Harold Pinter - an original playwright.
by alexanderdavies-99382 | created - 30 Jul 2019 | updated - 9 months ago | PublicOne of the leading playwrights throughout the history of the British theatre, here is a list which includes various TV and film adaptations of Pinter's work, as well as his screenplays.
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1. The Guest (1963)
105 min | Drama
While renovating his house in London, Aston, out of pity, lodges a homeless man, but Aston's brother taunts and harasses the cranky old bum.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence, Robert Shaw, Harold Pinter
Votes: 984
A classic of drama.
2. The Birthday Party (1968)
G | 123 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The down-at-heel lodger in a seaside boarding house is menaced by two mysterious strangers, who eventually take him away.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee, Sydney Tafler, Dandy Nichols
Votes: 1,164
3. The Homecoming (1973)
PG | 111 min | Drama
In a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence, and introduces the four men, father, uncle, and two brothers, to his wife.
Director: Peter Hall | Stars: Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm, Paul Rogers, Terence Rigby
Votes: 855
4. The Servant (1963)
Unrated | 116 min | Drama
Upper-class Tony hires servant Hugo Barrett, who turns out to have a hidden agenda.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, James Fox
Votes: 13,805 | Gross: $0.04M
5. The Pumpkin Eater (1964)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama
Beautiful Mother of five Jo leaves the banality of her marriage to second husband Giles to wed her passionate screenwriter lover, Jake Armitage. As suspicions of Husband Jake's philandering grows, Jo's sanity spirals.
Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason, Janine Gray
Votes: 2,837
6. Accident (1967)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
At Oxford, Austrian student Anna von Graz (Jacqueline Sassard) is dating fellow student William (Michael York), whom she plans to marry, but she ends up involved with two unhappily married Oxford professors instead.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard, Michael York
Votes: 4,983
7. Tea Party (1965 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
A self-made millionaire of humble origins acquires a new secretary just as he's about to marry a woman of aristocratic lineage. He also starts to suffer mysterious problems with his eyesight and slowly becomes delusional.
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Leo McKern, Vivien Merchant, Jennifer Wright, John Le Mesurier
Votes: 21
8. Camera Three (1955–1980)
30 min | Drama
A weekly examination of the arts and literature, on Sunday mornings when there was more likely to be an audience interested in such matters and there was less competition for ratings.
Stars: James Macandrew, Faubion Bowers, Margaret Croyden, Alfredo Antonini
Votes: 62
9. The Present Stage (1966– )
25 min | Family
A look at some outstanding and controversial plays of the past ten years, suggesting how they might best be understood and appreciated.
Stars: David Hugh Jones, Barry Stanton, Valentine Palmer, Derek Smith
10. Playdate (1961–1964)
60 min
Stars: Christopher Plummer, Gillie Fenwick, Norman Welsh, Gerard Parkes
Votes: 19
11. Armchair Theatre (1956–1974)
60 min | Drama
This show was a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and from mid-1968 by Thames Television.
Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Billie Whitelaw, Neil McCallum
Votes: 245
12. ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
An anthology series from the U.K., from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television.
Stars: Derek Francis, Alfred Burke, Arthur Hewlett, Esther Lawrence
Votes: 93
13. ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1967)
60 min | Drama
Richard O. Sullivan as a child genius in the play "Honour Bright".
Stars: Campbell Singer, Thomas Heathcote, Richard Caldicot, June Brown
Votes: 67
14. De modeshow (1969 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Kris Betz | Stars: Walter Claessens, Hilde Uitterlinden, Martin Van Zundert, Willy Vandermeulen
15. The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
Approved | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In the West Berlin of the 1960s, two British agents are killed by a Nazi group, prompting British Intelligence to dispatch agent Quiller to investigate.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow, Senta Berger
Votes: 4,347
16. Modesty Blaise (1966)
119 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Stylish ex-con Modesty Blaise and her partner Willie Garvin are tasked by the British Secret Service with preventing her rival Gabriel from stealing diamonds that are to be delivered to her adoptive father, a Sheikh.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde, Harry Andrews
Votes: 3,173
17. The Lover (1963 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
A sophisticated suburban couple try to enliven their sterile marriage with erotic role-playing, but find their new games even more repressive than before.
Director: Joan Kemp-Welch | Stars: Alan Badel, Vivien Merchant, Michael Forrest
Votes: 26
18. The Go-Between (1971)
GP | 116 min | Drama, Romance
A tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Dominic Guard, Margaret Leighton
Votes: 6,294 | Gross: $0.75M
19. Het souterrain (1972 TV Movie)
Law receives an unexpected late night visit from his friend Stott and Stott's girlfriend Jane, during which they take over Law's bed to make love and then plant roots in Law's flat for weeks.
Director: Kris Betz | Stars: Rik Andries, Bob Van der Veken, Veerle Wijffels
20. Theatre 625 (1964–1968)
90 min | Drama
Drama anthology series transmitted on BBC Two.
Stars: Michael Bryant, Judi Dench, Maurice Denham, Margery Mason
Votes: 48
21. Great Performances (1971– )
TV-G | 180 min | Music, Musical
Filmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.
Stars: Julie Andrews, Scott Yoo, Renée Fleming, Plácido Domingo
Votes: 894
22. Basements (1987 TV Movie)
108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Adaptations of two early plays, The Room and The Dumb Waiter, by Nobel Prize-winning English playwright Harold Pinter. The first revolves around a paranoiac woman trapped in her apartment. The other is about two small-time crooks waiting.
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: John Travolta, Tom Conti, Linda Hunt, Annie Lennox
Votes: 275
23. Old Times (1975 TV Movie)
75 min | Drama
BBC adaptation of Harold Pinter's 1971 two-act play, about a married couple and the wife's friend, Anna.
Director: Christopher Morahan | Stars: Anna Cropper, Barry Foster, Mary Miller
Votes: 12
24. The Hothouse (1982 TV Movie)
115 min | Drama
Irregular occurrences in a government psychiatric hospital - including a mystery birth and a mystery death.
Director: Harold Pinter | Stars: Derek Newark, James Grant, Angela Pleasence, Roger Davidson
Votes: 19
25. Landscape (1983 TV Movie)
45 min | Drama
A dysfunctional couple remember a better time.
Director: Kenneth Ives | Stars: Colin Blakely, Dorothy Tutin
Votes: 9
26. Monologue (1973 TV Short)
20 min | Short, Drama
A man sits alone remembering the girl he lost to his best friend.
Director: Christopher Morahan | Star: Henry Woolf
Votes: 10
27. BBC2 Play of the Week (1977–1979)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length movies.
Stars: Judi Dench, Richard O'Callaghan, Frederick Treves, Clive Swift
Votes: 46
28. Rommet (1968 TV Movie)
Drama
We meet an elderly couple in a poor room in a lousy tenement and witness their meeting with the hostile and dangerous world outside the door.
Director: Lars Löfgren | Stars: Frimann Falck Clausen, Else Heiberg, Egil Hjorth-Jenssen, Thor Hjorth-Jenssen
29. No Man's Land (1978 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
In this television adaptation of the Harold Pinter classic, a seedy poet (Sir John Gielgud) shows up at the house of a rich writer (Sir Ralph Richardson) and they start reminiscing about the "past".
Directors: Julian Aymes, Peter Hall | Stars: Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud, Michael Kitchen, Terence Rigby
Votes: 86
30. The Last Tycoon (1976)
PG | 123 min | Drama, Romance
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau
Votes: 9,570 | Gross: $1.82M
31. A Kind of Alaska (1984 TV Movie)
Drama
A woman who fell victim to sleeping sickness many years ago wakes up in middle age.
Director: Kenneth Ives | Stars: Susan Engel, Paul Scofield, Dorothy Tutin
32. Summer Season (1985)
55 min | Drama
Stars: Tim Wylton, Marion Bailey, Charles Dale, Nicholas Gecks
Votes: 34
33. Betrayal (1983)
R | 95 min | Drama, Thriller
An affair between a literary agent and his best friend's wife. The story unfolds in reverse-chronological order.
Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Hodge, Avril Elgar
Votes: 1,743
34. Butley (1974)
R | 129 min | Drama, Romance
An English professor finds his life crumbling around him.
Director: Harold Pinter | Stars: Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Richard O'Callaghan, Georgina Hale
Votes: 880
35. The Rear Column (1980 TV Movie)
130 min
Director: Harold Pinter | Stars: Barry Foster, Clive Francis, Donald Gee, John Horton
36. The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
R | 124 min | Drama, Romance
Anna and Mike portray two characters in a film set in 19th century England who fall in love despite the fact that Mike's character is engaged.
Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan
Votes: 15,044 | Gross: $22.60M
37. The Caretaker (1981 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
While renovating his house in London, Aston, out of pity, lodges a homeless man, but Aston's brother taunts and harasses the cranky old bum.
Director: Kenneth Ives | Stars: Kenneth Cranham, Warren Mitchell, Jonathan Pryce
38. Theatre Night (1985–1990)
180 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Adaptations of classic and contemporary stage plays.
Stars: Kenneth Cranham, Robert Lang, Natalie Ogle, Dinsdale Landen
Votes: 58
39. The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
A couple retreat to Venice to work on their relationship, but an encounter with a stranger leads them into a world of intrigue - where their darkest desires are in reach.
Director: Paul Schrader | Stars: Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, Helen Mirren
Votes: 6,340 | Gross: $1.24M
40. The Dumb Waiter (1999 TV Movie)
55 min | Drama
Director: Slobodan Z. Jovanovic | Stars: Boris Komnenic, Dragan Petrovic-Pele
Votes: 17
41. Mountain Language (1988 TV Short)
20 min | Short, Drama
A study in interrogation and imprisonment.
Director: Harold Pinter | Stars: Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson, Julian Wadham, Eileen Atkins
Votes: 17
42. The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
R | 108 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Under a dystopian religious tyranny, most women cannot conceive children. Those young women who can live in a form of sexual slavery to provide children for influential families.
Director: Volker Schlöndorff | Stars: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern
Votes: 10,727 | Gross: $4.96M
43. The Heat of the Day (1989 TV Movie)
106 min | Drama
In World War II England, a woman is approached by a man claiming to work as an intelligence agent who has found out her lover is a spy. He promises to not arrest him if she'll have a relationship with him.
Director: Christopher Morahan | Stars: Michael Gambon, Patricia Hodge, Michael York, Ralph Michael
Votes: 90
44. Fastighetsskötaren (2004 TV Movie)
117 min | Drama
Director: Thommy Berggren | Stars: Ingvar Hirdwall, Johan Rabaeus, Peter Andersson
Votes: 23
45. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 319
46. Working with Pinter (2007 TV Movie)
57 min | Documentary
Director: Harry Burton | Stars: Patrick Brennan, Harry Burton, Stephen Greif, Sarah Hadland
Votes: 14
47. Newsnight (1980– )
45 min | News
Serious news reports, analysis and no-holds-barred interviews with leading politicians and public figures.
Stars: Kirsty Wark, Jeremy Paxman, Emily Maitlis, Gavin Esler
Votes: 213
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