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1. The Great Game (1930)
79 min | Comedy, Sport
Dicky Brown (John Batten) is a young, aspiring footballer who plays for a struggling side, the fictional Manningford Football Club, a team in the midst of a successful cup run. He manages ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Randle Ayrton, Neil Kenyon, Kenneth Kove, A.G. Poulton
Votes: 37
2. Get Your Man (1934)
67 min | Comedy
Two business rivals' planned merger includes a marriage between their son and niece, but the young couple run off with different partners.
Director: George King | Stars: Dorothy Boyd, Sebastian Shaw, Clifford Heatherley, Hugh E. Wright
3. Leave It to Blanche (1934)
51 min | Comedy
Blanche is the interfering friend of a young married couple. When Peter, the husband, forgets their anniversary, to punish him Blanche persuades his wife to invent a secret lover.
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Henry Kendall, Olive Blakeney, Miki Hood, Griffith Jones
4. All at Sea (1936)
60 min | Comedy
Lovestruck young man pretends to be a famous writer in order to impress a girl while on a cruise.
Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: Tyrell Davis, Googie Withers, James Carew, Cecily Byrne
5. Men Are Not Gods (1936)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama
Ann Williams (Miriam Hopkins), secretary to eccentric drama critic T.H. Skeates (A.E. Matthews), is persuaded to alter a ruinous review of Shakespearean actor Edmond Davey (Sebastian Shaw) ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Reisch | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Gertrude Lawrence, Sebastian Shaw, Rex Harrison
Votes: 351
6. Storm in a Teacup (1937)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Directors: Ian Dalrymple, Victor Saville | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker, Sara Allgood
Votes: 1,116
7. School for Husbands (1937)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Romance
A couple of lonesome wives, Marion Carter (Diana Churchill) and Diana Cheswick (June Clyde) fall for philanderer Leonard Drummond (Sir Rex Harrison), and arrange to get their husbands, ... See full summary »
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Rex Harrison, Diana Churchill, June Clyde, Henry Kendall
Votes: 30
8. The Sidewalks of London (1938)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy
Pickpocket Libby gets support from street performer Charles, and her dancing leads to her invitation to theater patron Harley's party which in turn launches Libby's stage career while Charles keeps on struggling in the streets.
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Larry Adler
Votes: 1,468
9. The Citadel (1938)
Passed | 110 min | Drama
An enthusiastic young doctor happily embarks on his career, but it isn't long before he finds out what being a doctor really entails.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson, Rex Harrison
Votes: 2,374
10. Villa for Sale (1938 TV Movie)
25 min | Drama
Stars: Cathleen Cordell, Rex Harrison, Agnes Lauchlan, Ruth Reeves
Votes: 16
11. Over the Moon (1939)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy
Young Jane Benson (Merle Oberon) just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis (Sir Rex Harrison), she suggests ... See full summary »
Directors: Thornton Freeland, William K. Howard | Stars: Merle Oberon, Rex Harrison, Ursula Jeans, Robert Douglas
Votes: 307
12. Continental Express (1939)
Approved | 73 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A mystery thriller set aboard the Orient Express bound for Istanbul. A girl is blackmailed into throwing a bomb at the President of a fictional Balkan state with the intention of starting another major war.
Director: Herbert Mason | Stars: Rex Harrison, Valerie Hobson, John Loder, Muriel Aked
Votes: 27
13. Missing Ten Days (1940)
82 min | Drama
Bob Stevens (Sir Rex Harrison) awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Rex Harrison, Karen Verne, C.V. France, Leo Genn
Votes: 67
14. Night Train to Munich (1940)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
After Germany invades Czechoslovakia, the German and the British intelligence services try to capture Czech scientist Dr. Axel Bomasch (James Harcourt), inventor of a new type of armor-plating.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford
Votes: 5,580
15. Major Barbara (1941)
Approved | 121 min | Comedy
A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father's business. A comedy with social commentary.
Directors: Gabriel Pascal, Harold French, David Lean | Stars: Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton
Votes: 1,515
16. Blithe Spirit (1945)
96 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford
Votes: 8,006
17. A Yank in London (1945)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 1943 England, an American Army Air Force gunner falls in love with a corporal in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force who has long been expected to marry a British paratrooper Major, prompting him to go back to combat duty.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Rex Harrison, Dean Jagger, Robert Morley
Votes: 252
18. Notorious Gentleman (1945)
110 min | Drama, Romance
Vivian Kenway (Sir Rex Harrison), a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Godfrey Tearle, Griffith Jones
Votes: 391
19. Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
Passed | 128 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 2,636
20. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In 1900, a young widow finds her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Gene Tierney, Rex Harrison, George Sanders, Edna Best
Votes: 20,866
21. The Foxes of Harrow (1947)
Passed | 117 min | Action, Drama, Romance
In pre-Civil War New Orleans, Louisiana, roguish Irish gambler Stephen Fox (Sir Rex Harrison) buys his way into society, something he couldn't do in his homeland because he is illegitimate.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Haydn, Victor McLaglen
Votes: 567
22. Escape (1948)
Approved | 78 min | Thriller
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Rex Harrison, Peggy Cummins, William Hartnell, Norman Wooland
Votes: 424
23. Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
Approved | 105 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A man dreams of revenge when he suspects his wife is unfaithful.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Rudy Vallee, Barbara Lawrence
Votes: 5,859
24. The Long Dark Hall (1951)
86 min | Crime, Drama
A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the only suspect when someone else murders her.
Directors: Reginald Beck, Anthony Bushell | Stars: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Tania Heald, Henrietta Barry
Votes: 506
25. The Four Poster (1952)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Adapted from the prize-winning Broadway play that featured two people and a four-poster bed, in which the couple enacts their marriage, from 1897, until he dies some time after she has died... See full summary »
Directors: Irving Reis, John Hubley | Stars: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer
Votes: 232
26. King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
Approved | 114 min | Adventure, Family, History
While leading the Third Crusade, King Richard the Lionheart (George Sanders) battles treachery in his own camp as well as the Saracens and their charismatic leader Emir Hderim Sultan Saladin (Sir Rex Harrison).
Director: David Butler | Stars: Rex Harrison, Virginia Mayo, George Sanders, Laurence Harvey
Votes: 915 | Gross: $2.10M
27. Marriage a la Mode (1955)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy
An Englishman wakes in a hotel bedroom suffering from amnesia and sets out to find his identity. He tracks down his wife but soon learns that the job she saw him leave for every morning did not exist.
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, Cecil Parker, Sally Lahee
Votes: 594
28. The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
While visiting her father, an American teenage girl is thrown into London society during its "Debutante Season."
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, John Saxon, Sandra Dee
Votes: 1,836
29. Midnight Lace (1960)
Approved | 103 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
In London, a recently-wed American woman's sanity comes into question after she claims to be the victim of a threatening stalker.
Director: David Miller | Stars: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, John Gavin, Myrna Loy
Votes: 6,024 | Gross: $7.40M
30. The Happy Thieves (1961)
Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A suave art thief romances a wealthy duchess, only to enable him to steal a priceless painting from her collection. Complications ensue.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Rex Harrison, Joseph Wiseman, Alida Valli
Votes: 609
31. Cleopatra (1963)
G | 192 min | Biography, Drama, History
Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.
Directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown
Votes: 37,396 | Gross: $57.78M
32. My Fair Lady (1964)
G | 170 min | Drama, Family, Musical
In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Votes: 101,793 | Gross: $72.00M
33. The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)
Approved | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Anthology movie about three owners of a yellow Rolls-Royce. A British diplomat buys the car for his French wife. A mobster's girlfriend has an affair in Italy. An American woman drives a Yugoslavian partisan
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine, Jeanne Moreau
Votes: 4,007
34. The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Approved | 138 min | Biography, Drama, History
The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews
Votes: 8,049
35. The Honey Pot (1967)
Not Rated | 150 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
In Venice, a millionaire hires an actor to help him prank three greedy ex-girlfriends into thinking he's dying and leaving his fortune to one of them.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Cliff Robertson, Capucine
Votes: 2,846
36. Doctor Dolittle (1967)
Approved | 152 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
After the animal communicating veterinarian goes too far for his clientele, he and his friends escape their hometown to the sea in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Rex Harrison, Samantha Eggar, Anthony Newley, Richard Attenborough
Votes: 10,261 | Gross: $13.52M
37. A Flea in Her Ear (1968)
M/PG | 94 min | Comedy
A Frenchwoman, suspecting her lawyer husband of having an affair, plots to catch him in the act.
Director: Jacques Charon | Stars: Rex Harrison, Rosemary Harris, Louis Jourdan, Rachel Roberts
Votes: 255
38. Staircase (1969)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Charles Dyer (Sir Rex Harrison) and Harry Leeds (Richard Burton) are a couple that have been living together for nearly twenty years. Both earn a living as hairdressers in the West End of ... See full summary »
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Rex Harrison, Richard Burton, Cathleen Nesbitt, Beatrix Lehmann
Votes: 960
39. Crossed Swords (1977)
PG | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Poor boy Tom Canty and Edward, Prince of Wales exchange identities, but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Oliver Reed, Raquel Welch, Mark Lester, Ernest Borgnine
Votes: 2,113
40. Shalimar (1978)
PG-13 | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Sir John Locksley, the greatest jewel thief, decides his most prized possession, the Shalimar Ruby, should be passed on to a worthy successor. He invites the best rival jewel thieves to his island estate to participate in a deadly contest.
Director: Krishna Shah | Stars: Dharmendra, Zeenat Aman, Rex Harrison, Sylvia Miles
Votes: 626
41. Ashanti (1979)
R | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Dr. Anansa Linderby (Beverly Johnson) is kidnapped in a medical mission in Africa by a slave trader. From this moment, her husband will do anything to recover her and to punish the bad guys, but that will be not an easy task.
Director: Richard Fleischer | Stars: Michael Caine, Peter Ustinov, Kabir Bedi, Beverly Johnson
Votes: 2,118
42. The Fifth Musketeer (1979)
PG | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
When French King Louis XIV (Beau Bridges) learns that his twin brother, Philippe (Beau Bridges), could usurp his crown, he sets out to imprison him in the Bastille prison but four loyal musketeers are protecting Philippe.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Ursula Andress, Beau Bridges, Cornel Wilde
Votes: 853
43. Titanic in a Tub: The Golden Age of Toy Boats (1981)
28 min | Short
Director: Tim Forbes | Star: Rex Harrison
Votes: 9
44. A Time to Die (1982)
R | 91 min | Crime, Drama
In the final days of World War II, American spy Michael Rogan (Edward Albert Jr.) is taken prisoner, along with his wife and comrades from the French underground. A sadistic six-man ... See full summary »
Directors: Matt Cimber, Joe Tornatore | Stars: Rex Harrison, Rod Taylor, Edward Albert, Raf Vallone
Votes: 298
45. The Kingfisher (1982 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama, Romance
When Cecil (Sir Rex Harrison) discovers that his love Evelyn (Wendy Hiller), that got away fifty years ago, has been recently widowed and is passing by his home on the way to the funeral. ... See full summary »
Director: James Cellan Jones | Stars: Rex Harrison, Wendy Hiller, Cyril Cusack, Gary Owen
Votes: 89
46. Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (1986)
TV-PG | 200 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery
Story of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Anastasia Romanov, the only "surviving" child of the last Czar and Czarina of Russia.
Stars: Amy Irving, Olivia de Havilland, Jan Niklas, Nicolas Surovy
Votes: 1,271
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