British Film Institute Production Board Movies

Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre...

A young man (Aidan Gillan) arrives in the midst of London's Soho. He's from Belfast, he's anxious and he looks like he's running away from something....

European emigre Tanya moves to London to work as a family au pair. Still grieving for her recently deceased father and rejected by an old friend,...

A rich and challenging account of the experiences of a German Jewish musician who settled in Britain to escape Nazi persecution. Two of his friends...

An old woman, her grandson, cabbage soup... A man arrives, bearing meat, setting in motion a situation which escalates beyond the point of barter.

A Southern soldier in the American Civil War is sent to reconnoiter the enemy positions and becomes trapped beneath a huge pile of rubble by Northern...

Traces the role of women in British television, from 1946 to 1997.

An elegant film about one man's fears and fantasies regarding HIV testing.

The idyllic, rural past of a Suffolk village comes to life through the memories of an old man who tends a country graveyard.

Song tells the story of the women who worked in Victorian London's clothing sweatshops, eschewing a conventional narrative in favour of a series of...

A man lives in a forest, surviving through murder and deceit. When he finds himself drawn to two strangers, his strict code of self-preservation is...

Story of a girl from Surrey who visits Jozef, a Slovenian artist living in Poland, and embarks on an affair.

A woman encounters her memories, explored through dance. Featuring Marguerite Porter, former Principal Ballerina at the Royal Ballet.

A poetic young man crosses paths with a young runaway woman, and together they embark on an all-night journey through London’s sleepy...

July 1931. A farmstead near Kilmore, Southern Ireland. The country is in drought. Day after day the sun scorches the land and parches the crops. The...

In a hugely entertaining parody of her media persona, a pre-'Female Eunuch' Germaine Greer stars as a terrifyingly amorous woman who alternately...

Sunflowers, seen as a life source, with their life cycle visually equated with that of humans.

Unemployed Anthony announces he is joining the police, much to the horror of his girlfriend and friends.

Vinko Globakar, a virtuoso trombonist, plays on a stage, alone, Luciano Berio's Sequenza for Trombone.

Inspired by Virginia Woolf, a young writer worries that marriage will hinder her literary ambitions. The film includes extracts from Virginia Woolf's...