20th Century Flicks, Bristol

A Belfast Story explores life after terrorism. Set in a city which has weathered hundreds of years of hatred, 30 years of bombs, and a war without winners, just victims. One man, weary of doing right, must find those from the past violence who refuse to go quietly into the night. &n find out more...

A PERFECT WORLD (1993)

Certification15 Our Rating

Superb drama with Costner in perhaps his best role as jailbreaker Butch Haynes, a career criminal who has to kidnap a young boy to escape the law. The drama unfolds with the relationship between the two, and the pursuing Eastwood. Great performances, particularly the boy (T J Lowther) and excellently directed. find out more...

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BOARDWALK EMPIRE SEASON 2: DISC 3 (2011)

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Chronicles the life and times of Nucky Thompson, the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City, who was equal parts politician and gangster.
High production values and a fine ensemble cast: HBO knows how to do TV.

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BOPHA! (1993)

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Based on the play by Percy Mtwa, Bopha! is a powerful and moving tale set during the peak of modern South Africa's system of apartheid. Micah Mangena is a black sergeant in the police force, a man who has succeeded in his job by never questioning what he has been asked to do. It is only when Micah's son takes up the protest against oppression that he is finally forced to take a stand against the regime he has helped to keep propped up. find out more...

BROKEN CITY (2013)

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COLLATERAL (2018)

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'Collateral', a new BBC drama, has been written by distinguisged playwright David Hare. Writing for the theatre, an author has to make great use of dialogue; they lack access to the inner monologue that a writer of fiction can call upon, or the camera and its access to varied surroundings of someone writing for TV or cinema. Hare has his own trademark style of dialogue; and he retains it even when television is his medium. So one thing one doesn't get is naturalistic find out more...

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (BBC) (2002)

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An impressive BBC adaptation of Dostoyevsky's tragic masterpiece, a profound analysis of redemption and a cerebral detective story of the soul. find out more...

I SAW BEN BARKA GET KILLED (2005)

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January 1966: in a Paris flat police discover the body of Georges Figon. A year earlier, tired of dodgy deals and petty scams, ex-con Georges Figon had gone in search of something big and, through his underworld connections, had got himself hired as producer for a documentary on de-colonialisation to be written by Marguerite Duras and directed by Georges Franju. The well-known Moroccan dissident Mehdi Ben Barka was to be the film's 'historical advisor', but the whole film project was an elaborat find out more...

INTERROGATION (1982)

Certification18 Our Rating

After a one-night stand with a military officer, a cabaret singer is imprisoned by the secret police, without ever being informed of her alleged crime. For the next five years, she is subjected to harrowing torture and harassment, which she doggedly withstands in a struggle to maintain her dignity and sanity. Interrogation was banned by the Polish government for being 'inflammatory and dangerous'. Years later director Bugjaski smuggled a copy out of the country where it debuted at Cannes in 1990 find out more...

JIN-ROH (1999)

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10 years have passed since war changed the face of Japan, which now burns with the fire of civil unrest, and a well armed anti-government group has risen amongst the people, which in turn has initiated the formation of an elite troupe of government soldiers, the feared 'Wolf Brigade', trained like dogs these men are to combat the rebels with extreme and severe prejudice. When Constable Fuse hesitates to kill a young suicide bomber, he is sent to a retraing camp where he is forced to face his own find out more...