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1. The Crucible (1996)
PG-13 | 124 min | Drama, History
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen
Votes: 40,167 | Gross: $7.34M
2. Quiz Show (1994)
PG-13 | 133 min | Biography, Drama, History
A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.
Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Paul Scofield
Votes: 73,321 | Gross: $24.82M
3. A Man for All Seasons (1966)
G | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Leo McKern
Votes: 37,148 | Gross: $28.35M
4. Hamlet (1990)
PG | 135 min | Drama
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.
Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield
Votes: 23,602 | Gross: $20.71M
5. The Train (1964)
Not Rated | 133 min | Action, Thriller, War
In 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo.
Directors: John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Suzanne Flon
Votes: 18,870 | Gross: $7.41M
6. Henry V (1989)
PG-13 | 137 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Simon Shepherd, James Larkin
Votes: 31,650 | Gross: $10.16M
7. Animal Farm (1999 TV Movie)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
The animals of a farm successfully revolt against its human owner, only to slide into a more brutal tyranny amongst themselves.
Director: John Stephenson | Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Ian Holm, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julia Ormond
Votes: 6,484
8. Great Performances (1971– )
TV-G | 180 min | Music, Musical
Filmed and televised versions of theater productions, such as plays, musicals, operas, ballets, and concerts from around the world.
Stars: Scott Yoo, Julie Andrews, Renée Fleming, Plácido Domingo
Votes: 896
9. Martin Chuzzlewit (1994)
385 min | Drama
Old Martin Chuzzlewit is nearing his death. Who will inherit his riches? With such a prize to play for, the Chuzzlewit family bring forth all of their cunning, greed and selfishness. Adapted from the novel by Charles Dickens.
Stars: Emma Chambers, Julia Sawalha, Keith Allen, Philip Franks
Votes: 977
10. ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969–1974)
78 min | Drama
Anthology series of dramatic works.
Stars: Michael Balfour, Madoline Thomas, Diane Cilento, Jim Dale
Votes: 98
11. Scorpio (1973)
PG | 114 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
During the Cold War, the CIA orders free-lance operative Scorpio to assassinate his former CIA mentor Cross and a deadly cat-and-mouse game ensues.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, John Colicos
Votes: 5,206
12. The Red Tent (1969)
G | 158 min | Adventure, Drama
Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his failed 1928 Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov | Stars: Sean Connery, Peter Finch, Claudia Cardinale, Hardy Krüger
Votes: 2,418
13. BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
120 min | Drama
Monthly anthology series featuring televised versions of plays.
Stars: Charles Gray, Eric Porter, Jeremy Brett, Lally Bowers
Votes: 178
14. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 320
15. The Curse of King Tut's Tomb (1980 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 98 min | Adventure, Horror, Mystery
After an archeological expedition discovers the tomb of the Egyptian king Tutankhamen, many of the scientists, engineers and workmen begin mysteriously dying off.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: Eva Marie Saint, Robin Ellis, Raymond Burr, Harry Andrews
Votes: 386
16. Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)
Not Rated | 119 min | Biography, Drama, War
During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Denise Grey
Votes: 1,857
17. BBC2 Playhouse (1973–1983)
60 min | Drama
BBC2 Playhouse was a British one-hour episode anthology television series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Stars: Ralph G. Morse, Gawn Grainger, John Bluthal, Trevor Laird
Votes: 137
18. Anna Karenina (1985 TV Movie)
PG | 135 min | Drama, Romance
Tragic Anna leaves her cold husband for dashing Count Vronsky in 19th-century Russia.
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Reeve, Paul Scofield, Ian Ogilvy
Votes: 370
19. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Drama
Series of television plays performed live.
Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan
Votes: 179
20. A Delicate Balance (1973)
PG | 133 min | Drama
A well-to-do Connecticut family is upended when the grown daughter's godparents, seized by a nameless terror, decide to come live with them.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Kate Reid
Votes: 910
21. King Lear (1970)
GP | 137 min | Drama
King Lear divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia refuses to idly flatter the old man, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters.
Director: Peter Brook | Stars: Paul Scofield, Irene Worth, Cyril Cusack, Susan Engel
Votes: 936
22. The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988 TV Movie)
PG | 97 min | Drama, History, War
Miep Gies struggles to keep Anne Frank and her family hidden and safe inside the secret annex, as the Nazis turn Amsterdam upside-down.
Director: John Erman | Stars: Mary Steenburgen, Paul Scofield, Huub Stapel, Eleanor Bron
Votes: 501
23. ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
An anthology series from the U.K., from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television.
Stars: Derek Francis, Alfred Burke, Arthur Hewlett, Esther Lawrence
Votes: 93
24. Genesis: The Creation and the Flood (1994)
Not Rated | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
An all-enveloping darkness. Suddenly, a child's voice, frightened, questioning, pierces the darkness... The first flickering rays of light begin to sculpt mysterious shapes out of the ... See full summary »
Director: Ermanno Olmi | Stars: Paul Scofield, Annabi Abdelialil, Omero Antonutti, Sabir Aziz
Votes: 746
25. Bartleby (II) (1970)
PG | 78 min | Drama
An asocial and enigmatic office clerk refuses to do his work, leaving it up to his boss to decide what should be done with him.
Director: Anthony Friedman | Stars: Paul Scofield, John McEnery, Thorley Walters, Colin Jeavons
Votes: 414
26. That Lady (1955)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, History
In 1570, widowed Princess Ana de Mendoza becomes the love object of a deadly rivalry between her cousin Don Inigo, King Philip II of Spain and his secretary of state Antonio Perez.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Gilbert Roland, Paul Scofield, Françoise Rosay
Votes: 193
27. Male of the Species (1969 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Never trust a man whoever he is. This is the bitter lesson learned by Mary MacNeil in her relationships with three different men: her father, a mendacious womanizer; a smooth-talking office... See full summary »
Directors: Charles Jarrott, Anthony Page | Stars: Paul Scofield, Michael Caine, Anna Calder-Marshall, Sean Connery
Votes: 129
28. When the Whales Came (1989)
PG | 100 min | Drama
A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and ... See full summary »
Director: Clive Rees | Stars: Paul Scofield, David Threlfall, Helen Mirren, Helen Pearce
Votes: 457
29. Tell Me Lies (1968)
118 min | Documentary, Drama
A variety of British views on the Vietnam War.
Director: Peter Brook | Stars: Mark Jones, Pauline Munro, Eric Allan, Robert Langdon Lloyd
Votes: 109
30. Shades of Greene (1975– )
60 min | Drama
A collection of odd stories from the writer Graham Greene.
Stars: Denholm Elliott, Shane Briant, Neville Phillips, Ian Hendry
Votes: 31
31. Utz (1992)
94 min | Adventure, Drama
Fisher, a fine art dealer, goes to Prague after the death of a friend, the Baron von Utz, to see if he can obtain some of the pieces of the Baron's priceless Meissen porcelain collection. ... See full summary »
Director: George Sluizer | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brenda Fricker, Peter Riegert, Paul Scofield
Votes: 245
32. Nineteen Nineteen (1985)
99 min | Drama
Two former patients of Austrian neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud meet again and discuss their psychiatric treatment 65 years earlier, reopening the wounds of the past, and questioning whether they were healed.
Director: Hugh Brody | Stars: Paul Scofield, Maria Schell, Frank Finlay, Diana Quick
Votes: 122
33. Mister Corbett's Ghost (1987 TV Movie)
60 min | Fantasy, Drama
Mr Corbett is a cruel employer to Ben Partridge. One night on New Years Eve Ben is sent out to deliver some medicine. Along the way he wishes his master was dead, little knowing that the man he is delivering to is the Collector of Souls.
Director: Danny Huston | Stars: Paul Scofield, John Huston, Mark Farmer, Burgess Meredith
Votes: 87
34. Robinson in Space (1997)
82 min | Documentary
Robinson is commissioned to investigate the unspecified "problem of England." The narrator describes his seven excursions, with the unseen Robinson, around the country. They mainly ... See full summary »
Director: Patrick Keiller | Star: Paul Scofield
Votes: 390
35. Rashi: A Light After the Dark Ages (1999)
G | 65 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
This animated children's film introduces kids to the life and times of Rashi, history's most studied Biblical commentator. Featuring the voices of Leonard Nimoy and Armand Assante.
Director: Ashley Lazarus | Stars: Armand Assante, Leonard Nimoy, Paul Scofield
Votes: 42
36. London (1994)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
An inspiring tale through London by pictures narrated by Paul Scofield.
Director: Patrick Keiller | Stars: Paul Scofield, John Major, Norma Major, Dennis Skinner
Votes: 757
37. The Little Riders (1996 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama
Young American Joanne Hunter is stranded in the German-occupied Holland with her Dutch grandparents. The German CO, Captain Kessel begins to wage war on the village's morale, and Joanne's ... See full summary »
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Paul Scofield, Noley Thornton, Rosemary Harris, Malcolm McDowell
Votes: 159
38. Theatre Night (1957–1961)
45 min | Drama
A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.
Stars: Cicely Courtneidge, Evelyn Laye, Dora Bryan, Hugh Williams
Votes: 69
39. A Kind of Alaska (1984 TV Movie)
Drama
A woman who fell victim to sleeping sickness many years ago wakes up in middle age.
Director: Kenneth Ives | Stars: Susan Engel, Paul Scofield, Dorothy Tutin
40. Celebrity Playhouse (1981– )
90 min | Drama
Stars: Eileen Atkins, Twiggy, Celia Johnson, Robert Powell
41. World Theatre (1959)
Drama
In 1959, a group of aspiring actors and playwrights navigate love, ambition, and artistic challenges in the world of theater.
Stars: Olive McFarland, John Southworth, Dilys Hamlett, James Maxwell
Votes: 14
42. Summer Lightning (1985)
Drama, Romance
Sir Robert Clarke looks back on his life and the summer when as a 16-year-old he first fell in love with Louise St. Leger.
Director: Paul Joyce | Stars: Edward Rawle-Hicks, Paul Scofield, Tom Bell, Dearbhla Molloy
Votes: 11
43. The Other World of Winston Churchill (1964 TV Movie)
51 min | Documentary, Biography
Documentary portrait of Winston Churchill the artist, based on his book Painting as a Pastime.
Director: Louis Clyde Stoumen | Stars: Paul Scofield, Patrick Wymark, Siân Phillips, Lady Birley
Votes: 21
44. Nijinsky: Unfinished Project (1970)
Biography, Drama
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Claude Jade, Rudolf Nureyev, Paul Scofield
Votes: 25
45. The Laurence Olivier Awards 1997 (1997 TV Special)
Director: Geoff Miles | Stars: Clive Anderson, Eileen Atkins, Frances Barber, Stephen Boxer
Votes: 35
46. Cinema (1964–1975)
30 min | Documentary
Weekly film magazine, featuring film reviews, interviews with celebrities and historical lookbacks.
Stars: Michael Scott, Michael Parkinson, Brian Trueman, Clive James
Votes: 121
47. Only Yesterday (1986 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Director: Guy Slater | Stars: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Julian Glover, Katharine Rogers
48. Ill Fares the Land (1983)
102 min
The story of St Kilda, in the Outer Hebrides: the farthest inhabited island in the United Kingdom until it was evacuated in 1930: after continuous inhabitation for 4,000 years.
Director: Bill Bryden | Stars: Joseph Brady, James Copeland, J.G. Devlin, Ron Donachie
Votes: 18
49. The Evening Standard Theatre Awards 2003 (2003 TV Special)
Director: Ian Hamilton | Stars: Roger Allam, Richard Attenborough, Helen Baxendale, Peter Bowles
Votes: 53
50. The British Academy Awards (1956 TV Special)
30 min | Short
Director: Dennis Monger | Stars: Carol Reed, Vivien Leigh, Peter Ustinov, Kenneth More