20th Century Flicks, Bristol

Michelle breaks up with her boyfriend and, in a panicked drive interstate, ends up unconcious in her vehicle by the side of the road. Thankfully, Howard was driving by and took her to his nearby home where he put her on a drip and nursed her back to health - well, sort of. When Michelle comes to she finds herself in his cellar, in a locked room, handcuffed to the wall. Howard says an alien apocalypse is taking place but Michelle isn't so sure. What follows is a tense find out more...

22 BULLETS (2010)

Certification18 Our Rating

After a long, ruthless and successful career in the French mafia, Charly Matte� has decided, very wisely, to hang up his murderous geezer coat and settle down to a quiet, loving, above board life with his family. One frosty morning Mattei is sprayed with bullets, miraculously survives and, to the bloody detriment of all he feels may have played a part in the attempted murder, devotes himself to a brutal revenge. find out more...

36 QUAI DES ORFEVRES (2004)

Certification15 Our Rating

A morally ambivalent tale of two policemen involved in various battles; for the top job, to put an end to a violent gang, to protect their snitches and, we are led to believe, in the past over a woman. Both policemen bend the laws beyond the limits of decency to achieve their ends in this dark and gun-slinging thriller set against the backdrop of a neon-lit Paris underworld. find out more...

6 BULLETS (2012)

Certification12 Our Rating

An ex-mercenary known for finding missing children is hired by a mixed martial arts fighter whose daughter has been kidnapped.
Something of a return to form for post-'JCVD' Van Damme. If you're missing the muscles from Brussels doing what he does best (no, not drug-induced breakdowns...) then get on this.

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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...

AGENCY (1980)

Certification15 Our Rating

A mysterious millionaire buys an ad agency and begins to replace its employees with his own people, who don't appear to be advertising types at all.

This story is pretty terrible but the subliminal message big reveal is really enjoyable.

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AMERICAN SNIPER (2014)

Certification15 Our Rating

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ATOMIC BLONDE (2017)

Certification15 Our Rating

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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BANGKOK DANGEROUS (2008)

Certification18 Our Rating

When carrying out a hit, assassin Joe always makes use of the knowledge of the local population. On arriving in Bangkok he meets street-kid Kong, who becomes his primary aide. But when Kong is nearly killed, the young lad asks the killer to train him up in the deadly arts, and so, for the first time, Joe finds himself as mentor rather than murderer - an uncharacteristic act of compassion that may well cost him his life. A Hollywood remake of the superior Thai actioner, this is yet another film t find out more...

BLOOD DIAMOND (2006)

Certification15 Our Rating

1999 and Sierra Leone is in the midst of civil war, the rebels infamously using an army of indoctrinated children to do their genocidal work. In the midst of this bloodshed two unlikely men are drawn together, one a desperate father whose son has become a rebel soldier, the other a self-serving white Rhodesian mercenary in search of an immense uncut diamond. The two are bound together by their wildly divergent, but inextricably linked, quests and it is here that the action of the film lies as th find out more...