John Bird Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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,...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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....