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Murder by Death

Murder by Death (1976) more movies like this

directed by Robert Moore
featuring Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, James Coco, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Maggie Smith

As penned by Neil Simon, this satire of movie mysteries is set in motion when several prominent detectives are invited to the mansion of the reclusive Lionel Twain (Truman Capote). In Ten Little Indians fashion, the gathered sleuths are locked into the forbidding mansion, and subject to various death-dealing devices. While struggling for their ...

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Cromwell

Cromwell (1970) more movies like this

directed by Ken Hughes
featuring Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin, Frank Finlay, Timothy Dalton, Charles Gray, Michael Jayston

This biography of Oliver Cromwell recalls the political and religious struggles of 17th century England. Cromwell (Richard Harris) is the Anglican religious fanatic who fights corruption and Catholicism with equal zeal, while King Charles (Alec Guinness) is the vacillating monarch who believes his crown gives him a direct pipeline to the wisdom of ...

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The Horse's Mouth

The Horse's Mouth (1958) more movies like this

directed by Ronald Neame
featuring Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Mike Morgan, Renee Houston, Robert Coote

The Horse's Mouth is an acting and a writing tour de force for Alec Guinness, who authored the screenplay in addition to starring in the film. Gulley Jimson (Alec Guinness) is an aging artist with a reputation as a genius, though he lives an impoverished life. Jimson has reached the point in his life where he no longer feels any need to moderate ...

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Scrooge

Scrooge (1970) more movies like this

directed by Ronald Neame
featuring Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Laurence Naismith

Scrooge was designed as a follow-up to 1968's Oliver!, the Oscar-winning musicalization of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. The umpteenth musical version of Dickens' 1843 novelette A Christmas Carol, Scrooge features several sprightly Leslie Bricusse songs, including the bona fide hit "Thank You Very Much." Buried under mounds of latex, Albert ...

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A Majority of One

A Majority of One (1961) more movies like this

directed by Mervyn LeRoy
featuring Rosalind Russell, Alec Guinness, Ray Danton, Madlyn Rhue, Mae Questel

This standard love story adapted by Leonard Spigelgass from his stage play was acclaimed when it was released for probing into the nature of prejudice. Rosalind Russell plays Mrs. Jacoby, a Jewish widow living in Brooklyn whose daughter Alice (Madlyn Rhue) is married to Jerome (Ray Danton), a U.S. diplomat newly assigned to Japan. Because of ...

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The Swan

The Swan (1956) more movies like this

directed by Charles Vidor
featuring Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan, Agnes Moorehead, Jesse Royce Landis

Frances Howard starred as Princess Alexandria in the 1925 silent version of Ferenc Molnar's play The Swan; Lillian Gish assumed the role in the 1930 talkie version. The third and final adaptation starred Grace Kelly, who had one slight advantage over her predecessors; she would soon become a real princess instead of a make-believe one. And don't ...

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A Foreign Field

A Foreign Field (1993) more movies like this

directed by Charles Sturridge
featuring Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, John Randolph, Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, Geraldine Chaplin, Edward Herrmann

In this sentimental comedy, two British World War II veterans (played by English stage and screen veterans Sir Alec Guinness and Leo McKern) have come back to Normandy together to revisit the site of their most harrowing wartime experiences, to look up the gravesite of a fallen comrade, and to look up the prostitute (Jeanne Moreau) who put joy ...

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The Ladykillers

The Ladykillers (1955) more movies like this

directed by Alexander MacKendrick
featuring Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Katie Johnson, Danny Green

Music professor Alec Guinness rents a London flat from sweet old lady Katie Johnson. He tells her that, from time to time, several other musicians will visit in order to rehearse. In truth, Guinness can't play a note, nor can his visitors: he's a criminal mastermind, holding court over a gang of thieves, including the likes of punkish Peter ...

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Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago (1965) more movies like this

directed by David Lean
featuring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness

Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif). In the tradition of Russian novels, a multitude of characters and subplots intertwine within the film's 197 minutes (plus intermission) ...

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Lawrence of Arabia

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) more movies like this

directed by David Lean
featuring Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Claude Rains

This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the eyes of the enigmatic T. E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole, in the role that made him a star). After a prologue showing us Lawrence's ultimate fate, we flash back to Cairo in 1917. A bored general staffer, Lawrence talks his way ...

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The Detective

The Detective (1954) more movies like this

directed by Robert Hamer
featuring Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Cecil Parker, Bernard Lee

Alec Guinness stars as Father Brown, full-time priest and part-time sleuth, in this comic mystery based on the character created by novelist G.K. Chesterton. When Father Brown is entrusted with transporting a valuable religious artifact from London to Rome, he's understandably upset when it's stolen from him. Brown has reason to believe that a ...

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Raise the Titanic

Raise the Titanic (1980) more movies like this

directed by Jerry Jameson
featuring Jason Robards, Jr., Richard Jordan, Alec Guinness, David Selby, Anne Archer

This box-office bomb is about some schemers' hell-bent efforts to raise the fated vessel from its murky grave when they suspect that there's a fortune in radioactive cargo aboard. To add a little excitement, a bunch of Russians decide they want to get there first. ~ All Movie Guide

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Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) more movies like this

directed by Ennio de Concini
featuring Richard Fescud, Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi, Diane Cilento, Gabriele Ferzetti

Alec Guinness plays against stereotype, imbuing his Adolf Hitler with an introverted solemnity in Ennio De Concini's Hitler: The Last Ten Days. Set almost entirely inside Hitler's Berlin bunker, the film chronicles the dying days of the Third Reich as the Allied armies close in on Berlin. Guinness's Hitler is an enclosed depressive who sinks ...

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A Handful of Dust

A Handful of Dust (1988) more movies like this

directed by Charles Sturridge
featuring James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves, Anjelica Huston, Alec Guinness

Based on a novel by Evelyn Waugh, Handful of Dust is set amongst Britain's aristocracy of the 1930s. At sumptuous Hetton Abbey, tradition-bound country squire James Wilby and his wife Kristin Scott Thomas open their doors to well-connected but impoverished Rupert Graves. Graves returns Wilby's hospitality by having an affair with Scott Thomas, ...

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Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) more movies like this

directed by Jack Gold
featuring Alec Guinness

Alec Guinness stars as an elderly Brit who takes in his poor New Yorker grandson (Ricky Schroeder) in this made-for-TV modern-day retelling of Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

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Smiley's People

Smiley's People (1982) more movies like this

directed by Simon Langton
featuring Alec Guinness, Vass Anderson, Eileen Atkins, Anthony Bate, Andrew Bradford

A sequel to 1980's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, this BBC miniseries once again focuses on British spy George Smiley (Sir Alec Guinness), once again called out of retirement, this time by the fussy Oliver Lacon Anthony Bate, to deal with a scandal in the British spy establishment. An ex-Russian general and British spy (Curt Jurgens) is found ...

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations (1946) more movies like this

directed by David Lean
featuring John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Finlay Currie, Francis L. Sullivan, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons

Immediately grabbing the audience's attention with a heart-stopping opening scene in a dark graveyard, acclaimed British director David Lean realizes the cinematic potential of Charles Dickens' classic 1861 novel, and the result is considered by many to be one of the finest literary adaptations ever made as well as one of the greatest British ...

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Tunes of Glory

Tunes of Glory (1960) more movies like this

directed by Ronald Neame
featuring Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price, John Fraser, Susannah York

Two excellent actors shine in powerful roles in this drama by Ronald Neame that pits one Scottish army colonel against another. Alec Guinness is Lt. Col. Jock Sinclair, a man who temporarily takes over command of a regiment until his replacement, Col. Basil Barrow (John Mills) arrives. Sinclair comes from the lower echelons of the social order but ...

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Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist (1948) more movies like this

directed by David Lean
featuring Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, John Howard Davies

The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver Twist expertly boils down an enormous novel to a little less than two hours' screen time. The film begins with baby Oliver left on the doorstep of an orphanage/workhouse by his unwed mother. Proving a difficult charge to the ...

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Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972) more movies like this

directed by Franco Zeffirelli
featuring Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Alec Guinness, Leigh Lawson, Kenneth Cranham

St. Francis of Assisi was an extraordinarily complex and difficult figure whose effect on his contemporary society was electrifying. Even today, many people are moved by his visionary message of universal toleration. Twelfth-century Italy had an exceptionally grim and regimented society, but the barefoot monk from Assisi undoubtedly had the ...

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) more movies like this

directed by David Lean
featuring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne, James Donald

The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) and newly arrived British colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness). Saito insists that Nicholson order his men to build a bridge over the river Kwai, which will be used to transport ...

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A Passage to India

A Passage to India (1984) more movies like this

directed by David Lean
featuring Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec Guinness

A Passage to India, director David Lean's final film (for which he also received editing credit), breaks no new ground cinematically, but remains an exquisitely assembled harkback to such earlier Lean epics as Doctor Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter. Based on the novel by E. M. Forster, the film is set in colonial India in 1924. Adela Quested (Judy ...

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Lovesick

Lovesick (1983) more movies like this

directed by Marshall Brickman
featuring Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness, John Huston, Wallace Shawn

Saul (Dudley Moore), a married psychiatrist, becomes romantically obsessed with Chloe (Elizabeth McGovern), one of his patients. Chloe has already devastated one psychoanalyst, and although the venerable Freud himself (Alec Guinness) appears to counsel Saul in his worst moments, the man continues on his tormented way. In spite of notable names in ...

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The Fall of the Roman Empire

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) more movies like this

directed by Anthony Mann
featuring Alec Guinness, Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, James Mason, Christopher Plummer

Though Fall of the Roman Empire is now infamous as the epic which destroyed the cinematic "empire" of producer Samuel Bronston, the film is actually an above-average historical drama, attempting to make sense of the political intrigues which resulted in the dissolution of the Glory That Was Rome. The film begins with wise, diplomatic emperor ...

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The Comedians

The Comedians (1967) more movies like this

directed by Peter Glenville
featuring Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Paul Ford

The humorous title of this story taken from the novel by Graham Greene gives the viewer the wrong impression. The story concerns the residents of a once-posh hotel in Haiti and the fate of the country's people under the despotic dictator Papa Doc Duvalier. Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) is the philandering wife of a South American ambassador Peter ...

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