David M. Thompson Movies
- 1987
Road
Road6.81987HD
A view of the inhabitants of a derelict road in Manchester, unsatisfied with their lives and routines. A young man locks himself away from the world....
- 1979
Are My Ears on Wrong?: A Profile of Charles Ives
Are My Ears on Wrong?: A Profile of Charles Ives01979HD
Dramatizations and actual archival film footage and photographs combine to relate the life of American composer Charles Ives and to document the...
- 1995
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone61995HD
From his quirky compositions for the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone to his sublime musical contributions to director Roland Joffé's...
- 1998
A Rather English Marriage
A Rather English Marriage5.71998HD
A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night....
- 1998
The Student Prince
The Student Prince4.31998HD
The Queen's youngest son is off to university, mainly because "I'm hopeless at anything else". Barry, his new bodyguard, has no time for the royal...
- 1966
Turner
Turner01966HD
A documentary feature offering a general introduction to the work of the painter J.M.W. Turner.
- 2015
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...
Nicolas Roeg: It's About Time...52015HD
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...
- 1988
Sweet As You Are
Sweet As You Are11988HD
A college lecturer contracts HIV after having a brief affair with one of his students. The news threatens his marriage and family life.
- 1997
The James Gang
The James Gang51997HD
After an audacious jewellery robbery the whole James family heads for home on the run with the obsessive detective Julia Armstrong in hot pursuit.
- 1993
Safe
Safe51993HD
Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the homeless in London.
- 1974
Monet in London
Monet in London01974HD
A BAFTA award winning documentary looking at Monet's work in London, particularly with the development of the theme of the dispersion of light by...
- 1996
Lord of Misrule
Lord of Misrule01996HD
Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house....
- 1993
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II101993HD
Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.
- 1996
A Relative Stranger
A Relative Stranger41996HD
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...
- 2002
Tomorrow La Scala!
Tomorrow La Scala!02002HD
Members of a British opera troupe mount a production of "Sweeney Todd" within a maximum-security prison.
- 1986
Asinamali
Asinamali01986HD
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...
- 2000
Summer in the Suburbs
Summer in the Suburbs02000HD
After the body of a 14-year-old girl is found in a field, detective Ted Lyle and his wife Sandra are among local parents caught up in a wave of fear...
- 1996
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood
Paul Verhoeven: From Holland to Hollywood5.21996HD
Very insightful BBC documentary about Paul Verhoeven, tracking his career up to Showgirls. The programme focuses on talks with Verhoeven, but also...
- 2009
Love Hate
Love Hate82009HD
A sweet-natured charity worker finds his life turned upside down, when he falls in love with a mysterious woman.
- 2005
The Undertaker
The Undertaker62005HD
An undertaker forms an awkward bond with the daughter of a man he has to bury.