John Bird Movies

Rory Bremner looks back on the first year of Tony Blair's premiership through a series of sketches.

The plot follows Timothy Gedge, a socially inept yet intrusive teenage boy as he wanders around the dull seaside town of Dynmouth, spying on the...

In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the...

In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.

Composed of three shorts – Ride of the Valkyrie, The White Bus, and Red and Blue – from three of Britain’s most-celebrated...

A Japanese cop is sent to join the London police force on a secret investigation.

David and Joan's life has been one continuous party, but their marriage is loveless. Suddenly a young girl appears in their world and announces that...

Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.

On an idyllic summer afternoon in the summer of 1943, a group of children play in the West Country hills, fields and forests. With no adults around,...

When DC Denis Deacey finds himself surprisingly transferred to Belfast he gets digs in a most unusual boarding house called The Crumlin View where no...

Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a...

John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most...

An American's family jewels are stolen during her trip to London and she reluctantly teams up with a private investigator-in-training to try and...

Sweet Hilda Capper spends her birthday fending off the well-meaning intrusions of family and friends.

Cartoonist Gerald Scarfe looks at that most English of things - the folly.