I just watched 'A Man For All Seasons' today and thought it was a really good movie. I was reading up a bit on the man and have heard people say that he used to torture heretics and I had heard Stephen Fry say that he killed people who dared to own bibles in other languages. I've also heard that this was just propaganda and is all lies so which is true?.
He did burn heretics, that's true. He didn't actually disagree with translating the bible, the problem for him was that the translator was a heretic. And I don't know of any cases where owning the book alone would have been cause for burning, since anyone accused would be given a chance to recant. That only worked once, though, so if someone was accused of heresy, recanted, and was caught with the Tyndale bible after that, they might be burned.
He probably didn't torture people. There were accusations made during his lifetime that he did torture imprisoned heretics, which he denied. I wouldn't usually take that at face value, but considering More died rather than take a false oath, I feel his words have some weight. Not to mention that falsely denying a whipping seems strange after you've burned them alive, but that's just me.
this post cites several sources, and the consensus seems to be that there isn't evidence of torture.