
Richard Attenborough films, ranked by your taste
Actor and director · 12 films on Boxlist
Known for Jurassic Park, The Great Escape and A Matter of Life and Death.
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Jurassic Park
1993 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDBA wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious...

The Great Escape
1963 · Film
8.0/10 · TMDBThe Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners...

A Matter of Life and Death
1946 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDBWhen a young airman miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake, and dispatch an angel to collect him.

Elizabeth
1998 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDBThe story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.

A Bridge Too Far
1977 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDBOperation Market Garden, September 1944. The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.

10 Rillington Place
1971 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDBThe story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.

The Railway Children
2000 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDBSet at the turn of the 20th century, The Railway Children tells the story of three Edwardian children and their mother who move to a country house in Yorkshire after their father is mysteriously taken away by the police.

Miracle on 34th Street
1994 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDBSix-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago, but, after meeting a special department store Santa who's convinced he's the real thing...

Doctor Dolittle
1967 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDBA veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
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Directed by Richard Attenborough

Gandhi
1982 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDBIn the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a...
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Shadowlands
1993 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDBC.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham
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A Bridge Too Far
1977 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDBOperation Market Garden, September 1944. The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.

Chaplin
1992 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDBAn elderly Charlie Chaplin discusses his autobiography with his editor, recounting his amazing journey from his poverty-stricken childhood to world-wide success after the ingenious invention of the Little Tramp.
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