Collections/January 2026

Starring Ben Whishaw

One of the most thoughtful and quietly compelling actors working today, Ben Whishaw—currently nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award for his lead performance in Peter Hujar’s Day —projects a soulful sensitivity and soft-spoken intensity in his emotionally layered portrayals of dreamers, misfits, and romantics. Whether embodying the quixotic yearning of poet John Keats in Bright Star , the heartbreaking vulnerability of a young man grieving his boyfriend’s death in Lilting , or the wild punk swagger of renegade Russian writer Eduard Limonov in Limonov: The Ballad , Whishaw is never less than riveting, conveying deep recesses of thought and feeling with understated precision.

5 films — 2 on the Channel, 3 unavailable