20th Century Flicks, Bristol

It's the late 19th century and in the West the railways are coming. Ruthless outlaw Ben Wade and his equally immoral gang feed off the wealth the lines bring, but after he's captured Wade is forced to confront his worst enemy, his conscience. As they travel across the deserts of Arizona towards the train that will deliver him to ultimate justice, a grudging respect develops between Wade and escort Dan, a dirt poor farmer who knows the values of right and wrong, but with Ben's men in hot pursuit find out more...

ALIEN (1979)

Certification18 Our Rating

Much imitated but never equalled, this is the definitive space nightmare. The crew of a commercial spacecraft are stalked by a stowaway, mutating monster of veracious appetite. Weaver puts in a splendidly believable performance as the resourceful Ripley. Taut script and awesome special FX. find out more...

ANOTHER COUNTRY (1985)

Certification15 Our Rating

A dramatisation of the spy Guy Burgess's school days at Eton, showing the cruel and rigid system that educated the leaders of the day. Extremely convincing in its detailing, including Everett's portrayal of the young, exuberant, homosexual Guy Burgess. A modern British cinema classic. find out more...

BEAUTIFUL GIRLS (1996)

Certification15 Our Rating

A twenty-something romantic drama following a group of old school buddies as they reunite, one winter, and discuss love, life, women, sports and anything in between. But it's Willie, home alone, who faces the biggest dilemma when he develops a crush on his next door neighbour... and she's just thirteen. Not a great deal happens, but it's a witty and beautifully observed study of the frailty of friendship and easy on the eye. find out more...

BLUE COLLAR (1978)

Certification18 Our Rating

Three working-class friends rob the local trade union safe but all they get away with is a set of books. The brightest works out their meaning........ A superb thriller full of references to the atomisation of the working class by institutional means. find out more...

BREAKING AWAY (1979)

Certification12 Our Rating

Peter Yates' Oscar-winner is a heart-warming coming-of-age story that has also taken its place as the greatest sports movie about cycling ever made. Four friends graduate from high-school and find themselves looking at an uncertain future in small-town America. Dave's passion is cycling and his dream is to be a world-class champion like the Italians he idolises. His passion for cycling takes on new meaning when he and his friends face a team from the local college in the town's annual bike ra find out more...

CORALINE (2009)

CertificationPG Our Rating

When Coraline's parents move to the back of beyond and bury themselves in their work their seriously bored daughter decides to go in search of her own entertainment. Coraline stumbles upon a small portal that introduces her to an alternative world where her mum and dad care and the shabbiness of her real existence has been transformed into a wonderous place of beauty and adventure, but perfect places can sometimes hide a dark secret, as our heroine soon begins to discover. Directed and created b find out more...

CREEPSHOW (1982)

Certification15 Our Rating

Finally on DVD, this classic portmanteau film stands as a homage to the wonderfully lurid and grisly EC horror comics of the 1950s. Out of the pages of the comic 'Creepshow' come five tales of terror... a tyranical father returns from beyond the grave to claim his Father's Day cake, a meteor crashes to Earth and starts to turn everything into plant-life, a husband plans the ultimate revenge for his cheating wife and her lover, a college hides a hideous and ravenous secret and an ultra-rich entom find out more...

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DAS BOOT THE DIRECTOR'S CUT (1985)

Certification15 Our Rating

First Wolfgang Petersen's TV serial was cut to make a highly acclaimed film, nominated for 6 Oscars, but now he has reshot many scenes, added new ones and remastered the sound in order to make a genuine movie. The film follows the crew of a German WW2 U-Boat crew as they co-exist between hunting Allied ships and being prey themselves. The tension, claustrophobia and fear leap out of the screen and the movie successfully avoids any sense of nationalism, a sentiment that would have irredeemably fl find out more...

DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978)

Certification18 Our Rating

In this, the sequel to Night Of The Living Dead, the flesh eating zombies return. As they shuffle around a deserted shopping mall one can only but reflect on the damage supermarket muzak inflicts on the senses. Good shocker from the master of the undead, George A Romero. find out more...