Direction: Jack Gold

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Jack Gold. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Naked Civil Servant (TV)

1975 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Jack Gold

Cast John Hurt · Liz Gebhardt · Patricia Hodge · Stanley Lebor

Plot The life and times of Quentin Crisp, an outrageous and flamboyant homosexual, coming of age and growing into old age in conservative England.

7.1

113 votes

7.1

113 votes

Goodnight, Mister Tom (TV)

1998 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Gold

Cast John Thaw · Nick Robinson · Annabelle Apsion · Thomas Orange

Plot We're in an English village shortly before Dunkirk. "Mr. Tom" Oakley still broods over the death of his wife and small son while he was away in the navy during...

6.7

29 votes

6.7

29 votes

Escape from Sobibor (TV)

1987 · Movie · 119 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Rutger Hauer · Alan Arkin · Joanna Pacula · Hartmut Becker

Plot During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would never experience the...

6.5

805 votes

6.5

805 votes

Man Friday

1975 · Movie · 115 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Peter O'Toole · Richard Roundtree · Peter Cellier · Christopher Cabot

Plot Daniel Defoe's classic story of survival and heroism takes on a whole new perspective in this action-adventure tour de force. Peter O'Toole stars as Robinson Crusoe and Richard Rountree is...

6.2

256 votes

6.2

256 votes

The Tenth Man (TV)

1988 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Kristin Scott Thomas · Derek Jacobi · Cyril Cusack

Plot Based on the novel by Graham Greene of the same name, this is a story of a French advocate Chavel who, while imprisoned by the Germans during the occupation, trades...

6.2

234 votes

6.2

234 votes

Little Lord Fauntleroy

1980 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Rick Schroder · Alec Guinness · Eric Porter · Colin Blakely

Plot Ceddie, Earl of Dorincourt's only grandson and heir lives in America with his mother. The Earl, getting old, asks them to come to England. Ceddie, now Lord Fauntleroy, is an...

6.2

187 votes

6.2

187 votes

Who?

1973 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Elliott Gould · Trevor Howard · Joseph Bova · Ed Grover

Plot The kill machine with the megaton mind.

6.0

55 votes

6.0

55 votes

The Medusa Touch

1978 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Richard Burton · Lino Ventura · Lee Remick · Harry Andrews

Plot The Medusa Touch is the fantastic story of a middle age English man tormented by the terrifying revelation, he is responsible for the the world's disasters. Richard Burton gives an...

6.0

398 votes

6.0

398 votes

Catholics (TV)

1973 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Trevor Howard · Martin Sheen · Raf Vallone · Cyril Cusack

Plot In the near future, the Catholic church has joined with other western religions in an ecumenical movement that has washed out much of the original message of the religion. A...

5.7

81 votes

5.7

81 votes

Aces High

1976 · Movie · 114 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Malcolm McDowell · Christopher Plummer · Simon Ward · Peter Firth

Plot A naive young officer straight from school arrives on the Western front to fight the air war against the Germans. However, the life expectancy of green pilots is not very...

5.6

136 votes

5.6

136 votes

The Return of the Native (TV)

1994 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Catherine Zeta-Jones · Clive Owen · Joan Plowright · Ray Stevenson

Plot Based on the classic novel written by Thomas Hardy, this is the tragic story of Eustacia Vye, a beautiful young woman who feels trapped by her environment.

5.3

48 votes

5.3

48 votes

The National Health

1973 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Lynn Redgrave · Colin Blakely · Eleanor Bron · Donald Sinden

Plot A hospital is filled with wacky staff members and patients, and the film strives to get all it can from their humorous escapades.

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Red Monarch

1983 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Carroll Baker · Virginia Balfour · Colin Blakely · George A. Cooper

Plot About Stalin's inner circle who he starts seeing as untrustworthy.

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Sakharov (TV)

1984 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Jason Robards · Glenda Jackson · Nicol Williamson · Frank Finlay

Plot Biography of Russian physicist & dissident Andrei Sakharov focuses on his first acts in his civil rights movement to his receiving the Nobel Peace prize.

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The Reckoning

1969 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Nicol Williamson · Ann Bell · Lilita De Barros · Tom Kempinski

Plot Michael Marler, a successful business man in London, is about to make his way to the top. The death of his father brings him - after 37 years - back...

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The War That Never Ends (TV)

1991 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Gold

Cast John Bennett · David Calder · Oliver Ford Davies · Don Henderson

Plot The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and others.

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The Visit

1959 · Movie · 35 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Alice Spaul · Eunice Phelps · George Wood · Anne Corby

Plot A brief visit by a vivacious young couple makes middle-aged spinster Alice painfully aware of how drab and dull her life is.

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Stones for Ibarra (TV)

1988 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Glenn Close · Keith Carradine · Alfonso Arau · Ray Oriel

Plot A couple moves to a small Mexican town called Ibarra. They help open a local mine which brings new life to the town and the local ways help the two...

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The Lucona Affair

1993 · Movie · 115 min. · Germany

Direction Jack Gold

Cast David Suchet · Jürgen Prochnow · Franco Nero · Dominique Sanda

Plot In 1977, the cargo ship Lucona founders in the Indian ocean while under contract to Viennese businessman Rudi Waltz (David Suchet). When Waltz tries to collect an insurance fee of...

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Macbeth (TV)

1983 · Movie · 148 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Nicol Williamson · Jane Lapotaire · Brenda Bruce · Eileen Way

Plot Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.

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