The Ladykillers (1955)
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.
Starring: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, Danny Green, Jack Warner
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
A Handful of Dust (1988)
Drama | Romance
The wife's affair and a death in the family hasten the demise of an upper-class English marriage.
Starring: James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rupert Graves, Anjelica Huston, Judi Dench, Alec Guinness
Director: Charles Sturridge
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Comedy | Crime
A distant poor relative of the Duke of D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
Starring: Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness, John Penrose, Hugh Griffith
Director: Robert Hamer
Murder by Death (1976)
Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve an even stranger mystery.
Starring: Eileen Brennan, Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, James Coco, Elsa Lanchester, David Niven
Director: Robert Moore
A Passage to India (1984)
Adventure | Drama | History
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Starring: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers
Director: David Lean
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
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 the First World War and then the October Revolution.
Starring: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Tom Courtenay
Director: David Lean
Oliver Twist (1948)
Adventure | Crime | Drama
Based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. Oliver is taken in by the pickpocket and he joins a household of young boys who are trained to steal for their master. This version of Oliver Twist is topped by Alec Guinness's masterly performance of arch-thug Fagin.
Starring: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Kay Walsh, John Howard Davies, Henry Stephenson, Francis L. Sullivan
Director: David Lean
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi
An altruistic chemist invents a fabric that resists wear and stain as boon to humanity but both capital and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.
Starring: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker, Michael Gough, Ernest Thesiger, Howard Marion-Crawford
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | War
The dramatic portrait of the famed British officer's journey to the Middle East, Lawrence of Arabia is one of the most critically acclaimed and beloved films of all time. Assigned to Arabia during World War I, Lawrence courageously unites the warring Arab factions into a strong guerrilla front and leads them to brilliant victories in treacherous desert battlefields, where they eventually defeat the ruling Turkish Empire.
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, José Ferrer
Director: David Lean
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Comedy | Crime
Holland, a shy retiring man, dreams of being rich and living the good life. Faithfully, for 20 years, he has worked as a bank transfer agent for the delivery of gold bullion. One day he befriends Pendlebury, a maker of souvenirs. Holland remarks that, with Pendlebury's smelting equipment, one could forge the gold into harmless-looking toy Eiffel Towers and smuggle the gold from England into France. Soon after, the two plant a story to gain the services of professional criminals Lackery and Shorty. Together, the four plot their crime, leading to unexpected twists and turns.
Starring: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass
Director: Charles Crichton
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Adventure | Drama | War
A group of British POWs is forced to build a bridge in Burma for the Japanese. Led by Colonel Nicholson, they not only build the bridge but organise the whole building program and are proud of the final result. However, unbeknownst to the POWs, a British commando team has been given a mission to destroy it.
Starring: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne
Director: David Lean
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Drama | History | War
After poisoning the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his mad son Commodus succumbs to dissipation and allows Rome to be ravaged by pestilence and the Barbarians.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer
Director: Anthony Mann
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
In a distant galaxy, a long time ago, young Luke Skywalker assembles his motley crew of allies including space rogue Han Solo and two "droids" — C3PO and R2D2 — to rescue Princess Leia, the rebel leader of her planet from the clutches of the evil Empire as embodied by its enforcer Darth Vader.
Starring: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker
Director: George Lucas
