Movies: Harold Pinter

At a posh cocktail party, various plans are made, and a missing guest turns up late....

The scene is a fashionably remodeled farmhouse in the countryside somewhere beyond London, where a prosperous and urbane couple are entertaining the wife's former roommate and friend whom they have not seen for twenty years. At first the husband and ...

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....

In the kitchen, two assassins await the arrival of their victim. But someone keeps sending them messages via the dumb waiter....

Set in the jungle of the Congo Free State in 1887–88, the story begins after explorer Henry Morton Stanley, has gone to relieve Emin Pasha, governor of Equatoria, from a siege by Mahdist forces. He leaves behind him a 'rear column' with supplies at t...

It is Stanley's birthday, but the party he is given is not quite what he expects. [A BBC production broadcast on the Theatre Night series.]...

All the action takes place in a swish London restaurant where two coarse-grained strategy consultants are dining with their respective wives. At an adjacent table a banker and his wife banter over his recently discovered affair. But while Pinter gets...

Against the wishes of his domineering mother, Albert Stokes attends a work party. But the evening is not the escape he was hoping for....

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A man sits alone remembering his love affair with the girl his best friend won....

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In the late 1930s, three reclusive middle-aged spinster sisters live on their run down family estate in Ireland. Otto Beck, a perpetual graduate student from Bavaria with a habit of making pompous declamations, rents the back lodge to work on his eso...

Mystery surrounds the death of a patient; another has given birth to a child, father unknown. 'Irregular' occurrences in a government psychiatric hospital build to a terrifying climax....

Mick and his brother Aston live alone together in a West London house until one night Aston brings home Davies, who just left his job as a kitchen helper at a restaurant. The old man proves to be a violent, selfish bigot, uncharitable himself but qui...

A sinister talk show host interrogates and psychologically abuses a captive family for the entertainment of a live studio audience....

A dysfunctional couple remember a better time....

An event organised by CND pits the bomb against poetry. Hear artists who hoped that words and rhymes could put an end to destructive times....

A 1964 BBC adaptation of Sartre's "No Exit."...

The last of five animated shorts directed by Gerald Potterton for Pinter People, voiced by Harold Pinter and Donald Pleasence....

Harold Pinter's play, "The New World Order" was first performed on July 19th 1991 at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London. The following is Richard Corso's film adaptation starring Cody Dermon (as Des), Haydn Winston (as Lionel) and Tyler Compton...