Mike Hodges

Mike Hodges was an English screenwriter and film director. His films as director include Get Carter (1971), Pulp (1972), the 1980 version of Flash Gordon and Croupier (1998).

Works

Who Killed British Cinema?

A feature length documentary about the real state of the British film industry in relation to UK structures past, present and currently for the future. This film exposes the shocking truths about the UK Governments' will to grow an indigenous British film industry, the legacy and testament of the now closed UK Film Council (UKFC), the current British Film Institute and the new Creative England.

Release Date2018-11-26

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Life After Flash

A look at the roller coaster life of Sam J. Jones since his role as Flash Gordon, his struggles and successes, and the aftermath of when he went up against one of the most powerful producers in Hollywood.

Release Date2017-10-02

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Vote Count22

The Man Who Got Carter

This is a documentary feature film about the phenomenal life and career of Tony Klinger's father, the legendary British film producer Michael Klinger.

Release Date2018-11-03

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Kurosawa: The Last Emperor

A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.

Release Date1999-01-01

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Vote Count4

The Hitchhiker

A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.

Release Date1983-11-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count32

Flash Gordon

A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

Release Date1980-12-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1068

Damien - Omen II

Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire — and the world.

Release Date1978-06-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count798

The Frighteners

A horror anthology series, with each episode featuring a different eerie tale.

Release Date1972-07-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

World in Action

World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.

Release Date1963-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

Croupier

Jack Manfred is an aspiring writer who to make ends meet, takes a job as a croupier. Jack remains an observer, knowing that everything in life is a gamble and that gamblers are born to lose. Inevitably, he gets sucked into the world of the casino which takes its toll on his relationships and the novel he is writing.

Release Date1998-06-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count315

Tempo

A long-running ITV arts and culture series that aired from 1961 to 1968, Tempo was a landmark British television programme dedicated to the performing and visual arts. With a flexible magazine format and an open editorial remit, the series explored cinema, music, dance, photography, literature, theatre, and contemporary cultural life. Combining intellectual ambition with accessible presentation, Tempo established a model for serious arts broadcasting on commercial television and laid the groundwork for later landmark programmes such as Aquarius and The South Bank Show.

Release Date1961-10-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count83

Rumour

A hard-bitten newspaper reporter is drawn back into the world of sleaze he had hoped to have left behind, and this time it goes right to the top.

Release Date1970-03-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Get Carter

Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.

Release Date1971-02-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count543

Pulp

A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.

Release Date1972-11-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count48

The Terminal Man

As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. The procedure is not entirely successful.

Release Date1974-06-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count58

Dandelion Dead

This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.

Release Date1994-10-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

Will Graham is a former London crime boss who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has murdered, Will wishes never to return. But when his brother commits suicide following a sexual assault at the hands of a volatile car dealer, Will returns to London to discover the cause of his brother's death and administer justice to those responsible.

Release Date2003-05-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count123

Black Rainbow

Martha Travis is a medium who makes contact with spirits "on the other side" and connects them with their loved ones still alive, in public performances. Trouble begins when she gives a message to Mary Kuron from her husband, Tom. But Tom isn't dead... yet. And Martha not only knows he will die, she also knows who killed him. And the murderer knows she knows...

Release Date1989-12-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count46

A Prayer for the Dying

Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.

Release Date1987-09-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count107

Morons from Outer Space

The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period of their stay at the station, the other three begin playing with the ship’s controls while Bernard is outside playing spaceball. They accidentally disconnect his part of the ship, leaving him stranded while they crash into a large blue planet close by...

Release Date1985-03-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count44

Florida Straits

A man who spent 20 years in Cuban prison after the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion and a boat captain and his crew go covertly to Cuba to find a cache of gold buried during the invasion. But can they trust each other?

Release Date1986-10-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count12

Red Hot Rock

Eleven sexy music videos you could never see on television complete and uncensored for the first time.

Release Date1984-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

The Lifeforce Experiment

A CIA agent infiltrates the research team of a scientist who seeks to capture the essence of a dying leukemia patient.

Release Date1994-04-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Missing Pieces

A private detective has to deal with an unpleasant memory, a near-insoluble mystery, and a pursuing murderer inflicted with drugs and political corruption.

Release Date1983-05-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Squaring the Circle

An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.

Release Date1984-05-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Suspect

A proud woman coldly concentrates on keeping up appearances when her 50-year old husband and a young schoolgirl go missing at the same time.

Release Date1969-11-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Murder by Numbers

A documentary on serial killer films.

Release Date2004-03-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Healer

Alberto, a Colombian migrant, has the gift of healing but can't heal his own dark past. Working in London to send money home, he is tortured by dark visions, that will determine his own destiny - Your future is in his hands.

Release Date1994-04-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Flip Side

An investigation of the business side of the music industry which includes a live performance of the Rolling Stones in concert and interviews with pop stars.

Release Date1964-09-22

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer