20th Century Flicks, Bristol

A stunning directoral debut from Robert De Niro. The tale of a boy who grows up in the Bronx, it manages to convey the harsh and brutal realities of New York's toughest neighbourhood, whilst also being a moving account of love, life, coming of age and divided loyalties. Definitely one to watch.

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A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1999)

Certification12 Our Rating

Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas?
Well-received version of an extremely familiar morality tale.

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A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (2005)

Certification18 Our Rating

In the small backwater town of Millbrook, Tom Stall lives an uneventful but contented life. A loving father, husband and the owner of a small but bustling cafe' he's a pillar of his little community. When two sadistic robbers threaten Tom his staff and his customers, one fateful night, he reacts without mercy. Hailed as a hero, Tom is uncomfortable with his new status and when strangers arrive from the city it becomes increasingly obvious why, it would seem Tom has a past and oh boy it ain't a p find out more...

A MOST VIOLENT YEAR (2014)

Certification15 Our Rating

At a time when New York City is experiencing a spike in criminal activity, heating and oil business owner Abel Morales fights to make himself a living, support his wife Anna and protect his interests. However, when he becomes the target of opportunistic thieves and a number of his trucks go missing, he takes matters into his own hands to track down those responsible. A tight, atmospheric thriller from the writer/director of 'Margin Call'

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A PROPHET (2009)

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Malik is the anti-hero of this somewhat mystical mini-epic of a movie. Just turned adult, illiterate, lacking a clear-cut ethnic identity, he finds himself doing 6 years in a prison run on the inside by a violent Corsican gang with the connivance of corrupt staff. With the guidance of the ghost of a now dead inmate Malik learns not just to read and write but to deal with the power politics of gangsterhood and it is his success at the latter that allows him to emerge from prison... There is a s find out more...

A SENSE OF FREEDOM (1979)

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Jimmy Boyle was a young Glaswegian hard man born into, and fully embracing, a life of crime. When Jimmy was imprisoned for murder his first reaction was rage, but while incarcerated he experienced an epiphany and embarked on a journey as far removed from his earlier infamy as it was possible to get. Based on Jimmy Boyle's own life �A Sense Of Freedom' is a powerful, often brutal, tale of redemption. find out more...

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A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (2014)

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Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug trafficker to find those responsible for the kidnap and murder of his wife. find out more...

ADULTHOOD (2007)

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The much awaited sequel to the ambitious and popular 'Kidulthood'; Sam is freshly out of jail after doing 6 years for the murder of Trife at the end of the first film and finds little in the way of a warm welcome. He's screwed up his life and he knows it, he's living in danger of both more problems with the old bill and those who want revenge for Trife's death, his friends have moved on in life and he's still down in the gutter, forced to rely on violence and to mix with the wrong sorts, and his find out more...

AGITATOR (2004)

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An epic tale of violence from cult director Takashi Miike follows the bloody spiral of three Yakuza gangs as they position for dominance. The careful machinations of the bosses are thrown off course by the vengeful path embarked upon by one unhinged but fiercely loyal lieutenant when his guvner is killed in the escalating gunplay. Brutal, stylish and at times darkly comic The Agitator is one of Miike's most episodic tales, despite its relatively short time scale. find out more...

ALI G INDAHOUSE (2002)

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You know the interviews that Ali G did with high powered establishment figures, they were fresh, witty and clever; Well this film is their doppelganger, using as it does a level of humour that would need you to explain how a calculator works before it struggled to add 2 and 2. Ali becomes the darling of the British public and the British parliament when he and his Staines Massive make a valiant fight to stop their local community center from closing. Funny....if you're so bladdered the bed looks find out more...