John Hurt Movies

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

Johnnie Cooper served time for an armed robbery that also his father and brother participated in. When he's released from jail he's determined to...

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...

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

The wife of a contract killer disappears. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a hit, he suspects they are connected with...

Documentary on the making of Mel Brooks' classic comedy "History of the World, Part 1."

Firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness, two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland, are...

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

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

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...

BP's centenary celebration film. The film includes archive footage, dramatic reconstruction and interviews with BP employees.

"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...

A self-absorbed young biologist takes on a six-month research post in Antarctica to study a penguin colony. Alone in Shackleton’s abandoned...

Testimony of the cast, the producers and other participants of the shootings of "The Osterman Weekend".

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

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew trapped with a hideous monster that's...

Baltimore, 1959. Danny's dad is the only man in the neighborhood who didn't fight in World War II. Danny, who's 12, gets teased and folks make nasty...

A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth...

A moving and memorable family drama about a terminally ill writer who wants to be reconciled with his long-abandoned son.

This enchanted tale is based on "One Thousand and One Nights" where a young rogue receives wishes from a genie and wins The Sultan's daughter.