David M. Thompson Movies

A documentary profile on Quentin Tarantino broadcast by the BBC's "Omnibus" strand in 1994 to coincide with "Pulp Fiction" hitting UK cinemas.

A dreamer who aspires to human flight is assigned public service after one of his attempts off a public building. This leads him to meeting a young...

In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man...

In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from...

Eccentric 70-year-old widow purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety...

In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the...

Bill Nighy and Miranda Richardson star in a story of grief and celebrity, set in the intense spring and summer of New Labour's election victory and...

Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her...

After years of meticulous planning, a terrorist operation is reaching its final stages. The authorities have received no intelligence; they are in a...

Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film "Notorious."

Jonny dreams of leaving his dead-end job as a courier. Through his childhood best friend, nephew of the notorious crime lord Ray Kreed, he wins his...

Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin...

All grown up and gunning for political power in a small North Wales community, Glen Marcus and his best mate harbour a dark secret which seems to be...

A waitress falls for a handsome customer who seduces her, her two sisters, her brother, and her brother's girlfriend.

Adaptation of the novel by Gillian White. A drunken woman's children lock her in the sauna in an attempt to cure her of her alcoholism. The teenage...

Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.

Tells the story of a girl who, while working in a London cafe, meets a "raver" who introduces her to the drug Ecstasy and the whole British drugs...

A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.

The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.

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....