David M. Thompson Movies

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....

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

From his quirky compositions for the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone to his sublime musical contributions to director Roland Joffé's...

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....

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...

A documentary feature offering a general introduction to the work of the painter J.M.W. Turner.

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 college lecturer contracts HIV after having a brief affair with one of his students. The news threatens his marriage and family life.

After an audacious jewellery robbery the whole James family heads for home on the run with the obsessive detective Julia Armstrong in hot pursuit.

Antonia Bird's first feature length film; "Safe" from 1993, focused on the plight of the homeless in London.

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...

Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house....

Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.

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...

Members of a British opera troupe mount a production of "Sweeney Todd" within a maximum-security prison.

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...

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...

Very insightful BBC documentary about Paul Verhoeven, tracking his career up to Showgirls. The programme focuses on talks with Verhoeven, but also...

A sweet-natured charity worker finds his life turned upside down, when he falls in love with a mysterious woman.

An undertaker forms an awkward bond with the daughter of a man he has to bury.