20th Century Flicks, Bristol

Bohemian junkie poet Dan falls in love with gorgeous, but emotionally scewed up, art student Candy, whom he turns on to heroin. Junkies together their relationship alternates between states of oblivion, self-destruction and despair. With sympathetic performances from all concerned 'Candy' is an interesting observation of drug addiction and the blurring of emotional perception that it can bring. Don't be turned off, the tone of the movie is not as bleak as the storyline suggests. find out more...

CLEAN (2004)

Certification15 Our Rating

Emily's life hangs in the balance, she's a junkie living with a failing rock-star, who's about to od on heroin, she has dreams of her own of rock success and she's a mother trying to raise a young boy. Sentenced to 6 months in prison she emerges to a world of limited options, her son has been taken into the care of her parents-in-law, she has to stay clean and she needs to find a way of making a living. She moves restlessly from Canada to London to Paris, can't hack a dead-end job as a waitress find out more...

CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (2014)

Certification15 Our Rating

At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take find out more...

DARK HABITS (1983)

Certification15 Our Rating

Club crooner Yolanda is having a few drug problems, so takes sanctuary at the Convent of Humble Redeemers. But redemption and humility seem to be the last things on the minds of the resident sisters, most of whom appear to have overdone the old pharmaceuticals themselves! Outrageous black comedy. find out more...

DEAD OR ALIVE 2 - BIRDS (2000)

Certification18 Our Rating

Pushing the boundaries farther than in the first of the trilogy Takeshi again takes us into the underworld of Japanese gangsters. When Otamoko is hired to assassinate a gangster he is surprised to find that the job has already been done. Fleeing the city with the money for the job he didn't do, Otamoko has to keep the Yakuza and the Triads off of his tail. Returning to his home island he realises that the other assassin is someone from his past and they team up to eat noodles together, reminisce find out more...

DRUGSTORE COWBOY (1989)

Certification18 Our Rating

Matt Dillon gives his best performance to date as Bob, a streetwise junkie, who, with his wife Diane and a couple of spaced-out cronies, travel smalltown America staging robberies to finance their insatiable cravings. A gritty and compelling insight into the harsh realities of drugs and life. find out more...

EASY RIDER (1969)

Certification18 Our Rating

A couple of dudes sell some drugs, buy a couple of groovy looking choppers and set off on a road trip, en route meeting segments of the American counter-culture, taking a lot of drugs themselves and using far out language. find out more...

FROZEN LAND (2006)

Certification18 Our Rating

A multi-stranded tale of tragedy after tragedy unfolds against an icy Finnish backdrop. Following the sacking of a school teacher we follow a chain of misfortune from victim to victim; a loser car-thief, an ex-alcoholic vacuum salesman, who falls off the wagon in spectacular style, a depressed policewoman, a computer hacker and the policewoman's husband amongst others. A dark, uncompromising film which shows how fickle and cruel fate can be. There are some moments of humour but they are jet jet find out more...

FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES (1969)

Certification18 Our Rating

Cross-dressing club-kid Eddie vies with a rival drag-queen for the favours of drug-dealing cabaret-manager Gonda in this unflinching and often brutal portrayal of Japanese gay subculture. Matsumoto achieves a line between pathos and hilarity that makes Funeral Parade of Roses utterly unique; a feverish collision of avant-garde aesthetics and grind-house shocks (not to mention a direct influence on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange). In addition this psychedelic era film is a gay play on the O find out more...

GOOD TIME MAX (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

Two genius brothers grow up and grow apart as one becomes a successful surgeon and the other pursues a drug-fueled high life. <br>
James Franco's self-penned and directed feature is a modest piece of work. There are moments that show off his exceptional talents (the drugged-up plane flight has a surreal comic intensity in particular) and the film has a nicely surprising moral ambivalence. On the whole though, the overfamiliarity of the set-up and characters proves to much of a drag find out more...