20th Century Flicks, Bristol

Atom Egoyan has created a world within a world, shifting between the contemporary and, through the making of a film about the events, the tragic genocidal slaughter of the Armenians in turn of the 20th Century Turkey. Ararat is a thoughtful and thought provoking drama of the highest order. find out more...

ASHES OF TIME 'REDUX' (1994)

Certification15 Our Rating

In ancient China, on the edge of a vast desert and living the life of a vagabond, swordsman Ouyang Feng controls a network of deadly assassins. Pitiless and cynical, his heart has long been wounded by a love he neglected then lost. But as seasons, friends and enemies come and go, he begins to reflect back upon the origin of his embittered solitude. 'Ashes of Time �Redux'' is a timely re-working of Wong Kar Wai's early martial arts epic and in a style of movie making that most of us westerners ar find out more...

BABETTE'S FEAST (1988)

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Babette is a refugee from Paris who flees to a small ultrapuritan Danish community to work as a cook. Their only diet is one of ale-bread and fish soup, so when she offers to prepare a feast they are determined not to enjoy it. Oscar winning film whose style changes to fit the mood of the plot. find out more...

BEHIND THE SUN (2001)

Certification12 Our Rating

Set in the harsh and unforgiving environs of Brazil in 1910; ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother a son finds himself beginning to question the brutality of the world in which he lives and the all-consuming vendetta that has plagued his family for generations. The arrival of love galvanises the young man into experiencing a world outside the murderous and honour bound one he has always known, but will he find the courage to leave his family obligations behind and seek s find out more...

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BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ DISC 1 (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

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 2 (2007)

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Ep 4, A Handful of People in the Depths of Silence; Franz goes on a bender and, later, bumps into Meck, who's moved on from hawking porn to selling clothes and seems to be doing well for himself. Meck also admits to having been living with Lina. find out more...

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BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ DISC 3 (2007)

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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...

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BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ DISC 4 (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

Ep 10, Loneliness Tears Cracks of Madness Even in Walls; Mieze can't have children, but Eva tells her that she'll have a child by Franz for Mieze to raise. Frank gets freaked by the idea, thinking Mieze's trying to dump him on to Eva, and then a rich client turns up to take Mieze away for 3 days. find out more...

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BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ DISC 5 (2007)

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Ep 13, The Outside and the Inside and the Secret of Fear of the Secret; Franz tells Eva that Mieze has left him. Meck gets injured in a bank robbery and Franz helps him out. Meck leads the police to Mieze's body. find out more...

BURNT BY THE SUN (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends. Things change dramatically with the unheralded arrival of Cousin Dmitri from Moscow, who charms the women and little Nadia with his games and pianistic bravura. For most of its running time, the film seems to follow suit: it's a placid, languorous country-house comedy far removed from the realities of the Stalinist te find out more...