Many of the hit films from LIFF 2019 are now available to view online, across platforms including Netflix, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, Amazon Prime and Vimeo. We're keeping you updated with a guide to the latest as they become available, also including selections that have featured in our LIFF Presents programme of year-round screenings...
Our latest highlighted LIFF 2019 Film Now Streaming is Family Romance, LLC, Werner Herzog’s new documentary exploring Japan's rent-a-family service...
Werner Herzog travels to Japan for his latest film, a subtle reinvention of his unique style of direct documentary filmmaking. His co-conspirator and star is Yuichi Ishii, the real-life CEO of Family Romance LLC, a company that rents out human surrogates for his clients’ every need—a family member for a social event, someone to take the blame for a mistake at work, a stranger to help you relive the best moment of your life. The interaction of performance, artifice and genuine emotional depth makes a profound and fascinating film.
'Part travelogue, part incisive investigation into the problem of loneliness, this film is entirely fascinating.' Sight & Sound review by Katherine McLaughlin
Family Romance LLC is free to view on Friday 3 July on MUBI and Curzon Home Cinema, and is available to rent online through Modern Films, giving you the option to support independent cinemas including The Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds, who receive a split of the revenue when you make your purchase.
Here are some other great LIFF 2019 films now available for streaming on various platforms:
Netflix
Scorsese’s epic crime drama The Irishman, Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce in The Two Popes, Mati Diop’s dreamlike Dakar love story Atlantics, Irish exorcist comedy Extra Ordinary and the wildly inventive French animated fantasy I Lost My Body.
iTunes
Brooding Irish crime drama Calm With Horses, Gripping Spanish political thriller The Candidate, dark comedy thriller Come to Daddy, Naomi Watts and Tim Roth in Luce, zombie comedy Little Monsters, inventive indie sci-fi Vivarium, wild South Korean action thriller The Gangster, The Cop, The Devil and surreal black comedy Greener Grass.
BFI Player
Passionate drama about a foster child pushing the system to its limits, System Crasher, Romantic French time-travel comedy La Belle Époque, two powerful relationship dramas, with Lesley Manville and Liam Neeson starring as a couple coping with a cancer diagnosis in Ordinary Love and Tom Cullen's intense and intimate directorial debut Pink Wall, fascinating Imelda Marcos documentary The Kingmaker and the heartfelt Sudanese love letter to cinema Talking About Trees.
Curzon Home Cinema
The Whistlers, a playful noir thriller from one of the masters of the Romanian New Wave, Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest), the documentary The Atom: A Love Affair, a tale of scientific passion and political intrigue about the West's love-hate relationship with nuclear power, hard-hitting South African LGBTIQ+ drama Moffie, essential doc on fearless crime photographer Letizia Battaglia, Shooting the Mafia, Celine Sciamma's arthouse hit Portrait of a Lady on Fire, sex-positive Finnish romcom Dogs Don't Wear Pants and The Street, which documents the divisive gentrification of a London district.
Amazon Prime
Oliver Laxe's winner of the Un Certain Regard jury prize at Cannes Film Festival, magnificently shot on 16mm, Fire Will Come, and The Report, with Adam Driver on excellent form, are available to subscribers alongside various other titles for individual rental.
BBC iPlayer
An essential watch for fans and newcomers alike, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool is available to stream on BBC iPlayer, free to watch with a UK TV licence.
Peccadillo Player
One of the LGBTIQ+ highlights of the film year, And Then We Danced is an intense love story set in the dynamic but ultra-conservative world of traditional Georgian dance.
For a full list of everywhere you can see LIFF 2019 features now streaming, scroll down to beneath the images below...
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Film images clockwise from top left: Calm With Horses, Parasite, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, And Then We Danced.
Atlantics
MUBI & Netflix
The Atom: A Love Affair
Curzon Home Cinema
And Then We Danced
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, Google Play, Peccadillo Player & YouTube
Bait
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema & iTunes
Beanpole
Amazon Prime & MUBI
Calm with Horses
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Google Play, iTunes & YouTube
The Candidate
Amazon Prime, Google Play, iTunes & YouTube
Color Out of Space
Amazon Prime, Google Play, iTunes & YouTube
Come to Daddy
Amazon Prime, Google Play, iTunes & YouTube
Days of Bagnold Summer
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, Google Play, iTunes & Sky Store
Dogs Don't Wear Pants
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema & Google Play
Extra Ordinary
Amazon Prime, Google Play, Netflix & YouTube
Fire Will Come
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Curzon Home Video & iTunes
The Gangster, The Cop and the Devil
Amazon Prime, Google Play, iTunes & YouTube
Greener Grass
Amazon Prime, Google Play, iTunes & YouTube
High Life
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, Google Play, iTunes & YouTube
In Fabric
Amazon Prime, Google Play iTunes & YouTube
I Lost My Body
Netflix
The Irishman
Netflix
The Kingmaker
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Google Play, iTunes & YouTube
La Belle Époque
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Google Play, iTunes & YouTube
Little Joe
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Google Play, iTunes & YouTube
Little Monsters
Amazon Prime, Google Play, iTunes & YouTube
Luce
Amazon Prime, Google Play, iTunes & YouTube
Mandy
Amazon Prime, Google Play, iTunes & YouTube
Midnight Traveller
Amazon Prime, Curzon Home Cinema, Google Play, iTunes, Sky Store & YouTube
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
Amazon Prime & BBC iPlayer
Minding the Gap
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Google Play iTunes & YouTube
Misbehaviour
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, Google Play & YouTube
Moffie
Curzon Home Cinema
Monos
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, iTunes, Google Play, Netflix & YouTube
Ordinary Love
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Google Play & YouTube
Parasite
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, iTunes, Google Play & YouTube
Peanut Butter Falcon
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, Google Play, iTunes & YouTube
The Perfect Candidate
BFI Player & Curzon Home Cinema
Pink Wall
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Google Play & YouTube
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Amazon Prime & Curzon Home Cinema & MUBI
Proxima
Amazon Prime, Google Play, iTunes & YouTube
A Serial Killers Guide to Life
Amazon Prime, Google Play iTunes, Sky Store & YouTube
Shadow
Amazon Prime, Google Play, Netflix & YouTube
Shooting the Mafia
Amazon Prime, Curzon Home Cinema, Google Play, iTunes & YouTube
The Souvenir
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, iTunes, MUBI & YouTube
The Street
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Curzon Home Cinema, iTunes, Google Play, Sky Store & YouTube
System Crasher
BFI Player & Curzon Home Cinema
Talking About Trees
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Google Play & YouTube
The Truth
Amazon Prime & Curzon Home Cinema
The Two Popes
Netflix
Vitalina Varela
Amazon Prime, MUBI & YouTube
Vivarium
Amazon Prime, BFI Player, Google Play, iTunes & YouTube
The Whistlers
Curzon Home Cinema
Wild Rose
Amazon Prime, Google Play iTunes & YouTube
