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Palestine 36

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

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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

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

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The Party

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

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Lynch/Oz

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Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not on Mulholland Drive anymore…the fascinating influence of The Wizard of Oz on David Lynch's filmmaking.

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Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat

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

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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

Invaders from Mars

From three hundred million miles away…invaders from Mars!
  • Science Fiction
  • 1953
  • 80 mins
  • William Cameron Menzies

BFI Restoration

Central Bazaar

Five strangers explore their fantasies over a period of five days in Stephen Dwoskin's remarkable experimental film.
  • Drama
  • 1976
  • 142 mins
  • Stephen Dwoskin

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

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

The Act of Killing

Groundbreaking documentary in which former Indonesian death-squad leaders re-enact their crimes through scenes inspired by different film genres.
  • Documentary
  • 2012
  • 117 mins
  • Joshua Oppenheimer

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

Rhianna Dhillon's Nature Is the Enemy

Rhianna Dhillon looks at how cinema reacts when the world gets hotter, the weather gets wilder and nature bites back.
  • Short documentary
  • 2026
  • 11 mins

Ollie

A young teenager, living in rural France, grapples with family tragedy through his friendship with a former skateboarder.
  • Drama
  • 2024
  • 102 mins
  • Antoine Besse

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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The Cars that Ate Paris

Peter Weir’s debut feature - a favourite of Kubrick's - is a mordant black comedy satirising small-town life and a gem of Ozploitation cinema.
  • Comedy
  • Horror
  • 1974
  • 88 mins
  • Peter Weir

Lynch/Oz

Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not on Mulholland Drive anymore…the fascinating influence of The Wizard of Oz on David Lynch's filmmaking.
  • Documentary
  • 2022
  • 109 mins
  • Alexandre O. Philippe

The Plumber

Peter Weir’s biting and unpredictable social satire about a young student troubled by repeat visits from her building’s gregarious repairman.
  • Drama
  • 1979
  • 77 mins
  • Peter Weir

BFI Restoration

The Passion of Remembrance

A key film of the Black Film Workshop movement - this London-set visual mosaic captures the richness and complexity of 1980s Black British life.
  • Historical drama
  • Animation & Artists Moving Image
  • 1986
  • 83 mins
  • Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien

Perennial Light

Colin Hickey’s stunning black and white film is a dreamlike, free flowing portrait of growing up in coastal Ireland.
  • Drama
  • Animation & Artists Moving Image
  • 2024
  • 80 mins
  • Colin Hickey

BFI Restoration

Central Bazaar

Five strangers explore their fantasies over a period of five days in Stephen Dwoskin's remarkable experimental film.
  • Drama
  • 1976
  • 142 mins
  • Stephen Dwoskin

BFI Restoration

South: Sir Ernest Shackleton's Glorious Epic of the Antarctic

An extraordinary story of Shackleton's survival in the wastes of Antarctica, now considered the world's first documentary feature.
  • Documentary
  • 1919
  • 81 mins
  • Frank Hurley

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

BFI Restoration

Winstanley

An authentic historical drama about the visionary Gerrard Winstanley who led a group of impoverished 'Diggers' to assert their common rights.
  • Historical drama
  • Biopic
  • 1976
  • 96 mins
  • Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo

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

BFI Restoration

Central Bazaar

Five strangers explore their fantasies over a period of five days in Stephen Dwoskin's remarkable experimental film.
  • Drama
  • 1976
  • 142 mins
  • Stephen Dwoskin

BFI Restoration

The Gold Diggers

The ground-breaking debut feature from Sally Potter (Orlando) stars Julie Christie and is a key film in early 1980s feminist cinema.
  • Animation & Artists Moving Image
  • Drama
  • 1984
  • 89 mins
  • Sally Potter

Mark Jenkin

The most comprehensive collection of Mark Jenkin’s work ever assembled online.

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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

David Bowie Is Dead

Mark Jenkin undertakes a stream-of-consciousness road trip through London in the turblent wake of David Bowie's death.
  • Animation & Artists Moving Image
  • 2018
  • 17 mins
  • Mark Jenkin

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

Mark Jenkin discusses his short films

"My short film work is as important as my feature film work." Mark Jenkin talks us through the craft and thinking behind his short films.
  • Short documentary
  • 2026
  • 11 mins

Dear Marianne

A Cornishman visiting the Irish coast sends postcards home in Mark Jenkin’s short travelogue.
  • Short documentary
  • 2016
  • 6 mins
  • Mark Jenkin

The Road to Zennor

Mark Jenkin's poetic travelogue evokes the long shadows and peaceful hum of a late Cornish autumn.
  • Short documentary
  • 2017
  • 2 mins
  • Mark Jenkin

29 Hour Long Birthday

From the Hudson River to the summer homes of Long Island, the filmmaker looks back on a movie-inspired trip to New York.
  • Short documentary
  • 2022
  • 6 mins
  • Mark Jenkin

Thoughts from Inside a Headache

A young man is drawn by the music he hears in his head to a moment of existential crisis far from home.
  • Animation & Artists Moving Image
  • 2005
  • 2 mins
  • Mark Jenkin

Enough to Fill Up an Eggcup

A film poem, that is quiet and angry.
  • Animation & Artists Moving Image
  • 2016
  • 36 mins
  • Mark Jenkin

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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

9 Songs

After meeting at a gig, a London couple’s relationship unfolds in Michael Winterbottom’s intimate and controversial portrait of sex and live music.
  • Drama
  • 2005
  • 67 mins
  • Michael Winterbottom

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

BFI Restoration

Central Bazaar

Five strangers explore their fantasies over a period of five days in Stephen Dwoskin's remarkable experimental film.
  • Drama
  • 1976
  • 142 mins
  • Stephen Dwoskin

BFI Restoration

Friendship's Death

Tilda Swinton plays an extra-terrestrial android discussing life’s big questions in this unique sci-fi by influential film theorist Peter Wollen.
  • Science Fiction
  • 1987
  • 72 mins
  • Peter Wollen

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

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

Lynch/Oz

Toto, I’ve got a feeling we’re not on Mulholland Drive anymore…the fascinating influence of The Wizard of Oz on David Lynch's filmmaking.
  • Documentary
  • 2022
  • 109 mins
  • Alexandre O. Philippe

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

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

Edward II

Christopher Marlowe's 16th century play is radically adapted by Derek Jarman in one of his most powerful films, starring Tilda Swinton.
  • Drama
  • 1991
  • 90 mins
  • Derek Jarman

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

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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

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

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

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

The Summer with Carmen

A seductive and smart gay comedy set on a cruisy Greek island.
  • Comedy
  • 2023
  • 106 mins
  • Zacharias Mavroeidis

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

Nouvelle Vague

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

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

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

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

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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

In the Cut

Jane Campion’s feminist erotic thriller starring Meg Ryan and Mark Ruffalo adds a frisson of dangerous sex to a murder investigation.
  • Thriller
  • 2003
  • 119 mins
  • Jane Campion

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

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

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

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
  • 2006
  • 122 mins
  • Ken Loach

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

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

Memories of Murder

A pair of detectives clash trying to solve the brutal murders of two women, in Bong Joon Ho’s masterful blend of true crime and dark social satire.
  • Detective drama
  • Thriller
  • 2003
  • 131 mins
  • Bong Joon-ho

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

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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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

The Act of Killing

Groundbreaking documentary in which former Indonesian death-squad leaders re-enact their crimes through scenes inspired by different film genres.
  • Documentary
  • 2012
  • 117 mins
  • Joshua Oppenheimer

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

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

The Story of Lover's Rock

Menelik Shabazz (Burning an Illusion) shines a light on the music genre often dubbed ‘romantic reggae’; a uniquely black British sound that developed in the late 70s and 80s against a backdrop of riots, racial tension and sound systems.
  • Documentary
  • Performance
  • 2011
  • 100 mins
  • Menelik Shabazz

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Jarv Is... Beyond the Pale: Live from the Centre of the Earth

Jarvis Cocker performs live in a cave in this spectacular concert film captured by BAFTA-nominated filmmaking duo, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard.
  • Documentary
  • 2020
  • 51 mins
  • Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard

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

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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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

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

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

There Is No Evil

Mohammad Rasoulof’s critical anthology film tells the stories of four executioners in Iran and the profound psychological impact of the practice.
  • Drama
  • 2020
  • 151 mins
  • Mohammad Rasoulof

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

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

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

Central Station

I’m Still Here director Walter Salles’ touching BAFTA winner about a retired teacher and young boy who become unlikely travel companions across Brazil
  • Drama
  • 1998
  • 111 mins
  • Walter Salles

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

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

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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

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Amélie

Audrey Tautou plays the shy waitress whose altruism leads to love, in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's BAFTA-winning hit romance.
  • Drama
  • 2001
  • 117 mins
  • Jean-Pierre Jeunet

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

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

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

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

Good Morning

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

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

The Last Detail

Jack Nicholson is at his very best in this highly-acclaimed dramatic comedy from Hal Ashby about three sailors on the loose.
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • 1973
  • 104 mins
  • Hal Ashby

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

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

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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

Insomnia

Psychological Nordic noir starring Stellan Skarsgård as a detective losing his mind while investigating a murder in a town bathed in 24-hour daylight
  • Crime
  • Thriller
  • 1997
  • 96 mins
  • Erik SkjoldbjÆrg

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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La notte

Michelangelo Antonioni's masterpiece about urban alienation stars Italian film icons Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau and Monica Vitti.
  • Drama
  • 1961
  • 123 mins
  • Michelangelo Antonioni

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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

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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

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Sex

Part of the Oslo Stories trilogy, two colleagues face experiences that unsettle their views on sexuality, gender and identity.
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • 2024
  • 118 mins
  • Dag Johan Haugerud

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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

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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

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Fragments of Paradise

Intimate portrait of the pioneering filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas, assembled from thousands of hours of his own footage and diaries.
  • Documentary
  • Biopic
  • 2022
  • 98 mins
  • KD Davison

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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

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