Movies: Film London

Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty....

Mum and Dad, and their 'adopted' children, Birdie & Elbie, work at the airport. The family live off whatever they scavenge from cargo holds, offices and hotels - including a steady stream of transient workers who populate the airport's soulless hub. ...

A strange romance about two lost souls. Wendy (one good eye) and Sid are trying to connect in a mid-range hotel near an airport....

An exploration into the history of Shakespeare's plays, from the silent era to the modern day featuring archive interviews with movie directors including Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh and more....

Shifting between documentary, historical reconstruction and melodrama, The Empty Plan interrogates the relationship between theory and practice in the theatre of Bertolt Brecht....

Faraz’s quiet life working at an isolated petrol station is turned upside down when his ageing father Malik begins to speak in a long-forgotten language and insists on returning back home....

Ramona takes all her therapist's advice as the word of God. But instead of enlightenment, she finds herself in a trinity of confusion with an empty chair....

Tulsi Joshi, a widow and bride to be comes to her own wedding seeking revenge for the brutal murder of her first born son....

This short gay themed film touches some of the more extreme areas of gay eroticism. The encounter of the younger, possibly virgin young man, with a slightly older man is full of little ritualistic intimacies that will shape this young man's life - an...

The story of two totally contrasting figures who come together in the most hostile of circumstances, only to form an unlikely bond that will help them both find a way out of their respective troubles. It is a bittersweet comedy about growing up and r...

A young boy, Ben, lost in a vortex of poverty, is bullied at achool and neglected at home. He takes control of his life and rids himself forever of his aggressors....

Young couple Tom and Alex, traveling on London's tube, meet Peter. Ensuing conversation and events challenge Tom and Alex’s view of the world, ultimately shattering the immortality of youth....

News of a new girlfriend disrupts mother-and-son crime duo, Bunny and Clive....

Geeky Pavan takes his ‘English Rose’ on a date to the most authentic Indian restaurant in the city. To his horror she goes off-menu, in Hindi......

A real estate agent is tasked with selling the former flat of one of London’s most notorious serial killers, Dennis Nilsen....

A culture clash between a washed-up pop star and a musically talented young man with autism. These opposite characters transform each other's worlds through the power of music....

Trail of the Spider transposes Western genre motifs and the suppressed racial history of the American west (where one in three cowboys were black or Mexican) onto the transforming landscape of East London. Questioning and re-imagining the Western’s p...

The film revolves a supposedly pivotal moment in Brown's life – his decision to quit accountancy in 1950s Glasgow for comedy after the death of his uncle Harry, a regular character in his routines 'who began with socialism, drifted into Buddhism and ...

Two very different people in the London borough of Lambeth - a drag queen (Michael Twaits) and a woman in a burka. Only in a lift would they ever cross each another's path. But these two have more in common than they first thought....

Set in the late 1990s, tensions run high as Sarah-Lee learns that it's not always fun and games when it comes to growing up....