Alec Guinness — Actor (31)
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H.M.S. Defiant (1962) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
H.M.S. Defiant
director: Lewis Gilbert actor: Alec Guinness / Dirk Bogarde …
other title: Ponte di comando / Under brændende sejl …
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.
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The Card (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Card
director: Ronald Neame actor: Alec Guinness / Glynis Johns …
other title: Asso pigliatutto / El personaje …
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman.
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Little Dorrit (1987) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Little Dorrit
director: Christine Edzard actor: Derek Jacobi / Joan Greenwood …
other title: La pequeña Dorrit / La pequeña Dorrit (película de 1987) …
Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
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Last Holiday (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Last Holiday
director: Henry Cass actor: Alec Guinness / Beatrice Campbell …
other title: Ferien wie noch nie / Vacances sur ordonnance …
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.
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Tunes of Glory (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Tunes of Glory
director: Ronald Neame actor: Alec Guinness / John Mills …
other title: Whisky e gloria / Uma Vez, Um Herói …
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair undermines Barrow's authority and damages his successor's reputation among the soldiers. Barrow faces an uphill battle in regaining the discipline and respect of his battalion.
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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] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
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] IMDb TMDB 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 IMDb
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] IMDb 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 IMDb
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 WikiData IMDb 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.