20th Century Flicks, Bristol

A chilling dramatisation of a meeting between 15 top ranking Nazi officials, organised and led by Reinhard Heydrich, deputy head of the SS, and assisted by Adolf Eichmann in the winter of 1942. The reason for their coming together? To discuss and sanction the systematic annihilation of all Jews living within the confines of the Third Reich's recently acquired Lebensraum.

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DANTON (1982)

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It's 1794 and Depardieu plays Danton the revolutionary, who returns to Paris from self-imposed exile confident in the peoples' support and that he can help bring peace to the revolutionary turmoil and stop The Terror. But first he must confront his former ally Robespierre, who is intent on victory and soon rounds up Danton and his followers, tries them before a revolutionary tribunal and dipatches them to the guillotine. Bye bye Danton. find out more...

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965)

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David Lean's epic romance set against the turbulant backdrop of the Russian revolution. One man's struggle for moral political and personal survival amidst the complex web of intrigue and tangled loyalties that accompanied the fall of the Tsar.

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DOWNFALL (2004)

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Germany 1945; in a bunker complex buried deep within the bowels of Berlin find out more...

EDGE OF DARKNESS (GIBSON) (2009)

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Boston police officer Thomas Craven's engineer daughter is gunned down on a visit home and, as he investigates, he is dragged into a web of corporate and government conspiracy.
We don't have a genre for poor Hollywood remakes of great foreign stuff - perhaps we should - and I strongly recommend that you watch instead the quality 1985 BBC mini-series of the same name from which this detective thriller is adapted. Nevertheless 'Edge of Darkness' the remake works efficiently enough. find out more...

EUROPA (1991)

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An American-German returns to the FDR in 1945 to work as a waiter on a new train, the previous one having been derailed but finds the changes superficial and the new consumerism cloaks sinister unbroken threads from the past. Haunting and hypnotic, literally. An art-house must-see.

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FAIR GAME (2010)

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When CIA officer Valerie Plame's retired ambassador husband Joe Wilson writes a newspaper article challenging the basis for the U.S. war on Iraq the Bush Jr government kicks into life the only way it knows how. As punishment and deterrent the White House leaks her undercover status leaving Valerie�s international contacts vulnerable, her career, indeed her personal life, in shambles and her life in danger. Fair Game is a sharp, finely acted dramatic thriller, shockingly based on True events duri find out more...

FRIDA (2002)

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A visually stunning and passionate potted history of one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century, the Mexican, Frida Kahlo. This film deals primarily with Frida's private life, the enduring relationship with her husband and fellow artist, Diego Rivera, and her many scandalising affairs. Frida is a dramatic and affectionate portrait of a remarkable woman. find out more...

GANDHI (1982)

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The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived, without wealth, without property, without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not the commander of armies, nor the ruler of vast lands, he could not boast any scientific achievement or artistic gift, yet men, governments, dignitaries from all over the world, have joined hands today to pay homage to the little brown man in the loin cloth who led his country to freedom. This quote is from his funeral, one of the greatest s find out more...

GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK (2005)

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Goodnight And Good Luck takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950s America, chronicling the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy, head of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Murrow, his news team and, indeed, CBS itself made a defiant and impassioned stand against McCarthy's increasingly delusional, corrupt and fear-fueled rants and this, George Clooney's second turn in the director's chair, is a beautifully suc find out more...