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New and exclusive: I’m Still Here

Winner of Best International Feature Film at the 2025 Academy Awards.

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The 69th BFI London Film Festival

Discover the world’s best new films, series and immersive storytelling, in London and around the UK – 8 to 19 October 2025.

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BFI Replay

A new free-to-access digital archive exclusively available in UK public lending libraries. Discover thousands of digitised videos and television programmes from the 1960s to the 2010s, offering a glimpse into Britain’s past, its people and places.

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The Greatest Films of All Time issue

Once a decade the magazine asks critics to select the best films ever made. Explore the results in a special edition.

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Features and reviews

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10 great German horror films

As Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu the Vampyre arrives on Blu-ray and 4K UHD, we chart the history of the horror genre in Germany, from its uncanny beginnings in the silent era.

By Anton Bitel

10 great German horror films
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Events

The director and stars of Islands, in which Sam Riley delivers a career-best performance as a washed-up tennis coach caught up in a strange disappearance, visit the BFI Southbank to talk about the film.

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The BFI National Archive has one of the most important film and TV collections in the world. Choose from a selection of 11,000 titles that cover 120 years of British life, and the history and art of film.

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