Alec Guinness — Actor (35)
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Smiley's People (1982) [TV] TMDB IMDb
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 Douban TMDB WikiData
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 Skybridge 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 Skybridge 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 Skybridge 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] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb Skybridge WikiData
The Star Wars Holiday Special
director: Steve Binder actor: Peter Mayhew / Mark Richard 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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Cromwell (1970) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb WikiData
Cromwell
director: Ken Hughes actor: Richard Harris / Alec Guinness …
other title: Cromwell - Nel suo pugno la forza di un popolo / Den ukuelige …
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
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Murder by Death (1976) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb NeoDB WikiData
Murder by Death
director: Robert Moore actor: Truman Capote / Alec Guinness …
other title: Invito a cena con delitto / Middag med mord …
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) [Movie] Douban NeoDB TMDB IMDb Skybridge WikiData
Kind Hearts and Coronets
7.7 (7 ratings) 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 Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban WikiData Skybridge
The Bridge on the River Kwai
8.4 (5 ratings) director: David Lean actor: William Holden / Alec Guinness …
other title: Il ponte sul fiume Kwai / Broen over floden Kwai …
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
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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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Lawrence of Arabia (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban Skybridge WikiData
Lawrence of Arabia
8.6 (11 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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Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977) [Movie] TMDB Douban IMDb NeoDB Skybridge WikiData
Star Wars
8.3 (35 ratings) director: George Lucas actor: Mark Richard 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.