British Film Institute Production Board Movies

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...

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...

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

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.

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

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 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...

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

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

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

A documentary about abortion

Captures the peculiar, Python-esque events that follow after a young man gets his hand stuck in a letter box.

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

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...

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

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

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

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...