Private Road is a 1971 British drama film directed and written by Barney Platts-Mills and starring Susan Penhaligon and Bruce Robinson. It was Platts-Mills second feature, following his debut Bronco Bullfrog (1970).

Peter Morrisey is an author who has just published his first novel. He meets receptionist Ann Halpern and falls in love. They spend some time in a cottage in Scotland living an idyllic pastoral life, then return to London.

Peter gets a job at an advertising agency as a copywriter. Ann becomes pregnant and Peter asks her to marry him but she refuses. To Peter's shock, Ann decides to have an abortion without talking to him about it first. After a spell in hospital Ann returns home and her father gives her a house. Peter returns to his flat alone, still thinking that he will marry Ann.

With his friend Stephen, Peter breaks into an office block and steals a typewriter so he can resume his writing career.

Platts-Mills got the idea for the script from an F. Scott Fitzgerald story.^{[citation needed]}

According to the BFI, the movie "was a conscious effort to fit with the more mainstream, commercial filmmaking model than Bronco was" and the filmmakers determined to release it themselves.

Shooting mostly took place in Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove. Filming was completed by October 1970.

The film had its debut in a Notting Hill cinema on 30 September 1971.