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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Rose Byrne gives a mesmerising, Oscar-nominated performance as an overwhelmed mother, in Mary Bronstein’s nerve-shredding comedy-thriller-horror.
Drama
2025
113 mins
Mary Bronstein
Brides
Two British teenagers attempt to travel to Syria in this compassionate and thought-provoking road film, inspired by a true story.
Drama
2024
92 mins
Nadia Fall
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Emergency workers receive a call from five-year-old Hind Rajab. Using real-life audio recordings, this film recreates the desperate mission to save her.
Drama-documentary
Crime
2025
89 mins
Kaouther Ben Hania
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
Maps to the Stars
Julianne Moore and John Cusack star in David Cronenberg’s caustic take on modern Hollywood, depicted as a nightmare world of ego and obsession.
Drama
2014
112 mins
David Cronenberg
Dreams of a Life
The power of kinship is explored in Carol Morley’s drama-documentary, drawn from real life and resonant with the way we live now.
Documentary
2011
91 mins
Carol Morley
Deaf
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Feature at the 2025 Berlinale, Eva Libertad's debut film portrays a Deaf woman on the cusp of motherhood.
Drama
2025
100 mins
Eva Libertad
The Thing with Feathers
Benedict Cumberbatch gives a powerful performance in this visually striking fantasy drama about grief, family, and healing.
Drama
2025
98 mins
Dylan Southern
There's Still Tomorrow
Rome, 1946. A woman finds the courage to challenge her violent marriage and seek out a different future in Cortellesi's extraordinary, magical debut.
Drama
Period drama
2023
118 mins
Paola Cortellesi
Odyssey
Gerard Johnson (Hyena, Muscle) delivers a frenzied thriller about an estate agent under intense pressure and out of her depth.
Thriller
Crime
2025
111 mins
Gerard Johnson
Sister Midnight
A genre-bending comedy about a frustrated and misanthropic newlywed who discovers certain feral impulses that land her in unlikely situations.
Comedy
2024
107 mins
Karan Kandhari
I'm Still Here
Fernanda Torres ignites this Oscar-winning drama from Walter Salles, a triumph of hope over tyranny.
Drama
Biopic
2024
138 mins
Walter Salles
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Wasteman
£16.00
A convict’s chance for early prison release comes under threat from his ruthlessly violent cellmate in Cal McMau’s BAFTA-nominated British thriller.
Drama
Crime
2025
90 mins
Cal McMau
H Is for Hawk
£16.00
Claire Foy stars in a BAFTA-nominated adaptation of Helen MacDonald’s memoir exploring grief and recovery through nature.
Drama
2025
115 mins
Philippa Lowthorpe
Dragonfly
£4.50
Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn are extraordinary in this social-realist thriller dripping with dread.
Thriller
2025
98 mins
Paul Andrew Williams
Red Path
£4.50
In the Tunisian mountains, a boy is forced to witness his cousin's horrifying murder. Based on true events.
Drama
2024
101 mins
Lotfi Achour
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
£4.50
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich's debut illuminates the life of remarkable Martinican writer, activist and surrealist Suzanne Césaire.
Drama
Biopic
2024
74 mins
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
Saipan
£4.50
Steve Coogan stars in this recreation of the 2002 pre-World Cup showdown between Republic of Ireland coach Mick McCarthy and captain Roy Keane.
Drama
2025
90 mins
Glenn Leyburn
Seeking Mavis Beacon
£4.50
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught millions of people touch typing in the late 80s and through the 90s. But who was the real Mavis Beacon?
Documentary
2024
102 mins
Jazmin Jones
The Way We Talk
£4.50
The complex lives of three young deaf people are explored in all their intricacies in this superbly performed drama, set in Hong Kong.
Drama
2024
132 mins
Adam Wong
In the Nguyen Kitchen
£4.50
Yvonne dreams of stardom in Stéphane Ly-Cuong's mouthwatering cross-cultural musical drama set in Paris.
Musical
2024
95 mins
Stéphane Ly-Cuong
Wind, Tide & Oar
£4.50
Huw Wahl’s immersive, meditative exploration into engineless sailing, shot over three years with a 1960s hand-wound camera.
Documentary
2024
84 mins
Huw Wahl
Ellis Park
£4.50
Snowtown director Justin Kurzel’s first foray into documentary is an intimate portrait of iconic Australian musician and composer Warren Ellis.
Documentary
Biopic
2024
106 mins
Justin Kurzel
Sudan, Remember Us
£4.50
An award-winning documentary following young activists in Sudan as they oppose a military crackdown.
Documentary
2024
78 mins
Hind Meddeb
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Short films, masterclasses and 100s of behind-the-scenes exclusives
Queer Parivaar
A mysterious woman arrives on the eve of a wedding, revealing a secret family history in Shiva Raichandani's explosive, award-winning musical.
Musical
Drama
2022
26 mins
Jessie Buckley in Conversation
The star of Beast and Wild Rose, and the recent recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actress for Hamnet talks to Mark Kermode about her career.
Inside Film
Non-Fiction
2026
65 mins
George Clooney in Conversation
George Clooney visited BFI Southbank to look back on his life and career.
Inside Film
Non-Fiction
2025
74 mins
Showgirls is a Western
In this mini video essay, BFI contributor Maha Al-Badrawi explains why Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls is a rhinestoned, stilettoed Western. Contains spoilers!
Short documentary
2025
2 mins
Muscle - Exclusive Q&A
Director Gerard Johnson talks Nia Child through the making of Muscle, an adrenalized drama that tears into the stereotypes of masculinity and male friendship.
Short interview
2024
34 mins
Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio in Conversation
Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio in Conversation at BFI Southbank, discussing the making of One Battle After Another.
Inside Film
Non-Fiction
2025
50 mins
The Walk
Adeel Akhtar portrays a man on a weekly trek to his nearest JobCentre, entering a state of purgatory through barriers put in place by the system.
Drama
2023
12 mins
Dreamers Q&A
The film-makers behind a haunting tale of love and community within a UK immigration detention centre visited the BFI Southbank to discuss their film.
Inside Film
Non-Fiction
2025
30 mins
Seagull
Seagull is a recovering drug addict who is about to have a very strange night on The English Riviera.
Horror
2022
6 mins
Tessa Thompson Screen Talk | BFI London Film Festival 2025
The actor discusses her career, including her titular performance in BFI London Film Festival selection, Hedda.
Inside Film
Non-Fiction
2025
68 mins
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Exclusive discussions with filmmakers and actors
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Discover rare and essential films from around the world
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Comforting
Absorbing
Understated
Epic
Revenge
British
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Period
Seductive
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Rose Byrne gives a mesmerising, Oscar-nominated performance as an overwhelmed mother, in Mary Bronstein’s nerve-shredding comedy-thriller-horror.
Drama
2025
113 mins
Mary Bronstein
Brides
Two British teenagers attempt to travel to Syria in this compassionate and thought-provoking road film, inspired by a true story.
Drama
2024
92 mins
Nadia Fall
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Emergency workers receive a call from five-year-old Hind Rajab. Using real-life audio recordings, this film recreates the desperate mission to save her.
Drama-documentary
Crime
2025
89 mins
Kaouther Ben Hania
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
Maps to the Stars
Julianne Moore and John Cusack star in David Cronenberg’s caustic take on modern Hollywood, depicted as a nightmare world of ego and obsession.
Drama
2014
112 mins
David Cronenberg
Dreams of a Life
The power of kinship is explored in Carol Morley’s drama-documentary, drawn from real life and resonant with the way we live now.
Documentary
2011
91 mins
Carol Morley
Deaf
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Feature at the 2025 Berlinale, Eva Libertad's debut film portrays a Deaf woman on the cusp of motherhood.
Drama
2025
100 mins
Eva Libertad
The Thing with Feathers
Benedict Cumberbatch gives a powerful performance in this visually striking fantasy drama about grief, family, and healing.
Drama
2025
98 mins
Dylan Southern
There's Still Tomorrow
Rome, 1946. A woman finds the courage to challenge her violent marriage and seek out a different future in Cortellesi's extraordinary, magical debut.
Drama
Period drama
2023
118 mins
Paola Cortellesi
Odyssey
Gerard Johnson (Hyena, Muscle) delivers a frenzied thriller about an estate agent under intense pressure and out of her depth.
Thriller
Crime
2025
111 mins
Gerard Johnson
Sister Midnight
A genre-bending comedy about a frustrated and misanthropic newlywed who discovers certain feral impulses that land her in unlikely situations.
Comedy
2024
107 mins
Karan Kandhari
I'm Still Here
Fernanda Torres ignites this Oscar-winning drama from Walter Salles, a triumph of hope over tyranny.
Drama
Biopic
2024
138 mins
Walter Salles
Explore Subscription
Movies to rent, including premieres fresh from cinemas
Wasteman
£16.00
A convict’s chance for early prison release comes under threat from his ruthlessly violent cellmate in Cal McMau’s BAFTA-nominated British thriller.
Drama
Crime
2025
90 mins
Cal McMau
H Is for Hawk
£16.00
Claire Foy stars in a BAFTA-nominated adaptation of Helen MacDonald’s memoir exploring grief and recovery through nature.
Drama
2025
115 mins
Philippa Lowthorpe
Dragonfly
£4.50
Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn are extraordinary in this social-realist thriller dripping with dread.
Thriller
2025
98 mins
Paul Andrew Williams
Red Path
£4.50
In the Tunisian mountains, a boy is forced to witness his cousin's horrifying murder. Based on true events.
Drama
2024
101 mins
Lotfi Achour
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
£4.50
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich's debut illuminates the life of remarkable Martinican writer, activist and surrealist Suzanne Césaire.
Drama
Biopic
2024
74 mins
Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
Saipan
£4.50
Steve Coogan stars in this recreation of the 2002 pre-World Cup showdown between Republic of Ireland coach Mick McCarthy and captain Roy Keane.
Drama
2025
90 mins
Glenn Leyburn
Seeking Mavis Beacon
£4.50
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing taught millions of people touch typing in the late 80s and through the 90s. But who was the real Mavis Beacon?
Documentary
2024
102 mins
Jazmin Jones
The Way We Talk
£4.50
The complex lives of three young deaf people are explored in all their intricacies in this superbly performed drama, set in Hong Kong.
Drama
2024
132 mins
Adam Wong
In the Nguyen Kitchen
£4.50
Yvonne dreams of stardom in Stéphane Ly-Cuong's mouthwatering cross-cultural musical drama set in Paris.
Musical
2024
95 mins
Stéphane Ly-Cuong
Wind, Tide & Oar
£4.50
Huw Wahl’s immersive, meditative exploration into engineless sailing, shot over three years with a 1960s hand-wound camera.
Documentary
2024
84 mins
Huw Wahl
Ellis Park
£4.50
Snowtown director Justin Kurzel’s first foray into documentary is an intimate portrait of iconic Australian musician and composer Warren Ellis.
Documentary
Biopic
2024
106 mins
Justin Kurzel
Sudan, Remember Us
£4.50
An award-winning documentary following young activists in Sudan as they oppose a military crackdown.
Documentary
2024
78 mins
Hind Meddeb
Rentals
Short films, masterclasses and 100s of behind-the-scenes exclusives
Queer Parivaar
A mysterious woman arrives on the eve of a wedding, revealing a secret family history in Shiva Raichandani's explosive, award-winning musical.
Musical
Drama
2022
26 mins
Jessie Buckley in Conversation
The star of Beast and Wild Rose, and the recent recipient of the Academy Award for Best Actress for Hamnet talks to Mark Kermode about her career.
Inside Film
Non-Fiction
2026
65 mins
George Clooney in Conversation
George Clooney visited BFI Southbank to look back on his life and career.
Inside Film
Non-Fiction
2025
74 mins
Showgirls is a Western
In this mini video essay, BFI contributor Maha Al-Badrawi explains why Paul Verhoeven's Showgirls is a rhinestoned, stilettoed Western. Contains spoilers!
Short documentary
2025
2 mins
Muscle - Exclusive Q&A
Director Gerard Johnson talks Nia Child through the making of Muscle, an adrenalized drama that tears into the stereotypes of masculinity and male friendship.
Short interview
2024
34 mins
Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio in Conversation
Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio in Conversation at BFI Southbank, discussing the making of One Battle After Another.
Inside Film
Non-Fiction
2025
50 mins
The Walk
Adeel Akhtar portrays a man on a weekly trek to his nearest JobCentre, entering a state of purgatory through barriers put in place by the system.
Drama
2023
12 mins
Dreamers Q&A
The film-makers behind a haunting tale of love and community within a UK immigration detention centre visited the BFI Southbank to discuss their film.
Inside Film
Non-Fiction
2025
30 mins
Seagull
Seagull is a recovering drug addict who is about to have a very strange night on The English Riviera.
Horror
2022
6 mins
Tessa Thompson Screen Talk | BFI London Film Festival 2025
The actor discusses her career, including her titular performance in BFI London Film Festival selection, Hedda.
Inside Film
Non-Fiction
2025
68 mins
Free
SUBSCRIPTION EXCLUSIVES
Indie films you won't find elsewhere
Explore collection
Critics' picks
Revealing the stories behind the films
In depth and on point. Film critic Mark Kermode provides weekly must-watch movie recommendations.
Explore his picks
Screen Talks
Exclusive discussions with filmmakers and actors
Watch for free
Discover rare and essential films from around the world
Quirky
Comforting
Absorbing
Understated
Epic
Revenge
British
Extreme
Dystopian
Period
Seductive
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GIFT SUBSCRIPTION
Treat friends and family to a year of great film
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