John Hurt

All the Little Animals 1998

Bobby Platt is a mentally slow young man who escapes an abusive, hateful stepfather who has killed his pets one by one. To save himself, Bobby runs away and meets a strange old man who wanders the highways to bury roadkill animals. Bobby becomes the old man's apprentice and learns to see the world of nature in a strange idyllic way.

Category: Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Stars: John Hurt, Christian Bale, Daniel Benzali

6.7 IMDB Rating 396 Views
Owning Mahowny 2003

A bank manager with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multimillion dollar account gets into a messy situation. Based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history.

Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, John Hurt

7.0 IMDB Rating 508 Views
New Blood 1999

A shot criminal son comes to his dad for the first time in years to offer him a deal. Before the night is over, bodies are scattered everywhere. The hospitalized dad tells two cops what happened.

Category: Action, Thriller

Stars: John Hurt, Nick Moran, Carrie-Anne Moss

5.3 IMDB Rating 823 Views
Heaven’s Gate 1980

During the Johnson County War in 1890 Wyoming, a sheriff born into wealth does his best to protect immigrant farmers from rich cattle interests.

Category: Adventure, Drama, Western

Stars: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt

6.7 IMDB Rating 977 Views
Wild Bill 1995

The early career of legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickock is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane.

Category: Action, Biography, Drama

Stars: Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin, John Hurt

5.8 IMDB Rating 1,267 Views
1984 1984

In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.

Category: Drama, Sci-Fi

Stars: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton

7.1 IMDB Rating 1,202 Views
Human Planet 2011

A cinematic experience bringing you the most amazing human stories in the world. Humans and wildlife surviving in the most extreme environments on Earth

Category: Documentary

Stars: John Hurt, Roger Munns

9.0 IMDB Rating 1,659 Views
The Storyteller 1987–1989

An old storyteller tells European folk tales to his sarcastic dog.

Category: Adventure, Drama, Family

Stars: John Hurt, Brian Henson, Frederick Warder

8.8 IMDB Rating 7,321 Views
The Elephant Man 1980

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft

8.2 IMDB Rating 5,491 Views
The Skeleton Key 2005

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

Category: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Kate Hudson, Gena Rowlands, John Hurt, Peter Sarsgaard

6.5 IMDB Rating 7,042 Views
The Oxford Murders 2008

At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.

Category: Crime, Horror, Mystery

Stars: Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling

6.1 IMDB Rating 4,137 Views
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 2011

In the early 1970s during the Cold War, the head of British Intelligence, Control, resigns after an operation in Budapest, Hungary goes badly wrong. It transpires that Control believed one of four senior figures in the service was in fact a Russian agent - a mole - and the Hungary operation was an attempt to identify which of them it was. Smiley had been forced into retirement by the departure of Control, but is asked by a senior government figure to investigate a story told to him by a rogue agent, Ricky Tarr, that there was a mole. Smiley considers that the failure of the Hungary operation and the continuing success of Operation Witchcraft (an apparent source of significant Soviet intelligence) confirms this, and takes up the task of finding him.

Category: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Mark Strong,John Hurt,Zoltán Mucsi,Péter Kálloy Molnár

7.1 IMDB Rating 9,050 Views
Hellboy 2004

In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before a demon - Hellboy - has already been conjured. Joining the Allied forces, Hellboy eventually grows to adulthood, serving the cause of good rather than evil.

Category: Action, Fantasy

Stars: Ron Perlman,John Hurt,Selma Blair,Rupert Evans

6.8 IMDB Rating 12,992 Views
Hercules 2014

Having endured his legendary twelve labors, Hercules, the Greek demigod, has his life as a sword-for-hire tested when the King of Thrace and his daughter seek his aid in defeating a tyrannical warlord.

Category: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Stars: Dwayne Johnson, John Hurt, Ian McShane

6.0 IMDB Rating 15,213 Views
Immortals 2011

Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that can destroy humanity.

Category: Action, Drama, Fantasy

Stars: Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, John Hurt

6.0 IMDB Rating 10,754 Views
Merlin 2008–2012

These are the brand new adventures of Merlin, the legendary sorcerer as a young man, when he was just a servant to young Prince Arthur on the royal court of Camelot, who has soon become his best friend, and turned Arthur into a great king and a legend.

Category: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Stars: John Hurt, Colin Morgan, Bradley James

7.9 IMDB Rating 76,754 Views
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 2001

When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.

Category: Drama, Music, Romantic, War

Stars: Nicolas Cage, Penélope Cruz, John Hurt

5.9 IMDB Rating 5,190 Views
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984

After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is a city in Oceania, ruled by a party who has total control over all its citizens. Winston Smith is one of the bureaucrats, rewriting history in one of the departments. One day he commits the crime of falling in love with Julia. They try to escape Big Brother's listening and viewing devices, but, of course, nobody can really escape...

Category: Drama, Romantic, Sci-Fi

Stars: John Hurt,Richard Burton,Suzanna Hamilton,Cyril Cusack

7.2 IMDB Rating 6,467 Views
Flykt i natten 1982

In 1978 in East Germany two families, the Strelzyks and the Wetzels,make plans to escape the Communist East and flee to the West. Peter Strelzyk comes up with a daring idea to construct a homemade air balloon big enough to carry the two families across the East-West militarized border. The border between East and West Germany is heavily militarized, complete with watch towers, guard dogs, barbed-wire, alarms, sensors, search lights and patrols. Rumors have it that some areas of the militarized border are mined. The only chance of crossing the border is by air. The Strelzyks and the Wetzels commence their risky venture by purchasing lots of taffeta fabric and sewing it together with a sewing machine in the attic. Peter Strelzyk builds an experimental homemade hot air balloon burner. In 1979 when the balloon is ready Peter and his son test it but the Wetzel family becomes hesitant. The Strelzyks decide to go alone but bad weather causes the balloon to crash inside the Communist zone. The Strelzyks leave the crash area but the incriminating evidence litters the ground. They wonder if they will be able to evade the ensuing police investigation and whether they will be able to build another balloon for their next attempt. They also are determined to persuade the Wetzel family to maybe join them in their second try. That is,if the East German Communist secret police, the Stasi, won't get to them first.

Category: Drama, Family, History, Kids

Stars: John Hurt,Jane Alexander,Doug McKeon,Keith McKeon

6.4 IMDB Rating 4,114 Views
Watership Down 1978

Hoping to escape destruction by human developers and save their community, a colony of rabbits, led by Hazel and Fiver, seek out a safe place to set up a new warren.

Category: Adventure, Animation, Drama, Kids, Thriller

Stars: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Ralph Richardson

7.6 IMDB Rating 5,823 Views