British Film Institute Production Board Movies

A woman encounters her memories, explored through dance. Featuring Marguerite Porter, former Principal Ballerina at the Royal Ballet.

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

An elegant film about one man's fears and fantasies regarding HIV testing.

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...

An old woman, her grandson, cabbage soup... A man arrives, bearing meat, setting in motion a situation which escalates beyond the point of barter.

A documentary about abortion

In a hugely entertaining parody of her media persona, a pre-'Female Eunuch' Germaine Greer stars as a terrifyingly amorous woman who alternately...

The protagonist spends his time in tunnels and caverns chased by Fascist thugs and having dream-like encounters with strange solitary women of...

July 1931. A farmstead near Kilmore, Southern Ireland. The country is in drought. Day after day the sun scorches the land and parches the crops. The...

A Kafkaesque story of the bureaucracy which governs our lives. A young man leaves his passport on a train and loses his identity in a mire of forms,...

Vinko Globakar, a virtuoso trombonist, plays on a stage, alone, Luciano Berio's Sequenza for Trombone.

“Film questions whether the encouragement of very low paid jobs and schemes - both in general and specifically how they function in the area...

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...

The pressures of her job in a hospital forces a young doctor to abandon a colleague suffering from depression to treat another patient.

Horror story using stills. Based on the short story by Richard Davis.

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,...

Faulty plumbing in the home of a painter causes an old woman to be covered in red paint while she showers. The painter's neighbours engineer his fate...

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

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...

Moments from the uncompromisingly bleak existence of a secretary, her intellectually disabled sister, aloof and uneasy teacher boyfriend, bizarre...