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
The Atrocity Exhibition
2000 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction Jonathan Weiss
Cast Victor Slezak · Anna Juvander · Michael Kirby · Mariko Takai
5.5
48 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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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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