John Hurt Movies

An affectionate and entertaining look at our nation's obsession with cinema from the early days of silent cinema, through the golden age of the...

The life story of the film director, movie star and industry figure who furthered the cause of cinema: Lord Richard Attenborough.

Originally produced for the Showtime anthology series Picture Windows and screened at the Cannes Film Festival, this whimsical British short...

In a small (fictional) emirate of the Persian Gulf a world-weary journalist is caught up in a coup where the Emir's son, under the influence of a...

With its simple and iconic imagery this was public information film at its most sensational: expensive special effects and high-concept production...

In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich's death in 2015, filmmaker Reiner Moritz produced his documentary Dmitri...

The cast and crew of I, Claudius (1976) discuss the making of the series.

Have you ever done a handstand... on the tips of your index fingers? How about snapping iron bars over your head as if they were bread-sticks? You'll...

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...

Former singer Isabelle visits a hotel on the Upper East Side. She is not satisfied with the room she has been given and is taken to another room one...

In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him not from the...

The 500-year-old book UTOPIA takes us on a journey through the world of today. A quest that will reveal how Thomas More's vision lives on in...

An elderly widower sets in motion series of events to veil his disappearance from a nursing home. After gathering necessities he heads to the local...

Short film combining the true life event of Che Guevara's stopover at Shannon Airport with Science Fiction elements involving the Invisible Man.

A slimy television host, who makes a living by embarrassing celebrities, is tricked into revealing some dark secrets of his own.

In this mystical comedy, Felicien has traveled to Portugal from France soon after the end of the First World War. It seems that his recently deceased...

"Hidden Wars of Desert Storm" looks at the origins of the Gulf War crisis and challenges the official Western "party-line" view of a spontaneous...

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

Harry Brown is a somewhat rough and wild university student, who has the ability to win friends, especially the underdogs like Phil who doesn't play...

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