Directing

Malcolm Clarke

Two-time Oscar-winner and four-time Academy Award nominated Director, Writer & Producer Malcolm Clarke has been making films since the 1980s, first in his native England and later in the US & China. He has made films in more than 80 countries. His work has won awards from the DGA, WGA, DGC, the EMMYs, The Overseas Press Club of America and the BAFTA 'John Grierson Prize'. Mr. Clarke also frequently works as a 'script-doctor' for the Hollywood Studios & Streaming Services. Since 2014, Mr.Clarke has shifted the focus of his work to China, and he was invited to serve as the Chairman of the Jury in the documentary section of the Shanghai International Film Festival. More recently, he sat on the Jury for the Tiantan Awards at the Beijing International Film Festival. Since arriving in China, Mr.Clarke's films have focussed on the challenges of the China-US relationship, China's handling of the COVID-19 epidemic, China's Xiao Kang poverty alleviation initiative, and the 2019 Anti-Extradition Amendment Bill incidents in Hong Kong.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Chasing Holden poster
6.2

Neil Lawrence is sent to a boarding school by his father. During the first days he meets T.J. who he falls in love with. After being assigned a paper on Holden Caulfield - the main character in J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" - Neil decides to go on a journey to meet Salinger, who he feels has played a huge role in his life. Neil & T.J. take off on a journey to New York City. A journey that leads to more then they both ever could have imagined - and changes both their lives forever.

Chasing Holden

2001

Prisoner of Paradise poster
6.8

The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where he was commanded to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film.

Prisoner of Paradise

2003

Prisoner of Paradise poster
6.8

The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where he was commanded to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film.

Prisoner of Paradise

2003

Prisoner of Paradise poster
6.8

The film tells the true story of Kurt Gerron, a German-Jewish cabaret and film actor in the 1920s and 1930s who was sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp where he was commanded to write and direct a Nazi propaganda film.

Prisoner of Paradise

2003

Soldiers in Hiding poster
6.0

A portrait of several Vietnam War veterans living "off the grid." Upon returning home from the war, these men found themselves unable to exist in normal society due to the lasting psychological scars from Vietnam, and, subsequently, chose to live a life of solitude and survival in the American wilderness.

Soldiers in Hiding

1984

Soldiers in Hiding poster
6.0

A portrait of several Vietnam War veterans living "off the grid." Upon returning home from the war, these men found themselves unable to exist in normal society due to the lasting psychological scars from Vietnam, and, subsequently, chose to live a life of solitude and survival in the American wilderness.

Soldiers in Hiding

1984

You Don't Have to Die poster
7.5

A young boy's successful battle against cancer and his subsequent efforts to help other children overcome their fears of the illness.

You Don't Have to Die

1988

You Don't Have to Die poster
7.5

A young boy's successful battle against cancer and his subsequent efforts to help other children overcome their fears of the illness.

You Don't Have to Die

1988

You Don't Have to Die poster
7.5

A young boy's successful battle against cancer and his subsequent efforts to help other children overcome their fears of the illness.

You Don't Have to Die

1988

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life poster
7.1

The story of Alice Herz-Sommer, a German-speaking Jewish pianist from Prague who was, at her death, the world's oldest Holocaust survivor. She discusses the importance of music, laughter, and how to have an optimistic outlook on life.

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

2013

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life poster
7.1

The story of Alice Herz-Sommer, a German-speaking Jewish pianist from Prague who was, at her death, the world's oldest Holocaust survivor. She discusses the importance of music, laughter, and how to have an optimistic outlook on life.

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

2013

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life poster
7.1

The story of Alice Herz-Sommer, a German-speaking Jewish pianist from Prague who was, at her death, the world's oldest Holocaust survivor. She discusses the importance of music, laughter, and how to have an optimistic outlook on life.

The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life

2013

Voices poster
5.0

A story about real life early 20th century British composer and music critic Philip Arnold Heseltine.

Voices

1995

Guns: A Day in the Death of America poster
7.0

The harrowing account of every death by handgun which occurs in America during a randomly chosen 24-hour period.

Guns: A Day in the Death of America

1990

Guns: A Day in the Death of America poster
7.0

The harrowing account of every death by handgun which occurs in America during a randomly chosen 24-hour period.

Guns: A Day in the Death of America

1990

Guns: A Day in the Death of America poster
7.0

The harrowing account of every death by handgun which occurs in America during a randomly chosen 24-hour period.

Guns: A Day in the Death of America

1990

Rashomon Hong Kong poster
NR

A love story engulfed by the turmoil of Hong Kong, 2019. A city at war with itself. social and political conflicts insinuate themselves into every citizen’s life. families fragment, loyalties are questioned and long-cherished relationships succumb to the slow-motion disintegration of a once iconic city – tearing itself apart.

Rashomon Hong Kong

2022

Wuhan - A Season In Hell poster
NR

A chronicle of the ground zero and initial days of the global COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan’s ERs and ICUs.

Wuhan - A Season In Hell

Better Angels poster
NR

An examination of the complex and turbulent relationship between the world’s two great superpowers, China and America.

Better Angels

2018

Being Homosexual poster
NR

Documentary as part of HBO’s America Undercover documentary series that looks at several people and their experiences of being gay.

Being Homosexual

1984