Brian Bovell Movies

Cheating Edwardian escape artist Max can escape anything, except his wife's revenge.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Abigail Hardingham

The Football Monologues tells the stories of seven different people living in and around the beautiful game. Each of our subjects talks intimately,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emma Amos

A short comedy film about a disabled father and his son's crazy attempt to buy drugs so that the dad can dance with his wife on her birthday... one...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Brian Bovell

Television interviewer George Grant, renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Bowles

A corpse is fished out of a north London canal with stab wounds through the eyes. The victim was a prominent member of the Hasidic Jewish community,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bill Paterson

On a regular morning, MI6 operative, Jenny calls at her colleague’s house on their usual car pool run to the office. What she discovers sparks...

Genre: Action

Cast: Brian Bovell

Ex-con Clarkie is betrayed by his best friend, he has no one to turn to as he tracks down his brother's killers. The war spills onto London's mean...

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Cast: Robbie Gee

If you were forced to flee your own war-ridden country, would you sacrifice what makes you human to survive?

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Louise Kim Salter

A sex worker, a hired killer, and a movie crew cross paths in a Venice hotel where human meat is on the menu.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Max Beesley

Shoot the Messenger follows one man's painful journey towards self-discovery. On the way he finds both his own attitudes and the expectations of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Oyelowo

Stephen Lawrence was a black London teenager murdered by white racists in 1993. His parents fought to have the crime properly investigated,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Living a bleak existence at a London orphanage, 12-year-old Peter finds himself whisked away to the fantastical world of Neverland. Adventure awaits...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Hugh Jackman

Spike and his sister Anjela live in the Terrordome, a huge ghetto that all the blacks have been forced to live in. Jodie, Spike's pregnant white...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Suzette Llewellyn

London 1939. In the weeks before the beginning of the Second World War, the Say When jazz club keeps London's Shoreditch swinging. Run by Thomas...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Joely Richardson

This bold, stunning exploration of a white mother who undergoes a radical mastectomy and her Black daughter who embarks on a modeling career reveals...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Madge Onwurah

The story of black and mixed race people in Nazi Germany who were sterilised, experimented upon, tortured and exterminated in the Nazi concentration...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Brian Bovell

After mishearing a pair of fishermen talking about the superior flood barriers in The Netherlands, Noah devises an escape plan to Never Land. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keeley Hawes

Drama about a man who lives in an analogue world but seeks to fulfil his desires in a digital world.

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Cast: Brian Bovell

A young black woman in England becomes increasingly frustrated with her life with her lazy, demanding boyfriend, and with the help of friends seeks...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cassie McFarlane

In the African American neighborhood of Sag Harbor, Charles Blakey is out of work, out of luck and on the verge of foreclosure on his ancestral home....

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Corey Hawkins

A bored and frustrated suburban housewife follows her dream of becoming a racing driver

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Cast: Rosemary Martin

Drama telling the story of Blue, a young man of Jamaican descent living in Brixton in 1980, as he hangs out with his friends, fronts a dub sound...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brinsley Forde

Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with love makes them discover how complicated relationships...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hugh Grant

Best friends Ruth and Megan run a vintage shop in North London. One day, their lives are forever turned upside down when an abandoned time machine...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Sophie Thompson

A father and son must team up to save Christmas when they discover Santa Claus sleeping in their garage, having crashed his sleigh and found himself...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jim Broadbent

Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale,...

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Cast: Kate Hardie

Anna hasn't left her apartment since the pandemic. She's delighted in there, especially because she goes on great adventures with her imaginary...

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Cast: Samantha Thornton-Rice

Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence is struggling to find a better life for his family, while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: LaKeith Stanfield

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brenda Blethyn

A dark, surreal comedy about a local man who becomes convinced that a vast conspiracy is behind the impossibly rapid gentrification in his London...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Joel Fry

Documentary celebrating the British sitcom and taking a look at the social and political context from which our favourite sitcoms grew. We enjoy a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rebecca Front

A young lawyer gets more than he bargains for while investigating his brother's mysterious death.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matthew Rhys

To mark the conclusion of their "Third World Week" celebration, a cricket team in a small English village invites a black cricket team from South...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Norman Beaton

A young man looks back over his unhappy marriage and struggles to come to terms with his wife's suicide.

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Cast: Josette Simon

In 1958, a Caribbean couple make the journey to a new life by moving to England.

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Cast: Michael Cherrie

In 1997, six African women pledged that in the first year of the new millennium they would tell their stories, stories by African women. They called...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Queen Latifah

Jack Strachan, a shady ex-sports star in hiding out in Norway, is stalked by a mysterious woman he cannot identify who closely resembles his murdered...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Sam Hazeldine

Penny works at a supermarket and Phil is a gentle taxi-driver. Penny’s love for Phil has run dry and they lead joyless lives with their two...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Timothy Spall

A man wakes up inside a room to discover he's a prisoner sent into space to form Earth's first colony, and worse - his cell mate Alana is hell bent...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Johnny Sachon

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother...

Genre: Family

Cast: Anne Hathaway

In the outskirts of London, Portuguese couple and parents of three, Bela and Jota, struggle to make ends meet. When a misunderstanding arises at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lúcia Moniz

Tom the cat and Jerry the mouse get kicked out of their home and relocate to a fancy New York hotel, where a scrappy employee named Kayla will lose...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chloë Grace Moretz

Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only four other female students have been admitted...

Genre: Horror

Cast: AnnaSophia Robb

Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house....

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Richard Wilson

A travelling court jester, known as The Licensed Fool, begins to unravel when he learns of a sinister motive behind him being hired for an upcoming...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brian Bovell