Movies by Actor - Ian McKellen (100 [Missing: 45]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| Alfred the GreatWhile Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the ninth century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows, to take up arms against the invaders, leading | 1969 | Clive Donner | Drama,History,War | 6.3 (1.1K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Touch of Love, AA young London woman, studying for her doctorate in the British Museum, spends her nights trying to avoid the sexual admiration of men in her life. | 1969 | Waris Hussein | Drama | 6.4 (356 votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Edward IIThe reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start, when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile. | 1970 | Richard Marquand, Toby Robertson | Drama,History | 7.1 (139 votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| The Tragedy of King Richard IINA | 1970 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
| HamletNA | 1970 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
| MacbethMacbeth (Sir Ian McKellen) is a daring member of the Scottish military, who receives a revelation from three menacing sorceresses that he will someday become the King of Scotland. This information gives him a thirst for power, and... | 1979 | Philip Casson, Trevor Nunn | Drama | 7.6 (877 votes) | 145 | 20230728 |
| Priest of LoveFollowing the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow", D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to | 1981 | Christopher Miles | Biography,Drama,Romance | 6.3 (373 votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Scarlet Pimpernel, TheParis, 1792: After France becomes a republic, aristocrats are guillotined. The English Sir Percy tries to save as many as he can as The Scarlet Pimpernel in disguises. | 1982 | Clive Donner | Action,Drama,Romance | 7.6 (4.7K votes) | 142 | 20220414 |
| Keep, TheNazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison. | 1983 | Michael Mann | Drama,Fantasy,Horror | 5.7 (13.8K votes) | 96 | 20231001 |
| ZinaAfter Stalin's purges, Zinaida Volkova, daughter of Leon Trotsky, is exiled to Berlin. As the Nazis rise to power, and World War II is approaching, she becomes obsessed with Antigone, the protagonist of a famous Greek tragedy, and... | 1985 | Ken McMullen | Biography,Drama | 6.8 (117 votes) | 92 | 20230328 |
| Walter & JuneThe plight of Walter, a moderately intellectually disabled man, after the deaths of his parents. No concrete provisions have been made for Walter's upkeep, so he is thrown into an institution, where for the first time he is subjec... | 1983 | Stephen Frears | Drama | 7.3 (161 votes) | 63 | 20231003 |
| Windmills of the GodsNA | 1988 | | Drama,Thriller | | | Not Available |
| ScandalBased on the Profumo Scandal of 1963, an affair between an exotic dancer and the Minister of War shakes up the British government. | 1989 | Michael Caton-Jones | Drama,History | 6.5 (5.1K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Ballad of Little Jo, TheAfter being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West. | 1993 | Maggie Greenwald | Drama,Romance,Western | 6.7 (1.6K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Six Degrees Of SeparationAn affluent New York City couple finds their lives touched, intruded upon, and compelled by a mysterious young black man who is never quite who he says he is. | 1993 | Fred Schepisi | Comedy,Drama,Mystery | 6.8 (20.8K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Shadow, TheIn 1930s New York City, The Shadow (Alec Baldwin) battles his nemesis, Shiwan Khan (John Lone), who is building an atomic bomb. | 1994 | Russell Mulcahy | Action,Adventure,Crime | 6.1 (25K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Heaven's a DragNA | 1994 | | Comedy,Drama,Romance | | | Not Available |
| Cold Comfort FarmA recently orphaned young woman goes to live with eccentric relatives in Sussex, where she sets about improving their gloomy lives. | 1995 | John Schlesinger | Comedy,Romance | 7.3 (7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Jack & SarahA young American woman becomes a nanny in the home of a recent British widower. | 1995 | Tim Sullivan | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 6.6 (5.5K votes) | 110 | 20240228 |
| RestorationThe exiled royal doctor to King Charles II devotes himself to helping Londoners suffering from the plague, and in the process falls in love with an equally poor woman. | 1995 | Michael Hoffman | Biography,Drama,History | 6.6 (9.8K votes) | 117 | 20231001 |
| Richard IIIThe classic Shakespearean play about the murderously scheming 15th-century king is reimagined in an alternative setting of 1930s England as clouds of fascism gather. | 1995 | Richard Loncraine | Drama,Sci-Fi,War | 7.4 (14.5K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| RasputinHBO biopic about the infamous "mad monk" Rasputin from the court of Czar Nicholas II in Russia. | 1996 | Uli Edel | Biography,Drama,History | 7.0 (3.7K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Apt PupilA boy blackmails his neighbor after suspecting him to be a Nazi war criminal. | 1998 | Bryan Singer | Crime,Drama,Thriller | 6.7 (37.9K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Amy Foster [Swept from the Sea]The story of Russian emigrant Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of nineteenth century. When Yanko enters a farm, sick and hungry after a shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy. | 1997 | Beeban Kidron | Drama,Mystery,Romance | 6.8 (3.4K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Gods and MonstersThe last days of Frankenstein (1931) director James Whale are explored. | 1998 | Bill Condon | Biography,Drama | 7.4 (30.6K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Fellowship of the RingA meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron. | 2001 | Peter Jackson | Action,Adventure,Drama | 8.8 (1.8M votes) | 178 | 20211228 |
| X-MenIn a world where mutants (evolved super-powered humans) exist and are discriminated against, two groups form for an inevitable clash: the supremacist Brotherhood, and the pacifist X-Men. | 2000 | Bryan Singer | Action,Adventure,Sci-Fi | 7.4 (596.5K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Pillar of FireNA | 1981 | | Documentary,History | | | Not Available |
| Return of the KingGandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring. | 2003 | Peter Jackson | Action,Adventure,Drama | 8.9 (1.7M votes) | 201 | 20211228 |
| Two Towers, TheWhile Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard. | 2002 | Peter Jackson | Action,Adventure,Drama | 8.7 (1.6M votes) | 179 | 20211228 |
| Countdown to WarBased on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between the UK, France, Poland, Nazi Germany, and the U.S.S.R. from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britain's declaration of war on Germany, caused by Hitler's invasi... | 1989 | Patrick Lau | Drama,History,War | 6.6 (204 votes) | 78 | 20240228 |
| Cirque du Soleil: Journey of ManNA | 2000 | | Drama,Family,Fantasy | | | Not Available |
| The PromiseNA | 1969 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
| X2When anti-mutant Colonel William Stryker kidnaps Professor X and attacks his school, the X-Men must ally with their archenemy Magneto to stop him. | 2003 | Bryan Singer | Action,Sci-Fi,Thriller | 7.4 (534.5K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| X2When anti-mutant Colonel William Stryker kidnaps Professor X and attacks his school, the X-Men must ally with their archenemy Magneto to stop him. | 2003 | Bryan Singer | Action,Sci-Fi,Thriller | 7.4 (534.5K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Larry and Vivien: The Oliviers in LoveNA | 2001 | | Biography,Documentary | | | Not Available |
| Sunday Out of SeasonNA | 1965 | | \N | | | Not Available |
| EmileIn a story weaving the past and present together, Emile seeks redemption from the family he abandoned. | 2003 | Carl Bessai | Drama | 6.3 (801 votes) | 92 | 20240228 |
| Magic Roundabout, TheA group of friends embark on a dangerous journey in an effort to imprison their oppressor, the evil wizard Zeebad. | 2005 | Dave Borthwick, Jean Duval, Frank Passingham | Adventure,Animation,Comedy | 5.2 (3.7K votes) | 81 | 20240219 |
| Magic Roundabout, TheA group of friends embark on a dangerous journey in an effort to imprison their oppressor, the evil wizard Zeebad. | 2005 | Dave Borthwick, Jean Duval, Frank Passingham | Adventure,Animation,Comedy | 5.2 (3.7K votes) | 81 | 20240219 |
| AsylumA woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty of the murder and disfigurement of his former wife. | 2005 | David Mackenzie | Drama,Romance,Thriller | 6.1 (5.4K votes) | 99 | 20240228 |
| X-Men - The Last StandThe human government develops a cure for mutations, and Jean Gray becomes a darker uncontrollable persona called the Phoenix who allies with Magneto, causing escalation into an all-out battle for the X-Men. | 2006 | Brett Ratner | Action,Adventure,Sci-Fi | 6.7 (502.8K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| X-Men - The Last StandThe human government develops a cure for mutations, and Jean Gray becomes a darker uncontrollable persona called the Phoenix who allies with Magneto, causing escalation into an all-out battle for the X-Men. | 2006 | Brett Ratner | Action,Adventure,Sci-Fi | 6.7 (502.8K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Da Vinci Code,, TheA murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity. | 2006 | Ron Howard | Mystery,Thriller | 6.6 (421.2K votes) | 149 | 20211228 |
| WalterA man with learning difficulties suffers neglect and ill-treatment, and this is only exasperated when his parents die and nobody seems to know what to do with him. | 1982 | Stephen Frears | Drama | 7.6 (297 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Golden Compass, TheIn a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization. | 2007 | Chris Weitz | Adventure,Family,Fantasy | 6.1 (185.3K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| ChurchillNA | 2003 | | Biography,Documentary,History | | | Not Available |
| NeverwasA psychiatrist searches for insight into the life of his father, who was an acclaimed children's author. But he is shocked when his journey leads him to believe that the fantasy-land his father wrote about might actually exist. | 2005 | Joshua Michael Stern | Drama,Fantasy,Mystery | 6.5 (7K votes) | 103 | 20240228 |
| EighteenOn his eighteenth birthday, Pip receives his grandfather's Second World War memoirs on audio cassette, a gift that awakens the ghosts of the past. | 2005 | Richard Bell | Drama | 6.3 (662 votes) | 106 | 20240228 |
| Flushed AwayThe story of an uptown rat that gets flushed down the toilet from his penthouse apartment, ending in the sewers of London, where he has to learn a whole new and different way of life. | 2006 | David Bowers, Sam Fell | Action,Adventure,Animation | 6.6 (121.4K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| StardustIn a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. | 2007 | Matthew Vaughn | Adventure,Family,Fantasy | 7.6 (266.7K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| DoogalNA | 2006 | | Adventure,Animation,Comedy | | | Not Available |
| Saint of 9/11NA | 2006 | | Documentary | | | Not Available |
| David Macaulay: Roman CityNA | 1994 | | Animation,Documentary,History | | | Not Available |
| Hobbit, TheA reluctant Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, sets out to the Lonely Mountain with a spirited group of dwarves to reclaim their mountain home, and the gold within it from the dragon Smaug. | 2012 | Peter Jackson | Adventure,Fantasy | 7.8 (794.8K votes) | 169 | 20211228 |
| Hobbit, TheNA | 2012 | | | | | Not Available |
| For the Love of GodNA | 2007 | | Animation,Comedy,Short | | | Not Available |
| Prisoner, TheAn update to the cult favorite series from the 1960s, about a government agent who is kidnapped, and sent to a remote island known as "The Village". | 2009 | Nick Hurran | Drama,Sci-Fi,Thriller | 6.2 (7.6K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Prisoner, TheAn update to the cult favorite series from the 1960s, about a government agent who is kidnapped, and sent to a remote island known as "The Village". | 2009 | Nick Hurran | Drama,Sci-Fi,Thriller | 6.2 (7.6K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Prisoner, TheAn update to the cult favorite series from the 1960s, about a government agent who is kidnapped, and sent to a remote island known as "The Village". | 2009 | Nick Hurran | Drama,Sci-Fi,Thriller | 6.2 (7.6K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| DarrylgornNA | 2019 | | Comedy,Fantasy,Short | | | Not Available |
| The King and the Master BuilderNA | 2019 | | Animation,Short | | | Not Available |
| The Meteor and the MoonNA | 2019 | | Animation,Short | | | Not Available |
| The Hobbit -The Desolation of SmaugThe dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey, continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug. Bilbo Baggins is in possession of a mysterious and magical ring. | 2013 | Peter Jackson | Adventure,Drama,Fantasy | 7.8 (641.4K votes) | 161 | 20220423 |
| Infinitum - Subject UnknownAn experimental film shot with just one crew member. Jane is trapped in a parallel universe and is forced to find a way to alter her reality before it is too late. | 2021 | Matthew Butler-Hart | Mystery,Sci-Fi | 4.1 (9.4K votes) | 86 | 20231001 |
| Look Back in AngerNA | 2016 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
| The CriticNA | 2023 | | Crime,Drama,Mystery | | | Not Available |
| HerbieNA | 2020 | | Drama,Short | | | Not Available |
| The Power of Storytelling, with Sir Ian McKellenNA | 2015 | | Animation,Short | | | Not Available |
| Small-Time RevolutionaryNA | 2010 | | Drama,History,Short | | | Not Available |
| E'gad, Zombies!NA | 2010 | | Comedy,Short | | | Not Available |
| A Lost and Found Box of Human SensationNA | 2010 | | Animation,Drama,Short | | | Not Available |
| The Egg TrickNA | 2013 | | Comedy,Drama,Short | | | Not Available |
| X-Men Days of Future PastThe X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants. | 2014 | Bryan Singer | Action,Adventure,Sci-Fi | 7.9 (689.3K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| The Curse of The Buxom StrumpetNA | TBA | | Comedy | | | Not Available |
| Lady Grey LondonNA | 2010 | | Fantasy,Romance,Short | | | Not Available |
| Miss in Her TeensSir Simon Loveit, a widower, wishes to marry Miss Biddy. His son, Captain Bob, however has already won her heart under the alias of Rhodophil, before he went to war in Flanders. On his return, Captain Bob discovers, courtesy of hi... | 2014 | Matthew Butler-Hart | Comedy | 5.9 (473 votes) | 70 | 20240228 |
| King LearNA | 2008 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
| Claude et ClaudetteNA | 2011 | | Comedy,Short | | | Not Available |
| The Academy: SpecialNA | 2012 | | Comedy | | | Not Available |
| Hobbit - Battle of the Five Armies, TheBilbo and company are forced to engage in a war against an array of combatants and keep the Lonely Mountain from falling into the hands of a rising darkness. | 2014 | Peter Jackson | Adventure,Fantasy | 7.4 (505.6K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| The One Note ManNA | 2023 | | Comedy,Drama,Music | | | Not Available |
| DragfoxNA | 2024 | | Animation,Short | | | Not Available |
| Mr. HolmesAn aged, retired Sherlock Holmes deals with dementia, as he tries to remember his final case, and a mysterious woman, whose memory haunts him. He also befriends a fan, the young son of his housekeeper, who wants him to work again. | 2015 | Bill Condon | Crime,Drama,Family | 6.8 (66.5K votes) | 104 | 20230928 |
| The Life and Death of Lily SavageNA | 2024 | | Documentary | | | Not Available |
| Du Fu: China's Greatest PoetNA | 2024 | | Documentary | | | Not Available |
| Somewhat DeadNA | TBA | | Horror | | | Not Available |
| I Am the FlameNA | 2014 | | Documentary,Short | | | Not Available |
| Süleyman the MagnificentNA | 1988 | | Documentary | | | Not Available |
| The Road to RomeNA | 2014 | | Documentary | | | Not Available |
| SchadenfreudeNA | TBA | | Comedy,Crime,Mystery | | | Not Available |
| Animal CrackersA family must use a magical box of Animal Crackers to save a run-down circus from being taken over by their evil uncle Horatio P. Huntington. | 2017 | Tony Bancroft, Scott Christian Sava, Jaime Maestro | Adventure,Animation,Comedy | 5.8 (3.3K votes) | 105 | 20220423 |
| Dresser, TheA drama, based on a successful play, about an aging actor (Sir Anthony Hopkins) and his personal assistant (Sir Ian McKellen). | 2015 | Richard Eyre | Drama | 6.8 (3.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Muslim Drag QueensNA | 2015 | | Documentary | | | Not Available |
| Good Liar, TheConsummate con man Roy Courtnay has set his sights on his latest mark: the recently widowed Betty McLeish, worth millions. But this time, what should have been a simple swindle escalates into a cat-and-mouse game with the ultimate st | 2019 | Bill Condon | Crime,Drama,Mystery | 6.7 (36.8K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| The RoofNA | 2016 | | Comedy,Short | | | Not Available |
| Edmund the MagnificentWhen news breaks that the county pig fete's being revived, the once-legendary Farmer decides to make one final roll of the dice - and invest his life savings in a thoroughbred piglet with which to breed new life back into his now ... | 2017 | Ben Ockrent | Comedy,Drama,Family | 7.4 (84 votes) | 14 | 20240228 |
| Edmund the MagnificentNA | 2017 | | | | | Not Available |
| National Theatre Live: No Man's LandNA | 2016 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
| Hamlet WithinNA | 2022 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
| National Theatre Live_ King LearTwo aging fathers - one a King, one his courtier - reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, and their worlds crumble. | 2018 | Jonathan Munby, Ross MacGibbon | Drama,History | 8.4 (358 votes) | 227 | 20230728 |
| All Is TrueA look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare. | 2018 | Kenneth Branagh | Biography,Drama,History | 6.3 (4.7K votes) | 101 | 20220822 |