Brian Bovell Movies

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...