Discover the latest from the BFI, the UK’s lead organisation for film, television and the moving image.
From Hollywood tearjerkers to Chinese tales of passion and loss, melodrama has shaped cinema across cultures. Our trip around the globe explores how filmmakers worldwide have embraced heightened emotion, moral conflict and sweeping spectacle to tell stories that resonate far beyond borders.
By Camilla Baier, John Berra and others
By Aminah Alhamdu
By Nathalie Morris
By Baneet Sarai
By Adam Scovell
By Gideon Bachmann
By Alex Prideaux
By Leigh Singer
By Craig Ian Mann
By Tony Rayns
By Chloe Walker
By Bryony Dixon
By Brogan Morris
By Vic Pratt
By Linda Ruth Williams
By Jez Stewart
By Nathalie Morris
By Marc David Jacobs
By William Fowler
By Rhidian Davis
By Nathalie Morris
By Adam Scovell
By Michael Brooke
By Josephine Botting
By Philip Horne
By William Rose
By Hannah Gatward
By Rebecca Vick
By Sam Wigley
By Jacob Heayes
