Biography
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
Known For
Complete Filmography
A German Life
2022
Screenplay
Life about the infamous secretary of Nazi Joseph Goebbels.

The Son
2022
Screenplay
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...

Dracula: The Musical
2022
Lyricist, Writer
German production of the Broadway musical by Frank Wildhorn as shown in the Wilhelmsburg in Ulm, Germany.

The Father
2020
Screenplay
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 o...

Sunset Boulevard in Concert
2020
Lyricist, Writer
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, t...

Nostromo: David Lean's Impossible Dream
2017
as Self
Documentary about David Lean's unfinished attempt of adapting Joseph Conrad's novel Nostromo.

Joe Orton Laid Bare
2017
as Himself
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.
The General And Me
2017
Producer
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 f...

National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
2016
Theatre Play
Marquise de Merteuil, former lover of Vicomte de Valmont, incites him to corrupt the innocent Cécile de Volanges before her wedding night, but Valmont...

Ali and Nino
2016
Writer
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 F...

The Thirteenth Tale
2013
Screenplay
Biographer Margaret Lea travels to the isolated rural mansion of the famous writer Vida Winter, who asks her to write her biography. Although initiall...

Adore
2013
Screenplay
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 friendshi...

Dracula: The Musical
2011
Lyricist
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 D...

A Dangerous Method
2011
Screenplay, Theatre Play
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 we...

Chéri
2009
Writer
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 l...

Atonement
2007
Screenplay
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime ...

100 Greatest Sexy Moments
2003
as Self
Documentary, based on a British poll, listing the 100 sexiest movie and TV moments. Supplemented by new interviews with performers, filmmakers, and au...

Imagining Argentina
2003
Director
Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his...

Three Sisters
2003
Writer
Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga, a schoolmistress, attempts to support her...

The Quiet American
2002
Screenplay
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 att...

The Secret Agent
1996
Director, Writer
In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, providing information to Chief Inspector Heat about a la...

Mary Reilly
1996
Screenplay
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.

Total Eclipse
1995
as The Judge
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lif...

Total Eclipse
1995
Screenplay
Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lif...

Carrington
1995
Director, Screenplay
Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by...

Tales from Hollywood
1992
Writer
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 playwri...

Dangerous Liaisons
1988
Screenplay, Theatre Play
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 ...

The Wolf at the Door
1986
Screenplay
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 inab...

Hotel du Lac
1986
Writer
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 obse...

The Good Father
1985
Writer
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 ...

The Honorary Consul
1983
Screenplay
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...

Rimbaud in L.A.
1982
Writer
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...

Tales from the Vienna Woods
1979
Writer
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 bu...

Able's Will
1977
Writer
Thomas Able, once a successful writer, has not written since the war. He lies paralysed and dying. His family gather at the family home.
The Philanthropist
1975
Writer
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 amo...

A Doll's House
1973
Screenplay
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 li...

Wilder & Me
N/A
Writer
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...
The Noise of Time
N/A
Writer
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 h...