David M. Thompson Movies

A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.

In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the...

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

A comic drama set on a Mediterranean island, where a motley collection of characters is seeking musical redemption.

Pobby & Dingan are invisible. They live in an opal town in Australia and are friends with Kellyanne, the 9 year-old daughter of an opal miner. The...

Released in 2006, British filmmaker Stephen Frears' "The Queen" dramatizes the brief but intense conflict between Prime Minister Tony Blair and...

Jane Austen is about to turn 40, but she still hasn't found her ideal man. When Jane is approached by her niece Fanny and asked to help select the...

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...

A college lecturer contracts HIV after having a brief affair with one of his students. The news threatens his marriage and family life.

The story of Polish pedagogue Janusz Korczak and his dedication to protecting Jewish orphans during the war.

A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night....

Torn straight from the headlines, Michael Winterbottom's compelling and prescient 'In This World' follows young Afghan Jamal and his older cousin...

A sweet-natured charity worker finds his life turned upside down, when he falls in love with a mysterious woman.

An Irish-Italian café owner in a seaside town faces a life crisis, as his wife recently died and he's severely in debt. His oldest son tries...

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...

Brendan is an earnest, introverted schoolteacher who, aside from his participation in the local choir, has only one passion in his life -- the...

Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir.

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 powerful one-off drama written by Rosemary Kay , winner of the BBC's Dennis Potter award for new screenwriting. Sadie and Richie MacGregor are...

A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tension wires outside Sheffield. Ray's crew of men are...