David Lean Movies

A batty Scottish professor attempts to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, but everyone thinks he's crazy. Meanwhile, a foolish young...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Seymour Hicks

Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wife Elizabeth Bergner. The star plays...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elisabeth Bergner

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Holden

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Celia Johnson

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Omar Sharif

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Peter O'Toole

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice....

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Howard Davies

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice....

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Howard Davies

The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship’s first and only...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noël Coward

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Mills

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Mills

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Judy Davis

In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married schoolteacher in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Robert Mitchum

Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Laurence Olivier

A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Laughton

Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man, as they know nothing about her long-term affair...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Todd

While holding a séance for skeptical novelist Charles Condomine, self-proclaimed 'spiritualist medium' Madame Arcati inadvertently summons the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rex Harrison

Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katharine Hepburn

Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katharine Hepburn

A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Newton

A woman is torn between the love of her life, who's married to someone else, and her older husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Todd

A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ralph Richardson

A woman is torn between the love of her life, who's married to someone else, and her older husband.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Todd

It is based on the popular West End stage comedy by Terrence Rattigan. It all begins when Diana (Ellen Drew), the sister of a British boy studying in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ray Milland

In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime suspect is a prosperous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Griffith Jones

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wendy Hiller

Director David Lean became involved in the search for an anchor lost by Captain Cook in 1773. This documentary follows the search for this historic...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Bolt

Director David Lean became involved in the search for an anchor lost by Captain Cook in 1773. This documentary follows the search for this historic...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Bolt

Two insurance detectives work with the police to identify and bring down a crime kingpin. One is murdered, but his partner and his daughter continue.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Malcolm Keen

A wealthy author, looking for material, 'adopts' an incorrigible thief he finds in the streets, together with an attractive typist who is down on her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hugh Wakefield

A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Laughton

A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Charles Laughton

When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Henry Kendall

During a raid on Germany, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland, where they're aided by...

Genre: War

Cast: Godfrey Tearle

A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Loder

'Farm life on the South Downs. A gentleman farmer beats his unscrupulous rival in sheepdog trials.' (British Film Institute)

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stewart Rome

Romantic quadrangle involving two brothers, one a burgeoning ballet composer; a willful heiress; and a waif.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elisabeth Bergner

In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to...

Genre: War

Cast: Fritz Kortner

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Celia Johnson

George, the inebriate night porter at the Hotel Splendide, develops a series of increasingly outlandish suspicions about Billy and Percy, two guests...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Trilby Clark

A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cyril Maude

Domineering actor-manager Max Till takes the impoverished Maika Tamara under his wing, turning her into an overnight sensation. But as her fame...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cedric Hardwicke

Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rène Ray

A British diplomat falls in love with a famous singer when he meets her in Cannes.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Conrad Nagel

In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by...

Genre: War

Cast: Leslie Howard

From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Max von Sydow

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Judy Davis

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Judy Davis

During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Douglas Wakefield

A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ralph Richardson

'Antique dealer's daughter loves foreman who makes fakes for ex-partner.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Longden

'1914. Knight poses as rating aboard son's cruiser and helps Q-ship sink U-boat.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Estelle Brody

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months'...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leslie Howard

A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Newton

While holding a séance for skeptical novelist Charles Condomine, self-proclaimed 'spiritualist medium' Madame Arcati inadvertently summons the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Rex Harrison

Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Barry K. Barnes

'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elizabeth Allan