What’s Streaming On MUBI This March: It Was Just An Accident With Pompei: Below The Clouds
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It Was Just An Accident, Pomei: Below The Clouds, and some classic movies are among the highlights this March on MUBI.
Are you ready for some new, noteworthy, and unmissable movies in March on MUBI? Spearheading Cinema By Any Means: A Jafar Panahi Retrospective is Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or–winning It Was Just an Accident, honoured at the 78th Cannes Film Festival. In this tense, darkly comic thriller, a former torture victim’s desperate act of abduction becomes a searing exploration of justice, memory, and the psychic toll of surveillance. The programme continues with Gianfranco Rosi’s Venice Special Jury Prize–winning Pompei: Below the Clouds. This film is an atmospheric portrait of Naples living under Mount Vesuvius. Moreover, it features The United States of Frederick Wiseman. This is an eight-film tribute to Frederick Wiseman’s immersive studies of American institutions. Finally, you’ll find Women Misbehaving, a season celebrating unruly heroines across eras and genres.
Also featured is Double Act: Paolo Sorrentino and Toni Servillo. This program pairs The Consequences of Love and The Great Beauty in anticipation of the cinema release of La Grazia (2025) on 20 March. Alongside this, you can enjoy Spike Jonze’s surreal classic Being John Malkovich, written by Charlie Kaufman. It is a mordantly funny meditation on identity and desire.
MUBI RELEASES: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT
Spearheading the new-to-platform Cinema By Any Means: A Jafar Panahi Retrospective comes acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, It Was Just an Accident (2025): a tense and darkly comic thriller inspired by the director’s long confrontation with state repression. Notably, it is the winner of the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or. In it, Panahi channels his signature blend of realism and moral inquiry into a tightly wound mystery. Therefore, the film unravels into an indictment of the psychological toll that living under constant surveillance begets.
Beginning with a seemingly minor roadside accident, garage owner Vahid becomes convinced that a customer needing a repair service is the intelligence officer who once tortured him. This prompts a reckless abduction out of mental desperation, which spirals into increasingly dark territories. As Vahid recruits others carrying their own scars, their uneasy alliance brings to the surface a sericomic debate about justice, memory, and complicity. With sharp satire and mounting tension, Panahi crafts a gripping portrait of how fear and oppression distort everyday life. Moreover, he explores how the past is never truly buried.
It Was Just an Accident (Panahi, 2025) – March 6
MUBI RELEASES: POMPEI: BELOW THE CLOUDS
Gianfranco Rosi’s Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) is an atmospheric and existential portrait of Naples under the looming presence of Mount Vesuvius. Shot over several years in luminous black-and-white, the film observes daily life unfolding beneath a quiet yet constant threat.
Naples is a city forever marked by the volcano above it: archaeologists unearth the past, children learn as the earth hums beneath their feet, and firefighters wait for the next call. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Venice, Rosi’s mosaic connects ancient catastrophe with present-day unease, capturing a community suspended between memory and inevitability.
Pompei: Below the Clouds (Rosi, 2025) – March 27
We saw the film at the BFI London Film Festival and enjoyed it. Our editor, Phil Roberts, said about the film:
“Gianfranco Rosi’s #BelowTheClouds is a wonderfully insightful exploration of Italian culture, living in the shadow of Vesuvius.
The culture, architecture and warmth of the people existing here shine through vividly through this artistic black and white intimate lens. #LFF”
While I had this to say about the film:
“#BelowTheClouds is a stunning documentary featuring those who live in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius. Filmed in black and white, the film is fascinating. #BFI #LFF”
THE UNITED STATES OF FREDERICK WISEMAN
Our new collection, The United States of Frederick Wiseman, honours one of documentary cinema’s most rigorous and humane observers. Wiseman is a filmmaker whose unwavering gaze transformed the landscape of nonfiction film. Spanning more than half a century, this eight-film collection maps the institutions, communities, and social microcosms that shape American life — from schools and hospitals to city halls and public spaces.
A tribute to his signature observational style and rejection of narration and sensationalism, Frederick Wiseman here immerses his viewers in durational studies of power, belief, and everyday ritual. Presented in pristine 4K restorations, these films together form a profound, wide-angle portrait of a nation and its contradictions. As a result, they offer a lasting testament to the patience and moral clarity that defined his life’s work.
High School (Wiseman, 1968) – March 20Â
Law and Order (Wiseman, 1969) – March 20Â
Model (Wiseman, 1980) – March 20Â
The Store (Wiseman, 1983) – March 20Â
Aspen (Wiseman, 1991) – March 20Â
At Berkeley (Wiseman, 2013) – March 20Â
In Jackson Heights (Wiseman, 2015) – March 20Â
City Hall (Wiseman, 2020) – March 20
WOMEN MISBEHAVING
Launching for International Women’s History Month, Women Misbehaving is an energetic season celebrating female rebellion and nonconformity with a distinctly playful edge. Across genres and eras, these films foreground unruly heroines, sharp wit, and acts of resistance that disrupt expectation and authority.
From cult classics to contemporary provocations. The collection embraces characters who refuse to behave, reframing defiance as both comic weapon and political gesture.
Ingrid Goes West (Spicer, 2017) – March 1Â
Thoroughbreds (Finley, 2017) – March 1Â
The Capsule (Tsangari, 2012) – March 2Â
A Regular Woman (Hormann, 2019) – March 2Â
Wadjda (Al-Mansour, 2012) – March 5Â
Thelma & Louise (Scott, 1991) – Now Streaming
DOUBLE ACT: PAOLO SORRENTINO AND TONI SERVILLO
Celebrating one of modern Italian cinema’s great creative partnerships, the Double Act: Paolo Sorrentino and Toni Servillo collection pairs The Consequences of Love (2004) with The Great Beauty (2017). It also celebrates the evolution of the duo’s work together in anticipation of La Grazia (2025).
Across these films, Sorrentino creates two worlds of alienation and decadent spectacle given great humanity by the grounding performances of Toni Servillo and the magnetic stoicism of his face. Together, they reveal a performer capable of conveying vast emotional and philosophical terrain with just the smallest of gestures.
The Consequences of Love (Sorrentino, 2004) – March 20Â
The Great Beauty (Sorrentino, 2017) – March 20
BEING JOHN MALKOVICH
Spike Jonze’s surreal dive into identity, Being John Malkovich (1999), follows a struggling puppeteer who discovers a portal into the consciousness of actor John Malkovich. Written by Academy-Awarding winning Charlie Kaufman, the film turns this bizarre premise into a morbidly funny exploration of the self. And what begins as novelty spirals into a sharp and playful examination of selfhood and desire, where absurdity meets the often poignant urge to escape one’s own life.
Being John Malkovich (Jonze, 1999) – March 15
MUBI UK & IRELAND MARCH 2026
01/03/2026 | Thelma & Louise | Ridley Scott | Women Misbehaving
01/03/2026 | Thoroughbreds | Cory Finley | Women Misbehaving
01/03/2026 | Ingrid Goes West | Matt Spicer | Women Misbehaving
02/03/2026 | The Capsule | Athina Rachel Tsangari | Women Misbehaving
02/03/2026 | A Regular Woman | Sherry Hormann | Women Misbehaving
05/03/2026 | Wadjda | Haifaa Al-Mansour | Women Misbehaving
06/03/2026 | It Was Just An Accident | Jafar Panahi | MUBI Releases
15/03/2026 | Being John Malkovich | Spike Jonze | “Big Five” Oscar Winners
20/03/2026 | The Consequences of Love | Paolo Sorrentino | Double Act: Paolo Sorrentino & Toni Servillo
20/03/2026 | High School | Frederick Wiseman | The United States of Frederick Wiseman
20/03/2026 | The Store | Frederick Wiseman | The United States of Frederick Wiseman
20/03/2026 | Law and Order | Frederick Wiseman | The United States of Frederick Wiseman
20/03/2026 | Aspen | Frederick Wiseman | The United States of Frederick Wiseman
20/03/2026 | Model | Frederick Wiseman | The United States of Frederick Wiseman
20/03/2026 | Short Sharp Shock | Faith Akin
20/03/2026 | The Great Beauty | Paolo Sorrentino | Double Act: Paolo Sorrentino & Toni Servillo
20/03/2026 | At Berkeley | Frederick Wiseman | The United States of Frederick Wiseman
20/03/2026 | The Cut | Faith Akin
20/03/2026 | In Jackson Heights | Frederick Wiseman | The United States of Frederick Wiseman
20/03/2026 | The Golden Glove | Faith Akin
20/03/2026 | City Hall | Frederick Wiseman | The United States of Frederick Wiseman
23/03/2026 | The Edge of Heaven | Faith Akin
23/03/2026 | A Mysterious World | Rodrigo Moreno
25/03/2026 | Whore’s Glory | Michael Glawogger
27/03/2026 | Pompei: Below the Clouds | Gianfranco Rosi | MUBI Releases
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