Known For
Complete Filmography

National Theatre Live: Straight Line Crazy
2022
Writer
Ralph Fiennes leads the cast in David Hare’s blazing account of the most powerful man in New York, a master manipulator whose legacy changed the city ...

Beat the Devil
2021
Writer, Director
Drama by David Hare in which Ralph Fiennes stars as the playwright, recounting his experience of contracting Covid-19 on the day lockdown was announce...

Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play for Today
2020
as Self
Marking Play for Today’s 50th anniversary, Drama Out of a Crisis is a compelling exploration of the series, its origins, achievements, controversies a...

National Theatre Live: I'm Not Running
2019
Writer
Pauline Gibson has spent her life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a local health campaign. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, a stalw...

The White Crow
2018
Writer
The story of Rudolf Nureyev, whose escape to the West stunned the world at the height of the Cold War. With his magnetic presence, Nureyev emerged as ...

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold
2017
as Self
Griffin Dunne’s years-in-the-making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simult...

Wall
2017
as Himself
Writer David Hare explores the reality of the wall separating Israel and Palestine.

Brexit Shorts: Time to Leave
2017
Writer
In her garden in the Home Counties, leave-vote Eleanor wonders why the Brexit vote hasn’t made her happier.
Ballyfin: Portrait of an Irish Country House
2017
Director
This documentary tells the story of the history of Ballyfin, how it played an important role in the political, artistic and social life of nineteenth ...

Judi Dench: All the World's Her Stage
2016
as Self
This documentary celebrates one of Britain’s greatest actors, Dame Judi Dench, and looks back over her remarkable 60-year career.

Denial
2016
Screenplay
Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a reno...

Alan Clarke: Out of His Own Light
2016
as Self
A multi-part documentary about Alan Clarke, featuring interviews with various actors, writers and producers.

National Theatre Live: Behind the Beautiful Forevers
2015
Screenplay
India is surging with global ambition. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport lies a makeshift slum, full of people with plans of the...

National Theatre Live: Skylight
2014
Theatre Play, Writer
On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and charis...

Salting the Battlefield
2014
Director, Writer
David Hare concludes his trilogy of films about MI5 renegade Johnny Worricker with another fugue on power, secrets and the British establishment. John...

Turks & Caicos
2014
Director, Writer
The second movie in David Hare's Johnny Worricker trilogy. Loose-limbed spy Johnny Worricker, last seen whistleblowing at MI5 in Page Eight, has a new...

Joe Papp in Five Acts
2012
as Self
Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North America—...
Getsemani
2011
Theatre Play
Inspired by the behind-the-scenes of the British Labor Party and Tony Blair's team, the author reveals the brutal mechanisms of the game with and for ...

Page Eight
2011
Writer, Director
Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of the organisation.

The Reader
2008
Screenplay
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only t...

My Zinc Bed
2008
Writer
A recovering alcoholic becomes involved with his boss's wife, a former cocaine addict.

Art, Truth and Politics
2005
as self
Nobel Lecture delivered on video by the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature Harold Pinter (1930–2008), who was at the time hospitalised and unable to tr...

The Hours
2002
Screenplay
The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings a...

Lee Miller: A Crazy Way of Seeing
2001
as Self
Documentary charting the fascinating life and work of Lee Miller, a model for Vogue in 1920s New York who became the only female photojournalist to co...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change
2000
Director
Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controversial Paris Peace Conference, where he once more ...

Alan Clarke: His Own Man
2000
as Self
British film-maker Alan Clarke was championed by the likes of Gary Oldman, Tim Roth and Ray Winstone - Stephen Frears even called him the best. And ye...

Via Dolorosa
2000
as Himself
In this one-man Broadway production directed for the stage by Stephen Daldry, acclaimed screenwriter-playwright David Hare recounts his eye-opening jo...

Via Dolorosa
2000
Writer
In this one-man Broadway production directed for the stage by Stephen Daldry, acclaimed screenwriter-playwright David Hare recounts his eye-opening jo...

The Designated Mourner
1997
Director, Producer
Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judy's father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story ...

The Absence of War
1995
Writer
Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw and based on Labour's disastrous 1992 election campaign. Labour leader George Jones batt...
The Secret Rapture
1993
Screenplay
Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmo...

Damage
1992
Screenplay
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.

Heading Home
1991
Director
The story of a woman who falls in love with two very different men in post World War II London.

Strapless
1989
Director, Writer
An expatriate American doctor in London allows herself to lighten up when her freewheeling younger sister and a mysterious man enter her life. Her inh...

Paris by Night
1989
Director, Writer
Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career - but on a trip to Paris her ordered existence is overturned b...

Plenty
1985
Screenplay, Theatre Play
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.

Wetherby
1985
Writer, Director
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its resid...

Saigon: Year Of The Cat
1983
Writer, Associate Producer
The year is 1974, and Barbara Dean (Judi Dench), a British assistant manager in a foreign bank in Saigon, begins a relationship with American Bob Ches...

Dreams of Leaving
1980
Director, Writer
William came to work in Fleet Street in 1971. London meant girls, as many girls as he could find. Then he met Caroline and so it began, that very stra...

Licking Hitler
1978
Writer, Director
1941 and the upper class Anna Seaton is hired as part of an allied radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But te...

Knuckle
1975
Theatre Play
Curley Delafield, a young arms merchant, is determined to discover the secret behind the disappearance of his sister Sarah.

Brassneck
1975
Writer
Through the story of a single family, Brassneck traces a history that parallels the Labour Party's advent to power in 1945 through to the property spe...

Man Above Men
1973
Writer
Max Glanville, a judge whose attention wanders throughout a trial for criminal assault, makes an error in the sentence - which he has to correct. The ...

The Heritage
1962
as Lawrence Morell
British horror short from 1962.