20th Century Flicks, Bristol

Cult director, Abel Ferrara invites us to witness the day before everything will cease to be. At 4:44am, the last vestiges of the world’s ozone layer will evaporate and within seconds the word will end. There is no means of escape and there will be no survivors we view the countdown to the end of life on earth through the eyes of actor, Cisco and his artist girlfriend, Skye whose focus in their final hours is love, lust find out more...

5 X 2 (2004)

Certification15 Our Rating

From the director of �Swimming Pool' and �8 Women' this tale follows the disintegration of a thoroughly modern couple's marriage..but in reverse, beginning with the divorce and ending with their first meeting. A cleverly executed and intriguing premise, 5 Times 2, despite its generous critical acclaim, left me cold, perhaps a homage to French new wave cinema that my simple mind has always failed to fully grasp. find out more...

52 TUESDAYS (2015)

Certification12 Our Rating unrated

16 year old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans to gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons.

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71 FRAGMENTS OF A CHRONOLOGY OF CHANCE (1994)

Certification12 Our Rating

An icy-cool study of violence both mediated and horribly real, the film follows a handful of seemingly unrelated characters all of whom � perhaps by chance, perhaps by divine intervention, have the grave misfortune to be in an Austrian bank when a 19-year-old student starts unloading his revolver. find out more...

8 1/2 (1963)

Certification15 Our Rating

The story of a director, devoid of inspiration and on the verge of a nervous breakdown, trying to satisfy the anticipation surrounding his next project. Surreal, serio-comic mildly autobiographical and widely acclaimed as one of the great films about movie-making. Fellini's masterpiece. find out more...

A BITTERSWEET LIFE (2005)

Certification18 Our Rating

Coining the new term 'action noir' in Korea, director Kim Ji-woon follows up his extraordinary features A Quiet Family and A Tale Of Two Sisters with this blackly comic thriller. Lee Byeong-heon stars as sartorially elegant Sun-woo, a unique character with a curious lifestyle - he's not only the proprietor of a hotel bar but also the right-hand man to the powerful gang leader, Mr Kang. When Kang suspects that his beautiful young mistress Hee-soo might be messing around with another man, he enlis find out more...

A BOUT DE SOUFFLE (1959)

CertificationPG Our Rating

Godard's hugely influential debut went on to inspire a new wave of French cinema and this is the film which epitomised the iconoclasm of the early Nouvelle Vague. Belmondo is the hip gangster, modelled on Bogart, whose escapades, including shooting a cop, leave him and his girlfriend on the run from both the cops and his enemies. The insolent casual style and cool moods make this the ultimate film noir.

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A DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG (1972)

Certification15 Our Rating

A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death and emotional trauma with a humour that hides their pain.
Superb bittersweet 'comedy'.

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A DIRTY SHAME (2004)

Certification18 Our Rating

Sylvia Stickles hates sex. That is, until she gets whacked in the head with a lawnmower handle and is concussed. As it turns out, when we are accidentally concussed we are more susceptable to be lead by our libidoes...or so we are to believe in this weird and loony flick from the master of the depraved and absurd, John Waters. As Sylvia is befriended by Ray Ray, the sexual saint, she rekindles her relationship with her criminally indecent daughter Caprice aka Ursula Udders and embarrasses her mo find out more...

A FANTASTIC WOMAN (2017)

Certification15 Our Rating

Marina, a transgender woman who works as a waitress and moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.

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