John Mortimer Movies

A successful lawyer struck with blindness in middle age continues his battles in the courtroom with the assistance of his family. As his son deals...

German adaptation of The Dock Brief

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the...

These dueling one-act comedies highlight the work of playwright John Mortimer. In "The Dock Brief," an ill-prepared attorney is put to the test when...

Attractive Julia Swinton is a middle-aged woman. Her life went normally and without big occurrences. But through the unexplained death of a familiar...

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.

This play is about a couple trying to overcome the problems in making a successfull clandestine assignation. It was one of a series of playlets by...