John Bird Movies

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...

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...

A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident.

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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,...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...