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Ish

A friendship is capsized in this blistering British drama, told with power and rage, from a filmmaker to watch.

Drama
2025
88 mins
Imran Perretta

After Life

Koreeda's lyrical fantasy challenges the viewer to reflect on the experiences that most make life worth living.

Drama
1998
119 mins
Hirokazu Koreeda

Rose of Nevada

Mark Jenkin’s time-travelling odyssey about a long-lost fishing boat that mysteriously returns to harbour, starring George MacKay and Callum Turner.

Drama
Science Fiction
2025
114 mins
Mark Jenkin

Surviving Earth

Thea Gajic’s feature debut follows Yugoslavian refugee Vlad as he embraces a new life in Bristol and battles addiction and past traumas.

Drama
2025
96 mins
Thea Gajic

Citizen Kane

Given extraordinary freedom by Hollywood studio RKO for his debut film, boy wonder Orson Welles created this notoriously brilliant portrait of a media giant.

Drama
1941
119 mins
Orson Welles

Le Boucher

Chabrol’s most celebrated film sees a friendship between a teacher and local butcher darken as a series of murders unsettles life in their village.

Drama
1970
93 mins
Claude Chabrol

Irreversible

Gaspar Noé's retina-searing shocker about an assault and its revenge, told in reverse chronology and starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel.

Drama
2002
93 mins
Gaspar Noé

Sex

Part of the Oslo Stories trilogy, a casual confession is an explosive catalyst in Dag Johan Haugerud's frank and engaging drama.

Drama
Romance
2024
118 mins
Dag Johan Haugerud

L' enfer (Torment)

A husband's jealousy and suspicion of his wife drive him to appalling extremes in Claude Charbrol’s unsettling psychological thriller.

Drama
1994
102 mins
Claude Chabrol

Islands

A mysterious disappearance sets off this noirish thriller with echoes of Hitchcock and Highsmith, starring Sam Riley and Stacey Martin.

Drama
Thriller
2025
121 mins
Jan-Ole Gerster

Claude Chabrol

A cinema of corrosive irony, wicked wit and simmering violence.

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Breaking the rules: the films of Claude Chabrol

In this video essay, critic Elena Lazic argues that Claude Chabrol’s genius was often defined by the rules he chose to challenge.

Documentary
2026
17 mins

The Swindle (Rien ne va plus)

Isabelle Huppert is on sparkling form as one of a pair of con artists grifting their way across France, cheating gamblers out of their winnings.

Comedy
Thriller
1997
105 mins
Claude Chabrol

Le Boucher

Chabrol’s most celebrated film sees a friendship between a teacher and local butcher darken as a series of murders unsettles life in their village.

Drama
1970
93 mins
Claude Chabrol

Merci Pour Le Chocolat (Nightcap)

Chabrol’s deliciously icy mystery stars Isabelle Huppert as the wife of a concert pianist who uncovers some unusual secrets about her husband’s past.

Thriller
2000
101 mins
Claude Chabrol

L' enfer (Torment)

A husband's jealousy and suspicion of his wife drive him to appalling extremes in Claude Charbrol’s unsettling psychological thriller.

Drama
1994
102 mins
Claude Chabrol

Betty

A mysterious young woman finds refuge with a stranger in Chabrol’s unsettling psychological drama based on the book by Georges Simenon.

Drama
1992
103 mins
Claude Chabrol

The Beast Must Die (Que la Bete Meure)

Chabrol’s gripping thriller sees a grieving father set out to murder his son’s killer, only to find the moral ground constantly shifting beneath him.

Drama
Thriller
1969
113 mins
Claude Chabrol

Inspector Lavardin

Claude Chabrol’s slippery thriller sees the eponymous detective investigating a murder involving a former lover.

Crime
Drama
1986
100 mins
Claude Chabrol

The Colour of Lies (Au cœur du mensonge)

When a girl is found murdered in a coastal town, a community begins to devour itself, in this thriller about the social poison that a crime unleashes.

Drama
1998
113 mins
Claude Chabrol

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Surviving Earth

Thea Gajic’s feature debut follows Yugoslavian refugee Vlad as he embraces a new life in Bristol and battles addiction and past traumas.

Drama
2025
96 mins
Thea Gajic

Riefenstahl

Captivating insight into the controversial filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, who became world-famous for her Nazi propaganda.

Documentary
2024
115 mins
Andreas Veiel

Dreams

The Golden Bear-winning film in Haugerud’s Oslo Stories trilogy sees teenager Johanne put pen to paper as she falls in love with her teacher.

Drama
Romance
2024
111 mins
Dag Johan Haugerud

Inspector Lavardin

Claude Chabrol’s slippery thriller sees the eponymous detective investigating a murder involving a former lover.

Crime
Drama
1986
100 mins
Claude Chabrol

Sex

Part of the Oslo Stories trilogy, a casual confession is an explosive catalyst in Dag Johan Haugerud's frank and engaging drama.

Drama
Romance
2024
118 mins
Dag Johan Haugerud

Love

A chance encounter on a ferry crossing leads inspires a doctor and nurse to reflect on their experiences of casual intimacy in Haugerud's Oslo story.

Drama
Romance
2024
120 mins
Dag Johan Haugerud

Le Boucher

Chabrol’s most celebrated film sees a friendship between a teacher and local butcher darken as a series of murders unsettles life in their village.

Drama
1970
93 mins
Claude Chabrol

The Swindle (Rien ne va plus)

Isabelle Huppert is on sparkling form as one of a pair of con artists grifting their way across France, cheating gamblers out of their winnings.

Comedy
Thriller
1997
105 mins
Claude Chabrol

Heart of a Dog

Multimedia artist Laurie Anderson’s cinematic journey through love, death and language, centred around memories of her beloved terrier Lolabelle.

Documentary
2015
76 mins
Laurie Anderson

Toomorrow

A London-based pop group are abducted by aliens to save their race from extinction in this rarely seen sci-fi musical starring Olivia Newton-John.

Musical
Science Fiction
1970
94 mins
Val Guest

L' enfer (Torment)

A husband's jealousy and suspicion of his wife drive him to appalling extremes in Claude Charbrol’s unsettling psychological thriller.

Drama
1994
102 mins
Claude Chabrol

Rose of Nevada

Mark Jenkin’s time-travelling odyssey about a long-lost fishing boat that mysteriously returns to harbour, starring George MacKay and Callum Turner.

Drama
Science Fiction
2025
114 mins
Mark Jenkin

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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

Grimonprez’s Academy Award-nominated film reveals the connections between post-war jazz, US imperialism and the Pan-African decolonisation movement.

Documentary
2024
150 mins
Johan Grimonprez

Palestine 36

Acclaimed Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir’s most ambitious work is a powerful exploration of the events leading up to the Arab Revolt of 1936.

Period drama
2025
120 mins
Annemarie Jacir

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Rose Byrne gives a mesmerising, Oscar-nominated performance as an overwhelmed mother, in Mary Bronstein’s nerve-shredding comedy-thriller-horror.

Drama
2025
113 mins
Mary Bronstein

Islands

A mysterious disappearance sets off this noirish thriller with echoes of Hitchcock and Highsmith, starring Sam Riley and Stacey Martin.

Drama
Thriller
2025
121 mins
Jan-Ole Gerster

The Chronology of Water

A woman battles addiction and abuse in Kristen Stewart’s uncompromising depiction of love, trauma and artistic self-expression.

Drama
2025
128 mins
Kristen Stewart

Nouvelle Vague

Richard Linklater recreates the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s seminal feature debut, Breathless.

Drama
2025
106 mins
Richard Linklater

A New Kind of Wilderness

A tragedy shatters the idyllic world of a family living off-grid in the Norwegian wilderness.

Documentary
2024
84 mins
Silje Evensmo Jacobsen

The Voice of Hind Rajab

Emergency workers receive a call from five-year-old Hind Rajab. Using real-life audio recordings, this film recreates the desperate mission to save her.

Drama-documentary
Crime
2025
89 mins
Kaouther Ben Hania

Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros

Frederick Wiseman’s gastronomic dream of a film captures daily life in one of the world’s most prestigious restaurants.

Documentary
2023
240 mins
Frederick Wiseman

I'm Still Here

Fernanda Torres ignites this Oscar-winning drama from Walter Salles, a triumph of hope over tyranny.

Drama
Biopic
2024
138 mins
Walter Salles

The Thing with Feathers

Benedict Cumberbatch gives a powerful performance in this visually striking fantasy drama about grief, family, and healing.

Drama
2025
98 mins
Dylan Southern

Dreamers

Two Nigerian migrants dare to imagine a vibrant future outside of their confinement at a British immigration removal centre.

Drama
2025
79 mins
Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor

Mark Kermode Introduces

The UK's best-known film critic gives exclusive introductions

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The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Mohammad Rasoulof's powerful, vital, Oscar and BAFTA-nominated thriller about a bureaucrat torn between loyalty to his family and the Iranian regime.

Thriller
2024
167 mins
Mohammad Rasoulof

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Benediction

Terence Davies’ devastatingly moving, lyrical portrait of the life of celebrated war poet Siegfried Sassoon.

Drama
2021
137 mins
Terence Davies

The Party

Following some unexpected revelations, a celebration quickly takes a turn for the worse in Sally Potter's razor-sharp comedy.

Comedy
Drama
2017
71 mins
Sally Potter

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Céline Sciamma’s BAFTA-nominated film about the tentative love between a painter and her subject in 18th-century France.

Romance
2019
121 mins
Céline Sciamma

BFI Restoration

Strongroom

A bank robbery turns into a race against time to save two innocent people trapped in an airtight vault in this Tarantino-championed British thriller.

Crime
1962
79 mins
Vernon Sewell

Memory: The Origins of Alien

The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott’s Alien, one of Hollywood’s most beloved and iconic shockers.

Documentary
2019
93 mins
Alexandre O. Philippe

Les Amants du Pont-Neuf

A homeless addict (Denis Lavant) and a young painter (Juliette Binoche) with failing eyesight forge a bond on the streets of Paris.

Drama
Romance
1991
126 mins
Léos Carax

I'm Still Here

Fernanda Torres ignites this Oscar-winning drama from Walter Salles, a triumph of hope over tyranny.

Drama
Biopic
2024
138 mins
Walter Salles

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It Follows

David Robert Mitchell’s remarkable, terrifying shocker is a fresh and stimulating meditation on sexual paranoia, steeped in horror cinema history.

Horror
2014
100 mins
David Robert Mitchell

The Chronology of Water

A woman battles addiction and abuse in Kristen Stewart’s uncompromising depiction of love, trauma and artistic self-expression.

Drama
2025
128 mins
Kristen Stewart

The Thing with Feathers

Benedict Cumberbatch gives a powerful performance in this visually striking fantasy drama about grief, family, and healing.

Drama
2025
98 mins
Dylan Southern

The Wind That Shakes the Barley

Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winning tale of two brothers joining the fight for Irish independence in the 1920s, starring Cillian Murphy and Pádraic Delaney

Drama
Historical drama
2006
122 mins
Ken Loach

Drama

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The Piano Teacher

Isabelle Huppert’s turn as a woman disturbed yet consumed by her own desires has lost none of its gut-punching torment, in Haneke’s unsettling drama.

Drama
2001
131 mins
Michael Haneke

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

A fiercely independent woman’s tranquillity is disturbed by an unexpected affair, in this wry, tender and understated drama from Georgia.

Drama
2023
110 mins
Elene Naveriani

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Rouge

Gorgeous romantic melodrama from queer cinema master Stanley Kwan about the haunting power of lost love starring the late Cantopop singer Anita Mui.

Drama
1987
98 mins
Stanley Kwan Kam-pang

Bait

Simmering tensions between locals and newcomers in a modern-day Cornish fishing village reach boiling point in this hugely acclaimed British independent film.

Drama
2019
89 mins
Mark Jenkin

Burning an Illusion

Menelik Shabazz’s pioneering first feature traces the emotional and political growth of a young black couple in Thatcher’s London.

Drama
1982
102 mins
Menelik Shabazz

The Silence

Two sisters check into a hotel in a foreign city readying itself for war, in Ingmar Bergman's nightmarish vision of emotional isolation.

Drama
1963
95 mins
Ingmar Bergman

Irreversible

Gaspar Noé's retina-searing shocker about an assault and its revenge, told in reverse chronology and starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel.

Drama
2002
93 mins
Gaspar Noé

Islands

A mysterious disappearance sets off this noirish thriller with echoes of Hitchcock and Highsmith, starring Sam Riley and Stacey Martin.

Drama
Thriller
2025
121 mins
Jan-Ole Gerster

Skate Kitchen

A timid Long Island skater-girl befriends a New York City-based skateboarding crew in Crystal Moselle's Sundance-nominated coming-of-age tale.

Drama
2018
105 mins
Crystal Moselle

Twentynine Palms

A young couple take a road trip through the Californian desert towards a shocking climax in Bruno Dumont’s stripped-back horror.

Drama
Horror
2003
119 mins
Bruno Dumont

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The Falling

Florence Pugh's first film teams her with Maisie Williams as teenage friends at a school cursed by mystery sickness.

Drama
2015
102 mins
Carol Morley

Comedy

Side-splitting cinema, from slapstick legends to today's anarchic voices.

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Stolen Kisses

Naively idealistic and largely inept both in his dealings with women and in any job, Antoine clumsily courts Christine while working for a private detective agency.

Comedy
Drama
1968
91 mins
François Truffaut

Four Mothers

Hilarious, uplifting tale of an Irish son juggling four very different mothers over one chaotic weekend in Dublin.

Comedy
Drama
2023
89 mins
Darren Thornton

The Love Witch

A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, in Anna Biller's outrageous tribute to 1960s Technicolor melodramas.

Comedy
Horror
2016
121 mins
Anna Biller

Swan Song

Udo Kier enchants as the flamboyant hairdresser pulled out of retirement for one last bob in a hugely enjoyable comedy featuring Jennifer Coolidge.

Drama
2021
105 mins
Todd Stephens

Palindromes

Todd Solondz’s casting of eight different actors of varying ages, genders and races to play the lead role of Aviva, makes for a truly original film.

Comedy
Drama
2004
100 mins
Todd Solondz

Good Morning

Yasujiro Ozu's cheerful comedy about the silliness of everyday chatter.

Comedy
1959
94 mins
Yasujirō Ozu

Kontinental '25

Prolific Romanian provocateur Radu Jude’s sharp social satire on our materialistic society, blending dark comedy, drama and giant, plastic dinosaurs.

Comedy
Drama
2025
109 mins
Radu Jude

20th Century Women

Annette Bening stars as a mum enlisting two friends (Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning) to help her son navigate adolescence in Mike Mills’s comedy-drama.

Drama
Comedy
2016
118 mins
Mike Mills

Love and Death on Long Island

John Hurt stars in Richard Kwietniowski’s comedy of fame and obsession about an older man (Hurt) who becomes infatuated with a young Hollywood actor (Jason Priestley), and proceeds to track him down.

Comedy
1997
89 mins
Richard Kwietniowski

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Rose Byrne gives a mesmerising, Oscar-nominated performance as an overwhelmed mother, in Mary Bronstein’s nerve-shredding comedy-thriller-horror.

Drama
2025
113 mins
Mary Bronstein

Stan & Ollie

Steve Coogan and John C Reilly give delightful performances as Laurel & Hardy - comedy’s most famous double act - as they enter their twilight years.

Biopic
2019
98 mins
Jon S. Baird

Wild Tales

This Oscar-nominated, Almodóvar-produced anthology of six tales of ordinary madness is the most riotously enjoyable portmanteau film since Pulp Fiction.

Comedy
Thriller
2014
122 mins
Damian Szifron

Crime

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Inspector Lavardin

Claude Chabrol’s slippery thriller sees the eponymous detective investigating a murder involving a former lover.

Crime
Drama
1986
100 mins
Claude Chabrol

La Piscine

A ménage à trois stirs passion and jealousy beside a secluded pool in this sultry, French cult-thriller.

Drama
1969
123 mins
Jacques Deray

High and Low

Akira Kurosawa’s procedural crime masterpiece follows an industrialist who faces an agonising choice.

Crime
Police drama
1963
143 mins
Akira Kurosawa

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Body Double

An unemployed actor is drawn into a world of voyeurism, seduction, mystery and murder, in Brian De Palma's playful and satirical homage to Hitchcock.

Thriller
1984
114 mins
Brian De Palma

The Doll Squad

An elite group of female agents join to form The Doll Squad, with a mission to save the world from a diabolical madman intending to wreak havoc.

Crime
Drama
1973
91 mins
Ted V. Mikels

Highway Patrolman

Alex Cox’s Mexican film follows the journey of a highway patrolman whose idealism eventually gives way to inevitable corruption.

Drama
1991
105 mins
Alex Cox

King of New York

Christopher Walken is the dogged drug-lord determined to keep his empire together, in Abel Ferrara's brutally gritty crime thriller.

Crime
Thriller
1990
103 mins
Abel Ferrara

Mona Lisa

An ungainly cockney chauffeur navigates the seedy streets of London, gradually falling for the elegant and mysterious prostitute who is his passenger.

Gangster
Drama
1986
100 mins
Neil Jordan

Parasite

Bong Joon Ho's Oscar®-winning box-office sensation is a darkly comic, twisty rollercoaster ride.

Drama
Comedy
2019
132 mins
Bong Joon-ho

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El Mariachi

A travelling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal, in Robert Rodriguez’s infamous ‘no budget’ exemplar of DIY action cinema.

Crime
Thriller
1992
82 mins
Robert Rodriguez

Documentaries

A selection of the finest stories from the real world

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Memory: The Origins of Alien

The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott’s Alien, one of Hollywood’s most beloved and iconic shockers.

Documentary
2019
93 mins
Alexandre O. Philippe

The Look of Silence

Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary follows an optician reckoning with the legacy of Indonesia’s 1965-66 mass killings, in which his brother was killed.

Documentary
2014
99 mins
Joshua Oppenheimer

Desire: The Carl Craig Story

An intimate portrait of legendary techno producer, DJ and record label creator Carl Craig and an ode to his beloved city, Detroit.

Documentary
2024
91 mins
Jean-Cosme Delaloye

BFI Restoration

The Epic of Everest

Premiere. A breathtaking and poignant account of the valiant 1924 British assault on the awe-inspiring peak, beautifully restored by the BFI.

Non-Fiction
1924
87 mins
J.B.L. Noel

Dig! XX

Ondi Timoner’s cult music documentary returns after 20 years, remastered and extended, to explore rock’s most volatile friendship.

Documentary
2024
147 mins
Ondi Timoner

Hotel Monterey

A hypnotic tour of a New York hotel that proves that nighttime is Akerman time.

Documentary
1973
63 mins
Chantal Akerman

The Gleaners & I

Agnès Varda’s award-winning study of those living on the margins of French society at the turn of the millennium.

Documentary
2000
79 mins
Agnès Varda

BFI Restoration

Dance Craze

Legendary film that brilliantly captures the cultural phenomenon that was the 2 Tone movement, and showcases the very best of the British Ska revival.

Documentary
Performance
1981
89 mins
Joe Massot

Cameraperson

Existence is laid bare in Kristen Johnson’s soul-stirring portrait of human life, told through the eyes of a filmmaker's trusty camera.

Documentary
2016
102 mins
Kirsten Johnson

Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande

The incredible story of a band you may never have heard of but whose sound has influenced generations with their irresistible rhythms and message of peace.

Documentary
2022
90 mins
Tim MacKenzie-Smith

Architecton

Victor Kossakovsky’s film essay looks at the way we have constructed our built world through a series of breathtaking sequences.

Documentary
2024
98 mins
Viktor Kossakovsky

SCALA!!!

Engrossing tribute to London’s legendary Scala cinema, aptly subtitled.

Documentary
2023
96 mins
Jane Giles and Ali Catterall

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The Blood on Satan's Claw

Depraved sexual practices and satanic violence envelop a remote country village in this exciting period horror.

Horror
1971
96 mins
Piers Haggard

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Théo and Hugo

A brief encounter at a naked sex club in Paris seems to be going well for Theo and Hugo, but a sudden realisation changes everything.

Romance
2016
97 mins
Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau

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Volver

Family secrets echo around a Spanish clan, ringing loud enough to rouse the dead, in Pedro Almodóvar's assured melodrama.

Drama
2005
121 mins
Pedro Almodóvar

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The Descent

Six friends on a caving expedition get trapped deep underground and discover they are not alone in this visceral, claustrophobic horror.

Horror
2005
99 mins
Neil Marshall

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Postcards from London

A stylish, sensuous film about a young man’s journey into an unusual form of escort work.

Drama
2018
89 mins
Steve McLean

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Metropolis

Fritz Lang’s expressionist, dystopian vision is one of the first science fiction feature films, and is arguably the most influential.

Science Fiction
1927
150 mins
Fritz Lang

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Beach Rats

Gripping account of repressed sexual desire in a masculine environment, with British newcomer Harris Dickinson as a virulently macho Brooklyn teen.

Drama
2017
98 mins
Eliza Hittman

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Hunger

Artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen made his cinema debut with this provocative portrait of Irish republican prisoners defying the British government.

Biopic
Historical drama
2008
96 mins
Steve McQueen

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Sweet Sweetback’s Baadassss Song

Melvin Van Peebles’ seminal, taboo-breaking Blaxploitation thriller about a young Black man on the run from corrupt cops in 1970s Los Angeles.

Thriller
1971
98 mins
Melvin Van Peebles

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Nosferatu

This influential Dracula adaptation contains some of the most famous images of expressionist film, and remains shocking and stylish after 100 years.

Horror
1922
89 mins
F.W. Murnau

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Benediction

Terence Davies’ devastatingly moving, lyrical portrait of the life of celebrated war poet Siegfried Sassoon.

Drama
2021
137 mins
Terence Davies

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Bushman

Neglected since its release in 1971, Bushman follows a Nigerian student in San Francisco but is interrupted by the arrest of its leading man.

Documentary
1971
75 mins
David Schickele

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La Femme Infidèle

The first of Chabrol’s great run of bourgeois psychological thrillers follows the fall-out from a husband discovering his wife’s affair.

Drama
Thriller
1969
99 mins
Claude Chabrol

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Being Blacker

Molly Dineen’s acclaimed documentary about renowned Brixton-based music producer Blacker Dread.

Documentary
Current affairs
2018
89 mins
Molly Dineen

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Primavera

Damiano Michieletto’s enthralling Venetian drama inspired by the life of Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi.

Drama
Historical drama
2025
111 mins
Damiano Michieletto

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Frantz Fanon: Black Skin White Mask

Isaac Julien and Mark Nash’s celebrated experimental documentary about the Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist and revolutionary.

Documentary
1997
72 mins
Isaac Julien

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Bogancloch

The life and environment of a modern-day hermit is gently observed in Ben Rivers' intimate, experimental documentary.

Documentary
2025
86 mins
Ben Rivers

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The Stendhal Syndrome

Argento’s dizzying and gut-wrenching drama about a young policewoman (Asia Argento) on the hunt for a serial killer who becomes obsessed with her.

Crime
Horror
1996
120 mins
Dario Argento

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Opera

Boasting quite possibly Argento's most iconic single image, almost certainly his most spectacular death, and indisputably his most insane ending.

Horror
1987
107 mins
Dario Argento

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Shiraz: A Romance of India

The ravishing, romantic story behind the Taj Mahal, has been newly restored with a sumptuous new score from Anoushka Shankar.

Historical drama
Romance
1928
106 mins
Franz Osten

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Japanese Cinema

From the samurai thrillers of Kurosawa to Koreeda's beautiful domestic dramas, this collection celebrates the extraordinary diversity of Japanese cinema.

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