20th Century Flicks, Bristol

Mike, who writes successful books debunking 'supernatural' phenomena, is lured into spending a night in a New York hotel... Room 1408. Although the first half hour or so promises little more than a rather standard haunted room flick once his total isolation from the outside world becomes apparent we enter a genuinely scary and surreal world where he is forced to fight to retain his sanity. Unable to leave this 'cell of death' he is assaulted not only by malevolent demons but his own painful memo find out more...

2012 (BBC) (2012)

Certification15 Our Rating

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36 QUAI DES ORFEVRES (2004)

Certification15 Our Rating

A morally ambivalent tale of two policemen involved in various battles; for the top job, to put an end to a violent gang, to protect their snitches and, we are led to believe, in the past over a woman. Both policemen bend the laws beyond the limits of decency to achieve their ends in this dark and gun-slinging thriller set against the backdrop of a neon-lit Paris underworld. find out more...

5 FINGERS (1952)

CertificationU Our Rating

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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52 PICK-UP (1986)

Certification18 Our Rating

Wealthy businessman Harry Mitchell falls victim to a cunning blackmail plot when he succumbs to the charms of a porno model. The hitherto faithful husband finds he's about to pay the price for his moment of madness....52,000 dollars to be exact! But Harry's about to turn the tables. Pacy thriller. 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 CHRISTMAS CAROL (1999)

Certification12 Our Rating

Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas?
Well-received version of an extremely familiar morality tale.

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A L'INTERIEUR (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

A pregnant woman is involved in a car accident in which her husband is killed. Later, about to give birth and living alone, she finds herself hunted by 'La Femme'; a knife, scissors and spike-wielding psychotic. find out more...

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)

Certification18 Our Rating

A truly effective horror movie made with imagination and style. A dead child murderer starts getting into a group of teenagers' dreams and the line between sleep and reality becomes very blurred. Not one to watch late at night all alone! find out more...

A PROPHET (2009)

Certification18 Our Rating

Malik is the anti-hero of this somewhat mystical mini-epic of a movie. Just turned adult, illiterate, lacking a clear-cut ethnic identity, he finds himself doing 6 years in a prison run on the inside by a violent Corsican gang with the connivance of corrupt staff. With the guidance of the ghost of a now dead inmate Malik learns not just to read and write but to deal with the power politics of gangsterhood and it is his success at the latter that allows him to emerge from prison... There is a s find out more...