Movies by Director - David Lean (16 [Missing: 0]) Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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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. | 1942 | Noël Coward, David Lean | Drama,War | 7.2 (5.6K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
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. | 1944 | David Lean | Comedy,Drama | 7.3 (3.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
Brief EncounterMeeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband. | 1945 | David Lean | Drama,Romance | 8.0 (38.9K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Blithe SpiritA man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife. | 1945 | David Lean | Comedy,Fantasy | 7.1 (6.7K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
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 |
Passionate Friends, TheA woman meets a man whose love she rejected years ago. | 1949 | David Lean | Drama,Romance | 7.3 (2.5K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
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. | 1950 | David Lean | Crime,Drama,Mystery | 6.9 (1.7K votes) | 101 | 20220414 |
Sound Barrier, TheFictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight. | 1952 | David Lean | Adventure,Drama,Romance | 6.7 (2.3K votes) | 109 | 20240412 |
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. | 1954 | David Lean | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 7.7 (7.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
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. | 1955 | David Lean | Comedy,Drama,Romance | 7.2 (8.3K votes) | 100 | 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 |
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 |
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 |
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. | 1970 | David Lean | Drama,Romance | 7.4 (9.6K votes) | 200 | 20211228 |
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 |