Films to watch on BBC iPlayer right now
Em McGowan
Who needs Netflix and Prime? The BBC offers a terrific collection of free movies. Here's our updated list of the best films on iPlayer.
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Who needs Netflix and Prime? BBC iPlayer has a terrific collection of films to watch – here’s our updated list of what to watch right now (and when they’re leaving the service).

Whilst all eyes tend to be on streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon Prime when it comes to movie updates, on the quiet the BBC iPlayer service continues to play host to a limited, diverse selection of films. What’s more, a good number of them you can download to your tablet to watch on the move.

So, without further ado, welcome to the weekly updated iPlayer film list. This list will be updated every week with the test available data from the BBC, in order of how long you have left to watch (so you can prioritise your viewing pleasure)

NEW! – denotes all new movies this week!

BRAND-NEW THIS WEEK: I Give It a Year, Manhunter, The Eagle Has Landed, The Importance of Being Earnest, Made in Dagenham, An Education, Legend

LEAVING THIS WEEK: Booksmart, Ant-Man, 27 Dresses, Loving, Pan’s Labyrinth, Licorice Pizza, Vice, I Saw the Light

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Booksmart (2019)

Amy and Molly, two academic superstars and best friends, on the eve of their high school graduation, suddenly realise that they should have worked less and played more. Determined never to fall short of their peers, the girls set out on a mission to cram four years of fun into one night.

BBC iPlayer – Booksmart

Ant-Man (2015)

Unable to find work after his release from prison, seasoned thief Scott Lang reverts to old habits to make a quick buck. After breaking into a San Francisco mansion and cracking its safe, he is disappointed to only find a suit inside. Little does Scott know, however, that the suit has the power to shrink its wearer whilst maintaining their strength.

BBC iPlayer – Ant-Man

27 Dresses (2015)

Jane Nicholas has been a bridesmaid at 27 weddings and is happy to work at a Manhattan magazine run by entrepreneur George, on whom she has an unrequited crush. When her younger sister Tess arrives back from Europe after a whirlwind romance, Jane is inevitably asked to be Tess’s bridesmaid. Jane’s happy routine is punctuated by Kevin, a cynical journalist who writes the ‘commitments’ column for a New York magazine.

BBC iPlayer – 27 Dresses

Available until 20th July 2024…

The Duke (2020)

Newcastle, 1961. Holding Goya’s Duke of Wellington portrait for a righteous ransom, eccentric Kempton Bunton must keep it hidden from his long-suffering wife Dorothy as well as the authorities.

BBC iPlayer – The Duke

Stan & Ollie (2018)

Once the world’s most famous comedy double act, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy reunite for a variety hall tour of Britain in 1953. As they set out on their demanding schedule, with their wives back home in the US, Stan is distracted by his attempts to pin down the producer of their proposed comeback film and Ollie tries to heal a rift caused by a perceived professional betrayal.

BBC iPlayer – Stan & Ollie

Loving (2017)

Virginia’s law against mixed-race marriage makes criminal exiles of Richard and Mildred Loving in 1958. The risky return to their rural roots comes as civil rights lawyers take up the couple’s case, despite Richard’s misgivings.

BBC iPlayer – Loving

Lover Come Back (1962)

Jerry Webster is a Madison Avenue advertising executive who has achieved success not through hard work or intelligence, but by wining and dining his big-shot clients. When ad executive Carol Templeton discovers that Jerry is after a lucrative new account, she tries everything to steal it away from him – not knowing that the product in question does not exist.

BBC iPlayer – Lover Come Back

Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)

Returning from France to rule Scotland, Mary Stuart gets a grudging welcome, while her cousin in England, Queen Elizabeth, must guard against Mary’s rival claim to her own throne. A clash of personalities, loyalties and faiths ensues, causing conflict and suffering for many years.

BBC iPlayer – Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)

Available until 21st July 2024…

The Edge of Seventeen (2019)

High school misfit Nadine, always eclipsed by her popular older brother, has only one friend, Krista, and one crush, on a boy who does not know she exists. Things change for the worse when Nadine feels betrayed by Krista and accidentally brings herself to the attention of the crush, Nick. Sarcastic teacher Mr Bruner might be her only ally.

BBC iPlayer – The Edge of Seventeen

Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

Franco’s Spain, 1944. Bookish young Ofelia, stuck in her sadistic new stepfather’s army outpost, where her ailing mother is to give birth, gets drawn to a fantastical alternate world – one just as disturbing and violent as the reality around her.

BBC iPlayer – Pans Labyrinth

Available until 22nd July 2024…

The Damned United (2019)

The story of Brian Clough’s 44-day stint as manager of Leeds United FC in 1974. When Don Revie quit Leeds to become the England boss, the outspoken Clough took charge. Determined to impose his own style upon Revie’s tough-tackling team, Clough soon alienated his players and the board.

BBC iPlayer – The Damned United

Available until 23rd July 2024…

Licorice Pizza (2021)

LA, 1973. Aimless 20-something Alana is drawn into the quirky world of 15-year-old Gary, a child actor and would-be entrepreneur, though Hollywood glamour is in short supply.

BBC iPlayer – Licorice Pizza

Available until 24th July 2024…

Vice (2018)

Quirky biographical drama chronicling the remarkable rise to power of the apparently unremarkable Dick Cheney, George W Bush’s vice-president, during 9/11 and beyond.

BBC iPlayer – Vice

Available until 25th July 2024…

I Saw the Light (2015)

Biopic of country music legend Hank Williams, following his rise to stardom and troubled marriage until his untimely death from drink and drug abuse.

BBC iPlayer – I Saw the Light

Early Man (2018)

Young Dug’s sheltered life with his Stone Age tribe is shattered by bronze-mining invaders, led by greedy Lord Nooth. To win his home back, desperate Dug gambles on challenging these more sophisticated folk in a contest they love, but he only knows from rock paintings: football.

BBC iPlayer – Early Man

Shaun the Sheep: The Movie (2015)

When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets more fun than he bargained for. A mix-up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead Shaun and the flock to the big city, and it is up to Shaun to return everyone to the green green grass of home.

BBC iPlayer – Shaun the Sheep: The Movie

Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon (2019)

When an alien crash-lands near the farm, Shaun has to help her return home before the Ministry of Alien Detection discovers her.

BBC iPlayer – Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon

Available until 26th July 2024…

Escape Room (2019)

Six strangers find themselves in a maze of deadly mystery rooms and must use their wits to survive.

BBC iPlayer – Escape Room

Spike Island (2012)

Drama set in 1990. Five Manchester friends and bandmates will stop at nothing to get to Spike Island, Cheshire, to see the Stone Roses in concert.

BBC iPlayer – Spike Island

The Battle of the River Plate (1956)

Second World War naval adventure based on the true story of the pursuit of the seemingly unstoppable German battleship Graf Spee. Allied forces chase the vessel all the way to South America, but, after several failed attempts to sink the enemy ship, the Allies find themselves hatching a desperate and audacious plan.

BBC iPlayer – The Battle of the River Plate

A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

Anarchic and offbeat 1960s story of 36 hours in the lives of The Beatles, as they travel to a TV show in London. The film uses a variety of cinematographic styles including documentary, surrealism and neorealism to create one of the milestone pictures of the decade.

BBC iPlayer – A Hard Days Night

Available until 27th July 2024…

Mary Queen of Scots (2018)

Young Catholic widow Mary Stuart returns to Scotland from France, determined to rule. But intolerant nobles seek to control her, and her older cousin Queen Elizabeth’s sympathies are torn.

BBC iPlayer – Mary Queen of Scots

On the Waterfront (1954)

Oscar-winning drama. A one-time boxing hopeful learns about responsibility through his love for the sister of a murdered docker. Music by Leonard Bernstein.

BBC iPlayer – On the Waterfront

Trolls World Tour (2020)

Six troll tribes clash over their devotion to different types of music. Queen Poppy has to prevent Queen Barb of the rock tribe from destroying all other music.

BBC iPlayer – Trolls World Tour

North by Worthwest (1959)

Classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller. When advertising executive Roger Thornhill is mistaken for the mysterious Mr Kaplan by a ruthless espionage ring, he soon faces deadly peril, framed for murder. On the run, Thornhill seeks Kaplan, the one person who can verify his story.

BBC iPlayer – North by Northwest

Available until 28th July 2024…

The Maze Runner (2014)

Sci-fi thriller. Trapped in a maze with no memory of how he got there, Thomas and the group of boys he has been deposited with battle to escape the mysterious and deadly labyrinth.

BBC iPlayer – The Maze Runner

Cyrano (2021)

The beautiful Roxanne is courted by the wealthy but charmless Duc de Guiche but has fallen instantly for the handsome Christian, a new recruit to the guards. Unbeknownst to her, she is also loved by Cyrano, a friend since childhood who is too self-conscious to express his love. Cyrano reluctantly helps the hopelessly tongue-tied Christian to woo Roxanne with his passionately eloquent love letters.

BBC iPlayer – Cyrano

Monsoon (2019)

Quasi-autobiographical drama. In Vietnam for the first time since boyhood, Kit is a Brit adrift. He has a task to perform, but will he allow the individuals he meets to help him achieve more?

BBC iPlayer – Monsoon

Available until 29th July 2024…

The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)

A young man with Down’s syndrome runs away from his care home to pursue his dream of becoming a wrestler.

BBC iPlayer – The Peanut Butter Falcon

My Week with Marilyn (2011)

It is 1956 and The Prince and the Showgirl is being made at Pinewood Studios in London, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier, who has recruited one of the biggest Hollywood stars of all time, Marilyn Monroe, to co-star with him. Colin Clark, a junior assistant on the production, is assigned the job of looking after Marilyn and keeps a journal about the week he spent with her. It proves to be a turbulent experience as Marilyn is going through marital problems with her husband and uses Colin as a much-needed sounding board for all her pent-up neurosis.

BBC iPlayer – My Week with Marilyn

Available until 30th July 2024…

The Sisters Brothers (2018)

Eli and Charlie Sisters, the most feared and ruthless gunslingers in 1851 Oregon, are sent down the Pacific Northwest coast on the hunt for a prospector called Hermann Kermit Warm. First, they have to find his secret, then they have to kill him.

BBC iPlayer – The Sisters Brothers

Red Joan (2019)

Following the story of Joan Stanley, a Cambridge science graduate who stole British nuclear secrets and passed them to the Soviet Union after WWII. Joan’s espionage activities remained unknown for decades, until her cover was blown and MI5 finally caught up with her in her 80s.

BBC iPlayer – Red Joan

Available until 1st August 2024…

Moulin Rouge! (2001)

When an idealistic poet is drawn into the dark and fantastical underworld of the Parisian nightclub the Moulin Rouge, he finds a seedy, glamorous haven of sex, drugs and electricity. He also finds himself plunged into a passionate love affair with the club’s star, who is also the city’s most famous courtesan, in this tragic love story from filmmaker Baz Luhrmann.

BBC iPlayer – Moulin Rouge!

Available until 2nd August 2024…

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)

Six people unwillingly find themselves locked in a series of escape rooms and must uncover what they have in common to survive. Joining forces with two of the survivors from the original game, they soon discover that they have all played it before.

BBC iPlayer – Escape Room: Tournament of Champions

The Woman in Black (2012)

A young solicitor travels to a remote village where he discovers that the vengeful ghost of a scorned woman is terrorizing the locals.

BBC iPlayer – The Woman in Black

Horrible Histories: The Movie (2019)

When Roman lad Atti offends edgy Emperor Nero, he is drafted to fight in far-flung Britain, where local Celt lass Orla itches to join Boudicca’s uprising against the occupying legions.

BBC iPlayer – Horrible Histories: The Movie

The BFG (1989)

The story of Sophie, an orphan who goes on a magical journey with a big friendly giant, creating wonderful dreams. However, there’s trouble ahead when they meet horrible giants who want to eat little children – will Sophie be able to stop them?

BBC iPlayer – Am B.F.G./The BFG

Available until 3rd August 2024…

Training Day (2001)

Taut urban crime drama following a rookie cop’s first day of training in an elite LAPD narcotics squad headed by a veteran policeman with an extreme, often morally questionable approach to law enforcement. The shell-shocked greenhorn is left to consider whether these unorthodox methods are an abuse of power or a necessary evil in a city overrun by violent crime.

BBC iPlayer – Training Day

Available until 4th August 2024…

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)

After escaping the maze, Thomas and the rest of the Gladers are faced with the challenge of uncovering the true motivations of the mysterious organization WCKD. Their journey ultimately takes them to a desolated landscape known as the Scorch.

BBC iPlayer – Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

House of Gucci (2021)

The rise and fall of the Gucci fashion empire, centred around the marriage of Maurizio Gucci and Patrizia Reggiani.

BBC iPlayer – House of Gucci

Available until 6th August 2024…

Gravity (2013)

A US space mission is destroyed when it is hit by flying debris. Seasoned astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) and brilliant medical engineer Dr Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) end up alone and drifting in space, tethered to nothing but each other.

BBC iPlayer – Gravity

Ordinary Love (2019)

Love doesn’t give up. Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville star as Joan and Tom in a raw and unflinching story of a couple coping with cancer.

BBC iPlayer – Ordinary Love

Available until 8th August 2024…

Who You Think I Am (2019)

To spy on her lover Ludo, 50-year-old Claire Millaud creates a fake profile on social media and becomes Clara, a beautiful 24-year-old. Alex, Ludo’s friend, is instantly enamoured. Claire, trapped by her avatar, falls madly in love with him. Although everything is played out in the virtual world, the feelings that blossom are quite real.

BBC iPlayer – Who You Think I Am

Available until 9th August 2024…

I Give It a Year (2013) NEW!

Opposites attract as upmarket Nat ties the knot with laid-back Josh. However, each faces adulterous temptation – casually handsome Guy and agreeably kooky Chloe. If family and friends have little faith in the marriage, can counselling keep the couple together?

I Give It a Year – BBC iPlayer

Manhunter (1986) NEW!

FBI criminal profiler Will Graham is called out of early retirement to assist on a serial murder case involving a killer known as the Tooth Fairy. Graham enlists the help of imprisoned serial killer and cannibal Dr Hannibal Lecktor, who is the reason Graham took an early retirement. Soon, Graham and the FBI are entangled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game between the Tooth Fairy, Lecktor and an interfering journalist.

Manhunter – BBC iPlayer

The Eagle Has Landed (1976) NEW!

All-action World War II adventure. On the morning of 6 November 1943, the military authorities in Berlin receive a simple message – ‘The Eagle Has Landed’. In a daring kidnap attempt, a small force of crack German paratroopers are poised to snatch Winston Churchill and return with him to Germany. If they succeed in their mission, it could alter the course of the war. Who can stop them?

The Eagle Has Landed – BBC iPlayer

Available until 10th August 2024…

The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) NEW!

Screen adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s celebrated play in which two Victorian gentlemen both adopt a double identity under the name of Ernest and end up in trouble when they both turn up at the same country house one weekend.

The Importance of Being Earnest – BBC iPlayer

The Band Wagon (1953) NEW!

Hollywood star Tony Hunter has not made a movie for three years. But, with persuasion from his old friends, he agrees to take the lead in a new Broadway show.

The Band Wagon – BBC iPlayer

Available until 11th August 2024…

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) NEW!

Based on a true heart-warming story. In the autumn of 1944, as war rages in the Pacific, New York heiress and founder of the Verdi Club Florence Foster Jenkins devotes her life to music with the unswerving support of her eminent actor and monologist husband St Clair Bayfield. Delighted to provide support for other musicians, she is finally inspired by a Lili Pons recital to revive her own singing career, despite having very little talent in that regard.

Florence Foster Jenkins – BBC iPlayer

Made in Dagenham (2010) NEW!

Comedy drama charting the fight of female factory workers at the Ford Dagenham plant for equal pay. In 1968, one determined factory worker leads her colleagues out on strike in the hope of eradicating unfair working conditions and sexual discrimination.

Made in Dagenham – BBC iPlayer

Available until 12th August 2024…

The Last Right (2019) NEW!

While dealing with his mother’s death and his autistic brother’s needs, New York lawyer Daniel must return a corpse from County Cork to Northern Ireland’s furthest reaches – a good deed that rapidly goes wrong.

The Last Right – BBC iPlayer

Available until 13th August 2024…

An Education (2010) NEW!

The story of a young girl’s choice between Oxford and the university of life. Sixteen and gifted, Jenny is destined for Oxford. Her parents’ own dreams of fulfilment are built on Jenny’s success. However, her eyes are opened to a world of glamorous possibility beyond the boundaries of suburbia when she meets the considerably older, distinctly urbane, David.

An Education – BBC iPlayer

Legend (2015) NEW!

The rise and decline of the Kray twins, London’s most legendary gangsters, set against the backdrop of the city in the Swinging Sixties.

Legend – BBC iPlayer

Available until 30th August 2024…

Close (2022)

The intense friendship between two 13-year-old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Leo approaches Sophie, Remi’s mother. Close is a film about friendship and responsibility.

BBC iPlayer – Close

Available until 3rd November 2024…

Tove (2020)

Biopic of Tove Jansson, the renowned Finnish artist, author and creator of the Moomins. Born in the 1910s to an artist family, young Tove is always creative, but from early on she has to contend with the shadow of her father, established Finnish sculptor Viktor Jansson. The film charts Tove’s formative years – her love affairs with philosopher Atos Wirtanen and theatre director Vivica Bandler, her early career as a painter, and how she came up with the Moomin characters that eventually made her famous.

BBC iPlayer – Tove

Available til Early 2024…

47 Metres Down: Uncaged (2019) (Available until July 2024)

Four teenage girls go on a diving adventure to explore a submerged Mayan city in Mexico. They soon face a battle for survival after discovering that the sunken ruins are home to a school of deadly great white sharks.

BBC iPlayer – 47 Meters Down: Uncaged

Citizen Kane (1941) (Available until July 2024)

Frequently voted one of the best films ever made, Orson Welles’s masterpiece tells the story of newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane in a series of flashbacks. A reporter is intrigued by the dying Kane’s last word – rosebud – and sets out to find a new angle on the life of one of the most powerful men in America. Nine Oscar nominations resulted in only one award for the outspoken Welles – Best Screenplay.

BBC iPlayer – Citizen Kane

Angel Face (1953) (Available until July 2024)

Chilling drama about a family chauffeur (Robert Mitchum) who gets embroiled in the murderous schemes of his employer, a beautiful female psychopath (Jean Simmons).

BBC iPlayer – Angel Face

Horror Express (1972) (Available until July 2024)

An English palaeontologist working in Manchuria in 1907 discovers a frozen two-million-year-old anthropoid monster with mystical powers. On the train journey home, the beast thaws, comes back to life and wreaks havoc among the passengers of the train. Classic cult horror starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.

BBC iPlayer – Horror Express

A Farewell to Arms (1932) (Available until July 2024)

In World War I, an American serving as an ambulance driver in Italy falls in love with a nurse in this adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s novel.

Papadopoulos and Sons (2012) (Available until July 2024)

After a financial market collapse, self-made millionaire Harry loses everything he has apart from an abandoned fish and chip shop half-owned by his estranged brother. With no alternative, Harry and his family are forced to abandon their old lifestyle and try to bring the old family business back to life.

Mission: Joy – With Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama (2022) (Available until July 2024)

Deeply moving and laugh-out-loud funny, Mission: Joy gives unprecedented access to the friendship between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the late Archbishop Tutu. The self-described ‘mischievous brothers’ were filmed over five days by an award-winning team who captured a relationship built on truth, honesty and, most importantly, joy.

BBC iPlayer – Mission: Joy – With Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama

Masked and Anonymous (2004) (Available until July 2024)

Written by and starring Bob Dylan and set in the near-future in a fictional America. Against the backdrop of a nation on the brink of revolution, a singer, whose career has gone on a downward spiral, is forced to make a comeback to the performance stage for a benefit concert.

Tycoon (1947) (Available until July 2024)

Romantic melodrama about an engineer battling to build a railroad in the Andes while trying to save his marriage to the boss’s daughter. After wedding his bride against her father’s wishes, he then jeopardises his marriage and the railroad enterprise by single-mindedly battling to get the extraordinary engineering project completed on time and within budget.

Don’t Take Me Home (2020) (Available until July 2024)

In 2015, Wales hadn’t qualified for a major football tournament since 1958. When the young national manager, Gary Speed, tragically took his own life in 2011, a youthful side and nation was left devastated. Qualification felt further away than ever and less important. However, spurred on by the enduring memory of the late manager, Wales qualified for Euro 2016. How would they fare?

BBC iPlayer – Dont Take Me Home

Food for Ravens (1997) (Available until July 2024)

Powerful drama on the life of Aneurin Bevan, founder of the National Health Service. Written by Trevor Griffiths, the play focuses on Bevan’s final days, showing him musing on his life and career from his sickbed in Buckinghamshire.

BBC iPlayer – Food for Ravens

Effie Gray (2014) (Available until July 2024)

When young Effie Gray becomes the wife of John Ruskin, one of the most distinguished writers and critics of the day, who has known her since her childhood, it soon becomes apparent that Ruskin regards her as a muse rather than a wife, and the stifling atmosphere of their home and Ruskin’s overbearing wealthy parents soon take a toll on Effie’s health.

BBC iPlayer – Effie Gray

Love Affair (1939) (Available until September 2024)

A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, after he has had a chance to earn a decent living.

Kitty Foyle (1940) (Available until September 2024)

A hard-working, white-collar girl from a middle-class family meets and falls in love with a young socialite, but she soon clashes with his family.

Citizen Kane (1941) (Available until September 2024)

Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; ‘Rosebud’.

Bringing Up Baby (1938) (Available until September 2024)

While trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled palaeontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby.

Vivacious Lady (1938) (Available until September 2024)

A professor marries a nightclub singer, much to the consternation of his family and friends back home.

The Velvet Touch (1948) (Available until September 2024)

A Broadway star unintentionally kills her impresario but keeps mum about it when the police investigator targets a rival actress.

The Sky’s the Limit (1943) (Available until September 2024)

Flying Tiger Fred Atwell sneaks away from his famous squadron’s personal appearance tour and goes incognito for several days of leave. He quickly falls for photographer Joan Manion, pursuing her in the guise of a carefree drifter.

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) (Available until September 2024)

Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperilled.

King Kong (1933) (Available until September 2024)

A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition.

The Spanish Main (1945) (Available until September 2024)

After being wronged by the Caribbean authorities, a Dutch captain turns pirate to wage war.

Angel Face (1952) (Available until September 2024)

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.

My Favourite Wife (1940) (Available until September 2024)

Missing for seven years and presumed dead, a woman returns home on the day of her husband’s second marriage.

Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) (Available until September 2024)

A man and his wife decide they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It’s a lot more trouble than they think.

Blackbeard the Pirate (1952) (Available until September 2024)

Honest Edward Maynard finds himself serving as ship’s surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) (Available until September 2024)

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.

Wagon Master (1950) (Available until September 2024)

Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cut-throats, Indians, geography, and moral challenges on the journey.

Beautiful but Dangerous (1954) (Available until September 2024)

Lina, a music hall singer, has fallen in love with Sergei, a Russian prince. Maestro Doria, who gives her voice lessons and who hopes to make her his mistress, takes her to Paris where she becomes the star of the “Folies-Plastiques”.

Top Hat (1935) (Available until September 2024)

An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.

Carefree (1938) (Available until September 2024)

A psychiatrist agrees to hypnotize his friend’s girlfriend in order to convince her to accept his proposals of marriage, but she ends up falling for the psychiatrist instead.

The Gay Divorce (1934) (Available until September 2024)

An American woman travels to England to seek a divorce from her absentee husband, where she meets – and falls for – a dashing performer.

Suspicion (1941) (Available until September 2024)

A shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her.

Fort Apache (1948) (Available until September 2024)

At Fort Apache, an honourable and veteran war captain finds conflict when his regime is placed under the command of a young, glory hungry lieutenant colonel with no respect for the local Indian tribe.

The Miracle of the Bells (1948) (Available until September 2024)

Granting her final request, a Hollywood press agent brings the dead body of an actress, who died after making her first and only film, back to her home town for burial. To arouse public interest, and to get the reluctant studio head to release the film, he asks all the local churches to ring their bells for three days.

Letter from an Unknown Woman (1947) (Available until September 2024)

Classic melodrama in which a young woman falls in love with a concert pianist, beginning a lifelong infatuation. The story of unrequited love is told through a series of flashbacks as the pianist finally comes to read a letter from the dying woman he never really knew.

Double Dynamite (1951) (Available until September 2024)

Bank teller Johnny Dalton, too poor to marry his sweetheart, saves a big-time bookie from a beating and receives a munificent reward… which just happens to match a mysterious shortage at the bank.

Rosie (2018) (Available until September 2024)

Mother-of-four Rosie tries to keep her young family afloat as they become homeless when their rented house is put on the market for a price they can’t afford. The story unfolds over 36 hours, as Rosie’s partner John-Paul works long hours in a restaurant kitchen, while she spends the day driving around with the kids and making countless phone calls in the search for emergency accommodation.

The Outlaw (1943) (Available until September 2024)

Unconventional western about the life of outlaw Billy the Kid, including his partnership with Doc Holliday and clashes with lawman Pat Garrett. Stars Jane Russell and Jack Buetel.

Gold Run (2022) (Available until September 2024)

​​This is the incredible true story of how 55 tonnes of gold was transported through rough winter landscapes on trucks, trains and boats​ by a group of unlikely resistance fighters ahead of the invading Nazi forces.​

BBC iPlayer – Gold Run

The Babadook (2014) (Available until September 2024)

Widow Amelia’s worries over her high-strung young son’s behaviour worsen when a mysterious pop-up book inspires fresh fears.

Boiling Point (2019) (Available until October 2024)

During the busy run-up to Christmas, a single-take snapshot of the immense stress and skills of a talented head chef reveals that things are about to burst behind the restaurant’s flash façade.

BBC iPlayer – Boiling Point (2019 Short Film)

Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave (1995) (Available until September 2023)

Oscar-winning claymation comedy thriller from Nick Park, featuring the popular inventor and his dog. Wallace’s whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep rustling in a fiendish criminal plot, meeting a sheep named Shaun along the way. Will Wallace snap out of his daze in time to rescue his canine companion?

BBC iPlayer – Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave

Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993) (Available until September 2023)

Oscar-winning animated adventure featuring Wallace and Gromit. The duo are plunged into a hilarious tale of skulduggery involving an extraordinary pair of automated trousers and a villainous penguin. Featuring Peter Sallis as the voice of Wallace.

BBC iPlayer – Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers

Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1992) (Available until September 2023)

Bafta-winning, Oscar-nominated claymation by Nick Park, which introduced the world to inventor Wallace and his canine companion Gromit. The pair blast off in a homemade rocket to go on a bank holiday outing to the moon and test the theory that it is made of cheese. What they find there surprises them.

BBC iPlayer – Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out

Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008) (Available until September 2023)

Wallace and Gromit have opened a new bakery – Top Bun – and business is booming, not least because a deadly Cereal Killer has murdered all the other bakers in town. Gromit is worried that they may be the next victims, but Wallace does not care, as he has fallen head over heels in love with Piella Bakewell, former star of the Bake-O-Lite bread commercials. So Gromit is left to run things on his own, when he would much rather be getting better acquainted with Piella’s lovely pet poodle Fluffles.

BBC iPlayer – Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death

Ali & Ava (2021) (Available until October 2024)

Devoted mother and grandmother Ava, a teaching assistant with a love of country and folk music, is offered a lift home from school by the charismatic Ali, who is estranged from his wife but continuing with the charade of marital domesticity for the sake of their close-knit relatives in Bradford. On the journey, they find many things in common, including a love of music, and begin an unusual and secretive courtship.

BBC iPlayer – Ali & Ava

The Eichmann Show (2015) (Available until October 2024)

The behind-the-scenes true life story of groundbreaking producer Milton Fruchtman and blacklisted TV director Leo Hurwitz, who, overcoming enormous obstacles, set out to capture the testimony of one of the war’s most notorious Nazis, Adolf Eichmann. He is accused of executing the ‘final solution’ and organising the murder of six million Jews. This is the extraordinary story of how Eichmann’s trial came to be televised and the team that made it happen.

BBC iPlayer – The Eichmann Show

An Ideal Husband (1999) (Available until October 2024)

Sir Robert Chiltern, a brilliant politician and a perfect gentleman, is the ideal husband for the morally upstanding Lady Chiltern. They have a widely envied marriage until charming Mrs Cheveley appears with the intention of revealing a dark secret from Chiltern’s past.

BBC iPlayer – An Ideal Husband

Moonlight (2016) (Available until October 2024)

A coming-of-age drama that presents the childhood, adolescence and early adult life of Chiron, born to a drug-addicted single mother in Miami and facing difficulties with his sexuality and identity. His first role model is the Afro-Cuban drug dealer Juan, who takes pity on the bullied youth.

BBC iPlayer – Moonlight

Macbeth (1948) (Available until November 2024)

Classic film version of Shakespeare’s play about a Scottish nobleman heavily influenced by his wife’s lust for power. Dominated by actor/director/producer Orson Welles, both in terms of his screen presence and his departures from the text, the film was shot in just 23 days in the summer of 1947.

BBC iPlayer – Macbeth

Bulldozer (2022) (Available until November 2024)

Ray’s estate is being bulldozed. On the way to a fireworks night, Ray and her daughter take a detour through the new development that is being built in its place.

BBC iPlayer – Bulldozer

King Lear (2018) (Available until November 2024) The 80-year-old King Lear divides his kingdom among his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia, according to their affection for him. Cordelia refuses to flatter him, so he banishes her. Having acquired power, Goneril and Regan expel their father from their homes. At the same time, Lear’s prime minister, Gloucester, is betrayed by his son Edmund and his other son, Edgar, is forced to go into hiding. Lear becomes mad, Gloucester is blinded: both the kingdom and the family collapse into chaos and warfare. Lear and Cordelia are reunited; for a brief moment love reigns, then tragedy descends.

BBC iPlayer – King Lear

Black Box (2021) (Available until November 2024)

Obsessive forensic analyst Mathieu Vasseur is disappointed to be sidelined in the examination of the black box of an Atrian 800 airliner which has mysteriously crashed in the Alps.

BBC iPlayer – Black Box

Schemers (2023) (Available until November 2024)

Davie is a dreamer from the council schemes, constantly hustling for his next buck then losing it on the horses. After a football injury, Davie falls for trainee nurse Shona and tries to impress her by running a disco. Along with friends John and Scot, Davie starts promoting bands, culminating in a hugely ambitious Iron Maiden gig at Caird Hall in Dundee.

BBC iPlayer – Schemers

Let It Snow (2020) (Available until November 2024)

A thrill-seeking American couple are determined to experience snowboarding – but they must survive against not only nature but a malevolent snowmobile rider, seemingly out for their blood.

BBC iPlayer – Let It Snow

The Curse of the Cat People (1944) (Available until November 2024)

The follow-up to the seminal Cat People, this is the tale of a lonely young girl who conjures up the spirit of Irena – her father’s first wife – to provide herself with a companion. But Irena believed herself to be descended from a race of cat people, and before long the fiendish feline is on the prowl again.

BBC iPlayer – The Curse of the Cat People

Lizard (2021) (Available until November 2024)

After eight-year-old Juwon, who has the ability to sense danger, gets removed from Bible class by her Sunday school teacher, she follows an agama lizard into the bowels of the Heaven’s Gate mega church. Her journey into the labyrinth exposes the inner financial workings and hidden activities behind the scenes, plunging her deeper and deeper – until she is confronted by a spellbinding sermon and a congregation worshipping in a hypnotised frenzy.

BBC iPlayer – Lizard

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) (Available until November 2024)

Angelina Jolie is Lara Croft (until Alicia Vikander anyway), as the eponymous heroine of the classic video games races against time to find an ancient relic before the planets align for the first time in 5,000 years. Can she save the day? The sequel’s below so chances are, she might…

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) (Available until November 2024)

Angelina Jolie is Lara Croft, again. Lara discovers that the mythical Pandora’s Box is no myth, and must once again race against time to prevent an evil billionaire bio-weapons dealer from finding it and unleashing its plague onto the world. Can she save the day once more?

Equals (2015) (Available until November 2024)

In a future society which lives under the Collective, citizens are mentally stabilised, and all emotions and illnesses are eradicated. Alerted to an outbreak of switched-on syndrome, a disease which is gradually restoring emotions to the victims, Silas notices that his co-worker Nia is betraying feelings, and when he is diagnosed with the condition, the couple begin a dangerous affair.

BBC iPlayer – EqualsFinal Cut (2022) (Available until December 2024)

A small film crew shooting a low-budget zombie movie remake for a live broadcast find that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. In French with English subtitles.

BBC iPlayer – Final Cut

Three Faces (2018) (Available until December 2024)

Actress Behnaz Jafari is distraught when she comes across a young girl’s video plea for help after her family prevents her from taking up her studies at the Tehran drama conservatory. Behnaz abandons her shoot and turns to the film-maker Jafar Panahi to help her with the young girl’s troubles. They travel by car to the rural, Azeri-speaking north west of Iran, where they encounter the charming and generous folk of the girl’s mountain village. But Behnaz and Jafar also discover that old traditions die hard.

BBC iPlayer – Three Faces

Kindling (2022) (Available until December 2024)

A group of young men return to their home town in order to turn their friend’s final days into a celebration of life and friendship.

BBC iPlayer – Kindling

The Last Bus (2021) (Available until December 2024)

Tom, an elderly widower, uses his trusty free bus pass to take a series of local buses on a deeply nostalgic trip across the length of the UK, from John o’Groats to Land’s End. His mission is to fulfil a promise he made to his late wife to take her back to the place where they first met and lived happily together.

BBC iPlayer – The Last Bus

Eat the Peach (1986) (Available until December 2024)

Inspired by the 1964 Elvis Presley film Roustabout, Vinnie (Stephen Brennan) and Arthur (Eamon Morrissey) decide to build their own ‘Wall of Death’, a high-walled, barrel-like tank where centrifugal force keeps the rider circling up in the air. Against his wife’s wishes, Vinnie clears a patch near his house and begins work, with the aim being that the wall will be a source of income as people buy tickets to watch his and Arthur’s daring performances.

BBC iPlayer – Eat the Peach

Persian Lessons (2020) (Available until December 2024)

World War II. Gilles, a young Jewish man in a concentration camp, has his life saved when executioners realise he owns a Persian book. Brought before a camp officer who wants to learn Farsi, Gilles agrees to teach him despite not knowing a word of the language. Being a favourite of this officer may keep him alive, but that depends on how long GIlles can sustain the lie.

BBC iPlayer – Persian Lessons

Any One of Us (2020) (Available until January 2025)

When professional mountain biker Paul Basagoitia experiences a devastating spinal cord injury (SCI), his life is changed in an instant. Discovering that he’s become paralysed, Paul begins an intense physical and emotional journey to recover and adapt, initially living in the hope of one day being able to walk again as he once did. His excruciating recovery unfolds in real time through raw, intimate footage- much of which was filmed by Paul himself- as we see him wrestle with the agonies of an unpredictable journey and uncertain future.

BBC iPlayer – Any One Of Us

I Walked With a Zombie (1943) (Available until January 2025)

Young Canadian nurse Betsy comes to the West Indies to care for the wife of a plantation manager in an offbeat zombie horror movie. From the director of aforementioned Cat People.

A Woman’s Secret (1949) (Available until January 2025)

Drama directed by Nicholas Ray. A singer grooms a talented youngster for success, only to confess to the murder when her protege is found shot dead.

BBC iPlayer – A Womans Secret

The Mother (2004) (Available until January 2025)

Drama about a widow who goes to stay with her grown up son and daughter. As she begins to come to terms with the past, she embarks on a startling new relationship with her daughter’s boyfriend, which causes havoc in the family.

BBC iPlayer – The Mother

Bulldozer (2022) (Available until January 2025)

Ray’s estate is being bulldozed. On the way to a fireworks night, Ray and her daughter take a detour through the new development that is being built in its place.

BBC iPlayer – Bulldozer

Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009) (Available until January 2025)

Comedy about three ordinary men who hold the fate of the world in their hands when they discover a rift in the space-time continuum in their local pub. Chris O’Dowd stars.

BBC iPlayer – Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel

Red Dust (2004) (Available until January 2025)

A woman leaves her law career in New York to return to South Africa to assist an old friend as prosecutor on a Truth Commission hearing. The man she is representing, a social activist, is shocked to discover that the former police deputy who once tortured him is now seeking amnesty for his actions.

BBC iPlayer – Red Dust

Love + Hate (2008) (Available until January 2025)

A love story set across the racial frontline in a town in northern England. Adam has been brought up in a community that fosters racial hatred. Naseema is a second-generation Asian who abhors the way her peers have espoused violence as a way of reclaiming the lost pride of their fathers. But what they share is a privately held desire to break free from their small town, something they discover they have in common whilst working at the local DIY store.

BBC iPlayer – Love + Hate

Opal Dream (2006) (Available until January 2025)

Pobby and Dingan are invisible. They live in an opal town in Australia and are friends with Kellyanne, the nine-year-old daughter of an opal miner. The film tells the story of the bizarre and inexplicable disappearance of Pobby and Dingan, Kellyanne’s imaginary friends, and the impact this has on her family and the whole town. The story is told through the eyes of Kellyanne’s eleven-year-old brother Ashmol.

BBC iPlayer – Opal Dream

My Summer of Love (2004) (Available until January 2025)

In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. Over the summer season, the two young women discover they have much to teach one another, and much to explore together. Mona, behind a spiky exterior, hides an untapped intelligence and a yearning for something beyond the emptiness of her daily life; Tamsin is well-educated, spoiled and cynical. Complete opposites, each is wary of the other’s differences when they first meet, but this coolness soon melts into mutual fascination, amusement and attraction.

BBC iPlayer – My Summer of Love

Expensive Sh*t (2022) (Available until January 2025)

In a Glasgow nightclub, Tolu, a Nigerian toilet attendant desperate for survival, manipulates the behaviour of unsuspecting women for the titillation of men watching behind the mirrors. But tonight, a line has been crossed, and as the night spins out of control, Tolu has to find the strength to change everything.

BBC iPlayer – Expensive Sh*t

2003 (2021) (Available until January 2025)

Before embarking on his first tour of duty, a young soldier and his father must face up to the painful realities that have long gone unspoken between them.

BBC iPlayer – 2003

Bill (2015) (Available until October 2024)

While King Philip of Spain plots to kill Queen Elizabeth of England, young Bill Shakespeare leaves Stratford to follow his latest dream, to be a playwright in London – despite the theatres being closed due to plague. Luckily the Queen desires a new play – unluckily she chooses creepy Lord Crawley to write it.

BBC iPlayer – Bill

Man on the Moon (1999) (Available until January 2025)

Star of Taxi and Saturday Night Live, Andy Kaufman was a troubled individual for whom the boundaries of reality and stage performance were often blurred. Frequently misunderstood, even by those closest to him, he remained a strictly maverick entertainer until his untimely death from lung cancer in 1984.

BBC iPlayer – Man on the Moon

Wonder Boys (2000) (Available until January 2025)

Pittsburgh English Professor Grady Tripp cannot finish his latest novel. Nor can he handle his wife leaving, his girlfriend’s pregnancy announcement, the arrival of his editor or a strange talented student seeking mentorship – all in the same week

BBC iPlayer – Wonder Boys

A Simple Plan (1998) (Available until January 2025)

Minnesota. Winter. Hank and Jacob Mitchell and their pal Lou find a downed single-engine plane buried in the snowy woods. Inside it is a decaying pilot and a bag carrying $4 million. The men decide to hide the money until spring when the snow has melted and the plane is found. But nothing goes as planned…

BBC iPlayer – A Simple Plan

Primary Colors (1998) (Available until January 2025)

No red, blue or yellow in sight, this is actually John Travolta at a career best as Jack Stanton, a governor running an election campaign for President. Based on an anonymous insider novel on the 1992 Clinton campaign.

BBC iPlayer – Primary Colors

The Relic (1997) (Available until January 2025)

A container of findings from a Natural History Museum expedition in South America is sent to Chicago, and coincidentally a series of violent murders occurs soon after. Turns out it’s a lizard-like monster who’s eating people.

BBC iPlayer – The Relic

Twelve Monkeys (1995) (Available until January 2025)

A deadly virus, believed to be released by a group known as the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, wipes out almost all of humanity in 1996. In 2035, James Cole is sent back in time to find the original virus to find a cure. Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt lead this neo-noir science fiction cult favourite.

BBC iPlayer – Twelve Monkeys

HyperNormalisation (2016) (Available until January 2025)

This film is the epic story of how we got to this strange place. It explains not only why these chaotic events are happening – but also why we, and our politicians, cannot understand them.

BBC iPlayer – HyperNormalisation

The Jackal (1997) (Available until January 2025)

Fictitious story based upon Carlos the Jackal, Bruce Willis stars as The Jackal, a master of disguise assassin hired to carry out a hit on a high profile American government target as retaliation for the US meddling in Russian business.

Holiday Affair (1949) (Available until January 2025)

Connie is a war widow devoted to her small son, Timmy. Carl is the solid man she intends to marry in order to achieve security. But Steve, a drifter in Christmastime New York, comes into their lives and proceeds to woo Connie through her little boy’s desire for a train set.

The Gay Divorce (1934) (Available until January 2025)

Guy Holden comes to the rescue of a trapped damsel in distress in a crowded customs shed. More frustrating encounters follow until Mimi mistakes Guy for a professional correspondent in a Brighton hotel.

BBC iPlayer – The Gay Divorce

Bringing Up Baby (1938) (Available until January 2025)

Classic screwball comedy about a madcap heiress who makes a shambles of an absent-minded palaeontologist’s life when she arrives on the scene complete with her pet leopard. The film’s rollercoaster plot formed the basis for 1972’s What’s Up, Doc? and is notable for Katharine Hepburn’s foray into zany comedy.

BBC iPlayer – Bringing Up Baby

Suspicion (1941) (Available until January 2025)

Classic thriller in which a timid heiress becomes convinced that her husband is trying to kill her. After escaping from her oppressive parents, the woman meets and marries a fortune hunter. At first, her happiness prevents her from reflecting on his character, but when events take a sinister twist, she fears that his intentions are murderous.

BBC iPlayer – Suspicion

She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) (Available until January 2025)

In the second in John Ford’s cavalry trilogy, a US cavalry officer suffers a setback on his last mission and is ‘retired’ before he can take further action. To avert a full-scale war, he decides to act alone.

BBC iPlayer – She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

Yellow Canary (1943) (Available until January 2025)

Wartime thriller set aboard a ship bound for Canada from Britain, in which an undercover agent is approached by a Nazi spy with a scheme to sabotage a British convoy in Nova Scotia.

Sylvia Scarlett (1935) (Available until January 2025)

Comedy drama in which a widowed, ne’er-do-well father on the run disguises his daughter as a boy to escape the law. They travel from France to England in a bid to start afresh and, during the journey, the pair make the acquaintance of a jewel thief.

Second Chance (1953) (Available until January 2025)

A disillusioned boxer and a gangster’s fugitive girlfriend meet in Mexico where they are trying to rebuild their lives. However, their growing romance is shadowed by a killer.

Anne of Green Gables (1934) (Available until January 2025)

Adaptation of LM Montgomery’s Canadian classic following the adventures of determined, imaginative optimist Anne Shirley. Middle-aged brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert want some help on the farm, so they decide to adopt a boy. However, the orphanage sends them a girl by mistake.

Anne of Windy Poplars (1940) (Available until January 2025)

Sentimental drama about an ambitious young teacher who arrives in a small town to take the job of vice-principal. Based on one of L M Montgomery’s ‘Anne of Green Gables’ sequels.

Primrose Path (1940) (Available until January 2025)

Teenager Ellie May lives on the wrong side of the tracks with her family, and when she meets handsome beach café owner Ed, they quickly fall in love and get married. Ellie May tries to keep Ed from learning of her background and when he finally meets her family it causes a major strain on the relationship.

Bachelor Knight (1947) (Available until January 2025)

Comedy about a teacher (Cary Grant) whose playboy antics are curbed by a judge who insists that he romance a girl (Shirley Temple), until her crush on him wears off.

I Remember Mama (1948) (Available until January 2025)

Saga about a family of Norwegian immigrants struggling to get by in San Francisco at the turn of the century. At the heart of the penniless family is the warm, caring figure of the mother, Mama Hanson, who is surrounded by a variety of engaging and loveable relatives and friends.

Hotel Reserve (1944) (Available until January 2025)

An atmospheric thriller based in the south of France prior to the outbreak of World War II. While on holiday at the Hotel Reserve, an Austrian medical student is wrongly charged with espionage by the French police. Threatened with deportation, he is forced to embark on a search for the real spy among the hotel guests.

The Thing from Another World (1951) (Available until January 2025)

Scientists at a lonely Arctic outpost dig up an alien from the permafrost and face a desperate fight for their lives when it is accidentally thawed. Famously re-made in 1982 by John Carpenter as ‘The Thing’.

A Damsel in Distress (1937) (Available until January 2025)

Sparkling Gershwin musical-comedy. A dance star pursues an aristocratic heiress. Songs include Foggy Day in London Town, Nice Work If You Can Get It.

Alice in Wonderland (1966) (Available until January 2025)

Adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Starring Ann-Marie Mallik, Michael Redgrave and Peter Sellers. Directed by Jonathan Miller.

BBC iPlayer – Alice in Wonderland

Aftersun (2022) (Available until February 2025)

Sophie is beginning to remember a formative holiday her divorced dad Calum took her on as a child. What her 11-year-old self experienced is now conjuring up things that perhaps went unseen.

BBC iPlayer – Aftersun

Full Time (2021) (Available until February 2025)

Single mother of two children Julie Roy is the head chambermaid at a five-star hotel in central Paris. Her commute from the suburbs is precision-timed, as she relies on a tolerant neighbour for childcare.

BBC iPlayer – Full Time

The Commitments (1991) (Available until February 2025)

Jimmy Rabbitte, an unemployed Dublin boy, decides to put together a soul band made up entirely of the Irish working class.

BBC iPlayer – The Commitments

Anna Karenina (1961) (Available until February 2025)

Anna, the wife of government minister Alexis Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexis Vronsky falls in love with her. Television adaptation of a play based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel by Marcelle Maurette.

BBC iPlayer – Anna Karenina

Sicario (2015) (Available until February 2025)

FBI special agents Kate Macer and Reggie Wayne lead a raid on a drug cartel safe house in Chandler, Arizona, where two police officers are killed. Subsequently recruited to a joint task force overseen by CIA officer Matt Graver and a secretive ex-prosecutor Alejandro Gillick to flush out and apprehend a cartel drug lord, Kate is soon out of her depth in the murky world of a lawless borderland.

BBC iPlayer – Sicario

The Railway Station Man (1993) (Available until February 2025)

Painter Helen Cuffe has fled to Donegal with her young son Jack after the killing of her husband in Northern Ireland. She lives in isolation until she meets a mysterious, disabled American, who is obsessed with restoring an abandoned railway station. Romance blossoms, but then a group of so-called freedom fighters decides to store arms in the railway station – and enlists the help of Helen’s son.

BBC iPlayer – The Railway Station Man

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019) (Available until February 2025)

Oscar-nominated Bhutanese drama. Disillusioned young teacher Ugyen dreams of moving to Australia to pursue a singing career but instead finds himself posted to the most remote school in the world – high in the Himalayan mountains.

BBC iPlayer – Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947) (Available until April 2025)

Drama set in 19th-century Paris. Adapted from the novel by Guy de Maupassant, the film tells the story of Georges Duroy, a womanising rogue whose ambitions to gain wealth and social status leave a string of broken hearts in his wake.

BBC iPlayer – The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) (Available until April 2025)

Star-studded recreation of the death throes of the greatest empire in world history. After Marcus Aurelius is poisoned, the role of emperor goes not to his adopted son as he had wished, but to his cruel son Commodus – who soon displays a tyrannical streak.

BBC iPlayer – The Fall of the Roman Empire

Master Cheng (2019) (Available until April 2025)

Professional chef Cheng arrives in a remote Finnish village with his young son looking for ‘Fongtron’, but nobody can help him. Sarkki, owner of the local café, offers them a meal and a room. Cheng repays her hospitality by cooking his own food, which soon entrances the locals.

BBC iPlayer – Master Cheng

Dolly Parton – Here I Am (2019) (Available until April 2025)

A landmark documentary that explores the extraordinary life and music of Dolly Parton. From her humble beginnings to her global success, the film discovers how a young girl from the Smoky Mountains conquered Nashville to become the queen of country music.

BBC iPlayer – Dolly Parton – Here I Am

Mr Jones (2019) (Available until March 2025)

Drama based on a true story. In 1933, suspicious of Russia’s miraculous resurgence under Stalin, Gareth Jones escapes Moscow’s decadence and discovers Ukraine’s desperation. However, it is not just the Soviets who want word of the terrible reality suppressed.

BBC iPlayer – Mr Jones

Luzzu (2021) (Available until April 2025)

Jesmark, like his father before him, makes a precarious living from fishing on his 12-foot luzzu on the inshore waters of Malta. On learning that his infant son is not showing normal growth and needs specialist attention, his financial situation becomes critical, and he has to make a potentially life-changing decision.

BBC iPlayer – Luzzu

Eternal Beauty (2019) (Available until April 2025)

Jilted at the altar as a young woman, Jane has been living with depression and paranoid schizophrenia for many years. But one day, while attending a mental health clinic, Jane runs into the flamboyant but equally troubled Mike, who opens a window of opportunity to experience life as never before.

BBC iPlayer – Eternal Beauty

El Cid (1961) (Available until April 2025)

The epic story of the 11th-century Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, better known as El Cid. Involved in a tempestuous marriage to the beautiful Chimene, Rodrigo plots against various royal factions to gain power after the death of King Ferdinand, but his greatest campaign is to rid Spain of its Moorish invaders. He drives the Moors to their last outpost – Valencia – for a tumultuous and decisive battle.

BBC iPlayer – El Cid

Wagon Master (1950) (Available until April 2025)

Poetic story of a pioneering Mormon community. Forced out of Crystal City, a group of Mormons head westward in search of the promised land. The journey is treacherous, and two footloose horse traders are persuaded to ‘give the Lord a hand’ and guide them across the desert. On the trail, the wagon train encounters travelling entertainers, fugitive gunfighters and Native Americans.

BBC iPlayer – Wagon Master

Rancho Notorious (1952) (Available until April 2025)

Unusual western about a young man hunting for the brutal killers of his fiancee. The only clue he has is the mysterious word ‘Chuck-a-Luck’ whispered by a dying victim. A rare foray into the genre for director Fritz Lang.

BBC iPlayer – Rancho Notorious

Fort Apache (1948) (Available until April 2025)

The first of John Ford’s cavalry trilogy, in which a commanding officer, bitter at his demotion after the Civil War, takes his resentment out on the men of Fort Apache, a remote outpost in the Arizona desert. He is determined to tighten up discipline but eventually shows his ignorance of American Indian behaviour when he leads his troops into a deadly confrontation.

BBC iPlayer – Fort Apache

Blue Story (2018) (Available until April 2025)

A feature adaptation of Rapman’s YouTube series about two young south London friends from different boroughs and their deepening relationships with gangs and girls.

BBC iPlayer – Blue Story

I Am Greta (2020) (Available until April 2025)

The story of teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is told through compelling, never-before-seen footage in this intimate documentary about a young girl who has become the voice of a generation. Starting with her one-person school strike for climate justice outside the Swedish Parliament, the film follows Greta – a shy student with Asperger’s – as she rises to prominence, and her galvanising global impact as she sparks school strikes around the world.

BBC iPlayer – I Am Greta

Cat People (1942) (Available until April 2025)

Serbian Irena arrives in New York and meets Oliver. They soon fall in love and marry, but Irena fears she suffers from an ancient curse from her homeland that means they can never be intimate, or she might literally kill him.

BBC iPlayer – Cat People

The Blair Witch Project (1999) (Available until March 2025)

On the trail of a local legend about a witch, three student film-makers ignore warnings from locals and go into the Maryland woods for the weekend. Deep in the forest and miles from help, they learn the terrifying truth.

BBC iPlayer – The Blair Witch Project

Nowhere Special (2021) (Available until March 2025)

A terminally ill single father searches for a new family to take in his young son after his passing.

BBC iPlayer – Nowhere Special

The History Boys (2006) (Available until April 2025)

A class of likely lads, caught in a clash of educational styles as they prepare to apply to Oxford or Cambridge, find their loyalties as well as their intellects tested.

BBC iPlayer – The History Boys

Odd Squad: The Movie (2017) (Available until May 2025)

The Odd Squad investigate strange events. When a group of adults run Odd Squad out of business, the agents are forced to become regular kids again.

BBC iPlayer – Odd Squad: The Movie

Citizen Ashe (2022) (Available until May 2025)

Documentary that tells the little-known story of sports legend Arthur Ashe off the tennis court. Known to most on account of his stellar sports career – he became the first black man to win Wimbledon in 1975 – the film uncovers Ashe’s work as a social activist, a role that embraced the civil rights movement in the US, African Americans and oppressed people throughout the world.

BBC iPlayer – Citizen Ashe

Lie with Me (2022) (Available until May 2025)

Successful novelist Stéphane Belcourt returns to his provincial hometown at the invitation of the local cognac makers, who are celebrating their bicentennial. There, he meets Lucas, a young marketing executive for the company who turns out to be the son of his first love, Thomas.

BBC iPlayer – Lie with Me

The Phantom of the Open (2021) (Available until May 2025)

The heartwarming true story of shipyard crane operator Maurice Flitcroft, who, having never played a round of golf in his life, entered the 1976 British Open and subsequently shot the worst round of golf in Open history, drawing the ire of the golfing elite but becoming a folk hero in the process.

BBC iPlayer – The Phantom of the Open

Mrs Dalloway (1997) (Available until May 2025)

An adaptation of the classic Virginia Woolf novel. As society hostess Clarissa Dalloway prepares for another of her legendary parties, she finds herself haunted by figures and scenes from her passionate youth.

BBC iPlayer – Mrs Dalloway

Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018) (Available until July 2025)

A New Year’s Eve party is the setting for a fractious family comedy-drama, as Colin Burstead plans a lavish event for his extended family, which doesn’t exactly go to plan….

BBC iPlayer – Happy New Year, Colin Burstead

The Road Dance (2021) (Available until July 2025)

Kirsty MacLeod dreams of a better life away from the isolation of small village life on an island in the Outer Hebrides. Suppressing these aspirations, she sees her lover, Murdo, conscripted for service in the First World War, soon to set off and fight alongside the other young men from the village. A road dance is held in their honour the evening before they depart, and it’s on this fateful evening that Kirsty’s life takes a dramatic and tragic turn.

BBC iPlayer – The Road Dance

Homeward (2023) (Available until July 2025)

Mustafa, a Crimean Tatar, and his son Alim transport the body of Mustafa’s other son, a soldier killed in combat, from Kyiv to Crimea to give him a proper burial.

BBC iPlayer – Homeward

Whisky Galore! (2016) (Available until July 2025)

In 1943, disaster strikes on the remote Hebridean island of Todday when they run out of whisky. Salvation arrives when a ship carrying 50,000 cases of whisky founders on the island’s rocks. But the islanders clash with authority in the shape of Home Guard commander Captain Waggett.

BBC iPlayer – Whisky Galore!

Law of Tehran (2019) (Available until July 2025)

The police relentlessly pursue a drug lord named Nasser Khakzad, but when they finally manage to catch him, he tries whatever he can think of to escape and save his family. Iranian thriller.

BBC iPlayer – Law of Tehran

Burton and Taylor (2013) (Available until July 2025)

Drama telling the story of Hollywood’s most glamorous couple, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, who acted together for the last time in Noel Coward’s Private Lives in 1983.

BBC iPlayer – Burton and Taylor

Wildlife (2018) (Available until July 2025)

In the early 1950s, 14-year-old Joe Brinson has moved with his mother and father to a small town in Montana. When his father unjustly loses his job at the local golf course, he decides to take up firefighting in the hills. His mother Jeanette feels abandoned and increasingly treats Joe as an adult, who soon has to learn some powerful and indelible life lessons.

BBC iPlayer – Wildlife

The Thing from Another World (1951) (Available until July 2025)

Scientists at a lonely Arctic outpost dig up an alien from the permafrost and face a desperate fight for their lives when it is accidentally thawed.

BBC iPlayer – The Thing from Another World

We’ve done our best to list all the available films on BBC iPlayer and the date they’re removed from the service as detailed by the BBC, but it goes without saying that the BBC probably reserve the right to add or remove films from their service at any time, for any reason. The BBC also list an expiration time for each film, which could be 6pm or 1am on the expiration date. We’re not including those for purely logistical reasons. We’ll try our best to keep this list as up to date as possible, though.

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