Screenplay: J.G. Ballard

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by J.G. Ballard. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Empire of the Sun

1987 · Movie · 145 min. · United States

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Christian Bale · John Malkovich · Joe Pantoliano · Miranda Richardson

Plot An aristocratic British youth is seperated from his family at the start of World War II after the Japanese Army invades British controlled areas of China. Reduced to living on...

7.3

28K votes

7.3

28K votes

Love, Death + Robots. Vol. 2 (TV Miniseries)

2021 · Series · 85 min. · United States

Direction Tim Miller · Jennifer Yuh · Robert Valley · Meat Dept

Plot TV Series (2021). 8 episodes. A collection of animated short stories that span various genres including science fiction, fantasy, horror and comedy.

6.7

5K votes

6.7

5K votes

Crash

1996 · Movie · 100 min. · Canada

Direction David Cronenberg

Cast James Spader · Holly Hunter · Elias Koteas · Deborah Kara Unger

Plot This dark, moody, erotically-charged film examines the theme of sexual fetishes, and their impact on one's life. Philandering husband James Ballard has been seriously injured in a car crash. But...

6.6

24K votes

6.6

24K votes

Love, Death + Robots. Vol. 2: The Drowned Giant (S)

2021 · Movie · 12 min. · United States

Direction Tim Miller

Plot When a two hundred foot tall naked body washes ashore outside a small fishing village, crowds gather to witness the spectacle. A local scientist documents the leviathan's surrender to nature.

6.3

3K votes

6.3

3K votes

5.5

48 votes

When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

1970 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Val Guest

Cast Victoria Vetri · Patrick Allen · Robin Hawdon · Drewe Henley

Plot A tribe of sun-worshippers are about to sacrifice a beautiful blonde virgin Sanna. But she is saved when powerful winds sweep her over a cliff and away to sea. She...

5.2

1K votes

5.2

1K votes

High-Rise

2015 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ben Wheatley

Cast Tom Hiddleston · Sienna Miller · Jeremy Irons · Luke Evans

Plot Life style in the concrete jungle and inner suburban life, with underground fights, money, gangsters and girls revolves around four different characters and their stories of life, love and misery,...

5.0

5K votes

5.0

5K votes

Crash! (S)

1971 · Movie · 17 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harley Cokeliss

Cast Gabrielle Drake · J.G. Ballard

Plot A surreal, moody short about the fetishization of automobiles and auto accidents.

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Crystal World (S)

2013 · Movie · 12 min. · Australia

Direction Pia Borg

Plot Inspired by J.G Ballard's novel, Crystal World uses underwater puppets, mono ammonium phosphate, prisms and time-lapse photography to crystallize fragments of Charles Laughton's, 'The Night of the Hunter'.

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Low-Flying Aircraft

2002 · Movie · 80 min. · Portugal

Direction Solveig Nordlund

Cast Margarida Marinho · Miguel Guilherme · Rui Morisson · Rita Só

Plot Based on a the short story "Low Flying Aircraft" by J.G. Ballard and set in a near future where humans are dying breed. Judite and André flee to a semi-abandoned...

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Ceiling Unlimited (S)

2012 · Movie · 7 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Dominic Johnson

Cast Genevieve Sibayan · Stephanie Siadatan

Plot One evening, the sensible Chloe Balliol and the party girl Vicki Sweetman are watching TV when it suddenly appears that the same ten minutes are repeating themselves over and over....

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Not rated

Ten Monologues from the Lives of the Serial Killers

1994 · Movie · 60 min. · Netherlands

Direction Aryan Kaganof

Cast Rodney Beddal · Mark Bellamy · Aryan Kaganof · Gylan Kain

Plot Based on the writings of: J.G. Ballard, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Henry Rollins, Roberta Lannes, Edmund Emil Kemper, etc. The structure of this film is literally that of the title:...

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Home (TV)

2003 · Movie · 60 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Curson Smith

Cast Antony Sher · Matilda Ziegler · Deborah Findlay · Guy Henry

Plot A disturbing, darkly comic tale of a man who attempts to sever all contact with the outside world, by simply staying at home. As Gerald Ballantyne rids himself of the...

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Not rated