Alec Guinness

Adapted from Graham Greene's novel, Alec Guinness stars in this classic spy spoof as Jim Wormold, an English expatriate who sells vacuum cleaners in Havana. His life is irrevocably changed as he is recruited by Hawthorne (Noel Coward), and pressed into service as an operative of M.I.5, which he reluctantly agress to so he can earn extra money for his 17-year-old daughter.

Director Alexander Mackendrick's film centres on a criminal gang planning their next job, who find themselves boarding with an innocent old lady who thinks they are musicians. When the gang set out to kill Mrs Wilberforce, they run into one problem after another, and they get what they deserve.

Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of The Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.

In Ronald Neame’s film of Joyce Cary’s classic novel, Alec Guinness transforms himself into one of cinema’s most indelible comic figures: the lovably scruffy painter Gulley Jimson. As the ill-behaved Jimson searches for a perfect canvas, he determines to let nothing come between himself and the realization of his exalted vision. A perceptive examination of the struggle of artistic creation, The Horse’s Mouth is also Neame’s comic masterpiece.

Alec Guinness and Bette Davis star in the taut mystery The Scapegoat. In a dual role, Guinness plays both schoolteacher John Barratt and wealthy Count Jacques de Gue, who meet while John is on vacation in France and realize they look strikingly similar. Disillusioned and bored with his life as a wealthy man, The Count begs John to trade places with him. But when John arrives at the Count's mansion, he meets both the Count's mother, who believes her son is stealing from her, and the Count's wife, who believes he is trying to murder her. Now John has inherited all the problems of the debauched Count -- and cannot convince anyone he is really a simple schoolteacher.

A priest moonlighting as an amateur detective plays cat and mouse through Europe with an international art thief, who proves a clever opponent indeed.

Jackie Chan plays a shrewd cop who goes undercover with a team of mercenaries when a man he put away two years before commits a murder. The film features the great Sammo Hung as well as the terrific Tony Leung Ka Fai.

An amateur chemist gets a target on his back by textile tycoons and trade unions when his genius invention threatens to put them both out of business.

Berlin, 1945. In the Fuhrerbunker, the last hiding place of the man who unleashed a reign of terror across Europe, it is Adolf Hitler's 56th birthday.

On the 50th anniversary of D-Day, veterans from England and America return to Normandy to relive their experiences in the war — and love.

Alec Guinness stars as Peter Ross, a World War II pilot photographer, who is forced to land in Malta. There he finds himself attached to the local regiment and on studying aerial photographs he discovers that Italy is preparing to invade Malta. It is of vital importance that the island remains under the control of the Allies, and Peter is the man selected to trace and destroy the enemy convoy.

In 1944, two American fliers are captured by a friendly German who keeps them in his cellar and doesn't tell them the war is over.

Returning from battle after WWII, tensions flare in a Scottish regiment when the acting commanding officer is replaced by an Oxford-educated outsider.

George Bird has been told by his Doctor that he only has a short time left to live and is determined not to waste his final days.

Sweeping epic about the real life adventures of T.E. Lawrence, a British major who unified Arab tribes and led them in the fight for independence from the Ottoman Turks in the 1920s.

The Japanese force British prisoners to build a bridge.

Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.

A black sheep distant relative of Edwardian England blue bloods plots to murder the eight heirs standing between him and the family fortune.

Alec Guinness and Richard Harris star in this historical epic. Great battle scenes and cinematography plus an Oscar winning music score.