John Hurt Movies

In this episode of PBS' Great Performances, the history and legacy of puppeteer Jim Henson is explored, from his six-second commercial beginnings to...

Desperation for a child prompts a British executive's (Douglas Hodge) wife (Kerry Fox) to submit to an illegal adoption scheme in Vietnam

Go behind the scenes on V for Vendetta. The only verdict is vengeance. The Cast and crew of V For Vendetta discuss the complicated, but fiercely...

The film follows Gabriel Angel (Rakie Ayola), a young Caribbean aviator who falls in love with the forger Duncan Stewart (Jonathan Pryce) on her...

Simmonds, a professional soldier, takes time out from the horrors of war to reunite with the girl he once loved. But the small island, on which she...

The Doctor struggles to help the only remaining crewmember of a crashing gunship. The people of the planet below offer to save his life, but at a...

An documentary recounting the story with interviews of cast, crew and production team and including producer Barry Navidi, who had worked for six...

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

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police,...

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

Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a...

Part of the anthology series "Picture Windows" and screened at Cannes, "Two Nudes Bathing" playfully imagines the scandalous origins of a mysterious...

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

Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but also discovers corruption inside the facility.

Biographical drama based on the last 20 years of Crisp's life. The literary figure and gay iconoclast emigrated to New York in 1981 and lived there...

The life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also known as "The Guv'nor".

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...

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...

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

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