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6.8

♡ 4

93%

58%

based on play or musical

David Lean Director

Rex Harrison as Adolphus Cusins

Robert Newton as Bill Walker

Cathleen Cordell as Mog Habbijam

Kathleen Harrison as Mrs. Price

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.

Great Expectations

1946

7.8

♡ 15

100%

88%

Adventure

David Lean Director

Milo O'Shea as Condemned criminal

Valerie Hobson as Estella

Jean Simmons as Young Estella

Tony Wager as Young Pip

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 childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

A Passage to India

1984

7.3

♡ 47

77%

David Lean Director

Art Malik as Ali

James Fox as Fielding

Clive Swift as Major Callendar

Nigel Havers as Ronny

Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.

Lawrence of Arabia

1962

8.3

♡ 158

93%

Adventure

arabian

based on a true story

David Lean Director

Cyril Shaps as Bartender in Officer's Club

George Plimpton as Bedouin

Howard Marion-Crawford as Medical Officer

Rafael Hernández as Turkish Soldier

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 flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965

religion and supernatural

6.6

♡ 25

42%

David Lean Director

Michael Ansara as Herod's Commander

Abraham Sofaer as Joseph of Arimathaea

Telly Savalas as Pontius Pilate

Robert Blake as Simon the Zealot

From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. Major aspects of Christ's life are touched upon, including the execution of all the newborn males in Egypt by King Herod; Christ's baptism by John the Baptist; and the betrayal by Judas after the Last Supper that eventually leads to Christ's crucifixion and miraculous return.

The Sound Barrier

1952

6.7

♡ 6

80%

David Lean Director

Denholm Elliott as Christopher Ridgefield

Leslie Phillips as Controller

Ralph Michael as Fletcher

Nigel Patrick as Tony Garthwaite

Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.

The Passionate Friends

1949

7.2

♡ 4

75%

David Lean Director

Lisa Daniely as Cinema Usherette

Ann Todd as Mary Justin

Trevor Howard as Prof. Steven Stratton

Arthur Howard as Smith - Butler

A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

1957

8.1

♡ 102

96%

93%

Adventure

David Lean Director

Geoffrey Horne as Lieutenant Joyce

James Donald as Major Clipton

Jack Hawkins as Major Warden

William Holden as Shears

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 blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

This Happy Breed

1944

7.3

♡ 6

100%

David Lean Director

Stanley Holloway as Bob Mitchell

Celia Johnson as Ethel Gibbons

Robert Newton as Frank Gibbons

Kay Walsh as Queenie

In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house in the suburbs, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival, and even another World War.

Hobson's Choice

1954

7.7

♡ 14

91%

parent child relationship

based on play or musical

marriage of convenience

northern england

Romance

David Lean Director

Shirley Stelfox as

Daphne Anderson as Alice Hobson

Julien Mitchell as Sam Minns

Prunella Scales as Vicky Hobson

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be ‘no marriages’ to avoid the expense of marriage settlements at £500 each, his eldest daughter Maggie rebels.

Doctor Zhivago

1965

7.9

♡ 78

82%

88%

David Lean Director

Luis Fernández de Eribe as Lewis

Geoffrey Keen as Medical Professor

Geraldine Chaplin as Tonya

Omar Sharif as Yuri

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

Madeleine

1950

6.9

♡ 7

83%

David Lean Director

Anthony Newley as Chemist's Assistant

Aileen Lewis as Lady Watching Dance

Ann Todd as Madeleine Smith

Norman Wooland as William Minnoch

The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.

Summertime

1955

7.1

♡ 11

92%

David Lean Director

Darren McGavin as Eddie Yaeger

Katharine Hepburn as Jane Hudson

Mari Aldon as Phyl Yaeger

Rossano Brazzi as Renato de Rossi

Middle-aged Ohio secretary Jane Hudson has never found love and has nearly resigned herself to spending the rest of her life alone. But before she does, she uses her savings to finance a summer in romantic Venice, where she finally meets the man of her dreams, the elegant Renato Di Rossi.

Oliver Twist

1948

7.8

♡ 19

100%

84%

David Lean Director

Michael Ripper as Barney

Robert Newton as Bill Sykes

Diana Dors as Charlotte

Kathleen Harrison as Mrs Sowerberry

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, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Brief Encounter

1945