Ryan's Daughter (1970)
Drama | Romance
Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer.
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Christopher Jones, John Mills, Leo McKern, Sarah Miles
Director: David Lean
Dulcima (1971)
Drama
Dulcima, the family drudge, lifts herself from her environment by becoming housekeeper to Parker, a drunk with a pigsty of a farm. She uses her cunning when she sees the amount of money kept around the place.
Starring: Carol White, John Mills, Stuart Wilson, Bernard Lee, Sheila Raynor
Director: Frank Nesbitt
When the Wind Blows (1986)
Animation | Comedy | Drama | War
A naive elderly British rural couple survive the initial onslaught of a nuclear war.
Starring: Peggy Ashcroft, John Mills
Director: Jimmy T. Murakami
Gandhi (1982)
Biography | Drama | History
Ben Kingsley stars as Mahatma Gandhi, who rose from small-time lawyer to India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule in India.
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills
Director: Richard Attenborough
Hobson's Choice (1954)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Lancashire bootmaker Henry Horatio Hobson (Charles Laughton) keeps a tight rein on his three daughters, until his eldest, Maggie (Brenda De Banzie), marries his assistant Willie Mossop (John Mills) and sets him up in his own bootmaking firm. To Hobson's consternation, Willie has soon become his father-in-law's main business rival.
Starring: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Daphne Anderson, Prunella Scales, Richard Wattis
Director: David Lean
King Rat (1965)
Drama | War
Set in a WWII Japanese POW camp, this adaptation of the James Clavell novel is about an American corporal who operates a number of lucrative rackets within the camp's confines. Chief among these is the sale of rats to his fellow prisoners to supplement their meager food rations.
Starring: George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Patrick O'Neal, Denholm Elliott, James Donald, Todd Armstrong, John Mills
Director: Bryan Forbes
Tiger Bay (1959)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
A 12 year old tomboy witnesses the murder of a woman by her Polish merchant marine boyfriend but bonds with him and thwarts the police in their investigation.
Starring: John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills, Yvonne Mitchell, Megs Jenkins, Anthony Dawson
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Ice Cold in Alex (1958)
Drama | War
1942: The Libyan war zone, North Africa. After a German invasion a British ambulance crew are forced to evacuate their base but become separated from the rest of their unit. Somehow they must make it to Alexandria, but how? Their only hope is a dilapidated ambulance named "Katy" and an irrational, alchoholic soldier known as Captain Anson. Facing landmines, Nazi troops, spies and the merciless, scorching, brutal environment of the desert, can Captain Anson face his demons and make the road to hell a journey to freedom? Starring some of British cinemas most celebrated actors, John Mills (Great Expectations, Gandhi), Sylvia Syms (Ferry To Hong Kong, Shirley Valentine) and Harry Andrews (The Hill, Battle Of Britain), Ice Cold In Alex is an action packed and suspenseful wartime classic. Directed by John Lee Thompson, creator of Guns Of Navarone and Cape Fear, it's one of the most intensely gripping films ever made.
Starring: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle, Harry Andrews, Diane Clare, Richard Leech
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Bean / Bean: The Movie (1997)
Comedy | Family
An average man who lives alone, dresses in a jacket and tie, and relates to children better than adults, Mr Bean finds himself in a series of catastrophes of his own creation. As the caretaker of Britain's Royal National Gallery, he is sent to the Grierson Gallery in Los Angeles to accompany "Whistler's Mother." His misadventures begin on the trans-Atlantic flight and go on from there to their ultimate conclusion.
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNicol, Burt Reynolds, John Mills, Andrew Lawrence
Director: Mel Smith
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This Happy Breed (1944)
Comedy | Drama
Robert Newton and Celia Johnson are surpassingly affecting as Frank and Ethel Gibbons, a couple with three children whose modest household is touched by joy and tragedy from the tail end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.
Starring: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, Amy Veness, Stanley Holloway, John Mills
Director: David Lean
In Which We Serve (1942)
Drama | War
An action drama about a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting the Germans in the Mediterranean.
Starring: Noel Coward, John Mills, Derek Elphinstone
Director: Noel Coward, David Lean
