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A young white boy stands in a scrap yard with his head rested against a workhorses head

The Selfish Giant

Based on an Oscar Wilde story, Clio Barnard once again represents Bradford on screen in this moving and beautifully-directed drama.

A young British Asian woman and a young white pregnant woman stand in a small room looking to camera as a small fire burns in the background

The Arbor

This compassionate tribute to British playwright Andrea Dunbar, who died at twenty-nine-years-old, offers a distinctive twist on the documentary format.

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Club Zero

Talented Austrian writer-director Jessica Hausner explores body image and eating disorders in this gripping drama.

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Love Lies Bleeding

Lust blends with violence in this brilliantly acted drama starring Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian.

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What to Watch: International Women's Day 2024

Happy International Women’s Day! Celebrate by exploring an incredible selection of UK film, TV, animation and games created by inspiring women writers, producers and directors, and championing women-led stories and talent.

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She Came To Me

Set in New York, this modern, multi-generational love story is written, directed and co-produced by Rebecca Miller.

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How To Have Sex

This blistering exploration of consent authentically captures the beauty of female adolescence and friendship.

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Is Anybody Out There?

In this heartfelt and richly informative documentary, a filmmaker shows what it takes to love oneself in an ableist world.

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Blue Bag Life

Immerse yourself in this extraordinary memoir of an artist trying to process a troubled relationship with her mother.

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Promising Young Woman

Emerald Fennell’s auspicious debut as writer-director features a career-defining performance for British lead actor Carey Mulligan.

A white blonde woman in red Christmassy penguin pyjamas sits crossed legged on a messy sofa strewn with books and papers

Bridget Jones's Diary

Renée Zellweger’s Oscar-nominated performance as the endearingly flawed Bridget Jones is as hilarious as it is charming.

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JFK: One Day in America

With an original approach to a well-known story, director Ella Wright recounts the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

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Saltburn

Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi lead this exquisitely black-hearted tale of privilege, with Margot Robbie on board as co-producer.

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Kingdom of Us

A complex story about a family whose lives change forever due to the suicide of husband and father, Paul Shanks.

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The Baby

Created, directed, written and executive-produced by an entirely female team, this eight-part series won’t fail to enrapture.

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The Levelling

Immerse yourself in rural Somerset in this fierce, uncompromising and unsettling tale of tragedy, poverty and family secrets.

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The Royal Hotel

Writer-director Kitty Green and actor Julia Garner reunite for this electrifying, chilling and genre-expanding thriller set in Australia’s outback.

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How To Build A Girl

Beanie Feldstein charmingly leads this rough-and-ready romp about the exploits of a working-class teenager from Wolverhampton.

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Pin Cushion

This disquieting family drama is led by two career-making performances by British actors Lily Newmark and Joanna Scanlan.

A young mixed-race Black woman and a young white woman dressed in grand period dresses sitting on ornate chairs

Belle

Seemingly inspired by the work of Jane Austen, a subtle social consciousness permeates this assured costume drama.

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Radioactive

Persepolis director Marjane Satrapi constructs an ambitious and unconventional biopic about famed female physicist Marie Curie.

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Mamma Mia!

The feel-good songs of seventies pop legends, Abba, permeate this joyous musical, led by Amanda Seyfried and Meryl Streep.

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Scrapper

Harris Dickinson and newcomer Lola Campbell are irresistibly charming in this vibrant, innovative and sweet father-daughter dramedy.

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The Lesson

Richard E. Grant and Daryl McCormack give outstanding performances in this taut and mysterious noir thriller.

Earth Mama

Rap artist Tia Nomore gives a powerful and authentic performance in this intimate, A24-backed exploration of single motherhood.

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Mr. Malcolm's List

Fans of Bridgerton will be enthralled by this amusing, engaging and self-aware alternative historical romcom.

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Joyride

Bad Sisters writer Ailbhe Keogan pens the script for this uplifting Olivia Colman-led Irish road movie.

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Exhibition

Joanna Hogg’s beautifully shot drama examines the anxieties of the middle-upper class in this masterful slice of life portrait.

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The Deepest Breath

Plunge to unknown depths with this immersive, thrilling and high stakes documentary about the deadly and extreme sport of free diving.

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Barbie

Ryan Gosling and Margot Robbie dazzle in Greta Gerwig’s whimsical, wonderful and witty take on Barbie and Ken.

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Emma

Director Autumn de Wilde’s debut feature is a refreshing and good-natured take on the famous Jane Austen novel.

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Bend It Like Beckham

Keira Knightley and Parminder Nagra lead this compassionate, much-loved and extremely enjoyable teenage coming-of-age comedy.

Suffragette

Rocks director Sarah Gavron takes on the suffragette movement in this suspenseful and essential historical drama.

Viceroy's House

Bend It Like Beckham writer-director Gurinder Chadha explores the tumultuous period of India's partition in this gripping historical drama.

ear for eye

A powerful and uncompromising call-to-action on racial injustice featuring No Time To Die’s Lashana Lynch.

A United Kingdom

David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike give mesmerising performances in Amma Asante’s absorbing, true-life love story.

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Blue Jean

This captivating Section 28 drama features a stunning performance from Rosy McEwen, who plays a teacher leading a double life.

Dalíland

Ben Kingsley leads this idiosyncratic biopic exploring the latter years of the life of surrealist Spanish painter Salvador Dalí.

Pretty Red Dress

Humour, tenderness and punchy Tina Turner numbers abound in Dionne Edwards fresh, distinctive and bold feature debut as writer-director.

Wuthering Heights

Andrea Arnold reimagines Emily Brontë’s classic romance novel in this visceral, innovative and intoxicating adaptation.

Red Road

Themes of paranoia and alienation pervade Kent-born Andrea Arnold’s dark and stunning debut feature as writer-director.

The Unloved

Samantha Morton’s impeccably crafted debut is a searing exploration of social care in the UK.

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Rye Lane

Raine Allen-Miller's acclaimed debut feature will enchant and endear in this lively and poignant South London-based romcom.

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Mafia Mamma

Toni Collette stars as a suburban woman who unexpectedly inherits the position of mafia boss in this hilarious crime-comedy.

Miss Julie

Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell and Samantha Morton shine in a cinematic adaptation of a classic Swedish play.

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The Power

Toni Colette stars in an electrifying, 10-episode adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s bestselling novel.

Ratcatcher

Lynne Ramsay’s beguiling directorial debut about a Glaswegian boy contending with poverty and guilt.

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Killing Eve

Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge brings her uniquely British comedy sensibility to this slick and subversive spy series.

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The Power of the Dog

Benedict Cumberbatch earned an Oscar nomination for his performance in Jane Campion’s sensuous and sinister Western.

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Silent Night

Keira Knightley and Matthew Goode lead a blackly comic Christmas film about an impending apocalypse.

Young woman wearing a pearl braceley and a man in a suit stand arm in arm but looking in opposite directions on a boat. Their faces are reflected in the shiny red surface of the boat.

The Souvenir

Joanna Hogg draws from her own life in this ravishing portrait of a toxic relationship.

Middle aged woman with short dark hair, wearing dark sunglasses and a white shirt, looks into the distance against the backdrop of a blue sky and green lush trees.

The Lost Daughter

Olivia Colman stars in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut; a spiky, sensuous Elena Ferrante adaptation.

Two young men in denim and a young woman jump in the air with joy, in front of a British motorway road sign.

Blinded by the Light

A British-Pakistani teenager becomes Bruce Springsteen-obsessed in Gurinder Chadha’s feel-good musical.

A young black woman and man kiss in front of a sunset view of  the London sky.

Been So Long

Michaela Coel and Arinzé Kene team up for a ravishing and romantic Camden-set musical.

Two glamourous young woman lie on the grass wearing 1940s style nighties, one of them holds a Chinese parasol

Summerland

Gemma Arterton and Gugu Mbatha-Raw star in a sun-kissed WWII drama about friendship and forbidden love.

Nothing Compares

Sinéad O'Connor’s rise to fame is reconsidered and recontextualised in a gorgeously intimate documentary.

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God's Creatures

Emily Watson and Paul Mescal go head-to-head as a mother and son wading murky moral waters.

Woman in green shirt sits next to man in the back of a taxi, his arm is around her shoulders.

Luxor

Andrea Riseborough rediscovers the city of Luxor in a transporting romance-tinged character study.

Young woman in a hijab carries her baby in a sling, looking directly at the camera and against a backdrop of a demolished war-torn street

For Sama

Filmed in Aleppo, this BAFTA-winning, Oscar-nominated documentary is as intimate as it is imperative.

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The Swimmers

The miraculous true story of two Syrian sisters makes for a moving and magnificent drama.

Amulet

Actor Romola Garai’s directorial debut is a heady concoction of body horror and gothic fantasy.

Nuclear

Emilia Jones, George Mackay and Sienna Guillory power an atmospheric thriller about a fleeing mother and daughter.