Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Contemporary and Digital Cinema | BBC Two | 2023 | 1'50'00''

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...

Good Bye Lenin! (2003)

Good Bye Lenin! (2003)

European Cinema | BBC Four | 2008 | 1'54'04''

Provocative comedy in which a son tries to prevent his mother from learning about the fall of the Berlin Wall when she emerges from a lengthy coma, fe...

The White Ribbon | Das Weisse Band (2009)

The White Ribbon | Das Weisse Band (2009)

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Four | 2013 | 2'15'59''

Award-winning film by Michael Haneke set on the eve of World War I. The quiet order of a small German village is disturbed by a ser...

BalloonBallon (2018)

BalloonBallon (2018)

Conflict and Warfare | BBC Four | 2020 | 1'56'41''

The Strelzyk family attempt to escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon. In German with English subtitles.

Parallel Mothers (2021)

Parallel Mothers (2021)

European Cinema | BBC Four | 2024 | 1'54'20''

Two mothers bond in an unexpected way after giving birth on the same day.

The Beasts (2022)

The Beasts (2022)

European Cinema | BBC Four | 2024 | 2'10'28''

Middle-aged French couple Antoine and Olga have moved to an inland Galician hamlet, happy to live off the land and renovate some dilapidated properties and...

Triangle of Sadness (2022)

Triangle of Sadness (2022)

European Cinema | BBC Two | 2024 | 2'18'22''

Models Carl and Yaya are invited for a luxury cruise with a rogues' gallery of super-rich passengers - but a storm is brewing, and the cruise ends...

Downfall | Der Untergang (2004)

Downfall | Der Untergang (2004)

European Cinema | BBC Four | 2014 | 2'25'03''

As defeat looms, the increasingly unhinged Adolf Hitler readies himself for the end and makes his final declarations to a dwindling crowd of ...

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

European Cinema | BBC Four | 2021 | 1'55'16''

A countess resorts to subterfuge to have her reluctant daughter's portrait painted so that she can be appraised by a prospective suitor.

Second Era | Shoah (1985)

Second Era | Shoah (1985)

European Cinema | BBC Four | 2015 | 4'39'45''

Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.

First Era | Shoah (1985)

First Era | Shoah (1985)

European Cinema | BBC Four | 2015 | 4'22'00''

Claude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors.

Un Chien Andalou (1929)

Un Chien Andalou (1929)

European Cinema | BBC Four | 2017 | 21'11''

Luis Bunuel, who made his name with this short shocking film in 1929, is one of the great exponents of surrealism in the cinema. An Andalusian Dog, w...

Mustang (2015)

Mustang (2015)

Development and Inequality | BBC Four | 2019 | 1'29'48''

Lale and her four sisters are on their way home from school, innocently playing with the local boys. But prying village eyes view their games with suspicion.

La Haine | Witness History

La Haine | Witness History

European Cinema | BBC World Service | 2023 | 8'58''

It has been thirty years since film director Mathieu Kassovitz started work on the cult cinema classic, La Haine. He has been sharing his memories...

S01E04: Battleship Potemkin | Art That Shook The World

S01E04: Battleship Potemkin | Art That Shook The World

European Cinema | BBC Four | 2001 | 49'09''

Today, film-maker Renny Bartlett tells the story of the making of the film which inspired Francis Bacon, Woody Allen, ...

Flee (2021) | Storyville

Flee (2021) | Storyville

Animation | BBC Four | 2024 | 1'25'03''

A Storyville documentary, mostly animated, that charts the extraordinary true tale of Ali, a gay Afghan man, and the desperate measures he is forced...

The Lives of OthersDas Leben der Anderen (2006)

The Lives of OthersDas Leben der Anderen (2006)

European Cinema | BBC Four | 2010 | 2'08'36''

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