British Film Institute Production Board Movies

The words to the Paul McCartney-penned Beatles classic Penny Lane are vividly illustrated in this short montage film, released in the same year as...

This chilling and provocative faux home movie presents the story of three dissidents and their plan to commit a revolutionary act on film....

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...

Story of a girl from Surrey who visits Jozef, a Slovenian artist living in Poland, and embarks on an affair.

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...

Set on a steam-shrouded railway station and shot in high-contrast black and white, Richard Kwietniowski's film lovingly twists David Lean's...

Sunflowers, seen as a life source, with their life cycle visually equated with that of humans.

A group of young friends convene in the countryside to shoot a horror movie. But an experiment with LSD sees normal boundaries between them...

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

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....

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

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...

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

A tragi-comic boat movie in which Beauty and The Beast live out their own particular fairytales.

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

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 poetic young man crosses paths with a young runaway woman, and together they embark on an all-night journey through London’s sleepy...

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