David M. Thompson Movies

As Christmas celebrations get under way, Britain is rocked by a deadly new food scare - "mad turkey disease".

After an audacious jewellery robbery the whole James family heads for home on the run with the obsessive detective Julia Armstrong in hot pursuit.

Martin Luther inspires a breakaway from the Roman Catholic church and is the founder of Protestantism.

Skagerrak is the story of being hit by happiness when you least expect it. In their late twenties and tired of partying their way around the world,...

Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house....

Adaptation of the novel by Gillian White. A drunken woman's children lock her in the sauna in an attempt to cure her of her alcoholism. The teenage...

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...

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.

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

The host of a British Shock-TV Show blurs the line between show business and life.

In this new documentary, Susan Kemp explores the life and work of the great British director Antonia Bird, who died in 2013. Bird blazed a trail from...

Documentary about the making of Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film "Notorious."

A young teacher returns to the children’s care home where he grew up, and becomes involved with the lives of the troubled teenage children.

Dramatizations and actual archival film footage and photographs combine to relate the life of American composer Charles Ives and to document the...

The story of Granada, the company responsible for Britain's most enduring soap opera Coronation Street, the current affairs series World in Action,...

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

A profile of the film director Roberto Rossellini, looking at his life, personality and films, following his career and his relationship with Ingrid...

Drama following the lives of three teenage boys sent to a young offenders' institution.

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...

Documentary profile of legendary dance choreographer Busby Berkeley.