The best Peter Jonfield’s movies

Peter Jonfield

Peter Jonfield

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Time Bandits

Time Bandits
6.9/10
Young history buff Kevin can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being, they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras. Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon, Robin Hood and King Agamemnon before the Supreme Being catches up with them.

A Fish Called Wanda

A Fish Called Wanda
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 15/07/1988
  • Character: Inspector Marvin
A diamond advocate is attempting to steal a collection of diamonds, yet troubles arise when he realizes that he is not the only one after the diamonds.

Pink Floyd: The Wall

Pink Floyd: The Wall
8/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 14/07/1982
  • Character: Roadie
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
6.3/10
Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.

McVicar

McVicar
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/08/1980
  • Character: Bobby Harris
John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is the true story of his life, his criminal exploits and his eventual rehabilitation.

The Tenth Man

The Tenth Man
6.9/10
During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execution of one in ten prisoners. Chosen as one of the victims, lawyer Chavel trades his place with another man in return for all his possessions. At the end of the war he returns to his house and tries to integrate himself with the family of the man who traded places with him, all the while hiding his true identity. However matters are complicated when a stranger arrives claiming to be Chavel.

Jacob

Jacob
6.5/10
In this inspiring tale from the book of Genesis, young shepherd Jacob (Matthew Modine) falls in love with and wants to marry Rachel (Lara Flynn Boyle), the daughter of his Uncle Laban (Giancarlo Giannini). Lacking a dowry, Jacob toils seven years as his uncle's indentured servant to win Rachel's hand. But calculating Laban dupes him into another seven years of labor. Irene Papas portrays Jacob's iron-willed mother.

Let Him Have It

Let Him Have It
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/10/1991
  • Character: Butcher
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 gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.

Remembrance

Remembrance
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/10/1982
  • Character: Dave
A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port, hitting Plymouth's notorious Union Street district, with violent results.

Bellman and True

Bellman and True
6.8/10
Hiller, a computer expert, was bribed by group of bank robbers to obtain details of the security system at a newly-built bank. Having obtained the information, he thought he'd seen the last of the robbers. But now they've traced him and his son to London. They hold the son hostage and force Hiller to decode the information about the alarm and then to take part in the robbery.

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Moll Flanders
7.7/10
In her filthy cell in Newgate prison Moll Flanders, dubbed 'the wickedest woman in England' tells her story. Born in the gaol, after her mother is transported Moll is raised by the kindly mayor of Colchester and his wife, whose two sons lust after her. She enjoys sex with handsome Rowland, who teaches her that money talks, but, realizing he only wants her as a mistress, she marries his duller brother Robin, who conveniently dies after five years, leaving her wealthy. She goes to London, briefly meeting highwayman Jemmy Seagrove, and marries parvenu draper Daniel Dawkins, but he has huge debts and must flee to France, leaving Moll alone and poor. Moll meets handsome young American sea captain Lemuel Golightly, who marries her and takes her to Virginia and a good life style, along with his mother. They have two children and are blissfully happy until Moll discovers her mother-in-law is also her birth mother. She has married her own brother. She returns to England and poses as wealthy ...

Blooming Youth

Blooming Youth
6.8/10
An improvised character piece, overseen by Les Blair and Tony Garnett set in the everyday life of a group of polytechnic students.

The Groundling and the Kite

The Groundling and the Kite
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/07/1984
  • Character: Phil Stein
Peter writes songs and Jimmy needs one. But Peter's songs are private and not for sale. A clash of interests becomes a test of love.

Space Station Milton Keynes

Space Station Milton Keynes
  • Release: 03/03/1985
  • Character: Eddie
'It's a city of glass. There are trees and flowers from all over the world. And marble. Acres of it. And in a field, there are cows as still as statues'. Maria is taken to a new foster home in a magical city where she becomes Sunshine, finds a statue that talks to her and meets a Boy. She lives happily in a world of fantasy and imagination until one day ...

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