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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.

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

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

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

Embark on a monumental journey through the tumultuous waters of history in this rich and immersive narrative experience.

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

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.

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

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

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

Follow the inspiring activism of Afrobeats musician Bobi Wine, as he leads a campaign against Uganda’s brutal and corrupt regime.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An illuminating portrait of Ken Loach: one of the UK’s most talented, principled and compassionate directors.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eliza Hittman’s third feature is a tender and urgent drama about a teenager seeking an abortion.

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

Joanna Hogg returns with a ghostly gothic horror starring Tilda Swinton in two roles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Emma Corrin pairs up with Jack O’Connell for a sensuous new adaptation of the classic novel.

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

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

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

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

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

Lynne Ramsay’s BAFTA-nominated thriller is a film as tense, visceral and masterful as they come.