John Hurt Movies

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

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...

Hot off Wild at Heart (1990), winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Johnathan Ross interviews filmmaker David Lynch and his colleagues.

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

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

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

A comprehensive look at the history of the Hellboy character from his comic book roots through to his movie debut.

John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for...

A personal essay about the United States viewed through the life and work of the late American film and stage actor Henry Fonda.

The cast and crew of I, Claudius (1976) discuss the making of the series.

Baltimore, 1959. Danny's dad is the only man in the neighborhood who didn't fight in World War II. Danny, who's 12, gets teased and folks make nasty...

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

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

John Boorman reflects on the personal influences shaping his life and films in this short work, blending family, neighbors, and the Wicklow Mountains...

After placing his ailing wife Alice in a care home, elderly academic James Parkin goes to stay at a wintry out-of-season hotel which they used to...

Wimbledon 2014 is the definitive account of the 128th Championships. Coming into the tournament, the top four seeds in the Gentlemen's Singles were...

In 1920s England, former clergyman Dr Lawrence keeps his cannibal son locked in the attic after the young man is exposed to savage practices in...

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

A bored housewife has an affair with her mother's lodger.

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