureshi's love story set in eighties Britain. Once you've seen the love scene between Day-Lewis and Warnecke you'll never think of champagne the same way again.

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My House In Umbria

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Based on the acclaimed novel by William Trevor, My House in Umbria is a charming, evocative drama about a group of travellers in Italy who find solace and friendship after being thrown together...

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My Kingdom

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In one of the last great roles of his career, Richard Harris plays Sandeman - the most feared crime lord in an economically ravaged Liverpool. His kingdom is the city, and his strength is his...

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Myra Breckinridge [Special Edition]

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One of the most notorious films ever made, Myra Breckinridge caused an outcry on its release, prompting one reviewer to call it 'a pornographic remake of Charley's Aunt'. Since then this over-the...

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Nighthawks

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Hugely controversial on its initial release, Nighthawks was one of the first British movies to accurately depict the life of a gay man in London.

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Notes On A Scandal

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Academy Award winners Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett give outstanding, Oscar Nominated performances - one as a woman consumed by her colleague's guilty secret, the other, a victim to her own dark...

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Oliver Twist

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Roman Polanski directs Ronald Harwood's screen adaptation of Charles Dicken's classic story. Please sir, we want some more!

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Pavee Lackreen

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Pavee Lackeen tells the story of Winnie, a ten-year old Irish traveller girl, who lives with her mother and siblings in a ramshackle trailer on the side of the road in a desolate industrialised...

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Peeping Tom [Special Edition]

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From Michael Powell, the acclaimed director of a Matter of Life and Death and The Red Shoes, comes one of the most controversial films ever made in Britain, and a masterpiece of psychological...

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The Pillow Book

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In Kyoto in the 1970s, a calligrapher delicately writes a birthday greeting on his daughter's face. When she grows up, she remembers the event with much affection and excitement, and begins a...

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Pink Narcissus

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Considered lost for many years, Pink Narcissus is an astounding discovery - an unwavering celebration of the male body within a fantasy world of epic indulgence. This is a breathtaking and...

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Prick Up Your Ears

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Prick Up Your Ears is a celebration of outrageous playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman) and his love affair with Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina) which concluded with their violent and premature...

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Pride & Prejudice

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Keira Knightly leads an all-star cast in this sumptious multi BAFTA-nominated adaptation of Jane Austen's classic tale.

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Queer As Folk 2

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The boys are back in this outrageous sequel. Same tricks, different day.

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Rhythm & Blues

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We stumbled upon this little gem of a British gay comedy about rent boys and sugardaddies with original songs by Marc Almond by accident. We love it.

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Roman Polanski Collection

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Three Polanski classics; Rosemary's Baby, The Tenant and Chinatown, in one box set.

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Salo 120 days of Sodom [Blu Ray]

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Banned, censored and reviled the world over since its release, Pasolinis final and most controversial masterpiece is presented here fully uncut and uncensored in a brand new restoration. The...

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Scenes of a Sexual Nature

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Set over the course of a day on Hampstead Heath, North London, SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE looks at the relationships of seven couple. There’s a gay couple discussing what would happen if they...

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Scum

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Raw, violent and shocking, Scum is a compelling story set in a contemporary Borstal. It tells of life in an institution run by violence and brutality rather than reason, where the boy who can...

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Scum

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Raw, violent and shocking, Scum is a compelling story set in a contemporary Borstal. It tells of life in an institution run by violence and brutality rather than reason, where the boy who can...

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Sebastiane

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Following his work with Ken Russell as production designer on The Devils, Derek Jarman made his debut as director with this story of the life of Saint Sebastian, the martyred roman soldier who...

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Sense and Sensibility

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David Morrissey, Dominic Cooper, Dan Stevens, Mark Williams, Janet McTeer and Mark Gatiss lead an all-star cast in Andrew Davies' romantic and stylish three-part BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's...

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The Servant

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Experienced manservant Barrett (a superbly sinister Dirk Bogarde) starts working for foppish aristocrat Tony (James Fox) in his smart new townhouse. Much to the chagrin of Tony's girlfriend ...

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Sexy Beast

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A contented ex-villain is forced to do one last spectacular robbery by a psychotic face from his past in this mould-breaking stylish thriller by director Jonathan Glazer. Gary Dove (Ray Winstone)...

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Sexy Beast + Gangster No.1

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A Film Four double-feature DVD. Sexy Beast is the tale of Gary (Ray Winstone), an ex-villain who's blissfully retired to a Spanish villa with the wife he adores. His perfect lifestyle is...

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Shallow Grave

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Three friends push the boundries of trust in this hermetically sealed shocker from the creators of TRAINSPOTTING. Starring Kerry Fox (The Hanging Garden), Christopher Eccleston (Elizabeth) and...

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Shameless: Series 5

  • £34.99 £24.99

The multi-award winning Shameless is back on DVD ....with a bang - and a sizzle when Frank accidentally urinates on a generator, electrocuting his privates. In series five things turn from bad to...

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Shameless: Series One

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The Gallaghers, the UK's most dysfunctional family, welcome you to their adventures on the Manchester's Chatsworth Estate. Be afraid, be very afraid.

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Sherry Baby

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Maggie Gyllenhaal is mesmerizing as a recovering addict in writer-director Laurie Collyer's feature-length fiction-film debut, SHERRYBABY. Gyllenhaal stars as Sherry Swanson, a troubled woman who...

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Sixth Happiness

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Bombay, 1962: Sera Kotwal (Souad Faress) gives birth to Brit (Firdaus Kanga), a boy whose bones are so brittle that all he needs to do is hiccup and he breaks a rib. Based on Kanga's acclaimed...

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Someone Else

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Thirtysomething photographer David (Stephen Mangan) has for some time been happily dating Lisa (Susan Lynch)... but increasingly he's dreaming of Nina (The War Zones Lara Belmont), a tempestuous...

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Somersault

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The remarkable debut feature by writer-director Cate Shortland (TV's The Secret Life Of Us), broke all previous records when it won 13 categories at the 2004 Australian Film Institute Awards,...

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