Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
As Rebel leaders map their strategy for an all-out attack on the Emperor's newer, bigger Death Star. Han Solo remains frozen in the cavernous desert fortress of Jabba the Hutt ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Richard Marquand
CAST: Mark Hamill • Harrison Ford • Carrie Fisher • Billy Dee Williams
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: George Lucas
CAST: Mark Hamill • Harrison Ford • Carrie Fisher • Peter Cushing
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) RT 94% / Audience 93%
DVD release: Nov 2000
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • History • War
DIRECTION: David Lean
CAST: William Holden • Alec Guinness • Jack Hawkins • Sessue Hayakawa
Scrooge (1970) RT 75% / Audience 83%
DVD release: Sep 2003
The classic Charles Dickens' Christmas ghost tale told in musical form. (more)
GENRES: Drama • Family • Fantasy
DIRECTION: Ronald Neame
CAST: Albert Finney • Edith Evans • Kenneth More • Laurence Naismith
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) RT 97% / Audience 93%
DVD release: Apr 2001
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Drama • History • War
DIRECTION: David Lean
CAST: Peter O'Toole • Alec Guinness • Anthony Quinn • Jack Hawkins
A Passage to India (1984) RT 85% / Audience 78%
DVD release: Mar 2001
The film is set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj. It begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Drama • History
DIRECTION: David Lean
CAST: Judy Davis • Alec Guinness • Peggy Ashcroft • James Fox
Barnacle Bill (1957) RT Audience 58%
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea' (more)
GENRES: Comedy
DIRECTION: Charles Frend
CAST: Alec Guinness • Irene Browne • Maurice Denham • Percy Herbert
Doctor Zhivago (1965) RT 81% / Audience 88%
DVD release: Jan 1998
Doctor Zhivago is the filmed adapation of the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak from director David Lean that was an international success and today deemed a classic. Omar ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance • War
DIRECTION: David Lean
CAST: Omar Sharif • Julie Christie • Geraldine Chaplin • Rod Steiger
Great Expectations (1946) RT 100% / Audience 88%
DVD release: Jan 1999
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: David Lean
CAST: John Mills • Tony Wager • Valerie Hobson • Jean Simmons
Kafka (1991)
Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Mystery
DIRECTION: Steven Soderbergh
CAST: Jeremy Irons • Theresa Russell • Armin Mueller-Stahl • Joel Grey
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) RT 100% / Audience 94%
DVD release: Sep 2002
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama
DIRECTION: Robert Hamer
CAST: Dennis Price • Valerie Hobson • Joan Greenwood • Alec Guinness
Little Dorrit (1987) RT Audience 92%
DVD release: Apr 2009
A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Christine Edzard
CAST: Derek Jacobi • Joan Greenwood • Max Wall • Patricia Hayes
Malta Story (1953) RT Audience 61%
DVD release: Dec 2008
In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • History • War
DIRECTION: Brian Desmond Hurst
CAST: Alec Guinness • Jack Hawkins • Muriel Pavlow • Anthony Steel
Murder by Death (1976) RT 65% / Audience 83%
DVD release: Dec 2001
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Crime • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Robert Moore
CAST: Eileen Brennan • Truman Capote • James Coco • Peter Falk
Oliver Twist (1948) RT 100% / Audience 84%
DVD release: Jan 1999
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Drama • Family
DIRECTION: David Lean
CAST: Alec Guinness • Kay Walsh • John Howard Davies • Robert Newton
The Ladykillers (1955) RT 100% / Audience 87%
DVD release: Sep 2002
A gang of five diverse oddball criminal types rent a two-room apartment in an old house on a London cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow with three pet parrots. The group's ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Crime
DIRECTION: Alexander Mackendrick
CAST: Alec Guinness • Cecil Parker • Herbert Lom • Peter Sellers
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) RT 100% / Audience 87%
DVD release: Sep 2002
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country. (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Crime
DIRECTION: Charles Crichton
CAST: Alec Guinness • Stanley Holloway • Sid James • Alfie Bass
Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)
Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet - in time for Life Day, their most important day of ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Comedy • Family • Science Fiction • TV movie
DIRECTION: Steve Binder • David Acomba
CAST: Harrison Ford • Mark Hamill • Anthony Daniels • Carrie Fisher
Tunes of Glory (1960) RT 67% / Audience 80%
DVD release: Feb 2004
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Ronald Neame
CAST: Alec Guinness • John Mills • Dennis Price • Kay Walsh
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more ... (more)