Alec Guinness movies

A movie loosely based on the story of singer Nellie Melba.

Un simple orphelin devient soudainement un gentleman grâce à un bienfaiteur inconnu.

Dans le conte classique de Charles Dickens, un orphelin ayant connu un apprentissage cruel poursuit son chemin jusqu'au repaire d'une bande voleurs, à la recherche d'une vraie maison.

Un parent pauvre et éloigné du duc d'Ascoyne complote pour hériter du titre en assassinant les huit autres héritiers qui le précèdent dans la ligne de succession.

Brothers from a Welsh village take their first trip to London to collect a prize, and meet a con artist and various other urban distractions.

When a lonely, unappreciated farm-equipment salesman discovers he has only a few weeks to live, he withdraws his savings for a final holiday at a "posh" resort.

An urchin, scavenging on a bank of the River Thames, finds a cameo depicting Queen Victoria. So taken by her beauty, he is determined to see her and sets off for Windsor Castle.

Un employé de banque débonnaire qui supervise le convoyage de lingots d'or s'allie à son excentrique voisin pour voler de l'or en barre et le faire sortir clandestinement du pays sous la forme de Tours Eiffel miniatures.

Un chimiste altruiste invente un tissu qui résiste à l'usure et aux taches, une aubaine pour l'humanité. Les grandes entreprises se rendent alors compte qu'il doit être supprimé pour des raisons économiques.

Edward Machin, an Edwardian-era young rogue of lowly origin, decides he must do what he can to raise his living standards in order to see the world and shape his own destiny.

The captain of a ferry boat between the restricted British colony in Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco has a woman of differing appeal and temperament in each port.

1942 and the island of Malta is battling for survival. The threat of invasion by Axis forces is increasing as air raids wear down its defence. Entering this maelstrom is Flight Lieutenant Peter Ross, an RAF photo-reconnaissance pilot.

Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.

A middle-aged widower takes his son on a trip to Paris, where they try to find wives for each other.

A Cardinal, a hero of resistance, endures brutal interrogation with unshakable resolve, refusing to confess his supposed treason. As his tormentor's methods fail, the interrogator finds himself unexpectedly moved by pity for indomitable.

Cinq criminels loufoques, qui préparent le braquage d'une banque, louent des chambres dans une rue tranquille auprès d'une veuve octogénaire en prétendant être des musiciens classiques.

À l'aube du XXe siècle, le prince Albert de Hongrie se rend au château de la princesse Alexandra, pour faire sa demande en mariage. La princesse Béatrice, la mère de la jeune fille, est décidée à ne pas laisser passer cette occasion en or.

Après avoir résolu ses différends avec le commandant d'un camp japonais de prisonniers de guerre, un colonel britannique coopère pour superviser la construction par ses hommes d'un pont ferroviaire pour leurs geôliers, sans savoir que les Alliés prévoient de le détruire.

A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition.

An ill-behaved, lovably scruffy painter, Gulley Jimson, searches for a perfect canvas, determined to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision.

An English schoolteacher meets his lookalike, a French count; and unwillingly swaps identities with him.

Expatriate vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold agrees to work as an agent, and to recruit new agents, for the British Secret Service in Cuba, but he soon realizes that his deceptive ways are going to get him in trouble.

After World War II, a Highland Regiment's acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two.