Alec Guinness — Actor (24)
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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
Star Wars
8.3 (19 ratings) director: George Lucas actor: Mark Hamill / Harrison Ford …
other title: Star Wars / Guerra nas Estrelas …
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.
1970s action carriefisher georgelucas harrisonford
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban WikiData
Lawrence of Arabia
8.2 (6 ratings) director: David Lean actor: Peter O'Toole / Alec Guinness …
other title: Lawrence d'Arabia / Lawrence af Arabien …
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979) [TV] TMDB IMDb
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
director: John Irvin / John le Carré actor: Alec Guinness / Michael Jayston …
other title: Dame, König, As, Spion / La Taupe …
George Smiley, the aging master spy of the Cold War and once heir apparent to Control, is brought back out of retirement to flush out a top level mole within the Circus. Smiley must travel back through his life and murky workings of the Circus to unravel the net spun by his nemesis Karla 'The Sandman' of the KGB and reveal the identity of the mole before he disappears.
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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.
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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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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 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...
1950s alecguinness comedy uk
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Oliver Twist (1948) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Kafka (1991) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Kafka
director: Steven Soderbergh 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 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.