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The Shrouds

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Cronenberg directs Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger in a sci-fi conspiracy thriller exploring mortality and grief.

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Primavera

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

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Ish

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

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Being Blacker

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

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Rose of Nevada

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

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The Shrouds

Cronenberg directs Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger in a sci-fi conspiracy thriller exploring mortality and grief.
  • Horror
  • 2024
  • 120 mins
  • David Cronenberg

Available in 4K

Eyes without a Face

Georges Franju’s gorgeous, poetic horror film about a surgeon’s dark obsession with restoring his daughter’s disfigured face.
  • Horror
  • Medical drama
  • 1959
  • 90 mins
  • Georges Franju

Crimes of Passion

Ken Russell's second Hollywood film is a deliriously excessive erotic thriller with Kathleen Turner as an imperilled prostitute.
  • Thriller
  • 1984
  • 107 mins
  • Ken Russell

Rhianna Dhillon's Mysteries

Rhianna Dhillon opens a new case: working out which of the hundreds of films on BFI Player offers the most satisfying mystery.
  • Short documentary
  • 2026
  • 11 mins

The Kingdom

A teenager is taken to a Corsican villa where her fugitive mob boss father is hiding, before an assassination attempt forces them to go on the run.
  • Crime
  • Thriller
  • 2024
  • 111 mins
  • Julien Colonna

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

Vampyros Lesbos

Jesús Franco’s dreamily seductive, sun-kissed take on Dracula is one of his most famous works; famed for its hip, psychedelic-loungecore soundtrack.
  • Horror
  • 1971
  • 89 mins
  • Jesús Franco

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

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

Halloween

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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

Shiver of the Vampires

Newlyweds visit their cousins at a remote rural chateau, finding them under the spell of two vampire girls.
  • Horror
  • 1970
  • 95 mins
  • Jean Rollin

The Sect

Michele Soavi's delirious and surreal satanic horror follows a teacher drawn into the schemes of an evil cult.
  • Horror
  • 1991
  • 117 mins
  • Michele Soavi

BFI Restoration

The Appointment

An evil and enigmatic entity throws a family into turmoil in Lindsey C. Vickers' much sought-after cult horror.
  • Horror
  • 1981
  • 89 mins
  • Lindsey C. Vickers

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Cronos

Guillermo del Toro’s Cannes prize-winning directorial debut offers a unique take on the classic vampire story.
  • Horror
  • 1992
  • 93 mins
  • Guillermo del Toro

Vampyros Lesbos

Jesús Franco’s dreamily seductive, sun-kissed take on Dracula is one of his most famous works; famed for its hip, psychedelic-loungecore soundtrack.
  • Horror
  • 1971
  • 89 mins
  • Jesús Franco

Audition

Takashi Miike burst to prominence with this disturbing tale of a deadly young woman who turns the tables on her middle-aged suitor.
  • Horror
  • 1999
  • 115 mins
  • Takashi Miike

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

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

Enys Men

Mark Jenkin follows Bait with this chilling, endlessly mysterious folk horror tale, beautifully shot on grainy 16mm.
  • Horror
  • 2022
  • 91 mins
  • Mark Jenkin

Martyrs

A revenge mission leads two young women to the heart of a deranged cult, in Pascal Laugier’s notoriously brutal and unflinching horror.
  • Horror
  • 2008
  • 99 mins
  • Pascal Laugier

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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

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

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

The Shrouds

Cronenberg directs Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger in a sci-fi conspiracy thriller exploring mortality and grief.
  • Horror
  • 2024
  • 120 mins
  • David Cronenberg

Kinaesthesia

A kaleidoscopic documentary exploring the relationship between film and dreams, and inspired by the film historian and theorist Vlada Petrić.
  • Documentary
  • 2026
  • 101 mins
  • Gerald Fox

Being Blacker

Molly Dineen’s acclaimed documentary about renowned Brixton-based music producer Blacker Dread.
  • Documentary
  • Current affairs
  • 2018
  • 89 mins
  • Molly Dineen

Riefenstahl

Captivating insight into the controversial filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, who became world-famous for her Nazi propaganda.
  • Documentary
  • 2024
  • 115 mins
  • Andreas Veiel

Primavera

Damiano Michieletto’s enthralling Venetian drama inspired by the life of Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi.
  • Drama
  • Historical drama
  • 2025
  • 111 mins
  • Damiano Michieletto

The Glass Shield

The first black recruit in his squad, rookie cop J.J. Johnson struggles to adapt to life on the force, in this thrilling drama from Charles Burnett.
  • Drama
  • 1994
  • 110 mins
  • Charles Burnett

La Femme Infidèle

A husband discovers his wife's affair in Chabrol’s most potent psychological thriller.
  • Drama
  • Thriller
  • 1969
  • 99 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

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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

The Handmaiden

Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, Stoker) channels Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, to create a sumptuous twisty psychological thriller full of erotic intrigue.
  • Period drama
  • Crime
  • 2016
  • 146 mins
  • Park Chan-wook

The Shrouds

Cronenberg directs Vincent Cassel and Diane Kruger in a sci-fi conspiracy thriller exploring mortality and grief.
  • Horror
  • 2024
  • 120 mins
  • David Cronenberg

La Femme Infidèle

A husband discovers his wife's affair in Chabrol’s most potent psychological thriller.
  • Drama
  • Thriller
  • 1969
  • 99 mins
  • Claude Chabrol

Primavera

Damiano Michieletto’s enthralling Venetian drama inspired by the life of Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi.
  • Drama
  • Historical drama
  • 2025
  • 111 mins
  • Damiano Michieletto

Vampyros Lesbos

Jesús Franco’s dreamily seductive, sun-kissed take on Dracula is one of his most famous works; famed for its hip, psychedelic-loungecore soundtrack.
  • Horror
  • 1971
  • 89 mins
  • Jesús Franco

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

Urchin

The debut feature from actor Harris Dickinson sees a homeless addict get a shot at recovery and redemption.
  • Drama
  • Crime
  • 2025
  • 99 mins
  • Harris Dickinson

Riefenstahl

Captivating insight into the controversial filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, who became world-famous for her Nazi propaganda.
  • Documentary
  • 2024
  • 115 mins
  • Andreas Veiel

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

Paris, Texas

The late, great Harry Dean Stanton's finest role came as the near-mute Travis, on a journey across America to reunite his family, in Wim Wenders' moving tale of loss and redemption.
  • Drama
  • 1984
  • 145 mins
  • Wim Wenders

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

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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

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

Sister Midnight

A genre-bending comedy about a frustrated and misanthropic newlywed who discovers certain feral impulses that land her in unlikely situations.
  • Comedy
  • 2024
  • 107 mins
  • Karan Kandhari

Urchin

The debut feature from actor Harris Dickinson sees a homeless addict get a shot at recovery and redemption.
  • Drama
  • Crime
  • 2025
  • 99 mins
  • Harris Dickinson

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 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

Nouvelle Vague

Richard Linklater recreates the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s seminal feature debut, Breathless.
  • Drama
  • 2025
  • 106 mins
  • Richard Linklater

The Ice Tower

Marion Cotillard brings a thrilling magnetism to this snowbound tale of obsession and wish fulfilment between an actress and a young runaway.
  • Fantasy
  • 2025
  • 117 mins
  • Lucile Hadzihalilovic

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

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

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

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Kwaidan

This stunningly beautiful anthology of Japanese ghost stories is one of the most meticulously crafted supernatural films ever made.
  • Horror
  • Anthology
  • 1964
  • 183 mins
  • Masaki Kobayashi

The Ice Tower

Marion Cotillard brings a thrilling magnetism to this snowbound tale of obsession and wish fulfilment between an actress and a young runaway.
  • Fantasy
  • 2025
  • 117 mins
  • Lucile Hadzihalilovic

La Femme Infidèle

A husband discovers his wife's affair in Chabrol’s most potent psychological thriller.
  • Drama
  • Thriller
  • 1969
  • 99 mins
  • Claude Chabrol

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 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

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

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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

The Extraordinary Miss Flower

Hugely creative biographical film full of charm and intrigue, uncovering the remarkable story of Geraldine Flower and a suitcase of love letters.
  • Drama-documentary
  • Performance
  • 2024
  • 73 mins
  • Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard

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

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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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

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The Exterminating Angel

Buñuel’s surreal, darkly satirical masterpiece about a group of wealthy dinner guests finding themselves inexplicably unable to leave.
  • Drama
  • 1962
  • 93 mins
  • Luis Buñuel

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

BFI Restoration

The House of Mirth

Terence Davies and Gillian Anderson take us to the epitome of heartbreak in a visually intoxicating adaptation of Edith Wharton’s era-defining novel.
  • Drama
  • 2001
  • 140 mins
  • Terence Davies

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

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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

Edge of Summer

A summer holiday and an old folk tale bring two 11-year-olds together as they explore what, or who, is calling to them, from within an abandoned mine.
  • Drama
  • 2024
  • 90 mins
  • Lucy Cohen

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

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 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

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

Comedy

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

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Chicken Town

Two old schoolfriends join forces with an elderly neighbour to fence a shed full of weed, in this sprightly, easy-going British comedy.
  • Comedy
  • 2025
  • 90 mins
  • Richard Bracewell

The Rules of Attraction

Exuberant adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel, about a group of beautiful, wealthy and self-absorbed students tearing it up at college.
  • Comedy
  • Romance
  • 2002
  • 111 mins
  • Roger Avary

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good Morning

Yasujiro Ozu's cheerful comedy about the silliness of everyday chatter.
  • Comedy
  • 1959
  • 94 mins
  • Yasujirō Ozu

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

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

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The Secret in Their Eyes

A retired legal investigator revisits an unresolved case that still haunts him, in Juan José Campanella’s taut, Academy Award winning, thriller.
  • Thriller
  • 2009
  • 129 mins
  • Juan José Campanella

Beast

The hunt for a Jersey serial killer sparks a dangerous awakening in a young woman in this astonishing psycho-sexual thriller starring Jessie Buckley.
  • Drama
  • Thriller
  • 2017
  • 106 mins
  • Michael Pearce

Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke star as criminal brothers whose botched heist leads to escalating turmoil, in Sidney Lumet's twisty thriller.
  • Thriller
  • 2008
  • 117 mins
  • Sidney Lumet

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Motel Destino

Acclaimed filmmaker Karim Aïnouz’s Brazilian erotic noir sees an escaped young hustler flee to a roadside sex motel run by a hot-headed couple.
  • Thriller
  • 2024
  • 115 mins
  • Karim Aïnouz

Odyssey

Gerard Johnson (Hyena, Muscle) delivers a frenzied thriller about an estate agent under intense pressure and out of her depth.
  • Thriller
  • Crime
  • 2025
  • 111 mins
  • Gerard Johnson

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Red Road

Andrea Arnold’s highly acclaimed film, winner of top prizes at Cannes and the BFI London Film Festival, is a haunting drama about a woman confronting past demons.
  • Thriller
  • 2006
  • 110 mins
  • Andrea Arnold

The Housemaid

An enigmatic housemaid and her wealthy, totalitarian employer begin an affair that will have disastrous consequences for them both.
  • Thriller
  • 2010
  • 107 mins
  • Im Sang-soo

Crimes of Passion

Ken Russell's second Hollywood film is a deliriously excessive erotic thriller with Kathleen Turner as an imperilled prostitute.
  • Thriller
  • 1984
  • 107 mins
  • Ken Russell

Documentaries

A selection of the finest stories from the real world

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Other Way Around

Playful Spanish comedy-drama about a long-term couple who decide to throw a party to celebrate their break-up.
  • Comedy
  • 2024
  • 114 mins
  • Jonás Trueba

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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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Super Nature

Ed Sayers’ life-affirming documentary brings together the work of 25 filmmakers from around the world, capturing nature on Super 8.
  • Nature and Science programme
  • Documentary
  • 2026
  • 83 mins
  • Ed Sayers and Team Super Nature

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Piccadilly

The glitter of Jazz Age clubland meets the Far East (of London) in this stunningly restored silent classic, starring Anna May Wong.
  • Crime
  • 1929
  • 109 mins
  • E.A. Dupont

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A Cottage on Dartmoor

Anthony Asquith's tale of love and revenge, played out against the bleak Dartmoor landscape.
  • Drama
  • 1930
  • 88 mins
  • Anthony Asquith

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The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands

This dramatic reconstruction of two decisive naval battles from the First World War is one of the finest films of the British silent era.
  • War
  • 1927
  • 106 mins
  • Walter Summers

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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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Stranger in the House

Wayward teens in Winchester get mixed up in a murder in this strange swinging sixties update of a Simenon suspense classic.
  • Drama
  • 1967
  • 104 mins
  • Pierre Rouve

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Underground

Anthony Asquith’s subterranean tale of love, jealousy and murder, accompanied by a new score by Neil Brand.
  • Romance
  • 1928
  • 93 mins
  • Anthony Asquith

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Gangster No. 1

Paul McGuigan's dark thriller charts the rise and fall of a ruthless London crime boss, starring Malcolm McDowell, Paul Bettany and David Thewlis.
  • Gangster
  • 2000
  • 103 mins
  • Paul McGuigan

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Mr. Topaze

Charming character comedy, unseen for decades, starring Peter Sellers as a school teacher corrupted by big business.
  • Comedy
  • 1961
  • 97 mins
  • Peter Sellers

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