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Geoff Andrew's Player+ playlist

BFI's Senior Film Programmer and regular Sight & Sound contributor Geoff Andrew chooses some of his favourite films from BFI Player+.
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A Cottage on Dartmoor A Cottage on Dartmoor

Drama 1930 88 mins Silent Director: Anthony Asquith

Anthony Asquith (Underground) directs this embroiled melodrama, a tale of love and revenge, shot on location on the bleak landscape of Dartmoor.

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The 39 Steps The 39 Steps

Thriller 1935 83 mins Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Sublime and suspenseful version of the popular John Buchan spy thriller from the master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock.

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Partie de campagne Partie de campagne

Period drama 1936 39 mins Director: Jean Renoir

On a country picnic, a young girl leaves her family for a while and succumbs to an all-too-brief romance in Jean Renoir's sensuous tribute to the countryside.

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

War 1943 164 mins Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Powell and Pressburger’s masterpiece follows the rise and fall of a career soldier, from dashing and brave young officer in the Boer War to a pompous and old-fashioned Colonel by the time of World War Two.

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Journey to Italy Journey to Italy

Drama 1954 86 mins Director: Roberto Rossellini

Roberto Rossellini's acerbic but finally very moving masterpiece about marital crisis boasts great performances from Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders

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Seven Samurai Seven Samurai

Drama 1954 207 mins Director: Akira Kurosawa

Farmers hire a band of samurai to defend them against marauding bandits in Kurosawa’s influential epic, a touchstone for action movies ever since.

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Land of Silence and Darkness Land of Silence and Darkness

Documentary 1971 85 mins Director: Werner Herzog

Werner Herzog’s profound and deeply moving documentary about the experiences of a community of deaf-blind people.

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Opening Night Opening Night

Drama 1977 144 mins Director: John Cassavetes

John Cassavetes’s emotionally charged film stands as one of the great American movies about theatre and the art of performance.

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Children Children

Drama 1976 46 mins Director: Terence Davies

The first part of Terence Davies' formidable Trilogy explores the effects of violence on a Liverpool schoolboy, told in a series of flashbacks.