Best Selling Drama DVDs

Her story touched the hearts of millions Based on her best-selling autobiography, DESERT FLOWER follows the life of supermodel Waris Dirie. Raised a nomad in Somalia, Waris flees her clan when she is betrothed to an elder at 13. Finding herself an illegal immigrant in London, Waris finds work in a t...

A beautiful, evocative tale of love and heartbreak, joy and suicide set in the late 1960’s. The world was in turmoil, students are protesting against the harsh Japanese establishment, and Toru’s life is at a crossroads. With the suicide of his best friend, Toru’s relationship with his childhood swee...

'An Angel At My Table' is based on the Autobiographical writings of the obsessively private Janet Frame, New Zealands greatest living novelist. The Film tells the story of Frame's life from childhood to her mid thirties and focuses on her family, her development as a writer and the 8 year period she...

Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. Anton and his wife Marianne, who have two young sons, are separated and struggling with the possibility of divorce. Their older, ten-year-old son Elias is being bullied at school, ...

India before independence, a carpet factory in the countryside near Calcutta. For Ravi and Masha, who are forced to work as child laborers, it is the beginning of a tragic love story. Realizing that money determines whether one is free or enslaved, the ambitious and resolute Ravi works his way u...

A comedy about growing up… and the bumps along the way. Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child. She embarks on a search to find the "perfect couple" to take on parenting responsibilities only to find life isn...

Considered by many to be one of, if not the most important Russian film-makers of the 20th Century, Andrei Tarkovsky was a filmic visionary whose body of work stands as a realisation of his notion of ‘sculpting in time’. This concept was characterised by extremely long takes and shots of...

From the acclaimed Iranian director of Taste of Cherry comes the story of a couple’s apparent chance meeting in beautiful Tuscany which provocatively blurs the lines between reality and imagination James (British baritone William Shimell) is an author in town to talk about his new book on t...

It's Initial D. It's a world of car drifting where the battlefield is the mountain road. First created by Shigeno Shuichi in comic form in 1996, and then adapted into a smash hit anime, Initial D has finally been adapted into a live-action motion picture - and it's now available on DVD! Directed ...

Love, life and the beauty of unexpected friendships Based freely on the best-selling novel The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, The Hedgehog is a heart-warming story about love, life and the beauty of unexpected friendships. Renée (Josiane Balasko) is the concierge of a grand...

Unleash your desire. From the director of SEX & ZEN 2 comes a tale of lust, love and chopsticks across TWO films. Based on a classic Chinese erotic novel The Plum in the Golden Vase. In 12th century China, Simon Qing has been raised by his father, a wealthy merchant and famed sexologist, i...

In 1925 Romania, young Marie-Therese Von Debretsy (Kristen Scott Thomas) refuses the flirtatious advances of her husband’s commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a brutally bleak and dangerous outpost on the Bulgarian/Romanian frontier where both their relati...

One City. 10 Million Hearts. One Love Story. One Film. Through the neighbourhoods of Paris, love is veiled, revealed, imitated, sucked dry, reinvented and awakened. A stunning line-up of internationally renowned directors and actors rediscover the city of Paris in a collective work about love. S...

A veteran of over 40 years of directing, Yoji Yamada returns with the final instalment in the TWILIGHT SAMURAI trilogy. Shinnojo is a food taster for his clan who dreams of one day opening his own Kendo school. When he is blinded by poisonous food, he and his wife Kayo are worried that they will los...

Francis (Xavier Dolan) and Marie (Monia Chokri) are best friends and seemingly have it all – youth, good looks and style in abundance. One night they meet Nicolas (Niels Schneider), newly arrived in Montreal from the country, and they both fall instantly for this beautiful young man. As one rend...

Set in London in 1818, Bright Star is the tender story of first love between John Keats, the romantic English poet and the girl next door, the stylish, headstrong Fanny Brawne. Inspired by the actual love letters between the couple and Keats' sublime poetry, Bright Star reveals one of the world'...

The final part of Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life was two years in the making. The locations - Yemen, Ethiopia, Iran and Nepal - form a rich, exotic backdrop to these tales of slaves and kings, potions, betrayrals, demons and, most of all love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Engrossing, mys...

Sixteen year-old Hubert Minel doesn't love his mother. He haughtily regards her with contempt, and only sees her tacky sweaters, kitsch decorations and the breadcrumbs that get stuck on the corner of her lips when she munches. In addition to these irritating surface details, there is also his parent...

In 18th century Japan, society is ruled by the ettiquette set by the Imperial Shogun. When a young lord refuses to become involved with a corrupt chancellor, his lands are forfeited and his samurai disbanded. The samurai are torn between orders from the Shogun and loyalty to their lord. 47 Ronin is ...

Away From Her is a beautifully moving love story that deals with memory and tribulations of a long marriage. Together for fifty years, the union between Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona (Julie Christie) appears unwavering, and their everyday life is full of tenderness and humour. This facade of sere...

The gift of last memories... Academy Award® winner for Best Foreign Language Film, Departures is a delightful journey into the heartland of Japan as well an astonishingly beautiful look at a sacred part of Japan's cultural heritage. Departures follows Daigo Kobayashi, a devoted cellist in ...

Acclaimed French filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix (Betty Blue) set the international cinema scene abuzz with his debut feature aninnovative cult thriller about a hapless messenger surviving a farrago of missteps and misadventure over his obsession for a beautiful American opera singer. When young mess...

Set in a small Oregon town, where secrets are hard to keep and lies even harder, Mean Creek flows with a simple elegance of its truth and consequences as it follows a crisis in the lives of its teen characters. The journey begins as a plot for playful payback on a local troublemaker; the journey ...

Artist. Mentor. Love of My Life. Gregoire has everything he could ever want: a loving wife, three delightful children and his dream job as a film producer. But in spite of his apparent success, Gregoire lives life in a stressful haze, unable to cope with the demands of his career and family. When...

1842. Cranford, a market town in the North West of England, is a place governed by etiquette, custom and above all, an intricate network of ladies. It seems that life has always been conducted according to their social rules, but Cranford is on the cusp of change. For spinsters Deborah Jenkyns, t...

An unnamed country. Joseph K. is awakened one morning by a man who tells him he is under arrest. Accused by everyone of a crime that is never specified, Joseph K. is caught in a nightmarish labyrinth of bureaucracy leading him to doubt his own innocence…

SÉRAPHINE is the true story of Séraphine Louis aka Séraphine de Senlis (Yolande Moreau), a simple and profoundly devout housekeeper who in 1905 at age 41 - self-taught and with the instigation of her guardian angel, began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. Director Marti...

The original screen adaptation of William Golding’s masterpiece of 20th century literature, LORD OF THE FLIES is a chilling moral tale about the nature of humanity. When their airplane crash-lands on a deserted island, the group of young boys are left without adults, and two strong personaliti...

Academy Award winning director William Friedkin (The French Connection, The Exorcist) and playwright Mart Crowley serve up the acclaimed, groundbreaking film adapted from Crowley’s hallmark off-Broadway play - a witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed reve...

My Name is Khan is the triumphant story of an unconventional hero and the obstacles he must overcome to regain the love of his life. Rizvan Khan, a Muslim man who has Asperger’s Syndrome, moves to San Francisco and falls in love with the beautiful Mandira. They marry and have a happy life;...

When young graduate Pavel takes a post at a remote meteorological station over the arctic summer, he is unprepared for the isolation and loneliness. His only colleague is Sergei, a gruff uncommunicative man who despairs of Pavel's youthful complacency. When Pavel receives a gravely urgent message fo...

Now available in this deluxe widescreen director's cut, one of the most loved films ever to grace the screen can now be enjoyed on DVD. The story of a lifelong love affair with the movies, Cinema Paradisco tells of a young boy in a small Itilian village, where the only past time is a visit to the m...

Successful children's writer and illustrator Ted Cole (Jeff Bridges) invites 16-year-old writing intern Eddie (Jon Foster) to summer in the privileged beach community of East Hampton, where he lives with his beautiful wife Marion (Kim Basinger) and their young daughter Ruth. Ted and Marion are still...

Adapted by Claude Miller from Philippe Grimbert's autobiographical novel, this is a splendid and moving saga of a Jewish family in post-war Paris, told through the eyes of a frail & intelligent young boy, who senses something is amiss with his beautiful parents Tania & Maxime (Ccile De Franc...

A WOMAN'S FAIRY TALE OF HOPE a day trip just to get away is the starting point of a new life. Life's little turning points often come in the plainest forms. A casual encounter, a little oversight, a strange coincidence, a twist of fate. When a tour bus leaves without bored housewife and dutiful m...

They were done with playing it safe. When Allison (Anne Hathaway) and Emily (Bijou Phillps) leave their rich suburb for a joyride through East LA they witness a frightening landscape of drugs, violence and gang brutality. But as their fear turns to infatuation, the friends find themselves seduced by...

Love might be closer than you think From Oscar-winning director Claude Berri (JEAN DE FLORETTE, TESS) comes Hunting and Gathering, a delightful drama starring the lovely Audrey Tautou (AMELIE) and the equally charming Guillaume Canet (TELL NO ONE). Filmed fittingly in the city of love, this Pa...

The story of an aspiring novelist, who gets by as a handyman, and the beautiful, unpredictable temptress who turns his life upside down when they embark on a heated sexual odyssey. Defining youthful passion and sexuality for an entire generation, Betty Blue is regarded as one of the most controve...

Hailed for its epic scale and masterful battle sequences, this is europe's biggest and most expensive film production ever. Featuring an extraordinary cast bringing to life one of the most heroic and horrific struggles of world war 2 - the battle for Stalingrad - a battle in which more than 1 millio...

Its 1961 and attractive, bright 16-year-old schoolgirl, Jenny (Carey Mulligan) is poised on the brink of womanhood. Stifled by the tedium of adolescent routine, Jenny can't wait for adult life to begin. One rainy day, her suburban life is upended by the arrival of an unsuitable suitor, 30-ish Da...