Bfi Movies

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved, rev...

Jim is a young man from Essex who moves to Soho with dreams of fame and fortune. When he joins a group of luxury male escorts, he finds himself embark...

The first part of Bill Douglas' influential trilogy harks back to his impoverished upbringing in early-'40s Scotland. Cinema was his only escape - he...

Jade is a young mother in the prime of her life when an acid attack leaves her severely burned. While her face has been reconstructed, her beauty is l...

When London teenager Yemi’s big brother comes to live with him from Nigeria, Ikudayisi’s terrible fashion sense, broad Yoruba accent and misplaced con...

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...

Poignant postwar appeal for Britain’s Jewry to support orphaned Jewish children rescued from Europe.

Simon Pummell's (Bodysong) visually ravishing sci-fi thriller exploring the future of virtual reality and the desire to transcend human limits. The th...

Amateur footage of the devastation caused by one of South Asia's worst earthquakes.

A robot messenger is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go to MIT, by mistake she ends up in Amman, Jordan dur...

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

A London radio DJ receives news of his brother's suicide and travels west to Bristol to find out more.

The inauguration of a unit of the Indian Defence Force in Calcutta.

Henry demonstrates his two-wheel tomfoolery, but there's no happy ending for this bike.

Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.

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...

Scenes from a lavish pageant held during the royal visit to India, celebrating King George V’s coronation.

An animation about a disabled penguin who lives on a rocky island in the southern seas where she feels isolated from the rest of her colony. She is in...

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...