Laurence Olivier Movies

Adventure for Two

63/100

Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naive about British people, and ... See full summary »

Friends and Lovers

55/100

British Army Captain Geoff Roberts carries on an affair with Alva, the wife of the cruel Victor Sangrito. Sangrito, however, is well aware of the affair, as he uses his beautiful wife to ... See full summary »

The Beggar's Opera

61/100

When the composer of an opera about a swashbuckling, wenching highwayman meets his hero's real life counterpart he's disappointed with his lack of dash.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

73/100

The story of conflicts, power plays and secrets in a wealthy Mississippi family.

Westward Passage

56/100

A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.

The Conquest of the Air

62/100

This documentary traces man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.

The Merchant of Venice

76/100

Antonio's friend Bassanio is in love and needs money to go courting. Using Antonio as his collateral...

A Voyage Round My Father

79/100

Before creating the beloved courtroom drama Rumpole of the Bailey, writer John Mortimer found inspiration...

The Ebony Tower

66/100

A young artist goes to interview an older painter who lives in the south of France with two young women...

The Yellow Ticket

66/100

A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the ... See full summary »

The Volunteer

63/100

After a masterful performance as Othello in a London theater, Ralph Richardson is asked for an autograph by Fred, his dresser. A short while later, Fred has joined the Fleet Air Arm (Fly ... See full summary »

A Talent for Murder

67/100

A famed mystery writer played Angela Lansbury and her doctor ex lover played by Laurence Olivier solve her daughter in law's murder.

Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson

86/100

Towards the end of their lives, two old friends discover that one of them was in love with the other one's wife for more than 30 years.

The Dance of Death

73/100

An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their...

I Stand Condemned

60/100

During World War I, Russian Captain Ivan Ignatoff falls in love with his nurse, Natasha Kovrin. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy ... See full summary »

Come Back, Little Sheba

71/100

An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger.

The Power and the Glory

73/100

A cynical catholic priest is sent to Mexico to preach. It's the 30's and Mexican government sees the church as competition. They send a secret agent to assassinate the priest.

The Temporary Widow

71/100

The Moon and Sixpence

79/100

A staid, dull Englishman abruptly deserts his wife and children to become a painter in the South Seas.

No Funny Business

51/100