Cast: Laurence Olivier

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


The Seven-Per-Cent Solution

1976 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Herbert Ross

Cast Nicol Williamson · Alan Arkin · Robert Duvall · Vanessa Redgrave

Plot Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attemts to solve the mysteries of...

6.2

485 votes

6.2

485 votes

The Last Days of Pompeii (TV Miniseries)

1984 · Series · 245 min. · Italy

Direction Peter Hunt

Cast Ned Beatty · Brian Blessed · Ernest Borgnine · Nicholas Clay

Plot This costume series portrays aspects of life in Pompeii, a coastal luxury resort near Naples catering for the very rich of imperial Rome, mainly before but culminating in the eruption...

6.2

154 votes

6.2

154 votes

The Bounty

1984 · Movie · 132 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roger Donaldson

Cast Mel Gibson · Anthony Hopkins · Laurence Olivier · Edward Fox

Plot The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the...

6.2

4K votes

6.2

4K votes

Words for Battle (S)

1941 · Documentary · 8 min. · United Kingdom

6.0

28 votes

6.0

28 votes

Fire Over England

1937 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction William K. Howard

Cast Flora Robson · Laurence Olivier · Vivien Leigh · Leslie Banks

Plot In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. British sea raiders regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World with the support of Queen...

5.9

62 votes

5.9

62 votes

5.9

38 votes

Oh! What a Lovely War

1969 · Movie · 144 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Attenborough

Cast Joe Melia · Colin Farrell · Paul Shelley · Angela Thorne

Plot A movie about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the "Game of War" and focusing mainly on the members of one family...

5.9

99 votes

5.9

99 votes

21 Days

1940 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom

5.9

151 votes

5.9

151 votes

The Jazz Singer

1980 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Neil Diamond · Laurence Olivier · Lucie Arnaz · Catlin Adams

Plot Neil Diamond stars in this remake of "The Jazz Singer"; this time this is the tale of Yussel, a young Jewish cantor who strives to make a career in music....

5.5

128 votes

5.5

128 votes

The Betsy

1978 · Movie · 120 min. · United States

Direction Daniel Petrie

Cast Laurence Olivier · Robert Duvall · Katharine Ross · Tommy Lee Jones

Plot The patriarch of a family-owned corporation hires a young race car driver to help him design a fuel efficient car in secrecy. They face resistance from the president of the...

5.3

58 votes

5.3

58 votes

Lady Caroline Lamb

1972 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Bolt

Cast Sarah Miles · Jon Finch · Richard Chamberlain · John Mills

Plot A noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron.

5.2

25 votes

5.2

25 votes

Friends and Lovers

1931 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

5.1

26 votes

5.1

26 votes

The Jigsaw Man

1984 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Michael Caine · Laurence Olivier · Susan George · Robert Powell

Plot Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital...

4.8

189 votes

4.8

189 votes

Wild Geese II

1985 · Movie · 125 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Hunt

Cast Scott Glenn · Barbara Carrera · Edward Fox · Laurence Olivier

Plot A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.

4.3

55 votes

4.3

55 votes

As You Like It

1936 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Czinner

Cast Elisabeth Bergner · Henry Ainley · Felix Aylmer · Laurence Olivier

Plot A duke usurps his brother's land and power, banishing him and his retinue into the forest of Arden. The banished duke's daughter, Rosalind, remains with her cousin Celia. She has...

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The Dance of Death

1969 · Movie · 149 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Giles

Cast Laurence Olivier · Geraldine McEwan · Robert Lang · Janina Faye

Plot An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice,...

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Westward Passage

1932 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

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Inchon

1981 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

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The Magic of Hollywood... Is the Magic of People (S)

1976 · Documentary · 21 min. · United States

Direction Allan Garden

Cast Everett Creach · William Devane · Robert Evans · Dustin Hoffman

Plot This making of the classic Marathon Man (1976) has legendary producer Robert Evans as host. He presents to us all of the film's qualities and most important, the magnificent collaboration...

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Moscow Nights

1935 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Asquith

Cast Harry Baur · Penelope Dudley-Ward · Laurence Olivier · Athene Seyler

Plot During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a...

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Not rated