David M. Thompson Movies

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

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...

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...

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

Newly arrived on a Burnley housing estate is twelve-year-old Chloe, who, with her alcoholic single mother and abusive older brother, has been...

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

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...

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

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

Released in 2006, British filmmaker Stephen Frears' "The Queen" dramatizes the brief but intense conflict between Prime Minister Tony Blair and...

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.

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...

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...

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

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

Documentary profile of legendary dance choreographer Busby Berkeley.

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.

Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.

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...