Screenplay: John Boorman

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Boorman. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


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

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