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1.
Star Wars: Rebels (2014–2018)
Episode:
A World Between Worlds
(2018)
TV-Y7 | 23 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
While the other rebels engage the Imperial forces outside the Jedi Temple, Ezra gains access inside and experiences a stunning revelation.
Directors: Dave Filoni, Steward Lee | Stars: Taylor Gray, Vanessa Marshall, Freddie Prinze Jr., Tiya Sircar
Votes: 3,526
2.
The South Bank Show (1978– )
Episode:
David Lean: A Life in Film
(1985)
140 min | Documentary
Steven Spielberg, Alec Guinness and Omar Sharif appear in this tribute to the great British filmmaker, David Lean. Clips from many of his films, such as "Brief Encounter," "Hobson's Choice,... See full summary »
Director: Nigel Wattis | Stars: Melvyn Bragg, David Lean, Victor Banerjee, John Box
Votes: 27
3. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back: Deleted Scenes (2011 Video)
12 min | Short, Action, Drama
Deleted scenes from Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980).
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Anthony Daniels, Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford, James Gleason
Votes: 29,210
4. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
PG | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After the Rebel Alliance are overpowered by the Empire, Luke Skywalker begins his Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued across the galaxy by Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams
Votes: 1,379,298 | Gross: $290.48M
5. Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga (2007 Video Game)
E10+ | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Collect Gold Bricks while successfully progressing through the entire story, from the Trade Federation negotiations above Naboo in Star Wars Episode I, to the attack on the second Death Star above Endor in Return of the Jedi.
Director: Jon Burton | Stars: Bill Fagerbakke, John Wayne, Ahmed Best, Peter Cushing
Votes: 4,951
6. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
PG | 121 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.
Director: George Lucas | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness
Votes: 1,449,181 | Gross: $322.74M
7.
Smiley's People (1982)
Episode:
Smiley's Lighter
(1982)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery
The final confrontation between Smiley and Karla takes place. But in this game there are no victors, only losers.
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Alec Guinness, Michael Lonsdale, Bernard Hepton, Rosalie Crutchley
Votes: 162
8. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
TV-14 | 45 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced out of semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.
Stars: Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Anthony Bate, George Sewell
Votes: 9,618
9. Smiley's People (1982)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery
The murder of a Soviet defector forces his old handler, British spymaster George Smiley, out of retirement. His investigation leads to an old nemesis, the Soviet spymaster known only as "Karla". This will be their final dance.
Stars: Alec Guinness, Eileen Atkins, Bill Paterson, Vladek Sheybal
Votes: 4,762
10. The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956–1960)
60 min | Comedy
The Steve Allen Show was an American variety show hosted by Steve Allen.
Stars: Steve Allen, Gene Rayburn, Louis Nye, Skitch Henderson
Votes: 258
11.
The Morecambe & Wise Show (1978–1983)
Episode:
1980 Christmas Show
(1980)
51 min | Comedy
Sketches include a number of Christmas carol jokes outside 10 Downing Street, which ends with Peter Cushing finally getting his money back, after 10 years, Eric gives Ernie a giant wallet, ... See full summary »
Director: John Ammonds | Stars: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Peter Barkworth, Gemma Craven
Votes: 14
12.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
Episode:
Flushing Out the Mole
(1979)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Smiley springs his trap and catches the spy. He later interrogates the spy and learns about how and why it happened, and the answers he gets robs him of any sense of victory.
Director: John Irvin | Stars: Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Anthony Bate, George Sewell
Votes: 270
13.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
Episode:
Tinker Tailor
(1979)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Smiley goes to meet Jim Prideaux who is now back in Britain having survived his experience in Czechoslovakia. His testimony and that of others sheds new light on the "Testify" fiasco and source "Merlin".
Director: John Irvin | Stars: Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Anthony Bate, George Sewell
Votes: 321
14.
Smiley's People (1982)
Episode:
The Rogue Elephant
(1982)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery
Smiley gets into trouble with his superiors, who want the investigation closed. But he finally encounters the woman and gets her account.
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Alec Guinness, Mario Adorf, Vladek Sheybal, Eileen Atkins
Votes: 159
15. Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
PG | 131 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebel Alliance attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.
Director: Richard Marquand | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams
Votes: 1,121,104 | Gross: $309.13M
16. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Approved | 218 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
Votes: 314,260 | Gross: $44.82M
17. Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (2006 Video Game)
E10+ | Action, Adventure, Family
Play the original trilogy of Star Wars: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi, all in Lego.
Directors: Jon Burton, Mo Davoudian | Stars: Tom Kane, John Wayne, Ahmed Best, David W. Collins
Votes: 2,918
18.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
Episode:
Smiley Sets a Trap
(1979)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Smiley confronts one of his suspects and gives him the results of his investigations, which could prove a considerable embarrassment to those concerned.
Director: John Irvin | Stars: Alec Guinness, Ian Bannen, Joss Ackland, Bernard Hepton
Votes: 265
19.
Smiley's People (1982)
Episode:
The General's Big Fish
(1982)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery
Smiley makes inquiries among many Russian exiles, and uncovers a photograph revealing an astonishing secret.
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Alec Guinness, Curd Jürgens, Eileen Atkins, Maureen Lipman
Votes: 186
20.
Smiley's People (1982)
Episode:
Gathering Friends
(1982)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery
Smiley learns that his nemesis, the dreaded Soviet spymaster Karla, has a deep secret hidden involving his personal life. He now attempts to track down certain Russian individuals who could aid him, but they keep disappearing.
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Alec Guinness, Mario Adorf, Eileen Atkins, Bernard Hepton
Votes: 167
21.
Smiley's People (1982)
Episode:
Alexandra Tatjana
(1982)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery
Smiley is hot on the trail leading to Karla, but must make the ultimate sacrifice: cutting off his wife Ann.
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Alec Guinness, Michael Lonsdale, Barry Foster, Bill Paterson
Votes: 156
22.
Tuesday's Documentary (1968–1983)
Episode:
The Ealing Comedies or Kind Hearts and Overdrafts
(1970)
75 min | Documentary
The story of the academy of excellence that was the Ealing Studios, told with the help of some of its most illustrious alumnae.
Director: Harry Hastings | Stars: Frank Muir, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness, Barbara Murray
Votes: 11
23.
Startime (1959–1961)
Episode:
The Wicked Scheme of Jebal Deeks
(1959)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A disgruntled bank employee executes an elaborate corporate sabotage against his employers.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: Conrad Bain, Patricia Barry, Charles Coburn, David Doyle
Votes: 22
24.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
Episode:
How It All Fits Together
(1979)
TV-14 | 50 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
While Guillam and Tarr come under pressure, Smiley recounts his one meeting with the Soviet master spy Karla, who is undoubtedly running the spy inside MI6.
Director: John Irvin | Stars: Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Warren Clarke, George Sewell
Votes: 279
25.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
Episode:
Smiley Tracks the Mole
(1979)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The investigation begins, with Peter Guillam burgling the archives for information, while Smiley visits an old comrade whose past knowledge could prove vital to locating the spy.
Director: John Irvin | Stars: Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Anthony Bate, Ian Richardson
Votes: 292
26. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
PG | 161 min | Adventure, Drama, War
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
Director: David Lean | Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa
Votes: 233,234 | Gross: $44.91M
27.
ITV Playhouse (1967–1982)
Episode:
The Gift of Friendship
(1974)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
Todays theme is The Gift of Friendship.
Director: Mike Newell | Stars: Sarah Badel, Michael Gough, Alec Guinness, Leueen MacGrath
Votes: 17
28.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
Episode:
Tarr Tells His Story
(1979)
TV-14 | 49 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A British agent, who was thought to have defected, resurfaces with sensational information - confirmation of a Russian spy mole existing in the Service.
Director: John Irvin | Stars: Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston, Anthony Bate, Hywel Bennett
Votes: 302
29.
Smiley's People (1982)
Episode:
A Mother's Assistance
(1982)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery
What is the connection between a penniless Russian woman in Paris and the brutal murder of an old man in a London park? And so begins a new conundrum for George Smiley to sort out.
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Alec Guinness, Curd Jürgens, Eileen Atkins, Dudley Sutton
Votes: 201
30. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime
A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
Votes: 39,702
31.
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979)
Episode:
Return to the Circus
(1979)
TV-14 | 49 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Retired espionage veteran George Smiley is called out on a top secret mission: to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.
Director: John Irvin | Stars: Alec Guinness, Bernard Hepton, Terence Rigby, Michael Aldridge
Votes: 354
32. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
PG-13 | 197 min | Drama, Romance, War
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger
Votes: 82,058 | Gross: $111.72M
33. 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
34. The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971)
TV-G | 60 min | Music, Talk-Show
The classic prime time variety show most famous for its vaudeville acts and rock music performances.
Stars: Ed Sullivan, The Ray Bloch Orchestra, Ray Bloch, Johnny Wayne
Votes: 1,561
35. The Morecambe & Wise Show (1978–1983)
30 min | Comedy
The Morecambe and Wise Show was a comedy sketch show originally broadcast by BBC television and the third TV series by English comedy double-act Morecambe and Wise.
Stars: Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise, Frank Coda, Gemma Craven
Votes: 1,021
36. Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
PG-13 | 138 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
As a new threat to the galaxy rises, Rey, a desert scavenger, and Finn, an ex-stormtrooper, must join Han Solo and Chewbacca to search for the one hope of restoring peace.
Director: J.J. Abrams | Stars: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Domhnall Gleeson
Votes: 973,524 | Gross: $936.66M
37. Great Expectations (1946)
Approved | 118 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
A humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.
Director: David Lean | Stars: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Tony Wager, Jean Simmons
Votes: 26,401
38. Oliver Twist (1948)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama
In Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Robert Newton, Alec Guinness, Kay Walsh, Francis L. Sullivan
Votes: 13,652
39.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
Monsignor Quixote
(1986)
TV-G | 120 min | Music, Musical
In this modern adaptation of the Don Quixote theme based on a novel by Graham Greene, Quixote is an old Spanish village priest who travels through Spain with his friend, Sancho, the ... See full summary »
Director: Rodney Bennett | Stars: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Ian Richardson, Graham Crowden
Votes: 223
40.
Performance (1991–1998)
Episode:
Tales from Hollywood
(1992)
113 min | Drama
A slightly ironical description of the colony of German artists in Los Angeles, who had to leave their country during the Nazi-regime. A young playwriter (von Horvath) joins them and finds ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Davies | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Carsten Norgaard, Charles Durning, Robin Bailey
Votes: 50
41.
Screen One (1985–2002)
Episode:
A Foreign Field
(1993)
95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Veterans return to Normandy on the 50th anniversary of D-Day for their own special and poignant reasons, among them two looking for an old love who turns out to the same woman for both.
Director: Charles Sturridge | Stars: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Edward Herrmann, John Randolph
Votes: 694
42. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 320
43. Episode IV: Crew and Cast Interviews (2011 Video)
20 min | Documentary, Short
(1) Episode IV: Tatooine Overview (3:49): Production illustrator Ralph McQuarrie talks about some of his initial paintings/drawings for George Lucas, 2nd Cameraman Dennis Muren discusses ... See full summary »
Stars: Ben Burtt, Anthony Daniels, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness
Votes: 12
44. The Ladykillers (1955)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Crime
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom
Votes: 31,391
45. Rowlandson's England (1955)
11 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Robert Hamer, John Hawkesworth | Star: Alec Guinness
Votes: 16
46. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass
Votes: 15,555
47. Scrooge (1970)
G | 113 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More
Votes: 12,585 | Gross: $3.70M
48. Late Night with David Letterman (1982–1993)
TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
Popular late-night comedy/talk-show with host David Letterman, interviewing famous guests.
Stars: David Letterman, Paul Shaffer, Bill Wendell, Calvert DeForest
Votes: 4,990
49. Tunes of Glory (1960)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
After World War II, a Highland Regiment's acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Susannah York, Dennis Price
Votes: 4,557
50. Interview Day (1996 TV Movie)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge University.
Director: Piers Haggard | Stars: Maureen Lipman, David Ross, Benedict Sandiford, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 233