Alien (1979)
Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform.
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm
Director: Ridley Scott
Hellboy (2004)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi
A demon raised from infancy after being conjured by and rescued from the Nazis, grows up to become a defender against the forces of darkness.
Starring: Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair, Rupert Evans, Karel Roden, Jeffrey Tambor
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Nineteen Eighty-Four / 1984 (1984)
Drama | Sci-Fi
In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
Starring: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack, Gregor Fisher, James Walker
Director: Michael Radford
Miranda (2002)
Comedy | Romance | Thriller
A librarian begins a passionate affair with a mysterious woman who walks into his library. When she suddenly disappears, he travels down to London to search for her, only to discover that she has three identities, dancer, dominatrix, and con woman. But which one is the real Miranda?
Starring: Christina Ricci, John Simm, Kyle MacLachlan, John Hurt
Director: Marc Munden
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
Drama | Music | Romance | War
When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, John Hurt, Christian Bale, Irene Papas, David Morrissey
Director: John Madden
Damascus Cover (2017)
Mystery | Thriller
A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.
Starring: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, John Hurt, Olivia Thirlby, Navid Negahban, Jürgen Prochnow, Wolf Kahler, Igal Naor
Director: Daniel Zelik Berk
Hercules / Hercules: The Thracian Wars (2014)
Action | Adventure
Long ago a tormented soul named Hercules walked the earth. Being the son of Zeus was a curse. He received nothing but suffering his entire life because of it. After twelve arduous tasks and the loss of his family, he turned his back on the gods finding his only solace in the heat of battle. Over the years he forged an alliance with six other like minded rogues. Their only bond was their love of battle and the presence of death. This motley crew never questions where, why or for whom they fight, just the amount paid for their bloody labor. Now the King of Thrace has hired these mercenaries to train his men to become the greatest army of all time. The realization of how far they have fallen hits them hard. They must train the army to be as ruthless and blood thirsty as they have become!
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Rufus Sewell, Aksel Hennie, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
Director: Brett Ratner
My Name Is Lenny (2017)
Drama | Sport
The life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also known as "the Guv'nor."
Starring: Josh Helman, Michael Bisping, Chanel Cresswell, John Hurt, Nick Moran
Director: Ron Scalpello
Jackie (2016)
Biography | Drama
Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband's historic legacy.
Starring: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, John Hurt, Billy Crudup, Max Casella
Director: Pablo Larraín
Jackie (2016)
Biography | Drama
Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband's historic legacy.
Starring: Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, John Hurt, Billy Crudup, Max Casella
Director: Pablo Larraín
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ChickLit (2016)
Comedy
ChickLit is a comedy drama about four guys trying to save their local pub from closing down. They group write a chick lit, or more specifically a 'mummy porn' novel in the style of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and it gets snapped up. The only snag is that the publisher insists that the young woman 'author' does press and publicity. The guys have to keep their involvement a secret and so engage an out of work actress to 'role play' the part of the author. This leads to her becoming the star in the film of the book, the tables are turned on the guys and she is in control – leaving them with the awful prospect of having to secretly churn out sex novels for the foreseeable future.
Starring: Christian McKay, Dakota Blue Richards, Miles Jupp, John Hurt, Eileen Atkins
Director: Tony Britten
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The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance
Years after the man once known as Tarzan left behind the jungles of Africa for a gentrified life in London as Lord Greystoke with his beloved wife, Jane Porter (Margot Robbie), he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the corrupt Belgian Captain Léon Rom.
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, John Hurt, Christoph Waltz, Djimon Hounsou
Director: David Yates
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance
Years after the man once known as Tarzan left behind the jungles of Africa for a gentrified life in London as Lord Greystoke with his beloved wife, Jane Porter (Margot Robbie), he has been invited back to the Congo to serve as a trade emissary of Parliament, unaware that he is a pawn in a deadly convergence of greed and revenge, masterminded by the corrupt Belgian Captain Léon Rom.
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Margot Robbie, Samuel L. Jackson, John Hurt, Christoph Waltz, Djimon Hounsou
Director: David Yates
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The Skeleton Key (2005)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Starring: Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard, Joy Bryant
Director: Iain Softley
The Oxford Murders (2008)
Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A woman is murdered in Oxford. Her body is discovered by two men, Arthur Seldom, a prestigious professor of logic, and Martin, a young graduate student who has just arrived at the university hoping to study with Seldom. It quickly becomes clear that this is the first in a series of murders, all of which are announced by the murderer with strange mathematical symbols. Professor and student join forces to try and crack the code, and thus begins an elaborate puzzle, in which nothing is as it seems, and the truth is elusive.
Starring: Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling, Julie Cox, Alex Cox, Jim Carter
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
10 Rillington Place (1971)
Biography | Crime | Drama
Based on Ludovic Kennedy's investigative book, this is the true and horrifying story of serial killer John Christie, chillingly played by Richard Attenborough. When Timothy Evans and his wife move into Christie's tiny flat, they do not know that they are now part of the latest plan Christie has hatched to lure yet another woman to her death and pin the blame on Evans, who is soon afterwards hanged. It is only when fate exposes the crimes of the death-house at 10 Rillington Place in London, that Christie is brought to justice and all of England rethinks its views of the death penalty.
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt, Pat Heywood, Isobel Black, Phyllis MacMahon
Director: Richard Fleischer
The Hit (1984)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former "colleagues" and now lives in Spain where he thinks he can hide from their vengeance. But one day, ten years later, two hitmen (Braddock and Myron) show up and kidnap Willie. They are ordered to escort him back to Paris where he should stand trial. But it is a long way to Paris…
Starring: Terence Stamp, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Ralph Brown, Albie Woodington, Willoughby Gray
Director: Stephen Frears
Watership Down (1978)
Adventure | Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
With this passion project, screenwriter-producer-director Martin Rosen brilliantly achieved what was thought difficult, if not impossible: a faithful big-screen adaptation of Richard Adams’s classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits seeking safety and happiness after their warren comes under terrible threat. With its naturalistic hand-drawn animation, dreamily expressionistic touches, gorgeously bucolic background design, and elegant voice work from such superb English actors as John Hurt, Ralph Richardson, Richard Briers, and Denholm Elliott, Watership Down is an emotionally arresting, dark-toned allegory about freedom amid political turmoil.
Starring: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Roy Kinnear, Nigel Hawthorne
Director: Martin Rosen
Hercules / Hercules: The Thracian Wars (2014)
Action | Adventure
Long ago a tormented soul named Hercules walked the earth. Being the son of Zeus was a curse. He received nothing but suffering his entire life because of it. After twelve arduous tasks and the loss of his family, he turned his back on the gods finding his only solace in the heat of battle. Over the years he forged an alliance with six other like minded rogues. Their only bond was their love of battle and the presence of death. This motley crew never questions where, why or for whom they fight, just the amount paid for their bloody labor. Now the King of Thrace has hired these mercenaries to train his men to become the greatest army of all time. The realization of how far they have fallen hits them hard. They must train the army to be as ruthless and blood thirsty as they have become!
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Rufus Sewell, Aksel Hennie, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
Director: Brett Ratner
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Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Drama | Horror | Romance
A romance horror drama film, set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangier. Adam, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover, Eve. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon interrupted by Eve's wild and uncontrollable younger sister, Ava. Can these wise and fragile outsiders continue to survive as the modern world collapses around them?
Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt, Anton Yelchin, Jeffrey Wright
Director: Jim Jarmusch
