Arts Council of England Movie Trailers
Most Popular Arts Council of England Trailers
Total trailers found: 163
Plunkett & Macleane Trailer (1999)
22 January 1999
Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th-century England, enter a gentlemen's agreement: They decide to rid the aristocrats of their belongings.
Billy Elliot Trailer (2000)
28 September 2000
County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up from Bethnal Green, starting a class war with the lower classes suffering.
I Don't Protest, I Just Dance in My Shadow Trailer (2017)
29 October 2017
“I don’t want to feel like it’s only me. I know it’s not only me, because there are others out there…” ‘I Don’t Protest, I Just Dance In My Shadow’ is a short visual essay film by artist animator, Jessica Ashman, about navigating the visual art and animation world as a black face in a white space.
Strong Culture Trailer (1995)
12 January 1995
Short documentary following a new band travelling to Norwich for their fist gig outside London. The singer is a teenage boy from East London and the band combines rap, traditional Indian sounds, ragga and reggae to examine politics, cultural identity and racism.
Mansfield Park Trailer (1999)
12 November 1999
Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by most except her cousin Edmund.
The Dream Machine Trailer (1986)
01 January 1986
A 16mm anthology of experimental super 8 films by Derek Jarman, Michael Kostiff, Cerith Wyn Evans and John Maybury, with framing footage by Tim Burke of Brion Gysin using a dream machine.
Ratcatcher Trailer (1999)
12 November 1999
James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family.
The Rock Tours Around Great Britain, 2006-2007 Trailer (2007)
01 October 2007
The Rock Touring Around Great Britain is a performance piece by Chinese artist He Yunchang that involved a walking circumambulation of Great Britain from September 23, 2006 to June 14, 2007.
Pandaemonium Trailer (2001)
29 June 2001
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate English poetry in the spirt of liberty and democracy.
Captain Jack Trailer (1999)
28 May 1999
Rebellious and irreverent, Captain Jack is a man on a mission. Come hell or high water, he's determined to follow in the footsteps of Whitby's unsung hero, Captain Scoresby, who set sail from the town bound for the Arctic in the 18th Century.
The Claim Trailer (2000)
29 December 2000
A prospector sells his wife and daughter to another gold miner for the rights to a gold mine. Twenty years later, the prospector is a wealthy man who owns much of the old west town named Kingdom Come.
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble Trailer (2000)
25 August 2000
Jimmy Grimble is a shy Manchester school boy. At school he is constantly being bullied by the other kids, and at home he has to face his mother's new boyfriend.
The House of Mirth Trailer (2000)
13 October 2000
In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.
Hideous Kinky Trailer (1999)
04 February 1999
In 1972, disenchanted about the dreary conventions of English life, 25-year-old Julia heads for Morocco with her daughters, six-year-old Lucy and precocious eight-year-old Bea.
Beautiful People Trailer (1999)
16 September 1999
In London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving.
Camouflage Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
Mixed animation and live action techniques tell the stories of those with a schizophrenic parent, childhood scenes in which everyday events gradually tip over into idiosyncratic behaviour and finally madness.
An Ideal Husband Trailer (1999)
14 January 1999
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed.
Beautiful Creatures Trailer (2000)
23 August 2000
When Petula and Dorothy cover up the accidental murder of one jerk boyfriend, they hatch a hilarious scheme to collect a huge ransom.
Bent Trailer (1997)
26 November 1997
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life.
A Room for Romeo Brass Trailer (2000)
20 October 2000
Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them.
A Midsummer Night's Dream Trailer (1996)
29 November 1996
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
Love's Labour's Lost Trailer (2000)
31 March 2000
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.
The Woodlanders Trailer (1998)
06 February 1998
The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school.
Trail of the Spider Trailer (2008)
01 January 2008
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.
Tin Trailer (2015)
17 April 2015
Cornwall 1895: a blatant swindle by the local bank threatens the life of a remote mining village. The fate of its whole community hangs on the courage of one feisty young maid.
Whatever Happened to Harold Smith? Trailer (2000)
10 March 2000
It's 1976, and Vinny is a confused teenager who can't decide whether he is a disco king or a proto punk rocker.
Immortality Trailer (1998)
27 November 1998
A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.
Relic 2 Trailer (2021)
03 March 2021
The third film in the series, ‘Relic 2’ forms part of Relic Traveller: Phase 2, a multi-disciplinary project by Larry Achiampong, which manifests in performance, audio, moving image and prose.
Walden Trailer (2021)
08 September 2021
After returning from a year-long Moon mission, Cassie, a NASA botanist, finds herself in a remote cabin in the woods, where her estranged twin sister, Stella, a former NASA architect, has found a new life with climate activist Bryan.
Metroland Trailer (1998)
21 August 1998
In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence.
Hotel Central Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
Created through a process of close collaboration between director, performer and crew, this thoroughly eccentric and stylistically original film does not attempt to narrate a dream, though it exploits the same kind of mechanisms that dreams utilise.
Echoes of the North: Four Chapters in Time Trailer (2022)
06 November 2022
A new film made from more than a hundred fragments of archive film, Echoes of the North transports you back to Northern England a century ago, taking its audiences down the highways and byways of northern life in the early 20th century - its industries and rural life, its wartimes and festivals, its transport, holidays, family excursions and huge, city-wide occasions.
Crimetime Trailer (1996)
01 August 1996
The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.
Doubled Up Trailer (2004)
15 November 2004
Sam Moore's Doubled Up tells of the shock and awe of finding out she was expecting twins. The film is an opulent and multi-faceted song of love, panic, fear and lots of nappies.
The Revengers' Comedies Trailer (1998)
09 June 1998
After saving each other from jumping off a bridge, Henry Bell and Karen Knightly plot to avenge the people who drove them to suicide.
Relic 3 Trailer (2021)
03 March 2021
The fourth film in the series, ‘Relic 3’ forms part of Relic Traveller: Phase 2, a multi-disciplinary project by Larry Achiampong, which manifests in performance, audio, moving image and prose.
Simon Magus Trailer (1999)
17 February 1999
Simon is an outcast from his Jewish community because he claims that the devil talks to him and he has the ability to put curses on crops.
Magic Mirror Trailer (2013)
22 April 2013
Magic Mirror combines a re-staging of the French Surrealist artist Claude Cahun’s black and white photographs with selected extracts from her book Aveux Non Avenus (Confessions Denied).
Home Suite Trailer (1994)
06 August 1994
Home Suite, Smith’s first video work, is a close-up journey through a domestic landscape and a journey through memory, containing only three cuts over the course of its ninety-six minutes duration.
15th February Trailer (1995)
01 January 1995
This animated short, inspired by Jan Švankmajer's work, rich in technique and visceral poetic imagery, is a mesmerizing experimental animated film based on a poem written and narrated by Peter Reading.
The Emperor Trailer (2001)
01 April 2001
The tale of a quest to free Napoleon Bonaparte from exile on the island of St Helena, including fresh insight into the mystery of The Emperor's pickled private parts.
Crimplene Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Two Crimplene cushions sit inert on their sofa, unperturbed by the ringing of a telephone. Their com�
Dear Nelson Trailer (2001)
01 January 2001
Algren and no De Beauvoir makes Nelson a sad boy in these letters from America. An affair to remember, with distance – initially – no object (plane mailing in fact) in these continental correspondences, monochrome messages that style the times and texts of greats.
Expelling the Demon Trailer (1999)
19 June 1999
The story takes place in a bedroom where, following an embarrassing sexual encounter, it shows a naked man’s disaffection with his own tongue.
Solomon & Gaenor Trailer (1999)
30 April 1999
A young Jew in 1911 Wales tries to make his living by selling fabrics door to door, but to do so he must hide his nationality.
Feeling My Way Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
What goes around comes around: the daily cycle of home-work-home illuminated in collage, Hi-8 and paint.
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon Trailer (1998)
16 September 1998
In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer, accepts.
Mavis and the Mermaid Trailer (2000)
01 January 2000
A small girl, who doesn't believe in fairytales, meets an old woman who claims she is a mermaid.
Divorcing Jack Trailer (1998)
01 October 1998
He's Irish, he's ageing, he drinks, is a touch cynical and when he has time writes a newspaper column.
Jumping Joan Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
With the dark resonance of the nursery rhyme from which it is drawn, this river story probes isolation and imagination, all painted directly onto hard plaster.
Remember Me Trailer (1996)
01 January 1996
Remember Me is a dark, obsessive and emotive treatise on death. Its aim is to explore the intimate, personal and often secret relationships that people have with mortality and loss.
Home Road Movies Trailer (2002)
07 June 2002
A sweet reminiscence about a family of four children and their RAF-veteran dad, who knows the timetable of every bus in London, but realizes his large family needs a car.
Dad's Dead Trailer (2002)
20 December 2002
Our narrator looks fondly back at his childhood in Liverpool and the antics of his best friend Johnno.
Gallivant Trailer (1996)
01 October 1996
Part home movie, part road movie, Kötting's riveting and eccentric film stars his 85-year-old grandmother Gladys - opinionated, bursting with anecdotes and contradictory reminiscences – and Eden, his eight-year-old daughter with Joubert syndrome, as they take a zig-zagging 6,000 mile trip in their campervan around Britain's coastline.
Body Projections Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
Experimental art / moving image film by Tony Donoghue.
The Governess Trailer (1998)
31 July 1998
When the father of privileged Rosina da Silva violently dies, she decides to pass herself off as a gentile and finds employment with a family in faraway Scotland.
3 Ways To Go Trailer (1997)
21 September 1997
A trinity of dying, as hand exposure of film, drawing, live action and stop motion conspire to probe the mystery of the final moments.
Pleasures of War Trailer (1998)
31 December 1998
A retelling of the Biblical story of Judith and Holofernes, exploring female aggression and the links between war and sexual desire.
Seasons Greetings Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
This visual postcard wishes its viewers a Happy Christmas and other good wishes one sends on a joyous occasion such as the holidays.
