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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Cait, who has lost her boyfriend Marvin to another woman, sets herself a number of rituals to help overcome her loss.

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...

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...

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