Screenplay: John Boorman
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Boorman. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 13
Excalibur
1981 · Movie · 140 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Boorman
Cast Nicol Williamson · Nigel Terry · Cherie Lunghi · Nicholas Clay
Plot Forged by a god. Foretold by a wizard. Found by a King. An epic tale steeped in magic, Excalibur chronicles the life of Arthur beginning with his birth and ending...
7.3
25K votes
7.3
25K votes
The General
1998 · Movie · 124 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Boorman
Cast Brendan Gleeson · Adrian Dunbar · Sean McGinley · Maria Doyle Kennedy
Plot The real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the...
6.9
3K votes
6.9
3K votes
Hope and Glory
1987 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Boorman
Cast Sebastian Rice-Edwards · Sarah Miles · Sammi Davis · David Hayman
Plot Bill Rohan, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II, as seen through the eyes of director John Boorman, who also wrote...
6.7
1K votes
6.7
1K votes
The Professor and the Madman
2019 · Movie · 124 min. · United States
Direction Farhad Safinia
Cast Mel Gibson · Sean Penn · Natalie Dormer · Stephen Dillane
Plot A professor begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century and receives over 10,000 entries from a doctor at an...
6.2
2K votes
6.2
2K votes
Leo the Last
1970 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Boorman
Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Billie Whitelaw · Calvin Lockhart · Glenna Forster-Jones
Plot Prince Leo, last in the line of rulers of a long-deposed monarchy on continental Europe and jaded with the frenetic search for kicks with the European jet-set, returns to his...
5.7
94 votes
5.7
94 votes
Zardoz
1974 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Boorman
Cast Sean Connery · Charlotte Rampling · Sara Kestelman · Sally Anne Newton
Plot In the distant future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
5.4
3K votes
5.4
3K votes
The Tailor of Panama
2001 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction John Boorman
Cast Pierce Brosnan · Geoffrey Rush · Jamie Lee Curtis · Brendan Gleeson
Plot Ruthless, seductive British spy Andy Osnard (Pierce Brosnan) may have been banished to Panama, but he's got a secret weapon -- Harry Pendel (Rush), a Cockney ex-con who has reinvented...
5.3
7K votes
5.3
7K votes
Where the Heart Is
1990 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction John Boorman
Cast Dabney Coleman · Uma Thurman · Joanna Cassidy · Crispin Glover
Plot Stewart McBain (Coleman) is a real-estate mogul who spends his living blowing up old buildings to make room to erect new buildings. All goes as planned for a new subdivision,...
5.3
146 votes
5.3
146 votes
The Tiger's Tail
2006 · Movie · 103 min. · Ireland
Direction John Boorman
Cast Brendan Gleeson · Kim Cattrall · Sinead Cusack · Ciarán Hinds
Plot Identical twins are separated at birth. One, Liam, becomes a successful though over-stretched property developer in the new godless, greedy Ireland; the other, a homeless bum in Leeds. The have...
5.2
87 votes
5.2
87 votes
Queen and Country
2014 · Movie · 114 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Boorman
Cast Callum Turner · Caleb Landry Jones · David Thewlis · Richard E. Grant
Plot Year 1952. Bill Rowan is 18, dreaming his life away at the family’s riverside home, waiting to be called up for two years conscription in the Army. He swims each...
4.8
412 votes
4.8
412 votes
Picture Windows: Two Nudes Bathing
1995 · Movie · 35 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Boorman
Cast John Hurt · Charley Boorman · Angeline Ball · Jocelyne West
Plot Part of Picture Windows.
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Lee Marvin: A Personal Portrait by John Boorman (TV)
1998 · Documentary · 55 min. · United States
Direction John Boorman
Cast Lee Marvin · John Boorman · William Hurt · Jim Jarmusch
Plot This made-for-cable retrospective of movie star Lee Marvin (1924-1987) was assembled by filmmaker John Boorman, who directed Marvin in two gutsy features: Point Blank (1967) and Hell in the Pacific...
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I Dreamt I Woke Up
1991 · Movie · 44 min. · Ireland
Direction John Boorman
Cast John Boorman · John Hurt · Charley Boorman · Janet McTeer
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