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Browse 33 movies from Film London
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
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
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
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
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
A light hearted slice of life of a suburban Filipino/mixed race family.
Sep 2014
A poor agricultural labourer leads a double life in the village's last remaining cornfield. But the harvest is approaching.
Oct 2018
An exploration into the history of Shakespeare's plays, from the silent era to the modern day featuring archive interviews with movie directors including Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh and more.
Apr 2016
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
The story of two totally contrasting figures who come together in the most hostile of circumstances, only to form an unlikely bond that will help them both find a way out of their respective troubles. It is a bittersweet comedy about growing up and rediscovering youth in parallel, united by the subconscious desire to seek out the missing elements in their lives.
Sep 2013
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
A real estate agent is tasked with selling the former flat of one of London’s most notorious serial killers, Dennis Nilsen.
Sep 2021
News of a new girlfriend disrupts mother-and-son crime duo, Bunny and Clive.
Jan 2016
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
Re-mixes and extends Perestroika (2009) into two sequences. Sequence one constritutes the 2009 version, while the second sequence constructs a new framing narrative that reinterprets and reconfigures both the imagery and the experience of the first. Part psycho-geography, part dream and part environmental allegory.
Jan 2013
The film revolves a supposedly pivotal moment in Brown's life – his decision to quit accountancy in 1950s Glasgow for comedy after the death of his uncle Harry, a regular character in his routines 'who began with socialism, drifted into Buddhism and ended up with rheumatism'.
Jan 2012
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 hungry rabbit is stalked by a lettuce.
Aug 2005
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
Young couple Tom and Alex, traveling on London's tube, meet Peter. Ensuing conversation and events challenge Tom and Alex’s view of the world, ultimately shattering the immortality of youth.
Mar 2014