20th Century Flicks, Bristol

Computer engineers Abe and Aaron spend their time between working, eating and sleeping creating machines that may one day revolutionize the world. It is while reaching the completion of one such invention that the two men realise they have inadvertently designed something that is capable of taking them to, and providing them with, all that their ambitious minds can imagine. As is so often the case when all one's dreams seem within grasp...this is where their problems really begin. Primer is a mi find out more...

PUBLIC ACCESS (1993)

Certification18 Our Rating

The sleepy idyllic town of Brewster is rudely awoken by the arrival of a mysterious stranger called Whiley Pritcher. He starts a Public Access programme and poses the question "What's wrong with Brewster", which kickstarts a rather bizzarre but violent frenzy that ultimately ends the peace. find out more...

THE BELIEVER (2001)

Certification15 Our Rating

Danny is a young Jew AND a neo-Nazi, with a strong identity crisis. A movie about self-hatred and eventual self-realisation. "The Believer" is an immensely powerful film, terrifying and utterly mesmerising, with some very disturbing ideological baggage. find out more...

THE BROTHERS MCMULLEN (1995)

Certification15 Our Rating

Three very different Irish Catholic brothers come together in the home where they grew up. What follows is a gentle comedy exploring their thoughts, aspirations and let downs with a special focus on the women in their lives and the family to which they belong. Critically acclaimed. find out more...

THREE SEASONS (1999)

Certification15 Our Rating

The film follows three storylines; a few days in the life of four Vietnamese and an American tourist, Keitel, whose paths cross in a street in Saigon. Star-crossed love, survival, feelings of loss, the beauty of life and hope are all emotions engaged in this wonderful tale of young poor Vietnamese coming to terms with life. Beautiful. find out more...

WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE (1995)

Certification15 Our Rating

Dogface Wiener is a not too smart, geeky, pubescent girl with no sense of style. She has a nerd for an elder brother, a pampered little sister, a crush on the singer in an awful rock band and a weed as her only pal. A humourous look at the growing pains of adolescence and a winner of the Sundance Film Festival. find out more...

WINTER'S BONE (2010)

Certification15 Our Rating

In the rural hinterland of the Ozark Mountains, Missouri, 17-year-old Ree Dolly, in the absence of her crystal meth/crank manufacturing father, is the only effective parent for her two younger siblings and sole carer to her emotionally vacant mother. When Ree discovers dad has put their house up as bail and then disappeared she knows she must find him or the family will be turned out into a bitter wilderness in which they cannot hope to survive. Her close knit, secretive and, often, brutally har find out more...

YOU CAN COUNT ON ME (2001)

Certification15 Our Rating

Sammy has her life pretty much just the way she wants it; she's a regular church goer, her job at the bank is easy and relaxed, she has a good relationship with her young son and indeed pretty much the entire community she lives in, but the arrival of Sammy's unreliable and slightly amoral brother coupled with her new anal boss scatters her organised existence to the four winds. You Can Count On Me is drama of the highest order, beautifully performed and observed it leaves no emotional avenue un find out more...