Here are our 25 bestselling DVDs from the past year.

Crime and politics dominate our top sellers with every currently available season of The Bridge, House of Cards (both the US and UK versions) and Borgen all listed below. Three new crime shows have also proved popular: The Fall which stars Gillian Anderson of The X-Files fame, Morden: The Fjällbacka Murders which is based the books of Swedish crime writer Camilla Läckberg and True Detective which was one of the most talked about TV-shows of 2014.

Of the following DVDs listed:

• 13 are TV series (including many that feature detectives…)
• eight are films (including two musicals and two adapted from plays)
• four are documentaries (including one Academy Award winner)

24. Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing
24. Foyle’s War: The Complete Collection
23. Once
22. The Fall: Season 1
21. The Intouchables
20. The Great Beauty
19. Downton Abbey: Season 4
18. House Of Cards: Trilogy
17. Gardening With Soul
16. Blue Jasmine
15. The Leopard
14. Tim Winton’s The Turning
13. Morden: The Fjällbacka Murders: Season One
12. Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary Event
11. Borgen: Season 2
10. House Of Cards: Season 2
9. Borgen: Season 3
8. Searching For Sugar Man
7. The Bridge: Season 1
6. The Bridge: Season 2
5. The Story of the Jews with Simon Schama
4. Borgen: Season 1
3. House of Cards: Season 1
2. True Detective: Season 1

And, our top selling DVD for 2014 is….

After the disaster of WW2, a wave of Italian immigrants found their way to Melbourne – a strange place, suspicious of outsiders and completely devoid of a good cup of espresso. In Lygon Street - Si Parla Italiano, documentarians Shannon Swan and Angelo Pricolo tell the history of this famous cultural epicentre.

Our managing director Mark Rubbo says, ‘ Lygon Street - Si Parla Italiano is a delightful homage to the Italians who helped to change the way Australians thought about food, and about the way they lived.’

Read his full review here.

Ed. note: The list combines sales from all Readings shops and our website. The list covers sales from 1 Jan 2014 to 31 December 2014.