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Alec Guinness has 23 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1990s. 3 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Lawrence of Arabia.
Me and Orson Welles
2008
Drama · History
The Empire Strikes Back
1980 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Disney+ · Included
Lawrence of Arabia
1962 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Netflix · Included
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Tubi · Free w/ ads
Murder by Death
1976 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads
Oliver Twist
1948 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Max · Included
Great Expectations
1946 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%Max · Included
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.
Dir. George Lucas · With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han Solo, Chewbacca, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 are thrown into various stages of capture, betrayal and despair.
Dir. Irvin Kershner · With Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.
Dir. David Lean · With Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif
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.
Dir. David Lean · With William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
as The D'Ascoyne Family: The Duke / The Banker / The Parson / The General / The Admiral / Young Ascoyne / Young Henry / Lady Agatha
Tubi · Free w/ ads
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.
Dir. Robert Hamer · With Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood
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.
Dir. David Lean · With Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Dir. Alexander Mackendrick · With Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
Dir. Robert Moore · With Truman Capote, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers
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.
Dir. David Lean · With John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Alec Guinness
Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.
Dir. Jack Gold · With Rick Schroder, Alec Guinness, Eric Porter
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
Dir. Charles Crichton · With Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James
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.
Dir. David Lean · With John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...
Dir. Alexander Mackendrick · With Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.
Dir. Ronald Neame · With Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba.
Dir. Carol Reed · With Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara
When a mute makeup/special effects artist working on a low-budget slasher film gets locked in a dilapidated Moscow movie studio late one night, she thinks she witnesses the making of a snuff film. Thus begins a night of terror.
Dir. Anthony Waller · With Marina Zudina, Fay Ripley, Evan Richards
In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. He slowly recovers, but after the illness he is no longer the Francesco that everybody knew. Instead of spending hours in taverns, he meditates on the beauty of God's creatures, soon renouncing his riches and his family with plans to rebuild an abandoned church and his life.
Dir. Franco Zeffirelli · With Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a seven-part BBC2 spy drama written by Arthur Hopcraft, adapted from John le Carré's eponymous 1974 novel. The serial, which stars Alec Guinness, Alexander Knox, Ian Richardson, Michael Jayston, Bernard Hepton, Anthony Bate, Ian Bannen, George Sewell and Michael Aldridge, was broadcast from 10 September to 22 October 1979. George Smiley, the ageing master spy of the Cold War and once heir-apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.
Dir. John Irvin, John le Carré · With Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Anthony Bate
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Dir. David Lean · With Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
Dir. Ken Hughes · With Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
Dir. Anthony Mann · With Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness
After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society.
Dir. Steven Soderbergh · With Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey
To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.
Dir. Jerry Jameson · With Jason Robards, Richard Jordan, David Selby
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