20th Century Flicks, Bristol

Ross Poldark returns home after American Revolutionary War and rebuilds his life with a new business venture, making new enemies and finding a new love where he least expects it.

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A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1932)

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The original and best adaptation of Hemingway's sweeping WW1 novel. Cooper positively smoulders as the US ambulanceman who falls in love with an English nurse and finally goes AWOL to join her only to find, tragically, that he may be too late. Oscars for Best Cinematography and Sound. find out more...

A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT (2004)

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Mathilde and Manech are teenagers in love, unfortunately their feelings have find out more...

AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN (1984)

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A little Reaganite romance about a dashing fighter pilot and a simple girl from the town. It's tough trying to make it at pilot training school, but then Richi is just so hunky.... find out more...

ATONEMENT (2007)

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During a hot and sultry 1935 summer an embryonic relationship between rich Cambridge graduate Celia (Knightly) and the housekeeper's son Robbie (McEvoy) is left in tatters when Celia's precocious sister falsely accuses James of molesting another young girl. The accusation, based on the misperceptions and childish hurts of a fevered imagination, leads to James's arrest and imprisonment. As the movie progresses, from an English manor house to the war-ravaged wastes of northern France and to bli find out more...

BALLAD OF A SOLDIER (1959)

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In the middle of the Second World War teenage Alyosha is commended for destroying two German tanks, but, rather than take a medal, he requests a four day pass to visit his mother. Ballad of a Soldier is about this journey and the life enhancing encounters therein. Nominated at the 1962 Academy Awards for Best Screenplay, this classic of post-war Soviet Realism won many international film awards on its release, most notably a BAFTA Award for Best Film. find out more...

BARRY LYNDON (1975)

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Winner of four Oscars, this film is shot with the most beautifully scenic backgrounds and with great attention to costume detail. An Irish adventurer, Barry Lyndon, crosses Europe from woman to job, but in the end returns to Britain seeking a wealthy marriage. find out more...

BEFORE THE RAIN (1994)

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An Oscar nominee and Golden Lion winner, this three part film starts with a monk escorting an Albanian girl through a gorgeous Macedonian setting, then moves to London, where an exile lives, and finally returns to a divided Balkan village where gun touting Macedonian and Albanian ethnics fan their mutual hatred. The human tragedy of war contrasts with a stunning landscape. Beautiful, moving, superb. find out more...

BROTHERS (2004)

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Michael is a career soldier replete with loving wife and two young children, but while on a UN peacekeeping mission he is lost in action and swiftly presumed dead. Into the shattered world of Michael's family wanders Jannik, his brother and a man whose life is the quintessential opposite of Michael's ordered existence. At first together in their grief Michael's wife, Sarah and Jannik's relationship gradually progresses beyond platonic need, but their new born love is on the cusp of receiving a h find out more...

COLD MOUNTAIN (2004)

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Like many of the men from Cold Mountain, North Carolina, Inman is caught up in the fervour to fight the Confederate cause. Ada is his love, a strong independent woman who promises to keep the candle lit until his victorious return. Increasingly dismayed by the slaughter inflicted by, and upon, both sides, Inman begins the long and hazardous journey back to his good woman, an odyssey populated by a steady stream of often bizarre, and occasionally murderous, unfortunates. "Cold Mountain" is based find out more...