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1. War Requiem (1989)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, War
A movie with no spoken dialogue, it is set against the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" which includes poetry by World War I soldier Wilfred Owen reflecting the horrors ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier, Patricia Hayes
Votes: 945
8. Peter the Great (1986)
371 min | Biography, Drama, History
Biopic of Peter I, Czar of Russia, from childhood in 1682 to the Great Northern War against Sweden during the 1700s.
Stars: Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Omar Sharif, Trevor Howard
Votes: 800
9. Lost Empires (1986)
420 min | Drama
In 1913, young Richard Herncastle joins his Uncle Nick's magic act and is introduced to the enchanted world of the British music hall. Travelling from one city to the next, assisting at ... See full summary »
Stars: Colin Firth, John Castle, Gillian Bevan, Mike Edmonds
Votes: 353
11.
American Masters (1985– )
Episode:
Directed by William Wyler
(1986)
TV-14 | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A tribute to director William Wyler consisting of interviews and excerpts from his many classic films.
Director: Aviva Slesin | Stars: A. Scott Berg, Bette Davis, Samantha Eggar, Greer Garson
Votes: 548
12.
Lost Empires (1986)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1986)
106 min | Drama
New arrival Richard makes an immediate impact on the other members of the act, especially the women. Hired as a stage assistant, he soon begins performing roles. But just as Richard ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Grint | Stars: Julia Parrott, Beatie Edney, Colin Firth, John Castle
Votes: 23
13.
Peter the Great (1986)
Episode:
Part II
(1986)
120 min | Biography, Drama, History
Directors: Marvin J. Chomsky, Lawrence Schiller | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Omar Sharif, Trevor Howard
Votes: 82
14.
Peter the Great (1986)
Episode:
Part IV
(1986)
120 min | Biography, Drama, History
Directors: Marvin J. Chomsky, Lawrence Schiller | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Omar Sharif, Trevor Howard
Votes: 79
15.
Peter the Great (1986)
Episode:
Part I
(1986)
120 min | Biography, Drama, History
Directors: Marvin J. Chomsky, Lawrence Schiller | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Omar Sharif, Trevor Howard
Votes: 85
16.
Peter the Great (1986)
Episode:
Part III
(1986)
120 min | Biography, Drama, History
Directors: Marvin J. Chomsky, Lawrence Schiller | Stars: Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Omar Sharif, Trevor Howard
Votes: 78
17. American Masters (1985– )
TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary series focusing on great American artists and personalities.
Stars: Martin Scorsese, Peter Bogdanovich, Tony Bennett, Dick Cavett
Votes: 1,171
18. Wild Geese II (1985)
R | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.
Director: Peter R. Hunt | Stars: Scott Glenn, Barbara Carrera, Edward Fox, Laurence Olivier
Votes: 1,551
19. The 57th Annual Academy Awards (1985 TV Special)
160 min | News
Directors: Marty Pasetta, Harrison Engle | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Candice Bergen, Jeff Bridges, Glenn Close
Votes: 192
20. Night of 100 Stars II (1985 TV Special)
180 min | Comedy, Family, Music
Stars: Debbie Allen, Peter Allen, Harry Anderson, Ann-Margret
Votes: 120
21. Paul Hardcastle: Just for Money (1985 Music Video)
5 min | Short, Music
Stars: Paul Hardcastle, Bob Hoskins, Ed O'Ross, Laurence Olivier
22. The Bounty (1984)
PG | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Fed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action.
Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox
Votes: 30,481 | Gross: $8.60M
23. The Last Days of Pompeii (1984)
310 min | Action, Drama, History
The different aspects of life in Pompeii, a coastal luxury resort near Naples catering for the very rich of imperial Rome, mainly before but culminating in the eruption of the Vesuvian ... See full summary »
Stars: Ned Beatty, Brian Blessed, Ernest Borgnine, Nicholas Clay
Votes: 626
24. The Ebony Tower (1984 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama
A young artist goes to interview an older painter who lives in the south of France with two young women. He gets caught up in the painter's Bohemian lifestyle and begins to examine his own attitudes towards life and art.
Director: Robert Knights | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Roger Rees, Greta Scacchi, Toyah Willcox
Votes: 222
25. A Talent for Murder (1984 TV Movie)
80 min | Drama, Mystery, Comedy
A famed mystery writer (Dame Angela Lansbury) and her doctor ex-lover (Sir Laurence Olivier) solve her daughter-in-law's murder.
Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: Angela Lansbury, Laurence Olivier, Hildegard Neil, Charles Keating
Votes: 171
26.
The Last Days of Pompeii (1984)
Episode:
Part 1
(1984)
144 min | Action, Drama, History
Director: Peter R. Hunt | Stars: Ned Beatty, Brian Blessed, Ernest Borgnine, Nicholas Clay
Votes: 30
27.
The Last Days of Pompeii (1984)
Episode:
Part 2
(1984)
94 min | Action, Drama, History
Director: Peter R. Hunt | Stars: Ned Beatty, Brian Blessed, Ernest Borgnine, Nicholas Clay
Votes: 29
28.
The Last Days of Pompeii (1984)
Episode:
Part 3
(1984)
94 min | Action, Drama, History
Director: Peter R. Hunt | Stars: Ned Beatty, Brian Blessed, Ernest Borgnine, Nicholas Clay
Votes: 29
29. The Jigsaw Man (1983)
PG | 94 min | Thriller
An MI6 defector has his appearance altered by the K.G.B. and is sent back to Britain to retrieve top-secret documents.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George, Robert Powell
Votes: 2,030
30. King Lear (1983 TV Movie)
158 min | Drama
Aging King Lear invites disaster when he abdicates to his two disloyal and obsequious daughters while rejecting the one who truly loves him.
Director: Michael Elliott | Stars: Colin Blakely, Leo McKern, Robert Lindsay, Laurence Olivier
Votes: 869
31. Wagner (1983)
300 min | Biography, Drama, History
A huge panorama of Richard Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria, to the final ... See full summary »
Stars: Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, Miguel Herz-Kestranek, László Gálffi
Votes: 616
32. Mr. Halpern and Mr. Johnson (1983 TV Movie)
55 min | Comedy, Drama
At the funeral of Mr. Halpern's wife he meets Mr. Johnson who confides in him that he fell in love with Mrs. Halpern even before she met her husband and has been seeing her regularly during all the years of her marriage.
Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Jackie Gleason
Votes: 108
33. The Film Society Of Lincoln Center Annual Gala Tribute to Laurence Olivier (1983 TV Special)
Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Tony Curtis, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Lillian Gish
34. The 40th Annual Golden Globe Awards 1983 (1983 TV Special)
Stars: Debbie Allen, Julie Andrews, Susan Anton, Richard Attenborough
Votes: 22
35. The Great Hamlets (1983– )
112 min | Documentary
Stars: Trevor Nunn, Jean-Louis Barrault, Richard Burton, Vittorio Gassman
36. The 37th Annual Tony Awards (1983 TV Special)
Director: Clark Jones | Stars: Richard Burton, Lena Horne, Jack Lemmon, George Abbott
Votes: 28
37.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
Laurence Olivier: A Life
(1983)
TV-G | Music, Musical
A multi-award winning biography covering the life and career of actor/director Laurence Olivier.
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Melvyn Bragg, Peggy Ashcroft, Jill Esmond
Votes: 66
38.
Wagner (1983)
Episode:
Episode #1.10
(1983)
67 min | Biography, Drama, History
Construction on the opera house in Bayreuth begins and his epic Der Ring des Nibelungen can finally be premiered. The performance is attended by Ludwig who is slowly losing his mind, while ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Palmer | Stars: Richard Burton, Bill Fraser, Vanessa Redgrave, Ronald Pickup
Votes: 122
39.
Wagner (1983)
Episode:
Episode #1.7
(1983)
Biography, Drama, History
Wagner must reconcile with the King of Bavaria and eventually does so. Their friendship grows even stronger while Ludwig's minsters are becoming increasingly suspicious of Wagner and his ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Palmer | Stars: Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, László Gálffi, Arthur Denberg
Votes: 72
40.
Wagner (1983)
Episode:
Episode #1.8
(1983)
Biography, Drama, History
Wagner moves to Lucerne, Switzerland with Cosima and her children. He is later joined by King Ludwig who wishes to abdicate in order to become Wagner's assistant. Wagner convinces him to ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Palmer | Stars: Richard Burton, Klaus Knuth, Ronald Pickup, Jürgen Cziesla
Votes: 71
41.
Wagner (1983)
Episode:
Episode #1.9
(1983)
Biography, Drama, History
Wagner and Cosima are overjoyed by the birth of their son, Siegfried. Meanwhile, Germany continues its war with France, which finally ends months later in January 1871 with a victory for ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Palmer | Stars: Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, Stephen Oliver, Ronald Pickup
Votes: 70
42.
Wagner (1983)
Episode:
Episode #1.6
(1983)
Biography, Drama, History
In Munich, Wagner enjoys a prosperous time under the patronage of the young King of Bavaria. Most of his debts are settled and several of his operas are staged to great success. Meanwhile, ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Palmer | Stars: Richard Burton, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, László Gálffi
Votes: 71
43. A Voyage Round My Father (1982 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama
Before creating the beloved courtroom drama Rumpole of the Bailey (1978), writer John Mortimer found inspiration in his own life for this portrait of a difficult but enduring love between ... See full summary »
Director: Alvin Rakoff | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Jane Asher, Elizabeth Sellars
Votes: 232
44. Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (1982 TV Movie)
60 min | Documentary
An all-star tribute to Natalie Wood by some of her friends and co-workers.
Director: Harry Kooperstein | Stars: Natalie Wood, Lauren Bacall, Jim Backus, Martin Balsam
Votes: 77
45.
Hour Magazine (1980–1989)
Episode:
Episode dated 13 December 1982
(1982)
Family, Talk-Show
Stars: Gary Collins, Bruce Boxleitner, Laurence Olivier
46.
Hour Magazine (1980–1989)
Episode:
Episode dated 14 December 1982
(1982)
Family, Talk-Show
Stars: Gary Collins, Laurence Olivier
47. Clash of the Titans (1981)
PG | 118 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Perseus must battle Medusa and the Kraken to save the Princess Andromeda.
Director: Desmond Davis | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Claire Bloom, Maggie Smith
Votes: 47,785 | Gross: $41.09M
48. Brideshead Revisited (1981)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance
The life, friendships and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder-including his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle.
Stars: Jeremy Irons, Diana Quick, Roger Milner, Phoebe Nicholls
Votes: 8,044
49. Inchon (1981)
PG | 140 min | Drama, History, War
During the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur masterminds the amphibious invasion of Inchon in September 1950.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara, Toshirô Mifune
Votes: 849 | Gross: $5.20M
50.
Brideshead Revisited (1981)
Episode:
Home and Abroad
(1981)
TV-14 | 52 min | Drama, Romance
The aristocratic Sebastian invites his middle-class university friend Charles to spend a glorious summer at the amazing family home, Brideshead.
Director: Charles Sturridge | Stars: Diana Quick, Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, Roger Milner
Votes: 201