20th Century Flicks, Bristol

From David Cronenberg, the master of body horror, comes a beguiling new tale. As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. Timlin (Kristen Stewart), an inv find out more...

4:44 LAST DAY ON EARTH (2011)

Certification15 Our Rating

Cult director, Abel Ferrara invites us to witness the day before everything will cease to be. At 4:44am, the last vestiges of the world’s ozone layer will evaporate and within seconds the word will end. There is no means of escape and there will be no survivors we view the countdown to the end of life on earth through the eyes of actor, Cisco and his artist girlfriend, Skye whose focus in their final hours is love, lust find out more...

A SCANNER DARKLY (2005)

Certification15 Our Rating

Set in Orange County, California, in an age where America has lost its �war on drugs', a reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, the consequence of which is a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode and even your own motives become unclear. Scanner Darkly is a cautionary tale of drug use based on the novel by Philip K Dick and born of his own experiences. Like a graphic novel come to life, the film uses live action pho find out more...

AKIRA (1987)

Certification15 Our Rating

2019. The Earth is on the brink of destruction, Tokyo shimmers with post-punk fetishism, gangs of cyberpunk bikers and rioting crowds are on the streets of the post-atomic city. The scene is set for comic-book ultra-violence in this remarkable animated nightmare of hyper-reality. find out more...

ALLEGRO (2005)

Certification15 Our Rating

Zetterstr�m is a solitary lad whose consoling love of music leads to a somewhat perfectionist determination to make it as a concert pianist. This he succeeds in, but so accustomed is the adult Zetterstr�m to feeling lonely that he's barely able to accept the affection bestowed on him by the beautiful Andrea. A decade later and, with Andrea apparently forgotten, Zetterstrom is drawn back to his past and a mysterious place known only as �The Zone'. Christoffer Boe's �Reconstruction' was a visually find out more...

ALPHAVILLE (1965)

CertificationPG Our Rating

Godard's bleak sci-fi noir, with the stony-faced gumshoe Lemmy Caution turning inter-galactic agent to re-enact the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice in conquering Alpha 60, the strange automated city where such emotions as love and tenderness are banished. A brilliantly realised and stylish satire on the dehumanising nature of technology. find out more...

AVALON (OSHII) (2001)

Certification12 Our Rating

A hybrid science fiction movie from Manga Man, Mamoru Oshii. Set in a dystopian future, the young inhabitants of an anonymous Eastern European state (well, it might be Poland...) have become dangerously addicted to a virtual reality game called Avalon. Ash, a lone player who lives a solitary existence begins to get drawn deeper and deeper into the game and before long it becomes unclear as to whether she can ever find her way back, or whether she wants to for that matter. Using tinted monochrom find out more...

BARBARELLA (1968)

Certification15 Our Rating

THE sixties movie. Jane Fonda lands on a surreal planet, discovers sex the old fashioned way and battles against the evil Matmos. Great style, a wonderful film and the one Duran Duran, the pop group, stole their name from. find out more...

BARBARELLA (DVD VERSION) (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

BLACK MOON (1975)

Certification12 Our Rating

Louis Malle's first film in English is certainly no compromise from his earlier work; a surrealist Alice in Wonderlandlike world where a war rages between the sexes and, even as the central protagonist attempts to escape the madness of her surroundings, her journey leads to places and people even more bizarre than those she is running from. A dream like and intensely symbolic meditation on the human psyche. find out more...