David Lean Movies

In the late 1990s, iconic photographer Bruce Weber barely managed to convince legendary actor Robert Mitchum (1917-97) to let himself be filmed...

Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.

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

After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with his...

It is based on the popular West End stage comedy by Terrence Rattigan. It all begins when Diana (Ellen Drew), the sister of a British boy studying in...

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months'...

A wealthy author, looking for material, 'adopts' an incorrigible thief he finds in the streets, together with an attractive typist who is down on her...

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the...

Several high-budget epic films became Omar Sharif (1932-2015) a film star. He was an actor, but also a bridge player, a womanizer, a bon vivant; he...

A television documentary on the life and career of British film director David Lean. Scenes of Lean directing are intercut with personal interviews...

Domineering actor-manager Max Till takes the impoverished Maika Tamara under his wing, turning her into an overnight sensation. But as her fame...

In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime suspect is a prosperous...

Documentary about David Lean's unfinished attempt of adapting Joseph Conrad's novel Nostromo.

A film about the life of A Passage to India author E M Forster, following his huge growth as a writer and the twists and turns of his personal life.

Documentary about the making of the epic 1962 film, with reminiscences from surviving cast and crew.

A documentary video that profiles the life of David Lean, the director of Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia.

Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man, as they know nothing about her long-term affair...

Romantic quadrangle involving two brothers, one a burgeoning ballet composer; a willful heiress; and a waif.

During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.

'Farm life on the South Downs. A gentleman farmer beats his unscrupulous rival in sheepdog trials.' (British Film Institute)