European Films Cinema Europeo

Bowood.TV is a free streaming destination for the world's richest film tradition — European cinema. From the silent expressionism of Murnau and Lang to the French Nouvelle Vague of Godard and Truffaut, from Italian Neorealismo to the modern Romanian New Wave, our catalog covers every era and movement. No subscription, no credit card, no signup is required.

The French selection includes the romantic comedy Amelie, the disability friendship film The Intouchables, Mathieu Kassovitz's suburban-tension classic La Haine, Luc Besson's Leon: The Professional, the Cannes-winning Anatomy of a Fall, Jacques Audiard's prison drama A Prophet, and the Almodovar-adjacent Blue Is the Warmest Color. Earlier auteurs like Truffaut (The 400 Blows), Godard (Breathless, Pierrot le Fou), Bresson (Pickpocket) and Rohmer round out the catalog.

Italian masterpieces include Roberto Benigni's Life Is Beautiful, Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso, Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty and Il Divo, the Vittorio De Sica neorealismo classic Bicycle Thieves, Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 and La Dolce Vita, the brutal Camorra epic Gomorrah and Pier Paolo Pasolini's controversial canon. Dario Argento horror fans will find Suspiria and Deep Red.

German cinema spans Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, Wolfgang Petersen's submarine epic Das Boot, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Stasi drama The Lives of Others, Tom Tykwer's kinetic Run Lola Run, the WWII countdown Downfall and Maren Ade's comedy Toni Erdmann. New cinema picks include System Crasher, Phoenix, the Best International Feature Oscar winner All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) and Christian Petzold's recent thrillers.

The British, Polish and Iberian shelves include Trainspotting, In Bruges, Slumdog Millionaire (UK production), the Polish masterpieces Ida, Cold War and Three Colors trilogy by Krzysztof Kieslowski, Roman Polanski's The Pianist, and modern Spanish auteur work from Pedro Almodovar (Volver, The Skin I Live In, Pain and Glory) and Guillermo del Toro's Spanish-language Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone. Scandinavian cinema includes Lars von Trier (Melancholia, Dogville), Roy Andersson (You, the Living) and the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In.

Every title streams up to 1080p HD with original-language audio and English subtitles by default. Most titles offer additional French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian subtitle tracks, switchable from the player. New festival premieres are added within weeks of theatrical release.