The British Film Institute presents the best global cinema on-demand:
From classic and contemporary films to the best of the BFI National Archive.
The British Film Institute presents the best global cinema on-demand:
From classic and contemporary films to the best of the BFI National Archive.
>100s of hand-picked classics and critically-acclaimed films
>Critic Mark Kermode picks a must-see film every week
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H.G. Wells' chilling vision of the future, which imagines the 20th Century as a near-endless war and struggle against tyranny, remains a key milestone in British science fiction.
108 mins United Kingdom Director. William Cameron Menzies
Mark Kermode introduces Alex Cox's undervalued Mexican feature, Highway Patrolman..
2 mins United Kingdom Director. Nick Freand Jones
Alex Cox’s Mexican film follows the journey of a highway patrolman whose idealism eventually gives way to inevitable corruption.
105 mins USA Director. Alex Cox
Fassbender is ferocious as the Scottish king in Justin Kurzel’s red-blooded and viscerally atmospheric Shakespeare adaptation.
113 mins France Director. Justin Kurzel
Tom Hardy’s magnetic double-performance as infamous East End gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray commands Brian Helgeland stylish biopic.
131 mins France Director. Brian Helgeland
Cannes prize-winning Icelandic drama about two estranged sheep-farming brothers who come together following a deadly disease outbreak.
93 mins Iceland Director. Grímur Hákonarson
A humble scrub is all it takes to get these French troops in a lather.
1 mins United Kingdom
Preston North End play Liverpool (probably) in a regional football competition during WWI.
8 mins United Kingdom
Goat farming, salmon farming and copper mining all feature in this enlightening oddity.
7 mins United Kingdom
A tramp steals the clothes from a scarecrow, but when he realises two couples are using its pockets to pass messages, he sees an opportunity.
11 mins United Kingdom Director. Cecil Birch
The maiden flight of Britain's first successful rigid airship – just don’t call it a zeppelin…
United Kingdom
There's shades of Moriarty to the mastervillain in this wartime potboiler.
58 mins United Kingdom
Newlywed Tubby fancies another man's typewriter and ends up in hot water with his new wife
8 mins United Kingdom Director. Frank Wilson
Close encounters of the furred (and spiny) kind: cute critters put through their paces in this light-hearted nature film.
United Kingdom
The cautionary tale of an innocent girl abroad who gets caught up in the sleazy world of modelling.
84 mins United Kingdom Director. Norman J. Warren
An American tourist in Italy falls for a stunning local woman with a dangerous secret, in this startling horror-romance.
109 mins USA Director. Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson
Derek Jarman’s unique biopic of the 17th century Italian artist Michelangelo da Caravaggio is a powerful meditation on sexuality, criminality and art.
92 mins United Kingdom Director. Derek Jarman
Two deaf-mute dock workers eke out a humble East End existence in Lorenza Mazzetti's striking and poetic example of Free Cinema.
52 mins United Kingdom Director. Lorenza Mazzetti
Lupino Lane comedy filmed in London before he became a Hollywood legend
33 mins United Kingdom Director. W.P. Kellino
A tramp steals the clothes from a scarecrow, but when he realises two couples are using its pockets to pass messages, he sees an opportunity.
11 mins United Kingdom Director. Cecil Birch
One of the most acclaimed British features of recent years, starring Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay as a couple rocked by news from the past.
95 mins United Kingdom Director. Andrew Haigh
A hard-hitting and often graphic documentary about the 'chemsex' sub-scene in London’s gay community.
83 mins USA Director. Max Gogarty, William Fairman
Jean-Luc Godard’s caustic look at compromised creativity in the filmmaking world has superb images, music and acting from Piccoli, Bardot and Palance
103 mins France Director. Jean-Luc Godard
A multi-layered melding of fiction and fact, about Nobel prize-winner Orhan Pamuk and his Istanbul Museum of Innocence.
90 mins United Kingdom Director. Grant Gee
A backstage glimpse behind the famous Russian ballet company as it contends with the fallout from a shocking attack on its artistic director.
86 mins United Kingdom Director. Mark Franchetti, Nick Read
In one of his final roles, Philip Seymour Hoffman excels as a German spy attempting to recruit Islamic informants, in Anton Corbijn’s sophisticated John le Carré adaptation.
122 mins United Kingdom Director. Anton Corbijn
A gorgeously composed French animation following a boy and a giraffe's epic journey from Africa to 19th-century Paris.
78 mins France Director. Jean-Christophe Lie
The US indie hit tells the bold, bawdy and hilarious story of a teenager's sexual awakening after she sleeps with her mother’s boyfriend.
102 mins USA Director. Marielle Heller
A maid for a rich São Paulo family is allowed to take her provincial teenage daughter into the household, but tensions quickly surface between her old and new lives.
112 mins Brazil Director. Anna Muylaert
Desiree Akhavan directs and stars in this witty, razor-sharp and fearless comedy following the sexual misadventures of a bisexual Brooklynite.
90 mins United Kingdom Director. Desiree Akhavan
In this smart filmmaking satire, Matthew Macfadyen plays as a hard-up British director who accepts a commission to make a film for a Central Asian dictator.
100 mins United Kingdom Director. Ben Hopkins
This Oscar-nominated, Almodóvar-produced anthology of six tales of ordinary madness is the most riotously enjoyable portmanteau film since Pulp Fiction.
122 mins Argentina Director. Damian Szifron
A perfect film for anyone wishing to be transported back to the days when student protests were commonplace, with the comic placards, political paper sellers and flared jeans.
7 mins United Kingdom
Bowls, ice cream, drama and kilts on the south coast as the British Deaf Association head for Brighton in Coronation year.
52 mins United Kingdom
1,000s of beautifully preserved films, capturing 120 years of Britain on Film
2 mins
Rheumatic soldiers are treated with the latest in hydrotherapy at the Devonshire Hospital in Buxton, Derbyshire.
2 mins United Kingdom
Craftsman John Christmas Thomas demonstrates how to make a coracle step-by-step, and Cyril Jones and Will Jones instruct learners how to manage one on the water.
7 mins Wales
Soldiers show off a fine crop of sprouts, grown at the Army Service Corps depot at Osterley Park in Hounslow.
1 mins United Kingdom
A humble scrub is all it takes to get these French troops in a lather.
1 mins United Kingdom
British leisure time, from intrepid climbing and frolics on the ice to the skill of billiards.
8 mins United Kingdom
An extraordinary tour of Soho's French cafés, Clerkenwell's Little Italy and the lesser-trodden streets of Limehouse in the 1920s.
9 mins United Kingdom Director. Frank Miller, Harry B. Parkinson
This moving scene of wounded WWI fighters in a London park reminds us of the real costs of combat.
1 mins United Kingdom
Britain's oldest mosque welcomes a vast crowd of worshippers, visitors, curious onlookers and the odd newsreel camera!
1 mins United Kingdom
It's Hastings' first fishing festival since WWI broke out and Britain's foremost newsreel company take to the pier to capture the catch on film.
1 mins United Kingdom
Mark Cousins’ cine-essay, inspired by Sergei Eisenstein’s 1930s Mexican odyssey, is a poetic meditation on memory, landscape and walking.
80 mins United Kingdom Director. Mark Cousins
A teenager is banished to his brother in Mexico City, from where a road trip is planned to track down an elusive musician.
106 mins Mexico Director. Alonso Ruizpalacios
The latest psycho-geographical excursion from Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair
83 mins United Kingdom Director. Andrew Kötting
Russell Brand ponders his political awakening and messianic tendencies in Ondi Timoner’s perceptive and very funny documentary.
104 mins USA Director. Ondi Timoner
An in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at London’s finest drag performers. Warning: extreme use of make-up and glitter.
100 mins United Kingdom Director. Colin Rothbart
Tomm Moore’s Oscar-nominated animation follows the magical journey of Ben and his sister Saoirse, the last Seal-child.
93 mins Ireland Director. Tomm Moore
