20th Century Flicks, Bristol

A very unusual romance, between a New York lady who loves English literature and the owner of a London antiquarian bookshop. Gradually, her orders for books turn into letters, food parcels, and a massive correspondence which goes on for over 20 years. Eventually she has to go and see the shop for herself. find out more...

A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951)

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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, An American Tragedy George Eastman (Clift), is a charming but aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief tryst with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp (Winters), but he forgets all about her when he falls for dazzling socialite Angela Vickers (Taylor). Just when George's personal and professional futures seem assured, Alice, pregnant with his child, demands that find out more...

A STAR IS BORN (1954)

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One of Hollywood's saddest heartbreakers with the emotional Garland, fast approaching her final crack-up, superb as the fast rising young star leaving behind her true love, Mason in one of his greatest performances, on the slippery road to failure. The DVD version includes important excised footage, many scenes admirably filling gaps in the original, rediscovered in archives. find out more...

ALWAYS (1989)

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Pete Sandich, a firefighting pilot with a lust for danger is tragically killed saving his best friend, Al. But Pete is to face his most difficult mission from beyond the grave, by helping his girlfriend Dorinda to rebuild her life. A touching romantic adventure, true to Spielberg's form. find out more...

AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (1957)

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An enduring and endearing romance with Grant and Kerr as two people who inadvertently fall in love aboard ship, despite both being already involved elsewhere. They vow to meet again, but things don't work out as planned. Romantic. 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...

AUGUST RUSH (2007)

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A charming young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth. How's the phrase go �one man's junk is another's gold'..... No? Well the point is "August Rush", a whimsic find out more...

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BRIEF ENCOUNTER (HOWARD/JOHNSON) (1945)

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This movie shocked audiences back when it was first released, a sympathetic portrayal of two strangers who meet in a train station and have a non-consumated extramarital affair, was too strong for the times. Written by the equally shocking Noel Coward, this is a classic British melodrama. find out more...

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2005)

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Ennis and Jack are two young men working as herders on a vast sheep ranch in the heart of Wyoming. It is the 1960s but the sexual revolution is in no rush to reach this wilderness and when their relationship spills over into consummated love the two boys are ill equipped to handle what they feel. Over the next twenty years Ennis and Jack settle into conventional lives, dictated by their strict social environment, both get married and both have children but neither can escape the true love they s find out more...

CASABLANCA (1942)

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Nothing more can be said about this classic melodrama from the peak of the Hollywood studio-film era. Hardened cynic Bogart softens when he meets old flame Bergman who is now a refugee in neutral wartime Casablanca. Together they outwit the Germans... and of course there's that famous song. Watch this classic or some day you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow... find out more...