John Hurt Movies

The struggle of a lone sniper in a dystopian future Britain plagued with rabies and ruled over by a sinistrous Ministry of Information.

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

In 1948, a new British governor takes over a Far Eastern colony after his predecessor is murdered by terrorists.

Drama/Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd multi-lingual interpreter who mediates between Russian and...

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...

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...

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...

Jane, an English journalist goes to Israel to write on the Palestinian situation and meets and falls in love with an Israeli professor of English. As...

When their only child, Jody, is killed in a car accident, Michael and Allison, face an uncertain future. Michael appears to be coping but Allison is...

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

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

A South African journalist is sent to Namibia to investigate a serial killer.

“Red Fox” tells a gripping contemporary tale of kidnapping, terrorism and political intrigue. Based on the book by Gerald Seymour, with a...

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 carefree, absent-minded boy who is never scared goes on a strange journey to discover fear.

At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an Englishman in New York. Nossiter's camera follows Crisp...

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

A beautiful princess seeking to escape an arranged marriage, flees to a distant kingdom and disguises herself as a loathsome hag. But then she falls...

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...

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