David Farnor | On 01, Oct 2024

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.

Here’s what’s coming to BFI Player’s subscription service in October 2024:

Certain Women – 1st October

Kristen Stewart, Lily Gladstone and Jared Harris star in Kelly Reichardt’s acclaimed portmanteau of women’s stories, winner of Best Film at the BFI London Film Festival 2016. 
 

Akenfield – 3rd October

 
Peter Hall’s extraordinary, long-unseen work of sublime poetic realism traces three generations of one Suffolk family and their lives in the farming industry. 
 

Apostasy – 3rd October

A deeply religious family must decide whether to stick by their relation or abandon her, in this striking debut from Daniel Kokotajlo – a prize-winner at the BFI London Film Festival 2017. 
 

Night Tide – 3rd October

A young Dennis Hopper is on shore leave from the Navy when he falls for a mysterious woman who performs as a mermaid, in this intoxicating cult classic from underground filmmaker Curtis Harrington. 
 

The White Reindeer – 3rd October

The wife of a reindeer herder acquires a potion to make her an irresistible object of desire, but at a terrible cost, in this extraordinary vampiric fairy-tale set amongst the starkly beautiful fells of Finnish Lapland. 
 

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World – 7th October

 
Radu Jude’s follow-up to the Golden Bear-winning Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is a pin-sharp, caustically funny critique of workplace culture and oppression. 
 

Everybody in Our Family – 7th October

Radu Jude delivers on the promise of his first feature, The Happiest Girl in the World, with this superb black comedy. 
 

Das Boot – 15th October

 
Devastatingly powerful, tense and claustrophobic war drama about the final mission of a German U-boat, from heroic start to tragic end. 
 

The Horrible Dr Hitchcock – 17th October

A widowed doctor has gruesome plans for his new wife in this dark and wicked gothic horror that brings in sly allusions to the work of Hitchcock in a lush Victorian London. 
 

Messiah of Evil  – 17th October

A sleepy seaside town becomes beholden to a bloodthirsty cult, in this dreamy and atmospheric horror from the writers of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. 
 

Street Trash  – 17th October

A deadly liquor rips through a community of vagabonds living in the junkyards of Brooklyn, in this outlandish 80s body horror. 
 

Witchfinder General  – 17th October

Horror favourite Vincent Price excels in one of his best roles as pious monster Matthew Hopkins, a witchfinder traversing 17th-century England and executing those he suspects of witchcraft. 
 

Starve Acre – 21st October

Dark and sinister forces invade a couple’s home in this creepy British folk horror, with unflinching performances from Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark. 
 

 

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