Top 10 films on BFI Player+ in 2015

In 2015 we launched a new subscription service for lovers of film, BFI Player+, offering hundreds of acclaimed world cinema titles for just £4.99 a month.

With collections devoted to directors such as John Cassavetes, Akira Kurosawa and Alfred Hitchcock, to genres such as sci-fi, horror and documentary, and world cinema canons from France, Italy and Japan, it offers a wealth of brilliant films to explore and discover.

And if you don’t know where to start, renowned film critic Mark Kermode offers weekly video guides to his favourite films on BFI Player+.

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Here are the top 10 most popular titles so far.

10. More (1969)

More (1969)

The first feature by Barbet Schroeder (Maîtresse, The Valley), More created a sensation when it was released in 1969, quickly becoming a cult classic and famed for its Pink Floyd soundtrack.

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9. Godzilla (1954)

Godzilla (Gojira, 1954)

The original Godzilla and arguably the definitive monster movie. Both a bold metaphor for the atomic age and a thrilling powerhouse of pioneering special effects.

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8. The Red Shoes (1948)

The Red Shoes (1948)

Moira Shearer’s ballerina is torn between love and her career in Powell and Pressburger’s hugely influential melodrama.

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7. Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972)

Aguirre – Wrath of God (1972)

This early masterpiece from Werner Herzog stars Klaus Kinski as a power-crazed explorer in search of El Dorado in 16th-century South America.

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6. La Belle et la Bête (1946)

La Belle et la Bête (1946)

Jean Cocteau’s ravishingly restored 1946 film is a cinematic classic. “Five stars. [This] magical exploration of the fairytale is a compelling and bizarre masterpiece” – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

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5. Deep End (1970)

Deep End (1970)

A darkly comic and compelling coming-of-age story set during a time of social change.

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4. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926)

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926)

Ivor Novello plays a strange lodger who may be behind a number of Jack the Ripper-style killings in Alfred Hitchcock’s silent thriller.

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3. Fitzcarraldo (1981)

Fitzcarraldo (1982)

Werner Herzog’s film tells the incredible story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an opera-loving fortune hunter who dreams of bringing opera to the heart of the Peruvian jungle.

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2. Theorem (1968)

Theorem (1968)

Pasolini’s classic about a handsome, enigmatic stranger (Terence Stamp) who arrives at a bourgeois household and seduces an entire family.

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1. Dead Ringers (1988)

Dead Ringers (1988)

David Cronenberg’s multi award-winning psychological thriller exploring the bizarre lives of identical twins Elliot and Beverly, both played by Jeremy Irons.