John Hurt Movies

John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for...

Hot off Wild at Heart (1990), winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Johnathan Ross interviews filmmaker David Lynch and his colleagues.

John Boorman reflects on the personal influences shaping his life and films in this short work, blending family, neighbors, and the Wicklow Mountains...

This is a musical by Mike Batt based on Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem. Mike Batt conducts the London Symphony Orchestra.

John Hurt narrates this highly charged and doom-laden public information film from the 1987 AIDS awareness campaign. A cliff-face explodes in slow...

After placing his ailing wife Alice in a care home, elderly academic James Parkin goes to stay at a wintry out-of-season hotel which they used to...

Seeking to avert a prophecy which foretells of a seventh son someday supplanting the current king, the unscrupulous monarch seeks out this luck child...

A barren peasant woman, desperately craving a child, naively says aloud that she wouldn't care what it looks like. Soon enough, she gives birth to a...

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

Wimbledon 2014 is the definitive account of the 128th Championships. Coming into the tournament, the top four seeds in the Gentlemen's Singles were...

The film revolves around, Norman, a world-weary manager of a pier theatre in a seaside resort. Norman has worked in the theatre for all of his life,...

In 1920s England, former clergyman Dr Lawrence keeps his cannibal son locked in the attic after the young man is exposed to savage practices in...

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

Rome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo Treves who fortunately escapes capture. The child is...

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

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

An art student is thrown out of college. Depressed, he comes up with the Party of Dynamic Erection, a near fascist "party" that promotes male sexual...

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

The Storyteller recounts the time he was caught making a fool of the royal cook and, as punishment meted out by the King, must tell one story a day...

A two-scene introduction that was shown exclusively in advance of the 50th anniversary theatrical screenings of The Day of the Doctor.