David M. Thompson Movies

A young teacher returns to the children’s care home where he grew up, and becomes involved with the lives of the troubled teenage children.

Steve Coogan, an arrogant actor with low self-esteem and a complicated love life, is playing the eponymous role in an adaptation of "The Life and...

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

Paul Reynolds is a Gatsby-like figure: owner of a magnificent house, the host of great parties, and a collector of interesting people. He persuades...

A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known,...

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

Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a...

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...

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....

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 BAFTA award winning documentary looking at Monet's work in London, particularly with the development of the theme of the dispersion of light by...

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

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...

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

Vadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will...

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

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

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

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