Cast: Christopher Lee
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Christopher Lee. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
The Odyssey (TV Miniseries)
1997 · Series · 173 min. · United States
Direction Andrei Konchalovsky
Cast Armand Assante · Greta Scacchi · Isabella Rossellini · Bernadette Peters
Plot The movie follows the ancient Greek names, thus it is irrelevant to use the Roman name Ulysses. Generally, it was poorly written. Homer's classic epic poem about the hero, Odysseus,...
6.1
3K votes
6.1
3K votes
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers (Faerie Tale Theatre Series) (TV)
1984 · Movie · 50 min. · United States
Direction Graeme Clifford
Cast Vincent Price · John Achorn · Jeff Corey · Patrick DeSantis
Plot An intelligent, fearless boy living in a superstitious Transylvanian village goes out into the world to figure out what everyone else is afraid of, "the shivers". The king hires him...
6.1
230 votes
6.1
230 votes
Treasure Island (TV)
1990 · Movie · 132 min. · United States
Direction Fraser Clarke Heston
Cast Charlton Heston · Christian Bale · Oliver Reed · Christopher Lee
Plot Young Jim Hawkins, while running the Benbow Inn with his mother, meets Captain Billy Bones, who dies at the inn while it is beseiged by buccaneers led by Blind Pew....
6.1
1K votes
6.1
1K votes
The City of the Dead
1960 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Llewellyn Moxey
Cast Dennis Lotis · Christopher Lee · Patricia Jessel · Tom Naylor
Plot On 03 March 1692, in Whitewood, Massachusetts, the witch Elizabeth Selwyn (Patricia Jessel) is sentenced to be burned at the stake, and her partner Jethrow Keane (Valentibe Dyall) asks Lúcifer...
6.0
540 votes
6.0
540 votes
The Three Musketeers
1973 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Lester
Cast Richard Chamberlain · Michael York · Raquel Welch · Oliver Reed
Plot Richard Lester's adaptation of The Three Musketeers was only the latest of many when released in 1974, but it arrived with a spirit all its own, one influenced as much...
6.0
2K votes
6.0
2K votes
The House That Dripped Blood
1971 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Duffell
Cast Peter Cushing · Denholm Elliott · Jon Pertwee · Christopher Lee
Plot A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house: 1) A writer encounters a strangler of his own creation, 2) Two men are obsessed with a...
6.0
408 votes
6.0
408 votes
The Wicker Man Enigma
2001 · Documentary · 35 min. · United States
Direction David Gregory
Cast Anthony Shaffer · Peter Snell · Robin Hardy · Christopher Lee
Plot A documentary detailing the process of the creation of the film "The Wicker Man" and the subsequent problems distributing it.
6.0
35 votes
6.0
35 votes
The Battle of the River Plate
1956 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger
Cast Peter Finch · John Gregson · Anthony Quayle · Ian Hunter
Plot Set during the early years of World War II, the War in the Atlantic. The Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to keep the convoy routes open to keep...
6.0
659 votes
6.0
659 votes
Corridors of Blood
1958 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Day
Cast Boris Karloff · Betta St. John · Christopher Lee · Finlay Currie
Plot Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig but soon finds himself addicted.
6.0
101 votes
6.0
101 votes
Storm Over the Nile
1955 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Zoltan Korda · Terence Young
Cast Laurence Harvey · Anthony Steel · James Robertson Justice · Mary Ure
Plot Korda directs The Four Feathers again, not so much a remake as a re-mount: with the same director, same script and much of the same footage. Charisma-free Anthony Steel is...
6.0
245 votes
6.0
245 votes
Princess Alisea (TV)
1996 · Movie · 180 min. · Italy
Direction Lamberto Bava
Cast Veronika Logan · Nicole Grimaudo · Raz Degan · Oliver Christian Rudolf
5.9
266 votes
5.9
266 votes
Goliath Awaits (TV Miniseries)
1981 · Series · 200 min. · United States
Direction Kevin Connor
Cast Eddie Albert · John Carradine · Alex Cord · Christopher Lee
Plot During World War II, the passenger liner "Goliath" is sunk by a German attack (This should say "attack submarine"). Portions of the ship's hull remain airtight, and some of the...
5.9
51 votes
5.9
51 votes
Glorious 39
2009 · Movie · 129 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stephen Poliakoff
Cast Romola Garai · Bill Nighy · Julie Christie · David Tennant
Plot Set between present-day London and the idyllic British countryside in the time before the beginning of the Second World War. At a time of uncertainty and high tension, the story...
5.9
245 votes
5.9
245 votes
Julius Caesar
1970 · Movie · 119 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stuart Burge
Cast Charlton Heston · Jason Robards · John Gielgud · Richard Chamberlain
Plot A remake of the William Shakespeare classic play. Appalled by the murder of his mentor, Julius Caesar, Mark Antony declares war on his assassins - especially Cassius and "the honorable"...
5.9
282 votes
5.9
282 votes
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
1968 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Freddie Francis
Cast Christopher Lee · Rupert Davies · Veronica Carlson · Barbara Ewing
Plot When his castle is exorcised, Dracula plots his revenge against the Monsignor who performed the rites by attempting to make the holy man's young neice his bride.
5.8
965 votes
5.8
965 votes
Horror Express
1972 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Eugenio Martín
Cast Christopher Lee · Peter Cushing · Alberto de Mendoza · Silvia Tortosa
Plot An English anthropologist has discovered a frozen monster in the frozen wastes of Manchuria which he believes may be the Missing Link. He brings the creature back to Europe aboard...
5.8
2K votes
5.8
2K votes
Night Train to Lisbon
2013 · Movie · 110 min. · Switzerland
Direction Bille August
Cast Jeremy Irons · Jack Huston · Christopher Lee · Mélanie Laurent
Plot About an aging Swiss professor of classical languages who, after a chance encounter with a Portuguese woman, quits his job and travels to Lisbon in the hope of discovering the...
5.8
2K votes
5.8
2K votes
The Four Musketeers
1974 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Richard Lester
Cast Oliver Reed · Raquel Welch · Michael York · Richard Chamberlain
Plot D'Artagnan has become a Musketeer. Protestants hold La Rochelle, and the Queen loves Buckingham, who'll soon send ships to support the rebels. Richelieu enlists Rochefort to kidnap Constance, the Queen's...
5.8
2K votes
5.8
2K votes
The Skull
1965 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Freddie Francis
Cast Peter Cushing · Christopher Lee · Patrick Wymark · Jill Bennett
Plot A collector of esoterica, Dr. Maitland, buys an unusual skull from his ordinary source of artifacts. The skull is what remains of marquis De Sade. Much too soon he discovers...
5.7
326 votes
5.7
326 votes
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (TV)
1992 · Movie · 180 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Sasdy
Cast Christopher Lee · Patrick MacNee · Morgan Fairchild · John Bennett
Plot 1910. Mycroft Holmes asks his brother Sherlock & Dr. Watson to travel to Viena and find the stolen plans & prototype for an electro-magnetic bomb detonator. Once there, they are...
5.7
49 votes
5.7
49 votes