J. B. Priestley

An Inspector Calls (2015)

Northern England, 1912. The dinner of a wealthy family is interrupted by Inspector Goole, who only announces that a young woman has committed suicide. Then, he simply asks everyone present, one by one, if they knew her. ...

Thana Theke Aschi (2010)

A suspect is looked for by an eligible police officer after a women allegedly committed suicide... ...

Last Holiday (2006)

The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on what she realizes has been an overly cautious life. With weeks to live, she withdraws her life savings, sells all her possessions and j ...

A Summer Day's Dream (1994)

Adaptation of the play by J B Priestley. After a nuclear war, the nations have combined to set up a World Government. An old man who lives quietly in the country finds his peace threatened by a visit from three World Government figures. ...

The Ghosts of the Green Room (1991)

According to the story of JB Prestley "Jenny Villiers." Actors of the London Theater gathered in the Green Room of Barton Spa, a kind of theater museum. The playwright Martin Civerell expresses his doubts that the theater is able to regain its former charm ...

When We Are Married (1987)

Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the fifth television film version of this play by J.B. Priestley made by the BBC. ...

Time and the Conways (1985)

1919: the World War is over. Kay Conway celebrates her 21st birthday and all the family look forward with hope and confidence. Then Time begins to conjure with them and offers a dark glimpse of what the future could really bring. ...

Time and the Conways (1984)

Action takes place in England during the 20 years between the two wars. The film explores the relationship in the once wealthy bourgeois family, whose members, in their own way, are experiencing the collapse of their plans and hopes. ...

Dangerous Corner (1983)

An unexpected suicide prompts much speculation about honesty and theft. ...

I Have Been Here Before (1982)

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

The Scandalous Affairs of Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon (1981)

The life of Mr. Kettle, an executive of a single bank in a small provincial English town Brickmill, is strictly organized: 7 a.m. stand up, then breakfast, at 9 a.m. work, at 13 p.m. diner, then work, at 18 p.m.- the end of a workday, then club, home, slee ...

Inspector Goole (1979)

Sudden arrival of a police inspector in the middle of a bourgeois family's dinner party reveals various sordid and shameful secrets that may have contributed to the recent suicide of an impoverished young woman. ...

31st of June (1978)

A lonely journalist in some West European country has a vision about the princess of his city who lived in XII century. ...

The Golden Fleece (1977)

Eight very different people are looking for a treasure on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean. ...

He Came (1973)

Dangerous Corner (1972)

Robert and Freda Caplan are entertaining guests at their country retreat. A chance remark by one of the guests ignites a series of devastating revelations, revealing a hitherto undiscovered tangle of clandestine relationships and dark secrets, the disclosu ...

A Severed Head (1971)

Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband's best friend, noted psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. While both Palmer and Antonia would like to remain in Martin's life, he has some secrets of his own — namely, ...

El árbol de los Linden (1970)

Level Seven (1966)

Level 7 is the deepest and the safest level in a nuclear bunker. The nerve centre of the government is based here. But how safe is it? ...

Onkel Phils Nachlaß (1965)

Thana Theke Aschi (1965)

Sub-Inspector Tinkari Haldar comes to the house of the Industrialist Chandra Madhab Sen to inquire about a Suicide and Mystery starts to Unfold. ...

Johnson Over Jordan (1965)

Adaptation of J. B. Priestley's play. ...

I Have Been Here Before (1964)

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

The Old Dark House (1963)

An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion. ...

Now Let Him Go (1963)

England. The old and sick artist Symonds Kendle, fleeing from the insistent claims of his children to his remaining paintings and drawings, goes with his granddaughter Felicity to another city to a friend. But on the way the artist falls ill and ends up in ...

The Happy Years of the Thorwalds (1962)

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 her children, four girls and two boys with the youngest already fifteen years old. She manages to keep them t ...

Poklad (1960)

And That on Monday Morning (1959)

Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager who has had it with his buttoned-down, boring job. One Monday he can no longer face the tedium of both his work and his life and so he stays ho ...

When We Are Married (1957)

Three long-married couples in northern England discover that their marriages are in fact invalid, causing much re-evaluation and chaos. This was the fourth television film version made by the BBC of this comedy by J. B. Priestley. It featured several actor ...

Now Let Him Go (1957)

A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily old man is unperturbed, even regarding the infernal trumpet sound which plays throughout. ...

The Good Companions (1957)

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth. ...

An Inspector Calls (1954)

An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Ins ...

When We Are Married (1951)

Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the third version broadcast by the BBC of this J.B. Priestley play. It was aired live but as the BBC very rarely rec ...

Last Holiday (1950)

George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday. ...

When We Are Married (1949)

The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer. This was the sec ...

I Have Been Here Before (1949)

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

They Came to a City (1944)

People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city ...

When We Are Married (1943)

The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer. ...

Let the People Sing (1942)

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall. ...

The Foreman Went to France (1942)

Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment. ...

Britain at Bay (1940)

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

Jamaica Inn (1939)

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangle ...

Bees on the Boat-Deck (1939)

Television broadcast of Bees on the Boat-Deck by J.B. Priestley. ...

When We Are Married (1938)

The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer. The first play i ...

Laburnum Grove (1936)

To rid himself of his sponging relatives a man tells them he is really a forger which causes them to leave. His wife believes he is joking, but he has in fact allowed the truth to slip out and now he is danger of being arrested. ...

The Princess Comes Across (1936)

A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she c ...

Look Up and Laugh (1935)

Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter just before an inadvertent gas leak provides an explosive climax. ...

Dangerous Corner (1934)

Friends uncover a dark secret when they compare notes about a theft and suicide. ...

Sing As We Go (1934)

When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool. ...

The Good Companions (1933)

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos. ...

The Old Dark House (1932)

In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion. ...

On the Road with J.B. Priestley and The Good Companions (1980)

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

Down These Mean Streets a Man Must Go: Raymond Chandler (1969)

A portrait of Raymond Chandler, creator of the Philip Marlowe mystery thrillers, by John Foster and Fred Burnley. The film portrays Chandler's life and creative attitudes in his own words. Dramatised excerpts from his letters and novels reveal conflicting ...

The Trial of Oscar Wilde (1960)

Courtroom account of the prosecution of Oscar Wilde for gross indecency with other men followed Wilde's disastrous libel charge against the Marquess of Queensberry, father of his lover Lord Alfred Douglas. ...

Britain at Bay (1940)

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

BBC: The Voice of Britain (1935)

A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and transmitters, weaving speeches, music, and outside broadcasts—featuring voices like H. G. Wells and Ramsay MacDon ...