Cinematography: Peter Hannan

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Peter Hannan. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

1983 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Jones · Terry Gilliam

Cast Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Eric Idle

Plot Why are we here, what's it all about? The Monty Python-team is trying to sort out the most important question on Earth: what is the meaning of life? They do...

7.4

28K votes

7.4

28K votes

Egypt (TV Series)

2005 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ferdinand Fairfax

Cast Andrew Sachs · Stuart Graham · Julian Wadham · Caroline Langrishe

Plot BBC television drama serial about various archaeological discoveries taking place in that Egypt's history, with the occasional 'flashback' scene involving actors portraying the ancient Egyptians themselves.

7.0

38 votes

7.0

38 votes

Withnail and I

1987 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bruce Robinson

Cast Richard E. Grant · Paul McGann · Richard Griffiths · Ralph Brown

Plot Two young actors - Withnail and Marwood - share a crummy London flat and are hunting vainly for work, with little luck. Withnail persuades his rich and eccentric uncle Monty...

Max

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Longitude (TV Miniseries)

2000 · Movie · 250 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast Michael Gambon · Jeremy Irons · Bill Nighy · Brian Cox

Plot In the 18th century, the only way to navigate accurately at sea was to follow a coastline all the way, which would not get you from Europe to the West...

6.8

28 votes

6.8

28 votes

The Gathering Storm (TV)

2002 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Richard Loncraine

Cast Albert Finney · Vanessa Redgrave · Jim Broadbent · Linus Roache

Plot The Story about famous british conservative politician and statesman Winston Churchill in the years leading up to World War II. A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage...

Max

6.5

448 votes

6.5

448 votes

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

1987 · Movie · 115 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Clayton

Cast Bob Hoskins · Maggie Smith · Wendy Hiller · Marie Kean

Plot She falls in love with a broken down former NYC hotel doorman, who tells Judith vaguely that he was in the hotel business.

6.2

167 votes

6.2

167 votes

Dance With a Stranger

1985 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Mike Newell

Cast Miranda Richardson · Rupert Everett · Ian Holm · Matthew Carroll

Plot On July 13, 1955, Ruth Ellis became the last woman to be hanged in England. With a smart, tough little script by Shelagh Delaney, Mike Newell's noir-ish film is a...

6.2

354 votes

6.2

354 votes

A Handful of Dust

1987 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Sturridge

Cast James Wilby · Kristin Scott Thomas · Anjelica Huston · Rupert Graves

Plot We see the detritus of an abandoned camp in South America and a main character's hallucination. Then, the story beings. Tony and Brenda Last, lord and lady, live on his...

6.0

123 votes

6.0

123 votes

Not Without my Daughter

1990 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Brian Gilbert

Cast Sally Field · Alfred Molina · Sheila Rosenthal · Roshan Seth

Plot In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual...

5.8

4K votes

5.8

4K votes

Half Moon Street

1986 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Bob Swaim

Cast Sigourney Weaver · Michael Caine · Patrick Newman · Faith Kent

Plot Dr. Lauren Slaughter is an American woman of considerable intellect, an expert on China who now lives in London, working for a "think tank." Unhappy with superiors who take credit...

5.8

750 votes

5.8

750 votes

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

1989 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bruce Robinson

Cast Richard E. Grant · Rachel Ward · Richard Wilson · Jacqueline Tong

Plot Dennis Dimbleby Bagley is a brilliant young advertising executive who can't come up with a slogan to sell a revolutionary new pimple cream. His obsessive worrying affects not only his...

5.7

151 votes

5.7

151 votes

The Razor’s Edge

1984 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction John Byrum

Cast Bill Murray · Theresa Russell · Denholm Elliott · Catherine Hicks

Plot Based on William Somerset Maugham's novel, THE RAZOR'S EDGE follows a young man's search for identity. After experiencing WWI, veteran Larry Darrell (Bill Murray) seeks spiritual peace and recovery. After...

5.7

348 votes

5.7

348 votes

Full Circle

1977 · Movie · 98 min. · Canada

Direction Richard Loncraine

Cast Mia Farrow · Keir Dullea · Tom Conti · Jill Bennett

Plot After the sudden accidental death of her small daughter, Julia Lofting, a wealthy American woman living in London, bolts her unhappy marriage and buys a house in Kensington which is...

5.6

175 votes

5.6

175 votes

Insignificance

1985 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Nicolas Roeg

Cast Michael Emil · Tony Curtis · Theresa Russell · Gary Busey

Plot Four 1950's cultural icons (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio and Senator Joseph MacCarthy) who conceivably could have met and probably didn't, fictionally do in this modern fable of post-WWII...

5.4

246 votes

5.4

246 votes

Dough

2015 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Goldschmidt

Cast Jonathan Pryce · Philip Davis · Ian Hart · Malachi Kirby

Plot An old Jewish baker struggles to keep his business afloat until his young Muslim apprentice drops cannabis in the dough and sends sales sky high.

5.3

546 votes

5.3

546 votes

The Stud

1978 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Quentin Masters

Cast Joan Collins · Oliver Tobias · Sue Lloyd · Mark Burns

Plot Fontaine Khaled is the wife of a wealthy but boring businessman. She spends his money on her nightclub, the hobo, and partying. She hires a manager, Tony, to run her...

4.8

24 votes

4.8

24 votes

Absolutely Anything

2015 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terry Jones

Cast Simon Pegg · Kate Beckinsale · Sanjeev Bhaskar · Rob Riggle

Plot ‘Sci-fi farce’ features Monty Python's Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, Michael Palin and John Cleese voicing aliens who are able to give humans the power to do ‘absolutely anything.’ The story...

4.8

3K votes

4.8

3K votes

Club Paradise

1986 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Harold Ramis

Cast Robin Williams · Peter O'Toole · Rick Moranis · Twiggy

Plot Injured while risking his life to save an angry German shepard, Chicago Firefighter Jack Moniker retires and moves to a small carribean island named St. Nicholas. There, he is befriended...

4.2

461 votes

4.2

461 votes

Eskimo Nell

1975 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Martin Campbell

Cast Michael Armstrong · Terence Edmond · Christopher Timothy · Roy Kinnear

Plot Three young men, a scriptwriter, a producer and a director are called in by Benny U Murdoch, an exotic movie producer. He wants to make a new erotic movie starring...

Not rated

Not rated

The Missionary

1982 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Loncraine

Cast Michael Palin · Maggie Smith · Trevor Howard · Denholm Elliott

Plot In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to...

Not rated

Not rated