20th Century Flicks, Bristol

INSTITUTE BENJAMENTA (1996)

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Jakob, a young man who enters a school, run by brother and sister Herr and Lisa Benjamenta, which trains servants. The teachers emphasize to the students that they are unimportant people. Jakob finds the school to be an oppressive environment, and does not enjoy the lessons in subservience that he receives. He proceeds to challenge the Benjamentas and attempts to shift the find out more...

SNOWDEN (2016)

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The NSA's illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency's employees, Edward Snowden, in the form of thousands of classified documents distributed to the press.

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A CURE FOR WELLNESS (2016)

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An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps. He soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they seem. When he begins to unravel its terrifying secrets, his sanity is tested, as he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure. —20th Century Fox

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A MOST WANTED MAN (2014)

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The city of Hamburg is in a state of high alert after numerous terrorist plots with all the key players locked in a tight battle. Into this complex game of international politics stumbles Karpov, a Chechnyan refugee su find out more...

AGE OF UPRISING (2013)

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AGUIRRE - WRATH OF GOD (1972)

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1560, Peru. In a beautiful poetic opening scene the conquistadors cross an Andes pass, situated between the peaks and the valleys, between conquered land and unexplored forests, between 'heaven' and 'earth', shrouded in mists, they make their way down a narrow path. Aguirre's meglomania grows as around him his comrades mutiny and die in his search for the lost city of El Dorado. Herzog's best film, an unforgetable tour de force. Made before the director himself gave in to meglomania on a later t find out more...

AIMEE AND JAGUAR (2000)

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Juliane is a true Arian mother while Maria is a politically and socially staunch Jewess, the two unlikely friends become lovers, a striking mismatch of ideologies even today but this takes place at the height of Nazi Germany, and the consequences of their affair coming to light will cause an outrage that will cost them their lives. Aimee and Jaguar is a deeply moving and beautifully performed drama, which deservedly won a number of awards at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival. find out more...

ALICE IN THE CITIES (1974)

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A photo-journalist, returning from a fruitless trip to the States, has a small child, Alice, dumped on him in a New York airport. The pair journey across Germany searching for her home town, whose name and address Alice can't remember, the only clue they have is a photograph of her grandmother's front door with no house number and no one in the shot. Full of low-key charm, an eminently watchable road movie that closely foreshadowed "Paris Texas". find out more...

AMEN (2002)

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When newly-commissioned SS Lieutenant Kurt Gerstein (Ulrich Tukur) witnesses the chemical disinfectant he's helped perfect being used to systematically murder interred Jews, he has no choice but to act. The only sympathetic ear Gerstein is able to find is that of young Father Riccardo (Mathieu Kassovitz), a priest with deep ties to the Vatican. While Riccardo takes on the obstructive Vatican hierarchy, Gerstein must walk a tightrope between documenting and enabling the atrocities his fellow SS o find out more...

AMOUR FOU (2014)

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ANATOMY (2000)

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When Paula (Franka Potente), a brilliant, ambitious medical student, is accepted into a prestigious anatomy class taught by a legendary professor, it seems like a dream come true, that is until several of her classmates turn up dead in the university's morgue. Puzzled and a little concerned by the bizarre deaths, Paula soon uncovers a secret medical society whose members performs grisly autopsies on human subjects - while they are still alive - and is plunged into a chillingly macabre world from find out more...

ANTIBODIES (2005)

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When serial killer Gabriel Engel is captured a rural cop travels to the big city to question him about an unsolved murder in his home village, but finds himself being drawn deeper and deeper into a psychological game of cat-and-mouse that threatens his sanity, his faith and the lives of those he loves the most. The comparisons to 'Silence of the Lambs' are inevitable and even explicitly recognised within the film but, those similarities aside, 'Antibodies' is a gripping thriller with memorable p find out more...

APPRENTICE (2016)

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Drama written and directed by Junfeng Boo. The story follows Aiman (Firdaus Rahman), a 28-year-old Malay prison officer who has recently started work at a high security prison. After quickly settling into his new role, Aiman's diligent attitude catches the eye of chief executioner Rahim (Wan Hanafi Su) who asks him to become his apprentice. However, although desperate to continue his rise through the ranks, it soon becomes clear that a ghost from Aiman's past could p find out more...

ASPHALT (1929)

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A well-dressed lady thief (Betty Amann) steals a precious stone from a jewellery shop. The aged jeweller prefers to let the young woman go, but the policeman who catches her explains he is obliged to pursue the case further. She tries to seduce the policeman (Gustav Frohlich), and he gradually succumbs to her charms, but her criminal background dooms their relationship when an argument leads to murder. One of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era, Joe May's 'Asphalt' is a l find out more...

ATOMIC BLONDE (2017)

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An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.

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ATOMISED (2006)

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Half-brothers Michael and Bruno couldn't be more different, one is a reclusive socially inadequate molecular biologist, who buries himself in his work, the other is a slave to his own sexual desires. When the two men find love for the first time however there is finally a common bond between them and the concepts of evolution and fate collide. Based on Michel Houellebecqo's controversial novel, Oskar Roehler's film is a witty, intriguing, insightful and cerebrally observational insight into the find out more...

BARBARA (2012)

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In 1980s East Germany, Barbara is a Berlin doctor banished to a country medical clinic for applying for an exit visa. Deeply unhappy with her reassignment and fearful of her co-workers as possible Stasi informants, Barbara stays aloof, especially from the good natured clinic head, Andre. Instead, Barbara snatches moments with her lover as she secretly prepares to defect one day. Despite her plans, Barbara learns more about her life that puts her desires and the people around her in a new ligh find out more...

BEFORE THE FALL (2004)

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BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ DISC 1 (2007)

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Fassbinder's staggering 15 1/2 hour epic is a monument of late 20th Century filmmaking and considered to be not only the director's masterpiece but one of the greatest TV series ever made. find out more...

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BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ DISC 2 (2007)

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Ep 4, A Handful of People in the Depths of Silence; Franz goes on a bender and, later, bumps into Meck, who's moved on from hawking porn to selling clothes and seems to be doing well for himself. Meck also admits to having been living with Lina. find out more...