Short Films

With time so precious these days, Movie in a Minute is on hand to help you digest the biggest blockbusters in a bite-size chunk. The movie getting the 60-second makeover this time is Steven Spielberg's ET.

The second part of Terence Davies' trilogy revolving around Liverpudlian Robert Tucker, focusing on the character's efforts in middle-age to come to terms with his homosexuality.

With time so precious these days, Movie in a Minute is on hand to help you digest the biggest blockbusters in a bite-size chunk. The movie getting the 60-second makeover this time is The Devil Wears Prada.

Oscar Wilde’s famous and eloquent defence of love – made while he was being cross-examined at the trial that led to his incarceration and death – is strikingly illustrated, word by word, with Mapplethorpe-like imagery.

A magically atmospheric musical that follows Old Father Christmas as he tries to shake off his murky pagan past and deliver toys to the children.

The first film from acclaimed director Terence Davies, and the first to feature his on-screen alter-ego Robert Tucker. Children moves between two periods in Robert's life: as a beleaguered schoolboy, and as an equally troubled young man.

With time so precious these days, Movie in a Minute is on hand to help you digest the biggest blockbusters in a bite-size chunk. The movie getting the 60-second makeover this time is Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill.

With time so precious these days, Movie in a Minute is on hand to help you digest the biggest blockbusters in a bite-size chunk. The movie getting the 60-second makeover this time is Ridley Scott's Alien.

With time so precious these days, Movie in a Minute is on hand to help you digest the biggest blockbusters in a bite-size chunk. The movie getting the 60-second makeover this time is The Sixth Sense.

With time so precious these days, Movie in a Minute is on hand to help you digest the biggest blockbusters in a bite-size chunk. The movie getting the 60-second makeover this time is Die Hard.

With time so precious these days, Movie in a Minute is on hand to help you digest the biggest blockbusters in a bite-size chunk. The movie getting the 60-second makeover this time is The Matrix.

Liverpudlian Robert Tucker slips between three periods in his life – as a Catholic schoolboy, caring for his dying mother, and facing his own last hours on Earth.

With time so precious these days, Movie in a Minute is on hand to help you digest the biggest blockbusters in a bite-size chunk. The movie getting the 60-second makeover this time is Judd Apatow's Knocked Up.

Shane Meadows’ debut short (in which he also acts) is Rashomon by way of Tarantino. Four guys, interviewed by the police, give different accounts of an armed robbery.

 With time so precious these days, Movie in a Minute is on hand to help you digest the biggest blockbusters in a bite-size chunk. The movie getting the 60-second makeover this time is Rambo: First Blood.

With time so precious these days, Movie in a Minute is on hand to help you digest the biggest blockbusters in a bite-size chunk. The movie getting the 60-second makeover this time is Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Ridley Scott’s first finished film was this short, shot in 1965 and featuring his brother Tony and parents. A teenage schoolboy plays truant and bikes around a small, industrial English town as we hear his thoughts play out, in a stream-of-consciousness narration. 

 This TV play, written and directed David Cronenberg, explores one of his enduring themes: obsessive relationships with technology. A group of bike fanatics determine to get their hands on a Ducati 900 Desmo SuperSport owned by a rich guy, by any means necessary. 

The Burning is Stephen Frears’ first film, a chilling exploration of racial tensions in Apartheid-era South Africa. On a sweltering summer’ day, a wealthy white matriarch insists on taking her household on a planned trip to the country, in spite of their urgent warnings that an uprising is underway.

Peep Show was a Canadian, Twilight Zone-style anthology programme. This episode - in which a couple take shelter in a remote country house inhabited by two dotty old women - was directed by David Cronenberg and reveals an early preoccupation with horror and transformation.