Channel Four Films Movie Trailers

Elizabeth Trailer (1998)

13 September 1998

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.

Trainspotting Trailer (1996)

23 February 1996

Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy.

Paris, Texas Trailer (1984)

16 July 1984

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

Four Weddings and a Funeral Trailer (1994)

09 March 1994

Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love.

The Full Monty Trailer (1997)

13 August 1997

Sheffield, England. Gaz, a jobless steelworker in need of quick cash persuades his mates to bare it all in a one-night-only strip show.

Secrets & Lies Trailer (1996)

24 May 1996

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother.

Naked Trailer (1993)

06 August 1993

An unemployed Brit vents his rage on unsuspecting strangers as he embarks on a nocturnal London odyssey.

Sunshine Trailer (1999)

13 September 1999

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

Willie's War Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

When 10-year-old Willie is evacuated from the East End of London, he is chosen by Zander, 13-year-old son of an army captain, to be his companion in a rambling country house.

A Tale of the Wind Trailer (1989)

19 March 1989

It is an autobiographical fiction starring Ivens as an old man who has spent his life trying to "tame the wind and harness the sea" by capturing them on film.

Croupier Trailer (1998)

25 June 1998

Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer who to make ends meet, takes a job as a croupier. Jack remains an observer, knowing that everything in life is a gamble and that gamblers are born to lose.

Brassed Off Trailer (1996)

01 November 1996

A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition.

Safe Trailer (1995)

23 June 1995

Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.

Vanya on 42nd Street Trailer (1994)

19 October 1994

An uninterrupted rehearsal of Chekhov's 'Uncle Vanya' plays out by a company of actors. The setting: their run-down theater with an unusable stage and crumbling ceiling.

Amateur Trailer (1994)

05 August 1994

A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.

My Beautiful Laundrette Trailer (1985)

16 November 1985

A young Pakistani Briton manages a rundown laundrette with his lover while dealing with tension in his family, the local Pakistani community, and a persistent mob of skinheads.

Career Girls Trailer (1997)

01 June 1997

A young college student in London moves into a flat and becomes best friends with a flatmate; the former moves into her own flat 4 years later but 6 years after their parting, the former returns to London to pay the latter a visit.

Beautiful Thing Trailer (1996)

21 June 1996

During a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.

The Pillow Book Trailer (1995)

01 September 1995

Nagito has a fetish for calligraphy on the human body and meets her ideal soulmate Jerome, an English translator sent to Japan.

Next Trailer (1990)

28 November 1990

William Shakespeare, without saying a word, gives a quick run through of all his plays in a very special audition.

Hero Trailer (1982)

05 June 1982

Medieval fable of sorcery and witchcraft in a remote corner of the Scottish highlands.

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.

Dust Devil Trailer (1992)

11 July 1992

A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.

Soft and Hard Trailer (1985)

12 August 1985

Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville talk about their films, while doing everyday tasks around their house.

Paragraph 175 Trailer (2000)

22 January 2000

During the Nazi regime, there was widespread persecution of homosexual men, which started in 1871 with the Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code.

Reflections Trailer (1984)

01 April 1984

A historian writing a biography of Isaac Newton spends a Summer with a dysfunctional family in Co. Cork, Ireland.

The Draughtsman's Contract Trailer (1982)

12 November 1982

R. Neville, a brash young draftsman, is hired to make a dozen landscape illustrations at the estate of Mr Herbert and his wife Virginia.

My Name Is Joe Trailer (1998)

15 May 1998

Two thirtysomethings, unemployed former alcoholic Joe and community health worker Sarah, start a romantic relationship in one of the toughest Glasgow neighbourhoods.

Hail Mary Trailer (1985)

23 January 1985

A college student gets pregnant without having intercourse, affecting people close and unrelated to her in different ways.

Friendship's Death Trailer (1987)

17 August 1987

A robot messenger is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go to MIT, by mistake she ends up in Amman, Jordan during the Black September riots of 1970.

A Month in the Country Trailer (1987)

27 September 1987

A destitute WWI veteran is hired to help carry out restoration work on a medieval mural in a rural Yorkshire church.

Fatherland Trailer (1986)

02 September 1986

Persona Non Grata in his homeland, protest singer Klaus Drittemann must leave East Berlin, his wife and child and emigrate to the West, where representatives of an American record company are eagerly awaiting him.

Bad Behavior Trailer (1993)

28 May 1993

The McAllister family house is the setting for Gerry and Ellie's grapples with work, children and how to get the bathroom fixed.

Lamb Trailer (1986)

10 October 1986

Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epileptic runaway Eoin is sent to the school, the two recognise kindred spirits and escape to London together.

Resurrected Trailer (1989)

12 March 1989

A Falklands War soldier missing, believed dead, turns up claiming amnesia.

Variety Trailer (1985)

27 February 1985

A young woman becomes obsessed with pornography and the mysterious rich patrons of the Times Square porn theater where she works selling tickets.

The Long Day Closes Trailer (1992)

22 May 1992

Bud is a lonely and quiet boy whose moments of solace occur when he sits in rapture at the local cinema, watching towering and iconic figures on the movie screen.

Forever Young Trailer (1983)

07 January 1983

A lonely young boy idolizes his local priest. An old acquaintance of the priest shows up one day, and the boy learns that his idol isn't exactly what he seems to be--it turns out that many years before, the priest had betrayed his friend, and now his friend has come back for revenge.

Rocinante Trailer (1986)

01 November 1986

England, mid-1980s: Bill embarks on a dream-like odyssey around rural England, breaking into country houses, taking photos of anything that interests him, until he meets a mysterious woman in a van, who seems to be on the run from the authorities.

Walking and Talking Trailer (1996)

17 July 1996

Just as Amelia thinks she's over her anxiety and insecurity, her best friend announces her engagement, bringing her anxiety and insecurity right back.

Syrup Trailer (1994)

01 May 1994

An Oscar nominated short film about a man's life changing when he gets a hairpiece.

The Last of England Trailer (1987)

23 August 1987

The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose.

Long Live the Hobos Trailer (1995)

25 March 1995

One day in 1930, José Américo Ghezzi ("Bepo")—an unemployed anarchist stonemason—leaves his hometown, not to return until 1955.

Another Time, Another Place Trailer (1983)

13 May 1983

Set in 1943 in Scotland during World War II. Janie is a young housewife married to a man named Dougal, 15 years her senior.

Black Wax Trailer (1983)

12 January 1983

Poet, musician and activist Gil Scott-Heron reflects on race, politics, creativity and the Black experience through candid interviews and electrifying live performances.

Angel Trailer (1982)

14 May 1982

Saxophonist Danny witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. Questioned by the police, he remembers only the orthopedic shoes of the killers’ leader.

She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas Trailer (1984)

01 January 1984

A humorous and revealing tale of a group of eight women from varying walks of life, who have volunteered for a rugged survival course at a tough mountain school in the English lakes.

Heavenly Pursuits Trailer (1986)

11 July 1986

Vic Mathews teaches a remedial class at the Blessed Edith Semple School in Scotland. Some at the school are trying to discover the two more miracles that would promote the late Edith Semple to sainthood; Mathews, a non-believer, wishes the school would concentrate on teaching the children.

Nineteen Nineteen Trailer (1985)

14 November 1985

Two former patients of Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier.

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.

Journey of Hope Trailer (1990)

28 September 1990

In a village in eastern Turkey, tales of the economic success of Turks in Switzerland inspire Haydar to convince his wife Meryem that they must go.

The Eyes of Tammy Faye Trailer (2000)

25 January 2000

A documentary look, mostly through the eyes of Tammy Faye Bakker Messner, at her rise and fall as a popular televangelist with husband Jim Bakker.

Experience Preferred... But Not Essential Trailer (1982)

22 December 1982

A shy, introverted young girl takes a summer job at a seaside resort in Wales, where she finds the staff, the owners and patrons unlike anyone she has ever met before.

The Slab Boys Trailer (1997)

28 August 1997

Paisley, Scotland, in 1957. Three likely lads look forward to the staff dance at the local carpet fak

The Kitchen Toto Trailer (1988)

29 April 1988

The son of a priest slain by the Mau Mau moves in with a police officer and his wife in 1950 Kenya.

One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train Trailer (1990)

01 June 1990

Tells the story of a group of Chilean children who discover a larger reality and a different world through the cinema.

Nelly's Version Trailer (1983)

09 June 1983

People claim to know an amnesiac who finds herself in a hotel with a suitcase full of cash.

Esther Trailer (1986)

01 January 1986

Ahasverus, king of Persia and Media, puts aside Vashti and makes Esther his queen, choosing her among maidens in a kingdom stretching from India to Ethiopia.

December Bride Trailer (1990)

17 May 1990

At the beginning of the 20th century, a young servant provokes an independent Irish farm community by her relationship with two brothers.

Giro City Trailer (1982)

01 November 1982

Welsh investigative journalists set out to cover the Troubles in Northern Ireland only to unearth censorship and corruption back home.