Samuel Beckett Movies

Biography and in-depth look of Beckett and his work.

Winnie, a woman in her fifties, is buried waist-deep in a mound of scorched earth, with just a large, black shopping bag and a collapsed parasol....

Two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone or something named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road,...

An adaptation of Samuel Beckett's short play from 1965. Three women meet on a bench; they reminisce about their old school days and whisper terrible...

Follows the "Beckett on Film" project, which produced film adaptations of Samuel Beckett's nineteen plays.

A 69 year old man sits alone on his last birthday and listens to the past. KRAPPS LAST TAPE is an extraordinary study of mortality, creativity and...

A short film by Rosa von Praunheim

A hot, thirsty man in the desert is tormented when the things he needs drop from the sky only to disappear again or hover out of his reach.

A lonely man is taunted by the voice of a woman he once knew.

May, wrapped in tatters, paces back and forth engaging in conversation with the disembodied voice of her mother. In the second scene, May's voice...

A female voice identifies a lone man in a room. The shots cut closer, revealing he is holding a cassette recorder, playing Beethoven's "Ghost" Piano...

The first English broadcast of Eh, Joe? which aired on BBC2 on July 4th, 1966 with Jack MacGowran, for whom the play was specifically written,...

An experimental film based on Beckett: "The Trouble with tragedy is the fuss it makes about life and death and other tuppeny aches"

What makes a rebel? This 78 minute documentary probes the psyche of bad-boy publisher and free speech warrior Barney Rosset, whose mid-century legal...

Cloaked, cowled figures wander in patterns to rhythm instruments. First transmitted by the Süddeutscher Rundfunk in Germany on 8 October 1981....

An adaptation of the Beckett play

A lonely man is taunted by the voice of a woman he once knew.

A 69-year-old man sits alone on his birthday and listens to his past through the form of tape reels he has recorded throughout his life.

When it's sunset in Purgatory and dawn on the Ganges it's noon on the Irish Sea. Filmed on Killiney Hill outside Dublin with John Manning...

Nacht und Träume (Night and Dreams) is the last television play written and directed by Samuel Beckett and broadcast on 19th May 1983. It is a...