Samuel Beckett Movies

A female voice identifies a lone man in a room. The shots cut closer, revealing he is holding a cassette recorder, playing Beethoven's "Ghost" Piano...

The camera swoops down on a circular area, seemingly suspended in space. It is filled with medical waste and other trash. A labored exhalation is...

A lonely man is taunted by the voice of a woman he once knew.

Sitting alone on his 69th birthday, Krapp reflects upon the last 30 years of his life as he listens to an old tape recording of himself he made on...

An adaptation of Samuel Beckett's short play from 1965. Three women meet on a bench; they reminisce about their old school days and whisper terrible...

A one-woman play written by Samuel Beckett at the request of Daniel Labeille. The piece was produced by Labeille on behalf of the State University...

A hot, thirsty man in the desert is tormented when the things he needs drop from the sky only to disappear again or hover out of his reach.

Cloaked, cowled figures wander in patterns to rhythm instruments. First transmitted by the Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Germany on 8 October 1981....

The disembodied head of an old man with long white hair listens to three of his own voices: that of maturity, youth and old age.

The first English broadcast of Eh, Joe? which aired on BBC2 on July 4th, 1966 with Jack MacGowran, for whom the play was specifically written,...

When it's sunset in Purgatory and dawn on the Ganges it's noon on the Irish Sea. Filmed on Killiney Hill outside Dublin with John Manning...

Krapp’s Last Tape: James Hayes uses his natural Irish accent to deliver the best known of these works, a meditation on ageing. He plays the...

Two derelicts occupy themselves as they wait for 'Godot' to make an appearance on Pozzo's estate.

A lonely man is taunted by the voice of a woman he once knew.

Samuel Beckett directs for German television.

Somewhere sits two men, Vladimir and Estragon, waiting for a man named Godot. Internationally acclaimed Swedish TV dramatized version of the classic...

Samuel Beckett directs for German television for the last time.

Performed at the Royal Court Theatre on 16th January, 1973 Produced for the BBC in 1977 by Tristram Powell Directed by Anthony Page and Samuel...

Biography and in-depth look of Beckett and his work.