Christopher Hampton
Sir Christopher James Hampton CBE FRSL is a British playwright, screenwriter, translator and film director. He is best known for his play Les Liaisons Dangereuses based on the novel of the same name and the film adaptation
Works
Total Eclipse
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
Release Date1995-11-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Charactersd The Judge
Vote Count560
Joe Orton Laid Bare
Exploring the wit, work and world of Joe Orton through his own words, and the testimony of those who knew him and worked with him.
Release Date2017-11-25
Charactersd Himself
The Oscars
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
Release Date1953-03-19
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count82
100 Greatest Sexy Moments
Documentary, based on a British poll, listing the 100 sexiest movie and TV moments. Supplemented by new interviews with performers, filmmakers, and authors/critics.
Release Date2003-11-29
Charactersd Self
Vote Count2
Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream
Documentary about David Lean's unfinished attempt of adapting Joseph Conrad's novel Nostromo.
Release Date2017-12-02
Charactersd Self
Vote Count7
Screen Two
Series of single made-for-television dramas.
Release Date1985-01-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
BBC Play of the Month
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.
Release Date1965-10-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count8
BBC2 Play of the Week
An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.
Release Date1977-09-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Performance
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
Release Date1991-10-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Atonement
A young girl irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Release Date2007-02-27
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count4748
Adoration
Lil and Roz are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotions that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention.
Release Date2013-04-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1041
The Father
A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
Release Date2020-12-23
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3684
Embers
Once inseparable friends, Henrik and Konrad reconnect decades after Konrad’s mysterious disappearance and uncovers over the course of one evening the secret that tore them apart—and the woman at the center of it.
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Dangerous Liaisons
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.
Release Date1988-12-21
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1279
The Honorary Consul
Set in a small politically unstable Latin American country, the story follows the half English and half Latino Dr. Eduardo Plarr, who left his home to find a better life. Along the way he meets an array of people, including British Consul Charley Fortnum, a representative in Latin America who is trying to keep Revolution from occurring. He is also a remorseful alcoholic. Another person the doctor meets is Clara, whom he immediately falls in love with, but there is a problem: Clara is Charley's wife.
Release Date1983-09-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count60
Imagining Argentina
Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious abductions, she is herself abducted and taken into police custody.
Release Date2003-09-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count55
The Sunday Drama
Anthology of self-contained dramas that aired from 1977 to 1978.
Release Date1977-05-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
The Son
A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.
Release Date2022-11-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count580
A Dangerous Method
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s spell.
Release Date2011-09-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2233
Chéri
The son of a courtesan retreats into a fantasy world after being forced to end his relationship with the older woman who educated him in the ways of love.
Release Date2009-04-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count231
The Singapore Grip
In WWII-era colonial Singapore, a wealthy British family struggle to preserve their prosperous business – whether by commercial or amorous schemes – amid cataclysmic world events.
Release Date2020-09-13
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count7
The Quiet American
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
Release Date2002-11-22
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count334
Mary Reilly
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
Release Date1996-02-23
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count345
Savages
A first secretary in the British Embassy in a South American country is kidnapped by a terrorist group to blackmail their Government into releasing 25 political prisoners
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The Wolf at the Door
Chronicling a period of time in Paul Gauguin's life, this film follows him through his struggles in love and the financial problems caused by the inability to sell his artwork.
Release Date1986-09-05
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count14
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
A new staging of Christopher Hampton's celebrated adaptation of the classic novel, where among the glittering salons of the super-rich, one misstep can mean ruin. Marquise de Merteuil is a master in the art of survival. Alongside the magnetic Vicomte de Valmont, they turn seduction into strategy and weaponise desire. But when their alliance collapses into rivalry, the battle between them threatens to destroy everyone in their path. Filmed live at the National Theatre, Marianne Elliott directs this thrilling game of love, lies, and social warfare.
Release Date2026-06-25
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
The History Man
The History Man is a four-part 1981 British television drama miniseries written by Christopher Hampton, based on Malcolm Bradbury's 1975 novel of the same title. Ardently left-wing, or so it seems, Howard Kirk subtly extends his power over students and colleagues alike at a redbrick university.
Release Date1981-01-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count7
The Secret Agent
In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, providing information to Chief Inspector Heat about a lazy anarchist organization. In order for the anarchists to be arrested, an act of terrorism must occur. So Verloc decides to set up bombs – which leads to tragedy – not only for himself but also for his family, including wife Winnie and brother-in-law, Stevie.
Release Date1996-11-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count44
The Thirteenth Tale
Biographer Margaret Lea travels to the isolated rural mansion of the famous writer Vida Winter, who asks her to write her biography. Although initially she is reluctant, as Vida is known for constantly distorting the facts of her life, Margaret soon becomes fascinated with the story of a dark childhood, a disturbing tale that leads her to finally confront the traumas of her own past.
Release Date2013-12-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count70
Art
Follows three friends, Marc, Serge and Yvan, and one ridiculously expensive, plain white painting. It’s procurement by one friend and differing opinions about what constitutes ‘art’ sparks a conflict among the group that uncovers long-held grievances and tension points in their relationships.
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
The Ginger Tree
In 1903, a young Scotswoman goes to join her diplomat fiancé in Manchuria. She marries him, and finds herself in a war zone. Disenchanted with her husband, she falls in love with a married Japanese nobleman, Count Kentaro Kurihama, and bears him a son. She carves out a life for herself in Japanese society, despite the hardships and ostracism she faces as both a Westerner and a woman.
Release Date1989-11-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count3
Ali and Nino
Muslim prince Ali and Georgian aristocrat Nino have grown up in the Russian province of Azerbaijan. Their tragic love story sees the outbreak of the First World War and the world’s struggle for Baku’s oil. Ultimately they must choose to fight for their country’s independence or for each other.
Release Date2016-01-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count85
Carrington
Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and they begin a lifelong friendship that has strangely romantic undertones. Eventually, Lytton and Dora decide to live together, despite the fact that the latter has fallen in love with military man Ralph Partridge, whom she plans to marry.
Release Date1995-05-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count70
Sunset Boulevard
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity. Film adaptation of the Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical based on the iconic 1950 film.
DepartmentWriting
JobLyricist
Tales from Hollywood
A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwriter (von Horvath) joins them and finds out, that there are gaps between the artistical attitudes and the real live behavior of authors like Thomas or Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger or Bertold Brecht.
Release Date1992-10-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
The Good Father
Bill is a man who's very bitter about his divorce and losing custody of his son. So, when one of his friends is being sued for divorce by his wife so that she can enter a lesbian relationship, Bill decides to help his friend gain custody of his son...in any way that they can devise, including using a sleazeball lawyer. But while Bill feels that feminism has robbed him of his family, he begins to be appalled at what he and Roger have done.
Release Date1985-11-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count16
A Doll's House
Nora Helmer has years earlier committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed, and lives in fear of her husband finding out, and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But, when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
Release Date1973-04-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count22
The General And Me
Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s independence wars, a number of times. She was the first American who entered the home of the “Red Napoleon”. The fruit of this friendship is a film, personal and politically involved at the same time. Travelling across the country and talking to important figures as well as ordinary people, the director finds out more about her roots and offers the audience a unique perspective on Vietnam’s present and past.
Release Date2017-05-29
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Dracula: The Musical
Dracula, the Musical is a musical based on the original 1897 Victorian novel by Bram Stoker. The score is by Frank Wildhorn, with lyrics and book by Don Black and Christopher Hampton. The Japanese premiere took place in August 2011 in Tokyo. Dracula was played by female performer Yoka Wao, the first woman to play the role of the Count on stage.
Release Date2011-12-19
DepartmentWriting
JobLyricist
Vote Count1
Able's Will
Thomas Able, once a successful writer, has not written since the war. He lies paralysed and dying. His family gather at the family home.
Release Date1977-10-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Three Sisters
Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga, a schoolmistress, attempts to support her siblings and the home that is the sole legacy of their late father.
Release Date2003-02-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Every Valley
"Every Valley" uncovers the story behind one of the world’s most beloved musical works, George Frideric Handel’s Messiah. More than a simple origin story, "Every Valley" reveals the turbulent, gripping world in which Handel’s Messiah was born, an era rife with war, political strife, and personal suffering.
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Wilder & Me
Part coming-of-age story, part true-life portrait of the beloved Billy Wilder, the film is set during the summer of 1977, when an innocent young woman begins working for the famed director and his screenwriter Iz Diamond on a Greek island during the filming of Fedora.
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Hotel du Lac
Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by observing her fellow guests.
Release Date1986-03-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count4
National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Marquise de Merteuil, former lover of Vicomte de Valmont, incites him to corrupt the innocent Cécile de Volanges before her wedding night, but Valmont has targeted the peerlessly virtuous and beautiful Madame de Tourvel.
Release Date2016-01-28
DepartmentWriting
JobTheatre Play
Vote Count6
The Noise of Time
The story follows the trajectory of the Russian composer’s life and career, beginning in 1936 when Shostakovich, aged 30, faces Stalin’s wrath after his opera is condemned. A stroke of luck prevents him from becoming a casualty of the Great Terror, and for decades he has to weigh appeasing those in power in Soviet Russia against the integrity of his music.
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The Philanthropist
The original play by Christopher Hampton, was adapted into this made-for-TV movie and it offers witty dialogue in the midst of remarkable conflict among its privileged characters.
Release Date1975-10-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the butcher after falling in love with a fop named Alfred who, however, has no serious interest in returning her love. For this error, she must pay bitterly.
Release Date1979-05-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count8
Rimbaud in L.A.
In modern day Los Angeles, writer Paul Verlaine invites young provocating poet Arthur Rimbaud into the home of his step-family, losing interest in his wife as he becomes infatuated with the boy.
Release Date1982-05-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Sunset Boulevard in Concert
Set over a turbulent New Year’s Eve in 1940s Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard is a compelling story of romance and obsession. Directed by Nikolai Foster, the performance features Ria Jones reprising her role as silent-screen goddess Norma Desmond, with Danny Mac returning as penniless screen writer Joe Gillis.
Release Date2020-12-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Dracula: The Musical
German production of the Broadway musical by Frank Wildhorn as shown in the Wilhelmsburg in Ulm, Germany.
Release Date2022-03-25
DepartmentWriting
JobLyricist
Vote Count2