Search results for "John Gielgud"
The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man
IMDb: 8.2
124

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his “owner” as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and…

Arthur

Arthur

Arthur
IMDb: 6.9
97

Arthur is the most quotable drunk millionaire that is likely to ever steal your heart. Dudley Moore portrays Arthur, a thirty year old child who will inherit 750 million dollars…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
First Knight

First Knight

First Knight
IMDb: 5.9
134

The timeless tale of King Arthur and the legend of Camelot are retold in this passionate period drama. Arthur is reluctant to hand the crown to Lancelot, and Guinevere is…

Becket

Becket

Becket
IMDb: 8.0
148

King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another pious cleric loyal to Rome…

Chariots of Fire

Chariots of Fire

Chariots of Fire
IMDb: 7.2
123

The true story of British athletes preparing for and competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Caligula

Caligula

Caligula
IMDb: 5.3
156

The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome’s mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his…

Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express

Murder on the Orient Express
IMDb: 7.3
128

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.

Richard III

Richard III

Richard III
IMDb: 7.5
161

Shakespeare’s powerful tale of the wicked deformed king and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.

Gandhi

Gandhi

Gandhi
IMDb: 8.1
191

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance…

The Human Factor

The Human Factor

The Human Factor
IMDb: 6.1
115

When Arthur Davis, a junior bachelor in the British secret service’s African section, is seen taking a file with him to meet his girlfriend Cynthia- the brass fears he may…

Gold

Gold

Gold
IMDb: 5.7
120

Rod Slater is the newly appointed general manager of the Sonderditch gold mine, but he stumbles across an ingenious plot to flood the mine, by drilling into an underground lake,…

Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon

Lost Horizon
IMDb: 5.2
143

This retelling of the classic tale of James Hilton’s Utopian lost world plays out uneasily amid musical production numbers and Bacharach pop music. While escaping war-torn China, a group of…

The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade

The Charge of the Light Brigade
IMDb: 6.7
139

A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava…

The Shoes of the Fisherman

The Shoes of the Fisherman

The Shoes of the Fisherman
IMDb: 7.2
156

Metropolitan Archbishop Lakota of L’viv, freed after twenty years in the Soviet Gulag, travels to Rome where circumstances conspire to see him elevated to the Papacy. Inspired by the life…

Genre: Drama
Lion of the Desert

Lion of the Desert

Lion of the Desert
IMDb: 8.4
173

This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this…

Shining Through

Shining Through

Shining Through
IMDb: 5.9
132

Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love,…

Plenty

Plenty

Plenty
IMDb: 6.9
124

David Hare’s account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Arthur 2: On the Rocks

Arthur 2: On the Rocks

Arthur 2: On the Rocks
IMDb: 6.9
113

Arthur (Dudley Moore), that irrepressible drunk, tries to sober up — and get a job — in this sequel to the 1981 smash hit. Meanwhile, the father of the girl…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Appointment with Death

Appointment with Death

Appointment with Death
IMDb: 6.4
102

Emily Boynton, stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She…