Search results for "Laurence Olivier"
The Volunteer

The Volunteer

The Volunteer
IMDb: 6
45

World War II propaganda film.

Nothing Like a Dame

Nothing Like a Dame

Nothing Like a Dame
IMDb: 7.4
80

BBC Arena’s documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they…

Genre: Documentary
Air Bud: World Pup

Air Bud: World Pup

Air Bud: World Pup
IMDb: 4.5
N/A

This seven-hour British-Italian adaptation of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s 1834 epic, set against the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. and previously filmed in 1935, and in 1960 was a vehicle…

Genre: Drama
The Last Days of Pompeii

The Last Days of Pompeii

The Last Days of Pompeii
TMDb: 7.143
140 min

This seven-hour British-Italian adaptation of Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s 1834 epic, set against the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. and previously filmed in 1935, and in 1960 was a vehicle…

Status: Ended
Genre: Drama
A Queen Is Crowned

A Queen Is Crowned

A Queen Is Crowned
IMDb: 6.9
79

A lavish documentary film of Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation in 1953.

Genre: Documentary
21 Days

21 Days

21 Days
IMDb: 6.1
72

After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover’s blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Betsy

The Betsy

The Betsy
IMDb: 5.2
125

Ruthless patriarch Loren hires racecar driver Angelo to build a more efficient vehicle against the wishes of his grandson. But things get even messier when Angelo romances two women in…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Daphne Laureola

Daphne Laureola

Daphne Laureola
IMDb: 6.9
90

A young man becomes infatuated with the exotic Lady Pitts – whose much older husband is not pleased.

Genre: Drama
The Demi-Paradise

The Demi-Paradise

The Demi-Paradise
IMDb: 6.2
114

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. Naïve about British people…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Long Day’s Journey Into Night

Long Day’s Journey Into Night
IMDb: 8.2
161

On a day in the summer of 1912, the family of retired matinee idol James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of Tyrone’s wife Mary, the illness of their youngest…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Q Planes

Q Planes

Q Planes
IMDb: 6.5
82

An eccentric Scotland Yard inspector thinks something beamed from a spy ship is dropping planes.

Three Sisters

Three Sisters

Three Sisters
IMDb: 6.4
165

Laurence Olivier’s film of Chekhov’s play.

Genre: Drama
49th Parallel

49th Parallel

49th Parallel
IMDb: 7.3
123

In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada’s Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding…

War Requiem

War Requiem

War Requiem
IMDb: 6.6
90

A film with no spoken dialogue, just follows the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten’s “War Requiem, which include WWI soldier poet Wilfred Owen’s poems reflecting the war’s horrors. It…

Genre: Drama, War
The Bounty

The Bounty

The Bounty
IMDb: 7
132

The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the…

Genre: Action, Drama, History
Clash of the Titans

Clash of the Titans

Clash of the Titans
IMDb: 6.9
118

To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa’s head, and battling the…

Dracula

Dracula

Dracula
IMDb: 6.5
109

Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.

Genre: Horror, Romance
Marathon Man

Marathon Man

Marathon Man
IMDb: 7.4
125

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.

Genre: Drama, Thriller
A Little Romance

A Little Romance

A Little Romance
IMDb: 7.5
108

A young American girl and a young French boy meet in Paris and fall in love, with the assistance of an old man and his stories.

The Boys from Brazil

The Boys from Brazil

The Boys from Brazil
IMDb: 7
125

Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

Battle of Britain

Battle of Britain

Battle of Britain
IMDb: 7
132

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.

Genre: History, War
Khartoum

Khartoum

Khartoum
IMDb: 6.8
134

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people…

Bunny Lake Is Missing

Bunny Lake Is Missing

Bunny Lake Is Missing
IMDb: 7.3
107

A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

The Entertainer

The Entertainer

The Entertainer
IMDb: 7.1
96

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Genre: Drama, Music
Rebecca

Rebecca

Rebecca
IMDb: 8.1
130

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several…

Fire Over England

Fire Over England

Fire Over England
IMDb: 6.5
92

The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations…

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
IMDb: 6
107

When gigantic robots attack New York City, “Sky Captain” uses his private air force to fight them off. His ex-girlfriend, reporter Polly Perkins, has been investigating the recent disappearance of…

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
IMDb: 6.7
113

Concerned about his friend’s cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attemts to solve the mysteries of…

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Love Among the Ruins

Love Among the Ruins

Love Among the Ruins
IMDb: 7.9
100

An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones is…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice
IMDb: 7.4
118

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single gentlemen Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Prince and the Showgirl

The Prince and the Showgirl

The Prince and the Showgirl
IMDb: 6.5
115

A saucy American showgirl in London is wooed by a roving-eyed Duke, but his estranged son, the young King, interrupts their late supper with politics and angry accusations.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Shoes of the Fisherman

The Shoes of the Fisherman

The Shoes of the Fisherman
IMDb: 7
162

All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope. This time much more is at stake. The…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
As You Like It

As You Like It

As You Like It
IMDb: 5.9
96

Film version of Shakespeare’s comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Jigsaw Man

The Jigsaw Man

The Jigsaw Man
IMDb: 5.1
94

Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital…

Genre: Thriller
Othello

Othello

Othello
IMDb: 7.1
165

The 1965 version of the Shakespeare play.

Genre: Drama
Carrie

Carrie

Carrie
IMDb: 7.3
118

Carrie’s dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly paid factory work—that…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Ebony Tower

The Ebony Tower

The Ebony Tower
IMDb: 6.3
N/A

A brash young artist invades the secluded retirement of an elderly painter and finds that the great man lives with two young women in a tantalizingly ambiguous relationship.

The Beggar’s Opera

The Beggar’s Opera

The Beggar’s Opera
IMDb: 6.2
94

Adaptation of John Gay’s 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.

Genre: Crime, History, Music
The Divorce of Lady X

The Divorce of Lady X

The Divorce of Lady X
IMDb: 6.6
92

The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Term of Trial

Term of Trial

Term of Trial
IMDb: 7.1
130

A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including his bitter wife, Anna. When the…

Genre: Drama