David M. Thompson Movies

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate...

The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris.

Belfast 1972: The politically naive Bernie is trying to bring up a normal family in less than normal surroundings. Her best friend is accidentally...

Tommy is a vacuum cleaner salesman gripped by the fever of closing the deal. He lives on puffa rice stored in his glove compartment, listens to...

Members of a British opera troupe mount a production of "Sweeney Todd" within a maximum-security prison.

Nick, is a young Scottish soccer player living in the big city. He meets Karen, and the two fall in love and move in together. Soon after, Nick...

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

Ricky is just out of a young offenders institute, heading home to Hackney and determined to go straight. Instead, he heads straight for trouble when...

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved,...

The first major profile of the great British film director Nicolas Roeg, examining his very personal vision of cinema as in such films as Don't Look...

Paul Reynolds is a Gatsby-like figure: owner of a magnificent house, the host of great parties, and a collector of interesting people. He persuades...

Four characters living in one neighborhood in London - all living dramatically different lives, all of them on the edge - see their stories unfold.

When Sunny and Tom are reunited shortly before their respective weddings, the former lovers realize how much they still love each other. The pair...

A gripping story of love, deceit, betrayal and survival set against the backdrop of the Miners' Strike of 1984-85. Michelle is married to Gary, a...

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

This movie is a contemporary UK vision of an age old story as epitomised by Shakespeare, but with two at odds relationships adding a layer of...

Donal is a 14-year old who develops a passion for greyhound racing. He works in a kennel, which is owned by Good Joe. Good Joe promises Donal...

In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man...

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

An exploration into the history of Shakespeare's plays, from the silent era to the modern day featuring archive interviews with movie directors...