| Title |
Year |
Class |
Time |
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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
|
1957 |
PG |
156 min |
|
Noel Coward's BRIEF ENCOUNTER remains one of the most poignant love stories ever brought to the screen. TREVOR HOWARD and CELIA JOHNSON play middle class suburbanites who in the course of their regular routines, meet and gradually move from casual nod...
Brief Encounter (1946)
David Lean
Celia Johnson,Stanley Holloway,Trevor Howard
Romance,Period Drama,Period Romance,Drama
|
1946 |
M |
84 min |
|
Enter a world where cultures clash so violently that an entire country could split at any moment. Nominated for eleven Academy Awards and winner of two, A Passage To India is "a wonderfully provocative tale, full of vivid characters, all played to n...
A Passage To India (1984)
David Lean
Judy Davis,James Fox,Victor Banerjee,Saeed Jaffrey,Alec Guinness,Peggy Ashcroft
General Drama,Drama
|
1984 |
PG |
156 min |
|
Charles Condomine is a novelist with a glamorous second wife. To research his new book they invite a medium to dinner. During a seance, Charles' first wife appears to him. Although initially sceptical, the others gradually realise that she is here and has...
Blithe Spirit (1945)
David Lean
Constance Cummings,Kay Hammond,Margaret Rutherford,Rex Harrison
General Fantasy,Sci-fi & Fantasy,General Comedy,Comedy
|
1945 |
PG |
96 min |
|
After the Great War, Frank returns to his wife and children. They move into a small house which is homely nonetheless. From there, Queenie, one of their daughters, goes to work in a beauty parlour and gets ideas above her station, whilst Phyllis, one of t...
This Happy Breed (1944)
David Lean
Celia Johnson,Kay Walsh,Robert Newton,John Mills
Drama,General Comedy,General Drama,Comedy
|
1944 |
G |
111 min |
|
Based on the Dickens novel and winner of two Academy Awards, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip (John Mills), a blacksmith's apprentice who inherits a handsome property. He believes that his unexpected good fortune has originated from Miss Havisham...
Great Expectations (1946)
David Lean
Alec Guinness,John Mills,Jean Simmons,Bernard Miles,Finlay Currie,Francis L. Sullivan,Anthony Wager,Martita Hunt,Valerie Hobson
General Drama,Drama
|
1946 |
G |
119 min |
|
David Lean's definitive version of the classic Dickens tale, stars British actor Alec Guinness as the pick-pocketing Fagin. Oliver is an orphan who runs away from his cruel London workhouse. Cold and hungry, he meets 'The Artful Dodger', a you...
Oliver Twist (1948) (1948)
David Lean
Kay Walsh,Francis L. Sullivan,Robert Newton,Alec Guinness
Drama,Suspense & Thriller,Crime,General Adventure,General Drama,Action & Adventure
|
1948 |
G |
116 min |
|
Lovely, headstrong Rosy (Sarah Miles) cannot forsake her passionate romance with the handsome British officer (Christopher Jones). Yet there is a greater love - the devotion of her reserved schoolteacher husband Charles (Robert Mitchum), who stands by Ros...
Ryan's Daughter (1970)
David Lean
Robert Mitchum,Barry Foster,John Mills,Trevor Howard,Leo McKern,Sarah Miles,Christopher Jones,Gerald Sim,Evin Crowley,Douglas Sheldon,Arthur O'Sullivan,Marie Kean
Romance,Romantic Drama,Drama
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1970 |
M |
198 min |
