John Hurt Movies

The story of the WWI poets Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves, using their diaries and letters to tell the inside story of the war in...

When Jack Blake picks up a woman and her daughter stranded when their car breaks down, he is struck by the daughter's resemblance to his own murdered...

Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with...

Film about the influences in director John Boorman's life and work, including family and neighbors and the landscape of the Wicklow mountains...

To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to...

Jim Henson brings to life The StoryTeller and The StoryTeller: Greek Myths in this collection of European tales.

A feature film about Benjamin Britten, released as part of the 100 year celebrations of his birth. Britten is the most performed British composer...

Desperation for a child prompts a British executive's (Douglas Hodge) wife (Kerry Fox) to submit to an illegal adoption scheme in Vietnam

Auteur filmmaker Paul Cox contemplates his own mortality and his life's work as he wits for a life saving liver transplant.

An old explorer close to freezing in the Arctic re-lives the events that brought him there in the first place. He recalls his student days at Trinity...

Testimony of the cast, the producers and other participants of the shootings of "The Osterman Weekend".

One pill, and you're floating on air. A different one, and you're full of lead. Married, mortgaged, broke, a love-affair gone sour - which drug can...

A tribute to Verity Lambert, the BBC's first female producer and one of the country's most influential pioneers of television drama.

Documentary on the making of Mel Brooks' classic comedy "History of the World, Part 1."

A BBC television documentary on the life of Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major aspects of his life and personality.

A day in the life of 70-year-old Arthur, who falls in love with Ruth, a new resident at his retirement home.

In this witty monologue, Quentin Crisp advises and opines about personal style (with a few digressions).

A biography of Vincent van Gogh using only images and the letters he wrote to his brother Theo.

After a terrible accident, a psychatrist has to help Bruce to regain his memory. In flashbacks we learn that his family had to flee from New York...

When Harold Wilson suddenly resigned as Labour prime minister resigned in 1976, most assumed there was a scandalous explanation. Eventually, rumours...