Lists
Frederick Wiseman: 10 essential films
Ahead of our retrospective of his films, we take a tour through the career of one of cinema’s greatest documentary makers.
By Michael Ewins
Frederick Wiseman: 10 essential films
Features and reviews
Discover the latest from the BFI, the UK’s lead organisation for film, television and the moving image.
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10 great films set in Taipei
By John Berra
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10 great erotic horror films
By Georgina Guthrie
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10 great Hollywood melodramas of the 1940s
By Pamela Hutchinson
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10 great Technicolor melodramas
By Rory Doherty
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10 great French horror films
By Anton Bitel
Lists
Eight under-the-radar LFF films
By Thomas Flew, Beatrice Loayza and others
Festivals
20 great films playing at BFI London Film Festival 2025
20 great films playing at BFI London Film Festival 202510 great
10 great White House films
By Emily Maskell
One per year
A great Hammer horror for every year (1957 to 1974)
By Kevin Lyons
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10 great films set in 1970s America
By Rory Doherty
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10 great German horror films
By Anton Bitel
Lists
Robert Redford (1936 to 2025): 10 essential films
By Christina Newland
Discoveries
6 discoveries from Venice Film Festival 2025
By John Bleasdale, Rory Doherty and others
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10 great mockumentary films
By Miriam Balanescu
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10 great queer westerns and cowboy films
By Emily Maskell
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10 great Soviet films of the 1920s
By David Parkinson
Festivals
Faith in horror: 6 features testing credulity at FrightFest 2025
By Anton Bitel
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10 great documentaries about modern news media
By Carmen Gray
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10 great Eastern European sci-fi films
By Michael Brooke
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10 great Jane Austen adaptations
By Lillian Crawford
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10 great films about hospitals
By Georgina Guthrie
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10 great films by one-time directors
By Chloe Walker
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10 great heatwave films
By Rory Doherty
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10 great British pastoral films
By Miriam Balanescu
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10 great films about mothers and daughters
By Emily Maskell
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10 great modern British black-and-white films
By George Bass
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10 great shark attack films
By James Rose
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10 great British animated feature films
By Jez Stewart
Discoveries
13 discoveries from Cannes 2025
By John Bleasdale, Thomas Flew and others