John Bird Movies

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 documentary about the life of British satirist and founder of 'Private Eye' Peter Cook.

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

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,...

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...

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

A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident.

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...

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....