John Bird Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident.

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

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

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...

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...

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....

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

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

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...