Popular This week's most popular rentals in one place On the Sea £4.50 A moving tale of the powerful attraction between a local hand raker, who works on the mussel beds of North Wales, and an itinerant deckhand. Romance 2026 111 mins Helen Walsh The Summer Book £4.50 Glenn Close stars in Charlie McDowell’s beautiful adaptation of Moomins creator Tove Jansson’s classic novel about loss, nature and growing up. Drama 2024 95 mins Charlie McDowell A Private Life £4.50 Jodie Foster’s impeccable French and comedic skills are on full display in this mystery thriller, which sees her investigating a suspicious death. Thriller Crime 2025 103 mins Rebecca Zlotowski The Christophers £4.50 A struggling artist infiltrates a painter’s household in this audacious chamber piece from Steven Soderbergh, starring Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen. Drama Comedy 2025 100 mins Steven Soderbergh Blue Heron £4.50 In Sophy Romvari’s astonishing and award-winning feature debut, a family’s lives are rocked when their child starts displaying erratic behaviour. Drama 2025 91 mins Sophy Romvári Love Me Tender £4.50 Vicky Krieps is magnetic as a woman paying a high price to be free in this luminous and radical commentary on motherhood, desire and self-discovery. Drama 2025 134 mins Anna Cazenave Cambet Breathless [À bout de souffle] £3.50 Jean-Luc Godard’s extraordinary debut feature, an insouciant and iconoclastic crime film that paved the way for the French New Wave. Film noir 1960 90 mins Jean-Luc Godard The North £4.50 Friends Chris and Lluis reunite after years apart to hike 600 kilometres through the Scottish Highlands, in Bart Schrijver’s immersive drama. Drama 2025 132 mins Bart Schrijver Underland £4.50 Based on Robert Macfarlane's bestseller, Underland is a wonderful cinematic voyage beneath the surface of the earth. Documentary 2025 80 mins Robert Petit A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things £3.50 A striking portrait of an artist deserving of greater recognition, directed by Mark Cousins (A Story of Film). Documentary Biopic 2024 88 mins Mark Cousins Coyote vs. Acme £16.00 Long-suffering, luckless Wile E Coyote takes ACME to court in this Looney Tunes live-action underdog drama starring Will Forte and John Cena. Animation & Artists Moving Image Comedy 2026 103 mins Dave Green Departures £4.50 After meeting at an airport gate, Benji and Jake’s clandestine relationship unfolds through trips to Amsterdam, revealing complex power dynamics. Comedy Drama 2025 83 mins Neil Ely and Lloyd Eyre-Morgan 20,000 Days on Earth £3.50 The myths and minutiae of musician Nick Cave are explored in the course of this fictional portrait, following 24 hours in the life of a cultural icon. Documentary 2014 93 mins Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard Our Land £4.50 Orban Wallace's inspiring documentary explores who has the right to roam in England, where 92% of land and 97% of rivers are not legally accessible. Documentary 2026 91 mins Orban Wallace Ammonite £3.50 Francis Lee follows up God’s Own Country with a film that is every bit as immersive, tactile and emotionally powerful, aided by the devastatingly good Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan. Biopic Romance 2021 118 mins Francis Lee Centre of My World £3.50 A young man falls for the new boy at school in this energetic and inventive adaptation of Andreas Steinhoefel’s acclaimed YA novel. Drama Romance 2016 115 mins Jakob M. Erwa Bhaji on the Beach £3.50 Gurinder Chadha's charming and critically acclaimed comedy about a group of British Asian women from Birmingham who bond during a day-trip to Blackpool. Comedy 1994 101 mins Gurinder Chadha Nino £4.50 A young man receives a bombshell diagnosis in Pauline Loquès’s moving debut feature. Drama 2025 98 mins Pauline Loquès Diamanti £4.50 Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Özpetek celebrates the artistry, magic and theatrics of costume design in his lavish melodrama set in 1970s Rome. Drama Comedy 2024 135 mins Ferzan Özpetek Captain Fantastic £3.50 Viggo Mortensen plays the father-gone-primitive in this wonderful award-winning comedy about an off-grid family. Drama 2016 119 mins Matt Ross Brassed Off £3.50 Pete Postlethwaite stars in this emotional drama about members of a colliery brass band who learn their mine may soon be closing. Drama 1996 107 mins Mark Herman Popular collections French Cinema France, the country where cinema was born, has given us some of the masters of cinema. Staff Picks: Must-Watch Films Too much choice, not enough time? Let the BFI Player team do the choosing. Cult Rentals Camp controversies and obscure outsiders. Documentaries Documentaries can be as expressive, surreal and experimental as any work of fiction. BFI Player Apps Available on your favourite TV and mobile devices Supported Devices
On the Sea £4.50 A moving tale of the powerful attraction between a local hand raker, who works on the mussel beds of North Wales, and an itinerant deckhand. Romance 2026 111 mins Helen Walsh
The Summer Book £4.50 Glenn Close stars in Charlie McDowell’s beautiful adaptation of Moomins creator Tove Jansson’s classic novel about loss, nature and growing up. Drama 2024 95 mins Charlie McDowell
A Private Life £4.50 Jodie Foster’s impeccable French and comedic skills are on full display in this mystery thriller, which sees her investigating a suspicious death. Thriller Crime 2025 103 mins Rebecca Zlotowski
The Christophers £4.50 A struggling artist infiltrates a painter’s household in this audacious chamber piece from Steven Soderbergh, starring Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen. Drama Comedy 2025 100 mins Steven Soderbergh
Blue Heron £4.50 In Sophy Romvari’s astonishing and award-winning feature debut, a family’s lives are rocked when their child starts displaying erratic behaviour. Drama 2025 91 mins Sophy Romvári
Love Me Tender £4.50 Vicky Krieps is magnetic as a woman paying a high price to be free in this luminous and radical commentary on motherhood, desire and self-discovery. Drama 2025 134 mins Anna Cazenave Cambet
Breathless [À bout de souffle] £3.50 Jean-Luc Godard’s extraordinary debut feature, an insouciant and iconoclastic crime film that paved the way for the French New Wave. Film noir 1960 90 mins Jean-Luc Godard
The North £4.50 Friends Chris and Lluis reunite after years apart to hike 600 kilometres through the Scottish Highlands, in Bart Schrijver’s immersive drama. Drama 2025 132 mins Bart Schrijver
Underland £4.50 Based on Robert Macfarlane's bestseller, Underland is a wonderful cinematic voyage beneath the surface of the earth. Documentary 2025 80 mins Robert Petit
A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things £3.50 A striking portrait of an artist deserving of greater recognition, directed by Mark Cousins (A Story of Film). Documentary Biopic 2024 88 mins Mark Cousins
Coyote vs. Acme £16.00 Long-suffering, luckless Wile E Coyote takes ACME to court in this Looney Tunes live-action underdog drama starring Will Forte and John Cena. Animation & Artists Moving Image Comedy 2026 103 mins Dave Green
Departures £4.50 After meeting at an airport gate, Benji and Jake’s clandestine relationship unfolds through trips to Amsterdam, revealing complex power dynamics. Comedy Drama 2025 83 mins Neil Ely and Lloyd Eyre-Morgan
20,000 Days on Earth £3.50 The myths and minutiae of musician Nick Cave are explored in the course of this fictional portrait, following 24 hours in the life of a cultural icon. Documentary 2014 93 mins Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
Our Land £4.50 Orban Wallace's inspiring documentary explores who has the right to roam in England, where 92% of land and 97% of rivers are not legally accessible. Documentary 2026 91 mins Orban Wallace
Ammonite £3.50 Francis Lee follows up God’s Own Country with a film that is every bit as immersive, tactile and emotionally powerful, aided by the devastatingly good Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan. Biopic Romance 2021 118 mins Francis Lee
Centre of My World £3.50 A young man falls for the new boy at school in this energetic and inventive adaptation of Andreas Steinhoefel’s acclaimed YA novel. Drama Romance 2016 115 mins Jakob M. Erwa
Bhaji on the Beach £3.50 Gurinder Chadha's charming and critically acclaimed comedy about a group of British Asian women from Birmingham who bond during a day-trip to Blackpool. Comedy 1994 101 mins Gurinder Chadha
Nino £4.50 A young man receives a bombshell diagnosis in Pauline Loquès’s moving debut feature. Drama 2025 98 mins Pauline Loquès
Diamanti £4.50 Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Özpetek celebrates the artistry, magic and theatrics of costume design in his lavish melodrama set in 1970s Rome. Drama Comedy 2024 135 mins Ferzan Özpetek
Captain Fantastic £3.50 Viggo Mortensen plays the father-gone-primitive in this wonderful award-winning comedy about an off-grid family. Drama 2016 119 mins Matt Ross
Brassed Off £3.50 Pete Postlethwaite stars in this emotional drama about members of a colliery brass band who learn their mine may soon be closing. Drama 1996 107 mins Mark Herman
