John Shrapnel
12 titles
Filmography
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Hamlet
(2015)From its sell-out run at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre comes a film version of this unique and critically acclaimed Hamlet, with BAFTA nominee Maxine Peake in the title role. This groundbreaking stage production, directed by Sarah Frankcom, was Royal Exchange’s fastest-selling show in a decade. Shakespeare’s most iconic work, Hamlet is the ultimate story of loyalty, love, betrayal, murder and madness. Hamlet’s father is dead and Denmark has crowned a new king. Consumed by grief, Hamlet struggles to exact revenge, with devastating consequences.
Chemical Wedding
(2008)He was known as "The Wickedest Man In The World" or simply "The Beast." More than 60 years after his death, the demonic life and works of British occultist Aleister Crowley has continued to capture the darkest imaginations. In this thriller, a virtual reality experiment gone wrong sends the soul of the infamous madman into the body of a shy university professor. But even as Crowley creates all-new orgies of depraved pleasures and "black magick," is he now preparing to unleash the ultimate occult event upon the world? The film features music by Iron Maiden, Earth Lab and an original score by Bruce Dickinson.

Hamlet Within
(2022)A visual and cinematic experience, this film explores Shakespeare’s Hamlet, both its origins and its enduring appeal across all cultures and beliefs.

The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka
(1999)In post-war Poland, an author writes the biography of composer Frédéric Chopin and meets a strange woman who claims her ancestor was his muse.

Elizabeth R
Emmy award-winning drama starring Oscar-winner Glenda Jackson as the Virgin Queen.

K-19: The Widowmaker
(2002)As a Russian submarine heads toward America, the crew discovers the vessel's nuclear reactor system leaks, and time is quickly running out.

King Lear
(1982)The aging King Lear decides to abdicate and divide his kingdom in accordance with how much his three daughters say they love him. His youngest daughter refuses to answer and finds herself banished. The elder daughters plot a cruel betrayal against him which ultimately threatens the kingdom and the King's own sanity.

How to Get Ahead in Advertising
(1989)Two years after the release of Withnail & I, Richard E. Grant and writer-director Bruce Robinson reunited for a savage attack on Thatcher's Britain and advertising culture. Denis Dimbleby Bagley (Grant) is an ad executive plunged into a nervous breakdown whilst working on a campaign for pimple cream.

Natural World
For 40 years, the BBC’s wildlife documentary series Natural World has shown in-depth stories of incredible animals, featuring award-winning photography in some of the planet’s most extraordinary places. Taking you to remote, exotic and undiscovered locations, the show captures previously unrecorded behavior, remarkable interactions and creatures never seen on film before.

The Awakening
(2011)A woman who debunks hoaxes and conspiracy theories as a ghost hunter finds terrifying shocks at a boarding school she’s trying to expose.
I Am Not an Animal
This animated animal satire featuring the voices of Steve Coogan (Hamlet 2, I'm Alan Partridge) and Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead) follows a group of animals who have been given the power of speech and rational thought. They live in a luxurious "club class" wing of a secret vivisection laboratory. Pampered and clothed unlike any lab animals in history, fed vintage wine and exquisite food, they are blissfully unaware of the real world outside. Until one cruel night when they are brutally liberated into their so-called natural surroundings by a gang of animal rights activists . . .

101 Dalmatians
(1996)Dalmatians Pongo and Perdita are overjoyed by the arrival of 15 puppies. But when the spotted-fur-loving Ms. De Vil dognaps the litter---along with every other Dalmatian pup in London---Pongo and Perdy must rally the town's animals to their rescue.