20th Century Flicks, Bristol

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 3 (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

Ep 7, Remember�An Oath can be Amputated; Franz has lost his right arm, but is looked after by Eva and her boyfriend. find out more...

BLAME IT ON FIDEL (2007)

Certification12 Our Rating

It is 1970 and nine-year old Anna is not amused. Seemingly overnight her bourgeois family have decided to abandon their middle class life and transform into leftist radicals. Gone is the grand family pad, gone are the new clothes and, humiliatingly, gone are Anna's beloved religious lessons. In their place is a cramped apartment filled with bearded revolutionaries, demonstrations and refugee nannies with strange cooking habits. But Anna is no wilting flower and before you can regurgitate the fir find out more...

BLIND CHANCE (1981)

Certification15 Our Rating

Made in a still Communist Poland, Kieslowski's film offers three alternative outcomes for a young man at a train station; In the first he catches the train and is converted to communism by an old Marxist; In the second he misses his train, is imprisoned and falls in with some dissidents and in the third he misses his train, gets married, becomes a doctor and leaves politics to those who care. An intriguing, thoughtful and occasionally witty meditation on the fickleness of fate. find out more...

BOB ROBERTS (1992)

Certification15 Our Rating

Tim Robbins wrote, directed and stars in a film that exposes very cleverly the underbelly of US politics. He plays the charismatic Roberts, a right-wing "protest" singer, whose views begin to capture the nation's interest. Sinister machinations abound behind the scenes, and the documentary style works well. Funny too!

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CITIZEN KANE (1941)

CertificationU Our Rating

A landmark in the history of the cinema; it was ranked Number 1 in the American Film Institute's 100 greatest films of all time in two polls (1998 and 2007) of more than 1,500 film industry movers and shakers and again by UK directors in a BFI poll. "Citizen Kane" narrates the rise and fall of a newspaper tycoon driven by a childhood obssession and is loosely based round the life of William Randolph Hurst, who tried to have it banned, but incorporates elements from the lives of other fat cats il 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...

CRADLE WILL ROCK (2000)

Certification15 Our Rating

Set in the 1930s and based around real events, we follow a diverse group of characters and events in depression hit New York. The young Orson Welles, with a group of equally idealistic and determined actors, sets about trying to stage a performance of the infamous left leaning musical 'Cradle Will Rock'. This has an awesome cast and is strikingly visualised, but Robbins has perhaps bitten off more history than it is possible to chew on in one two hour movie. Nevertheless a powerful and absorbi find out more...

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DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE (1986)

Certification18 Our Rating

A highly acclaimed and bucolic attack on the attitudes and views that each sex holds so dear. Four men gather to cook a meal, and chat about their sex lives, whilst their wives and partners do the same at their health club. Their revelations come as a shock when finally they meet. Hilarious satire. find out more...

DIVINE INTERVENTION (2002)

Certification15 Our Rating

Set in the Palestinian occupied territories we follow our central character as he struggles to maintain a meaningful relationship with the woman he loves under the watchful glare of an Isreali checkpoint. "Divine Intervention" is a marvelously offbeat movie, part satire, part farce, frequently surreal, but through it all a perceptive and thoughtful observation of a conflict that as yet defies solution. find out more...