1984

A man loses his identity while living under a repressive regime. In a story based on George Orwell's classic novel, Winston Smith (John Hurt) 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 (Suzanna Hamilton) 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.

Critic Reviews:

• " Michael Radford's brilliant film of Orwell's vision does a good job of finding that line between the “future” world of 1984 and the grim postwar world in which Orwell wrote. " – Roger Ebert

• " [A] well-intentioned (if overly stylised) adaptation… " – Leigh Paatsch

• " Radford's visu­alization of Orwell's vision in 1984 is all the more powerful and disconcerting today for how frighteningly prescient it was " – James Kendrick