20th Century Flicks, Bristol

An American spaceship crash lands off the coast of sicily on board is a gooey, gelatinous mass that soon transforms itself into a 20ft rampaging monster that stomps all over Rome. Cool! find out more...

2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)

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Like wow, lets drop some acid (older members may remember what that was) and watch the pyschedelic sequence. To boldly go were no man has..... whoops wrong movie. find out more...

3.10 TO YUMA (1957) (1957)

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The original and still the best. Glenn Ford plays the outlaw Ben Wade whose capture leads to a desperate and dangerous mission for the poor rancher, Dan Evans, who is charged with bringing the renegade to justice on the 3.10 train to Yuma. find out more...

42ND STREET (1933)

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A seminal backstage musical as stand-in chorus girl Ruby Keeler plays the most provocative of Busby Berkeley numbers such as 'Shuffle Off Buffalo' and 'Young and Healthy' and Bebe Daniels lolls on piano trilling 'You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me'. find out more...

49TH PARALLEL (1941)

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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...

5 FINGERS (1952)

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A wonderfully adapted film based round the exploits of Cicero, aka Elyesa Bazna, the Albanian born valet (Mason at his best) of the British ambassador to Turkey, who sold secrets to the Germans during 1944. The valet's gentlemanly pretensions are put to the test in this tale of espionage and romantic intrigue. Ace.

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633 SQUADRON (1963)

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Spectacular flying sequences, heart-rending emotions and a rousing musical score combine to make 633 squadron one of the great R.A.F classics. find out more...

8 1/2 (1963)

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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 BOUT DE SOUFFLE (1959)

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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 CANTERBURY TALE (1944)

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Three characters: a land girl, a US and a UK sergeant, all arrive on the same train in a small wartime Kent village and set out to catch the local malcontent, the 'glue man'. The three of them start to explore the area to discover and expose him but then they get engrossed in the history of the area and the tales of The Pilgrim's Way. The local magistrate is a regional historian, and a very mysterious character, who leads them further into the mystery. A superb depiction of the tensions that ari find out more...