BBC Films is the feature film-making arm of the BBC. It was founded in 1990, and has produced or co-produced some of the most successful British films of recent years, including Truly, Madly, Deeply, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, Quartet, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, My Week with Marilyn, Jane Eyre, In the Loop, An Education, StreetDance 3D, Fish Tank, Nativity!, Iris, Notes on a Scandal and Billy Elliot.
BBC Films co-produces around eight films a year, working in partnership with major international and UK distributors. Christine Langan is Head of BBC Films, responsible for the development and production slate, strategy and business operations.
BBC Films has been based at Broadcasting House in London since 2013. Prior to 2007, it was based nearby in Mortimer Street, while still under full control of the BBC. A restructuring of the division integrated it into the main BBC Fiction department of BBC Vision. As a result, it moved out of its independent offices into BBC Television Centre, and its head David M. Thompson left to start his own film production company.
En 1943, après le débarquement des Américains en Algérie et au Maroc, l'Armée de la Libération se constitue depuis les colonies françaises d'Afrique du Nord. Le film raconte la découverte de la guerre et de l'Europe, de l'Italie jusqu'aux portes de l'Alsace, par trois tirailleurs algériens et un goumier marocain : Abdelkader, Saïd, Messaoud et Yassin. La guerre leur apporte la désillusion face aux discriminations mais aussi l'émergence d'une conscience politique et l'espoir.
Morvern Callar est une jeune femme de 21 ans. Elle habite un petit port sur la côte ouest de l'Écosse, et travaille dans un supermarché. Elle vit en considérant qu'il faut se débrouiller avec ce qu'on a, et accepter ce qui vous tombe dessus.
A dashing French Army officer, capitaine Jacques de Keroual de Saint-Yves, is captured by the British during the Napoleonic Wars and sent to a Scottish prison camp. There he falls for a local girl, befriends the commanding officer, and discovers a surprising secret about his long-lost grandfather.
After serving an eighteen-month sentence for breaking and entering, Git Hynes, (Peter McDonald) walks into trouble on the day of his release from jail.
Gordon Comstock (Grant), is a successful copywriter at a flourishing advertising firm in 1930s London. His girlfriend and co-worker, Rosemary (Bonham Carter), fears he may never settle down with her when he suddenly disavows his money-based lifestyle and quits his job for the artistic satisfaction of writing poetry.
Ray se sent vieillir, et il ne croit plus beaucoup à ceux qui incarnent ses idéaux sociaux des années 1980. Il réorganise un holdup avec d'autres anciens braqueurs, mais c'est dans la défiance entre les membres de l'équipe que le bain de sang final va se déclencher. Heureusement, il y a l'amour de sa vie, Connie.