BFI Player’s September 2026 line-up

BFI Player is an antidote to the algorithm, but we have a confession: this month we are powered by Claude. That’s Claude Chabrol, aka ’The French Hitchcock’, whose masterful work dominates our new releases. We’re proud to introduce Imran Perretta’s debut Ish exclusively to subscribers, and add the two outstanding titles – Dreams and Love – which complete the Oslo Stories trilogy.

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Dreams
2024/Norway
Subscription exclusive
The Golden Bear-winning film in Dag Johan Haugerud’s Oslo Stories trilogy sees teenager Johanne put pen to paper as she falls in love with her teacher.

Ish
2025/United Kingdom
Subscription exclusive
A coming-of-age story for modern times, this powerful British debut explores the emotional cost of racism on our children.

The Beast Must Die (Que la bete meure)
1969/France
A grieving father set out to murder his son’s killer, only to find the moral ground constantly shifting beneath him in Chabrol’s gripping thriller.

Le Boucher
1970/France
Chabrol’s most celebrated film sees a friendship between a teacher and local butcher darken as a series of murders unsettles life in their village.

Cop au vin (Poulet au vinaigre)
1985/France
An eccentric detective is called to a small town to investigate after a property scheme leads to deaths and disappearances, in Chabrol’s crime drama.

Inspector Lavardin
1986/France
Chabrol’s slippery thriller sees the eponymous detective investigating a murder involving a former lover.

Betty
1992/France
A mysterious young woman finds refuge with a stranger in Chabrol’s unsettling psychological drama based on the book by Georges Simenon.

L’Enfer (Torment)
1994/France
A husband’s jealousy and suspicion of his wife drive him to appalling extremes in Claude Chabrol’s disturbing thriller.

The Swindle (Rien ne va plus)
1997/France
Isabelle Huppert is on sparkling form as one of a pair of con artists grifting their way across France, cheating gamblers out of their winnings.

The Colour of Lies (Au coeur du mensonge)
1998/France
When a girl is found murdered in a coastal town, a community begins to devour itself, in this thriller about the social poison that a crime unleashes.

Merci pour le chocolat (Nightcap)
2000/France
Chabrol’s deliciously icy mystery stars Isabelle Huppert as the wife of a concert pianist who uncovers some unusual secrets about her husband’s past.

Love
2024/Norway
Subscription exclusive
A chance encounter on a ferry crossing leads inspires a doctor and nurse to reflect on their experiences of casual intimacy in Haugerud’s Oslo story.

Riefenstahl
2024/Germany
Subscription exclusive
Captivating insight into the controversial filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, who became world-famous for her Nazi propaganda.

Surviving Earth
2025/United Kingdom
Subscription exclusive
Thea Gajic’s feature debut follows Yugoslavian refugee Vlad as he embraces a new life in Bristol and battles addiction and past traumas.

Bogancloch
2025/United Kingdom
The life of a modern-day hermit is gently observed in Ben Rivers’ intimate, experimental documentary.