20th Century Flicks, Bristol

One of the classic comic-heist movies of the 60's, Ronald Neame's GAMBIT stars Michael Caine as Harry Dean, the cockney con-man with the perfect plan to steal a priceless statue. He just needs the right accomplice to play the part of his wife and Shirley MacLaine's Euroasian showgirl has just the face he's looking for. Events don't unfold quite as planned, but then little is what it seems in a plot that keeps the audience guessing as it twists and turns to the very end. Features audio comment find out more...

GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING (2003)

Certification12 Our Rating

In the home of master painter, Johannes Vermeer, resides beautiful young maid, Griet. Increasingly drawn to the girl, Johannes sees in her a fellow spirit and as he brings her deeper and deeper into his confidence so the intensity of their relationship begins to create a fractious atmosphere within the household, a mood at odds with the inspiration she embues within the painter himself. The Girl With A Pearl Earring, taken from Tracy Chevalier's remarkable novel, is a visual feast that manages t find out more...

GOYA'S GHOSTS (2006)

Certification15 Our Rating

It is 1782 in Spain and through the eyes of the great painter Francisco Goya unfolds the story of a group of people caught up in the brutal later years of the Inquisition. Ines is his beautiful model, who is taken by the Inquisition, raped, tortured and left to rot in the Spanish dungeons for 15 years, Tomas is her wealthy father and Lorenzo the cruel and sadistic Inquisitor. This is their story. find out more...

HEAT ( ANDY WARHOL) (1971)

Certification18 Our Rating

A sexually voracious former child star moves into a sleazy Hollywood motel whilst searching for film work. The place is run by a lecherous proprietress and inhabited by various oddballs, all of whom have designs on our hero, Joe. Luckily for everybody he's none too fussy. Low budget Warhol romp. find out more...

HOUSE OF WAX (1953)

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The original 1953 classic has a suitably sinister Vincent Price going that extra mile to ensure the realism of his wax effigies. Creepy, camp and kitsch � it's wonderful. Check out the youthful Charles Bronson! find out more...

I SHOT ANDY WARHOL (1996)

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Valerie Solanas was a nutter cum radical feminist who tried to hang around with the Warhol crowd, became the sole member of SCUM, the Society for Cutting Up Men, and became famous for more than 15 minutes for firing the bullets from which Andy Warhol never recovered. Right on sister, that's art. This is a fab little pic from the Killer Films troupe. Laced with psychedelia, trimmed with gritty realism, first person narratives and cameos, this is a must watch if only for Taylor's brilliant protray find out more...

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IN THIS CORNER OF THE WORLD (2016)

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Suzu Urano moves to the small town of Kure in Hiroshima, in 1944, to live with her husband's family. As her home town is bombed, rations tighten and devastation hits, Suzu puts on a brave face. A story of perseverance and the indomitable nature of the human spirit, In This Corner of the World is poignant and heart breaking.

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JAN SVANKMAJER: THE COMPLETE SHORT FILMS (2007)

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The man's a genius. Watch his films. That is an order. On this disc are: find out more...

JAN SVANKMAJER: THE COMPLETE SHORT FILMS (2007)

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The Castle of Otranto (1979); The Fall of the House of Usher (1980); Dimensions of Dialogue (1982); Down to the Cellar (1983); The Pendulum, The Pit and Hope (1983); Virile Games (1988); Another Kind of Love (1988); Meat Love (1988); Darkness-Light-Darkness (1989); Flora (1989); The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia (1990); Food (1992). find out more...

JUNEBUG (2005)

Certification15 Our Rating

Cosmopolitan and long absent son George returns, with English art-dealer wife Madeline in tow, to visit his roots, a dysfunctional conservative small-town family in bible-belt North Carolina. This is the sort of place where children grow up with 'something wrong about them', which begs a few questions about religion, education, basic medical services and inward breeding, but the director has carefully crafted a nuanced set of characters whose interactions are at the heart of the film. As a sidep find out more...