John Bird Movies

Sweet Hilda Capper spends her birthday fending off the well-meaning intrusions of family and friends.

In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the...

Rory Bremner looks back on the first year of Tony Blair's premiership through a series of sketches.

A 29-year old aspiring composer—still single and without any romantic prospects—vows to both marry and write a hit musical before he...

Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated...

The impressionist Rory Bremner and comedians Bird and Fortune take a look at the history of Iraq through a series of sketches, monologues and jokes....

Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.

An American's family jewels are stolen during her trip to London and she reluctantly teams up with a private investigator-in-training to try and...

Three part comedy. A fading sex symbol attempts to win the lead in a movie by seducing the son of a film producer. A depressed middle aged loner...

On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around,...

A Japanese cop is sent to join the London police force on a secret investigation.

The hilarious adventures of young Bumbo Bailey, who enlists in the Brigade of Guards and is based in the prestigious Wellington Barracks in London in...

A documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook.

David and Joan's life has been one continuous party, but their marriage is loveless. Suddenly a young girl appears in their world and announces that...

John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most...

The plot follows Timothy Gedge, a socially inept yet intrusive teenage boy as he wanders around the dull seaside town of Dynmouth, spying on the...