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

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

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

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

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

Inspirational and diverse works of great cinema; all originating from women with a movie camera.

Who Can You Trust?

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

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

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

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

Enter the dream world of one of world cinema’s most exuberantly playful filmmakers.

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

Pump up the volume for this selection of music-themed films; compiled in a long-player with copious sleeve-notes.

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

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.

The brightest of our national cinema, from established classics to new wonders.
 

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

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

To accompany the release of Varda by Agnès we present a selection of films championed at various times by the great filmmaker.

Want to escape our troubled times? Immerse yourself in the emotional, life-enhancing pleasures of the musical.

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

Marking fifty years since the Stonewall riots and the birth of the gay rights movement with a collection of 50 LGBTQ+ classics.

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.

Pump up the volume for this selection of music-themed films; compiled in a long-player with copious sleeve-notes.

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

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

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

Singular, uncompromising, visionary. John Cassavetes was the pretty-boy actor who left it all behind to focus on his guerrilla filmmaking. In doing so he near singlehandedly established the American independent film scene.

The restless and the curious are Wim Wenders’ congregation, and they gather to play out some of best stories we have, told on the road or in the city, but always from the heart.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Controversial, iconoclastic and erotic, the works of Walerian Borowczyk have inspired censure and acclaim in equal measure.

From actuality to direct cinema and the film essay, the documentary form is one of cinema’s pre-eminent mediums.

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

The classics that cut through in 2017 – 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. 

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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