20th Century Flicks, Bristol

It's the late 19th century and in the West the railways are coming. Ruthless outlaw Ben Wade and his equally immoral gang feed off the wealth the lines bring, but after he's captured Wade is forced to confront his worst enemy, his conscience. As they travel across the deserts of Arizona towards the train that will deliver him to ultimate justice, a grudging respect develops between Wade and escort Dan, a dirt poor farmer who knows the values of right and wrong, but with Ben's men in hot pursuit find out more...

BULLET FOR THE GENERAL (1966)

Certification18 Our Rating

The first and best of the Italian "Mexi-Westerns", on a par with Leone's and with a haunting soundtrack. An American mercenary teams up with a bandit on the fringes of the revolutionaries in order to assinate their leader. A violent political film from the same pen as The Battle Of Algiers. find out more...

DUST DEVIL (1992)

Certification18 Our Rating

Murder, magic and South African politics mix in a nightmarish world of mysticism and ritual slaughter. Drawn to the drought-ridden town of Bethany by the smell of death, shape-shifting 'Hitcher with No Name' (Burke) kills and dismembers a lonely young woman who picks him up. While the hitcher feeds off the despair of others, including fugitive wife Field, local policeman Mokae enlists the help of a half-mad, half-blind cinema projectionist in his search for a suspected serial killer. The non-lin find out more...

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GERONIMO: AN AMERICAN LEGEND (1993)

Certification12 Our Rating

An authentically bloody chronicle of the last Apache leader as recorded in the memoirs of one of the cavalrymen who hunted him down. The film covers his fight to preserve the lands of his people and the growing admiration and understanding of his white adversaries. It's all enough to make the red earth of the Moab desert curdle with blood and shame. Fine play from Patric, Duvall, Studi and Hackman in this great biopic. find out more...

HIDEOUS KINKY (1999)

Certification15 Our Rating

A marvelous, great looking adaptation of Esther Freud's acclaimed novel. Kate Winslet plays discontented mum Julia, who decides to swap rainy '70s London for sweltering, dusty Morocco. She soon discovers, however, that life on the breadline with two young daughters (5 and 7 year-olds) in Marrakesh is not much more fun than it was in London, and matters aren't helped when she falls for a swarthy young street hustle and one of the kids falling victim to the local lurgy. Bristol 9-year-old Carrie M find out more...

ICE COLD IN ALEX (1960)

CertificationPG Our Rating

In the Western Desert of 1942, a battle-weary army officer is driving an ambulance to the safety of Alexandria. One of his passengers, a stray South African, saves the group from enemy capture, but an uneasy feeling begins to grow that he may in fact be a German spy. Superb war movie with a Stella cast - sorry couldn't help the pun! find out more...

IN THIS WORLD (2002)

Certification15 Our Rating

We follow young Jamal on the long dangerous land journey from a refugee camp on the Pakistan Afghanistan border thru' Iran, Turkey, Italy and France to the new Mecca; London. Minimalist in dialogue and very naturalistic. Superb. find out more...

JULIA (2009)

Certification15 Our Rating

Hard-bitten, down at her heels, heavy drinking Julia has little going for her in her life, that is until a barely known widowed Latina neighbour entices her into kidnapping her only son from his rich gringo grandparent and taking him home to Mexico. The amatuerish attempt is somewhat bungled and Julia soon finds herself on the Mexican side of the border with the boy re-kidnapped by seriously nasty dudes. Now she must stop drinking, get her act together and play all sides against each other in a find out more...

KANDAHAR (2001)

CertificationPG Our Rating

Nafas is an Afghan journalist living in Canada when she gets a message from her sister, still living in the place of their birth, pronouncing that come the next solar eclipse she will commit suicide. Nafas decides to make the perilous journey to her home land and find her sister, returning to the veil she had long left behind on her return to a country ravaged by civil war and still under the iron grip of the Taliban. Kandahar is a stunning piece of film making with some breathtaking images. Sho find out more...

MAD MAX 2 (1981)

Certification15 Our Rating

Easily the best of the Mad Max trio. In an apocolyptic post-nuclear war future, where violent scavengers dominate society, our hardened existential hero finds himself forced to side with the remnants of civilization in their desperate battle for survival. find out more...