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Browse 33 movies from Film London
A poor agricultural labourer leads a double life in the village's last remaining cornfield. But the harvest is approaching.
Oct 2018
Trail of the Spider transposes Western genre motifs and the suppressed racial history of the American west (where one in three cowboys were black or Mexican) onto the transforming landscape of East London. Questioning and re-imagining the Western’s portrayal of the “Vanishing Frontier” , the film extends the metaphor to the material and psychological conditions of a present day city increasingly dominated by volatile financial speculations and private interests.
Jan 2008
Set in the late 1990s, tensions run high as Sarah-Lee learns that it's not always fun and games when it comes to growing up.
Dec 2016
A real estate agent is tasked with selling the former flat of one of London’s most notorious serial killers, Dennis Nilsen.
Sep 2021
Shifting between documentary, historical reconstruction and melodrama, The Empty Plan interrogates the relationship between theory and practice in the theatre of Bertolt Brecht.
Nov 2010
A young boy struggles to maintain a degree of normality for his family in the face of his mother's mental instability in England's North West in 1971.
Jan 2003
Geeky Pavan takes his ‘English Rose’ on a date to the most authentic Indian restaurant in the city. To his horror she goes off-menu, in Hindi...
Oct 2014
Mum and Dad, and their 'adopted' children, Birdie & Elbie, work at the airport. The family live off whatever they scavenge from cargo holds, offices and hotels - including a steady stream of transient workers who populate the airport's soulless hub. When Lena, a young Polish office cleaner, is befriended by Birdie, she gets drawn into a nightmarish world of torture, murder and perversity.
Aug 2008
News of a new girlfriend disrupts mother-and-son crime duo, Bunny and Clive.
Jan 2016
Ramona takes all her therapist's advice as the word of God. But instead of enlightenment, she finds herself in a trinity of confusion with an empty chair.
A light hearted slice of life of a suburban Filipino/mixed race family.
Sep 2014
A strange romance about two lost souls. Wendy (one good eye) and Sid are trying to connect in a mid-range hotel near an airport.
Oct 2017
Tulsi Joshi, a widow and bride to be comes to her own wedding seeking revenge for the brutal murder of her first born son.
Sep 2017
A culture clash between a washed-up pop star and a musically talented young man with autism. These opposite characters transform each other's worlds through the power of music.
Sep 2015
Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.
Jun 2012
A young boy, Ben, lost in a vortex of poverty, is bullied at achool and neglected at home. He takes control of his life and rids himself forever of his aggressors.
Jun 2004
Faraz’s quiet life working at an isolated petrol station is turned upside down when his ageing father Malik begins to speak in a long-forgotten language and insists on returning back home.
May 2019
Leon is a tough, rebellious freestyle basketball player from the wrong side of the tracks. When Ondene, a stunning girl from an upper class background falls for him, their two contrasting worlds combine.
May 2010
Sarah Turner's film is a ghost story that explores what we forget and how we remember. The stunning imagery comes solely from the window of the Trans-Siberian train, shot first in 1987-8 and then again in 2007-8. The re-enactment of the journey is a memory work, a re-enactment of the past in the present through the process of filming. But the return journey is haunted by the voices of two dead friends that dominate the soundscape of the 'archive' footage.
Jan 2009
A shy young boy forced to deal with the death of his best friend. When a young boy finds his best friend, an 80-year-old man, dead, he uses his love of science to try and keep him alive.
Nov 2003