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Browse 73 movies from British Film Institute Production Board
Sunflowers, seen as a life source, with their life cycle visually equated with that of humans.
Jan 1968
An old woman, her grandson, cabbage soup... A man arrives, bearing meat, setting in motion a situation which escalates beyond the point of barter.
Jan 1990
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 the lamp walk, Anna talks about being afraid of the dark and of the secrets that all families and lovers keep from one another.
Jan 2001
A wasp exterminator travels to a large stately home to deal with a wasp infestation problem. However when he arrives he is greeted by a dysfunctional, hate filled family that attacks each other with spite and hurtful remarks. He reassesses his feelings towards the wasps that only sting in self defence.
Jan 1997
An elegant film about one man's fears and fantasies regarding HIV testing.
Feb 1991
Story of a girl from Surrey who visits Jozef, a Slovenian artist living in Poland, and embarks on an affair.
Jan 1993
The pressures of her job in a hospital forces a young doctor to abandon a colleague suffering from depression to treat another patient.
Jan 2000
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 realises that everyone in the village wants a bit of her 50ft high coal mountain, including her niece Winny, Dolly is forced to take drastic measures...
Jan 1998
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, Tanya draws closer to her employer's husband. The sights and sounds of the Capital at Christmas form a deceptively romantic backdrop, for this brief meditation on loneliness and love.
Jan 1995
A woman encounters her memories, explored through dance. Featuring Marguerite Porter, former Principal Ballerina at the Royal Ballet.
Jan 1987
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 cannon fire. His loaded gun is left pointing precariously at him and he is faced with imminent death.
Dec 1968
A poetic young man crosses paths with a young runaway woman, and together they embark on an all-night journey through London’s sleepy metropolis.
Jan 1989
The protagonist spends his time in tunnels and caverns chased by Fascist thugs and having dream-like encounters with strange solitary women of different ages. Allegorical story of a prisoner, his attempts to escape and his hallucinations.
Jan 1975
A group of young friends convene in the countryside to shoot a horror movie. But an experiment with LSD sees normal boundaries between them collapsing, and tragedy subsequently striking.
Sep 1994
A young man (Aidan Gillan) arrives in the midst of London's Soho. He's from Belfast, he's anxious and he looks like he's running away from something. Then, by chance, he meets Grace, a prostitute who happens to come from Belfast too. A connection is made and, for a brief time, she seems to offer the chance of a new future.
A man lives in a forest, surviving through murder and deceit. When he finds himself drawn to two strangers, his strict code of self-preservation is put to the test.
Jun 2014
Unemployed Anthony announces he is joining the police, much to the horror of his girlfriend and friends.
Aug 1988
Vinko Globakar, a virtuoso trombonist, plays on a stage, alone, Luciano Berio's Sequenza for Trombone.
This chilling and provocative faux home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on film. Bicât and scriptwriter Howard Brenton explore the consequences and co-option of political violence with hard, grubby directness and a pre-punk, semi-nihilistic attack on bourgeois values.
Jan 1972
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 still photographs and acted reconstructions to show that this story has been rewritten/written-over many times before.
Jan 1979