Samuel Beckett Movies

On the island of Tanna, a part of Vanuatu, an archipelago in Melanesia, strange rites are enacted and time passes slowly while the inhabitants await...

An adaptation of the Beckett play

A woman left behind by a man. Based on a script by Samuel Beckett.

There are five survivors in a futuristic library. Bam is their supreme dictator, and has the others interrogated and tortured, believing them to have...

Biography and in-depth look of Beckett and his work.

The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces Beckett’s artistic life through his prose,...

Two derelicts occupy themselves as they wait for 'Godot' to make an appearance on Pozzo's estate.

An old woman in a rocking chair listens to a disembodied voice (her own) that recounts her life and that of her mother's. When the voice stops, she...

Krapp’s Last Tape: James Hayes uses his natural Irish accent to deliver the best known of these works, a meditation on ageing. He plays the...

A female voice identifies a lone man in a room. The shots cut closer, revealing he is holding a cassette recorder, playing Beethoven's "Ghost" Piano...

Adaption of 'Waiting for Godot', by the Vakhtangov Theatre Moscow.

An adaptation of Samuel Beckett's short play from 1965. Three women meet on a bench; they reminisce about their old school days and whisper terrible...

A French adaptation of Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot", staged by Marion Coutris et Serge Noyelle.

A 69-year-old man sits alone on his birthday and listens to his past through the form of tape reels he has recorded throughout his life.

Winnie is buried up to her waist. The merciless sun beats down. Her husband Willie barely speaks. And yet! - she proclaims – ‘this...

Samuel Beckett directs for German television for the last time.

With hindsight, we can see exactly how wrong the labels given to Samuel Beckett have been, since it has been said that his writing was sad, negative...

Winnie, a woman in her fifties, is buried waist-deep in a mound of scorched earth, with just a large, black shopping bag and a collapsed parasol....

Samuel Beckett directs for German television.