20th Century Flicks, Bristol

When a petty crook loses his switchblade on the underground the scene is set for an escalating catalogue of chaos, murder and mistaken identity. With a power-crazed policeman on the rampage and a mad killer on the loose, the body count rapidly begins to rise in this wickedly surreal comedy. find out more...

CALL NORTHSIDE 777 (1948)

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Based on a true story, the film begins in 1932 with the killing of a Chicago cop and the sentencing of two young men for his murder. Fast-forward eleven years, and the boss of the Chicago Times newspaper is intrigued to find an advert by the mother of one of the killers, Frank Wiecek, asking for information about the crime, clearly Wiecek's mother thinks her son is innocent. PJ O'Neal (Stewart), one of the Times' top reporters, is dispatched to find out whether Mrs Wiecek's opinion is clouded by find out more...

CASH (2008)

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CATCH ME DADDY (2014)

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CHINATOWN (1974)

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Polanski has a go at the film noir detective thriller, very bleak, very twisted and very menacing it is to. Nicholson plays a private-eye in pre-war LA who is hired to pursue an adultery case, but finds himself embroiled in a complicated murder investigation. find out more...

COLD IN JULY (2014)

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Mark Kermode: Despite the claims of gun lobbyists that "an armed society is a polite society", there's plenty of evidence that keeping a firearm in your house makes it a more (rather than less) dangerous place to live. In the gripping opening movement of this self-consciously pulpy, 80s-set thriller, fidgety father and husband Richard Dane (Michael C Hall, shedding the killer instinct of his title role in Dexter) loads and then accidentally discharges his daddy's gun, responding with tre find out more...

CROSSFIRE (1947)

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Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there's crime there's motive. However he finds no usual motive when investigating a man beaten to death, this man was killed because he was a Jew. "Hate", Finlay says, "is like a gun." A landmark film noir nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Edward Dmytryk directs a taught stylish tale that, certainly for its time, dared to explore a topic rarely covered in Hollywood; anti-Semitism in the US. find out more...

CUTTER'S WAY (1981)

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Alex Cutter is a man physically and emotionally wrecked by the Vietnam war. Witnessing the dumping of a teenage girl's body by a local tycoon he sets out to revenge himself on the corrupt capitalist society that the tycoon represents. One of the key films of the decade. find out more...

DARK PASSAGE (1947)

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Bogart plays a man, convicted of murdering his wife, who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence and, in trying to hide from the law, has undergone back-street cosmetic surgery. Even though he does not appear from behind his bandages until half way through the film that famous voice gives him away! Watch out for the superb use of first person camera work. A classic in every sense of the word. find out more...

DECISION TO LEAVE (2022)

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What happens when an object of suspicion becomes a case of obsession? Winner of Best Director at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden) returns with a seductive romantic thriller that takes his renowned stylistic flair to dizzying new heights. From a mountain peak in South Korea, a man plummets to his death. Did he jump, or was he pushed? When detective Hae-joon (Park Hae-i find out more...