The Handmaiden

Malcolm McDowell and Helen Mirren star in one of the most controversial films in cinema history, presented here in an entirely new cut compiled from the original rushes.

Luchino Visconti's final film is a brilliant and disturbing drama set against the opulent backdrop of decadent, late 19th-century aristocracy.

A widowed doctor has gruesome plans for his new wife in this lush, Hitchcockian Italian gothic horror.

Florence Pugh shines in this exceptional British debut of a young wife's need for freedom, whatever the cost.

An unnervingly brilliant portrait of the ways in which the Pinochet dictatorship realised its brute force and pervasive influence, from debut director Manuela Martelli. Winner of the 2022 BFI London Film Festival First Feature Competition.

Peter Greenaway became a director of international status with this witty, stylised, erotic country house murder mystery.

An enigmatic housemaid and her wealthy, totalitarian employer begin an affair that will have disastrous consequences for them both.

Following Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Oldboy, Park Chan-wook completes his thematically linked trilogy of revenge.

Park’s wilfully grotesque fable about an abductee trying to fathom the mysteries of his past.

A hitman becomes the target in this ultra-stylish neo noir from Kim Jee-woon.

A recently married couple find their lives turning upside down as a result of the husband’s nocturnal behaviour.

Park’s wilfully grotesque fable about an abductee trying to fathom the mysteries of his past.

Following Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Oldboy, Park Chan-wook completes his thematically linked trilogy of revenge.

Mamoru Oshii's beautifully animated and disturbingly prophetic anime classic about the hunt for a supreme hacker in a transhumanist dystopia.

Francois Ozon’s sly and seductive account of teenage girl’s dalliance with high-class prostitution.

Ken Loach’s powerful, Palme d’Or-winning invective against welfare injustice captured the mood of modern Britain and became his biggest box office success.

Director Alan Clarke examines the grim reality of borstal life in this searing remake of his previously banned television play.

Life begins at 70 for Mahin, who decides to shake her life up in this charming, quietly subversive tale from Iran.

Maggie Gyllenhaal gives a career-best performance as a kindergarten teacher who finds herself in an ethical quagmire after discovering the poetic talents of a precocious student.