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1. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
directed by David Lean
featuring William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne, James DonaldThe Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel ... More
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2. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
directed by David Lean
featuring Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Claude RainsThis sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the eyes of the enigmatic T. ... More
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3. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
directed by David Lean
featuring Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec GuinnessBased on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as ... More
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4. A Passage to India (1984)
directed by David Lean
featuring Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec GuinnessA Passage to India, director David Lean's final film (for which he also received editing credit), breaks no new ground cinematically, but remains an ... More
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5. Summertime (1955)
directed by David Lean
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin, Mari AldonKatharine Hepburn stars as Jane Hudson, an Ohio secretary on the verge of spinsterhood. Carefully saving her money, Jane takes an extended trip to ... More
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6. Ryan's Daughter (1970)
directed by David Lean
featuring Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Sarah Miles, Christopher Jones, John MillsThe logic behind inflating Robert Bolt's minimalist romantic drama Ryan's Daughter into a 12-million-dollar epic seems to have been "When David Lean ... More
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7. Brief Encounter (1945)
directed by David Lean
featuring Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril RaymondBased on Noël Coward's play "Still Life," Brief Encounter is a romantic, bittersweet drama about two married people who meet by chance in a London ... More
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8. Great Expectations (1946)
directed by David Lean
featuring John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Finlay Currie, Francis L. Sullivan, Alec Guinness, Jean SimmonsImmediately grabbing the audience's attention with a heart-stopping opening scene in a dark graveyard, acclaimed British director David Lean realizes ... More
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9. Oliver Twist (1948)
directed by David Lean
featuring Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan, John Howard DaviesThe second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver Twist expertly boils ... More
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10. Hobson's Choice (1954)
directed by David Lean
featuring Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Prunella ScalesA "Hobson's Choice," as any slang expert will tell you, is no choice at all. In this 1953 filmization of Harold Brighouse's 1915 play Hobson's Choice ... More
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11. Madeleine (1950)
directed by David Lean
featuring Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks, Barbara EverestList of all editionsDavid Lean's Madeleine was inspired by a true story that rocked the English legal system to its foundations in the mid-19th century. Told in ... More
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12. The Passionate Friends (1949)
directed by David Lean
featuring Ann Todd, Claude Rains, Trevor Howard, Betty Ann Davies, Isabel DeanList of all editionsDavid Lean directed this romantic drama, scripted by Eric Ambler from a novel by H.G. Wells. Mary Justin (Ann Todd) is married to wealthy financier ... More
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13. This Happy Breed (1944)
directed by David Lean
featuring Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills, Kay Walsh, Stanley HollowayList of all editionsWith This Happy Breed, playwright Noel Coward hoped to glorify the British working class in the same manner that he'd celebrated the "higher orders" ... More
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14. Blithe Spirit (1945)
directed by David Lean
featuring Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Hugh WakefieldList of all editionsThe Noel Coward/David Lean combination which turned out such dramas as Brief Encounter and This Happy Breed sets its sights on the viewer's funny ... More
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15. In Which We Serve (1942)
directed by David Lean, Noël Coward
featuring Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson, Joyce CareyList of all editionsFew morale-boosting wartime films have retained their power and entertainment value as emphatically as Noël Coward's In Which We Serve. To witness ... More
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16. Major Barbara (1941)
directed by David Lean, Gabriel Pascal, Harold French
featuring Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton, Emlyn WilliamsList of all editionsGeorge Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy about wealth and poverty is brought to the screen with wonderful performances by Rex Harrison and Wendy Hiller. ... More







