Samuel Beckett Movies

May, wrapped in tatters, paces back and forth engaging in conversation with the disembodied voice of her mother. In the second scene, May's voice...

An autocratic Director (Harold Pinter) and his Assistant (Rebecca Pidgeon) put the final touches to the last scene of some kind of dramatic...

The camera swoops down on a circular area, seemingly suspended in space. It is filled with medical waste and other trash. A labored exhalation is...

Follows the "Beckett on Film" project, which produced film adaptations of writer Samuel Beckett's nineteen stage plays. The documentary features...

The woman Winnie sinks deeper and deeper into a large pile of manure while talking to her husband and spouting an endless stream of trivialities....

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 young woman sits down in a chair. Only her mouth is visible as she begins to speak at a rapid clip, describing events that she insists did not...

Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness. The result is a comical...

The land is filled with people in urns chattering at top speed, but only to themselves, not to one another. The focus goes to three people: a man,...

A reader tells a sad story to a listener, who only knocks in response.

Somewhere sits two men, Vladimir and Estragon, waiting for a man named Godot. Internationally acclaimed Swedish TV dramatized version of the classic...

There are five survivors in a futuristic library. Bam is their supreme dictator, and has the others interrogated and tortured, believing them to have...

Performed at the Royal Court Theatre on 16th January 1973

Two tramps wait for a man named Godot, but instead meet a pompous man and his stooped-over slave.

Two derelicts occupy themselves as they wait for 'Godot' to make an appearance on Pozzo's estate.

Winnie, buried to her waist, follows her daily routine and prattles to her husband, Willie, who is largely hidden and taciturn.

This play is adapted from the last full-length novel by Samuel Beckett, also one of his most obscure works.Set in a boundless wilderness, the story...

Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Beckett's death in Paris, Dunbar explores what made the...