Cast: Joan Sims
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Joan Sims. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Love Among the Ruins (TV)
1975 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom
Direction George Cukor
Cast Katharine Hepburn · Laurence Olivier · Colin Blakely · Richard Pearson
Plot An unorthodox love story set in Edwardian England, "Love Among The Ruins" features Katharine Hepburn and Sir Laurence Olivier in their only film collaboration. A wealthy, headstrong widow and aging...
6.6
203 votes
6.6
203 votes
The Big Job
1965 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gerald Thomas
Cast Sid James · Sylvia Syms · Dick Emery · Joan Sims
Plot An inept gang of bank robbers, led by George The Brain, are caught and sentenced to 15 years hard labour each. When they are released from prison they start out...
6.1
88 votes
6.1
88 votes
The Belles of St. Trinian's
1954 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Frank Launder
Cast Alastair Sim · Joyce Grenfell · Hermione Baddeley · George Cole
Plot The arrival of Sultan's daughter Princess Fatima at England's famous and prestigious 'School for Young Ladies' precipitates even more chaos than usual. Her father's horse Arab Boy is due to...
5.8
34 votes
5.8
34 votes
The Naked Truth
1957 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Mario Zampi
Cast Terry-Thomas · Peter Sellers · Peggy Mount · Shirley Eaton
Plot Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit)...
5.7
27 votes
5.7
27 votes
Doctor in the House
1954 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Muriel Pavlow · Kenneth More · Donald Sinden
Plot Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast...
5.5
43 votes
5.5
43 votes
One of Our Dinosaurs is Missing
1975 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Peter Ustinov · Helen Hayes · Clive Revill · Derek Nimmo
Plot This is a light, frothy family comedy that revolves around British Lord Southmere (Derek Nimmo), who has smuggled a piece of microfilm containing "Lotus X" out of China. Once back...
5.2
357 votes
5.2
357 votes
The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (TV)
2000 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Gillies MacKinnon
Cast Judi Dench · Ian Holm · Olympia Dukakis · Leslie Caron
Plot Judi Dench stars as a sassy widow looking to recapture a little of the excitement of her youth: she was the star saxophone player of a World War II-era all-girl...
5.1
38 votes
5.1
38 votes
Carry On Cleo
1964 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gerald Thomas
Cast Sid James · Kenneth Williams · Kenneth Connor · Charles Hawtrey
Plot Two Britons are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. Hengist Pod creates useless inventions, while Horsa is a brave and cunning fighter. One of their first...
4.9
42 votes
4.9
42 votes
Doctor at Sea
1955 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Brenda De Banzie · Brigitte Bardot · James Robertson Justice
Plot With a view to escaping both boredom as a junior G.P. and unwanted womanly advances, young doctor Simon Sparrow becomes a medical officer on "the Lotus", an all-male cargo ship....
4.7
40 votes
4.7
40 votes
The Canterville Ghost (TV)
1996 · Movie · 92 min. · United States
Direction Sydney Macartney
Cast Patrick Stewart · Neve Campbell · Joan Sims · Donald Sinden
Plot When a teenaged girl moves to England, with her brothers and parents into the ancient Canterville Hall, she's not at all happy. Especially as there's a ghost and a mysterious...
4.6
714 votes
4.6
714 votes
Carry on Admiral
1957 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Val Guest
Cast David Tomlinson · Peggy Cummins · Brian Reece · Eunice Gayson
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Carry On Regardless
1961 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gerald Thomas
Cast Sid James · Kenneth Connor · Charles Hawtrey · Joan Sims
Plot The Helping Hands agency employs some very strange people to perform some very strange jobs! Even the simplest of tasks get bungled by the incompetent but lovable staff, as they...
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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."
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Carry On Nurse
1959 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gerald Thomas
Cast Shirley Eaton · Kenneth Connor · Charles Hawtrey · Hattie Jacques
Plot Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron's debut gives the patients a chill every time...
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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.
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Please Turn Over
1959 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gerald Thomas
Cast Ted Ray · Jean Kent · Leslie Phillips · Joan Sims
Plot The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller featuring characters obviously...
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Don't Lose Your Head
1967 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gerald Thomas
Cast Sid James · Kenneth Williams · Jim Dale · Charles Hawtrey
Plot The time of the French revolution, and Citizen Robespierre is beheading the French aristocracy. When word gets to England, two noblemen, Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy take it upon...
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As Long as They're Happy
1955 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction J. Lee Thompson
Cast Jack Buchanan · Brenda De Banzie · Janette Scott · Jeannie Carson
Plot A stockbroker's youngest daughter tricks an American singer into visiting her family at their suburban Wimbledon home. Her two sisters and their oddball husbands also visit and the stockbroker notes...
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Waters of the Moon (TV)
1983 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Piers Haggard
Cast Penelope Keith · Virginia McKenna · Ronald Pickup · Joan Sims
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The Captain's Table
1959 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Jack Lee
Cast John Gregson · Peggy Cummins · Donald Sinden · Nadia Gray
Plot A ship's captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a...
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