David M. Thompson Movies

The host of a British Shock-TV Show blurs the line between show business and life.

A nation wracked with civil war and social unrest anticipates a giant charity concert, organized by deceptive promoter Uncle Sweetheart, who plans on...

Twenty year-old student Peter Fraiman falls asleep in 1975 a happy man, having asked his girlfriend to marry him. But when he wakes up, it's 1995; he...

The Amazonian jungle, Brazil, 1987. Ruthless landowners are evicting peasants from their land. The peasants look to the priest for help, and are...

A comic drama set on a Mediterranean island, where a motley collection of characters is seeking musical redemption.

Documentary about Vittorio Storaro, cinematographer of Apocalypse Now, The Last Emperor, Reds, Il Confimista, 1900. Vittorio Storaro talks about his...

A morality tale of xenophobia, religious prejudice, mob violence, poverty, and their effect on two children in Liverpool during the Depression. When...

Brendan is an earnest, introverted schoolteacher who, aside from his participation in the local choir, has only one passion in his life -- the...

Peter O'Toole stars as the complex, funny, charming, and hard-drinking Jeffrey Bernard in this live performance at the Old Vic Theatre in London.

A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.

Join an American couple’s courageous mission in 1939 to help refugees escape Nazi-occupied Europe. Over the course of two years, the pair will...

Five black men in South Africa end up in jail - for crimes which range from shooting a security policeman to sleeping with a white boss's wife. What...

A play based on the friendship between CS Lewis and Joy Gresham.

A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tension wires outside Sheffield. Ray's crew of men are...

Dramatizations and actual archival film footage and photographs combine to relate the life of American composer Charles Ives and to document the...

The first major profile of the great British film director Nicolas Roeg, examining his very personal vision of cinema as in such films as Don't Look...

A drama of intrigue and betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Stepan grows up in an orphanage, learning to love Stalin as 'a father to all children'. He...

A profile of the film director Roberto Rossellini, looking at his life, personality and films, following his career and his relationship with Ingrid...

An exploration into the history of Shakespeare's plays, from the silent era to the modern day featuring archive interviews with movie directors...

A documentary feature that attempts to approach the meaning of Francis Bacon's vision of the human predicament, without using words, just solely...