John Mortimer Movies

A happily married couple divorce for tax purposes, but their lawyer, not knowing the real reason for their divorce, falls in love with the wife.

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...

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...

The documentary uses Graham Greene's own words from his books and recordings, as well as photographs and clips from his many films, to reveal the...

A docudramatisation of the 1960 obscenity trial in the United Kingdom of Penguin Books for publishing D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.

This play is about a couple trying to overcome the problems in making a successfull clandestine assignation. It was one of a series of playlets by...

A look at the history of British B-movies.

This hilarious one-act play by John Mortimer (creator of Rumpole of the Bailey) is the story of a highly incompetent lawyer preparing to defend a man...

These dueling one-act comedies highlight the work of playwright John Mortimer. In "The Dock Brief," an ill-prepared attorney is put to the test when...

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

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

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

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

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

German adaptation of The Dock Brief

A young salesman from Trinidad tries to sell a complete set of encyclopedia to Sally Louth, a housewife living on the Chelsea-Fulham border in London.