List of the best Derek Jarman movies: The War Requiem(1988), Wittgenstein(1993), Edward II(1991), The Last of England(1988), Caravaggio(1986), The Tempest(1979), Jubilee(1978), Aria(1987), The Angelic Conversation(1985) ... ...
Musical
USA
1988
85 Minutes
Director
Nathaniel Parker Tilda Swinton Laurence Olivier Patricia Hayes Rohan McCullough Nigel Terry Owen Teale Sean Bean
nurse british soldier german soldier mother doctor poet disheartening dreamy profound sad battlefield tomb hospital church wilfred owen poetry horrors of war death disillusionment music
Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.
Biography
UK|Japan
1993
71 Minutes
Director
Karl Johnson Michael Gough Tilda Swinton John Quentin Kevin Collins Clancy Chassay Nabil Shaban Sally Dexter Lynn Seymour
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the ... See full summary »
Drama
UK|Japan
1991
91 Minutes
Director
Steven Waddington Andrew Tiernan Tilda Swinton Nigel Terry Kevin Collins Jerome Flynn John Lynch Dudley Sutton Jody Graber Annie Lennox
In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands the power-craving nobility the perfect excuse by ... See full summary »
Drama
UK|West Germany
1988
87 Minutes
Director
Tilda Swinton Spencer Leigh
The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.
Drama, History
UK
1986
89 Minutes
Director
Nigel Terry Sean Bean Michael Gough Tilda Swinton Nigel Davenport Robbie Coltrane Garry Cooper Lol Coxhill
painter model lover criminal intense brooding italy artist's studio street caravaggio painting renaissance bad behavior wretched excess renaissance
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
Drama
UK
1979
96 Minutes
Director
Heathcote Williams Karl Johnson Jack Birkett Toyah Willcox David Meyer Peter Bull Richard Warwick Ken Campbell Neil Cunningham Christopher Biggins Peter Turner
Banished to a forsaken island, the Right Duke of Milan and Sorcerer Prospero gets the chance to take his revenge on the King of Naples with the assistance of his airy spirit-servant, Ariel.
Comedy, Fantasy, Drama
UK
1978
103 Minutes
Director
Jenny Runacre Jordan Linda Spurrier Hermine Demoriane Toyah Willcox Richard O'Brien Adam Ant Ian Charleson Karl Johnson Neil Kennedy
Queen Elisabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.
Musical
UK
1987
91 Minutes
Franc Roddam Charles Sturridge Derek Jarman John Hurt Julien Temple Theresa Russell
maid bodybuilder lover husband wife king creative dreamy moving offbeat paris opera house gym las vegas hotel california opera seduction suicide affair
Ten short films by ten different directors with nearly no speech but set to arias by different composers.