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BFI Player is the home of BFI London Film Festival all year round. And with Subscription you now have a festival pass - allowing unlimited screenings of favourites from festivals past.

Catch up with a range of recent successes including previous winners of the festival’s top prizes.

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24 City24 City

Drama-documentary 2008 107 minsDirector: Jia Zhangke

Jia Zhangke mixes reminiscence and performance in his cool, measured, moving look at the changing fortunes of a Chinese factory-turned-shopping mall

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Las acaciasLas acacias

Road movie 2011 83 minsDirector: Pablo Giorgelli

Pablo Giorgelli's debut is a slow, touching Argentinian road-movie about a quiet trucker warming to a woman and child he reluctantly gives a lift to

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The ArborThe Arbor

Biopic 2010 90 minsDirector: Clio Barnard

Clio Barnard's film about Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar mixes reconstruction, interviews (performed by actors) and scenes from the plays.

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The Battles of Coronel and Falkland IslandsThe Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands

War 1927 106 minsSilentDirector: Walter Summers

This dramatic reconstruction of two decisive naval battles from the First World War is one of the finest films of the British silent era.

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BlancanievesBlancanieves

Drama 2011 105 minsDirector: Pablo Berger

Pablo Berger’s imaginative black-and-white β€˜silent’ movie relocates the story of Snow White to 1920s Spain – complete with bullfighting dwarfs

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Brick LaneBrick Lane

Drama 2007 97 minsDirector: Sarah Gavron

Sarah Gavron’s subtle and intelligent adaptation of Monica Ali’s acclaimed novel charts the experiences of a Bangladeshi woman in London.

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Bullet BoyBullet Boy

Drama 2005 86 minsDirector: Saul Dibb

Ashley Walters impresses in the hard-hitting Hackney drama that’s still one of the best of Britain’s black urban crime films.

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Dodes'Ka-DenDodes'Ka-Den

Drama 1970 140 minsDirector: Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa’s first colour film is an eccentric and joyous account of a group of disparate people living in a city dump.

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DogtoothDogtooth

Drama 2009 93 minsDirector: Yorgos Lanthimos

Yorgos Lanthimos' scary, witty tale of a dysfunctional Greek family is original, ingenious and sadly relevant as a study of parent-child relationships

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ElenaElena

Drama 2011 105 minsDirector: Andrey Zvyagintsev

Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan, Loveless) relates a taut, caustic tale of need and greed leading to desperate deeds; a bleak and brilliant study of contemporary Russian mores.

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Film socialismeFilm socialisme

Animation & Artists Moving Image 2010 97 minsDirector: Jean-Luc Godard

Jean-Luc Godard’s acerbic and disorienting essay on the decline of Western civilisation, shot aboard the famously grounded cruise ship, the Costa Concordia.

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A HijackingA Hijacking

Thriller 2012 103 minsDirector: Tobias Lindholm

Tobias Lindholm’s thriller refreshes the genre as a ship's cook, Somali pirates and a CEO negotiate an endgame.

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Hors SatanHors Satan

Drama 2011 105 minsDirector: Bruno Dumont

A mysterious figure strolls around a French coastal town offering a bizarre and violent path to salvation, in this controversial shocker from Bruno Dumont.

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How I Ended This SummerHow I Ended This Summer

Drama 2010 124 minsDirector: Alexei Popogrebsky

Alexei Popogrebski's taut psychological drama depicts two Arctic meteorologists (a veteran and a novice); secrets, lies and isolation take their toll

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The HuntThe Hunt

Drama 2012 111 minsDirector: Thomas Vinterberg

Mads Mikkelsen stars in a distressing examination of a false indictment, and the collective hysteria that ensues, in this electrifying drama from Festen director Thomas Vinterberg.

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I Am BelfastI Am Belfast

Documentary 2016 84 minsDirector: Mark Cousins

Mark Cousins’ dreamlike evocation of his home city discovers a capital of rich history and startling beauty.

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Immoral TalesImmoral Tales

Anthology 1974 103 minsDirector: Walerian Borowczyk

Walerian Borowczyk presents four stories of sexual taboos throughout the ages, in his highly controversial classic of 1970s erotic cinema.

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In the FogIn the Fog

War 2012 123 minsDirector: Sergei Loznitsa

A suspected Nazi collaborator and his Partisan abductors join forces to escape pursuing German forces, in this vibrantly shot war drama.

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Les InvisiblesLes Invisibles

Documentary 2012 112 minsDirector: SΓ©bastien Lifshitz

French gay men and women in their 60s and 70s talk about their lives in SΓ©bastien Lifshitz’s documentary.

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Kelly + VictorKelly + Victor

Drama 2013 90 minsDirector: Kieran Evans

In modern Liverpool, a couple meet and begin a transgressive, sexually charged affair set against a background of crime and encroaching danger.

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The Killing of a Chinese BookieThe Killing of a Chinese Bookie

Gangster 1976 109 minsDirector: John Cassavetes

John Cassavetes’s uncompromising character study of a gangster, with Ben Gazzara as the small-time club owner whose life begins to spin out of control.

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Love Me till MondayLove Me till Monday

Comedy 2013 89 mins

A graduate in a dead-end office job searches for happiness in this fresh and funny British comedy.

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MotherMother

Thriller 2009 129 minsDirector: Bong Joon-ho

Cult Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s (The Host, Snowpiercer) fourth feature is a startlingly original and thrilling account of the limits of maternal devotion.

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My Ain FolkMy Ain Folk

Drama 1974 55 minsDirector: Bill Douglas

The second part of the revered Bill Douglas Trilogy follows Jamie as he ends up in a children’s home.

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The Nine MusesThe Nine Muses

Documentary 2012 92 minsDirector: John Akomfrah

John Akomfrah mixes archive material, literary and musical quotations and newly shot silent footage in a wry, rapt meditation on memory and migration.

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Of Good ReportOf Good Report

Drama 2013 110 minsDirector: Jahmil Xolani Thandikhaya Qubeka

Disturbing but deeply stylish South African drama about a teacher who becomes obsessed with an under-age pupil in his class, with tragic consequences.

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PasoliniPasolini

Biopic 2014 84 minsDirector: Abel Ferrara

Willem Dafoe plays the controversial filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in this dark, daring drama about the director’s final days, from Abel Ferrara.

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Red RoadRed Road

Thriller 2006 110 minsDirector: Andrea Arnold

Andrea Arnold’s highly acclaimed film, winner of top prizes at Cannes and the BFI London Film Festival, is a haunting drama about a woman confronting past demons.

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ShellShell

Drama 2013 87 minsDirector: Scott Graham

In a remote part of Scotland, teenager Shell develops an intense relationship with her reclusive father.

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Short Term 12Short Term 12

Drama 2013 97 minsDirector: Destin Daniel Cretton

A care-worker is confronted by a troubled teen whose case history provokes an unwelcome reminder of her own concealed and traumatic past.

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SilenceSilence

Drama 2012 84 minsDirector: Pat Collins

Pat Collins' film, following a sound recordist around western Ireland in an intriguing mix of fiction and documentary, makes us really look and listen

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A Simple LifeA Simple Life

Drama 2011 118 minsDirector: Ann Hui On-Wah

A wealthy film executive reconnects with the nanny who raised him, in a touching drama from the great humanist of the Hong Kong New Wave, Ann Hui.

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Trans-Europ-ExpressTrans-Europ-Express

Thriller 1966 95 minsDirector: Alain Robbe-Grillet

This stylish, cult 1966 erotic thriller stars French New Wave icons Jean-Louis Trintigant and Marie-France Pisier.

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Stockholm My LoveStockholm My Love

Drama 2016 84 minsDirector: Mark Cousins

Neneh Cherry, director Mark Cousins and cinematographer Christopher Doyle's exquisite love song to the Swedish city.

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TulpanTulpan

Comedy 2008 99 minsDirector: Sergey Dvortsevoy

Sergei Dvortsevoy's feature debut is a deliciously droll tale of a Kazakh sailor out to win a wife and set himself up as a shepherd on the steppes.

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UndergroundUnderground

Romance 1928 93 minsSilentDirector: Anthony Asquith

The BFI National Archive restoration of one of Anthony Asquith's finest silent films set in London's Underground, with a new score.

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UnrelatedUnrelated

Drama 2008 96 minsDirector: Joanna Hogg

On a Tuscan break a fortysomething woman finds herself drawn to the company of a group of partying teens, including a young Tom Hiddleston (in one of his earliest roles).