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  • Audrey

    Frustrated Ronnie lives out her theatrical ambitions vicariously through Audrey, her spoilt, domineering teenager. When Audrey falls into a coma, Ronnie and her browbeaten family spy an opportunity to improve life at home. Natalie Bailey’s pitch-black satire skewers Main Character Syndrome, toxic...

  • Bonus Track

    All socially awkward George cares about is music. When the charismatic Max joins his school, George realises that he’s the key to writing the perfect song. But George realises maybe the real prize isn’t winning the talent show… it’s Max. With a story by Josh O'Connor and a soundtrack stacked with...

  • Comedy
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    Comedy

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    The very best of classic British comedy, from Ealing studios to the raucous working-class revolt of Carry On. Celebrating side-splitting cinema, slapstick legends and the art of the expertly executed sight-gag.

  • Diva

    Stylish first feature from Jean-Jacques Beineix (Betty Blue) about a young Parisian postal worker (Frédéric Andréi) who secretly makes a bootleg recording of his favourite opera singer (Wilhelmenia Fernandez) performing. But the recording draws the attention of dangerous criminals as he becomes e...

  • The Producers

    Mel Brook’s outrageously funny, legendary classic about down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) who teams ups with timid accountant Leo Bloom (the then little-known Gene Wilder) to plan a scheme to get rich by overselling shares in a sure-fire Broadway flop. But chaos ensues when t...

  • Black Stories

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    Tackling issues of race, representation and identity, this collection celebrates the work of Black storytellers who have enriched our understanding of the Black experience, including landmark features such as Horace Ové's Pressure (1975), Menelik Shabazz's Burning an Illusion (1981), and Céline S...

  • Stranger by the Lake

    Alain Guiraudie’s acclaimed mystery-thriller is set in a gay cruising ground in Southern France. The appearance of a handsome stranger stirs the passions of a young man, whose obsession continues even after the new arrival appears to have committed a violent crime. It’s a fascinating mix of thril...

  • Daniel Craig in Conversation with Mark Kermode

    The James Bond star discusses his career with Mark Kermode, from an early role as Francis Bacon's muse in Love is the Devil, to working with Spielberg on Munich, to the Knives Out murder mystery films, in which Craig plays ebullient detective Benoit Blanc. This interview was recorded around the r...

  • Sex
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    Sex

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    Despite the accessibility of erotica, audiences still seek out the more substantial approaches to sex that only narrative cinema can offer. Here you’ll find the full array, from provocative avant-garde explorations of lust and desire to the saucy sex comedy.

  • Time of the Wolf

    Following a global catastrophe, Anne (Isabelle Huppert) and her family seek refuge at their holiday home in the countryside, but they arrive to find the home is already occupied by other survivors. Their hopes for safety are dashed by a violent tragedy so, accompanied by a fierce young boy (Hakim...

  • Brief Encounter

    Noel Coward's classic tale of a passionate affair is all the more thrilling for being played out with British reserve of the tightest order. Laura (Johnson) encounters the handsome Dr Alec (Howard) in a train station tearoom after her weekly shopping trip.

  • Modern British Classics

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    Discover the strength and diversity of recent UK cinema, from a filmmaking scene that's moved beyond the kitchen-sink and period drama to reflect the true breadth of British culture.

  • The Descent

    One year after a tragic accident, six girlfriends meet in a remote part of the Appalachians for an annual extreme outdoor adventure, this time exploring a cave hidden deep in the woods. Far below the surface of the earth, disaster strikes, and there's no way out. But there is something else lurki...

  • Carnal Knowledge

    Mike Nichols’ provocative dark comedy traces the lives of college roommates Johnathan (Jack Nicholson) and Sandy (Art Garfunkel) as they navigate relationships from the 1940s into the 60s. From idealistic romances to toxic love affairs, the film charts their diverging paths – Johnathan’s descent ...

  • Sci-Fi & Horror

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    Few genres stretch like science fiction, a marketplace for idle prediction, utopia, apocalypse and wonder. Meanwhile, tales of terror have been embraced by cinema since its birth.
    From chilling gothic horror to strange dystopian worlds this collection showcases genre defining examples of sci-fi ...

  • Beware My Brethren (aka The Fiend)

    Kenny (Tony Beckley) has been raised within the The Brethren, an Evangelical sect who preach purity, morality, and unwavering allegiance to the word of God. A security officer by day, he spends his nights stalking and strangling 'immoral' women thus, he believes, cleansing them of their ungodly t...

  • Mogul Mowgli

    Although his cutting lyrics speak provocatively about identity politics, it is not until Zed (Ahmed) returns home after two years on tour that he is called by his real name: Zaheer. But it is the vulnerability of illness and his decreasing mobility that brings both focus and fragmentation – memor...

  • Martin Scorsese Selects: Hidden Gems of British Cinema

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    A selection of classic films, hidden gems, and unheralded treasures, taken from a watchlist Scorsese recommended to filmmaker Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) during the Covid lockdown. Enjoy this cinematic journey into the heart of British film, curated by one of cinema’s greatest champions.

  • Girlhood

    In the tough suburbs of Paris, sixteen-year-old Marieme decides to reinvent herself when she joins a girl gang. Excluded from school and in fear of her overbearing brother at home, Marieme changes her name and appearance and escapes into a new, liberating world outside of society’s conventions.

  • Postcards from London

    Set in a vibrant, neon-lit, imaginary vision of Soho, this morality tale manages to be both a beautifully shot homage in the spirit of Derek Jarman and a celebration of the homo-erotic in Baroque art. When teenage beauty and Essex boy Jim (Harris Dickinson, the compelling lead in Beach Rats) arri...

  • Documentaries

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    Documentaries can be as expressive, surreal and experimental as any work of fiction, with British directors such as John Grierson and Humphrey Jennings paving the way for documentary in the early twentieth century. This collection explores a world made up of people and places, capturing the bread...

  • Elite Squad

    Captain Nascimento (Wagner Moura), a BOPE (Special Police Operation Battalion) officer, is tasked with clearing the drug gangs in the slums of Rio de Janeiro before a visit from the Pope. Meanwhile, desperate to take on a safer job so that he can be closer to his pregnant wife, he trains up two y...

  • Silent Roar

    Jonny Barrington's sweet-natured Scottish comedy charts the on-off relationship between Dondo (Louis McCartney), a young surfer struggling to accept his father has died in a fishing accident, and Sas (Ella Lily Hyland), a high-achiever dreaming of escape. While at the same time, a recently return...

  • Woman with a movie camera

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    From pre-war to the present-day women have always directed movies, and these remarkable examples by Margaret Tait, Laura Mulvey, Sally Potter and more showcase the breadth and diversity of women’s invaluable contribution to cinema.