John Hurt Movies

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 the...

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

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

Have you ever done a handstand... on the tips of your index fingers? How about snapping iron bars over your head as if they were bread-sticks? You'll...

Originally produced for the Showtime anthology series Picture Windows and screened at the Cannes Film Festival, this whimsical British short...

In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich's death in 2015, filmmaker Reiner Moritz produced his documentary Dmitri...

Film about the influences in director John Boorman's life and work, including family and neighbors and the landscape of the Wicklow mountains...

In this witty monologue, Quentin Crisp advises and opines about personal style (with a few digressions).

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

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

Facing total extinction, a military operation turns to the stars in order to relocate the entire human race. During the exodus, one man is sent to...

"Whaledreamers" - the title alone evokes hypnotic visions of these most magnificent and ancient creatures. This visually stunning film offers an...

"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...

Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with...

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

John Hurt narrates this highly charged and doom-laden public information film from the 1987 AIDS awareness campaign. A cliff-face explodes in slow...

"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 spectacular special event edition of Swan Lake in 3-D starring Ekaterina Kondaurova and Natalia Vodianova, model, actress, and storyteller, was...

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...

A tribute to Verity Lambert, the BBC's first female producer and one of the country's most influential pioneers of television drama.