The best Harold Pinter’s movies

Harold Pinter

Harold Pinter

10/10/1930- 24/12/2008
Today we present the best Harold Pinter’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Harold Pinter’s movies.
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Wit

Wit
8/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 09/02/2001
  • Character: Mr. Bearing
A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.

The Tailor of Panama

The Tailor of Panama
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 30/03/2001
  • Character: Uncle Benny
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 to learn what the President intends to do with the Canal.

Mansfield Park

Mansfield Park
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 12/11/1999
  • Character: Sir Thomas Bertram
When spirited young woman, Fanny Price is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society. But while Fanny learns 'their' ways, she also enlightens them with a wit and sparkle all her own.

Accident

Accident
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 05/02/1967
  • Character: Bell - TV Producer
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.

Sleuth

Sleuth
6.4/10
On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.

The Servant

The Servant
7.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/11/1963
  • Character: People in Restaurant: Society Man
A decadent London aristocrat hires a man-servant to attend to his needs. However, the balance of power starts to shift...

Turtle Diary

Turtle Diary
6.8/10
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.

The Caretaker

The Caretaker
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/01/1964
  • Character: Man
Aston, a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. He befriends and takes in Mac Davies, an old derelict who has been fired from a menial job in a café. In time Aston offers him a job as caretaker of the house. Aston's brother, Mick - a taunting, quasi-sadist - harasses the derelict when his brother is away, countermanding his orders...

Rogue Male

Rogue Male
6.6/10
Early in 1939 Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.

Mojo

Mojo
5.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/09/1997
  • Character: Sam Ross
The sexual rivalries over a new, potentially great rock'n'roll singer between a nightclub owner and a local gangster cause unrest and eventually lead to murder.

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer

The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 12/11/1970
  • Character: Steven Hench
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.

Breaking the Code

Breaking the Code
7.1/10
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.

The Basement

The Basement
7.3/10
  • Release: 20/02/1967
  • Character: Stott
An uneasy friendship between an introspective loner and a more gregarious man is renewed when the latter turns up at the former's basement flat one rainy night accompanied by an enigmatic, beautiful, mostly silent, girlfriend.

Catastrophe

Catastrophe
6.4/10
  • Release: 01/01/2000
  • Character: The Director
An autocratic Director (Harold Pinter) and his Assistant (Rebecca Pidgeon) put the final touches to the last scene of some kind of dramatic presentation, which consists entirely of a man (John Gielgud) standing still onstage.

The Birthday Party

The Birthday Party
7.8/10
It is Stanley's birthday, but the party he is given is not quite what he expects.

Monologue

Monologue
7/10
  • Release: 13/04/1973
A man sits alone remembering his love affair with the girl his best friend won.

In Camera

In Camera
7.5/10
  • Release: 04/11/1964
  • Character: Garcin
A 1964 BBC adaptation of Sartre's "No Exit."

A Night Out

A Night Out
8.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/04/1960
  • Character: Seeley
Against the wishes of his domineering mother, Albert Stokes attends a work party. But the evening is not the escape he was hoping for.

The South Bank Show: The French Lieutenant's Woman

The South Bank Show: The French Lieutenant's Woman
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/01/1981
  • Character: Interviewee
1981 episode of London Weekend Television's The South Bank Show examines the film and features interviews with novelist John Fowles, screenwriter Harold Pinter, and director Karel Reisz

Art, Truth and Politics

Art, Truth and Politics
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 01/03/2006
  • Character: self
Nobel Lecture delivered on video by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter (1930–2008), who was at the time hospitalised and unable to travel to Stockholm to deliver it in person.

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