John Hurt Movies

Harry Brown is a somewhat rough and wild university student, who has the ability to win friends, especially the underdogs like Phil who doesn't play...

Two university students, one a physiologist, the other an economist, have been sharing an apartment, but now one of them is about to depart for work...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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 life story of the film director, movie star and industry figure who furthered the cause of cinema: Lord Richard Attenborough.

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...

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

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...

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...

"Behind Jim Jarmusch" is an intimate an intriguing portrait of director Jim Jarmusch, at work on the set of his movie "The Limits of Control"...

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...

This collage of interviews with the producers, John Hurt, and the makeup man comes off as both interesting and informative. Hurt's recollections...

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