20th Century Flicks, Bristol

October 1993, Mogadishu, Somalia and a force of elite American troops, under the banner of the UN, are sent into the city to abduct a warlord's henchmen. But the carefully laid plan quickly goes belly up and the soldiers are left fighting for their lives with little support and vastly out numbered. Black Hawk Down is a relentless slab of action and though based on true events, no attempt is made to explain the why or the wherefore beyond "badman" versus "goodman" and heroic stereotypes abound. A find out more...

COMRADES (1986)

CertificationPG Our Rating

The story of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, a group of 1830s Dorset farm labourers who had the effrontery to form a Trade Union to fight against their wages being lowered and who got transported to Australia for their pains. find out more...

EIGHT MEN OUT (1988)

Certification15 Our Rating

A factionalised account of how the 1919 baseball world series was thrown by the heavily favoured Chicago White Sox. They made a deal with gangsters to get back at their stingy boss and make a packet on the side. This was a scandal that shocked a nation and is an excellent film. find out more...

FOXCATCHER (2014)

Certification15 Our Rating

When wealthy John du Pont invites Olympic wrestler Mark Schultz to move to his estate and help form a wrestling team for the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Mark sees a way to step out of the shadow of his charismatic and revered find out more...

IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON (2007)

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10 spacecraft and 24 men (10 appear on camera in this documentary) have orbited, looped around or landed on the moon. As American heroes and members of the super elite most of these men have since shunned public interview. "In the Shadow of the Moon" is a rare and beautiful historical document of the combined Apollo missions, told by the astronauts themselves, with mind blowing NASA footage of the spacecraft, space, the lunar landscape and the view of planet Earth from outer space. Really worth find out more...

INTO THE WILD (2007)

Certification12 Our Rating

Christopher McCandless is a bright, likable, precociously perceptive, young middle-class college graduate, who, tortured by his dysfunctional childhood, is determined to find a simpler, purer and more harmonious life. He gives away all that he has and sets out across North America, his ultimate goal the perfect isolation of the Alaskan wilderness. Based on real events 'Into The Wild' is beautifully judged, paced and performed; an epic, gloriously visualised road trip and also a moving and though find out more...

OVERNIGHT (2004)

Certification15 Our Rating

Troy Duffy achieved his dream. He directed and wrote the music for his own screenplay (The Boondock Saints) and it had been bought up by major film producer, Miramax. His gratitude should have been bountiful...but it wasn't. Almost overnight Troy turned into a deluded, megalomaniacal monster, determined above everything else, it would seem, to alienate and infuriate everyone close to him and all who might be of use to him. A documentary filmed by two of his (ex) friends, Overnight is a gobsmacki find out more...

SHADOWLANDS (FEATURE FILM) (1993)

CertificationU Our Rating

Attenborough's deeply moving film of the life of CS Lewis. Hopkins is peerless as the quiet author and Oxford don whose world is overturned by the brash, vivacious Joy Gresham (the brilliant Winger). Her decline into illness sees Lewis open his heart for the first time. Stunning and emotional drama. find out more...

THE COUNTERFEITERS (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch is the king of counterfeiters and lives a sweet life of cards, booze and women. Eventually Salomon's luck runs out when he's arrested and thrown into a Nazi concentration camp, but it's not long before his exceptional skills are spotted and he is coerced into a counterfeit operation on a gargantuan scale; a plan to help finance the war effort and flood the British and American economies with fake currency. For the first time in his life Salomon finds himself in a mo find out more...

THE DUCHESS (2008)

Certification12 Our Rating

Georgiana was the innocent young breeding filly the politically powerful Lord Devonshire needed to continue his family dynasty. This is her story; of living powerlessly alongside the Duke and his mistress, of her true love and of her rise to being an important powerbroker amid Britain's ruling elite. An awesomely likeable costume drama with obvious latter day parallels. find out more...