20th Century Flicks, Bristol

A stunning directoral debut from Robert De Niro. The tale of a boy who grows up in the Bronx, it manages to convey the harsh and brutal realities of New York's toughest neighbourhood, whilst also being a moving account of love, life, coming of age and divided loyalties. Definitely one to watch.

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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 CRY IN THE DARK (1988)

Certification15 Our Rating

A film version of the notorious events surrounding the demonization and media witchhunt of the religiously nutty mother of a baby who was gobbled by dingoes near Ayers Rock..... the famous 'dingo baby case'. Just shows that the Aussie press, owned by you know who, is as criminally irresponsible, ie full of lies, as the Pommie press, owned by you know who. find out more...

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A DECADE UNDER THE INFLUENCE (2003)

Certification15 Our Rating

A fascinating documentary on the Hollywood revolution in the 1970s that became known as the second �Golden Era'. Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert Altman, Peter Bogdanovich, William Friedkin and Roger Corman and others recount the remarkable change in thinking and film making brought about by a desire for realism rather than fantasy and heavily influenced by the new wave of European cinema. Directed by screenwriter Richard LaGravenese and the late Ted Demme. find out more...

A KIND OF LOVING (1962)

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A young draughtsman is forced into a shotgun marriage. A landmark in English cinema in terms of social realism, dealing with the lives of ordinary people set against a grim Northern backdrop, it remains keenly observant in detail and rather moving in its very unpretentiousness. find out more...

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 NIGHT IN CASABLANCA (1946)

CertificationU Our Rating

The Marx Bros penultimate film and much better than other later stuff.Cop: "Are you holding up that building?"Harpo leans away... building collapses.Watch out for the Bros delaying the baddie's getaway by unpacking his trunks as fast as he loads them. A classic. find out more...

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (1958)

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A British made, 1950s epic charting the sinking of the unsinkable. On April 10th 1912, the luxury liner Titanic set sail on its maiden voyage. Four days later, it sank in just 2 hours 40 minutes, needlessly claiming the lives of 1,500 passengers and crew. Infinitely less glamourous than the contemporary Hollywood version, what it lacks in gloss it makes up for with no-nonsense, straightforward storytelling. Truth is, the hard facts are far more shocking than anything Tinseltown could come up wit 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)

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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...