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The Heckler by Brian Tudor.
Loads of great visual stuff, great sleights. You can get it quite cheap at penguin magic.
Also the Dave Krenzo videos (coins & cards) are good. Very visual stuff.
The videos by Richard Sanders (the show vol 1, 2 & 3) are also good. Very visual effects (cards and coins)
David Acer's extreme close up DVD (GREAT visual magic, mainly cards)
Anything from Lennart Green will keep you going for life too...
That's already a good selection me thinks.

My favourite dvds are 'the very best of' set by Jay Sankey. Not only is it very strong magic and not too hard for the amature, but every trick is performed in front of a live audience to give you a great sense of timing and misdirection

Jerome the French wrote:The Heckler by Brian Tudor

I really liked the look of this and was going to buy it, but theres some really bad reviews, that say the teaching is stupidly hard to follow.

majortom wrote:

Jerome the French wrote:The Heckler by Brian Tudor

I really liked the look of this and was going to buy it, but theres some really bad reviews, that say the teaching is stupidly hard to follow.

Well, Brian's a bad teacher, but there are loads of good sleights in there. If you really wanna learn something, you need to put practice and time in it, and then adapt it to your hands etc...
but yeah, Brian teaches like that:
"left hand second finger pushes card to the right while right hand pinky does this..."
It is not very nice to follow. But I manage to get things without getting a headacke, so it is fine really... I guess it depends on people.

I suggest the much loved (well by me) . David Stones Basic close up magic thats got cards , rope. sponges... and all so get Greg Wilson's Ring leader to give them cards a rest.

I would go for the book and dvd set of royal road to card magic that will keep you going for hours its about £70 or $130 and that will keep you going for about a year or so.