Search results for "Lewis Gilbert"
Not Quite Paradise

Not Quite Paradise

Not Quite Paradise
IMDb: 5.7
106

Six young volunteers from different backgrounds travel to Israel to spend a summer working on a kibbutz, a communal farm where they can find adventure, hide from their pasts or…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Friends

Friends

Friends
IMDb: 6.5
101

Paul, a rich English boy, and Michelle, an orphaned French girl, run away from home to a remote beach. Living on their own, their friendship grows into love.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Albert R.N.

Albert R.N.

Albert R.N.
IMDb: 6.8
88

The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen “Albert”…

Genre: History, War
Johnny on the Run

Johnny on the Run

Johnny on the Run
IMDb: 7.1
68

A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after encountering trouble through…

Genre: Adventure, Family
Seven Nights in Japan

Seven Nights in Japan

Seven Nights in Japan
IMDb: 5.7
100

Handsome Prince George arrives on board his ship in Japan. Youthful, immaculate in naval uniform and smiling broadly, he goes through the complicated formalities of being greeted by a host…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
A Cry from the Streets

A Cry from the Streets

A Cry from the Streets
IMDb: 6.5
99

Bittersweet story about London’s unwanted children and the good people trying to help them. Ann is a social worker, while Bill is an electrician whose contract with the local care…

Genre: Drama
There Is Another Sun

There Is Another Sun

There Is Another Sun
IMDb: 5.9
93

Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how ‘Racer’, a ‘Wall of Death’ rider in the same fairground, involves them in…

Genre: Crime
Time, Gentlemen, Please!

Time, Gentlemen, Please!

Time, Gentlemen, Please!
IMDb: 6.6
82

Because of its high productivity and “almost” 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The “almost” is because of Dan…

Genre: Comedy
Operation: Daybreak

Operation: Daybreak

Operation: Daybreak
IMDb: 7
118

Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.

Genre: Action, War
The Good Die Young

The Good Die Young

The Good Die Young
IMDb: 6.7
100

An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.

Genre: Crime
Haunted

Haunted

Haunted
IMDb: 6.2
108

Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt…

Genre: Horror, Mystery
Educating Rita

Educating Rita

Educating Rita
IMDb: 7.2
110

Rita, a witty 26-year-old hairdresser, wants to ‘discover’ herself so she joins an Open University where she meets the disillusioned professor of literature, Dr. Frank Bryant. His marriage has failed,…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
H.M.S. Defiant

H.M.S. Defiant

H.M.S. Defiant
IMDb: 7.1
101

Defiant’s crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant’s first…

Sink the Bismarck!

Sink the Bismarck!

Sink the Bismarck!
IMDb: 7.1
97

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz,…

Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
The Sea Shall Not Have Them

The Sea Shall Not Have Them

The Sea Shall Not Have Them
IMDb: 6.4
91

During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and…

Genre: Drama, War
The Adventurers

The Adventurers

The Adventurers
IMDb: 5.4
171

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his…

Carve Her Name With Pride

Carve Her Name With Pride

Carve Her Name With Pride
IMDb: 7.2
119

London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent…

Genre: Drama, War
Light Up the Sky!

Light Up the Sky!

Light Up the Sky!
IMDb: 6.3
90

Lewis Gilbert’s classic comedy drama portrays the antics of a British Army Searchlight Squad during World War II. Lieutenant Ogleby (Ian Carmichael) has his work cut out to keep his…

Genre: Comedy, Romance, War
Reach for the Sky

Reach for the Sky

Reach for the Sky
IMDb: 7.2
135

The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The 7th Dawn

The 7th Dawn

The 7th Dawn
IMDb: 6.4
123

Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.

Genre: Action
Before You Go

Before You Go

Before You Go
IMDb: 5.6
91

The funny, heart-warming and moving new film, from director Lewis Gilbert. When Violet Heaney’s three daughters return home for her funeral, each sister finds her own way of coping with…

Genre: Comedy
Stepping Out

Stepping Out

Stepping Out
IMDb: 6.4
106

Mavis (Liza Minnelli) was a chorus line dancer on Broadway. Just as she was on the verge of getting more prominent roles, she fell in love. Her full-of-himself boyfriend moved…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
You Only Live Twice

You Only Live Twice

You Only Live Twice
IMDb: 6.9
117

A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to…

The Spy Who Loved Me

The Spy Who Loved Me

The Spy Who Loved Me
IMDb: 7.1
125

Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the…

The Admirable Crichton

The Admirable Crichton

The Admirable Crichton
IMDb: 7.1
94

Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals – at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the…

Genre: Comedy
Shirley Valentine

Shirley Valentine

Shirley Valentine
IMDb: 7.2
108

Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband’s chips and egg. When…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Alfie

Alfie

Alfie
IMDb: 7
114

A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cosh Boy

Cosh Boy

Cosh Boy
IMDb: 6
75

Retitled The Slasher in the US. The gruesome story of a violent man who finally goes too far.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Moonraker

Moonraker

Moonraker
IMDb: 6.3
126

After Drax Industries’ Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company’s owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the…

The Greengage Summer

The Greengage Summer

The Greengage Summer
IMDb: 6.7
100

Sensitive story of a British girl’s awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cast a Dark Shadow

Cast a Dark Shadow

Cast a Dark Shadow
IMDb: 7
82

Edward “Teddy” Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he’s hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don’t go…

Genre: Crime, Thriller