John Bird Movies

The story of the Australian Rugby League's first visit to England.

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...

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...

After the criticisms of the 1987 show’s disproportionate focus on music - and the financial disaster of its music-only Festival Of Youth...

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 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.

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 only word to describe the amazing duo of Rik Mayall and Adrian Edminson is genius. For the past 25 years they have provided us with some...

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

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...

Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to expel the British forces and reconquer 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...

Short Film written by John Bird

A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident.

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

Timothy Gedge, a socially inept yet intrusive teenage boy, wanders around the dull seaside town of Dynmouth, spying on the town's residents. At first...

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

Jessie Fielding is a young MP who is trying to get an anti-hunting bill through the two Houses of Parliament, which is a little surprising as she...

Mobsters and the IRA chase a stagestruck London cabby (Tim Curry) who has found a briefcase full of cash.