British Film Institute Production Board Movies

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...

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

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

Short film adaptation of Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis'.

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 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...

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,...

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

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

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

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

Animated retelling of the story of Noah's Ark by political cartoonist Abu.

An artistic pioneer, Agnès Varda has never stopped looking for the next way to tell a story. Here the 90-year-old explains how Instagram, with...

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

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

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

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...

Set on a steam-shrouded railway station and shot in high-contrast black and white, Richard Kwietniowski's film lovingly twists David Lean's...

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