The Secret Agent (1996 film)

The Secret Agent
The Secret Agent
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Directed by	Christopher Hampton
Written by	Christopher Hampton
Based on	The Secret Agent; by Joseph Conrad
Starring	Bob Hoskins; Patricia Arquette; Gérard Depardieu; Christian Bale;
Cinematography	Denis Lenoir
Edited by	George Akers
Music by	Philip Glass
Production; companies	Fox Searchlight Pictures; Capitol Films
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	8 November 1996;
Running time	95 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Box office	$106,606

Directed byChristopher Hampton

Written byChristopher Hampton

Based onThe Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad

Starring

The Secret Agent is a 1996 British drama-thriller film written and directed by Christopher Hampton and starring Bob Hoskins and Patricia Arquette. It is adapted from Joseph Conrad's 1907 novel of the same name.^[1]^[2]

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v t e Christopher Hampton
Films written and directed	Carrington (1995) The Secret Agent (1996) Imagining Argentina (2003)
Films written only	A Doll's House (1973) Tales from the Vienna Woods (1979) The Honorary Consul (1983) The Good Father (1985) The Wolf at the Door (1986) Hotel du Lac (1986) Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Total Eclipse (1995) Mary Reilly (1996) The Quiet American (2002) Atonement (2007) Chéri (2009) A Dangerous Method (2011) The Thirteenth Tale (2013) Adoration (2013) Ali and Nino (2016) The Father (2020) The Son (2022)
TV series created	The History Man (1981) The Ginger Tree (1989) The Singapore Grip (2020)
Plays	The Philanthropist Savages Treats Tales from Hollywood Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Musical productions	Sunset Boulevard Dracula, the Musical Waiting for the Barbarians Appomattox The Trial Rebecca Stephen Ward

v t e Philip Glass
List of compositions
Compositions	Music in Twelve Parts Glassworks String Quartet No. 2 (Company) String Quartet No. 4 (Buczak) The Light Passages Itaipu Songs from Liquid Days Aguas da Amazonia
Operas	Einstein on the Beach Satyagraha The Photographer Akhnaten The Civil Wars The Juniper Tree The Fall of the House of Usher The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 1000 Airplanes on the Roof Hydrogen Jukebox The Voyage Orphée Les Enfants terribles La Belle et la Bête Monsters of Grace White Raven In the Penal Colony Galileo Galilei The Sound of a Voice Waiting for the Barbarians Appomattox Kepler The Perfect American The Trial
Symphonies	No. 1 (Low) No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 ("Heroes") No. 5 (Requiem, Bardo, Nirmanakaya) No. 6 (Plutonian Ode) No. 7 (Toltec) No. 8 No. 9 No. 10 No. 11 No. 12 (Lodger) No. 13 (Truth in Our Time) No. 14 (Liechtenstein Suite) No. 15 (Lincoln)
Concertos	Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tirol) Piano Concerto No. 2 (After Lewis and Clark) Harpsichord Concerto Violin Concerto (withdrawn) Violin Concerto No. 1 Violin Concerto No. 2 (American Four Seasons) Cello Concerto No. 1 Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra
Film scores	Koyaanisqatsi (1982) Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) Dracula (1999) The Hours (2002) Going Upriver (2004) Roving Mars (2006) Notes on a Scandal (2007) Cassandra's Dream (2007) Fantastic Four (2015) Jane (2017)
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v t e Joseph Conrad (works)
Novels and novellas	Almayer's Folly An Outcast of the Islands The Nigger of the "Narcissus" Heart of Darkness The End of the Tether Lord Jim The Inheritors Typhoon Falk Romance Nostromo The Secret Agent Under Western Eyes Freya of the Seven Isles Chance Victory The Shadow-Line The Arrow of Gold The Rescue The Nature of a Crime The Rover Suspense
Short stories	"The Idiots" "An Outpost of Progress" "The Lagoon" "Karain: A Memory" "Youth" "Amy Foster" "The Secret Sharer" "Because of the Dollars" "The Tale"
Other works	The Inheritors (1901) Romance (1903) A Personal Record Last Essays
Adaptations	Victory (1919) Lord Jim (1925) The Silver Treasure (1926) Dangerous Paradise (1930) Sabotage (1936) Victory (1940) Outcast of the Islands (1951) Lord Jim (1965) The Rover (1967) The Secret Agent (1975) The Duellists (1977) Apocalypse Now (1979) The Secret Agent (1992) Heart of Darkness (1993) Victory (1996) The Secret Agent (1996) Nostromo (1997 TV) Gabrielle (2005) Almayer's Folly (2011) Spec Ops: The Line (2012 video game) Hanyut (2014) Secret Sharer (2014) The Secret Agent (2016) The Young One (2016)
Related	Apollo Korzeniowski (father) Joseph Conrad's career at sea Joseph Conrad (ship)

v t e Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent (1907)
Films	Sabotage (1936) Bommai (1964) The Secret Agent (1996) Lone Wolf (2021)
TV programmes	The Secret Agent (1975) The Secret Agent (1992) The Secret Agent (2016)

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