Movie Database

Movies by Director - David Lean (16 [Missing: 0])
TitleYearDirectorGenreRatingRuntimeAdded
In Which We ServeThis "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.1942Noël Coward, David LeanDrama,War7.2 (5.6K votes)11520211228
This Happy BreedJust after World War I, the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. They live an ordinary life throughout the years, but everything changes when World War II breaks out.1944David LeanComedy,Drama7.3 (3.3K votes)11520211228
Brief EncounterMeeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.1945David LeanDrama,Romance8.0 (38.9K votes)8620211228
Blithe SpiritA man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.1945David LeanComedy,Fantasy7.1 (6.7K votes)9620211228
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.1946David LeanAdventure,Drama,Mystery7.8 (23.8K votes)11820211228
Oliver TwistIn Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home.1948David LeanDrama7.8 (12.2K votes)10520211228
Passionate Friends, TheA woman meets a man whose love she rejected years ago.1949David LeanDrama,Romance7.3 (2.5K votes)9520211228
MadeleineMadeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man; they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.1950David LeanCrime,Drama,Mystery6.9 (1.7K votes)10120220414
Sound Barrier, TheFictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.1952David LeanAdventure,Drama,Romance6.7 (2.3K votes)10920240412
Hobsons ChoiceWidower Henry Hobson (Charles Laughton) is a successful bootmaker and a tyrannical father of three daughters who all want to leave him by getting married, but he refuses because marriage traditions require him to pay out settlements.1954David LeanComedy,Drama,Romance7.7 (7.3K votes)10820211228
SummertimeAn American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome--but married--Italian man while vacationing in Venice.1955David LeanComedy,Drama,Romance7.2 (8.3K votes)10020211228
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.1957David LeanAdventure,Drama,War8.1 (214.6K votes)16120211228
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.1962David LeanAdventure,Biography,Drama8.3 (284.5K votes)22820211228
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.1965David LeanDrama,Romance,War8.0 (74.6K votes)19720211228
Ryan's DaughterSet in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.1970David LeanDrama,Romance7.4 (9.6K votes)20020211228
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.1984David LeanAdventure,Drama,History7.3 (18.4K votes)16420211228