Close My Eyes (1991)
Drama | Romance
An estranged brother and sister begin an intense sexual relationship, behind the curtain of their otherwise normal working-class lives.
Starring: Alan Rickman, Clive Owen, Saskia Reeves, Karl Johnson, Lesley Sharp, Kate Gartside
Director: Stephen Poliakoff
King Lear (2018)
Drama
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Starring: Tobias Menzies, Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Andrew Scott, Christopher Eccleston, Emily Watson, Florence Pugh, Jim Broadbent, Jim Carter, Karl Johnson
Director: Richard Eyre
Avenging Force (1986)
Action | Drama | Thriller
A senator is targeted by the Pentangle, a right wing paramilitary group. His pal, a former CIA agent and martial artist, tries to help him. The group kidnaps the agent's sister and tries to hunt him down, "The Most Dangerous Game" style.
Starring: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, James Booth, John P. Ryan, Karl Johnson, Marc Alaimo
Director: Sam Firstenberg
The Tempest (1979)
Drama
An experimental and anachronistic adaptation of William Shakespeare's play which casts the mad Prospero as a struggling artist desperate to transform his bleak world into something more spriritually satisfying.
Starring: Peter Bull, David Meyer, Neil Cunningham, Heathcote Williams, Richard Warwick, Karl Johnson
Director: Derek Jarman
Mr. Turner (2014)
Biography | Drama | History
A look at the life of British artist J.M.W Turner. Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies. Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.
Starring: Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, James Norton, Marion Bailey, Karl Johnson
Director: Mike Leigh
The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
Drama | Romance
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
Starring: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Ann Mitchell, Simon Russell Beale, Jolyon Coy, Karl Johnson, Harry Hadden-Paton
Director: Terence Davies
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