David Lean films, ranked by your taste

Director and actor · 6 films on Boxlist

Known for Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai and Brief Encounter.

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Lawrence of Arabia
1962 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDB
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson , the commander who...
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Brief Encounter
1945 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits...
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Great Expectations
1946 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but...
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Oliver Twist
1948 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful...
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Doctor Zhivago
1965 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
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.
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