List of the best Ronald Neame movies: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie(1969), Scrooge(1970), Tunes of Glory(1960), The Chalk Garden(1964), Hopscotch(1980), The Promoter(1952), Gambit(1966), I Could Go on Singing(1963), The Odessa File(1974), First Monday in October(1981), The Seventh Sin(1957), Golden Salamander(1950) ... ...
Drama
UK
1969
116 Minutes
Director
Maggie Smith Pamela Franklin Robert Stephens Gordon Jackson Celia Johnson Diane Grayson Jane Carr Shirley Steedman Lavinia Lang Antoinette Biggerstaff Margo Cunningham
teacher headmistress student emotional charming passionate scotland school romance manipulation education love growing up discovery 1930s
An eccentric Scottish schoolteacher's extravagantly romantic ideas about life--and love--overly impress her young pupils and bring her into conflict with her school's conservative headmistress.
Musical, Other
UK
1970
118 Minutes
Director
Albert Finney Alec Guinness Edith Evans Kenneth More Laurence Naismith Michael Medwin David Collings Gordon Jackson Roy Kinnear Kay Walsh Richard Beaumont
clerk son ebenezer scrooge ghost cheery heartwarming lighthearted england christmas charity loss ghosts regret redemption fall transformation 1860s
A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
Drama
UK
1960
106 Minutes
Director
Alec Guinness John Mills Susannah York Dennis Price John Fraser Allan Cuthbertson Kay Walsh Gordon Jackson Duncan Macrae Keith Faulkner Peter McEnery
commanding officer officer soldier rival daughter girlfriend gripping emotional tense scotland barracks battalion class conflict military authority suicide rivalry forbidden love 1940s
After World War II, a Highland Regiment's acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two.
Drama
UK|USA
1964
106 Minutes
Director
Deborah Kerr Hayley Mills John Mills Edith Evans Felix Aylmer Elizabeth Sellars Lally Bowers Tonie MacMillan
wealthy woman ex-convict governess granddaughter butler judge disturbing emotional engaging family home england secret past troubled youth gardening gossip second chance discovery rivalry transformation 1960s
An elderly woman hires a governess with a mysterious past to look after her disturbed and spoiled teenage granddaughter, who eventually understands the meaning of self-sacrifice, as an example of love, and grows into a better person.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1980
104 Minutes
Director
Walter Matthau Glenda Jackson Sam Waterston Ned Beatty Herbert Lom David Matthau George Baker Ivor Roberts Lucy Saroyan Severn Darden George Pravda
cia agent kgb agent rescue worker mentee publisher playful amusing munich georgia bermuda london airport vacation home espionage cold war government secrets retirement manhunt memoir revenge
Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them.
Comedy
UK
1952
89 Minutes
Director
Alec Guinness Glynis Johns Valerie Hobson Petula Clark Edward Chapman Veronica Turleigh George Devine Joan Hickson Frank Pettingell Gibb McLaughlin
promoter mother countess dance instructor girl employer witty cheeky playful staffordshire, england school office dance hall car government building ambition class distinctions manipulation money schemes
In Edwardian Staffordshire, charming rogue Edward "Denry" Machin (Alec Guinness), the son of a washerwoman, believes he must give destiny a hand to rise in the world.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1966
109 Minutes
Director
Shirley MacLaine Michael Caine Herbert Lom Roger C. Carmel Arnold Moss John Abbott Richard Angarola Maurice Marsac Paul Bradley
thief dancer billionaire artist recluse showgirl cool intricate offbeat thrilling amusing england hong kong hotel middle east restaurant penthouse art crime heist
An English cat burglar needs a Eurasian dancer's help to pull off the perfect heist, but even the most foolproof schemes have a way of backfiring.
Musical
UK|USA
1963
99 Minutes
Director
Judy Garland Dirk Bogarde Jack Klugman Aline MacMahon Gregory Phillips Russell Waters Pauline Jameson Jeremy Burnham
singer mother doctor father son rousing melodramatic tender london england london palladium lost loves career vs. family singing mother/son relationship failed romance father/son relationship love discovery rivalry
Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she never had.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|West Germany
1974
128 Minutes
Director
Jon Voight Maximilian Schell Maria Schell Mary Tamm Derek Jacobi Peter Jeffrey Klaus Löwitsch Kurt Meisel Hannes Messemer Garfield Morgan Shmuel Rodensky
journalist nazi ss officer vigilante bleak chilling dark gripping thrilling uneasy west germany secret society fugitives nazi hunting quest pursuit mystery underdog 20th century
Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, a journalist in possession of the man's diary investigates the alleged sighting of a former S.S. Captain, who commanded a concentration camp during World War II.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1981
100 Minutes
Director
Walter Matthau Jill Clayburgh Barnard Hughes Jan Sterling James Stephens Joshua Bryant Wiley Harker F.J. O'Neil Charles Lampkin Lew Palter Richard McMurray
supreme court justice conservative liberal amusing brash fiery courtroom united states washington, d.c. lawsuit political debate quest rivalry transformation 20th century
For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.
Drama
USA
1957
94 Minutes
Director
Eleanor Parker Bill Travers George Sanders Jean-Pierre Aumont Francoise Rosay Ellen Corby
doctor wife husband lover servant emotional moving hong kong house village social standing infidelity love marital problems love triangle difficult decision transformation love rescue discovery
In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with a married man. Her husband discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to a remote mainland village or face the scandal of a very public divorce.
Action
UK
1950
96 Minutes
Director
Trevor Howard Anouk Aimée Herbert Lom Walter Rilla Wilfrid Hyde-White
archaeologist girlfriend gun runner henchman dark melodramatic north africa desert guns daunting task romance murder courage mob violence mystery pursuit love 1950s
A man is torn between tackling a sinister crime syndicate or turning a blind eye to the suffering it creates.
Action
USA
1962
93 Minutes
Director
Yul Brynner Sal Mineo Jack Warden Madlyn Rhue Anthony Caruso Jay Novello Leonard Strong James Mason Vladimir Sokoloff
freedom fighter rebel prisoner suspenseful tense middle east desert on the run resistance assassination attempt prison break unlikely allies escape pursuit 1960s
A hunted revolutionary leads a rag tag group of individuals through the desert in an attempt to elude the security forces and escape the fictitious Arab country of Zahrain.
Comedy
UK
1986
108 Minutes
Director
Victor Banerjee Warren Mitchell Trevor Howard Geraldine McEwan Amanda Donohoe Denis Quilley Eve Ferret Anna Massey
An unemployed Indian engineer emigrates to England to find work and through a series of circumstances, ends up impersonating a doctor to win the attention of an attractive young woman.
Comedy
USA
1953
92 Minutes
Director
Gregory Peck Jane Griffiths Ronald Squire A.E. Matthews Wilfrid Hyde-White Reginald Beckwith
seaman millionaire brother niece duke strong man amusing cheeky madcap england london restaurant shop hotel financial windfall wager class distinctions aristocracy wealth rags to riches
A Scotsman abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands. Kitty and her aunt follow Gerald a few weeks later, and discover he ... See full summary »
Comedy
UK
1968
92 Minutes
Deborah Kerr Ronald Neame David Niven Robert Coote Irina Demick Joyce Redman Judy Geeson Keith Michell
The conflicting and comical attempts by a wealthy London banker and his mistress, together with four other couples, to avoid pregnancy by using contraceptive pills.
Sci-Fi
USA|Hong Kong
1979
107 Minutes
Director
Sean Connery Natalie Wood Karl Malden Brian Keith Martin Landau Trevor Howard Joseph Campanella Roger Robinson Richard Dysart Henry Fonda
scientist beautiful woman assistant military officer president engaging incredible tense new york city office building meteorite destruction disaster competition romance cold war quest rivalry 1970s
The U.S. must join forces with the U.S.S.R. in order to destroy a gigantic asteroid heading straight for Earth.