Screen Classics Update your watchlist with these timeless films. 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 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 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 BFI Restoration The River Jean Renoir's entrancing first colour film is a lyrical coming-of-age tale about a girl living with her English family on the banks of West Bengal. Drama 1951 99 mins Jean Renoir Birdy Alan Parker’s elliptical, ethereal adaptation of the acclaimed, ‘unfilmable’ novel by William Wharton, about a boy who dreams of flying. Drama Medical drama 1984 120 mins Alan Parker BFI Restoration Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases A major BFI restoration starring Eille Norwood as Sherlock Holmes in an adaptation of three classic Arthur Conan Doyle cases. Detective drama 2025 73 mins Maurice Elvey and George Ridgwell Available in 4K The Seventh Seal Ingmar Bergman’s best-known film is a brilliant allegorical drama starring Max von Sydow as a knight trying to elude his own death. Fantasy Period drama 1957 96 mins Ingmar Bergman 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 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 Available in 4K La Haine Mathieu Kassovitz’s landmark mid-90s drama throws a cinematic Molotov cocktail at structural racism, police brutality and media manipulation. Drama 1995 98 mins Mathieu Kassovitz The 400 Blows François Truffaut’s French New Wave landmark is one of the greatest movies about adolescence. Drama 1959 100 mins François Truffaut 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 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 Wings of Desire In director Wim Wenders' (Paris, Texas) most metaphysical work, a guardian angel desires nothing more than to be human. Fantasy Romance 1987 128 mins Wim Wenders Maurice Merchant Ivory’s landmark adaptation of E M Forster’s classic LGBTQ+ novel and a precursor to the James Ivory-scripted Call Me By Your Name. Drama 1987 140 mins James Ivory Sunrise A Song of Two Humans The Czech archive version of one of cinema's last and most luminous silent masterpieces, an enduring fable of love, loss and redemption. Drama 1927 75 mins F.W. Murnau The Passion of Joan of Arc An incontestable masterpiece of silent cinema, Carl Dreyer's moving biopic features one of the most powerful performances ever captured on film. Biopic Historical drama 1928 80 mins Carl Th. Dreyer Dementia Dubbed “the quintessence of gruesomeness”, this noirish psychological horror follows a young woman’s nightmarish evening through Los Angeles. Horror 1953 56 mins John Parker Kuhle Wampe Brechtian drama about a family evicted from their home and forced to move to a tent camp on the outskirts of Berlin during the Great Depression. Drama 1932 75 mins Slatan Dudow Distant Journey Blending documentary and fiction, Alfréd Radok's remarkable film chronicling the Terezin ghetto was one of the first films to address the Holocaust. Drama 1949 98 mins Alfréd Radok Discover exceptional cinema Subscribe to watch 100s of hand-picked movies. A free trial, then £6.99 per month or £65 per year. Subscribe now Available on multiple devices Help support a UK cultural charity Unique and trusted film picks New movies added weekly
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
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
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
BFI Restoration The River Jean Renoir's entrancing first colour film is a lyrical coming-of-age tale about a girl living with her English family on the banks of West Bengal. Drama 1951 99 mins Jean Renoir
Birdy Alan Parker’s elliptical, ethereal adaptation of the acclaimed, ‘unfilmable’ novel by William Wharton, about a boy who dreams of flying. Drama Medical drama 1984 120 mins Alan Parker
BFI Restoration Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases A major BFI restoration starring Eille Norwood as Sherlock Holmes in an adaptation of three classic Arthur Conan Doyle cases. Detective drama 2025 73 mins Maurice Elvey and George Ridgwell
Available in 4K The Seventh Seal Ingmar Bergman’s best-known film is a brilliant allegorical drama starring Max von Sydow as a knight trying to elude his own death. Fantasy Period drama 1957 96 mins Ingmar Bergman
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
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
Available in 4K La Haine Mathieu Kassovitz’s landmark mid-90s drama throws a cinematic Molotov cocktail at structural racism, police brutality and media manipulation. Drama 1995 98 mins Mathieu Kassovitz
The 400 Blows François Truffaut’s French New Wave landmark is one of the greatest movies about adolescence. Drama 1959 100 mins François Truffaut
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
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
Wings of Desire In director Wim Wenders' (Paris, Texas) most metaphysical work, a guardian angel desires nothing more than to be human. Fantasy Romance 1987 128 mins Wim Wenders
Maurice Merchant Ivory’s landmark adaptation of E M Forster’s classic LGBTQ+ novel and a precursor to the James Ivory-scripted Call Me By Your Name. Drama 1987 140 mins James Ivory
Sunrise A Song of Two Humans The Czech archive version of one of cinema's last and most luminous silent masterpieces, an enduring fable of love, loss and redemption. Drama 1927 75 mins F.W. Murnau
The Passion of Joan of Arc An incontestable masterpiece of silent cinema, Carl Dreyer's moving biopic features one of the most powerful performances ever captured on film. Biopic Historical drama 1928 80 mins Carl Th. Dreyer
Dementia Dubbed “the quintessence of gruesomeness”, this noirish psychological horror follows a young woman’s nightmarish evening through Los Angeles. Horror 1953 56 mins John Parker
Kuhle Wampe Brechtian drama about a family evicted from their home and forced to move to a tent camp on the outskirts of Berlin during the Great Depression. Drama 1932 75 mins Slatan Dudow
Distant Journey Blending documentary and fiction, Alfréd Radok's remarkable film chronicling the Terezin ghetto was one of the first films to address the Holocaust. Drama 1949 98 mins Alfréd Radok
