British Film Institute Production Board Movies

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...

This chilling and provocative faux home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on film....

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

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...

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,...

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

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....

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

A marital breakdown is brought to life through a mixture of dramatisation, monologue, montage and animation. Through the perspectives of the husband,...

A girl takes her camera along to a rocky beach, but quickly becomes fascinated with a far stranger mechanical contraption that she finds there.

Horror story using stills. Based on the short story by Richard Davis.

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

A series of non-dramatic tableaux representing scenes from De Sade's novel.

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

The pressures of her job in a hospital forces a young doctor to abandon a colleague suffering from depression to treat another patient.

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...

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

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

Dolly, an elderly widow who lives alone, has been hoarding coal since the deaths of her husband and son years ago in mining accidents. When Dolly...

“Film questions whether the encouragement of very low paid jobs and schemes - both in general and specifically how they function in the area...