David Lean Movies

When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a...

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months'...

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.

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the...

Documentary about David Lean's unfinished attempt of adapting Joseph Conrad's novel Nostromo.

A film about the life of A Passage to India author E M Forster, following his huge growth as a writer and the twists and turns of his personal life.

'1914. Knight poses as rating aboard son's cruiser and helps Q-ship sink U-boat.' (British Film Catalogue)

During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.

A batty Scottish professor attempts to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, but everyone thinks he's crazy. Meanwhile, a foolish young...

Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man, as they know nothing about her long-term affair...

A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of...

A television documentary on the life and career of British film director David Lean. Scenes of Lean directing are intercut with personal interviews...

A short documentary about the making of David Lean's LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. A 1970 documentary with a similar title uses some footage but is otherwise a...

Documentary about the making of the epic 1962 film, with reminiscences from surviving cast and crew.

Two insurance detectives work with the police to identify and bring down a crime kingpin. One is murdered, but his partner and his daughter continue.

Domineering actor-manager Max Till takes the impoverished Maika Tamara under his wing, turning her into an overnight sensation. But as her fame...

After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with his...

A British diplomat falls in love with a famous singer when he meets her in Cannes.

In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to...

Romantic quadrangle involving two brothers, one a burgeoning ballet composer; a willful heiress; and a waif.