John Gielgud Movies

Inside the Third Reich

75/100

A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler's young architect and one-time confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. This movie is based on Speer's autobiography of the same name.

The Conductor

71/100

A violinist in a provincial Polish orchestra, whose husband is the director of the ensemble, on a visit to the U.S., ties up with the world-renowned symphony conductor. As it turns out, he ... See full summary »

Sebastian

64/100

A British mathematician, working on code decryption, unexpectedly falls in love with another decrypter. This leads them to a complicated intrigue within the codebreakers.

Camille

63/100

Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying ... See full summary »

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

66/100

Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

Assignment to Kill

61/100

A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing, and murder.

Richard II

80/100

The incompetent King Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer King.

Romance on the Orient Express

68/100

Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, who met and had a tender romance ten years ... See full summary »

Scandalous

46/100

An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.

The Prime Minister

57/100

A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria.

The Good Companions

71/100

Musical taken from J.B. Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

64/100

Stephen Dedalus is a young man growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century. His search for knowledge and undestanding...

The Master of Ballantrae

72/100

The story of two brothers, Scottish noblemen whose family is torn apart by the Jacobite rising of 1745.

Frankenstein

50/100

A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.

The Best of Friends

81/100

Adapted from their letters and journals, this is a portrayal of the unique twenty-five-year friendship shared by Dame Laurentia McLachlan (Benedictine nun), Sir Sydney Cockerell (museum ... See full summary »

Eagle in a Cage

62/100

1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon. High brow.

Invitation to the Wedding

56/100

During a wedding rehearsal, an English bride-to-be and an American who was just standing in for the broom accidentally get married. She doesn't mind the idea at first, but things get bumpy very soon.

Leave All Fair

58/100

It was only after her death that the work of New Zealand writer, Katherine Mansfield, became well known...

Ages of Man

93/100

Performance of extracts from Shakespeare's plays.

No Man's Land

89/100

In this TV adaptation of the Harold Pinter classic, a seedy poet (Gielgud) shows up at the home of a rich writer (Richardson) and they start reminiscing about the "past."

The Cherry Orchard

69/100

Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled aging aristocratic lady, who returns from a trip to Paris to face the...

A Summer Day's Dream

79/100

It is the 1980s, the third world war happened soon after the second ended and Britain was devastated by nuclear weapons...

The Clue of the New Pin

50/100

A rich recluse is killed by his nephew, who tries to burn a reporter.

Barbablù, Barbablù

Insult