20th Century Flicks, Bristol

In 1942, a Canadian intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.

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A BITTERSWEET LIFE (2005)

Certification18 Our Rating

Coining the new term 'action noir' in Korea, director Kim Ji-woon follows up his extraordinary features A Quiet Family and A Tale Of Two Sisters with this blackly comic thriller. Lee Byeong-heon stars as sartorially elegant Sun-woo, a unique character with a curious lifestyle - he's not only the proprietor of a hotel bar but also the right-hand man to the powerful gang leader, Mr Kang. When Kang suspects that his beautiful young mistress Hee-soo might be messing around with another man, he enlis find out more...

A CHINESE GHOST STORY (1987)

Certification18 Our Rating

Ning Tsai-Shen, a humble travelling tax collector, arrives in a small town, but, the inns all being full, he ends up spending the night in the haunted Lan Ro temple. There he meets Taoist swordsman Yen Che-Hsia, who warns him to stay out of trouble, and the beautiful Nieh Hsiao-Tsing, with whom he falls in love. Unfortunately, Hsiao-Tsing is a ghost, bound for all eternity by a hideous tree spirit with an incredibly long tongue that wraps itself round its victims and sucks out their life essence find out more...

AFTER THE SUNSET (2004)

Certification12 Our Rating

Max and Lola are two exemplary jewel thieves, but realising that you should never find out more...

ALADDIN (2018)

CertificationPG Our Rating

A kind-hearted street urchin Aladdin vies for the love of the beautiful princess Jasmine, the princess of Agrabah. When he finds a magic lamp, he uses a genie's magic power to make himself a prince in order to marry her. He is also on a mission to stop the powerful Jafar who plots to steal the magic lamp that could make his deepest wishes come true.

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APOCALYPTO (2006)

Certification18 Our Rating

The Mayan Empire is at its peak, the last mighty roar before its cataclysmic fall, and there are no Central American people, however small and nomadic their tribe, that remain free of its murderous grasp. When his people are massacred and Jaguar Paw captured he, with the remnants of his tribe, begins a long and merciless journey to the Mayan capital, a place due to be his last, brief, bloody home. But the knowledge of the survival of his wife and child wills Jaguar on to become more than just an find out more...

ARMAGEDDON (1998)

Certification12 Our Rating

Big, big-budget blockbuster with Bruce Willis as the man signed up to save the world. A huge special effect, sorry - asteroid, "the size of Texas" is heading for Earth, but hey, there's no need to get all serious about it. With eighteen days to go before armageddon, let's send in hotshot oil driller AJ (Brucie) and his twelve-strong team of wise-cracking, roughneck workmen, land them on the asteroid and let them plunge their big drills into unchartered geology, hopefully making a swift getaway b find out more...

ARN: KNIGHT TEMPLAR (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

Young Arn, the son of a Swedish nobleman, is exiled to the Holy Land for 20 years as punishment for falling in love with Cecilia, who in turn is banished to a convent. When Arn returns from the Crusades as a proven and chivalrous warrior he is determined to reunite with his love, but first he must fight for his people within the fractured tribal politics of Medieval Sweden.
'Knight Templar' is a well made, high budget, historical romance with a substantial amount of heroic hack and slash find out more...

AUSTRALIA (2008)

Certification12 Our Rating

It is 1941 and English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, inherits a ranch in the Australian outback, but when cattle barons plot to take her land, she is forced, reluctantly at first, to team up with a rough-hewn cattle driver. Together with a young aboriginal orphan the unlikely band must take 1500 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's most unforgiving land only to face the Japanese forces on their arrival in Darwin. Australia is Baz Luhrmann's (�Moulin Rouge', �Romeo and Juliet find out more...

AVATAR (2009)

Certification12 Our Rating

'Avatar' tells the story of a future conflict between resource-guzzling humans and the indigenous inhabitants of the planet Pandora: the Na'vi. Paraplegic marine Jake runs an avatar; a genetically engineered crossbreed controlled via a mental link. Sent to spy on the `enemy` Jake falls for Na'vi princess, Neytir, and their tribal lifestyle, forcing him to choose sides when the human invasion escalates into full-blown war. There's no escaping the quality of the CGI in Cameron's blockbuster, but find out more...