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Pride and Prejudice

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 ...

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Rebecca

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 ...

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Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited (1981) more movies like this

directed by Charles Sturridge, Michael Lindsay-Hogg
featuring Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Diana Quick, John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier

Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited was offered to television viewers in this 11-part adaptation that originally aired on the U.K.'s ITV network. The miniseries, like the book, lays bare the eccentricities of the young British aristocracy, concentrating upon several Oxford students. The story is told from the point-of-view of Charles ...

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The Jazz Singer

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 ...

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A Little Romance

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, ...

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Marathon Man

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 ...

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Nicholas and Alexandra

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 ...

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Wuthering Heights

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 ...

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The Shoes of the Fisherman

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 ...

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Khartoum

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 ...

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The Bounty

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 ...

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That Hamilton Woman

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 ...

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Richard III

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 ...

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Merchant of Venice

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

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King Lear

King Lear (1984) more movies like this

directed by Michael Elliott
featuring Diana Rigg, Dorothy Tutin, Laurence Olivier, Anna Calder-Marshall

Shakespeare's tragedy, made for British television, is given a full-blooded rendition here with the great Laurence Olivier in the title role and a stellar cast to support him, in the tale of a king torn apart by the ambition and treachery within his family and by his own pride. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide

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Fire Over England

Fire Over England (1937) more movies like this

directed by Alexander Korda, William Howard
featuring Flora Robson, Raymond Massey, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh

The war between England and Spain in the late 16th century serves as backdrop for the fictional machinations of Fire Over England. Laurence Olivier plays a British naval officer who offers his services to Queen Elizabeth (Flora Robson) after his father is executed by the Spaniards. The queen dispatches Olivier to the court of Spain, there to ...

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Othello

Othello (1965) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Burge
featuring Laurence Olivier, Frank Finlay, Maggie Smith, Joyce Redman, Derek Jacobi

The 1965 Othello is literally a photographed stage play: a filmed record of the National Theatre Production of 1964, as staged by John Dexter and starring Laurence Olivier. As the easily led, fatally jealous Moor of Venice, Olivier wears thick black-faced makeup and speaks in an uncharacteristically deep, bellow-like voice. Some considered his ...

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Clash of the Titans

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 ...

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Jesus of Nazareth

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 ...

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The Seven-Percent Solution

The Seven-Percent Solution (1976) more movies like this

directed by Herbert Ross
featuring Alan Arkin, Vanessa Redgrave, Robert Duvall, Nicol Williamson, Laurence Olivier

Nicholas Meyer based his screenplay for the "retro" Sherlock Holmes adventure The Seven Percent Solution on his own best-selling novel. As any Baker Street Irregular will tell you, the title refers to the dosage of cocaine taken by Sherlock Holmes (Nicol Williamson). The Great Detective's friend and chronicler Doctor Watson (Robert Duvall), ...

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Spartacus

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 ...

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As You Like It

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 ...

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The Entertainer

The Entertainer (1960) more movies like this

directed by Tony Richardson
featuring Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Joan Plowright, Roger Livesey, Alan Bates, Albert Finney

Laurence Olivier recreates his stage role of Archie Rice in this in-your-face film adaptation of John Osborne's play. The son of a legendary music hall comedian (Roger Livesey), Archie is strictly a third-rater, headlining a tacky music hall revue in a seedy seaside resort town. Archie can't admit that he's a failure, and his grim insouciance ...

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Battle of Britain

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. ...

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The 49th Parallel

The 49th Parallel (1941) more movies like this

directed by Michael Powell
featuring Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Laurence Olivier, Anton Walbrook, Glynis Johns

49th Parallel is a British wartime entreaty for Empire solidarity, concentrating on rousing the patriotic fervor of the citizens of Canada. A group of Nazi naval officers and crewmen are stranded on Canadian soil (we have no sympathy for the castaways, inasmuch as we have just seen them refusing food and water to a group of torpedoed British ...

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