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Browse 74 movies from British Film Institute Production Board
The idyllic, rural past of a Suffolk village comes to life through the memories of an old man who tends a country graveyard.
Dec 1975
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 are being sued by a former SS Kommandant, who denies their accusation that he was responsible for the genocide of 300 Belgians. Documentary interviews and archive footage merge with dramatised scenes to create a new way of representing history and memory.
Jan 1980
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
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
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
Horror story using stills. Based on the short story by Richard Davis.
Jan 1967
Story of a girl from Surrey who visits Jozef, a Slovenian artist living in Poland, and embarks on an affair.
Jan 1993
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
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
An Englishwoman travels to a Normandy village to investigate her husband's disappearance.
Jan 1994
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.
Jan 1997
Animated retelling of the story of Noah's Ark by political cartoonist Abu.
Jun 1969
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 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
Captures a moment in 1970s Britain's immigration debate, focusing on new arrivals at Heathrow as they wrestle with immigration law.
Jun 1976
A woman encounters her memories, explored through dance. Featuring Marguerite Porter, former Principal Ballerina at the Royal Ballet.
Jan 1987
A tragi-comic boat movie in which Beauty and The Beast live out their own particular fairytales.
Jan 1991
Unemployed Anthony announces he is joining the police, much to the horror of his girlfriend and friends.
Aug 1988
Traces the role of women in British television, from 1946 to 1997.
Mar 1997