Alec Guinness — Actor (24)
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A Handful of Dust (1988) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Handful of Dust
director: Charles Sturridge actor: James Wilby / Kristin Scott Thomas …
other title: Il matrimonio di Lady Brenda / Eine Handvoll Staub …
English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his vast estate. There Beaver makes the acquaintance of Tony's wife, Brenda. Together, they continue their relationship in a series of bedroom assignations in London. Trusting to a fault, Tony is unaware that anything is amiss until his wife suddenly asks for a divorce. With his life in turmoil, Tony goes on a haphazard journey to South America.
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The Prisoner (1955) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Prisoner
director: Peter Glenville actor: Alec Guinness / Jack Hawkins …
other title: Il prigioniero / O Prisioneiro …
A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.
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Our Man in Havana (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Our Man in Havana
director: Carol Reed actor: Alec Guinness / Burl Ives …
other title: Il nostro agente all'Avana / Vor mand i Havana …
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.
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The Quiller Memorandum (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Quiller Memorandum
director: Michael Anderson actor: George Segal / Alec Guinness …
other title: Quiller memorandum / Quiller Memorandum …
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
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Kafka (1991) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
Kafka
director: Mary Ann Bernard actor: Jeremy Irons / Theresa Russell …
other title: Delitti e segreti / Kafka, la verdad oculta …
After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society.
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The Horse's Mouth (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Horse's Mouth
director: Ronald Neame actor: Alec Guinness / Kay Walsh …
other title: La bocca della verità / Des Pudels Kern …
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a mural on their wall, pawns their valuables and, along with the sculptor Abel, inadvertently smashes a large hole in their floor. Jimson's next project is an even larger wall in an abandoned church.
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Great Expectations (1946) [Movie] TMDB
Great Expectations
director: David Lean actor: John Mills / Valerie Hobson …
other title: Grandi speranze / Grandes Esperanças …
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980) [Movie] TMDB
Little Lord Fauntleroy
director: Jack Gold actor: Rick Schroder / Alec Guinness …
other title: Il piccolo Lord / Der kleine Lord …
Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American. But after the death of the Earl's remaining son, he decides to accept Cedric as his heir.
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The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) [Movie] TMDB
The Fall of the Roman Empire
director: Anthony Mann actor: Sophia Loren / Stephen Boyd …
other title: La caduta dell'impero romano / Romerrigets fald …
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
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Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return (2022) [Movie] TMDB
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
director: David Gelb actor: Ewan McGregor / Hayden Christensen …
other title: Obi-Wan Kenobi: Il Ritorno di uno Jedi / Obi-Wan Kenobi: O Regresso de um Jedi …
This special explores the return of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker to the screen, as well as Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen to their classic roles. Director Deborah Chow leads the cast and crew as they create new heroes and villains that live alongside new incarnations of beloved Star Wars characters, and an epic story that dramatically bridges the saga films.
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A Passage to India (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
A Passage to India
director: David Lean actor: Judy Davis / Victor Banerjee …
other title: Passaggio in India / Vejen til Indien …
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.
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Smiley's People (1982) [TV] TMDB
Smiley's People
director: John le Carré actor: Alec Guinness / Anthony Bate …
other title: Tutti gli uomini di Smiley / Smileys Leute …
Called out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization, the Circus, so overwhelmed by political considerations that it doesn't want to know what happened. He begins to follow up the clues of his friends past days, discovering that the clues lead to a high person in the Russian Secret service, and a secret important enough to kill for.
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Oliver Twist (1948) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
Oliver Twist
director: David Lean actor: John Howard Davies / Robert Newton …
other title: Le avventure di Oliver Twist / As Aventuras de Oliver Twist
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
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The Ladykillers (1955) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Ladykillers
director: Alexander Mackendrick actor: Alec Guinness / Cecil Parker …
other title: La signora omicidi / Plyds og papegøjer …
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
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The Man in the White Suit (1951) [Movie] ReviewDB TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
The Man in the White Suit
director: Alexander Mackendrick actor: Alec Guinness / Joan Greenwood …
other title: Lo scandalo del vestito bianco / O Homem do Fato Claro …
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...
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Doctor Zhivago (1965) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Doctor Zhivago
director: David Lean actor: Omar Sharif / Julie Christie …
other title: Il dottor Zivago / Doktor Zhivago …
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
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The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978) [Movie] WikiData TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
The Star Wars Holiday Special
director: Steve Binder actor: Peter Mayhew / Mark Hamill …
other title: Au temps de la guerre des étoiles / El especial navideño de Star Wars …
Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet — in time for Life Day, their most important day of the year!
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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
Kind Hearts and Coronets
director: Robert Hamer actor: Dennis Price / Alec Guinness …
other title: Sangue blu / Syv Små Synder …
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.