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John Boorman - what members say


  • Deliverance
  • Deliverance review by eando from London
    Rated - 4 stars Superb thriller 21 February 2005
    ...at they all underestimate is that while the landscape may look very pretty (and John Boorman's direction does a fantastic job of this) it is as wildly unforgiving as it is ...  
  • Zardoz
  • Zardoz review by philphull from Co. Antrim
    Rated - 4 stars John Boorman You A Legend! 12 March 2005
    ...running commentary/documentary is second to none, listening to the man himself "John Boorman" talk about this film some very interesting facts that you otherwise would not ...  
  • Point Blank
  • Point Blank review by Death Fish II from between the land and the sky
    Rated - 5 stars One of the best of the 60s 2 November 2005
    ...excellent in this as the cold, relentless and unstoppable Walker. Credit too to John Boorman's stylish direction; never has a scene so simple as a man walking down a corrid...  

John Boorman - filmography


  • The Tiger's Tail on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Brendan Gleeson,  Kim Cattrall,  Ciarán Hinds
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: 18
    Dublin property developer Liam O’Leary (Gleeson) gets the shock of his life when his exact double starts to follow him around. The sinister stranger begins posing as Liam both at home and at work, and Liam must struggle to prove his own identity as everyone assumes he is his criminal double.
    Rate this: 2.5 55% from 285 members
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  • The General (1998)
    Starring: Brendan Gleeson,  Adrian Dunbar,  Sean McGinley
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: TBC
    A story of Chahill's life of crime exposing his deep-seated resentment and open defiance of all authority with his relentless battle with the Irish police force. He over-reaches himself when he and his gang (Adrain Dunbar, Sean McGinley) steal paintings belonging to the Beit collection. Cahill and ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 71% from 81 members
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  • The General on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Brendan Gleeson,  Adrian Dunbar,  Sean McGinley
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: 15
    Brendan Gleeson stars as Martin Cahill, the leading Irish criminal of the 1980s. A protean figure, Cahill was a man of extraordinary intelligence, obsessive secretiveness, and vicious brutality who was never stopped by the Irish police despite having pocketed more than $60 million of other people's ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 73% from 381 members
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  • Where The Heart Is on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Dabney Coleman,  Uma Thurman,  Christopher Plummer
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: 15
    Dabney Coleman stars as demolition contractor Stewart McBain in director John Boorman's WHERE THE HEART IS, a Capra-esque fable that harkens back to the populist comedies of the 1930s. When an architectural conservation group legally thwarts McBain's plans to vaporise the ageing Dutch House ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 47% from 197 members
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  • The Emerald Forest on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Powers Boothe,  Charley Boorman,  Meg Foster
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: 15
    Set in Brazil, John Boorman's The Emerald Forest is the search of one man for his kidnapped seven year old son taken by a tribe of Amazon Indians. Ten years later, he finally locates his son and discovers that the boy's way of life is far superior to his own and that the dam he is working on will ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 65% from 240 members
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  • Excalibur on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Nicol Williamson,  Nigel Terry,  Helen Mirren
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: 15
    Director John Boorman's passionate adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's LE MORTE D'ARTHUR stars Nigel Terry as the faithful King Arthur. Necromancer Merlin (Nicol Williamson) offers the magic sword Excalibur to the warlike Uther Pendragon (Gabriel Byrne) in exchange for a promise that he'll make peace ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 67% from 1,373 members
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  • Zardoz on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Charlotte Rampling,  Sara Kestelman
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: 15
    When Sean Connery abandoned the James Bond series to seek out new challenges, he turned to director John Boorman's sci-fi project, ZARDOZ. Connery stars as Zed, one of a carefully bred race of supervisors, the Exterminators, who oversee the agricultural labour of the neanderthal Brutals, since in ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 56% from 198 members
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  • Deliverance on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Jon Voight,  Burt Reynolds,  Ned Beatty
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: 18
    Director John Boorman's adaptation of James Dickey's best-selling novel stars Burt Reynolds as the hypermasculine Lewis Medlock. Obsessed with Hemingway-vintage notions about achieving true masculinity by challenging nature, Lewis cajoles three of his friends, Bobby Trippe (Ned Beatty), Drew ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 72% from 2,962 members
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  • Hell In The Pacific on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Lee Marvin,  Toshiro Mifune
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: PG
    Director John Boorman's typical bravado is somewhat muted in this WWII parable. Set in the Pacific in 1944, the film focuses on two combatants stranded on the same barren atoll: a Japanese naval officer (Toshiro Mifune) and a U.S. marine pilot (Lee Marvin). At first the two men warily stalk each ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 66% from 255 members
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  • Point Blank (1967)
    Starring: Lee Marvin,  Angie Dickinson,  Keenan Wynn
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: TBC
    A man is shot and left for dead by his unfaithful wife and her mobster lover. Now he's back and out for revenge against the businessmen and mobsters who did him wrong.
    Rate this: 4.0 79% from 201 members
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John Boorman - downloads


  • Zardoz for Download (1974)
    Starring: Charlotte Rampling,  Sara Kestelman,  Sean Connery
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: 15
    Rent from: £2.99
    Buy from: £5.99
    Run time: 101 minutes
    When Sean Connery abandoned the James Bond series to seek out new challenges, he turned to director John Boorman's sci-fi project, ZARDOZ. Connery stars as Zed, one of a carefully bred race of supervisors, the Exterminators, who oversee the agricultural labour of the neanderthal Brutals, since in ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.0 40% from 1 members
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  • The General for Download (1925)
    Starring: Buster Keaton,  Glen Cavender,  Marion Mack
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: 15
    Buy from: £2.99
    Run time: 119 minutes
    Consistently ranked as one of the greatest comedies of all time. Set during the Civil War and based on a true incident, train engineer Keaton gives the Union raiders quite a chase. His engine figures prominently, in one of the most harrowing and hilarious chase scenes ever filmed. Featuring a new ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 65% from 4 members
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  • The Tailor Of Panama for Download
    Starring: Pierce Brosnan,  Geoffrey Rush,  Jamie Lee Curtis
    Director: John Boorman
    Certificate: 15
    Rent from: £2.99
    Run time: 105 minutes
    Based on the novel by John LeCarre, this is the story of British spy, Andrew Osnard, who is banished to Panama. Whilst their he meets up with Harry Pendel, a local Tailor, who has connections to all the top politicians in Panama. Osnard persuades Pendel to keep an eye on the comings and going in ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.0 60% from 27 members
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John Boorman facts

5 most recent films


The Tiger's Tail - 2.5 stars
In My Country - 3.0 stars
The Tailor Of Panama - 3.0 stars
The General - 3.5 stars
The General - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films


Point Blank - 4.0 stars
The General - 3.5 stars
The General - 3.5 stars
Hope And Glory - 3.5 stars
Deliverance - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films


Exorcist 2 - The Heretic - 2.5 stars
Where The Heart Is - 2.5 stars
Zardoz - 2.5 stars
Catch Us If You Can - 2.5 stars
The Tiger's Tail - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars


Brendan Gleeson - 6 times - show films
Sean McGinley - 3 times - show films
Leonor Varela - 2 times - show films
Sara Kestelman - 2 times - show films
Adrian Dunbar - 2 times - show films