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John to put the Hurt on Indy? -
8 May 2008
Screen legend John Hurt has sparked speculation that he plays the villain in the latest Indiana Jones adventure by letting slip that he was in one of the screen dust-ups with co-star Harrison Ford, according to reports. -The gossip hounds at Digital Spy say the acc
John Hurt - what members say
John Hurt - filmography
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The Limits of Control
(2009)
Starring: Isaach De Bankole, Alex Descas, Jean-Francois Stevenin
Director: Jim Jarmusch
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"The Limits of Control" is the story of a mysterious loner, a stranger, whose activities remain meticulously outside the law. He is in the process of completing a job, yet he trusts no one, and his objectives are not initially divulged. His journey, paradoxically both intently focused and dreamlike,..read more »
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Outlander
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: James Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston
Director: Howard McCain
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During the reign of the Vikings, Kainan (Caviezel), a man from a far-off world, crash lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator known as the Moorwen. Though both man and monster are seeking revenge for violence committed against them, Kainan leads the alliance to kill the Moorwen by ..read more »
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from 3,360 members
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An Englishman In New York
(2009)
Starring: John Hurt
Director: Richard Laxton
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In 1975, John Hurt starred in a BBC television adaptation of Quentin Crisp's autobiography THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT, playing the flamboyantly gay author and actor, and in 2009 Hurt revisits the role in this comedy-drama based on the latter years of Crisp's life. Crisp rose to fame in the UK ..read more »
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Due for release on 28th December 2009
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Merlin - Series 1 - Vol.1
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Colin Morgan, Bradley James, Anthony Head
Director: James Hawes
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The mythical city of Camelot, in a time before history began, is a fantastical realm of legendary beasts and mysterious peoples. In this dangerous world, magic has been banned by the ruthless tyrant, Uther Pendragon. Merlin, a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers arrives at the gates ..read more »
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76%
from 1,815 member
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Outlander - BLU-RAY Version
(2008)
Starring: Ron Perlman, Cliff Saunders, John Beale
Director: Howard McCain
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It is 709AD and Norway is in a state of unrest; tensions between Viking clans threaten to spill over into all-out war. However, in-fighting is the least of their worries when, from out of nowhere, an alien spacecraft crash-lands on to their territory, bringing with it a danger far greater than they ..read more »
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60%
from 842 members
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Hellboy 2 - The Golden Army
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair
Director: Guillermo del Toro
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Genre icon Ron Perlman returns to the comic book character Hellboy with this sequel from visionary director Guillermo Del Toro (PAN'S LABYRINTH, THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE). In HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY, the red-skinned demon hero must face off against a new nemesis called 'the Prince' (former Bros ..read more »
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Who Do You Think You Are? - Series 4
(3 discs)
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Natasha Kaplinsky, John Hurt, Griff Rhys Jones
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Who Do You Think You Are? follows the journeys of eight well known personalities as they explore their family trees, uncover their family history and discover fascinating and poignant facts about their ancestors that have been, until now, hidden in the annals of time.
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74%
from 34 members
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Masters Of Science Fiction
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Anne Heche, Terry O'Quinn, Sean Astin
Director: Jonathan Frakes, Darnell Martin, Mark Rydell
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Taking the phenomenally-successful MASTERS OF HORROR as its cue, MASTERS OF SCIENCE FICTION unites some of the genre's most revered names, including John Kessel, Robert A. Heinlein, Howard Fast, Walter Mosley, Robert Sheckley and Harlen Ellison. Episodes include: 'A Clean Escape', Jerry Was A Man', ..read more »
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from 172 members
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Proposition, The - BLU-RAY Version
(2006)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Ray Winstone, Danny Huston
Director: John Hillcoat
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Australian director John Hillcoat first teamed up with singer Nick Cave on 1988's disturbing GHOSTS...OF THE CIVIL DEAD, for which Cave co-authored the screenplay and took a memorably brief acting role. The two reconvene for 2006's THE PROPOSITION, with Cave penning the screenplay and providing a ..read more »
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65%
from 479 members
Not currently released
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Shooting Dogs
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Claire-Hope Ashitey, John Hurt, Hugh Dancy
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
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Based on a true story. An exhausted Catholic priest (Hurt) and a young idealistic English teacher (Dancy) find themselves caught in the 1994 Rwandan genocide. They must now choose whether to stay with the thousands of Tutsis about to be massacred or to flee for safety.
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71%
from 14,616 members
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Valiant
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Ewan McGregor, tim curry (voice), John Hurt
Director: Gary Chapman
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High-flying comedy adventure about a little pigeon whose biggest dream is to join the Royal Homing Pigeon Service and serving crown and country during World War II.
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60%
from 34,892 members
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V For Vendetta
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, John Hurt
Director: James McTeigue, Comic Book Classics
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Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, V For Vendetta tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey (NATALIE PORTMAN) who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man (HUGO WEAVING) known only as "V". Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled ..read more »
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from 65,650 members
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The Skeleton Key
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt
Director: Iain Softley
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A young woman helping care for an invalid in New Orleans finds herself caught in the middle of morbid going-ons centered around a group of Voodoo practitioners.
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61%
from 39,713 members
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The Proposition
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Guy Pearce, Tom Budge, Emily Watson
Director: John Hillcoat
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In the hostile and unforgiving Australian Outback of the 1880's, men live and die by the gun and justice comes at the end of a hangman's rope. Struggling to bring the order to the territory, a ruthless English police captain (Ray Winstone) hunts down the Burns gang - the brothers wanted for a ..read more »
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from 9,654 members
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Hellboy
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair
Director: Guillermo del Toro
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Based on the comic book series by Mike Mignola, Guillermo del Toro's gleefully eccentric film follows the supernatural adventures of Hellboy (Ron Perlman), a cigar-chomping, horn-filing demonic hero enlisted by an occult scholar (John Hurt) to fight evil in the Bureau of Paranormal Research and ..read more »
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61%
from 52,858 members
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Owning Mahowny
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Maury Chaykin
Director: Richard Kwietniowski
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Philip Seymour Hoffman delivers another staggering performance in Richard Kwietniowski's follow-up to LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND. Dan Mahowney (Hoffman) is a well-respected assistant bank manager with a pretty fiancee, Belinda (Minnie Driver). But Dan also happens to be a compulsive gambler. One ..read more »
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59%
from 966 members
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Miranda
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Christina Ricci, John Simm, Kyle MacLachlan
Director: Marc Munden
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Christina Ricci stars as the title character in this thriller directed by Marc Munden. When Frank (John Simm), a librarian looking for love, falls for the sexy Miranda, he gets drawn into a strange world of deception and intrigue. Miranda seems to have three identities--con woman, dancer, and ..read more »
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49%
from 1,006 member
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The Hit
(2002)
Starring: John Hurt, Terence Stamp, Tim Roth
Director: Stephen Frears
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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. ..read more »
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72%
from 20 members
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Penelope Cruz, Penelope Cruz
Director: John Madden
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In keeping with Hollywood's time-honoured tradition of turning celebrated novels into cinematic spectacles, director John Madden brings Louis de Berniere's acclaimed 1994 work, CORELLI'S MANDOLIN, to life. Set on the Greek island of Cephalonia in 1940, the film tells the story of the beautiful ..read more »
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61%
from 10,694 members
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Lost Souls
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Winona Ryder, Ben Chaplin, Sarah Wynter
Director: Janusz Kaminski
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Years ago, priests exorcised a demon out of young Maya Larkin (Winona Ryder). Now she uses her unusual sensitivity to the same demons who once came after her to help the priests in other exorcisms. In one such case, a serial killer named Henry Birdson (John Diehl) claims to know the name of a man ..read more »
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47%
from 623 members
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The Tigger Movie
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Jim Cummings, Nikita Hopkins, John Fiedler
Director: Jun Falkenstein
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Tigger, one of the cartoon world's most famous characters, makes the jump to the big screen in THE TIGGER MOVIE. When Tigger doesn't appear to want to help the gang build a home for Eeyore, the donkey, Rabbit suggests he leave them behind and spend some time with other "tiggers." Convinced that he'..read more »
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64%
from 5,221 members
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A Monkey's Tale
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: John Hurt, Michael York, Michael Gambon
Director: Jean-Francois Laguionie
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Gavin and Kom are two carefree monkeys of the Woonko community, who live at the very tops of the trees. Far below, at the base of the trees, live another community of monkeys, the Laankos, who are deeply feared by Gavin and Kom. But when Kom falls down one day, and is rescued and taken in by the ..read more »
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48%
from 103 members
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New Blood
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: John Hurt, Nick Moran, Carrie-Anne Moss
Director: Michael Hurst
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After an unexplained seven year absence, prodigal son Danny White (Moran) makes a grand entrance back into his father Alan (Hurt) and sister Emma's (Moss) lives when he shows up at the front door, bleeding from a gunshot wound. This painful family reunion is given urgency by the fact that both of ..read more »
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from 89 members
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You're Dead
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: John Hurt, Rhys Ifans, Claire Skinner
Director: Andy Hurst
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Eddie and his pal Ian dream pulling off the perfect bank job. Veteran safecracker Maitland may be just the brain they need behind the operation. But does the old pro have more complicated motives for his involvement
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51%
from 153 members
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Tender Loving Care
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Michael Esposito, Marie Caldare, John Hurt
Director: David Wheeler
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TENDER LOVING CARE is an utterly unique movie experience that the viewer can control. This fascinating suspense story is shaped and changed by how the audience responds to it, so that no two groups of people will experience the film in exactly the same way. TLCstars the renowned British actor, John ..read more »
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41%
from 74 members
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Contact
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Devoted astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway undertakes an emotional and spiritual journey after receiving the message she's waited for all her life--a mysterious signal beamed in from alien beings, who pass along instructions for building and piloting a craft that will presumably survive the passage from ..read more »
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67%
from 12,123 members
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Brute
(1997)
Starring: Anthony Higgins, John Hurt, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Meciej Dejczer
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In the early 90s, the British Government decided to send prisoners serving short term sentences over on humanitarian service. Some went to Romania to help with the schools, hospitals and orphanages. One of these prisoners discovers the misery of a group of orphans under the merciless rule of their ..read more »
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60%
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The Commissioner
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: John Hurt, Rosana Pastor, Alice Krige
Director: George Sluizer
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This political drama features John Hurt as a Cabinet Minister, forced to step down and accept a position as British Commissioner in Brussels. With his marriage feeling the strain and an underwhelming portfolio of industry to work with, he becomes involved with the Commissioner for the Environment. ..read more »
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from 56 members
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Contact - BLU-RAY Version
(1997)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, James Woods
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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Devoted astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway undertakes an emotional and spiritual journey after receiving the message she's waited for all her life--a mysterious signal beamed in from alien beings, who pass along instructions for building and piloting a craft that will presumably survive the passage from ..read more »
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69%
from 211 members
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Love And Death On Long Island
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: John Hurt, Jason Priestley, Fiona Loewi
Director: Richard Kwietniowski
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British novelist Giles De'Ath (John Hurt), a stuffy man who is completely oblivious to modern life and technologies, gets locked out of his house and settles for a visit to the cinema. Instead of the E.M. Forster adaptation he intended to view, he is shocked to discover that he accidentally ..read more »
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56%
from 721 members
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Dead Man
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Gabriel Byrne
Director: Jim Jarmusch
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William Blake (Johnny Depp) set out on an exciting journey to start his life over in a new town with a new job. He never could have prepared himself for what was to come. Through a mysterious chain of events, he becomes involved in a love triangle that ends in a double murder--with him as the ..read more »
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from 4,463 members
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Wild Bill
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin, John Hurt
Director: Walter Hill
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Director Walter Hill's WILD BILL is a film biography of legendary outlaw James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok (Jeff Bridges). The story covers the major events that shaped the gunman's life, including his work as a Kansas lawman, his stint in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show, and his part-time ..read more »
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54%
from 1,036 member
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Rob Roy
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
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A rousing film version of Sir Walter Scott's sweeping romantic adventure based on the life of Scottish hero Robert Roy MacGregor (Liam Neeson) who battled a despotic English secretary appointed by the king to watch over Scottish highlands.
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from 2,613 members
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Waterland
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack, Grant Warnock
Director: Stephen Gyllenhaal
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Tom Crick (Jeremy Irons) is a withered history teacher whose students don't find his lessons on the French Revolution worthwhile. So instead, Tom spends class time telling his students about 30 year-old family skeletons he's trying, hopelessly, to forget. Though he shares them with his students, ..read more »
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56%
from 959 members
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The Field
(1990)
Starring: Richard Harris, Tom Berenger, John Hurt
Director: Jim Sheridan
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Based on a play by John B. Keane, THE FIELD tells the story of Bull McCabe (Richard Harris), a tradition-bound Irishman who fights to retain the land that his family has been farming for generations. McCabe, who rents the land from a young widow (Frances Tomelty), hopes to take full possession of ..read more »
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from 632 members
Not currently released
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King Ralph
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: John Goodman, Peter O'Toole, John Hurt
Director: David S. Ward
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When a freak accident wipes out the entire royal family, an exhaustive search of the bloodline reveals a distant heir: Ralph Jones. A good-natured, down-to-earth Las Vegas lounge singer, Ralph is quickly given a crash course in royal manners. But his unconventional behavior provides fuel for a ..read more »
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58%
from 592 members
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Spaceballs
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Bill Pullman, John Candy, Daphne Zuniga
Director: Mel Brooks
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In this spoof of STAR WARS and a handful of other sci-fi flicks from the 1970s and '80s, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his half-dog/half-man sidekick, Barf (John Candy), must rescue a spoiled Druish princess (Daphne Zuniga) from the evil Lord Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) in time to ..read more »
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Jim Henson's The Storyteller - Vol. 1
(1987)
Starring: John Hurt, Brian Henson, Marcus Clarke
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From the creators of THE DARK CRYSTAL and LABYRINTH comes this series with first-rate casts and elaborate special effects to tell their version of well known myths and legends. John Hurt stars as the Storyteller, who, along with help from his cynical dog, narrates these fascinating, beautifully ..read more »
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from 563 members
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From The Hip
(1987)
Starring: Judd Nelson, Elizabeth Perkins, John Hurt
Director: Bob Clark
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A 25-year-old lawyer's wacky and anything-goes approach to criminal defence turns him into an overnight media sensation. Convinced of the innocence of his client, this young lawyer would stand on his head to obtain an acquittal.
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59%
from 26 members
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1984
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack
Director: Michael Radford
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A fine and stunning screen adaptation of Orwell's prophetic 1948 novel about a world in which the government completely controls the masses by controlling their thoughts, altering history and even changing the meaning of words to suit its needs. This was Richard Burton's final film.
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63%
from 5,191 members
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The Black Cauldron
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Nigel Hawthorne, John Hurt, Freddie Jones
Director: Richard Rich, Ted Berman
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Young would-be warrior Taran searches for the titular magic vessel, lest it fall into the dastardly hands of the evil Horned King and allow him to summon an army of the undead. Fortunately, assisting in his quest are a feisty princess, the furry, friendly Gurgi, and psychic pig Hen Wen. Unusually ..read more »
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from 2,736 members
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The Osterman Weekend
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Dennis Hopper
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Once a year John Tanner spends a long weekend with his three best friends from college. When he is approached by a CIA agent who has evidence proving that his three pals are actually spy's working with the Soviet Union, he reluctantly allows, his house to be wired with video surveillance equipment ..read more »
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53%
from 485 members
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Night Crossing
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: John Hurt, Beau Bridges
Director: Delbert Mann
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The true story of two families fleeing from Communist East Germany to the West in their hand-crafted hot-air balloon.
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57%
from 118 members
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The Plague Dogs
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: John Hurt, Christopher Benjamin, James Bolam
Director: Martin Rosen
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THE PLAGUE DOGS is a fine animated feature from the same group of artists who created WATERSHIP DOWN. The story centers around two dogs who escape from an animal research center, only to be wrongly suspected of carrying a deadly plague. The film features the voices of John Hurt, Judy Geeson, James ..read more »
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from 407 members
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The Naked Civil Servant
(1981)
Starring: John Hurt
Director: Jack Gold
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Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.A biographical film, based on the real life of an Englishman who lived in London. Quentin Crisp, who introduces the film, is an effeminate homosexual, a flamboyant and witty ..read more »
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73%
from 1,040 member
Not available for rental
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The Elephant Man
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft
Director: David Lynch
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David Lynch brings his own dreamlike style to the heartbreaking yet somehow uplifting story of John Merrick (John Hurt), a hideously deformed individual dubbed the Elephant Man during his years in a circus freak show in Victorian England. After suffering for years at the hands of his circus "master,..read more »
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Elephant Man, The - BLU-RAY Version
(1980)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft
Director: David Lynch
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David Lynch brings his own dreamlike style to the heartbreaking yet somehow uplifting story of John Merrick (John Hurt), a hideously deformed individual dubbed the Elephant Man during his years in a circus freak show in Victorian England. After suffering for years at the hands of his circus "master,..read more »
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from 111 members
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Elephant Man, The - HD DVD Version
(1980)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft
Director: David Lynch
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David Lynch brings his own dreamlike style to the heartbreaking yet somehow uplifting story of John Merrick (John Hurt), a hideously deformed individual dubbed the Elephant Man during his years in a circus freak show in Victorian England. After suffering for years at the hands of his circus "master,..read more »
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79%
from 257 members
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Alien
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerritt
Director: Ridley Scott
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Director Ridley Scott's breakthough film, an immensely successful blend of horror and science fiction, is a classic in both genres and spawned a host of sequels and imitators. Starring Sigourney Weaver as warrant officer Ellen Ripley, ALIEN focuses on the crew of the space cargo ship Nostromo, ..read more »
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77%
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Watership Down
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Ralph Richardson
Director: Martin Rosen
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In this animated adaptation of Richard Adams's classic novel, a family of rabbits face danger as they search for a new home and personal freedom. WATERSHIP DOWN, featuring the vocal talents of Sir Ralph Richardson, John Hurt, and others, is a highly regarded family film, but it's not necessarily ..read more »
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from 5,538 members
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The Shout
(1978)
Starring: Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
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A macabre tale about a man who claims he has the power to kill using a horrifying 'death shout'. A composer and his wife agree to letting the man stay, since the husband wishes ..read more »
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from 187 members
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Midnight Express
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt
Director: Alan Parker
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Based on William Hayes's autobiography, MIDNIGHT EXPRESS tells the harrowing story of a young American tourist arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison by Turkish authorities for trying to smuggle two kilos of hashish out of the country. Billy (Brad Davis), suffering through the harsh realities ..read more »
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73%
from 4,542 members
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Lord Of The Rings
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Christopher Guard, William Squire, John Hurt
Director: Ralph Bakshi
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Ralph Bakshi's animated adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's revered Middle-earth saga captures the dark mood of the books extraordinarily well. The film covers the first half of the trilogy--THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING and the earlier part of THE TWO TOWERS--as Frodo (voiced by Christopher Guard), the ..read more »
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Midnight Express - BLU-RAY Version
(1978)
Starring: Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt
Director: Alan Parker
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Based on William Hayes's autobiography, MIDNIGHT EXPRESS tells the harrowing story of a young American tourist arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison by Turkish authorities for trying to smuggle two kilos of hashish out of the country. Billy (Brad Davis), suffering through the harsh realities ..read more »
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73%
from 175 members
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The Disappearance
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Donald Sutherland, John Hurt, David Hemmings
Director: Stuart Cooper
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A hired assassin's wife goes missing, and when he is hired to carry out a 'hit' by a mysterious organisation, he becomes suspicious that the two events are not unconnected. THE DISAPPEARANCE features fine acting and direction.
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from 96 members
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I Claudius
(5 discs)
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Brian Blessed, John Hurt, Derek Jacobi
Director: Herbert Wise
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Hebert Wise's epic 13-part miniseries is packaged here in a special collector's set. Follow the lives and stories of the last of the Roman emperors, as they ruthlessly wield their power through murder and debauchery. The tales are witnessed and related by Claudius (Derek Jacobi), whose physical ..read more »
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from 2,606 members
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Mr Forbush And The Penguins
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: John Hurt, Hayley Mills, Dudley Sutton
Director: Al Viola
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JOHN HURT stars as Richard Forbush, biologist and womaniser who outlook on life is changed when he is sent to Antarctica to study the penguins. Alone apart from a radio telephone link and thousands of birds, Forbush has to battle to survive when a blizzard hits hard.
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58%
from 165 members
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10 Rillington Place
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Richard Attenborough, John Hurt, Judy Geeson
Director: Richard Fleischer
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London, 1944. John Reginald Christie (Richard Attenborough) is digging in his backyard when he comes across a woman's leg. Without being bothered at all, he covers up the leg and continues to bury the woman he just strangled in his kitchen. Three years later, Timothy Evans (John Hurt), along with ..read more »
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from 1,899 member
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A Man For All Seasons
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Robert Shaw, Paul Scofield, Orson Welles
Director: Fred Zinnemann
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A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, based on Robert Bolt's stage play, is an excellent biographical drama about the conflicts faced by Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield) when King Henry VIII (Robert Shaw) asks him to break with Rome and grant him a divorce. The film is a powerful, cerebral story, supported by an ..read more »
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from 3,969 members
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Who Killed Tutankhamun?
on DVD
Starring: John Hurt, Greg Cooper, Mike King
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John Hurt narrates this modern-day investigation into the death of the 18-year-old pharaoh Tutankhamun who died in January 1323 BC. The case was re-opened by former FBI agents Greg Cooper and Mike King, who used modern-day techniques - such as crime-scene analysis, x-ray and criminal profiling - to ..read more »
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53%
from 54 members
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British Artists' Films - William Raban
on DVD
Starring: John Hurt
Director: William Raban
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Features five films created by the artist William Raban exploring the properties of film and his immediate surroundings: 'Thames Barrier', 'Fergus Walking', 'A13', 'MM' and 'Thames Film'.
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D-Day In Colour
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Starring: John Hurt
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From the makers of BRITAIN AT WAR IN COLOUR comes D-DAY IN COLOUR. Narrated by John Hurt, this documentary uses stunning, revealing yet rarely seen colour footage from 1944. Features personal stories from the families at home to the men in combat, with an immense job to do and perhaps the ultimate ..read more »
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Champions
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Starring: John Hurt, Edward Woodward
Director: John Irvin
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When British jocky Bob Champion is struck down with cancer in the prime of his career, his desire to live is determined by a single promise; on successful recovery he will ride jump prospect Aldaniti in the 1981 Grand National...John Hurt gives a truly stunning performance as Bob Champion in this ..read more »
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Whaledreamers
Starring: Julian Lennon, Jack Thompson, John Hurt
Director: Kim Kindersley
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"Whaledreamers"--the title alone conjures up hypnotic visions of these most magnificent and ancient creatures. This visually stunning film offers an incredible glimpse into a rarely seen and scarcely understood tribal culture whose entire story of creation revolves around whales and has endured for ..read more »
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Short Order
Starring: Emma De Caunes, Jack Dee, Vincent Fegan
Director: Anthony Byrne
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Fifi Koko, a young chef prodigy, falls prey to an existential quagmire that fears her talent shall not overcome the expectations her reputation has sown. The late hours bring about a colorful cast of strangers and romances that feed her with temptation, insight and humor on the path of her life-..read more »
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Hellboy - BLU-RAY Version
Starring: Ron Perlman, John Hurt, Selma Blair
Director: Guillermo del Toro
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Based on the comic book series by Mike Mignola, Guillermo del Toro's gleefully eccentric film follows the supernatural adventures of Hellboy (Ron Perlman), a cigar-chomping, horn-filing demonic hero enlisted by an occult scholar (John Hurt) to fight evil in the Bureau of Paranormal Research and ..read more »
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The Shout
to Watch Now
(1978)
Starring: Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
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Run time: 86 minutes
A macabre tale about a man who believes he has the power to kill with a horrifying death shout. He tells his tale to a composer (John Hurt) who becomes obsessed with harnessing the man's strange powers.
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Must See Movie 10 October 2004
...uffers the brutalising experience of life in a Turkish jail, although I thought John Hurt just about stole the acting honours....
An Unforgettable Experience 12 July 2004
