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1	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) ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £6.58!
2	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 ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £5.65!
3	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 ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £2.78!
4	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 ... see all copies from £7.56! new only from £7.56!
5	The Empire Strikes Back (1980) more movies like this directed by Irvin Kershner featuring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, Frank Oz, Alec Guinness, Kenny Baker The second entry in George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy finds Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the green-as-grass hero from the first film, now a seasoned space warrior. Luke's Star Wars cohorts Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) are likewise more experienced in the ways and means of battling the insidious Empire, as represented ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £10.35!
6	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, ... see all copies from £4.83! new only from £5.89!
7	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 ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £6.14!
8	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 ... see all copies from £10.04! new only from £10.04!
9	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 ... see all copies from £13.13!
10	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979) more movies like this directed by John Irvin featuring Alec Guinness, Michael Aldridge, Bernard Hepton, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston Living a premature and somewhat humbling retirement, elderly British spy George Smiley (Alec Guinness) is abruptly resurrected by his former boss Lacon (Anthony Bate) with an ultra-secret mission: find the double agent in the ranks of the British Secret Service. Is it the pompous head of service, Percy Alleline (Michael Aldridge)? The blowsy Bland ... see all copies from £13.13! new only from £25.54!
11 view cover	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 ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £22.12!
12 view cover	Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) more movies like this directed by Robert Hamer featuring Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood Alec Guinness gets to die eight times, playing a line of successors to a dukedom, in the Ealing black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets. Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) is ninth in line to inherit the dukedom from the aristocratic D'Ascoyne family. Louis vows to kill all eight people who stand between him and the duke's title. Aside from two cases of ... see all copies from £4.23! new only from £5.13!
13 view cover	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 ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £5.13!
14 view cover	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 ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £5.55!
15 view cover	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 ... see all copies from £22.73! new only from £25.29!
16 view cover	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 ... see all copies from £11.09! new only from £11.09!
17 view cover	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 ... see all copies from £27.68!
18 view cover	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 ... see all copies from £3.43! new only from £9.67!
19 view cover	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 see all copies from £4.04!
20 view cover	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 ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £16.53!
21 view cover	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 ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £4.16!
22 view cover	Mute Witness (1994) more movies like this directed by Anthony Waller featuring Marina Zudina, Oleg Yankovsky, Evan Richards, Fay Ripley, Igor Volkov, Alec Guinness A mute American working on a low-budget movie runs afoul of the Russian mafia in this internationally produced thriller. Billy (Marina Zudina), a special-effects makeup artist who is unable to speak, is in Moscow working on a cheapie slasher flick directed by Andy (Evan Richards), her sister's boyfriend. Late one night, Billy returns to the set to ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £4.86!
23 view cover	The Man in the White Suit (1951) more movies like this directed by Alexander MacKendrick featuring Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Ernst Thesiger Alec Guinness has one of his finest comic roles in this Ealing satirical comedy about a much patronized amateur scientist whose latest invention creates an uproar in the British textile industry. In the British manufacturing country of Northern England, factory owner Michael Corland (Michael Gough) is showing competitor Alan Bimley (Cecil Parker) ... see all copies from £2.00! new only from £5.13!
24 view cover	The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) more movies like this directed by Charles Crichton featuring Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass, Marjorie Fielding Charles Crichton directed this Ealing caper comedy, with a witty script by T.E.B. Clarke that won an Academy Award. Alec Guinness is Henry Holland, an unassuming transporter of gold bullion who, after working for twenty years with no rewards in sight for his faithful service to his company, decides to reward himself by stealing one million pounds ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £5.13!
25 view cover	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 ... see all copies from £3.17! new only from £7.61!

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