Laurence Olivier Movies

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Laurence Olivier

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the...

Genre: History

Cast: Kirk Douglas

A mystery novelist devises an insurance scam with his wife's lover – but things aren't exactly as they seem.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Laurence Olivier

A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Carol Lynley

To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Harry Hamlin

The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mel Gibson

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Dustin Hoffman

The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Merle Oberon

When gigantic robots attack New York City, "Sky Captain" uses his private air force to fight them off. His ex-girlfriend, reporter Polly Perkins, has...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jude Law

Intellectually precocious teenager Lauren King lives in Paris with her somewhat ditzy mother. On a movie set, she strikes up a friendship with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Laurence Olivier

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Laurence Olivier

In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by...

Genre: War

Cast: Leslie Howard

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the...

Genre: War

Cast: Michael Caine

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Genre: History

Cast: Laurence Olivier

The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the...

Genre: History

Cast: Flora Robson

An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marilyn Monroe

Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Michael Caine

Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Frank Langella

During World War I, British soldier Owen is mortified by the examples of cruelty that surround him in the trenches. He combats these terrifying...

Genre: War

Cast: Nathaniel Parker

Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud....

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Alan Arkin

English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians...

Genre: History

Cast: Charlton Heston

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Neil Diamond

The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vivien Leigh

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ralph Richardson

Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five unmarried daughters, and Mrs. Bennet is especially eager to find suitable husbands for them. When the rich single...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Greer Garson

The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Merle Oberon

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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Laurence Olivier

General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frank Finlay

Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gregory Peck

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Jayston

After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vivien Leigh

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.

Genre: Action

Cast: Scott Glenn

A successful lawyer struck with blindness in middle age continues his battles in the courtroom with the assistance of his family. As his son deals...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope. This time much more is at...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Quinn

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Ruthless patriarch Loren hires racecar driver Angelo to build a more efficient vehicle against the wishes of his grandson. But things get even...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister...

Genre: War

Cast: Burt Lancaster

A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elissa Landi

Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationship.

Genre: History

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Poetry by Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, and William Blake, and excerpts from speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill, all read by Laurence...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laurence Olivier

An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katharine Hepburn

Based on Graham Greene's novel about a flawed but devoted priest in 1930s Mexico who attempts to perform his duties while eluding a police lieutenant...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Attenborough

Set in the rarefied world of West End boutique owners and fashion designers, The Collection takes as its departure point the moment when four elegant...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alan Bates

A film about the life and work of the master comedy filmmaker, Charles Chaplin.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laurence Olivier

This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from...

Genre: History

Cast: Frederick Culley

During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Harry Baur

British Army captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Adolphe Menjou

A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ann Harding

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gloria Swanson

Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

An Edwardian take on the Shakespeare play starring Laurence Olivier.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

On a day in the summer of 1912, the family of retired matinee idol James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of Tyrone's wife Mary, the...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Laurence Olivier

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joanne Woodward

Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.

Genre: History

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Short WW II documentary

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sarah Miles

A brash young artist invades the secluded retirement of an elderly painter and finds that the great man lives with two young women in a tantalizingly...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Laurence Olivier

In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Newton

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Nearly a thousand miles away from their beloved Moscow, Chekhov's Three Sisters live in virtual exile. Olga , a schoolmistress, attempts to support...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeanne Watts

A famed mystery writer and her doctor ex-lover solve her daughter-in-law's murder.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Angela Lansbury

Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leonard Whiting

A lavish documentary film of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation in 1953.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laurence Olivier

A young man becomes infatuated with the exotic Lady Pitts whose much older husband is not pleased.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Plowright

Paying homage to two of Hollywood's central icons, the film creates an unparalleled portrait of two very different personalities amidst the demise of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David O. Selznick

World War II propaganda film.

Genre: War

Cast: Ralph Richardson

Kitty Kellermann is put on trial for murdering her husband, a failed painter. When her counsel resigns from his mandate, the mysterious Peter Bille...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lilian Harvey

A man tries to burgle his own safe on the same night that a professional criminal attempts it.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Laurence Olivier

'A good-looking chauffeur, employed by an aristocratic married lady is tempted to misconduct. His indifference arouses her wrath and he is charged...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Nora Swinburne

One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon her life and marriage...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Plowright

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carey Wilson

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ann Morriss

This documentary revisits the making of Gone with the Wind via archival footage, screen tests, insightful interviews and rare film footage.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christopher Plummer

The newsreel series Jornal Português (1938-1951) was produced for the Secretariat of National Propaganda (SPN/SNI) by the "Portuguese Newsreel...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: António de Oliveira Salazar

A documentary by Tony Palmer on English composer Sir William Walton (1902–1983), made shortly before his death. The film includes the only...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William Walton

In this television documentary, Laurence Oliver is interviewed by Kenneth Tynan about his Shakespearean films.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Producer Robert Evans dominates with his trademark promotional style, but Schlesinger gets a short time on camera (one of his few available...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Everett Creach

Julien Temple's second documentary profiling punk rock pioneers the Sex Pistols is an enlightening, entertaining trip back to a time when the punk...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Lydon

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director Otto Preminger, whose body of work includes such...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Otto Preminger

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anjelica Huston

Documentary about the famed Hollywood director.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: A. Scott Berg

Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Redgrave

Promotional short hosted by Laurence Olivier promoting the film "Othello."

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Towards the end of their lives, two old friends discover that one of them was in love with the other one's wife for more than thirty years.

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Cast: Laurence Olivier

The life and career of two-time Oscar winner Vivien Leigh, who battled tuberculosis and manic-depression but always remained a star.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vivien Leigh

A Rolls Royce Silver Cloud drove him to airports; the British film industry kowtowed to his power; the great Hollywood studios fawned at his feet.Sir...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Orson Welles

In "Gone with the Wind" she was an unforgettable Scarlett O'Hara. Beauty, two-time Oscar winner, celebrated Hollywood star and great Shakespearean...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Vivien Leigh

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jack Cardiff

BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Maggie Smith

A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britain's most distinguished actors. Compiled from...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Mills

An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden...

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Cast: Laurence Olivier

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at an exhibition of Da Vinci's drawings at Burlington House in London, marking the quincentenary of his...

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Cast: Laurence Olivier

Never trust a man whoever he is. This is the bitter lesson learned by Mary MacNeil in her relationships with three different men: her father, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sean Connery

Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gregory Doran

Her story is well-known — the lonely child who yearned for affection and approval which she finally seemed to find as Hollywood's greatest love...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marilyn Monroe

Hopkins’ career has spanned several decades, which is why we will also use many interviews that he gave throughout his life, allowing us to put...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anthony Hopkins

Documentary with an affectionate look back at the classic Granada TV dramatisation of Evelyn Waugh's famous novel "Brideshead Revisited".

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Simon Callow

A portrait of the 30 year relationship between Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier. With comments by their friends and family.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Henry Fonda

An indictment of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. The film tries to give a reconstruction of the events during the students' uprising in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Melina Mercouri

'Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.' (British Film Catalogue)

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gertrude Lawrence

Television documentary on playwright, actor, composer, and film maker Noel Coward.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Noël Coward

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Debbie Allen

Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the part discuss Hamlet's personality, Shakespeare's...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bud Abbott

A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Donald Pleasence

The first ever feature documentary about one of the most talented, accomplished and multi-faceted artists of the 20th Century. An exploration of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Noël Coward

Documentary about legendary Paramount producer Robert Evans, based on his famous 1994 autobiography.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Evans

A deliciously scandalous portrait of unsung Hollywood legend Scotty Bowers, whose bestselling memoir chronicled his decades spent as sexual procurer...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Scotty Bowers

Talented and enduring Academy Award-winning star, Gregory Peck, tells how it was when studios ruled and a shy boy from a broken family could rise to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gregory Peck

The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bryan Cranston

A huge panorama of Richard Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Burton

A forgotten history of Northern Ireland is unveiled through a journey into Ulster Television’s archives, and the rediscovery of the first...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Evan Marshall