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Year |
Class |
Time |
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Alec Guinness (from STAR WARS, LAWRENCE OF ARABIA) must battle a mutinous crew and Napoleon's fleet in the rousing, historical adventure DAMN THE DEFIANT! As commander of the British warship H.M.S Defiant, the humane Crawford (Guinness) strives to main...
Damn the Defiant! (H.M.S. Defiant) (1962)
Lewis Gilbert
Anthony Quayle,Alec Guinness,Dirk Bogarde
General Adventure,Action & Adventure
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1962 |
PG |
99 min |
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David Lean demonstrates again why he's a peerless filmmaker of substance and scale, directing Boris Pasternak's tumultuous tale of Russia divided by war and hearts torn by love. Epic images abound: revolution in the streets, an infantry charge int...
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
David Lean
Alec Guinness,Rod Steiger,Tom Courtenay,Geraldine Chaplin,Omar Sharif,Julie Christie,Siobahn McKenna,Ralph Richardson
Romance,General Romance,General Drama,Romantic Drama,Drama
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1965 |
PG |
192 min |
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When British P.O.W.s build a vital railway bridge in enemy-occupied Burma, Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it in David Lean's epic World War II adventure based on Pierre Boulle's novel. Spectacularly produced, this winner of seven 1957 Ac...
The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)
David Lean,John Badham
William Holden,Alec Guinness,Ann Sears,Sessue Hayakawa,Geoffrey Horne,James Donald,Jack Hawkins
Military & War,General Action,Action & Adventure
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1957 |
PG |
156 min |
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The world's greatest detectives have been invited to dinner. But when murder is on the menu, who will make it to dessert? The isolated mansion of eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain is the setting for the twisted puzzler. Twain informs his guests that one ...
Murder By Death (1976)
Robert Moore
Peter Sellers,Elsa Lanchester,Alec Guinness,Peter Falk,Eileen Brennan,Nancy Walker,Truman Capote,James Coco,Estelle Winwood,Maggie Smith,David Niven
General Comedy,Comedy
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1976 |
PG |
91 min |
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Sir Alec Guinness gives one of his most unforgettable performances as Professor Marcus, the mastermind of a gang of vicious bank robbers who rent a room from elderly widow Mrs. Wilberforce (Katie Johnson). But when the dear old woman begins to meddle in t...
The Ladykillers (1955)
Alexander Mackendrick
Alec Guinness,Cecil Parker,Herbert Lom,Peter Sellers
Drama,Crime,Black Comedy,General Comedy,Suspense & Thriller,Comedy,Action & Adventure
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1955 |
PG |
87 min |
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Set in the stately Edwardian era, Kind Hearts and Coronets is black comedy at its best, with the most articulate and literate of all Ealing screenplays. Sir Alec Guinness gives a virtuoso performance in his Ealing comedy debut, playing all eight victims s...
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Robert Hamer
Alec Guinness,Dennis Price,Joan Greenwood,Valerie Hobson
General Comedy,Black Comedy,Comedy
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1949 |
PG |
0 min |
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The most satirical of Ealing's comedies, played as a farce and put together with meticulous cinematic counterpoint. Sir Alec Guinness, by now the most ubiquitous of Ealing's faces, plays a would-be research chemist who invents a fabric which will never so...
The Man In The White Suit (1951)
Alexander Mackendrick
Ernest Thesiger,Alec Guinness,Joan Greenwood,Cecil Parker,Michael Gough
Drama,Sci-fi & Fantasy,General Sci-Fi,General Comedy,General Drama,Comedy
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1951 |
PG |
0 min |
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Sir Alec Guinness stars as a timid bank clerk who has the perfect scheme for stealing gold bullion from the Bank of England. One of the most affectionately remembered Ealing comedies, it has a skit on the 1950's Ealing film "The Blue Lamp", with the unlik...
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Charles Crichton
Sid James,Alec Guinness,Stanley Holloway,Alfie Bass,Audrey Hepburn
Crime,General Comedy,Drama,Comedy,Suspense & Thriller,Action & Adventure
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1951 |
PG |
0 min |
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Forget about accountants who want to fly, professors whose brains are being zapped by aliens and bored housewives passing the time. The one all-consuming problem Manhattan psychiatrist Saul Benjamin has is himself!Saul (Dudley Moore) and Chloe (Elizabeth ...
Lovesick (1983)
Marshall Brickman
Ron Silver,Dudley Moore,Alec Guinness,John Huston,Elizabeth McGovern,Alan King,David Strathairn
Romance,Romantic Comedy,Comedy
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1983 |
M |
92 min |
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Director Franco Zeffirelli's Brother Sun, Sister Moon focuses on the early years of Francis of Assisi, who sought communion with the natural world by renouncing his family's riches to seek his own destiny unencumbered by material possessions. Francis was,...
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)
Franco Zeffirelli
Judi Bowker,Graham Faulkner,Alec Guinness
General Drama,Biography,Drama
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1972 |
PG |
116 min |
