Bill Paterson Movies

Alan Bennett's play about the mid-life crisis of an estate agent.

Christopher Cowin is in his mid 30s, a family man who owns a small advertising agency. A court case he had recently lost has shown him the rich and...

On 7 May, churches, school halls, and back rooms of community centres will be turned into polling stations, staffed by council workers and...

Strangely-farcical goings-on are in store for a group of unwitting guests, who have all booked adjoining rooms on the ninth floor of the Zanzibar...

Fragment of a story by Robert Louis Stevenson, completed by Alasdair Gray. A dissolute medical student wakes up in the bedroom of a young woman who...

Incendiary 1981 Play for Today, written by Jim Allen and directed by Roland Joffé that tells the story of a group of housing estate residents...

Drama illuminating Dr James Niven's efforts to protect the people of Manchester from the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic as millions of soldiers...

In the summer of 1931, with Germany on the brink of economic collapse, and the city of Berlin turning into a paramilitary war-zone, audacious young...

An award-winning comedy set in a depressed town in the South Wales Valleys. When the local cinema is closed down, the former projectionist, plagued...

Axel Heyst is an American recluse with a dubious past living in the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya circa 1913. Staying in a German hotel there,...

In 1926 Janet ‘Nettie’ Harbison crafted what would become the most valuable bottle of wine or spirit ever sold at auction.

In a world obsessed with knowing the future, we find Alberto, a Colombian immigrant working as a massage therapist in the City of London....

A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.

Documentary about the 1980 New Mexico State Penitentiary Riots in which 33 inmates were killed.

Fifty years after The Wicker Man, director Robin Hardy’s lost papers resurface, prompting his sons Justin and Dominic to explore the legacy of...

Displaced by the Second World War, a troop of Polish soldiers form an inseparable bond through an orphaned bear they name Wojtek.

A suspect is brought to a London police station charged with gross indecency. Police at the station believe he is connected with a murder in the area...

A bank employee, Laura Tracey, places herself and her family in mortal danger after reporting irregularities in the firm's overseas accounts to the...

The Director's Cut of Kingdom of Heaven is widely considered by critics and film enthusiasts to be a masterpiece that completely transforms and saves...

Guide to etiquette on single track roads. Part of BFI collection "Worth the Risk."