The Last of England is a 1987 British arthouse film directed by Derek Jarman and starring Tilda Swinton. It is a poetic, rather than realistic, depiction of what Jarman felt was the loss of traditional English culture in the 1980s and his anger about Thatcher's England (including the formation of Section 28 Local Government Act), declaring it a homophobic and repressive totalitarian state. In 1986, Jarman was also diagnosed as HIV positive and had just finished his 'masterpiece', Caravaggio, so the film is a confluence of angry imagination.It is named after The Last of England, a painting by Ford Madox Brown. The painting and the film, share themes of escape and the changing of place.