Best new films on BBC iPlayer
A seven-time Oscar winner and break-out Indie hit lead iPlayer’s top picks
Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville star in the romantic drama Ordinary Love, loosely based on the experiences of award-winning writer Owen McCafferty. One evening, Joan (Manville) discovers a mass on her breast. She and her longtime husband Tom (Neeson) are devastated to learn it is cancer. In painstaking detail, Ordinary Love follows the couple and their lasting bond as Joan endures treatment.
There's also another chance to watch Sandra Bullock's star turn alongside George Clooney in Alfonso Cuarón's hit sci-fi thriller Gravity, which won seven Oscars in 2013. The pair play two astronauts who are stranded in space after an accident that sees their ship destroyed. In their desperate attempts to return home, the pair are forced to journey deeper into the vast emptiness of the galaxy.
For a comedy fix, Shia LaBeouf stars in The Peanut Butter Falcon - a quirky independent film with a lot of charm. He plays a fisherman on the run, who meets an aspiring professional wrestler with Down's syndrome (Zachary Robin Gottsagen) who has escaped his assisted living facility. The Peanut Butter Falcon was America's highest-grossing independent film in 2019 - as critics praised both its depiction of Down's syndrome and feel good tone.
Read on to view our BBC iPlayer film highlights, and also take a look at our guides to Amazon Prime Video and Disney Plus.
Ordinary Love
Drama | Romance
2019 | Lisa Barros D'Sa | 92 mins
Summary:An extraordinary look at the lives of a middle-aged couple in the midst of the wife's breast cancer diagnosis.
Gravity
Science Fiction | Thriller | Drama
2013 | Alfonso Cuarón | 91 mins | 12A
Summary:Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness of space. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.
An Education
Drama | Romance
2009 | Lone Scherfig | 100 mins | 12A
Summary:Despite her sheltered upbringing, Jenny is a teen with a bright future; she's smart, pretty, and has aspirations of attending Oxford University. When David, a charming but much older suitor, motors into her life in a shiny automobile, Jenny gets a taste of adult life that she won't soon forget.
Made in Dagenham
Comedy | Drama | History
2010 | Nigel Cole | 113 mins | 15
Summary:A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
Florence Foster Jenkins
Comedy | Drama
2016 | Stephen Frears | 110 mins | PG
Summary:The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress, who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.
Manhunter
Crime | Horror | Thriller
1986 | Michael Mann | 120 mins | 18
Summary:FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a new killer.
Who You Think I Am
Drama | Romance
2019 | Safy Nebbou | 102 mins | 15
Summary:Claire, a romantically spurned 50-year-old divorced teacher, creates a fake Facebook profile of a 24-year-old woman to spy on her on-and-off lover.
Moulin Rouge!
Drama | Romance | Music
2001 | Baz Luhrmann | 128 mins | 12
Summary:A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.
The Sisters Brothers
Western | Drama | Comedy
2018 | Jacques Audiard | 121 mins
Summary:Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.
The Peanut Butter Falcon
Adventure | Comedy | Drama
2019 | Tyler Nilson | 97 mins | 12A
Summary:A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.
