Joseph Conrad Filmography

Swept From The Sea

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Vincent Perez, Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen, Joss Ackland, Kathy Bates

Synopsis: Swept From the Sea was inspired by a short story by Joseph Conrad. Set in late 19th-century Cornwall England in a small farming community, the story is told via flashback in a conversation between Dr. James Kennedy (Ian McKellen) and his patient Miss Swaffer (Kathy Bates). Dr. Kennedy despises Read More

The Secret Agent

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette, Gérard Depardieu, Robin Williams, George Spelvin, Jim Broadbent

Synopsis: In this adaptation of the novel by Joseph Conrad, Mr. Verloc (Bob Hoskins) runs a shabby corner shop in London that serves as a front for his more profitable sideline, selling pornography. However, selling sex photos is not Verloc's main order of business; he is a member of an anarchist Read More

Nostromo

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Colombia, the four-part British miniseries Nostromo was based on the 1904 Joseph Conrad novel of the same name. Relocating to the fictional South American country of Costaguana, 19th century British aristocrat Charles Gould (Colin Firth) was determined to revive the old San Read More

Victory

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Simon Callow, Jean Yanne, Ho Yi

Synopsis: This third feature film version of Joseph Conrad's tragic romantic drama (the best of which remains John Cromwell's 1940 adaptation) is the one that stick's closest to the original story of a reclusive, hard-hearted fellow living on a private island in the Dutch East Indies who must protect his Read More

Heart of Darkness

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: John Malkovich, Tim Roth

Synopsis: Previously the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979), the dark novella Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, a parable about greed-inspired colonialism, was adapted into this television movie by offbeat filmmaker Nicolas Roeg. Ambitious sailor Marlow (Tim Roth) is employed by Read More

The Secret Agent

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: The second British TV-miniseries adaptation of Joseph Conrad's pioneering espionage novel The Secret Agent was the three-part, three-hour version seen over BBC2 from October 28 to November 11, 1992. On this occasion, David Suchet (of Poirot fame) starred as Verloc, a turn-of-the-century anarchist Read More

Devil's Paradise

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Jürgen Prochnow, Sam Waterston, Suzanna Hamilton, Mario Adorf, Dominique Pinon

Synopsis: Escher (Jurgen Prochnow) wanders through the South Sea islands after his partner Quinn (Tony Doyle) is murdered in this drama taken from a novel by Joseph Conrad. When he checks into the Grand Pacific Hotel, Escher encounters a variety of memorable guests. Included are the perverted Mr. Jones (Sam Waterston Read More

Apocalypse Now

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: One of a cluster of late-1970s films about the Vietnam War, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now adapts the Joseph Conrad novella Heart of Darkness to depict the war as a descent into primal madness. Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen), already on the edge, is assigned to find and deal with AWOL Col. Read More

The Duellists

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Cristina Raines, Edward Fox, Robert Stephens

Synopsis: The Duellists is based on a story by Joseph Conrad, variously titled The Duel and The Point of Honour. Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel play officers in Napoleon's army -- D'Hubert and Feraud, respectively -- who spend their off-hours challenging each other to bloody duels. This goes on for Read More

Smuga Cienia

Crew: Short Story Author

Synopsis: Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 1976 Polish Film Festival, this drama from director Andrzej Wajda was based on the short story The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad. The film tells the story of a young man who tries his best to helm a foundering boat bound for Singapore. Not only is the boat Read More

Secret Sharer

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: This adaptation of a story by Joseph Conrad tells of a sea captain torn between the safety of his crew and his own conscience. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Rover

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Based on a story by Joseph Conrad, this 18th-century set drama is set shortly after the French Revolution and chronicles the exploits of a former counterrevolutionary pirate who befriends a mentally ill, naive young woman. Eventually his feelings of friendship turn to love and this in turn leads Read More

The Secret Agent

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Joseph Conrad's pioneering espionage novel The Secret Agent is perhaps best known to modern audiences via Alfred Hitchcock's 1936 film adaptation Sabotage. A less colorful but more faithful-to-the-text version of the Conrad novel was telecast in two 45-minute installments by Britain's BBC2 on July Read More

Lord Jim

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Curd Jürgens, Jack Hawkins, Eli Wallach, Daliah Lavi

Synopsis: Joseph Conrad's cerebral, philosophical novel Lord Jim is streamlined and simplified by producer/director/writer Richard Brooks for the action-and-adventure crowd. Peter O'Toole plays the first officer of a tramp steamer, who, during a hurricane, cravenly abandons ship, leaving the passengers to Read More

Playhouse 90: Heart of Darkness

Crew: Book Author

Laughing Anne

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker, Ronald Shiner, Robert Harris

Synopsis: Comparatively little known today, Republic's Laughing Anne was a Late Late Show perennial in the early 1960s. One of several Republic features lensed in England in collaboration with producer Herbert Wilcox, the film stars Margaret Lockwood in the title role. A well-known Parisian cabaret singer Read More

Face to Face

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: James Mason, Gene Lockhart, Michael Pate, Robert Preston, Albert Sharpe, Marjorie Steele, Sean McClory

Synopsis: RKO's Face to Face joined the "multistoried film" bandwagon set in motion by the Somerset Maugham omnibus films of the late 1940s. Produced by Huntington Hartford, Face to Face consists of two classic American short stories, each running approximately 45 minutes. Directed by John Brahm, "The Read More

Outcast of the Islands

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard, Robert Morley, Kerima, Wendy Hiller

Synopsis: Partially filmed on location in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Outcast of the Islands is a reasonably faithful adaptation of Joseph Conrad's novel. Trevor Howard plays a degenerate British expatriate who wanders aimlessly around a Malayan island. Most of the film involves the search for Howard by those Read More

Victory

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Fredric March, Betty Field, Cedric Hardwicke, Jerome Cowan, Sig Rumann

Synopsis: Victory was the first of Joseph Conrad's novels to be adapted to film, way back in 1919. The earliest talkie version, pointlessly retitled Dangerous Paradise, was lensed in 1930. Finally, Victory was given its best screen treatment in 1940 under the sensitive direction of John Cromwell. Fredric March Read More

Sabotage

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder, Joyce Barbour

Synopsis: Oskar Homolka plays a London movie-theatre owner who maintains a secret life as a paid terrorist. Homolka's wife Sylvia Sidney doesn't suspect Homolka of any wrongdoing, but she's picked up enough second-hand information about her husband's activities to arouse the interest of government agent (John Loder Read More

Sous Les Yeux De L'Occident

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Madeleine Suffel, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Fresnay, Michel Simon, Pierre Renoir

Synopsis: Adapted from a story by Joseph Conrad, Sous les Yeux D'Occident (Under Western Eyes) is set in Russia during the Revolution. Haldin (Jean-Louis Barrault), an assassin for a terrorist organization, hides out in the home of his friend Razumov (Pierre Fresnay). Not wishing to be arrested himself Read More

Dangerous Paradise

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Warner Oland, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Francis McDonald

Synopsis: Joseph Conrad's novel Victory inspired some of this South Sea drama. Alma (Nancy Carroll), a violinist hired to play at an island resort, is pressured to make herself available to its male visitors. She flees and hides in a skiff belonging to the reclusive Heyst (Richard Arlen), who is said to Read More

The Rescue

Crew: Short Story Author

Actors: Alfred Hickman, Theodore Von Eltz, John Davidson

Synopsis: This drama, based on a Joseph Conrad novel, follows the exploits of a British adventurer who helps hide an island prince and his sister after they are chased out of their village by rebellious natives. The adventurer then tries to help the prince reclaim his home, but he is waylaid by a wealthy Read More

Silver Treasure

Crew: Book Author

Actors: George O'Brien, Jack Rollins, Helena D'Algy, Evelyn Selbie

Synopsis: The celebrated Joseph Conrad novel The Silver Treasure was brought to the screen as Silver Treasure in 1926. The story is set in the mythical South American republic of Costaguana, where local hero Nostromo (George O'Brien) is regarded as the noblest man on earth. Nostromo is looked up to by Read More

Lord Jim

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Percy Marmont, Shirley Mason, Noah Beery, Sr., Raymond Hatton, Joseph J. Dowling

Synopsis: Almost 30 years before the Peter O'Toole picture, Joseph Conrad's novel was first filmed as a silent. It was directed in typically virile manner by Victor Fleming, starred Percy Marmont as Jim, and was actually truer to the novel than the 1964 version. Jim is a seaman under the despicable Captain Read More