My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)

Trainspotting (1996)

Smart, funny, sickly, and sometimes just plain unconscious, Mark Renton is a hero of our times. Set in an underbelly of Edinburgh the city fathers never...

Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Bookish young Ofelia, stuck in her sadistic new stepfather’s army outpost, where her ailing mother is to give birth, gets drawn to a fantastical alter...

Black Panther (2019)

Prince T'Challa, the Black Panther, hopes to lead his people to a brighter future but faces many threats, including a challenge to his throne from a rut...

Animal Farm | Secrets of British Animation

Halas and Batchelor made the first British feature length animation, an adaptation of George Orwell's ''Animal Farm''.

When The Wind Blows (1986)

Based on the work of Raymond Briggs, this chilling yet humorous story follows an elderly couple as they muddle through a nuclear attack, placing t...

S01E03: Coming of Age | Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema

Mark reveals the cinematic tricks and techniques used to create classic coming-of-age films, from Rebel without a Ca...

Bend It Like Beckham (2002)

To avoid her Sikh parents' disapproval, soccer-obsessed teenager Jess Bhamra hides the fact she has joined a local female football team, where he...

Cindy Sherman - Nobody's Here But Me | Arena

Using herself as the model, American artist Cindy Sherman has produced hundreds of photographs exploring the use of female stere...

East is East (1999)

BAFTA-winning comedy-drama with Om Puri, Linda Bassett and Jimi Mistry, which takes a wry look at a Pakistani chip shop owner's efforts to raise his kids...

Les Choristes (2004)

The new supervisor at a boarding school for difficult boys sets up a singing choir and the lives of the boys are transformed by the magic of music. In F...

Biggie And Tupac (2002)

Nick Broomfield examines the lives and murders of rappers Biggie Smalls and Tupac Shakur and the rivalry between East Coast and West Coast music that...

Captain Phillips (2013)

Film drama based on the true story of the hijacking by pirates of the MV Maersk Alabama off the coast of Somalia and the bravery of her crew in a des...

Green Book (2018)

New York, 1962: Italian-American nightclub bouncer Tony Lip gets taken on as a driver for acclaimed African American pianist Donald Shirley on a tour of th...

S01E04: Science Fiction | Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema

Mark Kermode reveals the tricks and techniques used to create classic science fiction films, from 2001 to Arrival,...

S02E01: Superheroes | Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema

Mark Kermode uncovers the cinematic and storytelling secrets of the superhero movie.

S03E06: Colourbleed | BBC HD Film Shorts

A young girl's fate is inextricably sealed when she crosses paths with a scheming and enigmatic old woman.

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Top silent screen couple Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont face disaster when their latest movie is made into a talkie, as both the technology and Lina...

The Lives of OthersDas Leben der Anderen (2006)

Oscar-winning drama set in 1980s East Germany about a Stasi agent, employed to spy on a dramatist and his lover, who becomes ...

Yesterday (2019)

Following a road accident, struggling singer-songwriter Jack Malik wakes up in an alternative reality where no-one seems to have ever heard of The Beatles. ...

Calendar Girls (2003)

Comedy drama based on the true story of 12 Yorkshire ladies who find a compelling way to raise money for charity: a nude calendar. Stars Helen Mirren a...