20th Century Flicks, Bristol

Multi-Oscar winning romantic comedy that has Gable as the poor but honest hack who meets the snobbish, spoilt Colbert as she buses across the USA. He attempts to get through to her, and the byplay between the two stars is a model of skilful direction. Touching and funny in equal measure. Won five Academy Awards at the 1934 Oscars. find out more...

KANDAHAR (2001)

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Nafas is an Afghan journalist living in Canada when she gets a message from her sister, still living in the place of their birth, pronouncing that come the next solar eclipse she will commit suicide. Nafas decides to make the perilous journey to her home land and find her sister, returning to the veil she had long left behind on her return to a country ravaged by civil war and still under the iron grip of the Taliban. Kandahar is a stunning piece of film making with some breathtaking images. Sho find out more...

LA STRADA (1954)

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Life as a circus is the theme of Fellini's tragi-comic road movie. Gelsomina, a naive simpleton, is sold to strongman Zampano, whose brutish behaviour becomes increasingly evident as they tour through the desolation that is post-war Italy. Despite the pessimism of much of the story, Fellini has already moved far from his roots in neo-realism and symbols, metaphors and larger-than-life performances hold sway, and moments of bizarre if inconsequential charm abound. Sad, sentimental and simply stun find out more...

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LENINGRAD COWBOYS GO AMERICA (1987)

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You could be forgiven for suspecting that a Finnish film about a truly dreadful Siberian rock and roll band called the Leningrad Cowboys might be rather dull. But in reality this is a very funny spoof - almost as good as the classic "This Is Spinal Tap" - as the Cowboys hit the road. find out more...

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MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975)

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Aided by some hollow coconuts and a large wooden rabbit, the knights of the Round Table do battle with the Knights of Ni, some rude Frenchmen and sixty virgins between the ages of 18 and 22, all in the name of the grail. The classic Python film. Moose scenes choreographed by Snerk Smorgasbjord. find out more...

MORVERN CALLAR (2002)

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Morvern Callar is a young Scottish lass with an attitude to life that provides it with few demands, but when she finds her boyfriend dead on the floor one morning and the manuscript to his just finished book not far away, it would seem life (and her dead beau) is offering her the opportunity to blag herself a future. Morvern Callar is a striking movie, cool offbeat and like Lynne Ramsay's previous, 'Ratcatcher', it's a blemishless observation of the human psyche. find out more...

NEAR DARK (1987)

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One of a new ilk of 80s horror movies in which the weirdos live within society - this time a family of vampires touring small town USA hunting and killing in order to survive. A desperate mob they may be but also very human, so much so that when one meets a normal guy she has to choose her family or him. find out more...

PARIS TEXAS (1983)

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Winner of the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. A story of one man's harrowing odyssey to return his seven-year-old son to the woman he once loved and lost. A brilliantly atmospheric and emotional movie with a great soundtrack by Ry Cooder. find out more...

RADIO ON (1980)

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A highly stylised British road movie as a comment on the 70s. DJ Beams drives from London to Bristol (play spot the location), in a battered old Rover, to unravel his brother's mysterious death, but it's the incidental characters that he meets on the way that provide the body of the film. Beautifully shot in monochrome and with a fantastic punky soundtrack including Bowie, Kraftwerk and Wreckless Eric. find out more...

SIDEWAYS (2004)

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Miles is a 30-something failed writer: embittered, frustrated and emotionally impotent. His one love is wine and though his fondness long ago crossed into alcoholism he is nonetheless a genuine connoisseur. Mile's best friend, Jack, is a hormonal teenager disguised as a man approaching middle age. Together this mismatched pair set off on a road trip through the vineyards of California, a last shout before Jack's financially advantageous marriage. Two unlikable, stunted characters and a lot of a find out more...