Too Much: Melodrama on Film was the BFI’s 2025 UK-wide season where audiences were invited to follow their emotions and get swept away by the big screen experience.
Too Much celebrated the visual excess and dramatic potency of a form of cinema which champions emotional intensity over propriety and ‘good taste’. With roots in the exaggerated performance and expressive staging of the silent era, the melodramatic mode evolved to incorporate a wealth of genres and stories. United by their emotion driven plots, vivid visual language and self-conscious audience manipulation, these films were designed to make you break down in tears, cause a scene, fall in love, feel something.
Using funds from the National Lottery, cinemas across the UK celebrated the season during from the October – December 2025.
