Bfi Movies

Told with authenticity and perception, David looks back on the life of a school caretaker in a Welsh mining town, from the marriage and birth of his s...

The Hilton Hotel rises from the ashes, surrounded by derelict houses and bomb damaged streets.

A 16mm anthology of experimental super 8 films by Derek Jarman, Michael Kostiff, Cerith Wyn Evans and John Maybury, with framing footage by Tim Burke...

A mysterious woman recruits a Cabinet doorman and an ex-civil servant for a plot to bring down the British government.

A cinematographic response to Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus with Plath’s own readings of her poetry. A carousel of images in windows, an atmosphere of c...

In an English coastal border town, a small band of badgers live in the shadow of an animal quarantine facility. As they struggle to keep their folk tr...

Two siblings wrestle with the decision to give doctors permission to end treatment on their father.

//_sleeper is a short animation set in a dying, industrial town both familiar and unfamiliar. This is neither future nor past, but rather somewhere lo...

A short stop frame animation following a lonely Inuit who struggles to survive after an oil tanker leaks oil off the coast of Alaska, killing all the...

Arthur Mullard and Kenneth Williams supply the voices of two gnomes locked in a car boot in this crime prevention short; another impressive example of...

An aspiring young actress appearing in a play called Stargazer must lay to rest the ghost of its deceased playwright, which has been haunting her sinc...

The crucial nature of not allowing one's driving judgement to be blurred by the need to hurry.

A bug’s life laid bare in this charming cut-out animated tale.

Michael Palin guides us on suicide in this humorous public information film on motorway safety.

The Peak District waits invitingly within a sixty-mile reach of half the population of England. To this green centre of a great industrial area, the f...

Nel packs up her late father's home while simultaneously unpacking memories of their volatile relationship.

Arresting early film images of both northern India and central and south western China.

Part home movie, part road movie, Kötting's riveting and eccentric film stars his 85-year-old grandmother Gladys - opinionated, bursting with anecdote...

The audience are invited to solve crimes. The two cases depicted are The Case of the Stolen Boy and The Hairless Boarder.

An unidentified creature washes up on the shores of a small coastal town, and a group of high school students decide to drag it to safety and nurse it...