British Film Institute Production Board Movies

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

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

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

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

Faulty plumbing in the home of a painter causes an old woman to be covered in red paint while she showers. The painter's neighbours engineer his fate...

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

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...

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...

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

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

Anna follows her absent Mother on her nightly ritual, as she walks round the family house, turning the house lamps on one by one. In the course of...

Captures a moment in 1970s Britain's immigration debate, focusing on new arrivals at Heathrow as they wrestle with immigration law.

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...

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...

A man travels to the Isle of Arran to marry his fiancée, only to find that her extended family is part of the package.

An anti-short short. On three occassions a man overhears a car accident while relaxing in his room. He reacts with less and less concern to each...

A group of young friends convene in the countryside to shoot a horror movie. But an experiment with LSD sees normal boundaries between them...

Experimental film consisting of two super-imposed (in camera), continuous looping camera movements across a short stretch of the English Channel. A...

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