20th Century Flicks, Bristol

From the window of her New York apartment beautiful bored housewife Diane spots her beast, a mysterious masked man, and is transfixed. This it will turn out is Diane Arbus' epiphany, a portal that will take her on a journey that unleashes not just her soul but her remarkable gift as a photographer. Hirsute �Wolf Man' Lionel, part Elephant Man, part seductive gentleman, takes Diane into his world of outsiders and gradually wins her heart before turning into a handsome prince and disappearing in a find out more...

HAROLD AND MAUDE (1971)

Certification15 Our Rating

A death obssessed teenager and a 79 year old woman who lives life to the full gang up together in one of the wittiest black comedies ever made. An inventive, enduring classic which was far ahead of its time. You mean you haven't seen it? find out more...

JUNO (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

Juno Macguff is sixteen years old and already hard at war with the world she's on the cusp of entering; but though bright, vivacious, cynical and fiercely individual, one thing she has not prepared herself for is pregnancy. When Juno finds herself with child from her sweet natured, geeky and adoring best mate she decides the only sensible thing to do is find a good home for the baby and in the small ads finds a young, affluent couple desperate to adopt. Sadly life is rarely that simple, thoug find out more...

LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE (1992)

Certification15 Our Rating

Tita's heart is broken when she is forbidden to marry the man she loves because of a family tradition. When her sister instead marries her lover her anger goes into her magical cooking. A wonderfully inventive and touching story, with superb visual flourishes - a beautiful, colourful fable.. find out more...

LOST IN TRANSLATION (2003)

Certification15 Our Rating

Charlotte has joined her new husband in Tokyo, but what she had hoped would be an adventure for them both finds her marooned and alone. Staying in the same hotel is Bob, a jaded film star in the city to do a whiskey commercial, and it is only when the sleepless pair meet in the hotel bar that their depressed isolation begins to lift. Lost in Translation is remarkably simple in its conception, two people who would seem to have nothing in common, but who form a bond of affection and unspoken under find out more...

NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)

CertificationPG Our Rating

Undoubtedly one of Hitch's best. An innocent businessman is mistaken for a spy by enemy agents and learns the true meaning of persecution, while a deceptively beautiful blonde in the pay of his tormentors steals his heart. A tense and compulsively gripping nice-guy's nightmare. Obligatory viewing. find out more...

ONCE (2006)

Certification15 Our Rating

When a gifted but unconfident Dublin street musician meets a young mother lost and alone in a new town, the two immediately relate to one another; pushing and encouraging each to reach for their dreams and perhaps even accidentally stumble into love. "Once" is a gentle joy, an understated musical drama, original and refreshingly simple, infused with wit and heart. find out more...

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OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH DISC 1 (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

This ambitious and addictive BBC drama, tracing thirty years in the lives of four working class friends from Newcastle starting in 1964, is at least as good as any of the current much lauded series emanating from the US. Mary's mistake, Nicky's idealism, Geordie's escape to London and Tosker's ambition are played out against a backdrop of social change, police corruption and swinging times. find out more...

PUNCH-DRUNK LOVE (2002)

Certification15 Our Rating

Overwhelmed by seven domineering sisters, Barry Egan has the social skills of a hamster and it is only when love comes looking for him that he has the chance to escape his emotional malaise. Sweet by nature and quietly unassuming, Barry harbours an intense rage born of frustration and it is his violent abuse of a number of inanimate objects from which much of this films humour springs... well, that and the proprietor of a 'dial a porn' service. Punch Drunk Love is a less complicated story than P find out more...

RATATOUILLE (2007)

CertificationU Our Rating

Remy, a provincial rat with a wonderful sense of smell, hates garbage and risks death to enter a human kitchen where he discovers real food and the cooking of five-star chef, Anton Gusteau, author of "Anyone Can Cook". On the day Remy learns his hero has died, he is evicted and ends up alone in Paris where he discovers Gasteau's restaurant, down to three stars and run by a frozen-food-hawking chef. Teaming up with garbage boy Linguini, Remy uses his passion for cooking to try and save the restau find out more...