John Hurt Movies

The struggle of a lone sniper in a dystopian future Britain plagued with rabies and ruled over by a sinistrous Ministry of Information.

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...

"Whaledreamers" - the title alone evokes hypnotic visions of these most magnificent and ancient creatures. This visually stunning film offers an...

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

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

An occult criminologist investigates a businessman who dabbles in the black arts while trying to survive against a powerful demon and an evil cult.

A BBC television documentary on the life of Yukio Mishima that highlights the many known major aspects of his life and personality.

After a series of murders in Los Angeles's gay community, heterosexual police officer Sgt. Benson is assigned to go undercover as half of a gay...

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

In 1948, a new British governor takes over a Far Eastern colony after his predecessor is murdered by terrorists.

The story of the WWI poets Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves, using their diaries and letters to tell the inside story of the war in...

Auteur filmmaker Paul Cox contemplates his own mortality and his life's work as he wits for a life saving liver transplant.

A moving and memorable family drama about a terminally ill writer who wants to be reconciled with his long-abandoned son.

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...

Have you ever done a handstand... on the tips of your index fingers? How about snapping iron bars over your head as if they were bread-sticks? You'll...

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

The wife of a contract killer disappears. When he is hired by an international organisation to carry out a hit, he suspects they are connected with...

John Hurt narrates this highly charged and doom-laden public information film from the 1987 AIDS awareness campaign. A cliff-face explodes in slow...