Discover the world's best new films.
The 63rd BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express returns to Curzon this October.
Featuring the best new features, documentaries, short films and special events, the London Film Festival is your chance to see the year's most anticipated films from around the world - right on your doorstep.
London Film Festival 2019 is now over. Hope you had a good time and we'll see you again for the best of cinema in the capital.
Two women who survive active service in the Second World War try to reconstruct their lives in post-war Leningrad, in Kantemir Balagov’s extraordinary award-winning second feature.
Thursday 3 October 6.00pm | Curzon Soho
Multiple award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney returns with a fascinating exploration of the contemporary Russian political landscape and a portrait of oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
Thursday 3 October 6.00pm | Curzon Mayfair
A kiss between two childhood friends has dramatic repercussions in the eighth film from Xavier Dolan.
Thursday 3 October 8.50pm | Curzon Mayfair
In an ambitious follow up to his award-winning Melbourne, Nima Javidi’s thrilling second feature is as astutely crafted as it is suave and seductive.
Thursday 3 October 9.00pm | Curzon Soho
This wild, stranger-than-fiction documentary depicts the most disturbing true-crime investigation you’re likely to have seen in recent years.
Friday 4 October 6.00pm | Curzon Soho
Director Joe Talbot and writer-performer Jimmie Fails create a gorgeous, inventive meditation on art, architecture, black culture and gentrification in California’s Bay Area.
Friday 4 October 6.00pm | Curzon Mayfair
Capturing his rise to super-stardom and subsequent tragic fall, Mystify gives remarkable insight into INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence and a truth he took to the grave.
Friday 4 October 8.45pm | Curzon Mayfair
The debut feature from acclaimed short filmmaker Claire Oakley is a riveting psycho-sexual drama in which nothing is quite what it seems.
Friday 4 October 9.00pm | Curzon Soho
Celebrated screenwriter (Shadowlands, Gladiator, Les Misérables), playwright, novelist and filmmaker William Nicholson joins us to discuss his career and the making of Hope Gap, his second feature film as writer and director.
Saturday 5 October 11.00am | Curzon Soho
Capturing his rise to super-stardom and subsequent tragic fall, Mystify gives remarkable insight into INXS lead singer Michael Hutchence and a truth he took to the grave.
Saturday 5 October 12.45pm | Curzon Soho
The vertiginous ups and downs in two men’sfriendship spans several years and outrageousevents in this award-winning US indie comedy
Saturday 5 October 12.45pm | Curzon Mayfair
In this provocative culture clash comedy, Golshifteh Farahani (About Elly, Paterson) plays a Parisian psychoanalyst attempting to set up a practice in a post-Arab Spring Tunis.
Saturday 5 October 3.15pm | Curzon Mayfair
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Kim Longinotto (Dreamcatcher) sketches a captivating portrait of defiant Sicilian photographer Letizia Battaglia, whose extraordinary work recorded the Mafia’s violent crimes.
Saturday 5 October 3.30pm | Curzon Soho
In one of his (seemingly) most straightforward but finest films yet, François Ozon deals very movingly with a real-life case of multiple child abuse.
Saturday 5 October 5.40pm | Curzon Mayfair
Carice van Houten flirts with danger in this confrontational interrogation of desire and consent.
The introduction and Q&A will be BSL interpreted.
Saturday 5 October 6.15pm | Curzon Soho
Beyond the Yellow Brick Road, Judy Garland’s post-MGM triumphs and tragedies are vividly recalled in a revelatory documentary that utilises her impresario husband Sidney Luft’s memoirs.
Saturday 5 October 8.45pm | Curzon Mayfair
Revolution rock! Rubika Shah’s vital documentary profiles punky reggae protest movement Rock Against Racism, from grassroots beginnings through to a major multicultural event.
Saturday 5 October 8.50pm | Curzon Soho
Simon Bird’s directorial debut is a warm and witty graphic novel adaptation about a single librarian trying to reconnect with her introverted, metalhead teenage son.
Sunday 6 October 12.45pm | Curzon Mayfair
An intriguing coming-of-age tale is presented through the allegorical prism of an environmental incident.
Sunday 6 October 1.00pm | Curzon Soho
Starring Tim Roth and Clive Owen, François Girard’s riveting period drama is a musical odyssey and historical detective story set against the backdrop of the Holocaust.
Sunday 6 October 3.00pm | Curzon Mayfair
Annette Bening and Bill Nighy star as a couple on the rocks in this witty divorce drama directed by celebrated screenwriter William Nicholson (Gladiator, Shadowlands, Les Misérables).
Sunday 6 October 3.15pm | Curzon Soho
James Norton stars as Welsh journalist Gareth Jones whose 1930s visit to Soviet Ukraine uncovered the truth of Stalin’s state-sponsored famine and reputedly inspired George Orwell’s 'Animal Farm'.
Sunday 6 October 5.45pm | Curzon Mayfair
Featured shorts:
Sunday 6 October 5.50pm | Curzon Soho
This feverish Australian drama about falling in love for the first time features a super performance by Sharp Objects breakout star Eliza Scanlen.
Sunday 6 October 8.30pm | Curzon Soho
Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau return with an elegant and intimate drama about love and revenge, crafted with dramatic intensity and visual dazzle.
Sunday 6 October 8.30pm | Curzon Mayfair
The matriarch of the Marcos dynasty hopes to see her maternal delusions validated and political power restored, while Philippine activists fight for transparency and democracy.
Monday 7 October 5.45pm | Curzon Soho
Jason Segel, Dakota Johnson and Casey Affleck star in this intensely moving and beautifully mounted drama detailing how a friend saved a family after a young mother's diagnosis with terminal cancer.
Monday 7 October 6.00pm | Curzon Mayfair
This captivating coming-of-age documentary follows best friends Anaïs and Emma for five years of teenagehood.
Monday 7 October 8.15pm | Curzon Soho
Cosmo Jarvis (Lady Macbeth) gives a visceral performance as the hired muscle for a crime family in rural Ireland.
Monday 7 October 8.45pm | Curzon Mayfair
UK-based director Ed Perkins follows his Oscar-nominated documentary short Black Sheep with a potent and troubling exploration of trauma, identity and redemption.
Tuesday 8 October 6.20pm | Curzon Soho
A teenage girl forms a mysterious relationship with an older man in this atmospheric debut from director Nathalie Biancheri.
Tuesday 8 October 6.30pm | Curzon Mayfair
Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg play a pair of first-time buyers who get more than they bargained for in this twisted fable about the horrors of suburban living.
Tuesday 8 October 8.40pm | Curzon Soho
Anthony Chen follows his First Feature Award-winning Ilo Ilo (LFF 2013) with this hugely satisfying portrait of a woman on a journey to rediscover herself.
Tuesday 8 October 8.45pm | Curzon Mayfair
Acclaimed Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman returns with another deadpan take on life in exile with the typically assured and moving It Must Be Heaven.
Wednesday 9 October 6.15pm | Curzon Mayfair
The story of a fishing village in thrall to mysterious sea creatures makes for a spellbinding feature debut from Shahad Ameen.
The introduction and Q&A will be BSL interpreted.
Wednesday 9 October 6.30pm | Curzon Soho
In coming to terms with his sexuality, Adrian is forced to choose between a compromised existence and the life that he would like to lead.
Wednesday 9 October 8.45pm | Curzon Soho
Under surveillance by his own force, a corrupt Romanian cop becomes involved in a plot to spring a money-laundering businessman from police custody.
Wednesday 9 October 8.45pm | Curzon Mayfair
Acclaimed Palestinian filmmaker Elia Suleiman returns with another deadpan take on life in exile with the typically assured and moving It Must Be Heaven.
Thursday 10 October 6.00pm | Curzon Soho
Billie Piper stars in her own directorial debut, a no-holds-barred anti-romcom about a modern woman’s struggles in work and love.
Thursday 10 October 6.30pm | Curzon Mayfair
All that jazz (and so much more): 20th century music’s trumpet-playing prince of darkness receives the candid documentary his controversial genius deserves.
Thursday 10 October 8.30pm | Curzon Soho
This poignant testament to the physical and emotional cost of war, centres on the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Thursday 10 October 8.45pm | Curzon Mayfair
Cynthia Erivo (Widows) gives a show-stopping and star-making turn as the American revolutionary anti-slavery heroine Harriet Tubman in Kasi Lemmons' Harriet.
Friday 11 October 6.00pm | Curzon Soho
Daniel Auteuil’s illustrator is given the chance to visit a different era to re-evaluate his life in this resplendent slice of Westworld-style speculative fiction.
Friday 11 October 6.15pm | Curzon Mayfair
The love between two older women is threatened by illness and secrecy in a moving French drama that features Barbara Sukowa at her very best.
Friday 11 October 8.50pm | Curzon Soho
Withheld from release for nearly 20 years, this exquisitely crafted and moving documentary observes the last few years in the company of style icon Yves Saint Laurent.
Friday 11 October 9.00pm | Curzon Mayfair
Sixth Generation director Wang Xiaoshuai offers an absorbing family chronicle that unfolds modern Chinese history with the rich insightfulness of a novel.
Saturday 12 October 12.15pm | Curzon Soho
A severed hand searches for its owner in this striking animation, which grabbed the Grand Prize at the Cannes Critics' Week.
Saturday 12 October 12.45pm | Curzon Mayfair
Featured shorts:
Saturday 12 October 3.00pm | Curzon Mayfair
This animated feature is both epic and personal, and a glorious love letter to life and love in Mumbai.
The introduction and Q&A will be BSL interpreted.
Saturday 12 October 4.00pm | Curzon Soho
Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville star in this intimate and sensitively-handled drama about a couple dealing with breast cancer.
Saturday 12 October 5.30pm | Curzon Mayfair
Imagine discovering that your parents have been running a gay adult book store for most of their lives…
Saturday 12 October 6.30pm | Curzon Soho
A deserving winner of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard prize, this sumptuous tale of two sisters cruelly separated by family and fate makes for deeply moving drama.
Saturday 12 October 8.10pm | Curzon Mayfair
A thought-provoking documentary about the Australian Rules football star Adam Goodes that raises crucial questions about casual racism.
Saturday 12 October 8.45pm | Curzon Soho
Sixth Generation director Wang Xiaoshuai offers an absorbing family chronicle that unfolds modern Chinese history with the rich insightfulness of a novel.
Sunday 13 October 11.45pm | Curzon Soho
This slow-burn study of religious obsession tries to fathom what drove a young law student to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Sunday 13 October 12.30pm | Curzon Mayfair
Portuguese maestro Pedro Costa returns with another poetic portrait of Lisbon’s Cape Verdean community, focusing on one woman’s sorrows and survivor spirit.
Sunday 13 October 3.30pm | Curzon Soho
Imagine discovering that your parents have been running a gay adult book store for most of their lives…
Sunday 13 October 3.30pm | Curzon Mayfair
Family relations unravel to wonderfully excruciating comic and dramatic effect in this all-star ensemble piece from versatile French writer-director and here, co-star, Cédric Kahn.
Sunday 13 October 6.20pm | Curzon Soho
Martin Scorsese’s ninth collaboration with Robert De Niro finds the master filmmaker returning to the genre he has helped define, with a mystery that has never been solved.
Sunday 13 October 6.30pm | Curzon Mayfair
London Film Festival Closing Night red carpet footage from Leicester Square and interviews with the film’s creators is to be beamed by satellite in advance of a special preview of The Irishman.
Sunday 13 October 7.00pm | Aldgate | Bloomsbury | Canterbury | Colchester | Knutsford | Oxford | Richmond | Ripon | Sheffield | Victoria | Wimbledon
Goodnight Mommy directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala take us to a remote cabin in the woods for their spine-chilling sophomore feature.
Sunday 13 October 8.50pm | Curzon Soho
