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1	Rebecca (1940) more movies like this directed by Alfred Hitchcock featuring Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson, Nigel Bruce Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, the classic psychological thriller Rebecca was Alfred Hitchcock's first American film. Joan Fontaine plays the unnamed narrator, a young woman who works as a companion to the well-to-do Mrs. Van Hopper (Florence Bates). She meets the wealthy widower Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) in Monte Carlo, where ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £11.61!
2	Clash of the Titans (1981) more movies like this directed by Desmond Davis featuring Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Claire Bloom, Judi Bowker, Maggie Smith The eschewing of modern optical effects techniques in favor of the classic stop-motion animation work of special effects legend Ray Harryhausen was a delightful highlight of this action adventure that attempted to give Greek mythology the Star Wars (1977) treatment. Harry Hamlin stars as Perseus, a mortal who, due to the interference of the mighty ... see all copies from £5.25! new only from £5.37!
3	Jesus of Nazareth (1977) more movies like this directed by Franco Zeffirelli featuring Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey, Peter Ustinov, Christopher Plummer, Anne Bancroft, James Mason, Ian McShane, Laurence Olivier, Rod Steiger Because director Franco Zeffirelli noted publicly that he intended to depict Jesus Christ as a human being rather than a religious icon, his expensive made-for-TV miniseries Jesus of Nazareth fell victim to protestors long before its April 3, 1977, debut. Despite the pullout of several sponsors, Jesus of Nazareth was aired as scheduled, sweeping ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £13.65!
4	Spartacus (1960) more movies like this directed by Stanley Kubrick featuring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Batiatus (Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Batiatus' gladiators are to stage a fight to the death. On the night before the event, the enslaved trainees are "rewarded" with ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £4.63!
5	The Jazz Singer (1980) more movies like this directed by Richard Fleischer featuring Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier, Lucie Arnaz, Catlin Adams, Franklyn Ajaye, Paul Nicholas Pop singer Neil Diamond stars in this ill-begotten second remake of Al Jolson's seminal 1927 musical The Jazz Singer. The moth-eaten story concerns a cantor's son who desires success as a pop singer, despite the wishes of his imperious father. The film takes place in the present day with Yussel Rabinowitz (Neil Diamond) playing a young (though ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £3.38!
6	Battle of Britain (1969) more movies like this directed by Guy Hamilton featuring Harry Andrews, Trevor Howard, Michael Caine, Curd Jürgens, Ralph Richardson, Ian McShane, Laurence Olivier James Bond-flick director Guy Hamilton helmed this episodic, all-star World War II film. With Sir Laurence Olivier heading up an ensemble cast as flight commander Sir Hugh Dowdling, The Battle of Britain pays tribute to other nationalities instrumental in fending off the waves of Luftwaffe planes, notably the expatriate Polish and Czech pilots. ... see all copies from £1.40! new only from £7.45!
7	Pride and Prejudice (1940) more movies like this directed by Robert Z. Leonard featuring Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland, Edna May Oliver, Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Sullivan Long before 19th-century novelist Jane Austen became a hot property in Hollywood, MGM produced this opulent and entertaining adaptation of one of Austen's best-known novels. The elegant and slyly satirical comedy of manners gets under way when socially conscious Mrs. Bennet (Mary Boland), with the begrudging assistance of her husband (Edmund Gwenn ... see all copies from £3.38! new only from £9.10!
8	Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) more movies like this directed by Franklin J. Schaffner featuring Alan Dalton, Alexander Knox, Curd Jürgens, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Neville, Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Harry Andrews, Irene Worth, Jack Hawkins, Laurence Olivier Nicholas and Alexandra covers the rise and fall of the last of the Russian Romanovs. We first meet Czar Nicholas (Michael Jayston) and his German bride Alexandra (Janet Suzman) at their 1894 wedding. Though Nicholas is devoted to Alexandra, the Russian populace is less politely inclined to having a "foreigner" as their Czarina. Alexandra gains ... see all copies from £6.04! new only from £10.86!
9	Wuthering Heights (1939) more movies like this directed by William Wyler featuring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson, Geraldine Fitzgerald William Wyler's Wuthering Heights is one of the earliest screen adaptations of the classic Emily Brontë novel. A traveler named Lockwood (Miles Mander) is caught in the snow and stays at the estate of Wuthering Heights, where the housekeeper, Ellen Dean (Flora Robson), sits down to tell him the story in flashback. In the early 19th century, the ... see all copies from £3.41! new only from £42.34!
10	The Boys From Brazil (1978) more movies like this directed by Franklin J. Schaffner featuring Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason, Lilli Palmer, Uta Hagen This film of Ira Levin's novel The Boys from Brazil wastes no time in establishing the fact that several seemingly unrelated men have been mysteriously murdered. Elderly Jewish Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier), brought into the case when the clues seem to point to a neo-fascist plot, traces the trail of evidence to Paraguay. Here he ... see all copies from £2.83! new only from £3.89!
11 view cover	A Little Romance (1979) more movies like this directed by George Roy Hill featuring Laurence Olivier, Arthur Hill, Sally Kellerman, Diane Lane, Thelonious Bernard The disarming comedy A Little Romance features Diane Lane as a 13-year-old American, living in Paris with her businessman stepfather (Arthur Hill) and her promiscuous mother (Sally Kellerman). Mom is currently enamored with pretentious-filmmaker David Dukes, and it is on the set of Dukes' latest picture that Lane meets another 13-year-old, ... see all copies from £3.63! new only from £7.20!
12 view cover	The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) more movies like this directed by Michael Anderson featuring Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Vittorio De Sica A Pope contends with the prospects of nuclear world destruction in this Cold-War saga of religious faith and international politics. (Anthony Quinn) plays a Russian priest who has spent 20 years in a Siberian labor camp. When Russian and Chinese relations deteriorate, Russian Premier Kamenev (Laurence Olivier) releases him and he is made a ... see all copies from £3.17! new only from £10.20!
13 view cover	Marathon Man (1976) more movies like this directed by John Schlesinger featuring Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller Doc Levy (Roy Scheider) is an American secret agent who has been running interference between the U.S. government and escaped Nazi war criminal Szell (Laurence Olivier). Believing that Doc has stolen a valuable cache of gems, Szell emerges from his South American hiding place and heads for New York. He has Doc killed, then kidnaps Doc's in-the ... see all copies from £1.77! new only from £5.05!
14 view cover	Khartoum (1966) more movies like this directed by Basil Dearden featuring Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson, Alexander Knox After declaring a holy war to rid the Sudan of Anglo-Egyptian rule in the 1880s, the fanatical Sudanese leader Muhammad Ahmad (Laurence Olivier) massacres a British-led force of 8,000 and marches on the strategic city of Khartoum at the confluence of the Blue Nile and the White Nile. The British government of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £6.05!
15 view cover	Dracula (1979) more movies like this directed by John Badham featuring Frank Langella, Laurence Olivier, Donald Pleasence, Kate Nelligan, Trevor Eve In the late '70s, Frank Langella starred in the hit Broadway play Dracula, written by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston. Langella's charisma and the surreal, black-and-white sets designed by cartoonist Edward Gorey were the chief outstanding features of the play, which was otherwise undistinguished. While this film production of the play ... see all copies from £3.42! new only from £7.21!
16 view cover	Hamlet (1948) more movies like this directed by Laurence Olivier featuring Laurence Olivier, Eileen Herlie, Basil Sydney, Jean Simmons, Norman Wooland, Felix Aylmer Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's decision to excise large portions of the text, his cinematic version of Hamlet is widely considered the best out of several dozens (and counting). Hamlet (Olivier) is a medieval Danish prince who's still melancholy over the ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £9.26!
17 view cover	That Hamilton Woman (1941) more movies like this directed by Alexander Korda featuring Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper Acting spouses Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh star in Alexander Korda's tragic tale of the adulterous love affair between Emma Lady Hamilton and Lord Horatio Nelson. The story begins in 1786, as the young and vivacious Emma Hart (Vivien Leigh) marries Sir William Hamilton (Alan Mowbray), the British ambassador to the court of Naples. Seven ... see all copies from £10.21!
18 view cover	As You Like It (1936) more movies like this directed by Paul Czinner featuring Henry Ainley, Felix Aylmer, Stuart Robertson, Leon Quartermaine, Austin Trevor, Laurence Olivier, Mackenzie Ward, Elisabeth Bergner, Sophie Stewart This film version of the famed Shakespearean comedy features Laurence Olivier as Orlando and Elisabeth Bergner as Rosalind. As the story goes, Rosalind, smitten by Orlando and not able to get his attention, disguises herself as a boy to more easily remain in Orlando's vicinity. Eventually Orlando grows to like his new friend and Rosalind is stuck ... see all copies from £4.07! new only from £4.07!
19 view cover	Carrie (1952) more movies like this directed by William Wyler featuring Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Eddie Albert, Miriam Hopkins, Basil Ruysdael Carrie is based on Sister Carrie, a novel by Theodore Dreiser. Dreiser's clumsy, unwieldy prose is streamlined into a neat and precise screenplay by Ruth and Augustus Goetz. Jennifer Jones stars as Carrie, who leaves her go-nowhere small town for the wicked metropolis of Chicago. Here she becomes the mistress of brash traveling salesman Charles ... see all copies from £5.81! new only from £5.81!
20 view cover	The Bounty (1984) more movies like this directed by Roger Donaldson featuring Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis This fourth film dramatization of the 1789 mutiny aboard the H.M.S. Bounty is based not on the familiar Nordhoff and Hall book, but on Richard Hough's novel Captain Bligh and Mr. Christian. This time, the infamous Captain Bligh (Anthony Hopkins) is as strict a disciplinarian as ever. He is, however, no monster; faced with his crew's increasing ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £5.67!
21 view cover	Merchant of Venice (1973) more movies like this directed by John Sichel, Jonathan Miller featuring Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Anthony Nicholls, Jeremy Brett Olivier stars in this production of the Shakespearean tragedy about greed and vengeance. All Movie Guide see all copies from £7.47!
22 view cover	The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) more movies like this directed by Laurence Olivier featuring Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, Richard Wattis, Jeremy Spencer The title of the Anglo-American The Prince and the Showgirl could well have alluded to the genuine stations in life of stars Sir Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe. Based on the Terence Rattigan play The Sleeping Prince, the film casts Olivier as Charles, prince regent of Carpathia, who is in London to attend the 1911 coronation of King George V. ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £4.34!
23 view cover	Richard III (1955) more movies like this directed by Laurence Olivier featuring Cedric Hardwicke, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Nicholas Hannen, Claire Bloom, Ralph Richardson, Alec Clunes Laurence Olivier was the director, co-screenwriter (with Alan Dent), and star of this robust adaptation of Shakespeare's drama, which, as Bruce Eder has written, "was the final, crowning glory of the British studio system and the end of the great cycle of British films aimed at international audiences." Olivier begins his Richard III with Edward ... see all copies from £7.00! new only from £10.24!
24 view cover	Sleuth (1972) more movies like this directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz featuring Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine The mystery stage play by Anthony Shaffer was adapted by the author into this stylish film from director Joseph L. Manciewicz. Laurence Olivier stars as Andrew Wyke, a best-selling author of detective fiction living in a grand 16th century mansion. Andrew is visited by Milo Tindle (Michael Caine), owner of a hair salon chain, and reveals to his ... see all copies from £2.73!
25 view cover	The Betsy (1978) more movies like this directed by Daniel Petrie featuring Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross, Tommy Lee Jones, Jane Alexander Based on the novel by Harold Robbins, this is the story of Loren Hardeman, Sr., a Midwestern automobile manufacturer (Lord Olivier) who pins his future on The Betsy, a "wonder car" named after his daughter (Kathleen Beller). The Betsy is designed to last practically forever, which doesn't rest well with the "planned obscolence" mindset of the auto ... see all copies from £2.73! new only from £4.10!

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