Charles Laughton films, ranked by your taste

Actor and director · 9 films on Boxlist

Known for Spartacus, Witness for the Prosecution and Mutiny on the Bounty.

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Spartacus
1960 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels...
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Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · Film
8.3/10 · TMDB
When Leonard Vole is arrested for the sensational murder of a rich, middle-aged widow, the famous Sir Wilfrid Robarts agrees to appear on his behalf. Sir Wilfrid, recovering from a near-fatal heart attack, is supposed to be on a diet of...
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Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on avenging his captors.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1939 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a gypsy young girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in peace among the bells...
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Island of Lost Souls
1932 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
The Old Dark House
1932 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Seeking shelter from a relentless rainstorm and landslides in a remote region of Wales, five travelers are admitted to a large foreboding old house that belongs to the extremely strange Femm family. Sepulchral Horace Femm and his...
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
1982 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private...
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Jamaica Inn
1939 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an inkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
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