Karl Johnson
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1948-03-01
Locus Natus: Wales, UK
Et ut:
The Illusionist
With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crown prince. But...
release : 2006.08.18popularis : 27.332
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
In the 1960s, British painter Francis Bacon surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar, a working class man named George Dyer,...
release : 1998.09.16popularis : 8.329
I Know You Know
Jamie, an 11-year-old boy, is fascinated by his father Charlie’s espionage work until the world of spies becomes all too real. Charlie lives in...
release : 2009.02.05popularis : 1.612
Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes
Elizabeth David is the most important cookery writer of the 20th century. David's public image was of an elegant, respectable and somewhat austere...
release : 2006.01.17popularis : 1.589
National Theatre Live: Under Milk Wood
A community is sleeping. If you listen closely, you can hear their dreams. The retired sea captain yearning for his lost love. The landlady living...
release : 2021.06.16popularis : 1.47
Sons and Lovers
An adaptation for television by Trevor Griffiths of DH Lawrence's classic novel
release : 1981.01.14popularis : 3.198
Jubilee
Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.
release : 1978.02.01popularis : 5.546
The Shawl
Miss A, troubled by problems, consults a clairvoyant. Can he solve them for her by summoning the spirits? Or is he just a fraud, out to steal her...
release : 1989.03.14popularis : 1.707
The Deep Blue Sea
The wife of a British Judge is caught in a self-destructive love affair with a Royal Air Force pilot.
release : 2011.09.11popularis : 5.926
Close My Eyes
After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie. Now married, the relationship proves dangerously...
release : 1991.11.22popularis : 9.157
Wittgenstein
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, whose...
release : 1993.03.26popularis : 11.272
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein
Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck...
release : 2011.03.17popularis : 7.932
The Pier
After 20 years of no contact with his father, Jack McCarthy (played by Hurley) travels from New York to his father Larry's death bed in Cork. Upon...
release : 2011.07.04popularis : 2.195
Saint-Ex
Poetic biography of author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
release : 1996.11.17popularis : 1.756
The Tempest
Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping...
release : 1979.09.13popularis : 5.757
Under Milk Wood
An all star cast unite to perform a distinctive BBC Wales Television adaptation of Dylan Thomas's radio play, presented in collaboration with...
release : 2014.06.01popularis : 1.754
Dog Altogether
Joseph is a man plagued by a violence and rage who is driving him to self destruction. As he falls further into turmoil, Joseph scours the landscape...
release : 2007.08.18popularis : 4.444
Four Last Songs
A comic drama set on a Mediterranean island, where a motley collection of characters is seeking musical redemption.
release : 2007.01.11popularis : 3.726
Mr. Turner
Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful...
release : 2014.10.31popularis : 8.151
National Theater Live: The Crucible
A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller's captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma). Raised to be...
release : 2023.01.26popularis : 4.871
England Expects
The story follows former football hooligan Ray Knight (Steven Mackintosh), a normal everyday family man who works as a security guard at a financial...
release : 2004.04.05popularis : 2.047
Third Star
James and his three closest lifelong friends go on an ill-advised trip to the stunning coastal area of Barafundle Bay in West Wales. What follows is...
release : 2010.06.01popularis : 9.967
The Gospel According to St Derek
Using interviews with close family, friends and collaborators, The Gospel According to St. Derek bears witness to Derek Jarman’s unique...
release : 2014.10.20popularis : 4.287
The Black and Blue Lamp
Satirical and surreal play by Arthur Ellis, dealing with the manner in which the British police force has been represented on TV for four decades. In...
release : 1988.09.07popularis : 2.81
Cold Harbour
A beautiful Chilean exile called Tina is stranded in a new country.
release : 1978.04.25popularis : 2.386
Tomorrow La Scala!
Members of a British opera troupe mount a production of "Sweeney Todd" within a maximum-security prison.
release : 2002.12.10popularis : 2.201
Hot Fuzz
Former London constable Nicholas Angel finds it difficult to adapt to his new assignment in the sleepy British village of Sandford. Not only does he...
release : 2007.02.14popularis : 29.314
The Carer
Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor, Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an...
release : 2016.08.05popularis : 5.314
A Prayer for the Dying
Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his...
release : 1987.09.11popularis : 9.724
Is Anybody There?
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
release : 2009.04.17popularis : 4.113
Prick Up Your Ears
When the young, attractive Joe Orton meets the older, more introverted Kenneth Halliwell at drama school, he befriends the kindred spirit and they...
release : 1987.04.17popularis : 6.845
Frozen
It's two years since the mysterious disappearance of Kath Swarbrick's older sister Annie, but Kath remains haunted by a need to know what happened....
release : 2005.03.12popularis : 3.599
National Theatre Live: Hamlet
As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages...
release : 2015.10.15popularis : 4.031
Let Him Have It
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American...
release : 1991.10.04popularis : 4.601
Pure
A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
release : 2002.09.13popularis : 8.977
The Sea
A man returns to the sea where he spent his childhood summers in search of peace following the death of his wife.
release : 2013.06.23popularis : 1.777
Good Vibrations
The story of music legend Terri Hooley, a key figure in Belfast's punk rock scene. Hooley founded the Good Vibrations store from which a record label...
release : 2012.05.31popularis : 9.083
Kaleidoscope
A psychological thriller about the destructive relationship between a middle-aged man and his mother.
release : 2017.11.10popularis : 2.121
The Death of Stalin
When dictator Joseph Stalin dies, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. As they bumble,...
release : 2017.10.20popularis : 22.001
King Lear
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
release : 2018.05.28popularis : 7.287
Peterloo
An epic portrayal of the events surrounding the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre, where a peaceful pro-democracy rally at St Peter’s Field in...
release : 2018.11.01popularis : 9.736
Aberfan: The Green Hollow
A film poem to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, written by Owen Sheers and performed by a stellar cast of Wales's best-known...
release : 2016.10.21popularis : 1.75
When I'm Sixty-Four
When widowed cabbie Ray and retired teacher Jim meet by chance, they discover they long for the same things from life: adventure, challenge and love....
release : 2004.08.04popularis : 4.775
The Magic Shop
A father and son enter a magic shop that may contain real magic.
release : 1982.02.05popularis : 0.7
Winter Thaw
In late nineteenth-century Russia, Martin Avdeitch is a humble shoemaker whose life has been characterized by grief. Martin must find the courage to...
release : 2016.11.24popularis : 1.665
Dream Horse
The inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes. With very little money and no experience,...
release : 2021.05.21popularis : 9.636
The Edge of Love
When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the last thing they expect is to bump into Dylan's...
release : 2008.06.20popularis : 10.161
Copying Beethoven
A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It is 1824. Beethoven is racing to finish his new...
release : 2006.09.10popularis : 31.611
Heidi
Swiss girl Adelheid 'Heidi' is orphaned young. Aunt Detie brings her to grandpa Alp and his wife, who live isolated in the Alps since his murder...
release : 2005.08.19popularis : 6.883
Mr Invisible
A lonely old man seems invisible to the world around him. But when he journeys to the heart of London, being 'invisible' proves to be his greatest...
release : 2013.10.26popularis : 2.581
Endgame & Rough for Theatre II
Hamm is an ageing, blind tyrant who is confined to a wheelchair – but soon becomes locked in a bleakly funny and subversively devastating...
release : 2020.04.01popularis : 2.39
The Last Vermeer
A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a...
release : 2019.09.11popularis : 8.786
Mother
In the aftermath of his mother's death, Edwin reaches out to his extended family for support.
release : 2016.05.08popularis : 1.604