BFI Popular Movie

Ella Blake, a stop-motion animator struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother, embarks upon the creation of a film...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Aisling Franciosi

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Mescal

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maxwell Simba

A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harris Dickinson

In the Old Stone Age, a disparate gang of early humans band together in search of a new land. But when they suspect a malevolent, mystical, being is...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Safia Oakley-Green

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday—drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mia McKenna-Bruce

In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into thoughtless, flesh-eating monsters. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sennia Nanua

A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Josh O'Connor

A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Scarlett Johansson

A traumatised veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, his nightmares overtake him as...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix

When famous DJ Alan Partridge’s radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Steve Coogan

A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Colin Farrell

A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Asa Butterfield

A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Set in a dugout in Aisne in 1918, a group of British officers, led by the mentally disintegrating young officer Stanhope, variously await their fate.

Genre: War

Cast: Asa Butterfield

Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Morfydd Clark

Germany, 1944. Leyna, the 15-year old daughter of a white German mother and a black African father, meets Lutz, a compassionate member of the Hitler...

Genre: War

Cast: Amandla Stenberg

A resourceful 12-year-old, who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London, makes money stealing bikes with her best friend...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lola Campbell

Narrowly avoiding jail, new dad Robbie vows to turn over a new leaf. A visit to a whisky distillery inspires him and his mates to seek a way out of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Brannigan

Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sidse Babett Knudsen