Cast: Alfie Bass

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Alfie Bass. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Lavender Hill Mob

1951 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Charles Crichton

Cast Alec Guinness · Stanley Holloway · Sid James · Alfie Bass

Plot Henry Holland (Alec Guinness) is a shy retiring man who dreams of being rich and living the good life. Faithfully, for 20 years, he has worked as a bank transfer...

7.3

2K votes

7.3

2K votes

Pool of London

1951 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Bonar Colleano · Earl Cameron · Susan Shaw · Renée Asherson

Plot Two sailors, on shore leave, are caught up in a diamond smuggling racket. More complications ensue for black sailor Johnny who finds love and heartache in London docklands.

7.1

31 votes

7.1

31 votes

The Fearless Vampire Killers

1967 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Jack MacGowran · Roman Polanski · Sharon Tate · Alfie Bass

Plot The elderly bat researcher, professor Abronsius and his assistant, Alfred, go to a remote Transylvanian village looking for vampires. Alfred falls in love with the inn-keeper's young daughter Sarah. However,...

7.0

12K votes

7.0

12K votes

Hell Drivers

1957 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cy Endfield

Cast Stanley Baker · Herbert Lom · Peggy Cummins · Patrick McGoohan

Plot Joe 'Tom' Yateley is an ex-convict. Trying to leave his past behind, he decides to starts working for the Hawlett Trucking company, which transports gravel. It's an aggressive company, where...

6.9

339 votes

6.9

339 votes

The Bespoke Overcoat

1955 · Movie · 35 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jack Clayton

Cast Alfie Bass · David Kossoff · Alan Tilvern · Alf Dean

Plot Fender is a lowly clerk in the warehouse of clothing manufacturers Ranting and Co. His one ambition is to have an overcoat of his own. Refused one by the cold...

6.7

98 votes

6.7

98 votes

It Always Rains on Sunday

1947 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Hamer

Cast Googie Withers · Edward Chapman · Jack Warner · Susan Shaw

Plot The events of a wet Sabbath unfold in the pubs, homes, and markets of the East End. While petty criminals and the police play cat-and-mouse, and various love affairs start...

6.6

123 votes

6.6

123 votes

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

1966 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Zero Mostel · Phil Silvers · Buster Keaton · Michael Crawford

Plot Pseudolus is the laziest slave in Rome and has but one wish, purchase his freedom. When his master and mistress leave for the day he finds out that the young...

6.6

3K votes

6.6

3K votes

The Hasty Heart

1949 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Vincent Sherman

Cast Richard Todd · Patricia Neal · Ronald Reagan · Anthony Nicholls

Plot It's 1945, Burma, the day the war is over! For many this means they've survived and will be going home. But not for everyone. A Scottish soldier, Corporal Lachlan "Lachie"...

6.4

44 votes

6.4

44 votes

Alfie

1966 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Michael Caine · Shelley Winters · Millicent Martin · Julia Foster

Plot For Alfie, the only real life is sex life; only then can he kid himself he is living. Sex is not used as the working-class boy's way to 'the top'....

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

A Tale of Two Cities

1958 · Movie · 117 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ralph Thomas

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Dorothy Tutin · Paul Guers · Marie Versini

Plot British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue...

6.3

116 votes

6.3

116 votes

Help!

1965 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Lester

Cast The Beatles · John Lennon · Paul McCartney · George Harrison

Plot After the worldwide success of A Hard Day's Night, the Beatles and director Richard Lester reunited for a follow-up film, Eight Arms to Hold You. Well, that wasn't the final...

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

Revenge of the Pink Panther

1978 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

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6.2

3K votes

6.2

3K votes

The Night My Number Came Up

1955 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Norman

Cast Michael Redgrave · Sheila Sim · Alexander Knox · Denholm Elliott

Plot A group of people indulge in an after-dinner conversation in which the question of fate and preordained life arises. One of the party, played by Michael Hordern, relates a dream...

6.1

31 votes

6.1

31 votes

Dick Turpin (TV Series)

1979 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Carpenter · Sidney Cole · Paul Knight · Charles Crichton

Cast Richard O'Sullivan · Michael Deeks · Christopher Benjamin · David Daker

Plot TV Series (1979-1982). 4 Seasons. The eighteenth century, swashbuckling adventures of Britain's legendary highwayman. When he returned from military service in Flanders, Dick Turpin discovered he had been cheated out...

6.0

49 votes

6.0

49 votes

Jassy

1947 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

5.9

25 votes

5.9

25 votes

Famous Five (TV Series)

1978 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Duffell · Sidney Hayers · Don Leaver · James Gatward

Cast Marcus Harris · Gary Russell · Jennifer Thanisch · Michelle Gallagher

Plot The Famous Five is a British television series based on the children's books of the same name by Enid Blyton.

5.9

45 votes

5.9

45 votes

The Millionairess

1960 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

4.6

115 votes

4.6

115 votes

Brandy for the Parson

1952 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Eldridge

Cast James Donald · Kenneth More · Jean Lodge · Frederick Piper

Plot Bill Harper and Petronilla Brand are a young couple that, through a series of mishaps and accidents, get unintentionally involved in a brandy-smuggling (from France) racket. Because of an accidental...

Not rated

Not rated

The Goodies (TV Series)

1970 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jim Franklin · John Howard Davies · Bob Spiers

Cast Tim Brooke-Taylor · Graeme Garden · Bill Oddie · Roland MacLeod

Plot The adventures of a crazy trio whose motto is "we do anything, anytime, anywhere."

Not rated

Not rated

Till Death Us Do Part (TV Series)

1965 · Series · 40 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Johnny Speight · Dennis Main-Wilson · Douglas Argent · Colin Strong

Cast Warren Mitchell · Anthony Booth · Una Stubbs · Dandy Nichols

Plot A working-class Cockney bigot with a biased and expirienced opinion of everything shares them bluntly and almost carelessly.

Not rated

Not rated