John Mortimer Movies

Period Drama. The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930's went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.

A young female designer is on the brink of an affair with a married male executive at the company where she works. The film tells the story of their...

Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.

German adaptation of The Dock Brief

Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the...

John Mortimer's play about the tangled love life of an East London pub landlord.

Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife...

Film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's debut novel, 'Mary'.

A clergyman noted for his support of left-wing causes, leaves his considerable estate to a Conservative member of parliament. Adaptation of the novel...

A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate...

An irreverent barrister chooses to defend a young Jamaican boy accused of stabbing on the same day his only son leaves for college in America.

A look at the history of British B-movies.

John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.

A dentist discovers his wife on the verge of having an affair with another man - a rival dentist

Francesca's upbringing has been sheltered, but her fiancé isn't slow to realise that his future mother-in-law is in a very lucrative line of...

An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an...

A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.