BFI Movie Trailers
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Lady Trailer (2026)
22 January 2026
In the sprawling African metropolis of Lagos, a fiercely independent young cab driver meets a band of radiantly reckless sex workers whose sisterhood pulls her into danger and joy, setting her on a journey toward her own transformation.
Water Wrackets Trailer (1978)
01 January 1978
Multifarious images of a lake are overlaid with water effects and a narrated history of the campaigns fought by the fictional water-wracket army.
The Selfish Giant Trailer (2013)
25 October 2013
A hyperactive boy and his best friend, a slow-witted youth with an affinity for horses, start collecting scrap metal for a shady dealer.
Departure Trailer (2016)
20 May 2016
An English mother and her teenage son spend a week preparing the sale of their remote holiday house in the South of France.
The Draughtsman's Contract Trailer (1982)
12 November 1982
R. Neville, a brash young draftsman, is hired to make a dozen landscape illustrations at the estate of Mr Herbert and his wife Virginia.
Aquarela Trailer (2018)
29 September 2018
From massive waves to melting ice, filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky travels around the world to capture stunning images of the beauty and raw power of water.
Feast of Eid-ul-Fitr Trailer (1924)
08 May 1924
The UK's first purpose-built mosque welcomes a huge crowd of worshippers!
Phoelix Trailer (1979)
01 August 1979
An aged art connoisseur (Beaumont) and his young female neighbour (Coles), who has a job posing naked in a club, meet and exist in fantasy and reality.
The Severed Sun Trailer (2025)
16 May 2025
Magpie lives in an isolated church community ruled over by her father, The Pastor. When a man is murdered, paranoia sets in and people start to whisper about a strange 'Beast' that lives in the forest.
Friendship's Death Trailer (1987)
17 August 1987
A robot messenger is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go to MIT, by mistake she ends up in Amman, Jordan during the Black September riots of 1970.
Pattern Recognition Trailer (2017)
01 December 2017
To celebrate the BFI's Thriller season, filmmaker Daniel Cockburn explores the power of sound to terrify and unsettle.
Rose Red Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
Simon Pummell's (Bodysong) visually ravishing sci-fi thriller exploring the future of virtual reality and the desire to transcend human limits.
A Private Enterprise Trailer (1975)
23 January 1975
An ambitious Indian university graduate has to struggle to live his entrepreneurial dreams against both the British social structure and his own family's stubborn traditional values.
Medusa Deluxe Trailer (2023)
08 June 2023
Talented and cutthroat hairstylists at a competition find one of their own murdered before judging can begin.
Magid / Zafar Trailer (2025)
16 January 2025
Tensions arise amidst the heat of a busy British Pakistani takeaway.
Stuffed Trailer (2026)
10 September 2026
Araminta, a brooding, dubiously ethical taxidermist, secretly desires to stuff a human specimen. She finds her perfect match in Bernie, a sandwich factory worker whose life is all but memorable.
Southward with Prince Philip Trailer (1957)
02 January 1957
Highlights of Prince Philip's visit to Antarctica, Falkland Island Dependencies, the Falkland Islands themselves, Gough Island, Tristan da Cunha, St.
Childhood Memories Trailer (2018)
19 November 2018
This multi-layered animation explores autobiographical memory and the cultural elements of our earliest childhood memory.
National Milk Cocoa Trailer (1944)
04 March 1944
Drinking chocolate flashes before your eyes and makes an offer you can't refuse.
Timestalker Trailer (2024)
11 October 2024
Hapless Agnes repeatedly falls for the wrong guy, dies a grim death, and is reincarnated a century later.
WOLF Trailer (2026)
11 June 2026
Tilda Swinton guides us through the life of British musician Patrick Wolf, weaving together archive, present-day and animation to illuminate a singular artistic journey.
Scala!!! Trailer (2024)
05 January 2024
This feature-length big screen documentary tells the riotous inside story of the infamous sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll repertory cinema which inspired a generation during Britain's turbulent Thatcher years.
Return of the Unknown Trailer (2014)
24 November 2014
Bringing together key Out of the Unknown actors, directors and production team members for the very first time in order to explore the legacy and impact of the legendary series.
Spaceship Trailer (2016)
12 March 2016
When his daughter goes missing in an apparent alien abduction, Gabriel's search takes him dangerously close to her strange group of so-called friends.
Homebound Trailer (2022)
01 April 2022
A young woman arrives at the home of her new husband's estranged family to find the children behaving in increasingly unnerving ways.
Electricity Trailer (2014)
12 December 2014
A woman leaves her seaside hometown to search for her long-lost brother, experiencing hallucinations brought on by her epilepsy during her trip.
2 x 50 Years of French Cinema Trailer (2008)
17 September 2008
At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated when the history of film is a forgotten subject.
Velorama Trailer (2014)
06 July 2014
Documentary looking at a century of cycling. Commissioned to mark the arrival of the 2014 Tour de France in Yorkshire, the film makes full use of stunning British Film Institute footage to transport the audience on a journey from the invention of the modern bike, through the rise of recreational cycling, to gruelling competitive races.
Yardie Trailer (2018)
31 August 2018
Jamaica, 1973. When a young boy witnesses his brother’s assassination, a powerful Don gives him a home.
Anchoress Trailer (1993)
10 September 1993
A 14th-century peasant becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled into a cell attached to the church as a religious hermit.
A Race for a Bride Trailer (1922)
01 November 1922
Dastardly deeds are afoot when rivals for the hand of a young woman vie against each other in a bicycle race.
The Gold Diggers Trailer (1983)
28 November 1983
An avant-garde examination of the relationship between women and money in society. Mixing musical, silent melodrama, and philosophical treatise into a post-punk, heady brew.
Clash Trailer (2017)
01 September 2017
Commissioned by the BBC & BFI, CLASH is a short experimental documentary critiquing Britain's obsession with period dramas, and how they erase the diverse reality of Britain today.
Red Trailer (1996)
01 October 1996
In 1977, young Xiao Mei leaves China for the UK to enter into an arranged marriage. Speaking no English and feeling distant from her Elvis-obsessed new husband and his stern mother, Xiao Mei dreams of reuniting with her long-lost parents and brother.
Leila and the Wolves Trailer (1986)
13 August 1986
Drawing on the Arab heritage of oral tradition and mosaic pattern, Leila and the Wolves is an exploration of the collective memory of Arab women and their hidden role in history throughout the past half century both in Palestine and in Lebanon.
Drift Trailer (2024)
09 February 2024
After fleeing civil war in Liberia, a formerly-privileged refugee is barely scraping by in her new life in Greece when she strikes up an unexpected friendship with a rootless tour guide.
Ish Trailer (2026)
31 July 2026
Twelve-year-old best friends, Ish and Maram wrestle to hold onto their friendship, in the wake of a traumatic police stop & search.
Wittgenstein Trailer (1993)
26 March 1993
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose principal interest was the nature and limits of language.
Waiting For… Trailer (1970)
01 January 1970
An ironic love letter to the British drama/documentary tradition.
The Power Trailer (2021)
03 June 2021
London, 1974. As Britain prepares for electrical blackouts to sweep across the country, trainee nurse Val arrives for her first day at the crumbling East London Royal Infirmary.
Quiz Crime No. 2 Trailer (1944)
01 January 1944
The audience are invited to solve crimes. The two cases depicted are The Case of the Stolen Boy and The Hairless Boarder.
Rosebud Trailer (1991)
26 June 1991
A woman who comes across two women making love on a rooftop fantasizes about lesbian love.
Creature Trailer (2023)
23 February 2023
On a remote Arctic research station, a captive creature (played by the English National Ballet’s charismatic principal dancer Jeffrey Cirio) is unwittingly enlisted into a military program that subjects him to sinister experiments.
The Night of the Filmmakers Trailer (1995)
12 February 1995
A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.
Burlesque Queen Trailer (1961)
01 June 1961
Tassel-spinning showgirl Tina stars in this rare 60s British burlesque stage show reel.
Thud and Blunder in "Knock-Off Time" Trailer (1964)
01 January 1964
Thud and Blunder learn what not to do while in a coal mine.
The Long Day Closes Trailer (1992)
22 May 1992
Bud is a lonely and quiet boy whose moments of solace occur when he sits in rapture at the local cinema, watching towering and iconic figures on the movie screen.
Monsoon Trailer (2020)
25 September 2020
Kit can’t remember much of his native Vietnam. When he returns to the Land of the Golden Star for the first time in over thirty years, he takes in his local surroundings as any Western tourist would, and the environment is as exotic as the language is incomprehensible.
The Queen's State Visit to Iran Trailer (1961)
06 March 1961
2-6 March 1961 saw the Queen and Prince Philip make their first and only state visit to Iran. Their host was Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (1919-80), the Shah of Iran, who had already made an official visit to Britain in 1959.
Sweetheart Trailer (2021)
24 September 2021
A socially awkward, environmentally-conscious teenager named AJ is dragged to a coastal holiday park by her painfully 'normal' family, where she becomes unexpectedly captivated by a chlorine smelling, sun-loving lifeguard named Isla.
Stella Does Tricks Trailer (1997)
06 November 1997
One of a brood of school-age prostitutes working the streets of London, Stella is a virtual prisoner of her sleazy, paternalistic pimp, Mr.
India Trailer (1929)
01 August 1929
Amateur film of the passage to India - complete with guest appearance by Gandhi.
So That You Can Live Trailer (1981)
11 January 1981
Documentary examining what it means to live in South Wales, made in collaboration with and focusing on the lives of the Butts family.
Christmas at the Front Trailer (1914)
30 December 1914
Poignant scenes of Allied troops enjoying their Yuletide rations at the first Christmas of WWI.
Rate Rebates Trailer (1969)
03 September 1969
Zippy public information animation on how to keep up with the Joneses - by getting a rebate on rates.
Martin Luther King at Newcastle University Trailer (1967)
13 November 1967
A remarkable event the great American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King makes a powerful speech on a unique visit to Newcastle University.
Out with the Fishermen Trailer (1947)
01 July 1947
Adventures on a fishing boat as told by two young boys who experience what it takes to be a fisherman at sea.
Young Soul Rebels Trailer (1991)
09 August 1991
Two disc jockeys have a friend's murder to solve in the fringe-group melting pot of 1977 London.