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Christopher Hampton
Director 80 years old

Christopher Hampton

Faial, Açores, Portugal

Sir Christopher James Hampton CBE FRSL is a British playwright, screenwriter, translator and film director. He is best known for his play Les Liaisons Dangereuses based on the novel of the same name and the film adaptation

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

3 titles
Imagining Argentina

Imagining Argentina

Christopher Hampton 2003 1h 47m 7.7

Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious abductions, she is herself abducted and taken into police custody.

The Secret Agent

The Secret Agent

Christopher Hampton 1996 1h 35m

Verloc, who is an agent for the Russian embassy, lives in London in 1886 with his wife and her mentally disabled brother. A new ambassador wants more from him than in the past years - something with a bomb. Verloc also informs the police.

Carrington

Carrington

Christopher Hampton 1995 2h 1m

Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and they begin a lifelong friendship that has strangely romantic undertones.

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