Search results for "Laurence Olivier"
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
IMDb: 6.1
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…

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…

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.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Marathon Man

Marathon Man

Marathon Man
IMDb: 7.5
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: Crime, Drama, Thriller
That Hamilton Woman

That Hamilton Woman

That Hamilton Woman
IMDb: 7.3
128

Sir William Hamilton, a widower of mature years, is British ambassador to the Court of Naples. Emma who comes for a visit with her mother wouldn’t cut the grade with…

The Boys from Brazil

The Boys from Brazil

The Boys from Brazil
IMDb: 7.0
125

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

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.

Spartacus

Spartacus

Spartacus
IMDb: 7.9
197

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners…

Khartoum

Khartoum

Khartoum
IMDb: 6.9
134

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

Dracula

Dracula

Dracula
IMDb: 6.5
109

Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 classic. Set in 1913 England, the bloodsucking, but handsome, charming and seductive, Count Dracula seeks an immortal bride.

Genre: Horror, Romance
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
IMDb: 6.8
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…

Carrie

Carrie

Carrie
IMDb: 7.4
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 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
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…

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights
IMDb: 7.7
104

The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff….

The Entertainer

The Entertainer

The Entertainer
IMDb: 7.2
96

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

Genre: Drama
Fire Over England

Fire Over England

Fire Over England
IMDb: 6.4
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…

Henry V

Henry V

Henry V
IMDb: 7.5
137

Olivier mustered out of the navy to film this adaptation of Shakespeare’s history. Embroiled in World War II, Britons took courage from this tale of a king who surmounts overwhelming…

Genre: Action, Drama, History
War Requiem

War Requiem

War Requiem
IMDb: 6.9
92

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