John Hurt

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Man for All Seasons, A (1966): Dir. Fred Zinnemann
Feat. Paul Scofield, Dame Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern…; Paul Scofield plays Thomas More, a verbal opponent of King Henry VIII who 'stuck his neck out' once too often. First–class adaptation of the…
10 Rillington Place (1971): Dir. Richard Fleischer
Feat. Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt…; Richard Attenborough re–creates the activities of UK serial–killer John Christie.
Mr. Forbush and the Penguins (1971): Dir. Al Viola
Feat. John Hurt, Hayley Mills, Dudley Sutton…; Worthy version of NZ–er Graham Billing's classic novel about an immature young scientist who volunteers for a season observing penguin…
Ghoul, The (1975): Dir. Freddie Francis
Feat. Peter Cushing, John Hurt; In the foggy moors of the 1920's, one of Peter Cushing's 'gate crashers' disappears and turns up dismembered, initiating a disturbing pattern. …
I, Claudius (TV Series) (1976): Dir. Herbert Wise
Feat. Brian Blessed, John Hurt, Derek Jacobi…; Superlative televison epic spans the juicy analogues of Roman history with Augustus (Brian Blessed), Caligula (John Hurt), Claudius (Derek Jacobi)…
Shout, The (1978): Dir. Jerzy Skolimowski
Feat. Alan Bates, John Hurt, Susannah York…; An intelligent, enigmatic chiller about an asylum inmate with mystical powers who upsets the lives of an avant garde music composer and his wife in…
Alien (1979): Dir. Ridley Scott
Feat. Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt…; One of the best films of modern cinema, this classic combines nail–shredding suspense with H.R. Giger's awesome production design. This film…
Elephant Man, The (1980): Dir. David Lynch
Feat. Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt; The heart–wrenching true story of a grossly deformed pauper, dramatised to perfection by director David Lynch. A compassionate doctor rescues…
Heaven's Gate (1980): Dir. Michael Cimino
Feat. Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt…; One of Hollywood's biggest financial disasters contributed to the demise of United Artists studios. Despite its flaws, this full–length version…
History of the World, Pt.1 (1981): Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn…; A series of hilariously crass historical sketches from Mel Brooks.
Naked Civil Servant, The (1981): Dir. Jack Gold
Feat. John Hurt, Patricia Hodge, Colin Higgins; The life and times of homosexual Quentin Crisp, as drawn from his autobiography. John Hurt is a revelation as this courageous man who endured major…
Night Crossing (1981): Dir. Delbert Mann
Feat. John Hurt, Jane Alexander, Beau Bridges…; A gripping account of the true attempt by two East German families to flee to the West in 1979 using a home–made hot air balloon. Cast all lend…
Osterman Weekend, The (1983): Dir. Sam Peckinpah
Feat. Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Dennis Hopper; An adaption of Robert Ludlum's well–known novel about cold–war espionage and paranoia.
1984 (1984): Dir. Michael Radford
Feat. John Hurt, Richard Burton; Adaptation of George Orwell's novel remains faithful to his book and is thus a despairing experience. John Hurt and Richard Burton represent the…
Hit, The (1984): Dir. Stephen Frears
Feat. Terence Stamp, John Hurt, Tim Roth; Stool pigeon Terence Stamp gives a pair of hired killers a run for their money when they discover his 10–year hideaway.
Spaceballs (1987): Dir. Mel Brooks
Feat. Rick Moranis, Mel Brooks, John Candy…; A rollicking and fairly successful Mel Brooks take–off of STAR WARS and the space–opera genre, with Rick Moranis irresistibly hilarious…
White Mischief (1987): Dir. Michael Radford
Feat. Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Sarah Miles…; Popular tale of drugs, decadence, wife–swapping and murder–mystery in colonial Kenya, with an attractive cast.
Storyteller, The (1988): Feat. John Hurt; John Hurt is the storyteller of Jim Henson's award–winning classic tales of magic and fantasy. The three volumes each contain three stories.
Scandal (1989): Dir. Michael Caton-Jones
Feat. John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda…; Polished dramatisation of events that led to the downfall of politician John Profumo, who engaged in an liaison with a controversial call–girl.
Field, The (1990): Dir. Jim Sheridan
Feat. Richard Harris, John Hurt, Sean Bean; Another sombre gem from the MY LEFT FOOT team. Richard Harris plays an aging Irish land–lubber whose life–long devotion to cultivating…
Frankenstein Unbound (1990): Dir. Roger Corman
Feat. John Hurt, Raul Julia, Bridget Fonda; John Hurt stars as a 21st century scientist who is thrown back to 19th century England, where Frankenstein's creature and other famous Brits run…
King Ralph (1991): Dir. David S Ward
Feat. John Goodman, Peter O'Toole, John Hurt; John Goodman stars as the boorish American heir to the British throne.
Plague, The (1992): Dir. Luis Puenzo
Feat. John Hurt, Robert Duvall, Raul Julia…; William Hurt, Robert Duvall and Raul Julia star in this truncated adaptation of Albert Camus's complex novel. Bubonic plague besieges a modern South…
Dark at Noon (1992): Dir. Raul Ruiz
Feat. John Hurt, David Warner; John Hurt and David Warner join in the spirit of this bizarre fancy from exiled Chilean director Ruiz. Set in a Portugese village where anything…
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993): Dir. Gus Van Sant
Feat. Uma Thurman, John Hurt, Sean Young…; A joyously ropey adaptation of Tom Robbins beloved 1970s novel in which a big–thumbed hitch–hiker (Uma Thurman) eventually hooks up at a…
Wild Bill (1995): Dir. Walter Hill
Feat. Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin, John Hurt…; Evocatively intercuts the remorseful twilight of gunfighter Wild Bill Hicock's life, with a series of tangy, sepia–toned flashbacks.
Love and Death On Long Island (1997): Dir. Richard Kwietniowski
Feat. John Hurt, Jason Priestley, Sheila Hancock…; Delightful central conceit sees John Hurt fall in love with flaky teen–movie actor Jason Priestley in this decidedly genre and…
Proposition, The (1998): Dir. Lesli Linka Glatter
Feat. Kenneth Branagh, John Hurt, Madeleine Stowe; A less than saintly love–tryst involves man of the cloth, Kenneth Branagh, with rich, love–starved couple William Hurt and Madeleine…
If… Dog… Rabbit… (1999): Dir. Matthew Modine
Feat. Matthew Modine, Bruce Dern, John Hurt…; Directorial debut for actor Matthew Modine (who also stars), coming up with a by now rather familiar gangster caper, set among an eccentric bunch of…
Lost Souls (2000): Dir. Janusz Kaminski
Feat. Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, John Hurt…; Winona Ryder and Ben Chaplin are the souls in question of this devil thriller, in which, in his 33rd year, the Anti–Christ has his previously…
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001): Dir. John Madden
Feat. Penelope Cruz, Christian Bale, Nicolas Cage…; A melodiously played costume–drama, that unfolds on the Greek island of Cephalonia during WWII. Occupation by Italian and later German…
Beckett on Film (Waiting for Godot, et al.) (2001): Dir. Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Neil Jordan, Kieron J Walsh
Feat. Julianne Moore, David Kelly, Jeremy Irons…; An ambitious anthology of Samuel Beckett's nineteen stageplays, filmed here creatively by a roster of prestige actors and directors. Disc…
A Monkey's Tale (2002): Dir. Jean Francois Laguionie
Feat. Rik Mayall, John Hurt, Michael York…; More sophisticated than most, this French animated fantasy concerns two rival monkey tribes – the Woonkos and Laankos – who live a…
Edge of the Universe (2002): Feat. John Hurt; Sequel to the TV series' THE PLANETS and UNIVERSE, which goes beyond the 'known universe' to outline the attempts and successes of astrophysicists to…
Owning Mahowny (2003): Dir. Richard Kwietniowski
Feat. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, John Hurt…; Phillip Seymour Hoffman stars in this fact–based story of a Toronto bank manager who became legendary for gambling away millions of his…
Hellboy (2004): Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Ron Perlman, David Hyde Pierce, John Hurt…; Surefire comicbook yarn – fusing Nazi occultism, demonic otherworlds and FBI intrigues with nice touches of style, humour and…
Pride (2004): Dir. John Downer
Feat. Kate Winslet, Helen Mirren, Sean Bean…; Quaintly original and rather winning BBC production about a lionness who rebels against her home 'pride', first, by thinking of becoming a…
Skeleton Key (2005): Dir. Iain Softley
Feat. Kate Hudson, John Hurt, Gena Rowlands…; A young woman (Hudson) gets a job caring for a troubled elderly stroke victim (Hurt) in a swampside manor in rural Louisiana, coming to realise there…
V for Vendetta (2005): Dir. James McTeigue
Feat. Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea…; Set in the year 2020, this dystopian thriller adapts Alan Moore's graphic novel about a world where deadly viruses have wiped out most of America and…
Proposition, The (2005): Dir. John Hillcoat
Feat. Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston…; Grimly intense and atmospheric 'Australian Western' – scripted by singer Nick Cave – is set the outback of the 1880s, where lawman Ray…
Shooting Dogs (Beyond the Gates) (2005): Dir. Michael Caton-Jones
Feat. John Hurt, Hugh Dancy; Based on events during the horrific genocide of close to one million Rwandans, this sincere yet insufficiently told docudrama centres on the selfless…
Perfume - The Story of a Murderer (2006): Dir. Tom Tykwer
Feat. Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, Ben Whishaw…; Lush, faithful adaptation of Patrick Suskind’s 1985 novel, with Ben Whishaw as Jean–Baptiste Grenouille, the gifted ‘nose’ turned…
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008): Dir. Steven Spielberg
Feat. Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett, Karen Allen…; The belated return of Indiana Jones for another thrilling adventure quest, this time to find the crystal skull in Peru before the Soviets get their…
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (2008): Dir. Guillermo Del Toro
Feat. Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Jeffrey Tambor…; The cigar–smoking demon must defeat the fabled golden army and his own self–doubt in this fabulous sequel to 2004’s HELLBOY.…
Outlander (2008): Dir. Howard McCain
Feat. Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Ron Perlman…; Spaceman Jim Caviezel crash lands in the fjords of Norway, must help Vikings defeat the dragons. Enjoyable daft sci–fi fantasy is by turns…
Oxford Murders, The (2008): Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling…; At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical…
An Englishman in New York (2009): Dir. Richard Laxton
Feat. John Hurt, Swoosie Kurtz, Jonathan Tucker…; Sequel to THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT with John Hurt reprising his role as gay raconteur Quentin Crisp as he spends the latter parts of his life in New…
New York, I Love You (2009): Dir. Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Allen Hughes
Feat. Bradley Cooper, Andy Garcia, Hayden Christensen…; Not to be mistaken as a cynical American remake of PARIS, JE'TAIME, this – on the contrary – naturally extends the short–story…
44 Inch Chest (2009): Dir. Malcolm Venville
Feat. Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, John Hurt…; Dark comedy with a cuckolded Ray Winstone rounding up his heavy mates and seeking vengeance on his wife's lover.
Gruffalo, The (2009): Dir. Max Lang, Jakob Schuh
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Wilkinson, John Hurt…; Delightful adaptation of the bestselling children's book about the brave little mouse who uses his wits and imagination to thwart predators.
Lou (2010): Dir. Belinda Chayko
Feat. Emily Barclay, John Hurt, Lily Bell Tindley…; Touching Aussie drama with Emily Barclay as a struggling solo mum whose life is thrown into upheaval when her estranged father reappears.
Brighton Rock (2010): Dir. Rowan Joffe
Feat. Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren…; Graham Greene's 1939 novel is the source material for this prickly British underworld drama about a gangster (Riley) whose rise through the ranks is…
Doctor Who (TV Specials) [Matt Smith] (The Day of the Doctor; The Time of the Doctor; The Snowmen; The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe; A Christmas Carol) (2010-2013): Dir. Nick Hurran
Feat. Matt Smith, Jenna-Louise Coleman, David Tennant…; Matt Smith and David Tennant combine for this high–end 50th anniversary special. Shot in 3–D and screened in cinemas upon its release,…
Immortals (2011): Dir. Tarsem Singh
Feat. Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, Stephen Dorff…; Supreme visual stylist Tarsem Singh (THE FALL) directs this B.C. spectacle about a mortal stonemason elected by Zeus to overthrow the tyrannical King…
Melancholia (2011): Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, John Alexander…; A wedding party celebrating the marriage of a young couple is overshadowed by the threat of a planet on a collision course with Earth in this…
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011): Dir. Tomas Alfredson
Feat. Gary Oldman, Mark Strong, John Hurt…; An enthralling, impeccably cast screen adaptation of John Le Carre’s quintessential cold war spy novel, centred on a retired George Smiley (Oldman)…
Gruffalo's Child, The (2011): Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Wilkinson, John Hurt…; Charming sequel sees the Gruffalo's daughter setting off into the woods to discover the 'big bad mouse' – the only thing her father is afraid…
Jayne Mansfield's Car (2012): Dir. Billy Bob Thornton
Feat. Robert Duvall, Kevin Bacon, Robert Patrick…; Flavoursome southern drama set during the Vietnam war is about two families from different countries whose cultures clash.
Labyrinth (TV Mini-Series) (2012): Dir. Christopher Smith
Feat. Jessica Brown-Findlay, Vanessa Kirby, John Hurt…; The search for the Holy Grail provides the link between two parallel story lines – one set in medieval France, the other during a modern day…
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013): Dir. Jim Jarmusch
Feat. Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Anton Yelchin…; Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston are sublimely cast as sophisticated vampire lovers who reunite after centuries in this stylish and imaginative new…
Snowpiercer (2013): Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, John Hurt…; Korean maestro Bong Joon–ho's English language debut is a breakneck sci–fi thriller set on a perpetual motion train carrying the last…
Hercules (2014): Dir. Brett Ratner
Feat. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson, Ian McShane, John Hurt…; Entertaining sword–and–sandals schlock, with Dwayne Johnson muscling up as the legendary Greek demigod.
Last Panthers, The (TV Series) (2015): Feat. Samantha Morton, Tahar Rahim, John Hurt; Globe–trotting crime caper with Samantha Morton and Tahar Rahim on the trail of a gang of diamond thieves.
Jackie (2016): Dir. Pablo Larrain
Feat. Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig…; A portrait of Jackie Kennedy following the assassination of her husband John F. Kennedy. Natalie Portman provides an intimate and sensitive portrayal…
Journey, The (2016): Dir. Nick Hamm
Feat. Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Toby Stephens…; A fictionalised account of the unlikely alliance that developed between Unionists and Republicans in Ireland in 2006, when the two principle…

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