20th Century Flicks, Bristol

From the Ong-Bak stable we have a new martial arts star, Jeeja Yanin, who plays Zen, a skinny 15-year-old autistic girl, who picks up martial arts skills from watching a kick-boxing team training next door, watching Kung Fu flicks and playing computer games. Zen discovers a list of debtors, from her mum's less than illustrious past, and, determined to raise money for an operation for said sick mum, goes out to collect the dosh. And, when disrespected, Zen proves more than capable of bursting int find out more...

CITY HALL (1996)

Certification15 Our Rating

A brilliant story of one man's idealism pitted against political machinations as he tries to solve the mysterious enigma behind the killing of a six year-old by a stray bullet. As the city power brokers gradually get dragged in, Cusack must face the reality of compromise. Superb thriller-drama. find out more...

CITY OF GOD (2002)

Certification18 Our Rating

The 'City of God' is a slum town within the confines of Rio De Janeiro and a place of such casual and seemingly infinite brutality that no one but its residents ever venture within its borders. Rocket is one young man who has made a conscious decision to escape his 'home town' and it is through his eyes that we view this mesmerizing vision of a society where violence and the ruthlessness to use it have run amok. 'City Of God' is a truly awesome film, a heart pounding journey, with relentless pac find out more...

CUL-DE-SAC (1965)

Certification15 Our Rating

Returning to themes he had touched upon in his earlier films Polanski develops the idea of Pinter's "two people in a room and then a third enters" with a couple on a remote island invaded by two on-the-run gangsters. Gradually the power positions shift... underlined with great black humour. find out more...

DEEP COVER (1992)

Certification18 Our Rating

Intense thriller with Fishburne as the undercover cop trying to bring down the big boys and Goldblum excellent as Fishburne's lawyer-turned-dealer partner. As Fishburne realises what a political pawn he has become, he has to re-examine his past to establish his motives. Utterly absorbing filmmaking with a hip hop soundtrack to match.

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DINNER RUSH (2000)

Certification15 Our Rating

Small time gangster Louis's son has taken over the family restaurant and turned it from traditional fare to a successful trendy nouvelle cuisine outlet. We follow the conversations from tables of diners, art critics, gangsters, police, predatory females et al, and the work force, both up and downstairs, all against a smart thriller backdrop. Altmanesque, brilliant and gastronomic. find out more...

EASTERN PROMISES (2007)

Certification18 Our Rating

When London based mid-wife Anna witnesses the death during childbirth of a young teenage mother, she resolves to find the baby's relatives. Unfortunately for all involved this unwittingly leads her into the brutal, merciless world of an Eastern European mafia, ruled with cold-hearted charm and pseudo-benevolence by restauranter Semyon, but it is the mysterious and lethal driver Nikolai, a man who will become either her saviour or her nemesis, who tantalises Anna with information. After their pre find out more...

ELITE SQUAD (2007)

Certification18 Our Rating

An elite battalion of police officers, known as BOPE, are pretty much the only thing that the drug dealers living in the favelas of Rio De Janerio fear - aside from each other. But the man who commands them wants out; the unrelenting brutality of his job is beginning to fracture both his mind and family life. The Captain has one goal: to find a worthy replacement, untainted by the corruption that riddles his fellow colleagues, and the potential shows itself in the form of two very different but find out more...

FACE (1997)

Certification18 Our Rating

Director Antonia Bird has triumphed where so many have failed since "The Long Good Friday", with a British crime thriller that actually works. Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting, The Full Monty) is Ray, a politically correct armed robber who's gathered together a bunch of his fellow East End "faces" to pull off an ambitious raid on a London warehouse. Amongst his partners-in-crime are the old-fashioned gangster (Winstone), the alarming but amusing psycho (Davis) and the cocky young apprentice (Albarn find out more...

FAVELLA RISING (2005)

Certification12 Our Rating

Favela Rising documents a man and a movement, a city divided and a favela (Brazilian squatter settlement) united. Haunted by the murders of his family and many of his friends, Anderson S�, a former drug-dealer, turns social revolutionary in one of Rio de Janeiro's most feared slums. Through music, the rhythms of the street and Afro-Brazilian dance he rallies his community to counteract the violent life offered by the drug armies and sustained by corrupt police. But even as liberation looms trage find out more...