John Hurt Movies

Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.

A worried husband hires a beautiful psychotherapist to nurse his delusional wife and help her deal with the death of their child in a car accident....

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

SHORT ORDER tells a story so vibrantly sumptuous each still could be served as its own meal. Amidst the quaint Parisian street night, Fifi Koko runs...

"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"...

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...

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

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

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

A slimy television host, who makes a living by embarrassing celebrities, is tricked into revealing some dark secrets of his own.

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

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...

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 feature film about Benjamin Britten, released as part of the 100 year celebrations of his birth. Britten is the most performed British composer...

Following an initial misunderstanding between an older couple and a young family, fate takes a hand in bringing both parties closer together. One...

In Krapp's Last Tape, which was written in English in 1958, an old man reviews his life and assesses his predicament. We learn about him not from the...

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

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