John Hurt

The tale centers on an eccentric bag lady who rescues the stray cats of Venice and puts them on a boat to set sail for the new world. It has not ...

A criminal couple, hiding out on a remote property, become the unwitting victims of a blackmail plot by the most unlikely of conspirators.

An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and ...

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

Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira ...

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 ...

A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large ...

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

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. ...

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

Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win ...

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

England, mid-1980s: Bill embarks on a dream-like odyssey around rural England, breaking into country houses, taking photos of anything that ...

This movie is an experimental documentary following the flow of the Thames out of London to the sea. It has a narration from John Hurt that takes ...

Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves ...

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

Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an ...

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

George Orwell’s novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his ...

Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize ...

The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National

Sunset Boulevard stretches 27 miles from Los Angeles’ Chinatown all the way to the ocean – a ride made famous by Philip Marlowe in the Chandler ...

The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a ...

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

Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, struggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search ...

After a series of murders in Los Angeles’s gay community, heterosexual police officer Sgt. Benson is assigned to go undercover as half of a ...

Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.

Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing at the center of a conflict between ...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his “owner” as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous ...