John Hurt Movies

A man released from jail, where he had served time for doctoring the books of a gangster, has to go into hiding from the gangster's men. He moves...

A bored housewife has an affair with her mother's lodger.

A worried husband hires a beautiful psychotherapist to nurse his delusional wife and help her deal with the death of their child in a car accident....

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...

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

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...

John Hurt, the Master of Suspense, brings you three spine-chilling stories from his Theatre of Terror!

How did ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid at Giza, joining two million blocks of heavy stone with amazing precision? Who were the leaders who...

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 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...

A man comes into a pub and boasts that he has just killed his father. Instead of condemning him for the crime, the locals revel in his story and...

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

Documentary about the production of The Third Man (1949).

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,...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Young Catherine Morelli, who lives in Rome, goes to Geneva to find romance at her father's wedding. There she begins a near nymphomaniac pursuit of a...