List of the best Lewis Gilbert movies: Reach for the Sky(1957), Carve Her Name With Pride(1958), Educating Rita(1983), Shirley Valentine(1989), Damn the Defiant!(1962), The Spy Who Loved Me(1977), Paradise Lagoon(1957), Alfie(1966), You Only Live Twice(1967), The Good Die Young(1954), Loss of Innocence(1961), A Cry From the Streets(1959) ... ...
7.2/10
War, Biography
UK
1957
123 Minutes
Director
Kenneth More Muriel Pavlow Lyndon Brook Alexander Knox Sydney Tafler Nigel Green Dorothy Alison
fighter pilot squadron leader thrilling suspenseful spectacular spirited patriotic inspiring frenetic plane united kingdom office world war ii biography flying career battle of britain underdog rise rivalry
Biopic of RAF Group Captain Douglas Bader who, after having lost both legs, flew a British fighter plane during WW2.
7.2/10
Drama, Biography, History
UK
1958
116 Minutes
Director
Virginia McKenna Paul Scofield Jack Warner Denise Grey Alain Saury Maurice Ronet Anne Leon Sydney Tafler
spy woman man soldier husband daughter confident emotional engaging patriotic france england germany train concentration camp espionage war love death pursuit
During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.
7.2/10
Comedy, Drama
UK
1983
110 Minutes
Director
Michael Caine Julie Walters Michael Williams Maureen Lipman Jeananne Crowley Malcolm Douglas Pat Daly Godfrey Quigley Dearbhla Molloy Kim Fortune Philip Hurd-Wood
hairdresser wife husband professor blue-collar worker alcoholic witty endearing touching amusing charming england the open university office great britain hair salon college campus student-teacher relationship self-esteem adult education
An alcoholic professor has been hired by a working-class girl for higher education.
7.2/10
Romance
UK|USA
1989
108 Minutes
Director
Pauline Collins Tom Conti Alison Steadman Julia McKenzie Joanna Lumley Bernard Hill Sylvia Syms Gillian Kearney Catharine Duncan Tracie Bennett Gareth Jefferson
housewife husband son best friend owner tourist amusing passionate liverpool, england household greece island taverna boat midlife crisis vacation infidelity friendship romance starting over
Shirley is a 42-year-old Liverpudlian bored housewife, who takes a holiday trip to Greece, meeting a local man who bolsters her self-confidence. She evolves and transforms to the point of finally being unrecognizable by her husband.
7.1/10
Drama, History
UK
1962
101 Minutes
Director
Alec Guinness Dirk Bogarde Maurice Denham Nigel Stock Richard Carpenter Peter Gill David Robinson Robin Stewart Ray Brooks Peter Greenspan Anthony Quayle
captain lieutenant cabin boy sailor tense thrilling ship ocean naval warfare mutiny napoleonic wars leadership adventure rivalry 1800s
On the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lieutenant Scott-Padget, whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny.
7.1/10
Action
UK
1977
125 Minutes
Director
Roger Moore Barbara Bach Curt Jurgens Richard Kiel Caroline Munro Bernard Lee Lois Maxwell Desmond Llewelyn
james bond villain sexy woman intelligence officer russian henchman amusing spectacular thrilling outlandish underwater egypt mediterranean coast ski resort submarine espionage explosion extortion nuclear weapons adventure
James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. agent whose lover he killed.
7.1/10
Comedy
UK|USA
1957
94 Minutes
Director
Kenneth More Diane Cilento Cecil Parker Sally Ann Howes Martita Hunt Jack Watling Peter Graves Gerald Harper Mercy Haystead Miranda Connell Miles Malleson
lord lady butler staff member maid charming confident creative dreamy lighthearted positive manor london yacht deserted island paradise class conflict survival survival skills discovery
In 1905, Lord Henry Loam, his family and his servants are shipwrecked on a deserted island where the survival of the fittest renders the rigid class system irrelevant.
7.0/10
Comedy, Drama
UK
1966
114 Minutes
Director
Michael Caine Shelley Winters Millicent Martin Julia Foster Jane Asher Shirley Anne Field Vivien Merchant Eleanor Bron Denholm Elliott Alfie Bass Graham Stark
ladies' man girlfriend friend quirky witty london car sex infidelity pregnancy illness romance growing up transformation 1950s
An unrepentant ladies' man gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.
6.9/10
Action
UK|Japan
1967
116 Minutes
Director
Sean Connery Akiko Wakabayashi Donald Pleasence Tetsuro Tamba Mie Hama Karin Dor Bernard Lee Lois Maxwell Desmond Llewelyn
james bond business owner henchman secretary secret agent supervillain cool intense thrilling japan island outer space ship england cold war espionage murder identity theft terrorism space travel
Secret Agent James Bond and the Japanese Secret Service must find and stop the true culprit of a series of space hijackings, before war is provoked between Russia and the United States.
6.7/10
Crime, Drama
UK
1954
100 Minutes
Director
Laurence Harvey Gloria Grahame Richard Basehart Joan Collins Stanley Baker Margaret Leighton
boxer veteran sergeant playboy gentleman tense spirited rousing gripping london crime robbery deception adventure pursuit fall 1950s
In London, three otherwise law-abiding good men and their unscrupulous leader are about to commit a serious crime, but for different reasons.
6.6/10
Romance, Drama
UK
1961
99 Minutes
Director
Kenneth More Danielle Darrieux Susannah York Claude Nollier Jane Asher Elizabeth Dear Richard Williams David Saire Raymond Gérôme Maurice Denham André Maranne
thief hotel owner hotel worker lover adolescent child suspenseful melodramatic emotional france hotel rape accidental death jealousy coming of age abandonment rivalry forbidden love transformation 1960s
Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.
6.5/10
Comedy, Drama
UK
1959
99 Minutes
Director
Max Bygraves Barbara Murray Colin Petersen
social worker orphan electrician poor boy poor girl love interest heartwarming charming melodramatic engaging london orphanage orphans unlikely romance childcare love poverty work discovery love
A welfare worker becomes emotionally involved with her charges, a group of adorable, homeless orphans. Music by Larry Adler. (1959; B&W)
6.4/10
Action
UK|USA
1964
123 Minutes
Director
William Holden Susannah York Capucine Tetsuro Tamba Michael Goodliffe Allan Cuthbertson Maurice Denham Sydney Tafler Beulah Quo Hugh Robinson David Keith
businessman girlfriend revolutionary daughter tense gritty thrilling fiery british malaya jungle guerrilla warfare political coup unusual friendship death row hostage situation world war ii pursuit rescue 1950s
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
6.4/10
Drama
USA
1991
106 Minutes
Director
Liza Minnelli Julie Walters Shelley Winters Bill Irwin Ellen Greene Robyn Stevan Jane Krakowski Sheila McCarthy Andrea Martin Carol Woods Luke Reilly
This is a musical-comedy movie produced and directed by Lewis Gilbert, starring Liza Minnelli, written by Richard Harris, and based on a play also written by Harris. Minnelli plays the role... See full summary »
6.3/10
Action
UK|France
1979
126 Minutes
Director
Roger Moore Lois Chiles Michael Lonsdale Richard Kiel Corinne Clery Bernard Lee Desmond Llewelyn Lois Maxwell
james bond secret agent villain mastermind suspenseful thrilling rio de janeiro venice outer space spaceship space travel dangerous assignment apocalypse cia rescue pursuit 1970s
James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.
6.0/10
War
UK
1954
91 Minutes
Director
Michael Redgrave Dirk Bogarde Anthony Steel Nigel Patrick Nigel Green Rachel Kempson
commodore sergeant airman crew member commander wife tense fascinating powerful airplane north sea dinghy ship engine room deck royal air force airplane crash sea rescue secret plans world war ii
The life of a juvenile delinquent is threatened by his own incessant desire for trouble.
5.9/10
Drama
UK
1985
114 Minutes
Director
Joanna Pacula Sam Robards Kevin R. McNally Todd Graff Selina Cadell Kate Ingram Libby Morris
While working in a kibbutz (an Israeli voluntary farming collective community), a tourist and a female worker fall in love. However, he can't stay and she can't leave her work. Will love triumph?
5.6/10
Comedy, Drama
UK
2002
95 Minutes
Director
Julie Walters Tom Wilkinson John Hannah Joanne Whalley-Kilmer Victoria Hamilton Patricia Hodge Hugh Ross Dermot Crowley
The imperfect lives of three sisters are revealed at their unloved mother's funeral.
5.6/10
Adventure
UK
1959
103 Minutes
Director
Curt Jurgens Orson Welles Sylvia Syms Jeremy Spenser Roy Chiao Shelley Shen
Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain ... See full summary »
5.5/10
Adventure
USA
1970
191 Minutes
Director
Bekim Fehmiu Charles Aznavour Alan Badel Candice Bergen Thommy Berggren Delia Boccardo Ernest Borgnine Rossano Brazzi Olivia de Havilland Anna Moffo Leigh Taylor-Young
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was really murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country--a man who was his ... See full summary »
Drama
1953
75 Minutes
Director
James Kenney Joan Collins Betty Ann Davies Robert Ayres Hermione Baddeley Hermione Gingold Nancy Roberts Stanley Escane Sean Lynch Johnny Briggs Michael McKeag
juvenile delinquent young boy gang member sister pregnant teen police officer bleak disturbing gripping gritty intense shocking london street teen pregnancy gangs post-war life hard times rivalry bad behavior
Mystery & Thriller
1955
84 Minutes
Director
Dirk Bogarde Margaret Lockwood Kathleen Harrison Kay Walsh Robert Flemyng Mona Washbourne
criminal murderer wife widow wealthy woman dark tense england household murder marriage deception may-december romance wretched excess discovery 1950s
An Englishman (Dirk Bogarde) gets away with killing his rich old wife, then tries it with a savvy widow (Margaret Lockwood).
Mystery & Thriller
1995
108 Minutes
Director
Aidan Quinn Kate Beckinsale Anthony Andrews John Gielgud Anna Massey Alex Lowe Geraldine Somerville Victoria Shalet Peter England Liz Smith Linda Bassett
professor sister spiritualist nanny young girl chilling eerie solemn brooding england university haunted house lake accidental death drowning ghosts going home guilt rationality mystery
Visions of his dead sister and other phenomena torment a man (Aidan Quinn) visiting a haunted English mansion inhabited by eccentrics.
Comedy, Drama
1960
90 Minutes
Director
Ian Carmichael Tommy Steele Benny Hill Sydney Tafler Victor Maddern Harry Locke Johnny Briggs Cyril Smith
soldier amusing cheeky cheery patriotic playful witty england world war ii military life adventure underdog rise 1940s
Bunglers (Ian Carmichael, Tommy Steele, Benny Hill) man a British searchlight battery during World War II.
Drama
1971
101 Minutes
Director
Sean Bury Anicee Alvina Pascale Roberts
teen boy teen girl father cousin charming dreamy endearing melancholy moving offbeat spirited tender uneasy paris cottage france teen romance teen pregnancy running away idealism
French teens Paul (Sean Bury) and Michelle (Anicee Alvina) run away from home to a remote beach and have a baby.
5.6/10
Romance
UK
1940
78 Minutes
Merle Oberon Rex Harrison Ursula Jeans Robert Douglas Louis Borel Zena Dare Peter Haddon David Tree Mackenzie Ward Carl Jaffe Elisabeth Welch
Young Jane Benson (Merle Oberon) just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis (Sir Rex Harrison), she suggests ... See full summary »
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