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

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

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