Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

Not under 12

Reason:Violence

Plot

Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.

Cast

John HurtWinston Smith

Richard BurtonO´Brien

Suzanna HamiltonJulia

Cyril CusackCharrington

Gregor FisherParsons

James WalkerSyme

Andrew WildeTillotson

Roger Lloyd PackWaiter

Phyllis LoganThe Telescreen Anouncer (voice)

Garry CooperGuard

Christine HargreavesSoup Lady

David Trevena

Writers and directors

Michael RadfordDirectorf. -0001

Other films by the same director

Michel Petrucciani2011

George OrwellWriterf. -0001

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CharlesTheBold

Based on George Orwell's dystopian novel from the 1940s, the movie was produced in the very year that Orwell had set it, 1984. Horrified by the recent atrocities by the Germans and Russians, and f…22. Feb 2017

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Peter McGinn ★ 7.0/10

Do not watch this movie if you are feeling pessimistic or depressed, because the kind of catharsis won’t help you. Nineteen-eighty-four is a bleak movie based on a dark novel that paints a totalitaria…1. Mar 2021

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CinemaSerf ★ 7.0/10

This adaptation is a fairly faithful, if a little too abridged, version of the Orwellian story of absolute power, sedition and oppression but it's really John Hurt who makes this version stand out. Hi…27. Jan 2025

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