Movies by Actor - Laurence Olivier (78 [Missing: 18]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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The Temporary WidowNA | 1930 | | Comedy,Mystery | | | Not Available |
Too Many CrooksNA | 1930 | | Comedy,Crime,Short | | | Not Available |
Friends and LoversBritish Army Captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to lure men into romance with her, then blackmail | 1931 | Victor Schertzinger | Drama,Romance,War | 5.5 (368 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Potiphar's WifeNA | 1931 | | Drama,Romance | | | Not Available |
Yellow Ticket, TheA young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country. | 1931 | Raoul Walsh | Adventure,Drama,War | 6.3 (210 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Westward PassageNA | 1932 | | Drama,Romance | | | Not Available |
No Funny BusinessNA | 1933 | | Comedy | | | Not Available |
Perfect UnderstandingA young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman. | 1933 | Cyril Gardner | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 5.6 (691 votes) | 80 | 20220414 |
As You Like itA Duke usurps his brother's land and power, banishing him and his entourage into the forest of Arden. The banished Duke's daughter, Rosalind, remains with her cousin Celia. She has fallen in love with Orlando, but he has his own tyra | 1936 | Paul Czinner | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 5.9 (761 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
I Stand Condemned [Moscow Nights]During World War I, Russian Captain Ivan Ignatoff falls in love with his nurse, Natasha Kovrin. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjus | 1935 | Anthony Asquith | Drama,Romance,War | 5.9 (85 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Fire Over EnglandDuring the reign of Elizabeth I, a young man's fervent devotion to the crown and to his sweetheart, a lady-in-waiting, lead him to battle for England's victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588. | 1937 | William K. Howard | Adventure,History,Romance | 6.5 (1.8K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Divorce of Lady X, TheDivorce lawyer Everard Logan thinks the woman who spent the night in his hotel room is the erring wife of his new client. | 1938 | Tim Whelan | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 6.6 (1.4K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Clouds Over Europe [Q Planes]A quirky British Secret Service Agent named Major Hammond tries to discover who is using a secret weapon to steal experimental planes. | 1939 | Tim Whelan, Arthur B. Woods | Comedy,Drama,Mystery | 6.5 (869 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Wuthering HeightsA servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff. | 1939 | William Wyler | Drama,Romance | 7.6 (17.7K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
21 DaysAfter Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before the trial and if the man is found guilty then Larry will give hims | 1940 | Basil Dean | Crime,Drama,Romance | 6.1 (1K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Conquest of the Air, TheThis documentary traces man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s. | 1931 | Alexander Esway, Zoltan Korda, John Monk Saunders, Alexander Shaw, Donald Taylor | Drama,History | 6.3 (261 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Pride and PrejudiceThe arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters. | 1940 | Robert Z. Leonard | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 7.4 (8.1K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
RebeccaA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence. | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock | Drama,Mystery,Romance | 8.1 (133.3K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
49th ParallelA World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S. | 1941 | Michael Powell | Drama,Thriller,War | 7.3 (6.5K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
That Hamilton WomanThe story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars. | 1941 | Alexander Korda | Drama,History,Romance | 7.2 (4.4K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
Words for BattlePoetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence Olivier, illuminate documentary footage of England during its defense against the Na | 1941 | Humphrey Jennings | Documentary,Short,War | 6.7 (248 votes) | 8 | 20211228 |
Words for BattleNA | 1941 | | | | | Not Available |
Malta G.C.NA | 1942 | | Documentary,Short | | | Not Available |
Adventure for Two [The Demi-Paradise]Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naive about British people, and convinced by hearsay that they are shallow and | 1943 | Anthony Asquith | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 6.2 (510 votes) | 114 | 20220414 |
Henry VIn the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415. | 1944 | Laurence Olivier | Biography,Drama,History | 7.1 (6.3K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
Henry VNA | 1944 | | | | | Not Available |
HamletPrince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king. | 1948 | Laurence Olivier | Drama | 7.6 (16.5K votes) | 154 | 20211228 |
CarrieA young girl from a provincial town learns the bitter reality of a big city and great love. | 1952 | William Wyler | Drama,Romance | 7.3 (2.4K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
Beggar's Opera, TheWhen the composer of an opera about a swashbuckling, wenching highwayman meets his hero's real-life counterpart, he's disappointed with his lack of dash. | 1953 | Peter Brook | Crime,History,Musical | 6.1 (368 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
Richard IIIShakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir. | 1955 | Laurence Olivier | Biography,Drama,History | 7.4 (4.5K votes) | 161 | 20211228 |
Prince and the Showgirl, TheAn American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her. | 1957 | Laurence Olivier | Comedy,Romance | 6.5 (8.1K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
Devil's Disciple, TheThe black sheep of a family and the local minister discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War. | 1959 | Guy Hamilton, Alexander Mackendrick | Comedy,History,Romance | 7.1 (2.4K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Moon and Sixpence, TheA staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas. | 1959 | Robert Mulligan | Drama | 7.2 (68 votes) | 0 | 20240127 |
Entertainer, TheArchie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business. | 1960 | Tony Richardson | Drama | 7.1 (3.3K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
SpartacusThe slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising. | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick | Adventure,Biography,Drama | 7.9 (131.8K votes) | 197 | 20211228 |
Power and the Glory, TheA cynical Catholic priest is sent to Mexico to preach. It's the 1930s and Mexican government sees the church as competition. They send a secret agent to assassinate the priest. | 1961 | Marc Daniels | Drama | 7.2 (94 votes) | 90 | 20240625 |
Term of TrialA British high-school girl becomes infatuated with her English teacher, but after he rejects her amorous advances, she goes to the police and accuses him of indecent assault. | 1962 | Peter Glenville | Drama | 7.1 (680 votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
Uncle VanyaRetired Professor Alexander Serebryakov has returned to his estate to live with his beautiful young wife, Yelena. The estate originally belonged to his first wife, now deceased. Her mother and brother still live there and manage the | 1963 | Stuart Burge | Drama | 6.8 (172 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
Bunny Lake is MissingA woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed. | 1965 | Otto Preminger | Drama,Mystery,Thriller | 7.3 (8.9K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
OthelloGeneral Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful. | 1965 | Stuart Burge | Drama | 7.1 (1.5K votes) | 165 | 20211228 |
KhartoumNA | 1966 | | Action,Adventure,Drama | | | Not Available |
Dance of Death, TheA filmed record of Laurence Olivier's farewell theatrical performance as the canny, psychotic captain of the August Strindberg play. | 1969 | David Giles | Drama | 7.2 (103 votes) | 149 | 20211228 |
Shoes of the Fisherman, TheAfter spending decades in a Siberian Gulag labor camp, Roman Catholic priest Kiril Lakota is set free by Russian leader Piotr Ilyich Kamenev at the height of the Cold War | 1968 | Michael Anderson | Drama | 7.0 (3.6K votes) | 162 | 20211228 |
Battle of BritainIn 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K. | 1969 | Guy Hamilton | Action,Drama,History | 7.0 (22.1K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
David CopperfieldThe legendary novel by Charles Dickens comes to life in this colorful interpretation directed by Delbert Mann. | 1970 | Delbert Mann | Drama | 5.8 (540 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
Lady Caroline LambA noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron. | 1972 | Robert Bolt | Drama,History,Romance | 5.5 (492 votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
SleuthA man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results. | 1972 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Mystery,Thriller | 8.0 (47K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
Merchant of Venice, TheShylock, a Jewish moneylender, demands his due of a pound of flesh for a forfeited loan. | 1973 | John Sichel | Drama | 7.3 (256 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
The Gentleman TrampNA | 1975 | | Biography,Documentary | | | Not Available |
Love Among the RuinsAn aging actress is being sued for breach of promise. She hires as her lawyer a man who was an ex-lover, and is still in love with her, although she doesn't know it. She realizes that the only way to win this case and protect her ass | 1975 | George Cukor | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 7.8 (1K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Cat on a Hot Tin RoofNA | 1976 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
Marathon ManAfter the shocking murder of his older brother, a New York history student finds himself inexplicably hounded by shadowy government agents on the trail of a Nazi war criminal who is trying to retrieve smuggled diamonds. | 1976 | John Schlesinger | Crime,Drama,Thriller | 7.4 (61.9K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
Seven-Per-Cent Solution, TheTo treat his friend's cocaine induced delusions, Watson lures Sherlock Holmes to Sigmund Freud. | 1976 | Herbert Ross | Adventure,Comedy,Crime | 6.7 (4.5K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
Jesus of NazarethBeginning before the Nativity and extending through the Crucifixion and Resurrection, this mini-series brings to life all of the sweeping drama in the life of Jesus, as told by the Gospels. | 1977 | Franco Zeffirelli | Biography,Drama,History | 8.5 (21.5K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
Bridge Too Far, AOperation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines. | 1977 | Richard Attenborough | Drama,History,War | 7.4 (60.1K votes) | 175 | 20231101 |
Come Back, Little ShebaNA | 1977 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
Betsy, TheThe aging, retired founder of an auto giant comes out of retirement to try to develop a safe, fuel-efficient car. | 1978 | Daniel Petrie | Drama | 5.2 (1.5K votes) | 125 | 20220806 |
Boys From Brazil, TheA Nazi hunter in Paraguay discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich. | 1978 | Franklin J. Schaffner | Drama,Mystery,Sci-Fi | 7.0 (27.4K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
DraculaIn 1913, the charming, seductive and sinister vampire Count Dracula travels to England in search of an immortal bride. | 1979 | John Badham | Drama,Fantasy,Horror | 6.5 (9.8K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
Little Romance, AAn American teenager living in Paris meets and falls in love with a local. | 1979 | George Roy Hill | Adventure,Comedy,Romance | 7.5 (5.7K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
Jazz Singer, TheThe son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of being a popular singer. | 1980 | Richard Fleischer, Sidney J. Furie | Drama,Music,Romance | 5.9 (4.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
Clash of the TitansPerseus must battle Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda. | 1981 | Desmond Davis | Action,Adventure,Family | 6.9 (43.4K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
InchonDuring the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur masterminds the amphibious invasion of Inchon in September 1950. | 1981 | Terence Young | Drama,History,War | 2.7 (770 votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
Voyage Round My Father, ABefore creating the beloved courtroom drama Rumpole of the Bailey (1978), writer John Mortimer found inspiration in his own life for this portrait of a difficult but enduring love between father and son in mid twentieth century Brita | 1982 | Alvin Rakoff | Drama | 7.3 (216 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
WagnerA huge panorama of Richard Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria, to the final triumph at Bayreuth. Richard Wagner's radical mu | 1983 | Tony Palmer | Biography,Drama,History | 7.8 (554 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
Jigsaw Man, TheAn MI6 defector has his appearance altered by the K.G.B. and is sent back to Britain to retrieve top-secret documents. | 1983 | Terence Young | Thriller | 5.1 (1.7K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
Mr. Halpern and Mr. JohnsonNA | 1983 | | Comedy,Drama | | | Not Available |
Bounty, TheFed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action. | 1984 | Roger Donaldson | Adventure,Drama,History | 7.1 (26.5K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
Ebony Tower, TheA young artist goes to interview an older painter who lives in the south of France with two young women. He gets caught up in the painter's Bohemian lifestyle and begins examining his own attitudes towards life and art. | 1984 | Robert Knights | Drama | 6.4 (167 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
King LearAging King Lear invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one. | 1983 | Michael Elliott | Drama | 7.7 (799 votes) | 158 | 20211228 |
Wild Geese IIA group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin. | 1985 | Peter R. Hunt | Action,Adventure,Thriller | 4.8 (1.3K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
Peter the GreatBiopic of Peter I, Czar of Russia, from childhood in 1682 to the Great Northern War against Sweden during the 1700s. | 1986 | Marvin J. Chomsky, Lawrence Schiller | Biography,Drama,History | 7.8 (793 votes) | 0 | 20231013 |
Talent for Murder, AA famed mystery writer (Dame Angela Lansbury) and her doctor ex-lover (Sir Laurence Olivier) solve her daughter-in-law's murder. | 1984 | Alvin Rakoff | Comedy,Drama,Mystery | 6.2 (167 votes) | 80 | 20240316 |
War RequiemA movie with no spoken dialogue, it is set against the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" which includes poetry by World War I soldier Wilfred Owen reflecting the horrors of war. There is no linear story or dialogue | 1989 | Derek Jarman | Drama,War | 6.6 (817 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Male of the SpeciesNA | 1969 | | Drama | | | Not Available |
Saturday Sunday MondayOne Saturday evening, Rosa Priore (Dame Joan Plowright) is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon, her life and marriage are in ruins. | 1978 | Alan Bridges | Drama | 7.2 (40 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
A New Germany, 1933-1939NA | 1980 | | Documentary | | | Not Available |
Korda InterviewsNA | 1956 | | Documentary | | | Not Available |
Tree of LifeNA | 1971 | | Documentary,Short | | | Not Available |
Uncle VanyaNA | 1967 | | Drama | | | Not Available |