20th Century Flicks, Bristol

Their U-boat having been blown out of the water by the Canadian air force, six German survivors find themselves on a desolate peninsular of Northern Canada, their only hope, to hijack the Allied plane that has been sent to capture them. This Second World War propaganda film by Michael Powell, intended to encourage a still isolationist America into battle, has to be one of the most intelligent and thoughtful films of its kind, an attempt to understand hearts and minds, regardless of their side, r find out more...

A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1999)

Certification12 Our Rating

Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas?
Well-received version of an extremely familiar morality tale.

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A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT (2004)

Certification15 Our Rating

Mathilde and Manech are teenagers in love, unfortunately their feelings have find out more...

BLACK BOOK (2006)

Certification15 Our Rating

The Netherlands towards the end of WWII and Jewess Rachel Stein must abandon her hiding place and make a break for freedom. After escaping the massacre of a boat load of refugees fleeing toward Allied lines, Rachel, alone, bereft and terrified, joins the Resistance and, using her feminine wiles and intelligence, infiltrates the lair of those responsible for her grief. Black Book is a cracking thriller; tense, gripping, and full of irony, Dutch resistance heroes aren't all models of virtue and we find out more...

BUFFALO SOLDIERS (2003)

Certification15 Our Rating

What Ray Elwood lacks in devotion to his flag he more than makes up for in devotion to his own well being. As a sergeant in the American army stationed in Germany, Ray has cornered the blackmarket in just about everything, but when a new sergeant moves into the base to clean things up, it would appear Ray's easy street is about to be closed for some major resurfacing. Buffalo Soldiers is a dark, pacey, and at times ludicrous satire, with a repugnant anti-hero, whose only redeeming feature is tha find out more...

BULLET IN THE HEAD (1990)

Certification18 Our Rating

Three young Hong Kong hustlers move to Saigon to try and profit, smuggling penicillin and gold, from the war, but their friendship is tested to the limits through greed, betrayal and lust, amid the horrors of a war-torn Vietnam. Comparable to the 'Deer Hunter', this violent epic is the most ambitiously personal and political of John Woo's films, but still comes packed with guns, explosives and balletic action. find out more...

CASH (2008)

Certification15 Our Rating

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CHILDREN OF MEN (2006)

Certification15 Our Rating

In a not far off dystopian future women have become infertile and governments have forgotten that Orwell's �1984' was supposed to be a searing indictment of what NOT to do. Into this less than hopeful world arrives a young woman who has achieved the miracle of pregnancy, everyone wants the child as a cynical totem for the people, and those planning rebellion are as ruthless as those in power. Finding a reluctant but increasingly determined guardian in the form of Theo, mother and child go in sea find out more...

CORIOLANUS (2011)

Certification15 Our Rating

Nat Jester says: "This is a good attempt at a directorial debut from Ralph Fiennes, which, like Baz Lurhman's Shakespeare adaptation Romeo + Juliet, brings an old tale into the present while retaining original dialogue. Fiennes is brilliant as Caius 'Coriolanus' Martius, giving the sense of a man who cares for his country, but just can't seem to make the right move. James Nesbit is also good as a schemening senator and Vanessa Redgrave does an outstanding job of playing the family matriarch, find out more...