John Boorman
Director, Actor
Filmography (All Films)
- Catch Us If You Can (1965)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Dave Clark, Barbara Ferris, Lenny Davidson
- Surprisingly downbeat comedy vehicle for pop band the Dave Clark Five sees a stuntman (Clark) for a pro–meat commercial run away with its star…
- Point Blank (1967)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn…
- Fascinating, at times jarring, thriller has underworld hitman Lee Marvin hunting for those who double–crossed him in The Organisation, only to…
- Hell in the Pacific (1968)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune
- American GI Lee Marvin encounters lone Japanese soldier Toshiro Mifune on a remote Pacific island. A series of tense confrontations unfolds, expertly…
- Deliverance (1972)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ned Beatty
- Four businessmen encounter the dark side of both human and mother nature on their weekend canoe trip in the deep South. Aided by that unmistakable…
- Zardoz (1974)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling
- Sean Connery stars in this enigmatic, garish space odyssey about a group of eternally young intellectuals in the year 2293. The bizarre visual…
- Exorcist II - The Heretic (1977)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Linda Blair
- Infamously choatic sequel bares little relation to its predecessor other than Linda Blair remaining possessed in a reprise of her role. Hallucinatory…
- Excalibur (1981)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Nigel Terry, Nicol Williamson, Nicholas Clay…
- The King Arthur legend is given a fanciful, dynamic spin by a director at his creative peak in an epic fantasy tale of sorcery and magic.
- Emerald Forest, The (1985)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Powers Boothe, Meg Foster
- Sumptuous Amazon adventure story concerns an one man's struggle to find his son, kidnapped ten years earlier and initiated into a primitive society.
- Hope and Glory (1987)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir
- Well–crafted account of Dir. Boorman's childhood in wartime London.
- Where the Heart Is (1990)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Uma Thurman, Crispin Glover, Dabney Coleman…
- Trendy New York teens are forced out of their parents house to live in a ramshackle dump, and learn the ways of the real world. Kooky fun.
- Beyond Rangoon (1994)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Patricia Arquette
- The tragedies mount for a young doctor taking a recuperating holiday in late eighties Burma, on the eve of a violent crackdown by the ruling…
- General, The (1998)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Brendan Gleeson, Jon Voight
- Top–rate return to form for dir. Boorman, styling the career of true–life Dublin gangster Martin Cahill as an epic comedy of criminal…
- Tailor of Panama, The (2000)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis…
- Sly, cynical little spy–thriller, unfolds with a morally–dubious UK spy Pierce Brosnan stitching together a big–score in Panama by…
- In My Country (Country of my Skull) (2004)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette Binoche, Brendan Gleeson
- One of the first stabs at dramatising the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in South Africa, here used as a grueling backdrop for romance…
- Tiger's Tail, The (2006)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall, Ciaran Hinds…
- John Boorman points his moral compass towards the ‘miracle’ Irish economy in this patchy yet worthwhile satirical thriller about an enterprising…
- Queen & Country (Queen and Country) (2014)
- Dir. John Boorman
Feat. Callum Turner, Vanessa Kirby, David Thewlis…
- Long–awaited follow up to director John Boorman's comic memoir HOPE AND GLORY follows his alter–ego as he undergoes basic training in…