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Christopher Lee has 60 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
1970
Horror

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Disney+ · Included

Dracula
1958 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Hugo
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 9%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Last Unicorn
1982 · Movie · Voice
Top 11%Prime Video · Included

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 13%Max · Included

Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure that the ring arrives at its final destination: Mt. Doom, the only place where it can be destroyed.
Dir. Peter Jackson · With Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen

In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.
Dir. Mike Johnson, Tim Burton · With Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.
Dir. Robin Hardy · With Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland

When the sinister Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot to rule the galaxy, the Republic crumbles and from its ashes rises the evil Galactic Empire. Jedi hero Anakin Skywalker must choose a side.
Dir. George Lucas · With Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Chloë Grace Moretz

A unicorn learns from a riddle-speaking butterfly that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the monstrous Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a middle-aged woman who dreamed all her life of seeing a unicorn. Their journey leads them far from home, all the way to the castle of King Haggard.
Dir. Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr. · With Mia Farrow, Alan Arkin, Tammy Grimes

A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
Dir. Tim Burton · With Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly

Baron Victor Frankenstein has discovered life's secret and unleashed a blood-curdling chain of events resulting from his creation: a cursed creature with a horrid face — and a tendency to kill.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart

A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
Dir. Seth Holt · With Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd

One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by the power of the ancient gods and his sole purpose is to destroy those responsible for the desecration of the sacred tomb. But Isobel, wife of one of the explorers, resembles the beautiful princess, forcing the speechless and tormented monster to defy commands and abduct Isobel to an unknown fate.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux

Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir

In the shadow of Castle Dracula, the Prince of Darkness is revived by blood trickling from the head-wound of an unconscious priest attempting exorcism. And once more fear and terror strikes Transylvania as the undead Prince of Darkness stalks the village of Keineneburg to ensnare victims and satisfy his evil thirst.
Dir. Freddie Francis · With Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson

The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the Duc de Richelieu and his friends remain within the protected pentacle, they are subjected to ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Angel of Death.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Christopher Lee, Leon Greene, Patrick Mower

Five train passengers are joined by a mysterious fortuneteller who offers to read Tarot. A quintet of stories unfold: an architect returns to his ancestral home to find a vengeful werewolf; a doctor suspects his new wife is a vampire; an intelligent vine takes over a house; a jazz musician plagiarises music from a voodoo ceremony; and a pompous art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.
Dir. Freddie Francis · With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Roy Castle

as Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher') · Voice
Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.
Dir. Raúl García · With Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands

In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Dir. Richard Lester · With Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain

A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
Dir. Peter Duffell · With Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliott

In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been turned to stone. The perpetrator of these deaths was a being so repulsive that she transformed the onlooker using the power of her deadly stare. Much of the time the creature took the form of a beautiful and seductive woman, but during periods of the full moon she becomes a living horror, vicious and deadly. A professor has come to investigate the deaths, bringing with him his beautiful assistant whose knowledge of the Gorgon is more intimate than anyone would ever realise.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Richard Pasco

Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in Manchuria back to Europe.
Dir. Eugenio Martín · With Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Telly Savalas
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel like 'Wuthering Heights' in 24 hours. However, upon his arrival he discovers that the apparently empty manor has several rather odd inhabitants.
Dir. Pete Walker · With Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing

When a bored Sherlock eagerly takes the case of Gabrielle Valladon following an attempt on her life, the search for her missing husband leads to Loch Ness and the legendary monster.
Dir. Billy Wilder · With Robert Stephens, Colin Blakely, Geneviève Page

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Peter Cushing, André Morell, Christopher Lee

Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot into the heart of the Separatist movement and the beginning of the Clone Wars.
Dir. George Lucas · With Hayden Christensen, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman
After a series of scientific experiments directed towards freeing the inner man and controlling human personalities, the kindly, generous Dr Henry Jekyll succeeds in freeing his own alter ego, Edward Hyde, a sadistic, evil creature whose pleasure is murder.
Dir. Terence Fisher · With Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee

Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!
Dir. Joe Dante · With Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover
Three elderly distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring borgoueis lives and gets in contact with one of count Dracula's servants. In a nightly ceremony they restore the count back to life. The three men killed Dracula's servant and as a revenge, the count makes sure that the gentlemen are killed one by one by their own sons.
Dir. Peter Sasdy · With Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford
Esoterica collector Dr Maitland buys an unusual skull from his ordinary source; the artifact is what remains of the Marquis De Sade. Much too soon, Maitland discovers that the skull is turning him into a frenzied killer.
Dir. Freddie Francis · With Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Patrick Wymark

Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew. Jim and his mother fight off the attackers and discover Billy Bones' treasure map for which the buccaneers had come. Jim agrees to sail on the S.S. Espaniola with Squire Trelawney and Dr. Livesey to find the treasure on a mysterious isiand. Upon arriving at the island, ship's cook and scaliwag Long John Silver leads a mutiny of crew members who want the treasure for themselves. Jim helps the Squire and Espaniola officers to survive the mutiny and fight back against Silver's men, who have taken over the Espaniola.
Dir. Fraser Clarke Heston · With Charlton Heston, Christian Bale, Oliver Reed

The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.
Dir. Richard Lester · With Michael York, Oliver Reed, Richard Chamberlain
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