John Hurt Movies

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

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

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...

Zoe Ball and Rick Edwards get the party started for the celebration of 50 years of Doctor Who, with Doctors and companions past and present,...

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...

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

This is a musical by Mike Batt based on Lewis Carroll's nonsense poem. Mike Batt conducts the London Symphony Orchestra.

A carefree, absent-minded boy who is never scared goes on a strange journey to discover fear.

The film revolves around, Norman, a world-weary manager of a pier theatre in a seaside resort. Norman has worked in the theatre for all of his life,...

A unique story of redemption and an exploration of good and evil featuring a hit man and a priest.

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

A feature film about Benjamin Britten, released as part of the 100 year celebrations of his birth. Britten is the most performed British composer...

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

A student takes a bizarre trip through the Italian Alps after being inspired by a professor's lecture on Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" from his Ninth...

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...

A barren peasant woman, desperately craving a child, naively says aloud that she wouldn't care what it looks like. Soon enough, she gives birth to a...

Testimony of the cast, the producers and other participants of the shootings of "The Osterman Weekend".

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...

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

An old explorer close to freezing in the Arctic re-lives the events that brought him there in the first place. He recalls his student days at Trinity...