Bfi Movies

A young VDU clerk works in a suffocatingly ugly and modern London where he is terrorised by abusive beggars, a bullying boss and the boredom of his wo...

Ernie tells Eric to ‘be wise’ and not drive home after their Christmas party.

In the revolting and decaying Byzantium Hotel, young heroin addict Alex, played by Dexter Fletcher, relives an idyllic - and possibly apocryphal - pas...

The joys of 1960s modern education - as seen at a not-exactly-typical local comp.

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...

Basil Brush comes to the rescue of potential careless bathers.

The future Edward VIII enjoys stunning mountain scenery on a visit to the Khyber Pass during his royal tour

This newly produced documentary discusses the turn from stage to script, the casting and rehearsal process, the use of the Steadicam, and people’s rea...

The Scandinavian entry in the BFI's Century of Cinema series of documentaries

In the middle of a six-week tour of the Indian sub-continent between January and March 1961, the Queen and Prince Philip visited Pakistan and East Pak...

In this animated short, a half-naked woman dances with her black-suited partner.

At a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard. Godard asks why should cinema's birthday be celebrated wh...

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...

Investigators from the organization Hope Not Hate track down members of far-right factions who are planning demonstrations and intimidation campaigns.

A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.

Although married and pregnant Rose has always been mother's favorite, it is younger sister Iris whose life is shaken up by mother's death. Suffocating...

Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier.

A documentary showing aspects of long-disappeared rural life in Northumberland in 1953.

Super 8 footage shot on location in Sardinia in 1975.