John Hurt
68 titles
Filmography
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The Plague Dogs
(1982)When a pair of dogs escape from a government research lab, they struggle to survive under harsh circumstances in the wild, with help from a wily fox.

Watership Down
(1978)Hoping to escape destruction by human developers and save their community, a colony of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to set up a new warren.

Nineteen Eighty-Four
(1984)In a world controlled by language, surveillance, and doctored history, one man dares to rebel against a fascist government. Big Brother is watching.

Hiroshima
(2005)This miniseries uses historical reenactments to recount the story of the dropping of the atomic bomb and its effects on the people of Hiroshima.

An Englishman in New York
(2009)John Hurt gives a bravura portrayal of British gay icon Quentin Crisp, focusing on Crisp's emigration to the United States and the final years of his life.

The Naked Civil Servant
(1975)The outrageous, flamboyant & at times tragic biopic of Quentin Crisp. John Hurt stars as the openly gay Quentin who faced bigotry and condemnation for trying to live his life as he wished in the deeply conservative 1930s.

Shooting Dogs
(2006)In April 1994, a secondary school in Kigali, Rwanda called the Ecole Technique Officielle (ETO), being used as a UN army base, became a refugee camp. Belgian UN troops, school children, NGO workers and over 2,500 Tutsi citizens and their sympathizers took refuge against a raging genocide while the Hutu militia, clad with machetes, clamored outside the school gates. Five days later, the UN troops withdrew from the school, taking the whites with them. Within hours, almost all of the Rwandans were dead. Beyond The Gates is about the choices we make when we are free to choose. In the tragic circumstances of the Ecole Technique Officielle, would you have left with the UN troops on the fifth day or would you have stayed?

The Hit
(1984)After a decade in hiding for snitching on his mob associates, an ex-gangster is found in Spain and escorted on a wild ride to Paris for his execution.

Night Crossing
(1982)Two young couples escape from East Germany aboard a hot-air balloon.

Whistle and I'll Come to You
(2010)After placing his ailing wife Alice in a care home, retired academic James Parkin stays at a wintry out-of-season hotel they used to visit together.

Champions
(1984)Just as British jockey Bob Champion is in the middle of a vacation in Kentucky, he finds out he has cancer, and, like others beforehim, submits to the full, painful treatments of multiple injections and radiation, suffering as much or more from the cure as from the illness.

Lou
(2010)A tender story about 11-year old Lou and her befuddled grandfather who comes to live with her family and teaches her the healing power of love.

Vincent
(1987)This documentary, on the life of artist Vincent Van Gogh, is told through his letters to his brother Theo from 1872 until his tragic death.

All the Little Animals
(1999)After escaping his abusive stepfather, a young man with a mental disability finds solace with a peculiar old hermit who shares his love of animals.

Poison Candy
(1989)A thriller about a little girl who's spying on two strangers, blackmailing her brother and about to murder her best friend.

Aria
(1987)Ten legendary filmmakers contribute shorts set to arias by different composers in this anthology film inspired by the world's greatest operas.

That Good Night
(2017)A terminally ill screenwriter has two items left on his bucket list: reconcile with his estranged son and ensure his death isn’t a burden on his wife.

Windprints
(1990)Torn between love of country and his work as a news cameraman, a South African and an iconic journalist cover a serial killer manhunt in the desert.

10 Rillington Place
(1971)The horrifying true account of John Reginald Christie, whose savage murder of a woman and her newborn summarily ended capital punishment in Britain.

The Oxford Murders
(2008)When an American student enrolls at Oxford, and his landlady is murdered, he and his professor try to foil a killer who leaves mathematical clues.