What’s Streaming On MUBI In February: Take A Trip With Taxi Tehran Alongside Nickel Boys And Thelma & Louise!
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With Cinema By Any Means: A Jafar Panahi Retrospective, Nickel Boys and Thelma & Louise, it’s an entertaining and packed month on MUBI!
It is a packed and entertaining month in February on MUBI, featuring new, noteworthy, and unmissable movies. The platform brings together a series of distinctive collections. February’s programme spans global cinemas, eras, and styles. United by filmmakers who confront social realities with formal daring and emotional urgency. Cinema By Any Means: A Jafar Panahi Retrospective and Kleber Mendonça Filho: Tropical Anxieties foreground acts of resistance and quiet tension within everyday life in Iran and Brazil. In addition, the 4K restoration of Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki celebrates a landmark of radical invention and youthful rebellion.
RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys offers a devastating reckoning with historical trauma. Heart Before Head: The Rom-com Variations reimagines love through melancholy, moral complexity, and formal play. Rounding out the programme, the “Big Five” Oscar Winners collection and Andrea Arnold’s elemental Wuthering Heights affirm cinema’s enduring power to challenge convention. These works bear witness, and illuminate the forces that shape communities, memory, and desire.
CINEMA BY ANY MEANS: A JAFAR PANAHI RETROSPECTIVE
Following the UK theatrical release of Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winning It Was Just an Accident (2025), the Cinema By Any Means: A Jafar Panahi Retrospective offers a vital overview of one of cinema’s most charged and defiant voices. Panahi observes everyday life in Iran while exposing the institutional oppression happening and acts of resistance against it. Additionally, his work blurs fiction and reality. It turns ordinary gestures into political ones. He finds humour, compassion, and resilience amid restriction. Whether attentive to children, women, or the marginalised, Panahi’s worldview is defined by humanity and an unyielding belief in the importance of bearing witness.
The White Balloon (Panahi, 1995) – February 27
The Mirror (Panahi, 1997) – February 27
The Circle (Panahi, 2000 – February 27
Crimson Gold (Panahi, 2003) – February 27
Offside (Panahi, 2006) – February 27
Closed Curtain (Panahi & Partov, 2013) – February 27
Taxi Tehran (Panahi, 2015) – February 27
KLEBER MENDONÇA FILHO: TROPICAL ANXIETIES
The Kleber Mendonça Filho: Tropical Anxieties brings together a body of work that maps the quiet tensions and social fractures beneath everyday life in contemporary Brazil. From the intimate domestic space to the wider political landscape, Filho reveals how communities are shaped, often through the small and unsettling details rather than overt drama.
From his early shorts to landmark features like (2012) and Bacurau (2019), the collection traces a filmmaker finely attuned to class. Atmosphere, and place, where tropical warmth coexists with paranoia, violence, and resistance. The collection also arrives as anticipation builds for Filho’s latest, the Golden Globe-winning The Secret Agent (2025), reaffirming his status as one of cinema’s most incisive chroniclers of communities and what moves them.
Eletrodoméstica (Filho, 2005) – February 20
Green Vinyl (Filho, 2005) – February 20
Friday Night Saturday Morning (Filho, 2006) – February 20
Cold Tropics (Filho, 2009) – February 20
Neighbouring Sounds (Filho, 2012) – February 20
Bacurau (Filho, 2019) – Now Streaming
Pictures of Ghosts (Filho, 2023) – February 27
TOUKI BOUKI
Restored in vibrant 4K, Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki (1973) returns to cement itself as one of the most audacious debuts in world cinema. Drawing inspiration from the French New Wave while defiantly rejecting inherited ideas of African filmmaking, Mambéty forges a work of restless invention marked by visceral imagery. Radical sound design and a rebellious, youthful energy that reverberates in world cinema and pop culture to this day.
Set in 1970s Senegal, follows young lovers Anta and Mory, disenchanted with life in Dakar and intoxicated by fantasies of escape to France. Their journey unfolds through a series of strange encounters and symbolic detours, drifting between realism and dream to transform the lovers-on-the-run narrative into something hypnotic and unforgettable.
Touki Bouki (Mambéty, 1973) – February 1
NICKEL BOYS
RaMell Ross masterfully adapts Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel into a formally rigorous reckoning with Nickel Boys (2025). Told through the experiences of boys confined to a brutal reform school, the film foregrounds memory, perception, and institutional violence in the Jim Crow South.
Widely acclaimed on the awards circuit, Nickel Boys extends Ross’s singular cinematic approach, combining political urgency with formal restraint. The result is a devastating, quietly radical work that confronts historical trauma with uncommon care.
Nickel Boys (Ross, 2024) – February 27
HEART BEFORE HEAD: THE ROM-COM VARIATIONS
Softly reinventing what a romantic comedy can be, the Heart Before Head: The Rom-com Variations features several love stories that are as much shaped by their melancholy and moral conundrums. In Norman Jewison’s unapologetic Moonstruck (1987), romance arrives in a rush of operatic excess and emotional recklessness. In Éric Rohmer’s A Summer’s Tale (1996), the tone shifts toward indecision, following a young Casanova on a long summer vacation, stuck with the crushing dilemma of having multiple romantic possibilities. Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) asks whether love can ever truly be erased, in a fractured love story that sees time loop back on itself in one man’s quest to circumvent heartbreak. Together, these films suggest that love is rarely orderly, often irrational, and most alive when it refuses convention.
Charade (Donen, 1963) – February 13
Moonstruck (Jewison, 1987) – February 1
A Summer’s Tale (Rohmer, 1996) – February 13
The Apartment (Wilder, 1960) – Now Streaming
The Graduate (Nichols, 1967) – Now Streaming
When Harry Met Sally… (Reiner, 1987) – Now Streaming
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004) – Now Streaming
Worst Person in the World (Trier, 2021) – Now Streaming
“BIG FIVE” OSCAR WINNERS
Spanning more than five decades of cinema, the “Big Five” Oscar Winners collection brings together the films that captured the Academy’s highest honours while also leaving a lasting cultural imprint. These are works that balance broad appeal with bold artistic vision. From the chilling psychology of Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs (1991), to the dark but always hilarious snowbound fable of Joel Coen’s Fargo (1996). Right up to the razor-sharp social commentary of Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite (2019), each film showcases storytelling that lingers long after the credits and narratives that continue to resonate across generations.
In the Heat of the Night (Jewison, 1967) – February 15
The Silence of the Lambs (Demme, 1991) – February 15
Thelma & Louise (Scott, 1991) – February 15
Fargo (Coen, 1996) – February 15
Parasite (Bong, 2019) – February 20
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Andrea Arnold’s primal Wuthering Heights (2011) strips Brontë’s novel to its raw, elemental core. Letting the Yorkshire moors dominate as both setting and character. Heathcliff and Cathy’s passionate, often brutal love unfolds in mud, wind, and fog. Their desires and conflicts are rendered by earthly impulses. In doing so, Arnold emphasises the feral, physical intensity of Brontë’s romance over social convention and literary flourish.
Wuthering Heights (Arnold, 2011) – February 13
MUBI UK & IRELAND FEBRUARY 2026
01/02/2026 | Magnificent Obsession | Douglas Sirk
01/02/2026 | Touki Bouki | Djibril Diop Mambéty
01/02/2026 | Moonstruck | Norman Jewison | Heart Before Head: The Rom-com Variations
03/02/2026 | What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire? | Roberto Minervini
06/02/2026 | The General | Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman | Crash, Bang, Wallop: 130 Years of Buster Keaton
06/02/2026 | Sherlock Jr. | Buster Keaton | Crash, Bang, Wallop: 130 Years of Buster Keaton
06/02/2026 | Seven Chances | Buster Keaton | Crash, Bang, Wallop: 130 Years of Buster Keaton
06/02/2026 | Our Hospitality | Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone | Crash, Bang, Wallop: 130 Years of Buster Keaton
06/02/2026 | The Practice | Martín Rejtman
13/02/2026 | Charade | Stanley Donen | Heart Before Head: The Rom-com Variations
13/02/2026 | A Summer’s Tale | Éric Rohmer | Heart Before Head: The Rom-com Variations
13/02/2026 | Wuthering Heights | Andrea Arnold
13/02/2026 | Sentimental Value | Joachim Trier | MUBI Releases
15/02/2026 | Fargo | Joel Coen | “Big Five” Oscar® Winners
15/02/2026 | The Silence of The Lambs | Jonathan Demme | “Big Five” Oscar® Winners
15/02/2026 | In The Heat of The Night | Norman Jewison | “Big Five” Oscar® Winners
20/02/2026 | Neighbouring Sounds | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Kleber Mendonça Filho: Tropical Anxieties
20/02/2026 | Mekong Hotel | Apichatpong Weerasethakul
20/02/2026 | Green Vinyl | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Kleber Mendonça Filho: Tropical Anxieties
20/02/2026 | Cold Tropics | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Kleber Mendonça Filho: Tropical Anxieties
20/02/2026 | Eletrodoméstica | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Kleber Mendonça Filho: Tropical Anxieties
20/02/2026 | Parasite | Bong Joon Ho | “Big Five” Oscar® Winners
20/02/2026 | Friday Night Saturday Morning | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Kleber Mendonça Filho: Tropical Anxieties
20/02/2026 | Being John Smith | John Smith | Brief Encounters
27/02/2026 | The Circle | Jafar Panahi | Cinema By Any Means: A Jafar Panahi Retrospective
27/02/2026 | Offside | Jafar Panahi | Cinema By Any Means: A Jafar Panahi Retrospective
27/02/2026 | Crimson Gold | Jafar Panahi | Cinema By Any Means: A Jafar Panahi Retrospective
27/02/2026 | The Mirror | Jafar Panahi | Cinema By Any Means: A Jafar Panahi Retrospective
27/02/2026 | White Balloon | Jafar Panahi | First Films First
27/02/2026 | Closed Curtain | Jafar Panahi | Cinema By Any Means: A Jafar Panahi Retrospective
27/02/2026 | Altman | Ron Mann
27/02/2026 | Taxi Tehran | Jafar Panahi | Cinema By Any Means: A Jafar Panahi Retrospective
27/02/2026 | Pictures of Ghosts | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Kleber Mendonça Filho: Tropical Anxieties
27/02/2026 | Nickel Boys | RaMell Ross
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