Films & Shows from Bfi
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The Body Beautiful (1991)
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This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals the profound effects of body image and the strain of racial and sexual identity on their charged, intensely loving bond. At the heart of Onwurah’s brave excursion into her mother’s scorned sexuality is a provocative interweaving of memory and fantasy. The filmmaker plumbs the depths of maternal strength and daughterly devotion in an unforgettable tribute starring her real-life mother, Madge Onwurah.
Next (1990)
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William Shakespeare, without saying a word, gives a quick run through of all his plays in a very special audition.
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
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Siblings Maisie and Tony, along with their mother, gather for their sister Eileen's wedding. It is a joyous occasion, but through flashbacks, it becomes clear that the family was not always happy. Their father was physically abusive to his wife and left the children emotionally traumatized. As a result, the children have grown into unhappy adults, looking for love they didn't receive when they were young.
Friendship's Death (1987)
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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. Sullivan, a British journalist, comes to her aid when she is found wandering without papers following a bombing and grants her refuge in his hotel room. But there she tells him she is a robot, sent as a peace envoy from another planet. He is not sure whether to believe her story or not, but finds her unusual view of the world appealing. They examine the human condition in a series of incredibly insightful and entertaining conversations.
Street of Crocodiles (1986)
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A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.
Caravaggio (1986)
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A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
The Angelic Conversation (1985)
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The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love in a dreamlike landscape. Its tone is set by the juxtaposition of slow moving homo-erotic images and opaque landscapes through which two men take a journey into their own desires. Offscreen, Dame Judi Dench recites a sequence of Shakespeare's sonnets that counterpoint the action. Jarman called it, “My most austere work, but also the closest to my heart.”
A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
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Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.
Doll’s Eye (1983)
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Examines contradictory male attitudes towards women in 1980's Britain
Death and Transfiguration (1983)
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A British man on his deathbed recalls moments from his life.
The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
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A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
Burning an Illusion (1981)
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A young black woman in England becomes increasingly frustrated with her life with her lazy, demanding boyfriend, and with the help of friends seeks something better.
Maeve (1981)
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Maeve returns home to Belfast after a long absence. Her arrival in the city stimulates a series of memories of childhood and adolescence both in herself and other people.
The Falls (1980)
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The exploration of the effects of an unexpected catastrophe, known as VUE (violent unknown event) through the bios of 92 survivors.
Radio On (1979)
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A London radio DJ receives news of his brother's suicide and travels west to Bristol to find out more.
Riddles of the Sphinx (1977)
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In this avant-garde classic, protagonist Louise deals with a change in her lifestyle in which she must learn to negotiate domestic life and motherhood.
The Moon Over the Alley (1976)
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A surreal musical exploring the problems of the multicultural residents in a Notting Hill boarding house.
Pressure (1976)
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A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.