Best Films to Stream This Week in the UK
With cinemas on the cusp of reopening, we highlight the best new streaming releases, including a fascinating doc about retirement
While cinemas in the UK remain closed, we’ll have to wait a bit longer for the proper big screen experience. Fear not: we’ve rounded up the best of the latest streaming releases to keep you entertained until the capital’s dream palaces return. Whatever you’re in the mood for, from bold dramas to timely documentaries, WeLoveCinema has you well and truly covered…
[New Releases]
Some Kind of Heaven
Where to watch it: Various digital platforms
Lance Oppenheimer helms this fascinating documentary about the world’s largest retirement community, a hedonist paradise concealing a dark underbelly (read our full review).
The Woman in the Window
Where to watch it: Netflix
Joe Wright’s long delayed thriller, starring Amy Adams as a woman confined to her apartment who witnesses a murder, finally arrives on Netflix.
Oxygen
Where to watch it: Netflix
Mélanie Laurent gives a dazzling solo performance in Alexandre Aja’s “one room” thriller about a woman who wakes up inside a futuristic chamber with no memory (read our full review).
Servants
Where to watch it: Various digital platforms
This starkly drawn moral tale tells the story of two students at a Catholic seminary who must decide whether to collaborate in totalitarian Czechoslovakia.
Objector
Where to watch it: True Story
Molly Stuart’s documentary paints a captivating portrait of a young woman who’s imprisoned for refusing to do military service in her homeland of Israel (read our full review).
Born in Flames
Where to watch it: MUBI
Lizzie Borden’s 1983 cult classic, now restored and re-released thanks to MUBI, is a blazing work of feministic futurism, set in a dystopian vision of NYC
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[Still Streaming…]
Apples
Where to watch it: Curzon Home Cinema
Christos Nikou, former protege of the great Yorgos Lanthimos, makes his feature debut with a sweetly strange story of an amnesia outbreak in Athens (read our full review).
Identifying Features
Where to watch it: Various digital platforms
A mother sets out to find her lost son against the hellish backdrop of the Mexican borderlands in this powerful migrant drama from first-time filmmaker Fernanda Valadez (read our full review).
The Bike Thief
Where to watch it: Various digital platforms
This modern riff on Italian classic Bicycle Thieves transposes the original setting to Brexit era London in order to craft a timely tale of the modern gig economy (read our full review).
Atlantis
Where to watch it: MUBI
Valentyn Vasyanovyc’s latest film follows a former soldier as he navigates a dystopian vision of Ukraine following a devastating war with Russia (read our full review).
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