BFI Popular Movie

Ella Blake, a stop-motion animator struggling to control her demons after the loss of her overbearing mother, embarks upon the creation of a film...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Aisling Franciosi

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maxwell Simba

Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Mescal

A celebrity model couple are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged, alcoholic captain. What first appears...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harris Dickinson

Over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, a random accident reverberates through the lives of both the local Muslims and Western...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ralph Fiennes

A traumatised veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, his nightmares overtake him as...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix

A seductive stranger prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Scarlett Johansson

Dug, along with his sidekick Hognob, unite a cavemen tribe to save their hidden valley from being spoiled and, all together as a team, to face the...

Genre: Family

Cast: Eddie Redmayne

Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday—drinking, clubbing and hooking up, in what should be the best summer of their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mia McKenna-Bruce

A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Josh O'Connor

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the...

Genre: History

Cast: Alicia Vikander

In the Old Stone Age, a disparate gang of early humans band together in search of a new land. But when they suspect a malevolent, mystical, being is...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Safia Oakley-Green

A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Asa Butterfield

Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an English couple...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gemma Arterton

In the future, a strange fungus has changed nearly everyone into thoughtless, flesh-eating monsters. When a scientist and a teacher find a girl who...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sennia Nanua

Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Morfydd Clark

In 1984, a group of LGBT activists decide to raise money to support the National Union of Mineworkers during their lengthy strike. There is only one...

Genre: Drama

Cast: George MacKay

A young Scottish singer, Rose-Lynn Harlan, dreams of making it as a country artist in Nashville after being released from prison.

Genre: Music

Cast: Jessie Buckley

The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Elle Fanning

A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dave Johns