J. B. Priestley Movies

Robert and Freda Caplan are entertaining guests at their country retreat. A chance remark by one of the guests ignites a series of devastating...

The action takes place in one of the provincial towns of England. The First World War ended. Every member of the Conway family dreams of fulfilling...

Guests at a small hotel are disquieted by the insistence of a mysterious doctor that he has been there before.

A young detective is tasked with solving the brutal murder of a powerful mayor. As he uncovers the city’s dark secrets, the case consumes him,...

A German professor un-nerves the residents when he claims to have been in a small Yorkshire moors inn sometime previously.

The Thorwald family is well-off and contented when a tragedy strikes: the father is killed in an accident. Miss Thorwald takes over the raising of...

Three long-married couples in northern England discover that their marriages are in fact invalid, causing much re-evaluation and chaos. This was the...

Guests at an hotel become irrationally convinced that they have been there before - perhaps in a different life?

Alan Plater looks at the various adaptations of J.B. Priestley's 'The Good Companions', in the company of the author himself.

The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that...

A portrait of Raymond Chandler, creator of the Philip Marlowe mystery thrillers, by John Foster and Fred Burnley. The film portrays Chandler's life...

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

Wartime morale-boosting propaganda short, looking at the greatness of Britain and the efforts of all to preserve her power and integrity.