Bfi Movies

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

The Burning is Stephen Frears’ first film, a chilling exploration of racial tensions in Apartheid-era South Africa. On a sweltering summer’ day, a wea...

Snowploughs are readied to rescue a snowbound train - in one of the most popular of all British Transport Films.

Documentary examining what it means to live in South Wales, made in collaboration with and focusing on the lives of the Butts family. Explores the eff...

A miser is reformed by visions of past, present and future.

Short romance about a man and woman who bump into each other outside the BFI

An impressionistic look at Irish emigrants in London, representing the emigrant's journey, a confusion of anticipation, memories and experience.

An old spinster receives an unexpected Valentine's letter.

The final episode of five reports on the construction of the Victoria Line in London. This one is edited highlights from the first four with very litt...

Wildfowl and wallabies in the wild, exotic animals in the office.

Evocative observational scenes of Simla and Lahore, including the gorgeous Shalimar Gardens and Anarkali Bazar.

A look at a family living in Stoke-on-Trent in the 1940's and what it's like working in the pottery factories that Stoke is famous for.

It's fun and frolics with a pagan tinge from Brighton Beach in the 1950s.

A bungling bumpkin fails at a number of jobs in this slapstick comedy - before he finds his true calling.

Commissioned by the BBC & BFI, CLASH is a short experimental documentary critiquing Britain's obsession with period dramas, and how they erase the div...

A nutty professor meets a very hungry caterpillar in this animated chase cartoon brimming with swinging 60s backdrops.

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

Set in the faded, disintegrating grandeur of an English seaside town, Leighton works for a petty loan shark as a low-level enforcer, keeping an eye on...

From the arrival of a new viceroy to street markets, this amateur film captures the diversity of life in colonial India.

Arthur Johns' 10-minute experimental film is a personal essay on colour effects, set to a hypnotic soundtrack by Robert Wyatt. Although his initial ar...