With BFI Film Fund (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Tom & Jerry (2021)
M/6 | 101 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
A chaotic battle ensues between Jerry Mouse, who has taken refuge in the Royal Gate Hotel, and Tom Cat, who is hired to drive him away before the day of a big wedding arrives.
Director: Tim Story | Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Michael Peña, Colin Jost, Tom
Votes: 23,552
2. Saint Maud (2019)
R | 84 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Follows a pious nurse who becomes dangerously obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient.
Director: Rose Glass | Stars: Morfydd Clark, Caoilfhionn Dunne, Jennifer Ehle, Marcus Hutton
Votes: 18,067
3. A Favorita (2018)
M/16 | 119 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In early 18th-century England, the status quo at the court is upset when a new servant arrives and endears herself to a frail Queen Anne.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos | Stars: Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult
Votes: 179,287 | Gross: $34.37M
4. Censor (2021)
84 min | Horror
After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister's disappearance, embarking on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction and reality.
Director: Prano Bailey-Bond | Stars: Niamh Algar, Michael Smiley, Nicholas Burns, Vincent Franklin
Votes: 256
5. A Menina com Todos os Dons (2016)
R | 111 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A scientist and a teacher living in a dystopian future embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie.
Director: Colm McCarthy | Stars: Sennia Nanua, Fisayo Akinade, Dominique Tipper, Paddy Considine
Votes: 56,087
6. Blinded by the Light - O Poder da Música (2019)
M/12 | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
In England in 1987, a teenager from an Asian family learns to live his life, understand his family and find his own voice through the music of American rock star Bruce Springsteen.
Director: Gurinder Chadha | Stars: Billy Barratt, Ronak Singh Chadha Berges, Viveik Kalra, Lee Barnett
Votes: 21,363 | Gross: $11.90M
7. Testemunho de Juventude (2014)
M/12 | 129 min | Biography, Drama, History
A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Director: James Kent | Stars: Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Dominic West
Votes: 27,146 | Gross: $1.82M
8. Brooklyn (2015)
M/12 | 117 min | Drama, Romance
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
Director: John Crowley | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 133,933 | Gross: $38.32M
9. High Life (2018)
M/16 | 113 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.
Director: Claire Denis | Stars: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André 3000, Mia Goth
Votes: 30,504 | Gross: $1.23M
10. The Gunman - O Atirador (2015)
M/16 | 115 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A sniper on a mercenary assassination team, kills the minister of mines of the Congo. Terrier's successful kill shot forces him into hiding. Returning to the Congo years later, he becomes the target of a hit squad himself.
Director: Pierre Morel | Stars: Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Jasmine Trinca, Javier Bardem
Votes: 39,648 | Gross: $10.64M
11. O Rapaz Que Prendeu o Vento (2019)
113 min | Biography, Drama, History
Against all the odds, a thirteen-year-old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.
Director: Chiwetel Ejiofor | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maxwell Simba, Felix Lemburo, Robert Agengo
Votes: 31,698
12. Undergods (2020)
92 min | Fantasy, Thriller
An otherworldly journey through a Europe in decline - a collection of darkly humorous, fantasy tales about ill-fated characters and doomed fortune.
Director: Chino Moya | Stars: Johann Myers, Géza Röhrig, Michael Gould, Hayley Carmichael
Votes: 399
13. God's Own Country (2017)
104 min | Drama, Romance
Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path.
Director: Francis Lee | Stars: Josh O'Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones, Ian Hart
Votes: 26,558 | Gross: $0.34M
14. Cold War - Guerra Fria (2018)
M/14 | 89 min | Drama, History, Music
In the 1950s, a music director falls in love with a singer and tries to persuade her to flee communist Poland for France.
Director: Pawel Pawlikowski | Stars: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza
Votes: 50,972 | Gross: $4.57M
15. Colette (I) (2018)
M/14 | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History
Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.
Director: Wash Westmoreland | Stars: Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West, Robert Pugh
Votes: 20,553 | Gross: $5.14M
16. Tell It to the Bees (2018)
108 min | Drama, Romance
In 1950s small town Britain, a doctor develops a relationship with her young patient's mother.
Director: Annabel Jankel | Stars: Billy Boyd, Gregor Selkirk, Anna Paquin, Euan Mason
Votes: 3,790
17. Eu, Daniel Blake (2016)
M/12 | 100 min | Drama
After having suffered a heart-attack, a 59-year-old carpenter must fight the bureaucratic forces of the system in order to receive Employment and Support Allowance.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy, Briana Shann
Votes: 55,661 | Gross: $0.26M
18. In Fabric (2018)
R | 118 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
In Fabric is a haunting ghost story set against the backdrop of a busy winter sales period in a department store and follows the life of a cursed dress as it passes from person to person, with devastating consequences.
Director: Peter Strickland | Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Julian Barratt, Steve Oram
Votes: 9,463
19. The Souvenir (2019)
R | 120 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A young film student in the early '80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.
Director: Joanna Hogg | Stars: Neil Young, Tosin Cole, Jack McMullen, Frankie Wilson
Votes: 9,123 | Gross: $1.04M
20. Passámos Por Cá (2019)
M/14 | 101 min | Drama
Hoping that self-employment through gig economy can solve their financial woes, a hard-up UK delivery driver and his wife struggling to raise a family end up trapped in the vicious circle of this modern-day form of labour exploitation.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone, Katie Proctor
Votes: 18,224
21. How I Live Now (2013)
R | 101 min | Action, Drama, Romance
An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the world around her.
Director: Kevin Macdonald | Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Tom Holland, George MacKay, Harley Bird
Votes: 28,721 | Gross: $0.06M
22. Besta (III) (2017)
M/14 | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.
Director: Michael Pearce | Stars: Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Geraldine James, Trystan Gravelle
Votes: 11,141 | Gross: $0.80M
23. Mary Shelley (2017)
M/12 | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
Life and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein.
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour | Stars: Elle Fanning, Bel Powley, Owen Richards, Joanne Froggatt
Votes: 13,843 | Gross: $0.10M
24. Wild Rose - Rosa Selvagem (2018)
M/14 | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A troubled young Glaswegian woman dreams of becoming a Nashville country star.
Director: Tom Harper | Stars: Jessie Buckley, Matt Costello, Jane Patterson, Lesley Hart
Votes: 11,760 | Gross: $1.64M
25. Possum (2018)
85 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After returning to his childhood home, a disgraced children's puppeteer is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured his entire life.
Director: Matthew Holness | Stars: Sean Harris, Alun Armstrong, Andy Blithe, Ryan Enever
Votes: 4,765
26. A Idade da Pedra (2018)
M/6 | 89 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of Dug, along with sidekick Hognob as they unite his tribe against a mighty enemy Lord Nooth and his Bronze Age City to save their home.
Director: Nick Park | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Timothy Spall
Votes: 20,478 | Gross: $8.27M
27. War on Everyone (2016)
R | 98 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two corrupt cops set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path. Events, however, are complicated by the arrival of someone who appears to be even more dangerous than they are.
Director: John Michael McDonagh | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Peña, Theo James, Tessa Thompson
Votes: 17,461
28. Yardie (2018)
M/16 | 101 min | Crime, Drama
British crime drama film directed by Idris Elba based on the novel of the same name by Jamaican-born writer Victor Headley.
Director: Idris Elba | Stars: Antwayne Eccleston, Fraser James, Aml Ameen, Rayon McLean
Votes: 2,843 | Gross: $0.04M
29. Dark River (2017)
90 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Following the death of her father, Alice (Ruth Wilson) returns to her home village for the first time in 15 years, to claim the tenancy to the family farm she believes is rightfully hers.
Director: Clio Barnard | Stars: Ruth Wilson, Jonah Russell, Paul Robertson, Sean Bean
Votes: 3,416 | Gross: $0.01M
30. The Greasy Strangler (2016)
93 min | Comedy, Horror
Ronnie runs a Disco walking tour with his son, Brayden. When a sexy woman takes the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her love. It also signals the arrival of an oily strangler who stalks the streets at night.
Director: Jim Hosking | Stars: Michael St. Michaels, Sky Elobar, Elizabeth De Razzo, Gil Gex
Votes: 6,816 | Gross: $0.04M
31. Monsoon (2019)
85 min | Drama, History, Romance
Kit, a British man of Vietnamese heritage, returns to Saigon for the first time in over 30 years after leaving the country with his parents, when he was six years old, at the end of the Vietnam War.
Director: Hong Khaou | Stars: Henry Golding, William Do, David Tran, Lam Anh Dao
Votes: 1,468
32. The Last Days on Mars (2013)
R | 98 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of astronaut explorers succumb one by one to a mysterious and terrifying force while collecting specimens on Mars.
Director: Ruairi Robinson | Stars: Liev Schreiber, Elias Koteas, Romola Garai, Olivia Williams
Votes: 35,675 | Gross: $0.02M
33. An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn (2018)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Crime
Lulu Danger's unsatisfying marriage takes a turn for the worse when a mysterious man from her past comes to town to perform an event called "An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn; For One Magical Night Only."
Director: Jim Hosking | Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Jemaine Clement, Emile Hirsch, Matt Berry
Votes: 4,800 | Gross: $0.01M
34. Changeland (2019)
R | 86 min | Comedy, Drama
While visiting Thailand, two estranged friends realize there's no rule book for finding purpose and meaning in life.
Director: Seth Green | Stars: Seth Green, Breckin Meyer, Macaulay Culkin, Brenda Song
Votes: 1,743
35. Peterloo (2018)
PG-13 | 154 min | Drama, History
The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.
Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Neil Bell, Philip Jackson
Votes: 4,235 | Gross: $0.15M
36. 45 Anos (2015)
M/12 | 91 min | Drama, Romance
A married couple preparing to celebrate their wedding anniversary receives shattering news that promises to forever change the course of their lives.
Director: Andrew Haigh | Stars: Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James, Dolly Wells
Votes: 31,512 | Gross: $4.25M
37. O Dia Chegará (2019)
87 min | Comedy, Crime
An impoverished preacher who brings hope to the Miami projects is offered cash to save his family from eviction. He has no idea his sponsor works for the FBI who plan to turn him into a criminal by fueling his madcap revolutionary dreams.
Director: Christopher Morris | Stars: Andrel McPherson, Miles Robbins, Marchánt Davis, Anna Kendrick
Votes: 3,387
38. Out of Blue (2018)
109 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When Detective Mike Hoolihan is called to investigate the shooting of leading astrophysicist and black hole expert, Jennifer Rockwell, she is affected in ways she struggles to comprehend.
Director: Carol Morley | Stars: James Caan, Toby Jones, Patricia Clarkson, Mamie Gummer
Votes: 1,560 | Gross: $0.02M
39. The Souvenir: Part II (2021)
R | Drama | Completed
A young film student in the early 80s becomes romantically involved with a complicated and untrustworthy man.
Director: Joanna Hogg | Stars: Richard Ayoade, Tilda Swinton, Charlie Heaton, Joe Alwyn
40. Departure (III) (2015)
109 min | Drama, Romance
A nuclear family unravels in the South of France.
Director: Andrew Steggall | Stars: Juliet Stevenson, Alex Lawther, Phénix Brossard, Finbar Lynch
Votes: 2,161
41. The Reason I Jump (2020)
82 min | Documentary, Drama
Based on the book by Naoki Higashida, this immersive film explores the experiences of non-speaking autistic people around the world.
Director: Jerry Rothwell | Stars: Jim Fujiwara, David Mitchell, Jordan O'Donegan
Votes: 248
42. I Am Not a Witch (2017)
93 min | Comedy, Drama
In a remote Zambian community a girl is denounced as a witch and sent on a trajectory of exploitation, as a tethered member of a witches' camp, a witch for hire and a tourist exhibit.
Director: Rungano Nyoni | Stars: Maggie Mulubwa, Henry B.J. Phiri, Nancy Murilo, Margaret Spinella
Votes: 3,246 | Gross: $0.05M
43. Gwen (II) (2018)
84 min | Drama, History, Mystery
A folk tale set in the hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.
Director: William McGregor | Stars: Mark Lewis Jones, Richard Harrington, Maxine Peake, Eleanor Worthington-Cox
Votes: 2,254
44. No Ritmo da Sedução (2018)
100 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A dedicated single mother who, on an unusual night on the town, is charmed by a handsome yet troubled stranger.
Director: Tinge Krishnan | Stars: Michaela Coel, Mya Lewis, Arinzé Kene, George MacKay
Votes: 957
45. Lynn + Lucy (2019)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Lynn and Lucy are lifelong best friends, their relationship as intense as any romance. Neither has ventured far from where they grew up. Lynn, who married her first boyfriend and whose ... See full summary »
Director: Fyzal Boulifa | Stars: Roxanne Scrimshaw, Nichola Burley, Kacey Ainsworth, Jennifer Lee Moon
Votes: 788
46. Zero (V)
Thriller | Post-production
Set in a dystopian future, all adults have fled to the mainland. Two sisters will battle for survival and fight to find a safe haven.
Director: Faye Gilbert | Stars: Lauren Grace, Anya McKenna-Bruce, Oliver Woollford, Archie Renaux
47. Old Boys (2018)
96 min | Comedy
In the school-set re-working of Cyrano, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher.
Director: Toby MacDonald | Stars: Alex Lawther, Jonah Hauer-King, Pauline Etienne, Denis Ménochet
Votes: 994
48. Two for Joy (2018)
90 min | Drama
A troubled family's problems come to a head during a stay in a seaside town.
Director: Tom Beard | Stars: Samantha Morton, Billie Piper, Daniel Mays, Emilia Jones
Votes: 261
49. The Selfish Giant (2013)
91 min | Drama
Two thirteen year-old working-class friends in Bradford seek fortune by getting involved with a local scrap dealer and criminal.
Director: Clio Barnard | Stars: Conner Chapman, Shaun Thomas, Sean Gilder, Lorraine Ashbourne
Votes: 11,733 | Gross: $0.01M
50. Postcards from London (2018)
90 min | Drama
A stylish, sexy film about a young man's journey into an unusual form of escort work, set in an imaginary vision of London's Soho.
Director: Steve McLean | Stars: Harris Dickinson, Jonah Hauer-King, Alessandro Cimadamore, Leonardo Salerni
Votes: 965 | Gross: $0.01M