David Lean Movies

A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton

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

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

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

Using still pictures and newsreel footage, this short film tells the life story of Russian author Boris Pasternak, who was forced by the Russian...

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...

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...

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

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

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

A batty Scottish professor attempts to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, but everyone thinks he's crazy. Meanwhile, a foolish young...

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...

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

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.

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

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.

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...

In this promotional short for the feature film Doctor Zhivago (1965), director David Lean explains why he chose the performers for the leading roles...

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.