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...
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...
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...
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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...
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