Movies by Actor - Alec Guinness (56 [Missing: 3]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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Great ExpectationsA humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor. | 1946 | David Lean | Adventure,Drama,Mystery | 7.8 (23.8K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
Oliver TwistIn Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home. | 1948 | David Lean | Drama | 7.8 (12.2K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
Kind Hearts and CoronetsA distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession. | 1949 | Robert Hamer | Comedy,Crime | 8.0 (36.6K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
Kind Hearts and CoronetsA distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession. | 1949 | Robert Hamer | Comedy,Crime | 8.0 (36.6K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
Kind Hearts and CoronetsA distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession. | 1949 | Robert Hamer | Comedy,Crime | 8.0 (36.6K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
Run For Your Money, ABrothers from a Welsh village take their first trip to London to collect a prize, and meet a con artist and various other urban distractions. | 1949 | Charles Frend | Comedy | 6.5 (617 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Last HolidayAfter a lonely, unappreciated farm equipment salesman discovers he has only a few weeks to live, he withdraws his savings for a final holiday at a "posh" resort. | 1950 | Henry Cass | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 7.4 (1.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Mudlark, TheIn 1875 London, young Wheeler (who lives by scavenging) finds a cameo of Queen Victoria, which he thinks so beautiful, he risks his life to save it. Possessed of a desire to see the Queen, he slips past the Beefeaters and wanders abo | 1950 | Jean Negulesco | Drama | 7.0 (848 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
Lavender Hill Mob, TheA meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers. | 1951 | Charles Crichton | Comedy,Crime | 7.6 (13.9K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Man in The White Suit , TheAn altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons. | 1951 | Alexander Mackendrick | Comedy,Drama,Sci-Fi | 7.3 (9.6K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Promoter, The [The Card]Edward Machin, an Edwardian-era young rogue of lowly origin, decides he must do what he can to raise his living standards in order to see the world and shape his own destiny. | 1952 | Ronald Neame | Comedy | 7.1 (1.5K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Captain's Paradise, TheThe captain of a ferry boat between the restricted British colony in Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco has a woman of differing appeal and temperament in each port. | 1953 | Anthony Kimmins | Comedy,Romance | 6.9 (1.7K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
Malta Story1942 and the island of Malta is battling for survival. The threat of invasion by Axis forces is increasing as air raids wear down its defence. Entering this maelstrom is Flight Lieutenant Peter Ross, an RAF photo-reconnaissance pilot | 1953 | Brian Desmond Hurst | Drama,History,War | 6.6 (1.7K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
The Square MileNA | 1953 | | Documentary,Short | | | Not Available |
Detective, The [Father Brown]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. | 1954 | Robert Hamer | Comedy,Crime,Drama | 6.7 (1.4K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
LadyKillers, TheFive 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. | 1955 | Alexander Mackendrick | Comedy,Crime | 7.7 (28.7K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Prisoner, TheA Cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. As a Prince of his church, and a popular hero of this people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war, and afterward his resistance when his country again fell to anot | 1955 | Peter Glenville | Drama | 6.9 (981 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Rowlandson's EnglandNA | 1955 | | Documentary,Short | | | Not Available |
To Paris with LoveA middle-aged widower takes his son on a trip to Paris, where they try to find wives for each other. | 1955 | Robert Hamer | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 5.6 (422 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Swan, TheWhen a crown prince visits, the princess's mother tries to push the prince into marrying her daughter by presenting a "rival" at the ball - her children's handsome tutor. | 1956 | Charles Vidor | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 6.5 (2.6K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
Barnacle BillA seasick sea Captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. | 1957 | Charles Frend | Comedy | 6.9 (1K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Bridge on the River Kwai, TheBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it. | 1957 | David Lean | Adventure,Drama,War | 8.1 (214.6K votes) | 161 | 20211228 |
Horse's Mouth, TheA somewhat vulgar but dedicated painter searches for the perfect realization of his artistic vision, much to the chagrin of others. | 1958 | Ronald Neame | Comedy | 7.1 (3.4K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Scapegoat, TheAn English schoolteacher meets his lookalike, a French count; and unwillingly swaps identities with him. | 1959 | Robert Hamer | Crime,Mystery,Thriller | 7.0 (2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Scapegoat, TheAn English schoolteacher meets his lookalike, a French count; and unwillingly swaps identities with him. | 1959 | Robert Hamer | Crime,Mystery,Thriller | 7.0 (2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Our Man in HavanaJim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble. | 1959 | Carol Reed | Comedy,Crime,Drama | 7.2 (5.4K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
Tunes of GloryAfter World War II, a Highland Regiment's acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two. | 1960 | Ronald Neame | Drama | 7.5 (4K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
Majority of One. AA 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, and forgiveness. | 1961 | Mervyn LeRoy | Comedy,Drama,Family | 6.9 (1.1K votes) | 156 | 20211228 |
H.M.S. DefiantOn the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lieutenant Scott-Padget, whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny. | 1962 | Lewis Gilbert | Action,Drama,History | 7.1 (2.5K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
Lawrence of ArabiaThe story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks. | 1962 | David Lean | Adventure,Biography,Drama | 8.3 (284.5K votes) | 228 | 20211228 |
Fall Of The Roman Empire, TheThe death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperor's son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire. | 1964 | Anthony Mann | Drama,History,War | 6.7 (9K votes) | 188 | 20211228 |
Doctor ZhivagoThe 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 the October Revolution. | 1965 | David Lean | Drama,Romance,War | 8.0 (74.6K votes) | 197 | 20211228 |
Situation Hopeless -- But Not SeriousDuring WW2, a lonely German air-raid warden captures two downed American airmen and keeps them prisoner in his basement way past the end of the war. | 1965 | Gottfried Reinhardt | Comedy,War | 6.0 (449 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Hotel ParadisoMonsieur 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 wife, and the next-door neglectful husband Henri with a beautifu | 1966 | Peter Glenville | Comedy | 6.2 (749 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
Quiller Memorandum, TheIn the West Berlin of the 1960s, two British agents are killed by a Nazi group, prompting British Intelligence to dispatch agent Quiller to investigate. | 1966 | Michael Anderson | Crime,Drama,Mystery | 6.3 (4K votes) | 104 | 20220723 |
Comedians, TheA cynical Welsh hotel owner secretly romances a diplomat's wife in Haiti, under the violent reign of the despot "Papa Doc" Duvalier. | 1967 | Peter Glenville | Drama | 6.3 (2.1K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
CromwellOliver Cromwell can no longer tolerate King Charles' policies, and the self-interest of the ruling class, and leads a civil war to install Parliament as the ultimate ruler of England. | 1970 | Ken Hughes | Biography,Drama,History | 7.0 (5.8K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
ScroogeA musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions. | 1970 | Ronald Neame | Drama,Family,Fantasy | 7.5 (10.8K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
Brother Sun, Sister Moon [Fratello sole, sorella luna]Dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare. | 1972 | Franco Zeffirelli | Biography,Drama,History | 7.2 (4.4K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
Hitler The Last Ten DaysA dramatization based on eye witness accounts of Hitler's final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun. | 1973 | Ennio De Concini | Biography,Drama,History | 6.5 (1.5K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
Caesar and CleopatraJulius Caesar's arrival in Egypt proves to be more than interesting to the beautiful Cleopatra, ambitious sister to the boy pharaoh. | 1976 | James Cellan Jones | Drama | 7.0 (48 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Murder by DeathFive famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery. | 1976 | Robert Moore | Comedy,Crime,Mystery | 7.4 (36.8K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Star WarsLuke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vad | 1977 | George Lucas | Action,Adventure,Fantasy | 8.6 (1.3M votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyIn the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced out of semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6's echelons. | 1979 | John Irvin | Drama,Mystery,Thriller | 8.5 (8.4K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
Empire Strikes Back, TheAfter the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued across the galaxy by Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett. | 1980 | Irvin Kershner | Action,Adventure,Fantasy | 8.7 (1.2M votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
Little Lord FauntleroyAn American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental Lord, who oversees the trust. | 1980 | Jack Gold | Drama,Family,Romance | 7.5 (4.5K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
Raise The TitanicOnce they said God himself couldn't sink her. Then they said no man on Earth could reach her. But an underwater research agency, headed by Admiral James Sandecker, is assigned the job of finding the doomed ship in her North Atlantic | 1980 | Jerry Jameson | Action,Adventure,Drama | 5.1 (4.6K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
Smiley's PeopleThe murder of a Soviet defector forces his old handler, British spymaster George Smiley, out of retirement. His investigation leads to an old nemesis, the Soviet spymaster known only as "Karla". This will be their final dance. | 1982 | Simon Langton | Drama,Mystery | 8.6 (4K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
LovesickA psychiatrist, who falls in love with a patient, is visited by the spirit of Sigmund Freud, who gives him advice on how to handle it. | 1983 | Marshall Brickman | Comedy,Fantasy,Romance | 5.2 (840 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
EdwinTouching comedy about a high court judge, now retired to his English countryside home, who resolves to end years of suspicion about his wife's fidelity and the true paternity of their son. | 1984 | Rodney Bennett | Drama | 6.8 (75 votes) | 90 | 20231001 |
Passage to India, ACultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator. | 1984 | David Lean | Adventure,Drama,History | 7.3 (18.4K votes) | 164 | 20211228 |
Little DorritArthur returns to London after working abroad for many years with his now deceased father. Almost at once he becomes involved in the problems of his mother's seamstress Amy and of her father residing in the Marshalsea debtors' prison | 1987 | Christine Edzard | Drama,Romance | 7.3 (1.1K votes) | 357 | 20211228 |
KafkaKafka works during the day at an insurance company, where events lead him to discover a mysterious underground society with strange suppressive goals. | 1991 | Steven Soderbergh | Drama,Mystery,Sci-Fi | 6.9 (9.9K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
Mute WitnessA mute make-up artist working on a slasher movie being shot in Moscow, is locked in the studio after hours. While there, she witnesses a brutal murder, and must escape capture. | 1995 | Anthony Waller | Crime,Horror,Thriller | 6.7 (5.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Interview Day [Eskimo Day]Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge University. | 1996 | Piers Haggard | Comedy,Drama | 7.6 (229 votes) | 85 | 20231001 |
Baker's DozenNA | 1955 | | \N | | | Not Available |