Hijackers have taken over LA’s towering Nakatomi skyrise, but they didn’t bank on the presence of Bruce Willis’s John McClane, in this action masterpiece. Become a BFI Member and enjoy £2 off BFI IMAX ...
In silent-era Hollywood, stuntman Roy Walker (Lee Pace) is brought to a hospital after an on-set accident leaves him paralysed. There, he befriends a young girl called Alexandria (Catinca Untaru) and ...
Milos Forman’s uproarious, Oscar-winning satire, which takes place in a mental health facility is a darkly funny and ultimately profoundly humane work of art. Randle McMurphy pleads insanity to avoid ...
The Academy Award-winning Godzilla Minus One stomps its way back to BFI IMAX in its acclaimed black and white Minus Colour edition, introduced by kaiju scholar Steven Sloss. Giant monsters deserve a ...
The character that made Christopher Reeve famous was so much a reflection of the person who played him, as this moving documentary portrait reveals. In 1995, Reeve was thrown from a horse and broke ...
Deeply moved by the suicide of poet-activist Vilas Ghogre, who was driven to despair by the police shooting of Dalit slum dwellers in Mumbai, Patwardhan spent over a decade investigating the ...
A border incident leaves North and South Korean soldiers wounded or dead, prompting an investigation by a neutral officer. Based on Park Sang-yeon’s novel DMZ and masterfully directed by Park ...
Four screens open seven days a week for the widest choice of great films. A confused pre-teen finds imaginatively ambiguous answers in a bottle, in this singular portrait of a precocious young girl.
Mackendrick’s plague-on-all-your-houses industrial satire may be the most cynical Ealing film of all. Guinness delivers his most complex comic performance as the unworldly genius Sidney, whose ...
Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham – voiced here by Tilda Swinton – had an extraordinary creative passion. In his poetic documentary portrait, Mark Cousins explores her artistic practice, ...