David Lean Movies

When David Lean made his film Doctor Zhivago (1965), he realized that it would be impossible to do location shooting in Moscow. Instead, he found a...

A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of...

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...

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

A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton

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

Two insurance detectives work with the police to identify and bring down a crime kingpin. One is murdered, but his partner and his daughter continue.

George, the inebriate night porter at the Hotel Splendide, develops a series of increasingly outlandish suspicions about Billy and Percy, two guests...

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

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

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.

'1914. Knight poses as rating aboard son's cruiser and helps Q-ship sink U-boat.' (British Film Catalogue)

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

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...

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...

When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a...

A behind-the-scenes look at the building of the bridge in the film The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) and the preparations for its destruction.

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.