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Samira Ahmed
A Hard Day's Night

BFI Film Classics

How did a film made to capture a pop phenomenon become an enduring cinematic classic? With warmth, wit and precision, Samira Ahmed reveals how the Beatles' first film changed both the band themselves and …

lieferbar ab 2.4.2026.

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Corinn Columpar
Beau travail

BFI Film Classics

Beau Travail (1998) is Claire Denis' bold, sensuous masterpiece. Loosely based on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor (1924), the film explores the complexities of desire, identity, and power within an a…

lieferbar ab 11.6.2026.

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James Leggott
Billy Elliot

BFI Film Classics

Set against the turbulent backdrop of the UK miners' strike (1984-5), Billy Elliot (2000) follows eleven-year-old Billy as he pursues his dream of becoming a ballet dancer. Hailed for its heartfelt portra…

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Vlad Dima
Black Girl (La Noire de...)

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Ousmane Sembène was one of the greatest, most groundbreaking filmmakers in the history of cinema, an acclaimed novelist, and the most renowned African director of the twentieth century. Black Girl was his…

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Jon Lewis
Die Hard

BFI Film Classics

Upon its release, John McTiernan'sDie Hard(1988) was met with immense commercial and critical success; breaking the $100 million mark at the box office in its first run, and resulting in four Academy Awar…

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Richard Schickel
Double Indemnity

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Richard Schickel's study of Billy Wilder's 1944 noir classic Double Indemnity traces in fascinating detail the genesis and realisation of the film: its literary origins in James M. Cain's hard-boiled crim…

lieferbar ab 5.3.2026.

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Lee Hill
Easy Rider

BFI Film Classics

Easy Rider (1969) broke the mould of Hollywood studio production, making stars of Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, and launching a new wave of radical and experimental American cinema. One o…

lieferbar ab 14.5.2026.

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Matthew Tinkcom
Grey Gardens

BFI Film Classics

The Maysles brothers' documentary film Grey Gardens (1975) chronicles the everyday lives of two eccentric upper-class women, Edith Bouvier Beale and her mother Edith. The film has gained the status of cul…

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Youngmin Choe
Hanyo (The Housemaid)

BFI Film Classics

The upwardly mobile Kim family employs a young woman to help manage their new house. Mr. Kim begins an affair with the nameless 'housemaid', who soon drags the entire family into a terrible tragedy. The d…

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Nick James
Heat

BFI Film Classics

Robert de Niro and Al Pacino have acted opposite each other only once, in Heat, Michael Mann's operatic 1995 heist thriller. De Niro is Neil McCauley, a skilled professional thief at the centre of a tight…

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Julia Wagner
Hester Street

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Joan Micklin Silver's groundbreaking debut feature film, Hester Street (1975), vividly portrays the immigrant experience through the eyes of Gitl (Carol Kane), a young, Orthodox Jewish woman who arrives i…

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Mark Sinker
if....

BFI Film Classics

In his compelling study of if.... (1968), starring which stars Malcolm McDowell as an English public school student who leads a guerrilla insurgence, Mark Sinker traces director Lindsay Anderson's depicti…

lieferbar ab 19.3.2026.

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Tony Rayns
In the Mood for Love (Huayang Nianhua)

BFI Film Classics

Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000) is a film that luxuriates in the feeling of being in love - without ever turning into a love story. Its central characters, Mr Chow and Mrs Chan, are tenants in …

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Lalitha Gopalan
Kaagaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers)

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Guru Dutt's final film as a director, Kaagaz Ke Phool/Paper Flowers (1959), follows the successful film-maker Suresh Sinha (played by Dutt himself) as rumours of his affair with his actress Shanti (Waheed…

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Barbara Mennel
Mädchen in Uniform

BFI Film Classics

Leontine Sagan's Mädchen in Uniform (1931) is a groundbreaking German film that defied established societal norms, showcasing the power of women, both behind and in front of the camera.Adapted from Christ…

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Heather Hendershot
Nashville

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Robert Altman's Nashville (1975) is simultaneously an intimate film about interpersonal connection and disconnection, and a sprawling, meandering portrait of American societal exhaustion in the wake of Vi…

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Jon Hughes
People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag)

BFI Film Classics

Directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer, and with a script by Billy Wilder, People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) (1930) is now widely recognised as a landmark of Weimar cinema, which influenced It…

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Dana Polan
Pulp Fiction

BFI Film Classics

Pulp Fiction was one of the films that defined American cinema of the 1990s, and remains one of the stand-out movies of its director Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino's style - violent, fast, funny and full of…

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Glyn Davis
Rebel Without a Cause

BFI Film Classics

Nicholas Ray's 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause is a globally recognised landmark of post-war American cinema. The film follows twenty-four hours in the life of troubled teen Jim Stark (James Dean), the ne…

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Kimberly Lamm
Riddles of the Sphinx

BFI Film Classics

A classic of feminist avant-garde cinema, Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx (1977) follows the life of Louise (Dinah Stabb), a white middle-class woman living in London in the 1970s, a…

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