John Bird Movies

A medieval tale with Pythonesque humour: After the death of his father the young Dennis Cooper goes to town where he has to pass several adventures....

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Michael Palin

Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is not only having trouble coping with his new...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Warren Mitchell

After the criticisms of the 1987 show’s disproportionate focus on music - and the financial disaster of its music-only Festival Of Youth...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Bird

When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend...

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Cast: Sinéad Cusack

Young Jenny heads to the South of England to start a new career as a school teacher. Even before she has had a chance to settle in she meets Patrick,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Oliver Reed

The impressionist Rory Bremner and comedians Bird and Fortune take a look at the history of Iraq through a series of sketches, monologues and jokes....

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Cast: John Fortune

A 29-year old aspiring composer—still single and without any romantic prospects—vows to both marry and write a hit musical before he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dudley Moore

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: David Hemmings

Jessie Fielding is a young MP who is trying to get an anti-hunting bill through the two Houses of Parliament, which is a little surprising as she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clare Holman

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,...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Colin Welland

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jonathan Pryce

Three part comedy. A fading sex symbol attempts to win the lead in a movie by seducing the son of a film producer. A depressed middle aged loner...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Victor Spinetti

A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Alderton

Ian McShane stars as Peter Curtis, who has just been released from prison after serving four years for manslaughter. His victim's mysterious last...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Ian McShane

Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller,...

Genre: Family

Cast: Anne-Marie Mallik

Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud....

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Alan Arkin

The hilarious adventures of young Bumbo Bailey, who enlists in the Brigade of Guards and is based in the prestigious Wellington Barracks in London in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Warwick

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Patricia Hayes

Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody's much interested in problem child, Kate. Baptista...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simon Chandler

Mobsters and the IRA chase a stagestruck London cabby (Tim Curry) who has found a briefcase full of cash.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tim Curry

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Hordern

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...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Patrick Magee

Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to expel the British forces and reconquer the...

Genre: History

Cast: Warren Clarke

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anton Rodgers

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Simon Fox

A documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook. “marvelous, engrossing tribute” Allison...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Cook

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward Fox

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Emma Samms

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

Genre: History

Cast: Paul Rhys

Following the success of the 1979 show and the financial benefits accruing to Amnesty from the spin-off movie, TV special and record albums –...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rowan Atkinson