BFI Player’s November 2025 line-up
Coming to BFI Player this November are films by Bong Joon Ho, Gaspar Noé and Ken Loach, plus a subscription exclusive for Saoirse Ronan in The Outrun.
We’re playing doubles this month, with two works each from Bong Joon Ho, Karim Aïnouz and Gaspar Noé.
International stories of struggles also feature, with The Beasts, Lost in the Night and a vintage Ken Loach.
They’re joined by Alan Parker and Sean Baker, plus a subscription exclusive in The Outrun, starring Saoirse Ronan as a woman rebuilding her precarious life, day by day.
4 November
Along Came Love
2023/France
Subscription exclusive
Two lovers become entwined while both harbouring deep secrets and shame, in this epic postwar romance.
Parasite
2019/South Korea
Bong Joon Ho’s Oscar-winning box-office sensation is a darkly comic, twisty rollercoaster ride.
Mother
2009/South Korea
Acclaimed Korean actor Kim Hye-ja is outstanding as a mother who will do anything to protect her son, in Bong Joon Ho’s fourth feature.
Shoplifters
2018/Japan
Hirokazu Koreeda’s modern masterpiece is a dark yet touching account of an unorthodox family that relies on shoplifting to make ends meet.
Craig’s Wife
1936/United States
Rosalind Russell’s breakout performance is a tour de force in Dorothy Arzner’s high melodrama.
6 November
Irreversible
2002/France
Gaspar Noé’s retina-searing shocker about an assault and its revenge, told in reverse chronology and starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel.
Climax
2018/France
Gaspar Noé’s visually dazzling feast of music and mayhem reveals a director at the height of his provocative filmmaking powers.
10 November
Lost in the Night
2023/Mexico
Subscription exclusive
A young man seeks those responsible for his social activist mother’s disappearance, in this intense thriller from Amat Escalante (Heli, The Untamed).
11 November
The Wind That Shakes the Barley
2006/United Kingdom
Ken Loach won the Palme d’Or for this beautifully filmed account of two Cork brothers who join the struggle for Irish independence in the 1920s.
14 November
Motel Destino
2024/Brazil
Subscription exclusive
Acclaimed filmmaker Karim Aïnouz’s Brazilian erotic noir sees an escaped young hustler flee to a roadside sex motel run by a hot-headed couple.
17 November
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao
2019/Brazil
A moving, sumptuous tale of two sisters cruelly separated by family and fate in 1950s Rio.
The Beasts
2022/Spain
Denis Ménochet stars as a small-town farmer whose idyllic lifestyle turns into a living nightmare, in this rivetingly structured, slow-burn thriller.
Twilight
1990/Hungary
Transcendent murder-mystery about an obsessive detective, directed by a Béla Tarr associate and based on the same novel as Sean Penn’s The Pledge.
24 November
The Florida Project
2017/United States
Anora director Sean Baker’s visionary portrait of life in America’s underbelly, featuring an Oscar-nominated turn from Willem Dafoe.
Birdy
1984/United States
Alan Parker’s elliptical, ethereal adaptation of the acclaimed, ‘unfilmable’ novel by William Wharton, about a boy who dreams of flying.
The Streetwalker (aka La Marge)
1976/France
A salesman becomes obsessed by an icy prostitute against the backdrop of a hellish Paris, in this arthouse erotica from Walerian Borowczyk (The Beast).
27 November
The Outrun
2024/United Kingdom
Subscription exclusive
Saoirse Ronan gives a bracing performance as a young recovering alcoholic returning home to Orkney in this moving adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir.