20th Century Flicks, Bristol

The original and still the best. Glenn Ford plays the outlaw Ben Wade whose capture leads to a desperate and dangerous mission for the poor rancher, Dan Evans, who is charged with bringing the renegade to justice on the 3.10 train to Yuma. find out more...

A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (1964)

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Much imitated but never surpassed first film in Sergio Leone's iconic trilogy starring the 'man with no name' as a nomadic loner who rides into a small border town ripped apart by two feuding crime families. Brilliant, stylish, bloody and proof that Europeans make better Westerns than the Americans! find out more...

ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (1938)

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A gutsy 30s gangster noir with two 'hood boys whose paths into adulthood are a complete contrast; Cagney becoming a violent gangster and O'Brien a priest. O'Brien has to fight the local kids' hero-worship of Cagney, and this leads to an emotional and ambiguous climax. Tense, dramatic, well-acted with sharp dialogue. Astounding. find out more...

BAREFOOT CONTESSA (1954)

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Ava Gardner is superb in this glitzy Hollywood reprise of the Cinderella story. She is Maria, the Hollywood starlet who rises from poverty and spends all her time trying to deny and forget her past, much to her own unhappiness. Touching glamorous and superbly directed by Mankiewicz.

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BLACK SABBATH (1963)

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A trio of tales told portmanteau style with Boris Karloff as your host; find out more...

BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967)

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An all time classic 60s movie glamourising the real life story of the Barrow gang who terrorised the American South in the early 30s. 'Reclaiming the American gangster movie, after it had been stolen by the Nouvelle Vague, Penn's film was so successful (and so imitated) that it inevitably met with some grudging devaluation. But it's still great, half comic fairytale, half brutal fact, it reflects the essential ambiguity of its heroes by treading a no man's land suspended between reality and fant find out more...

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BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (1974)

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A penniless pianist learns that contract-killing target Alfredo Garcia is already dead and sets out to recover his head and claim the bounty. Perhaps Peckinpah's most complex and critically controversial film, an eclectic mix of existensial quest, gothic tale, political critique of American involvement in Latin America and a love story of two losers challenging destiny. Set in Mexico. find out more...

BULLITT (1968)

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One of the classic thrillers of the late sixties as a copper is assigned to protect a key state witness in a gangster trial. When the witness is killed the hunt is on for who knew where he was. A tense action packed thriller with one of the great car chases of all time. find out more...

CARNIVAL OF SOULS (1962)

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Mary Henry believes she has survived a serious car accident, but when she heads for Utah to start a new job as a church organist she finds herself pursued by an emaciated wrath. A cult horror classic from Harold Harvey. 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...