David Farnor | On 01, Aug 2025

BFI Player is a gateway to global film, offering a collection of arthouse and world cinema to subscribers, alongside its pay-per-view rental releases and free archive titles and silent movie shorts.

From Last Swim and Brokeback Bountain to Tell No One and From Hilde, with Love, here’s what’s coming to BFI Player’s subscription service in August 2025:

THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO (2024) – 1st August


This rollicking take on Dumas’ swashbuckler, packed with lavish spectacle and high-stakes drama, slayed all Hollywood films at the French box-office. 
 


AUDREY (2024) – 1st August


A frustrated stage mother exploits her star daughter’s unexpected coma for her own artistic gains, in this wickedly dark Australian comedy. 
 

BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2005) – 1st August

Two young men become emotionally entangled during long days and nights herding sheep on the mountains of Wyoming. 
 


MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE (1964) – 1st August


Sophia Loren and Marcelo Mastroianni are irrepressible as a long-married couple in this exquisite and timeless comedy of our all-too-human foibles. 
 


A SPECIAL DAY (1977) – 1st August

Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni deliver the finest and most nuanced performances of their careers in this understated masterpiece from director Ettore Scola. 
 


TWO WOMEN (1960) – 1st August

Sophia Loren won an Oscar® for her performance as a mother trying to protect her daughter in wartime Italy, in Vittorio De Sica’s neorealist classic. 

LAST SWIM (2024) – 4th August


A day in the life of an ambitious 18-year-old Iranian-British school leaver transforms into a universal portrait of youth, hope and fears over an uncertain future. 



DIVA (1981) – 4th August

A postal worker’s secret opera recording sparks a gripping chase through Paris in Jean-Jacques Beineix’s (Betty Blue) stylish crime-thriller. 
 

MANHUNTER (1986) – 4th August


Michael Mann’s chilling and stylish adaptation of Thomas Harris’ bestseller introduced Hannibal Lecktor to cinema audiences for the first time. 
 

MOVIEDROME: WELCOME TO THE CULT (2025) – 7th August

Made for BFI Player by filmmaker Nic Wassell, this new short documentary explores Moviedrome’s history, its impact and legacy, featuring the show’s creator Nick Freand Jones, its original host Alex Cox, and fans including broadcaster Samira Ahmed and comedian Stewart Lee.   
 

SOPHIA LOREN: RESHAPING FEMININITY (2025) – 7th August

In this new video essay available made exclusively for BFI Player, Filmmaker Maha Al-Badrawi explores how Sophia Loren’s 60s and 70s filmography both reflected and subverted post-war Italy’s expectations of women.



THE GIRL ON A MOTORCYCLE (1968) – 11th August

Marianne Faithfull is the eponymous girl in this glorious, richly colourful slice of sixties British cinema. 
 

84 CHARLIE MOPIC (1989) – 11th August

Cult ‘found footage’ war film following a Vietnam patrol unit from the perspective of an embedded combat cameraman. 
 

WAR AND PEACE (2002) – 11th August

The rise of nuclear nationalism in 1990s India is explored in a powerful and personal documentary from Anand Patwardhan. 
 

TRAFFIC (2000) – 11th August

Steven Soderbergh’s Oscar-winning ensemble drama explores America’s war on drugs at the start of the 21st century. 
 

TELL NO ONE (2006) – 11th August


Guillaume Canet’s stylish adaptation of Harlan Coben’s thriller plunges a shell-shocked paediatrician into a nightmare of buried secrets and mistaken identities. 
 

THE MARCHING BAND (2025) – 18th August

Acclaimed conductor Thibaut has leukemia and needs a bone marrow donor. Learning he was adopted, he finds an older brother, sparking a fraternal, musical journey amidst the town’s factory closure. 
 

ECLIPSE (1976) – 18th August

Unsettling, little-seen 1970s psychological thriller – a story of sibling rivalry set on the lonely Scottish coast, with Tom Conti and Gay Hamilton. 
 

VAMPYROS LESBOS (1971) – 18th August


Jesús Franco’s dreamily seductive, sun-kissed take on Dracula is one of his most famous works; famed for its hip, psychedelic-loungecore soundtrack. 
 

FROM HILDE, WITH LOVE (2023) – 25th August

A powerful historical drama inspired by the true story of the Red Orchestra Nazi-resistance group and two courageous resistance fighters. 
 

TREES LOUNGE (1996) – 25th August


Venerable character actor Steve Buscemi steps behind the camera in this profound character study on a lonely, alcoholic, and unemployed mechanic. 
 

EL MARIACHI (1992) – 25th August

A travelling mariachi is mistaken for a murderous criminal, in Robert Rodriguez’s infamous ‘no budget’ exemplar of DIY action cinema. 

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