BBC Films is the feature film-making arm of the
BBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and largest broadcaster in the world...
. It has produced or co-produced some of the most successful
BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
films of recent years, including
Stage BeautyStage Beauty is a 2004 British/American romantic drama film, directed by Richard Eyre. The screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher is based on his play Compleat Female Stage Beauty, which was inspired by references to 17th century actor Edward Kynaston made in the detailed private diary kept by Samuel...
,
A Cock and Bull StoryA Cock and Bull Story is a 2006 British comedy directed by Michael Winterbottom. It is a film-within-a-film, featuring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves as egotistical actors during the making in a screen adaptation of Laurence Sterne's 18th century novel Tristram Shandy...
and
Match Point. It currently produces approximately eight films per year.
Up until 2007, BBC Films was ran and funded as a private company, with its own offices (in Mortimer Street around the corner from Broadcasting House), while still under the full control of the BBC.
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BBC Films is the feature film-making arm of the
BBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and largest broadcaster in the world...
. It has produced or co-produced some of the most successful
BritishThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
films of recent years, including
Stage BeautyStage Beauty is a 2004 British/American romantic drama film, directed by Richard Eyre. The screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher is based on his play Compleat Female Stage Beauty, which was inspired by references to 17th century actor Edward Kynaston made in the detailed private diary kept by Samuel...
,
A Cock and Bull StoryA Cock and Bull Story is a 2006 British comedy directed by Michael Winterbottom. It is a film-within-a-film, featuring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves as egotistical actors during the making in a screen adaptation of Laurence Sterne's 18th century novel Tristram Shandy...
and
Match Point. It currently produces approximately eight films per year.
Up until 2007, BBC Films was ran and funded as a private company, with its own offices (in Mortimer Street around the corner from Broadcasting House), while still under the full control of the BBC. A recent re-structure of the division has seen it re-integrated into the main BBC Fiction department of BBC Vision, under the ultimate control of
Jane TranterJane Tranter is an English television executive who has been the executive vice-president of programming and production at BBC Worldwide's Los Angeles base since January 2009...
. As a result, it has moved out of its independent offices into Television Centre and its head,
David M. ThompsonDavid Mortimer Thompson is a British film and television producer.Thompson founded BBC Films. Up until 2007, BBC Films was run and funded as a private company, with its own offices in Mortimer Street around the corner from Broadcasting House, while still under the full control of the BBC.A recent...
, has left to start his own film production company.
BBC Films Productions
2010
CHERUB-The Recruit
Projects in Development
2009
- The Damned United
The Damned United is a 2009 British sports drama film directed by Tom Hooper and adapted by Peter Morgan from David Peace's bestselling novel The Damned Utd, a largely fictional book based on the author's interpretation of Brian Clough's tenure as manager of Leeds United...
2008 http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms/
- Tormented
For the 1960 film, see Tormented Tormented is a 2009 horror/comedy film starring Alex Pettyfer, April Pearson, Dimitri Leonidas, Calvin Dean and newcomer Tuppence Middleton., it was released on the 22 May 2009 in the UK. Tormented is produced by BBC Films, Pathe, Slingshot Studios, Forward Films...
- A Number
- Churchill at War
- Churchill at peace
- The Roland Rat Movie
- Einstein and Eddington
- Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
- Miss Austen Regrets
- My Zinc Bed
- The Restraint of Beasts
2008
- Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road is a 2008 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. The screenplay by Justin Haythe is based on the 1961 novel of the same name by Richard Yates. The film opened in limited release on December 26, 2008, and expanded wide on...
(co-production with DreamWorks Pictures)
- Death Defying Acts
Death Defying Acts is a 2008 supernatural romantic thriller. The film follows the Hungarian escapologist Harry Houdini in the height of his career in the 1920s.- Plot :In 1926, thirteen years after his mother's death, Harry Houdini regrets that he wasn't...
- The Duchess
The Duchess can refer to:* The Duchess , a character in Lewis Carroll's novel* The Duchess, a character in the video game American McGee's Alice*The Dutchess, the debut album by American pop/R&B singer Fergie...
- Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited is a 2008 British drama film directed by Julian Jarrold. The screenplay by Jeremy Brock and Andrew Davies is based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Evelyn Waugh, which previously was filmed in 1981 as an eleven-episode television serial that was broadcast by ITV in the UK...
- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a British drama film directed by Mark Herman and produced by David Heyman, starring Asa Butterfield, Jack Scanlon, David Thewlis, and Vera Farmiga...
- The Other Boleyn Girl
The Other Boleyn Girl is a historical fiction novel by Philippa Gregory. Two film adaptions of the novel have been produced:* The Other Boleyn Girl , television drama film produced by the BBC...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms/comingsoon/theotherboleyngirl.shtml
- The Edge of Love
The Edge of Love is a 2008 John Maybury film starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Cillian Murphy and Matthew Rhys from a script by Sharman Macdonald, Knightley's mother...
- The Meerkats
The Meerkats is a feature-length 2008 British nature documentary film which reveals the daily struggles of a clan of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert. It was produced by BBC Films and the The Weinstein Company, and filmed by the award-winning BBC Natural History Unit...
2007
- Joe's Palace
Joe's Palace is a BBC television drama, and written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff. It was first aired on BBC One on 4 November 2007...
- The Restraint of Beasts
- Four Last Songs
- The First Grader
- Capturing Mary
Capturing Mary is a BBC television drama , written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff. It was aired on BBC Two on 12 November 2007...
- Eastern Promises
- Becoming Jane
Becoming Jane is a 2007 historical film directed by Julian Jarrold. It is inspired by the early life of author Jane Austen , and her posited relationship with Thomas Langlois Lefroy . Also appearing are Julie Walters, James Cromwell and Maggie Smith...
- Man on Wire
Man on Wire is a 2008 documentary film directed by James Marsh. The film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center. It is based on Philippe Petit's book, To Reach the Clouds, recently released in paperback with the new title Man on Wire...
2006
- Notes on a Scandal
Notes on a Scandal is a 2006 drama film, adapted from the 2003 novel of the same name by Zoë Heller. The screenplay was written by Patrick Marber and the film was directed by Richard Eyre. Many parts of the film were shot in Islington Arts and Media School...
- The State Within
The State Within is a six-episode British television political drama, written by Lizzie Mickery and Daniel Percival, produced by Grainne Marmion as a joint BBC–BBC America production, that was broadcast by BBC1 in the United Kingdom from Thursday, 2 November 2006.The protagonist of The State...
(TV Miniseries: BBC America/BBC Two)
- Starter for Ten
- Scoop
Scoop is a 2006 romantic comedy/murder mystery written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Ian McShane, and Allen himself...
- Shiny Shiny Bright New Hole in My Heart
- Fast Food Nation
Fast Food Nation is a 2006 American/British drama film directed by Richard Linklater. The screenplay by Linklater and Eric Schlosser; the film is loosely based on Schlosser's bestselling 2001 non-fiction book Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal.-Plot:At the core of the ensemble...
(US 2006/UK 2007)
- Confetti
Confetti is a 2006 British mockumentary romantic comedy film that was released on 5 May 2006. It was conceived and directed by Debbie Isitt and stars many acclaimed British comedians, including Jessica Stevenson, Jimmy Carr, Martin Freeman, Mark Heap, Julia Davis, Robert Webb, and Olivia Colman...
- Shoot the Messenger
- Miss Potter
2005
- The Undertaker
- Opal Dream
Opal Dream is a 2006 Australian drama film, based on the Ben Rice novella Pobby and Dingan, directed by Peter Cattaneo and starring an ensemble cast including Vince Colosimo, Jacqueline McKenzie, Christian Byers and Sapphire Boyce. It was filmed on location around South Australia, in Adelaide,...
- Imagine Me & You
Imagine Me & You is a 2005 British comedy-romance film written and directed by Ol Parker. It centres on the relationship between Rachel, played by Piper Perabo and Luce, played by Lena Headey, who meet on Rachel's wedding day. The movie takes its title from a line in the song "Happy Together"...
- Mrs Henderson Presents
- A Cock and Bull Story
A Cock and Bull Story is a 2006 British comedy directed by Michael Winterbottom. It is a film-within-a-film, featuring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon playing themselves as egotistical actors during the making in a screen adaptation of Laurence Sterne's 18th century novel Tristram Shandy...
- Match Point
Match Point is a dramatic thriller film written and directed by Woody Allen, and starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Matthew Goode, Brian Cox and Penelope Wilton.-Synopsis:...
- Shooting Dogs
Shooting Dogs, released in the United States as Beyond the Gates, is a 2005 film, directed by Michael Caton-Jones and starring John Hurt, Hugh Dancy and Claire-Hope Ashitey. It is based on the experiences of BBC news producer David Belton, who worked in Rwanda during the Rwandan Genocide...
- Love + Hate
-Plot:Love + Hate is a modern love story set across the racial divide in a Northern town. Adam has been brought up in a home and community that fosters racism. Naseema is a girl from the same town. But what Adam and Naseema really share is a secret desire to break free of their small town and its...
- Library Majnu
2004
- Undone
- The Accidental Perfectionist
- Bullet Boy
Bullet Boy is a 2004 film directed by Saul Dibb, written by Saul Dibb and Catherine Johnson, and stars Ashley Walters. The film's original music was composed and performed by Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack, who released it as an album...
- Millions
Millions is a 2004 British film, directed by Academy Award winning director Danny Boyle, and starring Alexander Etel, Lewis McGibbon, and James Nesbitt. The screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce adapted his novel while the film was in the process of being made...
- Red Dust
Red Dust is a 2004 drama film starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor. It was directed by Tom Hooper. The story, written by Troy Kennedy-Martin, is based on the novel Red Dust by Gillian Slovo, although there are significant changes to the novel in the screenplay.-Plot summary:Sarah Barcant ,...
- My Summer of Love
My Summer of Love is a British film directed by Pawel Pawlikowski and co-written by Pawel Pawlikowski and Michael Wynne. Based on a novel by Helen Cross, the film explores the relationship between two young women from different classes and backgrounds...
- The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is a 2004 film about the life of British comic actor Peter Sellers, based on Roger Lewis' book of the same name...
(with Company PicturesCompany Pictures is an independent British television production company which has produced drama programming for many broadcasters. Their productions have included:*drama series Wild at Heart for ITV1...
)
- Stage Beauty
Stage Beauty is a 2004 British/American romantic drama film, directed by Richard Eyre. The screenplay by Jeffrey Hatcher is based on his play Compleat Female Stage Beauty, which was inspired by references to 17th century actor Edward Kynaston made in the detailed private diary kept by Samuel...
(with Qwerty Films and Tribeca)
- Trauma
Trauma is a 2004 psychological thriller directed by Marc Evans and written by Richard Smith.-Plot synopsis:Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end...
2003
- The Statement
The Statement is a 2003 drama film directed by Norman Jewison and starring Michael Caine. It is based on a 1996 novel by Brian Moore, with a screenplay written by Ronald Harwood....
- Kiss of Life
- The Mother
The Mother is a 2003 British film directed by Roger Michell.-Plot:May is an ordinary grandmother from Northern England. When her husband dies on a family visit to London, she recedes into the background of her busy, metropolitan children's lives...
- Skagerrak
- Masked and Anonymous
Masked and Anonymous is a 2003 film written and directed by Larry Charles. It was co-written by and stars iconic rock legend Bob Dylan alongside a star-heavy cast, including John Goodman, Jeff Bridges, Penélope Cruz, Val Kilmer, Mickey Rourke and many others...
- Giustizia nel tempo di guerra
- Code 46
Code 46 is a 2003 British film directed by Michael Winterbottom, with a screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It was produced by BBC Films and Revolution Films. It is a disquieting science fiction love story with biopunk themes...
2000
- Wild About Harry
Wild About Harry is a comedy album by The Bob and Tom Show, which was first released in November 2003. It is a two-disc set which represents original material recorded during their syndicated, daily radio show and other studio numbers which had not been previously presented on air...
- Saltwater
- Maybe Baby
Maybe Baby is a 2000 British comedy film, written and directed by Ben Elton based upon his novel Inconceivable, starring Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson.- Plot Summary:...
- Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot is a 2000 British drama film written by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry. Set in the fictional town of 'Everington' in the real County Durham, UK, it stars Jamie Bell as 11-year-old Billy, an aspiring dancer, Gary Lewis as his coal miner father, Jamie Draven as Billy's older...
(with Working Title FilmsWorking Title Films is a British film production company, based in London, England. The company was founded by Tim Bevan and Sarah Radclyffe in 1982. It produces feature films and some television productions. Eric Fellner and Bevan are the co-owners of the company now.- 1991 ITV franchise bid :In...
)
- Shadow of the Vampire
Shadow of the Vampire is an American horror film directed by E. Elias Merhige and written by Steven A. Katz, and starring John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe and Udo Kier...
(with Saturn Films)
- Magnificent Monuments
1968-1999
- 1997 - I Went Down
- 1996 - Jude
Jude is a 1996 English film, based on the novel Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy and directed by Michael Winterbottom. The screenplay is written by Hossein Amini. The original music score is composed by Adrian Johnston....
- 1996 - Twelfth Night: Our What You Will
- 1995 - ID
I.D. is a 1995 British film about football hooliganism, directed by Philip Davis and starring Reece Dinsdale, Sean Pertwee and Warren Clarke. It is set in England, mainly London, in the 1980s. The tagline is "When you go undercover, remember one thing.....
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