J. B. Priestley Movies

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

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...

In a programme first broadcast in 1973 as he entered his 80th year, JB Priestley chooses extracts from his own writing to celebrate some of the many...

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.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and...

Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes...

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

Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, wife of upper-crust wine dealer Martin, falls in love with her husband's best friend, noted psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. While...