John Mortimer Movies

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

This adaptation of Laurie Lee's autobiographical novel follows a young man's maturation in the country town of Gloucestershire near the end of World...

Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a...

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...

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...

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

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

Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao...

Touching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's...

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

A docudramatisation of the 1960 obscenity trial in the United Kingdom of Penguin Books for publishing D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.

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...

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

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...

After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall is given the case of defending Herbert Fowle who is accused of murdering his...

An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house

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

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...

This hilarious one-act play by John Mortimer (creator of Rumpole of the Bailey) is the story of a highly incompetent lawyer preparing to defend a man...