20th Century Flicks, Bristol

1560, Peru. In a beautiful poetic opening scene the conquistadors cross an Andes pass, situated between the peaks and the valleys, between conquered land and unexplored forests, between 'heaven' and 'earth', shrouded in mists, they make their way down a narrow path. Aguirre's meglomania grows as around him his comrades mutiny and die in his search for the lost city of El Dorado. Herzog's best film, an unforgetable tour de force. Made before the director himself gave in to meglomania on a later t find out more...

AKIRA (1987)

Certification15 Our Rating

2019. The Earth is on the brink of destruction, Tokyo shimmers with post-punk fetishism, gangs of cyberpunk bikers and rioting crowds are on the streets of the post-atomic city. The scene is set for comic-book ultra-violence in this remarkable animated nightmare of hyper-reality. find out more...

ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (1976)

Certification18 Our Rating

A superb cult film. A bunch of hoods cut off and attack a police station whose inmates, both police and prisoners fight desparately for their lives. find out more...

BAD BOY BUBBY (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

A very weird little Aussie number, winner of the Grand Jury Special Prize at Venice. Bubby is 35-years-old but has never been outside the squalid flat where he lives incestuously with his grotesque mother... until the day his Pa returns to the nest. Tasteless and disturbing, but compulsive viewing. find out more...

BAD LIEUTENANT (1994)

Certification18 Our Rating

You've seen the trailer, and then you probably saw it again and then a year went by and you saw it again, but where was the film? At last the most trailered film in history, and wonderfully nasty it is too. Keitel is cop, junkie, thief gambler and hustler not looking for, but finding God. Great. find out more...

BARBARELLA (1968)

Certification15 Our Rating

THE sixties movie. Jane Fonda lands on a surreal planet, discovers sex the old fashioned way and battles against the evil Matmos. Great style, a wonderful film and the one Duran Duran, the pop group, stole their name from. find out more...

BEING THERE (1980)

Certification15 Our Rating

Sellers' last film is his masterpiece. A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington DC house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider. It's find out more...

BETTY BLUE (1986)

Certification18 Our Rating

Betty Blue is irresistable: she is a "femme fatale", an emotional H-bomb just waiting to go off. When she falls for a guy who is content with his lot as a handyman, looking after beach side chalets, reads his novel, unpublished, decides he has talent and drags him off to Paris, well...! find out more...

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BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1970)

Certification18 Our Rating

Russ Meyer's story of an all girl rock band's rise to fame under the direction of their transexual manager. A typically brash style is brought to this, Russ Meyer's biggest budget movie, and self-parody is weaved with melodrama to make a great romp spiked with dope, sex and thrills! Watch. find out more...

BIG WEDNESDAY (1978)

CertificationPG Our Rating

Set between 1962 and 1974 this traces the story of three buddies from adolescent surfing champs to post-Vietnam trauma. As the times change they find their youth is lost until one vital Wednesday in 1974 when there is a Big Swell and they hit the waves again, superb. find out more...