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...

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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

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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

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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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Not rated