Bfi Movies

Test of observation for amateur detectives. Two crimes are depicted: The Crooked Billet Murder and Back Stage Murder.

Coster promises dying mother to care for his brother.

A short animated documentary about love, death, and knitting.

Daisy and her husband both go in for a face-pulling contest, but when the big day comes she is unable to attend the competition, and her husband wins...

A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.

A sign of approaching winter - the frost catches the leaves which begin to fall.

A meditation on the first 100 years of German cinema, featuring an assembly of German filmmakers.

Ostensibly, a film about a child's pictorial alphabet stuck on the letter H.

Jade is a young mother in the prime of her life when an acid attack leaves her severely burned. While her face has been reconstructed, her beauty is l...

A man extols the enjoyment that can still be had in a bath restricted to the wartime allowance of five inches of hot water.

Indian village life, including a Brahmin initiation ceremony and a Hindu wedding.

From the Sea to the Land Beyond is a film about the British coast made from 100 years of our film heritage stored in the British Film Institute collec...

Three blondes from another planet land on earth to conduct research into romantic love

Charming animated illustration of one of nature's wonders from Britain's most inventive pioneer of wildlife filmmaking.

Part of a travelogue series, this films visits to Derry, the Giant’s Causeway, Carrick-a-Rede, Mount Stewart and Belfast.

A haunting fire prevention film about keeping matches out of the hands of children.

Rhythm and romanticism rules over realism in this recreation of the origins of the rhumba dance

Designed to promote the National Cycling Proficiency Scheme: an N.C.P.S. student competes with another boy in a private cycling competition, organised...

While a mother busies herself with sewing, a clock counts down the last minute of her daughter’s life as we hear a chilling voiceover reminding us to...

No fewer than five once or future prime ministers on show at the momentous 1923 election.