Brando at the BFI

July is Marlon Brando month at the British Film Institute (BFI) Southbank next to Waterloo Bridge. From 1-31 July they’re showing almost all of Brando’s classic films with more than one screening on most days. If you want to see one of cinema’s most iconic actors on the big screen the BFI offers that chance over the next month, here are the films they’re showing.

Apocalypse Now Brillant Vietnam War film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Brando only has a small amount of screen time but makes the most of it.
TCM Special Screening: Brando 2007 TCM documentary on Brando.
The Chase 1966 film also starring Jane Fonda, Robert Redford and Robert Duvall with Brando as the sheriff of a small Texas town fighting vigilantes.
The Godfather One of the best films of all-time, playing Don Corleone earned Brando a Best Actor Oscar.
Guys and Dolls Brando sings and plays Sky Masterson opposite Frank Sinatra’s Nathan Detroit.
Julius Caesar Big screen version of Shakespeare’s play with Brando playing Mark Antony.
Last Tango in Paris Controversial 1972 film from Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci about a widowed American expat’s sexual relationship with a young French woman.
The Men Marlon Brando’s first film directed by Fred Zinnemann in 1950 where he plays a wheelchair bound war veteran trying to get back into civilian life.
The Missouri Breaks Western with Brando as a bounty hunter protecting a ranch against Jack Nicholson’s gang of horse thieves.
On the Waterfront One of the classic Brando films set around corruption on the New York docks. Brando won his first Oscar playing Terry Malloy the ex-boxer ‘who could have been a contender’ if Lee J. Cobb’s mob boss had let him. Also stars the excellent Rod Steiger.
One-Eyed Jacks The only film Brando directed was this 1961 western he also starred in.
Queimada! Brando plays a professional mercenary instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade.
Reflections in a Golden Eye John Huston directs Brando and Elizabeth Taylor in a story of adultery on a Deep South army base.
Sayonara Brando’s Korean War pilot falls for a Japanese girl.
A Streetcar Named Desire Brando plays the role that first made him a star on Broadway in this 1951 film directed by Elia Kazan and co-starring Vivien Leigh.
Viva Zapata! Another Kazan directed film with Brando as Mexican revolutionary Emilio Zapata.
The Wild One Two motorcycle gangs terrorize a small town. Banned in the UK for 14 years, Brando’s leather clad motorbike gang leader inspired a generation.