John Bird Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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

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....

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

A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident.