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 time is now for factory worker Maud (Carey Mulligan) as she joins the campaign movement for women’s votes, in Sarah Gavron’s stirring social history.
106 mins United Kingdom Director. Sarah Gavron
Julianne Moore plays the cancer-stricken police officer who must fight on a second front to secure the transfer of her pension to her partner (Ellen Page).
103 mins USA Director. Peter Sollett
Colin Farrell, Ben Whishaw and Rachel Weisz star in this bleakly hilarious dystopian drama from Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth).
112 mins Ireland Director. Yorgos Lanthimos
Reality bites for a hedonistic young New Yorker who suddenly has to grow up quickly, in a brilliantly acted drama from the team behind Martha Marcy May Marlene.
85 mins USA Director. Josh Mond
Following a personally difficult but artistically rewarding spell making films under house arrest, Jafar Panahi is back on the streets of Tehran.
82 mins Iran Director. Jafar Panahi
In a post-apocalyptic world, a forest-dwelling loner is forced to reckon with two women in order to survive.
104 mins United Kingdom Director. Stephen Fingleton
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Cerebral thriller about a German art critic who reconnects with his radical past when he agrees to be involved with an assassination attempt.
87 mins United Kingdom Director. Andi Engel
Credited with bringing Japanese cinema to worldwide audiences, Akira Kurosawa’s breakthrough tells the story of a murder in the woods from four differing perspectives.
88 mins Japan Director. Akira Kurosawa
Film critic Mark Kermode highlights Akira Kurosawa's 1950 classic, the film that introduced Japanese cinema to international audiences and a rare film whose own title has entered popular parlance.
2 mins United Kingdom Director. Nick Freand Jones
Godard’s stunning, colour widescreen account of the wild journey of ‘the last romantic couple’, Pierrot (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and his lover Marianne (Karina).
110 mins France Director. Jean-Luc Godard
One of the most unjustly overlooked fables from Hollywood’s golden age, a stunning romantic fantasy about two divided lovers united in a dream world.
88 mins USA Director. Henry Hathaway
A full size replica of Robert Stephenson’s world famous locomotive, The Rocket, steams up a 1920s crowd at the North Road Works in Darlington.
4 mins United Kingdom
A cruel joke at the expense of the women's movement is at the heart of this early film comedy
1 mins United Kingdom
The USSR and the world react to the return of Yuri Gagarin from his first manned space flight on 12th April 1961.
20 mins Great Britain
Miniskirt - Passion and Power
3 mins United Kingdom
WWI conscription has whisked away all the young men, leaving the girls so man-hungry that even Tubby looks attractive!
15 mins United Kingdom Director. Frank Wilson
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
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
With precision and pertinence, Ramin Bahrani’s drama reveals the human cost of the 21st-century economic crisis.
108 mins USA Director. Ramin Bahrani
The journey of a true English eccentric, from his 1960s experiments with gay erotica to a reappraisal 40 years later as an LGBT pioneer.
97 mins United Kingdom Director. Ethan Reid
Stephen Graham is the orthodox Jew tempted into a life of violence by his corrupt associate (Michael Smiley), in this riveting and complex crime drama.
93 mins United Kingdom Director. David Leon
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
Oscar winning Brie Larson stars as care-worker confronted by a troubled teen whose case history provokes a reminder of her own past.
97 mins USA Director. Destin Daniel Cretton
The Horrible Histories team’s take on Shakespeare’s ‘lost years’, following the hopeless lute player as he leaves his home to follow his dream.
93 mins Great Britain Director. Richard Bracewell
Fassbender is ferocious as the Scottish king in Justin Kurzel’s red-blooded and viscerally atmospheric Shakespeare adaptation.
113 mins France Director. Justin Kurzel
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
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
Meet the Angulos: seven siblings imprisoned for most of their childhoods who learnt much of life’s lessons from film and TV; the subjects of this captivating documentary.
80 mins USA Director. Crystal Moselle
A flurry of activity at Wexford Railway Station as passengers alight an Edwardian steam train.
1 mins United Kingdom
The earliest film kiss held by the BFI National Archive is this stolen smooch aboard a steam train, an important example of Victorian film.
3 mins United Kingdom Director. G.A. Smith
Coal touched all our lives, as this issue of the cinemagazine demonstrates with items on a miner's wife turned mayor, a Coal Board chess team and more.
10 mins United Kingdom
Jim Fraser of Bristol, with great affection for his subject, introduces the viewer to the “quaint little railways and tramways” of Wales.
11 mins England
A musical illustration of life where road traffic chaos breeds anger and frustration, but the rail network is fast, smooth and relaxing
7 mins United Kingdom Director. Norman Prouting
Sir John Betjeman reminisces about the phasing out of the mainline steam operation.
7 mins United Kingdom Director. Norman Prouting
No money incentives required for the dedicated volunteers bringing the defunct Whitby to Pickering up to speed for re-opening, and for the arrival of the iconic Flying Scotsman.
4 mins United Kingdom
Explore "the best of an older England" in this sun-drenched TV travelogue of Lincolnshire's rural villages, cobbled market towns and ancient cities.
25 mins United Kingdom
1,000s of beautifully preserved films, capturing 120 years of Britain on Film
2 mins
Cat on Water! Catamaran race off Sidmouth
United Kingdom
A grand parade of locomotives to celebrate 100 years of railways and the world’s first passenger trains
17 mins United Kingdom
Welsh costumes and leeks are in evidence today as children at Arael School, Six Bells, Abertillery, sing during the school’s eisteddfod on a day dedicated to Wales’ patron saint.
3 mins Wales
Is it a car? Is it a train? No, it's a super Stronach-Dutton road-rail tractor!
27 mins United Kingdom
Yo-yo, Pogo and Splat (guess which one's the lemon head?) feature in this innovative stop-motion railway safety film
4 mins United Kingdom Director. Desmond Macnamara, Robin Carruthers
Chic rainwear for every occasion kicks off this hip magazine show, which also looks at concrete in Africa and gbedu drum music
5 mins United Kingdom
Sir John Betjeman reminisces about the phasing out of the mainline steam operation.
7 mins United Kingdom Director. Norman Prouting
Miniskirt - Passion and Power
3 mins United Kingdom
High-speed luxury travel up to 150mph: the future of rail travel is in the air and it's going to be great for British steel
23 mins United Kingdom
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
Ben Foster is Lance Armstrong in this kinetic account of the cyclist who fell from grace, from acclaimed director Stephen Frears.
103 mins France Director. Stephen Frears
Jean-Luc Godard’s playful early homage to Jean Cocteau, featuring Jean-Paul Belmondo.
13 mins France Director. Jean-Luc Godard
In the tough suburbs of Paris, sixteen-year-old Marieme decides to reinvent herself when she joins a girl gang.
113 mins France Director. Céline Sciamma
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
Jean-Luc Godard’s typically innovative and playful meditation on technology, love and language was acclaimed one of the best films of 2014.
70 mins France Director. Jean-Luc Godard
