Movie | Adventure, Biography | UK, USA | English, Arabic
Director
David Lean
Writer
Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson
Cast
Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Plot
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.
Movie | Adventure, Drama | UK, USA | English, Japanese
Director
David Lean
Writer
Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson
Cast
William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
Plot
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.
Movie | Drama, Romance | Italy, UK | English, Russian
Director
David Lean
Writer
Boris Pasternak, Robert Bolt
Cast
Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin
Plot
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.
Movie | Comedy, Drama | UK, USA | English, Italian
Director
David Lean
Writer
Arthur Laurents, H.E. Bates, David Lean
Cast
Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda
Plot
An American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome--but married--Italian man while vacationing in Venice.
Movie | Adventure, Drama | UK, USA | English, Hindi
Director
David Lean
Writer
E.M. Forster, Santha Rama Rau, David Lean
Cast
Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft
Plot
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.
Just after World War I, the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. They live an ordinary life throughout the years, but everything changes when World War II breaks out.
Madeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man; they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.
