John Mortimer Movies

Adapted from the work of Miguel de Cervantes, this is the story of a hidalgo, fanatic for chivalry novels, who loses his sanity and believing to be a...

A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate...

An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an...

Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife...

Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao...

Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.

Film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's debut novel, 'Mary'.

A young female designer is on the brink of an affair with a married male executive at the company where she works. The film tells the story of their...

John and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.

Period Drama. The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930's went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.

Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the...

A bored Rumpole, living in Florida retirement, uses an inquiry from Phyllida as a pretext to re-establish himself back in chambers.

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.

Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks. Though the man has promised...

A look at the history of British B-movies.

An irreverent barrister chooses to defend a young Jamaican boy accused of stabbing on the same day his only son leaves for college in America.

A successful lawyer struck with blindness in middle age continues his battles in the courtroom with the assistance of his family. As his son deals...

An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house

Francesca's upbringing has been sheltered, but her fiancé isn't slow to realise that his future mother-in-law is in a very lucrative line of...