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3 of the best from the world's greatest filmmakers, themes and cinematic movements.

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We celebrate the music of a country that has continually punched above its weight on the international stage.

Who Can You Trust?

Trust few and fear all in a collection of films packed with suspense, paranoia and conspiracy.

Celebrating a world of side-splitting cinema, from slapstick legends to today's anarchic voices.

From established classics to new discoveries, from the mainstream to the bizarre, we celebrate the breadth and diversity of British cinema.

Feel the warmth of the sun and dip into our selection of summer films.

A collection of the bold and the banned; causes célèbre and succès de scandale to incite, provoke and arouse.

Who Can You Trust?

Trust few and fear all in a collection of films packed with suspense, paranoia and conspiracy.

Striking, ambitious and delicious: the best indie films from the UK & around the world are showcased in this eye-popping collection of nominees & winners from the British Independent Film Awards.

In this major season we spotlight Japanese filmmakers who have inspired admiration and fascination around the world

From the New Wave to poetic realism and cinéma vérité, French cinema takes many forms and offers endless delights.

Reclaiming the history and identity of British South Asians - through film.

A selection of penetrating masterworks from one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.

With garlands and glamour, cinema’s spirit of self-congratulation has long fascinated, allowing great works to gain recognition and reach wide audiences.

Our online tribute to a leading figure of the nouvelle vague.

Fellini, Antonioni, Pasolini, Rossellini – the melodic names that conjure up the greatest era of Italian cinema.

Documentaries can be as expressive, surreal and experimental as any work of fiction. This collection explores a world made up of people and places.

When time matters, these films get it done.

The red carpet remains forever unfurled in this selection from the world’s most famous film festival.

Filmmakers love it, audiences live it. The rites-of-passage film enables us the chance to relive the past with wisdom, but not angst.

Our Love collection highlights the range of cinematic romance from sweeping love affairs to quirky rom-coms and tales of obsessive desire.

Tales of terror have been embraced by cinema since its birth, and horror remains one of the most popular genres in world cinema.

Consider these films as milestones on a long and winding road. 

Personal, powerful and lyrical, this is where music and film collide, a meeting place for rock biopics, probing documentaries, groundbreakers and old stagers.

Here are the pioneers, the iconoclasts, the brave - from landmark LGBTQIA+ portraits to the next generation of queer classics from the BFI Flare festival.

Celebrating the young women who are reclaiming their coming-of-age stories in cinema.

Despite the accessibility of erotica, audiences still seek out the more substantial approaches to sex that only narrative cinema can offer.

It is the most respected of guides: a census of cinema’s best, as voted for by the most respected names in the business. Here's a selection.

Following the visionary director's progression from arthouse award-winners to brooding blockbusters.

Few genres stretch like science fiction, a marketplace for idle prediction, utopia, apocalypse and wonder.

The leading light of New German Cinema who has progressed to become something of an international treasure, Herzog is famed for making all types of films - in all sorts of strange places.

Literature has inspired some of the greatest films ever made.

One of the key figures in cinema history, Rossellini initiated a new movement and evolved the language of film.

Exclusive releases and cult classics that cut through in 2021 – here are the year’s most popular subscription titles.

Chaos, hostility and murder are, said one of these directors, our common denominator. Another had scandal as a hobby and human nature as a focus. 

Contemporary women documentarians tell a vibrant story.

Celebrating the master of contemporary Japanese cinema and his diverse, beautiful and human stories.

BFI Player is the home of BFI London Film Festival all year round. And with Subscription you have a festival pass - allowing unlimited screenings of favourites from festivals past.

Ten classics from cinema’s master of humanity and compassion.

Stories with hunger, lust and courage, adventures from the community to rouse and inspire…

The most watched LGBTIQ+ films in 2021.

Bringing together films and videos by artists that have transformed our experience of the moving image. Our collection includes films from outside the sphere of experimental filmmaking, including the celebrated surrealists and challenging works of narrative fiction.

Witness a grand career take shape, as Park Chan-wook evolves into a master filmmaker…

Defiance and compassion: celebrating the work of a true original and a pioneer of Czech cinema.

Dead by 37, openly bi-sexual, constantly controversial: Rainer Werner Fassbinder was arguably post-war Germany’s greatest filmmaker.

Birds Eye View curates a selection of films which strive to imagine an equal world.

Strange odysseys, straw bears and swan-shaped pedalos suffuse these singular works from Britain’s cinema’s most celebrated surrealist.

Startling and subversive works from an inspirational figure in British cinema.

Celebrating the extraordinary, convention-defying career of the chameleonic performer.

When asked what a government most fears, one prime minister declared, "Events, dear boy. Events". These films chart events and people, real and imagined, who dared to ask for change, for power and for more.

Cinema’s perpetual provocateur has been inciting audiences for over half a century. From his early shorts to his most recent feature, we chart the advances of film's most enduring revolutionary.

Tales of carnal bargaining, conspiracy, subversion and rage. Peter Greenaway's maverick work embodies all of these and more.

Our subscription selection celebrating black stardom, focusing on British talents and pioneering performers.

Exploring the films and filmmakers that broke the rules of cinema in the 1990s.

 A collection of films lit up by the charisma  of working-class stars; a celebration of fine actors and remarkable leading roles.

This is a man who brought Asian cinema to the world with the release of Rashomon, and was named 'Asian of the Century' by AsianWeek magazine. Discover his astonishing range of works, from early classics to avowed masterpieces such as Seven Samurai.

The extraordinary performer selects the films that inspire her from BFI Player Subscription.

Incorporating fantasy, horror and science fiction, the French fantastique genre offers many weird and wonderful delights.

Showcasing the best of Black culture in film and TV history.

From the samurai thrillers of Kurosawa to the beautiful melodramas of Naruse, this collection celebrates the extraordinary diversity of Japanese cinema.

Along with Kurosawa, the director Yasujirō Ozu is a true master of Japanese cinema whose work has its place among the all-time greats. 

Ghost cats, killer children and cursed videotapes comprise just some of the terrors that Japan has gifted our nightmares.

Charting the wilder extremes of Japanese cinema: twisted visions, deranged erotica, and badass women.

Celebrating the renegade spirit that powers the most exciting Japanese cinema.

Celebrating the outsiders and mavericks whose independent methods rewrote the rulebook for American cinema.

The first three decades of cinema gave us some of the greatest films ever made, which had to tell their stories purely visually, giving us countless unforgettable images.

First impressions count. These features launched some of cinema's highest achievers, showing the themes and techniques to which many would return.

Cinema's master of sensory art; creator of haunting and dreamlike works that cling and linger.

Filmmaking is a team sport, and these creative partnerships have proved consistently rewarding.

A celebration of the glorious potential of black and white.

The camera flips inward to film the creative process. Discover the lives behind the artists and obsessives who make movies what they are.

Perverse fairytales and wayward visions meet, as Pasolini, Rivette, Cocteau and their fellow dreamers create films that burrow into memory.

From the seedy streets of '60s Soho to the city's metropolitan sheen.

Welcome to the London collection.
 

Literature has inspired some of the greatest films ever made.

Here are the pioneers, the iconoclasts, the brave - from landmark LGBTQIA+ portraits to the next generation of queer classics from the BFI Flare festival.

Be beguiled by cinema's smooth talkers and teasing temptresses.

Lies, ties and samurais: the films that rang out from the last 12 months...

The classics that cut through in 2019 – here are the year’s most popular subscription titles.

The classics that cut through in 2018 – here are the year’s most popular subscription titles.

The classics that cut through in 2017 – here are the year’s most popular subscription titles.

The classics that cut through in 2016 – here are the year’s most popular subscription titles.

Marking Pride month, Birds’ Eye View presents Queerious - inviting you to get curious and explore a multitude of desires on screen in ways all too rarely seen in cinema. Through stories of sexual awakenings and re-awakenings, and queer love through a feminist lens, this curated season from Birds’ Eye View aims to help us to question, learn and enjoy our sexual selves. 

A collection of films exploring the great American director’s connection to a rich vein of cinema history...

A celebration of work by female directors past and present.

Journey across the planet’s most challenging terrain in this ode to exploration and endurance.