20th Century Flicks, Bristol

Unashamedly unsophisticated coming-of-age comedy with a barrage of bodily-embarrassment jokes. Four high school friends, already battling raging testosterone levels, are outraged and awestruck when a smug classmate gets lucky with a real live girl. Making a pact, the four vow to lose their virginity by prom night, no mean feat given the guys' spectacular lack of familiarity with charm, finesse and the workings of the human body. So, a simple plot, splendidly executed by the largely unknown youn find out more...

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ANGUS, THONGS AND PERFECT SNOGGING (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

Georgia Nicolson, an eccentric and quirkily charming teenager, has two simple goals: find out more...

ANIMALS (2019)

Certification15 Our Rating

Two best friends, in a coming of age, finding their purpose within their own love story story. Helped and hindered with copious narcotics, alcohol and general partying. Based on the novel from 2014 of the same name by Emma Jane Unsworth. This film has some wonderful bits. If you appreciate some depth, and challenge, and at times a female Withnail and I / Fleabag'esk environment this will likely work for you. It is not without faults, meanders a little, but this does find out more...

ANITA AND ME (2002)

Certification12 Our Rating

Menna is on the cusp of teenagedom and eager to sample her naive interpretations of adulthood, but this is the 1970s and she's a young Asian lass living in a small Midlands mining town...so you take what you can get when it comes to role models and for Meena it's the oldest daughter of her spectacularly dysfunctional next door neighbours. Like Bend It Like Beckham Anita and Me is a film of a young girl establishing her identity in conflict with the Asian values of her parents, though in this cas find out more...

ANYWHERE BUT HERE (1999)

Certification12 Our Rating

Portman is excellent, balancing wisdom and petulance, loyalty and imposition, as Ann, a 14-year-old dragged away from Bay City, Wisconsin, in the Mercedes of her eccentric mother, speech therapist Adele (Sarandon), who's hellbent on making it to Beverly Hills. That they only get to the foothills can't be counted a real setback, nor can the compromise apartment, nor the effects of Adele's misjudged romantic liaison, nor the pressure of Ann's increasingly pertinent contribution to family argument. find out more...

APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOUR (2014)

Certification15 Our Rating

In the immediate aftermath of her break up from Maxine, Persian, Bisexual Shirin refuses to accept their relationship is irrecoverable and sets about trying to win her back, with varying degrees of failure, whilst navigating the sociopolitical landscape that her life inhabits. Superbly written and directed by Desiree Akhavan - who also plays Shirin, well, superbly. So, all round superb, in my best Brooklyn accent. (Brett Atkinson)

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ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL (2006)

Certification15 Our Rating

Talented young sketch artist Jerome Platz escapes from high school to a tiny East Coast art college. Here his ambition is to become, like his hero Picasso, the world's greatest artist. Unfortunately the beauty and craft of Jerome's portraiture are not appreciated in an art class that he finds bewildering and bogus, neither his harsh judgments of his classmates' efforts nor his later attempts to create pseudo-art of his own win him any admirers, though he does attract the attentions of his dream find out more...

BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)

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Sent back in time Marty McFly accidently changes a small bit of history, the bit where his mum and dad fall in love. To get himself born Marty has to make sure they get hitched, no easy job as his mother's fallen for him! Great comic fantasy with heavy Freudian sub-plot. This one MUST be seen first. find out more...

BEAUTIFUL THING (1996)

Certification15 Our Rating

A wicked little British movie about colourful goings one hot summer on a London housing estate. A touching tale of love friendship, life and sexuality as two next-door neighbours get to know each other in a film you won't want to end. Watch out for the one-liners in the very sassy script. find out more...

BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM (2002)

Certification12 Our Rating

Jess is a Sikh teenager with a passion for football, something that her traditionalist parents, who want her to grow up as a nice Asian girl with an arranged marriage and cooking Aloo Gobi, are horrified by. After making friends with white girl Jules she is introduced to the local womens' team, for whom she must play without her parents' knowiledge, and where she develops a forbidden love interest with the coach. Poor girl, her parents find out everything she does, and imagine worse. A witty find out more...