Richard Attenborough Movies

Glory at Sea

63/100

In 1940, the captain of an old Royal Navy destroyer struggles with his crew as well as the Nazis.

Loot

56/100

Based on the play by Joe Orton, this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately one of them works in a funeral parlor ... See full summary »

PT Raiders

69/100

A trio of ex-servicemen begin smuggling innocuous black market items into post-war Britain but through greed they graduate to more sinister cargo.

The Outsider

69/100

Jack Read, a working-class boy, wins a scholarship to a public school as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together. He meets much ... See full summary »

Dulcimer Street

71/100

Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London...

Eight O'Clock Walk

68/100

Taxicab driver Tom Banning is led to an abandoned bomb-site by an eight-year-old girl as an April-fool prank. The girl is later found murdered and Manning is picked up by Scotland Yard for ... See full summary »

SOS Pacific

63/100

A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the passengers include a policeman and his smuggler prisoner, a slimey limey witness against him,... See full summary »

The Baby and the Battleship

54/100

After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists... See full summary »

A Severed Head

56/100

The wine taster and merchant Martin Lynch-Gibbon is married to the shallow and spoiled Antonia Lynch-Gibbon, and loves his mistress Georgie Hands. Antonia is under therapy with Martin's ... See full summary »

Jet Storm

66/100

Richard Attenborough plays Ernest Tilley, a man who lost his daughter in a hit-and-run accident. He tracks down the man responsible for the accident and boards the same plane, threatening ... See full summary »

Only When I Larf

62/100

A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.

The Last Grenade

54/100

Two soldiers of fortune, Harry Grigsby and Kip Thompson, used to be the best of friends when they fought side by side in the Congo. But now Kip has changed sides and Grigsby does not ... See full summary »

Boys in Brown

64/100

A slice of life in a British Borstal reform institution for young criminals.

The Man Upstairs

69/100

John Wilson is troubled with pain and and an inability to sleep. He tries to light the gas-fire and seeks held from another lodger, artist Nicholas, who is spending the night with his model... See full summary »

Dancing with Crime

70/100

A London cab driver gets mixed up with a criminal gang and sets out to expose the group and its leader for what they are.

Strange Affection

66/100

Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.

Journey Together

69/100

David Wilton, John Aynesworth, and Smith are among a group of cadets hoping to become pilots in the Royal Air Force. David, however, has poor height perception and cannot master his ... See full summary »

Hell Is Sold Out

63/100

A book is sent to the publishers under the name of "Danges", a popular writer, long believed to be dead...

Father's Doing Fine

57/100

Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. The story revolves around the impending ... See full summary »

The Smugglers

71/100

Told in flashback, the film opens with a scene of a 17-year-old boy, Francis Andrews, being brutally lashed during a police interrogation in which the boy thinks back to the past that ... See full summary »

The Lost People

65/100

Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees (displaced persons) in this theatre, prior to returning them to... See full summary »

It Started at Midnight

66/100

The Greatest Footie Ads Ever

78/100

Richard Attenborough: A Life

76/100

Channel 4 tribute focusing on Richard the man as well as the filmmaker. Not to be confused with the BBC's similarly-titled Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film (2014).

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