Menu
© 2026 The Couch Critic
Browse 79 movies from BFI Network
When her father's puppet samurai show gets ambushed by a notorious gang, Tornado vows to seek vengeance and forge her own destiny by stealing their ill-gotten gold.
May 2025
Shabbat dinner: An elegant Granny bites into a roast chicken and literally becomes a beast. The grandchild follows her back in time through hunger and hope where she learns why Granny eats chicken like it's the last day of her life.
Nov 2024
In the fading summer light, fourteen-year-old Chris is tested by his friends - a journey that reveals the gap between simplified notions of masculinity and the deeper emotions and diverse voices that shape identity.
Nov 2025
A forgotten history of Northern Ireland is unveiled through a journey into Ulster Television’s archives, and the rediscovery of the first locally-produced network drama, Boatman Do Not Tarry.
Jun 2024
Amy and Carl both have lazy eyes. Amy’s left and Carl’s right. They are strangers, volunteers for an unusual, life-altering treatment in which they will enter a completely dark room together for ten days. But in the hallucination-inducing darkness, they are forced to confront personal demons.
May 2020
When a dinner party descends into a vicious sibling argument between Tom and Emily, their partners Jade and Norman can't wait to escape, but clumsy revelations quickly expose that the one thing they have in common is a truly awkward secret.
Jun 2022
Lily is stuck in a state of ennui, until Death comes along in the form of a beautiful woman and entices her to live.
Mar 2021
A woman's morning jog takes a dark turn.
Oct 2021
The horror of Jen's teenage past catches up with her when she takes her autistic son to a birthday party in her hometown.
Apr 2023
In a shoebox flat on the seventeenth floor of a tower block, Reuben prepares a birthday party for his partner Harry. However, when Reuben starts hearing violent noises from the couple living next door, his morbid curiosity takes over. Harry deeply loves his boyfriend Reuben, but after being humiliated by a failed birthday party, many drinks consumed, shows us that none of us truly knows what we are capable of. For Reuben he comes to realise that violence isn’t always on the outside, sometimes it’s with us all along.
Mar 2025
Nel packs up her late father's home while simultaneously unpacking memories of their volatile relationship.
Sep 2022
An overnight coach driver talks to his passengers. However, tonight, one of them is awake.
Dec 2022
There have always been rumors about the local fast-food joint and its shady owner. When a child goes missing, a young boy musters up his courage and decides to check it out.
Dec 2020
One man's obsession with crisps becomes unhealthy - and not because he's eating them. Tom's quest for the truth takes him on a journey into the unknown in this animated comedy about nostalgia, corporate conspiracy and bear-shaped snacks.
Oct 2023
Anna receives an urgent phone call from her desperate-sounding and somewhat estranged mother, Helen. Anna's troubled brother has returned to the family home; Helen needs Anna's help and it must be right now – definitely before tonight. The Wilds tells the story of the day Anna Wild finally reconnects with her family; all thanks to a lycanthropy-based emergency.
Oct 2022
After a night of intoxication in Glasgow, a hungover and hysterical Nick wakes up next to his boyfriend Charlie and must conceal him from his own homophobic and dysfunctional family.
Jan 2022
Sarah must make a journey from Belfast to Liverpool to avoid a life she does not want. A journey that is against the law.
Nov 2020
A recovering drug addict is about to have a very strange night on The English Riviera.
An ode to the mundanity and madness of the high street, told through the window of an African hair salon.
Aug 2021
In the Welsh wilderness a young girl must break away from the coercive control of her adopted father, reluctantly befriending a lad from the local scrapyard.
Dec 2019