Search results for "Alec Guinness"
Mute Witness

Mute Witness

Mute Witness
IMDb: 6.7
95

Billy is mute, but it hasn’t kept her from becoming a successful makeup artist. While in Russia, working on a film directed by her sister’s boyfriend, Andy, Billy finds herself…

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Kafka

Kafka

Kafka
IMDb: 6.8
98

Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret…

Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit
IMDb: 7.2
357

A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor’s prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose…

Genre: Drama
A Handful of Dust

A Handful of Dust

A Handful of Dust
IMDb: 6.6
118

English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his vast estate. There Beaver makes the acquaintance of Tony’s wife, Brenda. Together, they…

Genre: Drama, Romance
A Passage to India

A Passage to India

A Passage to India
IMDb: 7.3
163

Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela…

Raise the Titanic

Raise the Titanic

Raise the Titanic
IMDb: 5.2
115

To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.

Genre: Adventure
Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy
IMDb: 7.4
103

Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric’s grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned…

The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back
IMDb: 8.7
124

The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more…

Star Wars

Star Wars

Star Wars
IMDb: 8.6
121

Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team…

Murder by Death

Murder by Death

Murder by Death
IMDb: 7.3
94

Lionel Twain invites the world’s five greatest detectives to a ‘dinner and murder’. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more…

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Hitler: The Last Ten Days
IMDb: 6.5
106

Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Brother Sun, Sister Moon
IMDb: 7.2
121

In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. He slowly recovers, but…

Genre: Drama, History
Scrooge

Scrooge

Scrooge
IMDb: 7.5
113

A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.

Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Cromwell

Cromwell

Cromwell
IMDb: 7
140

Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Comedians

The Comedians

The Comedians
IMDb: 6.3
152

American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.

Genre: Drama
The Quiller Memorandum

The Quiller Memorandum

The Quiller Memorandum
IMDb: 6.3
104

After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Hotel Paradiso

Hotel Paradiso

Hotel Paradiso
IMDb: 6.1
98

Monsieur Feydeau has writer’s block, and he needs a new play. But he takes an opportunity to observe the upper class of 1900 Paris – Monsieur Boniface with a domineering…

Genre: Comedy
Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago
IMDb: 7.9
200

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist’s wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Fall of the Roman Empire

The Fall of the Roman Empire

The Fall of the Roman Empire
IMDb: 6.7
188

In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make…

Genre: Drama, History, War
H.M.S. Defiant

H.M.S. Defiant

H.M.S. Defiant
IMDb: 7.1
101

Defiant’s crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant’s first…

A Majority of One

A Majority of One

A Majority of One
IMDb: 6.7
156

A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Tunes of Glory

Tunes of Glory

Tunes of Glory
IMDb: 7.5
106

Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his…

Genre: Drama
Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana

Our Man in Havana
IMDb: 7.2
111

Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer…

Genre: Comedy, Thriller
The Scapegoat

The Scapegoat

The Scapegoat
IMDb: 6.8
92

An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.

The Horse’s Mouth

The Horse’s Mouth

The Horse’s Mouth
IMDb: 7
95

Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the…

Genre: Comedy
The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai
IMDb: 8.1
161

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Barnacle Bill

Barnacle Bill

Barnacle Bill
IMDb: 6.7
87

A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as ‘All at Sea’

Genre: Comedy
The Swan

The Swan

The Swan
IMDb: 6.4
112

Princess Beatrice’s days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
To Paris with Love

To Paris with Love

To Paris with Love
IMDb: 5.5
78

A father and son go to Paris to help each other find love.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Prisoner

The Prisoner

The Prisoner
IMDb: 6.8
95

A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when…

Genre: Drama
The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers
IMDb: 7.6
91

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Father Brown

Father Brown

Father Brown
IMDb: 6.7
91

Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Malta Story

Malta Story

Malta Story
IMDb: 6.5
99

Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Captain’s Paradise

The Captain’s Paradise

The Captain’s Paradise
IMDb: 6.8
94

Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized – a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Card

The Card

The Card
IMDb: 7
85

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing – some honest, some not quite so. If he can…

Genre: Comedy
The Man in the White Suit

The Man in the White Suit

The Man in the White Suit
IMDb: 7.2
85

The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material,…

The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob
IMDb: 7.5
78

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Last Holiday

Last Holiday

Last Holiday
IMDb: 7.3
88

George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn’t long to live. On his doctor’s advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
A Run for Your Money

A Run for Your Money

A Run for Your Money
IMDb: 6.4
85

Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort. Instead, the brothers…

Genre: Comedy
Kind Hearts and Coronets

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Kind Hearts and Coronets
IMDb: 8
104

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family…

Genre: Comedy, Crime