90° South: With Scott to the Antarctic
This spellbinding chronicle of Captain Robert Scott's race for the South Pole features narration by photographer Herbert Ponting, quoting directly from Scott's recovered journal on the final days of his failed expedition. Hauntingly beautiful imagery of Antarctic landscapes and wildlife act as lasti…
Alfred Hitchcock's Aventure Malgache
While preparing backstage, an actor tells his castmates about an adventure he had during World War II in the Axis-controlled French colony of Madagascar working for the Resistance and clashing with the collaborationist local police chief.
Alfred Hitchcock's Bon Voyage
A short absorbing drama of wartime espionage and murder, rediscovered! Legendary master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock directed this forgotten classic in 1944 to aid the French resistance.
Alfred Hitchcock's Bon Voyage & Aventure Malgache
Two short, absorbing dramas of wartime espionage and murder, rediscovered! Legendary master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock directed these forgotten classics in 1944 to aid the French resistance.
Apple Tree Yard
A stunning psychological thriller about a respected female scientist (Emily Watson) and the single irrational act that leads to her standing trial for murder. Based on the bestselling novel by Louise Doughty, APPLE
Archipelago
A quietly devastating portrayal of a family in emotional crisis. Edward (Tom Hiddleston) is preparing to leave for a year of voluntary service in Africa. His mother Patricia (Kate Fahy) and his sister Cynthia (Lydia Leonard) decide to gather the family together, on a remote island, as a farewell tri…
The Bitch
Film and television icon Joan Collins (TV’s Dynasty, The Stud) reprises her role as the beautiful Fontaine, a high-living, pleasure-seeking divorcee who meets her match in the first class cabin on a flight to London.
The Blood Beast Terror
This classically told monster movie directed by Vernon Sewell is set in motion when mutilated bodies begin appearing in the English countryside, drained of blood. Horror icon Peter Cushing stars as Detective Inspector Quennell, brought in to investigate the deaths.
Cast a Dark Shadow
Death and seduction are the themes of this newly-restored thriller from the golden age of British noir. In Cast a Dark Shadow, Dirk Bogarde (The Servant, The Damned) stars as “Teddy” Bare, a smooth-talking cad who maintains a life of leisure by preying on a series of lonely, wealthy wome…
The Changin' Times of Ike White
Serving a life sentence for murder in the early 1970s, music prodigy Ike White had plenty of time to perfect his musical talent, but no hope of putting it to use in the outside world. Ike's skills were exceptional enough, though, that his story captured the media's attention. From this notoriety, he…
The Comeback
Pop star Jack Jones (best remembered for the theme from The Love Boat) plays a singer who is haunted by the death of his estranged wife, and led into a confrontation with the killer, in THE COMEBACK. A sleek and entertaining slasher film from director Pete Walker, it is a bloody illustration of the …
Dancing with Crime
An early Brit Noir from Cohen Film Collection, digitized in association with the British Film Institute. In DANCING WITH CRIME (1947), Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim, married in real life at the time, put themselves in harms way when they go undercover to investigate the murder of a friend with…
Die Screaming, Marianne
Marianne (Susan George, STRAW DOGS), following the sudden death of her mother, stands to inherit the family fortune, along with several documents that could incriminate her corrupt judge of a father. Now, her sister and her father both want their hands on Marianne's inheritance and they'll stop at n…
The Double Headed Eagle
A fascinating experiment in documentary filmmaking, THE DOUBLE HEADED EAGLE charts the stealthy rise of the Nazi party in the wake of World War I.
The Draughtsman's Contract
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
Edge of Dreaming
Amy Hardie is a rational woman and professional filmmaker until she has a dream that her horse will die, and wakes to discover him dead in her field. She tries to pass it off as mere coincidence until another nightmare where her deceased ex-husband predicts that she will die before her next birthday…
The Edge of the World
Two families living on a remote island off of Scotland are torn asunder by a race between their sons in this thrilling romantic drama from director Michael Powell (The Red Shoes, Stairway to Heaven).
Electric Edwardians: The Lost Films of Mitchell & Kenyon
In the early twentieth century, filmmakers Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon shot local footage of people in the north of England going about their daily activities, preserved and restored to offer a look back in time with an original score by In the Nursery.
The Epic of Everest
A remarkable film record of the legendary Everest expedition of 1924, newly restored by the BFI National Archive. The third attempt to climb Everest culminated in the deaths of two of the finest climbers of their generation, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, and sparked an on-going debate over wheth…
Exhibition
An artist couple's living and working patterns are disrupted by the imminent sale of their modernist dream home. Directed by Joanna Hogg.
The Falls
Standing at a pivotal point in his filmography, poised between his earlier, witty shorts and the unique pleasures of his post-DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT oeuvre, THE FALLS is arguably the most significant film of Peter Greenaway’s prolific career. Shot as a pseudo-documentary, this magnum opus dazz…
The Flesh and Blood Show (Kino Cult #43)
Shuttered and cursed by an especially tragic production of Othello, a seaside theatre reopens its doors as a groovy musical revue, only to have several performers fall victim to the deadly curse.
For Men Only/School for Sex
Before becoming the director of some of British cinema's most gruesome horror films (such as Frightmare, Schizo, and The Flesh and Blood Show), Pete Walker was a pioneer of the distinctively British sexploitation genre known as “slap and tickle.â€
The Girl Hunters
Private Eye, Mike Hammer's sexy secretary Velda is missing... and Hammer's hot on her trail. Mickey Spillane himself, the best-selling author of The Girl Hunters, turns in a "tremendous" performance (Time magazine) in the leading role. Count on some pulse-pounding action when Hammer tangles with a r…
Girl on a Motorcycle
A wildly sexy time capsule from the swinging sixties, THE GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE (1968) stars Alain Delon (Le samoura) and Marianne Faithfull—two actors at the height of their impressive cool—as lovers with a taste for the open road.
Great Directors
Ten of the greatest filmmakers in the world passionately discuss their craft in Angela Ismailos' hugely entertaining documentary GREAT DIRECTORS. Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Liliana Cavani, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Say…
Hindle Wakes
Directed by Maurice Elvey, this British adaptation of the popular stage play provides laughs, thrills and revelations about women's liberation for audiences on both sides of the pond!
The Holly and the Ivy
A recently widowed minister's zeal for attending to his parishioners leads him to neglect the needs of his own family, until emotions boil over one Christmas.
Home Before Midnight
A successful rock lyricist becomes romantically involved with a girl he picks up hitchhiking only to learn that she is only fourteen. Her parents take action against him.
House of Mortal Sin
A deranged priest takes it upon himself to punish his parishioners for their moral transgressions
House of Whipcord
In HOUSE OF WHIPCORD, fashion model Ann-Marie (Penny Irving) is lured into a private reform school where she is punished for her sexually liberated behavior by a zealous warden (Barbara Markham). The warden and her doddering husband established this house of horrors to stifle the sexual revolution, …
The Informer
Based on Liam O’Flaherty’s popular Irish novel (which John Ford famously adapted in 1935), this gripping thriller is set among a group of revolutionaries in the newly independent Ireland of 1922. When one of their number kills the chief of police, he goes on the run. But when he returns …
Intimacy
Jay, a failed musician, finds himself involved with a woman who comes to his house once a week for violent, graphic sex. When he follows her home to find out more about her, he gets involved with her life more than he intended.
Justine: The Misfortunes of Virtue
Based on Marquis de Sade’s 1791 novel Justine:?The Misfortunes of Virtue, Chris Boger’s visually sumptuous film is a dark tale of sexual depravity and Sadean excess.
Keeping Rosy
All Charlotte wants from life is to be cut a slice of the media agency she has devoted herself to building. When Charlotte's life disintegrates, we follow her on a heart-racing journey of self-discovery, atonement and danger.
Killer's Moon
An important film in the evolution of “video nasties” (especially violent films that brought about stricter censorship in the UK in the early 1980s), KILLER'S MOON sets a quartet of drug-addled psychopaths against a group of vacationing schoolgirls.
The Last of England
An apocalyptic roar of a movie, this is Derek Jarman's (Sebastiane) dizzying lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. It is both deeply personal and grimly historical, and is undoubtedly one of the most important British films of all time.
Link
Young graduate student Jane Chase becomes the new assistant to an eccentric zoology professor at the remote home he shares with two brilliant chimpanzees and an elderly orangutan butler named Link. But when one of the chimps is found dead and the professor mysteriously disappears, Link becomes dange…
London in the Raw
“The world’s greatest city laid bare!”, roars the tagline to LONDON?IN?THE?RAW (1964), a salacious documentary that tours the strip-clubs and underground dives of the still-swinging city.
THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA
THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst. With his engaging and passionate approach to thinking, Zizek delves …
Permissive
A gritty artifact from Britain's 1970s counter-culture, PERMISSIVE is a tragically moving account of a young woman's initiation into the world of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.
Piccadilly
American actress Anna May Wong had to travel to Europe for her greatest role, as Shosho, the scullery maid whose sultry dancing makes her the toast of London in E.A. Dupont's silent masterpiece.
Priest of Love
In his first starring role, Sir Ian McKellen gives a sensational performance as D.H. Lawrence, working alongside Hollywood legend Ava Gardner and director Christopher Miles. PRIEST OF LOVE provides a beautifully shot portrait of one of the great artists of the 20th century.
Primitive London
An outrageous jolt of British exploitation, PRIMITIVE?LONDON (1965) is an exposé of the hidden desires and bizarre vices that percolate behind the exterior of English life.
Robbery
Inspired by true events, Robbery is an uncompromising portrayal of swinging London’s criminal underworld.
The Romantic Englishwoman
A sly, sophisticated love story that is a showcase for its two Oscar-winning stars: Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson.With a sparklingly witty screenplay from Academy Award-winner Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love), and directed by Joseph Losey, THE ROMANTIC ENGLISHWOMAN is a wildly entertaining ride…
Rude Boy
Set against a background of riots, anti-racist demos, and police hostility, this unforgettable film portraits the UK at a moment when subcultural shock troops met those of a rising right wing in the streets. Merging documentary and fiction, Rude Boy follows a roadie for The Clash—the most fier…
Scenes and Songs from Boyd Webb
A lush and astonishing visual treat, SCENES AND SONGS FROM BOYD WEBB sees the titular artist stage eight new works specifically to be viewed on film.
Scrapper
Winner of a Sundance Grand Jury Prize, this vibrant and inventive father-daughter comedy follows a resourceful 12-year-old girl (Lola Campbell) who secretly lives alone in her London flat following the death of her mother, until her estranged father (Harris Dickinson) arrives and forces her to con…
Scum
A landmark expose of Britain's violent reform schools, Alan Clarke's SCUM is a controversial shock to the system. Originally made for TV in 1977, the BBC withheld the program from release, due to its intense depictions of suicide, rape and racism. Refusing to be censored, Clarke reshot the film as a…
Sea Sorrow
“Sea Sorrow” marks Vanessa Redgrave’s debut as a film director and is a very personal, dynamic meditation on the current global refugee crisis through the eyes and voices of campaigners and children mixing past and present, documentary and drama in its reflection on the importance …
Sebastiane
Derek Jarman's feature film debut is a historical drama which lays bare the latent homoeroticism that has always lurked beneath the glossy surface of Hollywood biblical epics, audaciously spoken in Latin and supported by one of Brian Eno's best music scores.
The Sex Thief
From its opening title sequence, it is apparent that director Martin Campbell (CASINO ROYALE, GOLDENEYE) intended his first feature, a low-budget sex romp called THE SEX THIEF, to be an homage to the James Bond series. Irresistible to women of every variety, the roguish title character (David Warbec…
Sorry We Missed You
The British working class is once again the empathetic subject of Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You, a wrenching, intimate family drama that exposes the dark side of the so-called “gig economy”.
Sudden Terror aka Eyewitness
Living on the island of Malta, Ziggy is an 11-year-old boy with an overactive imagination and a habit of telling wild lies. But when he sees the brutal assassination of a visiting African president by two rogue policemen, nobody will believe his story.
Suspicion
A powerfully tense remake of the Alfred Hitchcock classic, this British production of SUSPICION boasts a dynamic cast, making it a worthy descendent of the original.
T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
Oscar® nominee Ralph Fiennes’s exquisite performance of Nobel Prize winner T. S. Eliot's poetic masterpiece is dynamically translated from stage to screen by director Sophie Fiennes (Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology).
A Taste of Phobia
A horror anthology in which 14 directors delve into the terrifying truths and horrors of phobias.
The Tempest (Jarman)
Jarman presents Shakespeare's intricate comedy of magic and revenge in a form that is at once faithful to the spirit of the play and a dazzling spectacle mixing Hollywood high camp and gothic horror. His film recalls the innocent homoeroticism of Pasolini's versions of the classics while its lush se…
The Green Cockatoo
Often cited as one of the earliest of the British Noirs, this taut little thriller based on a Graham Greene story, features a stellar cast and crew. After witnessing the murder of a racketeer, a young woman is pursued by both gangsters and the police. She is aided by a Soho entertainer, who is the b…