Cinema & Media Studies - Streaming on demand: Selected films

What can I stream right now?

Did you know...? Many movies assigned in courses are available to Penn students, faculty, and staff, through streaming video-on-demand services through the Penn Libraries--Kanopy, Swank Digital Campus, Academic Video Online (AVON), Projectr, and Docuseek--or the Penn Video Network. This page highlights recommended films, sorted by decade or genre.

This page features a limited selection and is continuously updated. Scroll over titles for a description. Search Franklin and limit to Format: Video, for more.

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• Ascension (Jessica Kingdon, 2021)
• Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (Nina Menkes, 2022)
• Bulletproof (Todd Chandler, 2020)
• Capital C: The Crowdfunding Revolution (Org Kundinger & Timon Birkhofer, 2014)
• ¡Casa Bonita, Mi Amor! (Trey Parker & Matt Stone, 2024)
• The Computer Accent (Sebastian Pardo & Riel Roch Decter, 2022)
• Dark Money (Kimberly Reed, 2018)
• The Disruptors (Stephanie Soechtig, 2022)
• Do No Harm: The Opioid Epidemic (Harry Wyland, 2018)
• Driving While Black (Gretchen Sorin & Ric Burns, 2020)
• Fake Famous (Nick Bilton, 2021) - until 10/28/2025
• The Gatekeepers (Dror Moreh, 2013)
• Gaza (Garry Keane & Andrew McConnell, 2019)
• Grey Gardens (Albert and David Maysles, 1975) - until 3/15/2028
• Growing Up Poor in America (Jezza Neumann & Lauren Santucci, 2020)
• Hate Among Us (David McKenzie, 2019)
• Guardians of the Sea (Laurent Lutaud, 2022)
• The Hidden Life of Trees (Jörg Adolph & Jan Haft, 2020)
• How Jack Became Black (Eli Steele, 2018)
• HyperNormalisation (Adam Curtis, 2016)
• I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck, 2016)
• Inequality for All (Jacob Kornbluth, 2013)
• Knit's Island (Ekiem Barbier, Guilhem Causse & Quentin L'Helgouac'h, 2024)
• Los Angeles Plays Itself (Thom Andersen, 2004)
• Monobloc (Hauke Wendler, 2022)
• Medicating Normal (Lynn Cunningham & Wendy Ractliffe, 2020)
• Oriented (Jake Witzenfield, 2015)
• Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990)
• The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (Brett Story, 2016)
• Putin’s Witnesses (Vitaly Mansky, 2018)
• Something Ventured (Daniel Geller & Dayna Goldfine, 2011)
• The Story of Film: An Odyssey (Mark Cousins, 2012)
• Episodes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
• The Story of Looking (Mark Cousins, 2021)
• The Story of Plastic (Deia Schlosberg, 2019)
• Sweetgrass (Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 2009)
• Theaters of War (Roger Stahl, 2022)
• Under the Bridge: Criminalization of Homelessness (Don Sawyer, 2015)
• The Viewing Booth (Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, 2019)
• Waging a Living (Roger Weisberg, 2006)
• Where the Pavement Ends (Jane Gilooly, 2018)
• White Coat Rebels (Greg Barker, 2021)
• The Wikipedia Promise (Lorenza Castella & Jascha Hannover, 2021)
• Women of Hamas (Suha Arraf, 2010)

• Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975) - until 1/31/2026
• A Room With a View (James Ivory, 1985) - until 3/15/2028

• Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino, 2017)
• Carnage (Roman Polanski, 2011)
• Death on the Nile (Kenneth Branagh, 2022)
• Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen, 2021)
• Infinitely Polar Bear (Maya Forbes, 2014)
• No (Pablo Larraín, 2012)
• Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello, 2016)
• Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016)
• West Side Story (Steven Spielberg, 2021)

• Bend it Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha, 2003)
• Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón, 2006) - until 8/31/2025
• Junebug (Phil Morrison, 2005)
• Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt, 2010)
• My Perestroika (Robin Hessman, 2010)
• She Hate Me (Spike Lee, 2004)

• Beau Travail (Claire Denis, 1999) - until 3/15/2028
• Beautiful Thing (Hettie McDonald, 1996)
• Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994) - until 3/15/2028
• Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991)
• The Daytrippers (Greg Mottola, 1996) - until 3/15/2028
• Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999)
• Groove (Greg Harrison, 2000)
• Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996) - until 3/15/2028
• Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer, 1998)
• Safe (Todd Haynes, 1995)
• The Tao of Steve (Jenniphr Goodman, 2000)
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch, 1992) - until 3/15/2028
• The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996)
• Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz, 1995)

• Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990) - until 3/15/2028
• Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1982) - until 3/15/2028
• My Dinner With Andre (Louis Malle, 1981) - until 3/15/2028
• Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990)
• Police Story (Jackie Chan, 1985) - until 3/15/2028
• Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1990) - until 3/15/2028
• Stranger Than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984) - until 3/15/2028
• Sweetie (Jane Campion, 1989) - until 3/15/2028
• The Vanishing (George Sluizer, 1988) - until 3/15/2028
• Vagabond (Agnès Varda, 1985) - until 3/15/2028

• Carnival of Souls (Herk Harvey, 1962) - until 3/15/2028
• Carrie (David Carson, 2002)
• Chopping Mall (Jim Wynorski, 1986)
• Cube (Vincenzo Natali, 1997)
• Dressed to Kill (Brian De Palma, 1980)
• Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju, 1960) - until 3/15/2028
• Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978)
• Hellraiser (Clive Barker, 1987)
• House (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977) - until 3/15/2028
• House of 1,000 Corpses (Rob Zombie, 2003)
• The Lair of the White Worm (Ken Russell, 1988)
• Ringu (The Ring) (Hideo Nakata, 1998)
• Saw (James Wan, 2004)
• Saw II (Darren Lynn Bousman, 2005)
• Slumber Party Massacre (Amy Holden Jones, 1982)
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974)
• Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-ho, 2016)
• The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)

Useful apps for Cinema & Media Studies

   

   

• IMDb, the Internet Movie Database, for filmographies, casts, credits, showtimes, reviews, and watchlists for film and TV.
• Letterboxd, a social network for film people with watchlists and reviews.
• JustWatch or ReelGood, streaming search and watchlists.

Not available to stream? It happens.
Search for the DVD

Search Franklin for films and TV, streaming or as a DVD. The physical DVD copy is sometimes the only option for access.

DVDs can offer bonus essays, booklets, interviews, and extra content.

 Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles, 2019)
 Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948) - until 3/15/2028
 Burnt by the Sun (Nikita Mikhalkov, 1994)
 Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
 Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994) - until 3/15/2028
 Executive Order (Lázaro Ramos & Flávia Lacerda, 2020)
 Fox and His Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975) - until 3/15/2028
 Goodbye, Lenin! (Wolfgang Becker, 2003)
 House of Flying Daggers (Zhang Yimou, 2004)
 Incendies (Denis Villeneuve, 2011)
 In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar-wai, 2000) - until 3/15/2028
 Întregalde (Radu Muntean, 2021)
 My Life as a Dog (Lasse Hallström, 1985) - until 3/15/2028
 Pacifiction (Albert Serra, 2022)
 Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, 2007)
 The Secret in Their Eyes (Juan José Campanella, 2009)
 The Skin I Live In (Pedro Almodóvar, 2011)
 Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Pedro Almodóvar, 1989) - until 3/15/2028
 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964) - until 3/15/2028
 The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy, 1967) - until 3/15/2028

Get the Kanopy app on mobile or TV 

The Kanopy app is available on iOS devices, Android phones and tablets, and most smart TVs.  

• Stream on mobile - instructions

• Stream on a smart TV - instructions

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