John Bird Movies

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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....

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...

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

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...

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...