Carol Reed

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

Dir. Carol Reed · With Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

Dir. Carol Reed · With James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, hero-worships his father's butler Baines. His perception of the man changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.

Dir. Carol Reed · With Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.

Dir. Carol Reed · With Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.

Dir. Carol Reed · With Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento

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

A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy female performer.

Dir. Carol Reed · With Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Gina Lollobrigida