20th Century Flicks, Bristol

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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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 VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT (2004)

Certification15 Our Rating

Mathilde and Manech are teenagers in love, unfortunately their feelings have find out more...

AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN (1984)

Certification15 Our Rating

A little Reaganite romance about a dashing fighter pilot and a simple girl from the town. It's tough trying to make it at pilot training school, but then Richi is just so hunky.... find out more...

ANGELS AND INSECTS (1995)

Certification18 Our Rating

Atmospheric gothic thriller which delves beneath the genteel surface of the Victorian aristocracy to reveal the depraved decadence lurking below. A penniless young man marries a young heiress, but discovers that the uneasy life "upstairs" conceals a shocking web of subterfuge and sexual perversion. find out more...

ANYTHING FOR HER (2008)

Certification15 Our Rating

Lisa and Julien are a blissfully married couple, leading an idyllic life together with their young son Oscar. Tragically, as is so often the case with these celluloid nirvana' s, Lisa is wrongfully arrested for a brutal murder and sentenced to 20 years behind bars. Julien may only be a humble teacher but he is a driven man; to gain his wife her freedom whatever it takes and regardless of the potential consequences. Anything for her is a slick stylish thriller that snorts loudly in the face of pl find out more...

BROKEN EMBRACES (2009)

Certification18 Our Rating

A man writes and loves in darkness. Fourteen years ago he was in a car crash where he lost not only his sight but also Lena, the love of his life. He had two names; Harry Caine, a pseudonym with which he still signs his written works, and Mateo Blanco, his real name, with which he signed the film he directed. After the accident, the only way Harry could cope with not being able to make films was to imagine that Mateo died along with his beloved Lena. One night, in conversation with his friend an find out more...