Bfi Movies

In a documentary about Samuel Fuller, the spectator gets different impressions about the Hollywood director and his films. The film is divided into th...

This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired...

A young mother is forced to face the truth of her past life as her daughter approaches adolescence and strives for new freedom.

On the outskirts of Birmingham and the margins of society the Billingham family perform extreme rituals and break social taboos as they muddle through...

Jamie leaves the children's home to live with his paternal grandmother. After working in a mine and in a tailor's shop, he is conscripted into the RAF...

Kit can’t remember much of his native Vietnam. When he returns to the Land of the Golden Star for the first time in over thirty years, he takes in his...

The Three Wise Men from the East follow the star to Bethlehem, but hostile spirits try to stop them on their journey.

Brendan works solo shifts in the quietest toll booth in Wales, hiding from a criminal past where nobody would ever look. When he finally gets rumbled,...

An intimate examination of a contemporary artist couple, whose living and working patterns are threatened by the imminent sale of their home.

Adam works night shifts at a fast food restaurant in a motorway service station. A directionless and unassuming man, he lives a lonely life, but upon...

On New Year's Eve 1999, three friends, who are attempting to break into the music scene through pirate radio, drive through London in a desperate sear...

A surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain’s most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, as he prepa...

Based on the book by Naoki Higashida, filmmaker Jerry Rothwell examines the lives of five non-speaking, autistic youngsters.

The story follows Maria - a teenager whose mother used to be a hoarder. Now (set in the 90s) she lives in a foster home where a previous resident Mich...

Femi is a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after being fostered in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner-city London to live with his birth mother....

From massive waves to melting ice, filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky travels around the world to capture stunning images of the beauty and raw power of wat...

In this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and motherhood...

An exploration of Chinese cinema and its relationships with gender and sexuality, which the film argues has been more frankly and provocatively explor...

An arranged marriage in Mumbai: the husband is limp and spineless and, once the wife arrives in the marital hovel, she assumes a particularly crude fo...

In a small village under the shadow of a nuclear power station, a toxic family with a past must face the ghosts that threaten their future.