International cinema
An Actor’s Revenge
This wildly melodramatic tale of a kabuki female impersonator who exacts a long-delayed revenge on the men who drove his parents to suicide is play
L’Age d’Or
More than 80 years on, this masterpiece of cinematic surrealism remains as brilliantly witty and shocking as ever.
Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
Kirby Dick’s study of American performance artist and masochist Bob Flanagan, released fully uncensored on DVD for the first time.
Alice
Jan Svankmajer’s Alice is a creepy and disturbing adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s original vision.
Arabian Nights
An exquisitely dreamlike adaptation of the collection of Arabic folk tales One Thousand and One Nights, and the final part of Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life.
An Autumn Afternoon
Yasujiro Ozu’s elegiac final film, An Autumn Afternoon, charts the inevitable eclipse of older generations by irreverent youth.
The Bad Sleep Well
The Bad Sleep Well, the first film made by Kurosawa’s own, newly founded production company, was also the first over which he had complete co
Bande à Part
Bande à part is Godard’s playful tribute to the Hollywood pulp crime movies of the 1940s, executed with typically Gallic cool.
Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
An award-winning and intricately detailed documentary on the genesis of early cinema, Before the Nickelodeon focuses on one of the craft’s mo
Before the Revolution
Young, middle-class and idealistic, Fabrizio struggles to break away from his bourgeois background.
La Belle et la Bête
La Belle et la Bête is a landmark feat of cinematic fantasy in which master filmmaker Jean Cocteau conjures spectacular visions of enchantment, des
Bigger Than Life
Bigger Than Life is one of the greatest American films of the 1950s, a high point in the careers of lead actor James Mason and director Nicholas Ra
Campfire
Campfire / Saint / Particularly Now, In Spring / Sailor
The Canterbury Tales
Pasolini’s adaptation of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, the middle film in his Trilogy of Life series.
Celine and Julie Go Boating
Following its release on a new print by BFI Distribution in May 2006, during the major Jacques Rivette retrospective at the NFT (now BFI Southbank)
Chaplin at Keystone
Charlie Chaplin joined Mack Sennett’s Keystone Film Company in late 1913 after being seen in Fred Karno’s touring vaudeville troupe.
Charlie Chaplin: Mutual Films Volume 1
Charlie Chaplin entered movies in 1914.
Charlie Chaplin: Mutual Films Volume 2
This DVD contains six of the Mutual Films, all made in 1916; The Floorwalker, The Fireman, The Vagabond, One A.M., The Count and The Pawnshop.
Charlie Chaplin: The Essanay Films Volume 1
In December 1914, Charlie Chaplin began his one-year contract with the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, shooting films in both their Chicago and
Charlie Chaplin: The Essanay Films Volume 2
In December 1914, Charlie Chaplin began his one-year contract with the Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, shooting films in both their Chicago and
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