Bfi Movies

Power cuts, housing shortages and exorbitant rents – Aberdeen man goes head to head with his greedy landlady.

An engineering feat: Second city civil engineers complete a new bridge to carry traffic over New Street's tangled railway intersections.

Men have a race to win a girl and get involved with crooks posing as a beautifying machine.

Don’t judge a book by its cover but do judge a political party by its garage.

A celebration of one of Britain's great civic squares. A ceaseless flow of buses and people crisscross the beating heart of the city.

Unambiguous message, unpretentiously inventive animation and a blackly comic tone.

A colourful miscellany of footage from both sides of the Pennines.

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

A holiday of sorts for Stockport army reserves, fitting high-jinks between drills over two weeks of summer training in South Wales.

The Ministry of Labour exhorts women to return to industry – the post-war production drive depends on them.

In suburban London, on New Years Eve in 1999, an Afghan housewife lives cut off from society by her controlling husband. In secret, with the aid of a...

Short directed by Lotte Reiniger.

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...

A young Palestinian woman reunites with her long lost brother in Tel Aviv, but her hopes of a happy reunion are shattered when she discovers the truth...

Join distracted onlookers at a protest “be-in” at Camden’s Roundhouse –alongside portraits of Lenin and a giant inflatable phallus.

Coster promises dying mother to care for his brother.

The British Fascist movement holds a 10,000-strong rally in Trafalgar Square the day before Remembrance Sunday.

The Taj Mahal and shots of Jalandhar nestle between footage from Canada and Africa.

Take a revealing tour along a coast of contrasts, from the folksy freshness of Whitby to the coaly Tyne, queen of all rivers.

Picturesque scenes of land girls gathering hay on an Essex farm during WWI.