List of the best Noel Coward movies: In Which We Serve(1942), The Scoundrel(1935), The Italian Job(1969), Paris When It Sizzles(1964), Surprise Package(1960), Boom!(1968), Bunny Lake Is Missing(1965), Our Man in Havana(1960), Around the World in 80 Days(1956) ... ...
War, Drama
UK
1942
114 Minutes
Non-Original Music
Noel Coward Noel Coward John Mills Bernard Miles Celia Johnson Kay Walsh Joyce Carey Michael Wilding James Donald Richard Attenborough
captain military officer sailor wife mother heartwarming patriotic ship military base london egypt world war ii quest escape 1930s
This "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1935
78 Minutes
Anthony Mallare
Noel Coward Charles MacArthur Julie Haydon Hope Williams Stanley Ridges Martha Sleeper Ernest Cossart Alexander Woollcott Everley Gregg Rosita Moreno
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.
Comedy, Action
UK|USA
1969
101 Minutes
Michael Caine Noel Coward Benny Hill Margaret Blye Tony Beckley Raf Vallone Rossano Brazzi Irene Handl John Le Mesurier Fred Emney John Clive
ex-convict criminal thief mafia boss thrilling suspenseful intricate engaging italy car road car chase cars traffic jam robbery crime crime spree criminals escape quest
Comic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam.
Romance
USA
1964
108 Minutes
Alexander Meyerheim
William Holden Audrey Hepburn Noel Coward Gregoire Aslan Raymond Bussières Christian Duvaleix Tony Curtis Mel Ferrer Fred Astaire Frank Sinatra Dominique Boschero
screenwriter producer assistant singer gangster police detective airy amusing creative playful paris french riviera hotel screenwriting procrastination life imitating art film industry writer's block unusual romance love
The sprightly young assistant of a Hollywood screenwriter helps him over his writer's block by acting out his fantasies of possible plots.
Comedy
UK
1960
100 Minutes
King Pavel II
Yul Brynner Mitzi Gaynor Noel Coward Barry Foster Eric Pohlmann George Coulouris Guy Deghy Warren Mitchell
gangster girlfriend king ruler police chief doctor cheeky winsome wild greece island villa exile double-cross money laundering financial troubles theft unlikely allies adventure discovery
An American gangster is exiled from the United States for criminal activity and is sent back to the Greek island where he was born. Once on the island, he is watched by a corrupt local ... See full summary »
Drama
1968
113 Minutes
The Witch of Capri
wealthy woman poet friend servant nurse emotional tense island mansion terminal illness death wealth denial class distinctions poetry fall wretched excess 1960s
A dying millionaire sings her swan song to the Angel of Death who comes to her island hideaway as a down-and-out poet.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1965
107 Minutes
Wilson
Laurence Olivier Carol Lynley Keir Dullea Noel Coward Martita Hunt Finlay Currie The Zombies
mother brother superintendent landlord retiree daughter creepy brooding dark uneasy london school scotland yard missing persons insanity siblings investigation mystery quest 1960s
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
UK
1960
107 Minutes
Hawthorne
Alec Guinness Burl Ives Maureen O'Hara Ernie Kovacs Noel Coward Ralph Richardson Jo Morrow Paul Rogers Gregoire Aslan Jose Prieto Duncan Macrae
expatriate secret agent double agent director secretary salesman cool amusing suspenseful havana, cuba london city apartment government offices store city espionage communism father/daughter relationship patriotism deception
Jim Wormold, who is a vacuum cleaner salesman, participates as an Agent in the British Secret Service. But he soon realizes that his plans by lying are going to get him into trouble.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1956
170 Minutes
David Niven Cantinflas Shirley MacLaine Robert Newton Charles Boyer Joe E. Brown Martine Carol John Carradine Charles Coburn Ronald Colman Melville Cooper
explorer servant police officer princess airy charming playful london spain paris india japan san francisco expedition class distinctions culture clash theft adventure pursuit quest
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.