John Boorman
John Boorman (born 18 January 1933) is an English filmmaker who is a long time resident of Ireland and is best known for his feature films such as Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope and Glory, The General and The Tailor of Panama. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Boorman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full... more
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Deliverance
(1972)
Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
John Boorman
Cast:
Jon Voight, Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty
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Excalibur
(1981)
Adventure, Fantasy
A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur", chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his Knights of the Round Table for the Holy Grail, and ultimately his death.
Runtime:
140 min
Director:
John Boorman
Cast:
Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi, Paul Geoffrey
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Point Blank
(1967)
Crime
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
John Boorman
Cast:
Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor, Lloyd Bochner
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The Tailor of Panama
(2001)
Drama, Thriller
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The tailor also has a wife, who works for the Panamanian president and a huge debt. The mission is...
Runtime:
109 min
Director:
John Boorman
Cast:
Pierce Brosnan, Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis
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Hope and Glory
(1987)
Comedy, Drama, History, War
Director John Boorman drew from his own childhood experiences for this coming-of-age tale about a boy growing up in and around London during World War II. For young Billy, the nightly bombings provide a frightening show, but they include opportunities to rummage through the rubble with friends in the mornings. As Billy plays, his famil...
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
John Boorman
Cast:
Sebastian Rice-Edwards, Geraldine Muir, Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Sammi Davis
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Zardoz
(1974)
Action, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Thriller
In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
John Boorman
Cast:
Sean Connery, Charlotte Rampling, Sara Kestelman, John Alderton, Sally Anne Newton
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The General
(1998)
Crime, History
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 I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team.
Runtime:
124 min
Director:
John Boorman
Cast:
Brendan Gleeson, Adrian Dunbar, Sean McGinley, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Angeline Ball
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The Emerald Forest
(1985)
Action, Adventure, Drama
For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully throug...
Runtime:
114 min
Director:
John Boorman
Cast:
Powers Boothe, Charley Boorman, Meg Foster, Yara Vaneau, William Rodriguez
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Hell in the Pacific
(1968)
Drama, War
During World War II, a shot-down American pilot and a marooned Japanese navy captain find themselves stranded on the same small uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean. Following war logic, each time the crafty Japanese devises something useful, he guards it to deny its use to the Yank, who then steals it, its proceeds or the idea and/...
Runtime:
103 min
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Beyond Rangoon
(1995)
Drama, Thriller
Dr. Laura Bowman is a young widow who's unwittingly drawn into political turmoil while vacationing in Burma in the late 1980s. Bowman initially left San Francisco with her sister in an attempt to escape painful memories of her husband and son's violent deaths. But her fight to escape to Thailand could prove just as harrowing.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
John Boorman
Cast:
Patricia Arquette, Frances McDormand, U Aung Ko, Spalding Gray, Tiara Jacquelina
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Lumière and Company
(1995)
Action, Comedy, Documentary, Drama
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Teo Angelopulos, Lasse Hallström, Vicente Aranda, John Boorman, Youssef Chahine, Alain Corneau, Raymond Depardon, Francis Girod, Abbas Kiarostami, Cédric Klapisch, Spike Lee, Claude Lelouch, Michael Haneke, David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Costa-Gavras
Cast:
Jeffe Alperi, Romane Bohringer, Bruno Ganz, Ticky Holgado
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In My Country
(2004)
Drama, Romance
An American reporter and an Afrikaans poet meet and fall in love while covering South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
John Boorman
Cast:
Samuel L. Jackson, Juliette Binoche, Brendan Gleeson, Langley Kirkwood, Harriet Lenabe
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Where the Heart Is
(1990)
Comedy, Drama
A wealthy businessman shows his young adult kids how tough life can be.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
John Boorman
Cast:
Dabney Coleman, Uma Thurman, Joanna Cassidy, Crispin Glover, Suzy Amis
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Queen & Country
(2015)
Drama
An Englishman who grew up in London during World War II joins the military to fight in the Korean War.
Runtime:
114 min
Director:
John Boorman
Cast:
Vanessa Kirby, David Thewlis, Richard E. Grant, Caleb Landry Jones, Tamsin Egerton
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The Tiger's Tail
(2006)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
After a chance encounter, a Dubliner is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
John Boorman
Cast:
Brendan Gleeson, Kim Cattrall, Ciarán Hinds, Sinéad Cusack, Sean McGinley
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Catch Us If You Can
(1965)
Comedy, Music
Dinah (Barbara Ferris) is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break. While shooting a commercial spot for meat, she meets Steve (Dave Clark), a stuntman. Dinah and Steve hit it off and decide to head to an island to get away from it all (bringing along four of Steve's friends, Mi...
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
John Boorman
Cast:
Dave Clark, Barbara Ferris, Mike Smith, Lenny Davidson, Rick Huxley
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Leo the Last
(1970)
Comedy, Drama
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 father's London town house for rest.
Runtime:
104 min
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Exorcist II: The Heretic
(1977)
Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Bizarre nightmares plague Regan MacNeil four years after her possession and exorcism. Has the demon returned? And if so, can the combined faith and knowledge of a Vatican investigator and a hypnotic research specialist free her from its grasp?
Runtime:
118 min
Director:
John Boorman
Cast:
Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max von Sydow