Simba, having become king of the Pride Lands, is determined for his cub to follow in his paw prints while the origins of his late father Mufasa are explored. Told in flashbacks, the story introduces ...

A beautifully told romantic drama and a meditation on the nature of existence. Amid the languid pace of a small town, the lives of a terminally ill photographer and a young parking-enforcement officer ...

Screenings for neurodivergent audiences, with their companions and assistants. BFI Southbank has been awarded the National Autistic Society's Autism Friendly Award. Find out more about all films ...

The move to sound film production brought disruption to film industries across the world. Until recently, Britain’s transition experience had been relatively unexplored. Geoff Brown’s fascinating ...

In Tsui Hark’s timeless romantic comedy, two people fall in love, are separated soon after and attempt to overcome the burden of not knowing what the other looks like. In 1937, during a Japanese air ...

This rarely-screened work of Gothic splendour is an indictment of privileged masculinity, featuring a loathsome protagonist in the form of Giancarlo Giannini’s Tullio. He viciously takes advantage of ...

Now one of the great lines in film history, ‘They call me Mr Tibbs!’ announced the arrival of Poitier’s detective to Rod Steiger’s racist Mississippi sheriff. They find themselves working together on ...

Sidney Poitier woos Diahann Carroll in the city of love and to the strains of a rich Duke Ellington score. Poitier makes for a dashing romantic lead as jazz saxophonist Eddie Cook, enjoying the ...

A glorious celebration of the power of cinema and our collective imagination, replete with witches, munchkins and a cadre of flying monkeys. Dorothy Gale is transported from her Kansas farm to a ...

Four screens open seven days a week for the widest choice of great films. John Woo’s first US film paired him with action star Jean-Claude Van Damme, who plays an ex-marine reluctantly drawn into a ...

In our new BFI Southbank exhibition, we immerse ourselves in Powell and Pressburger’s mesmerising 1948 production The Red Shoes. Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale, it tells the ...