Cast: Arthur Lowe
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Arthur Lowe. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 36
Kind Hearts and Coronets
1949 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Hamer
Cast Dennis Price · Alec Guinness · Joan Greenwood · Valerie Hobson
Synopsis Louis Manzzini's mother belongs to the aristocratic family D'Ascoyne, but she ran away with an opera singer. Therefore, she and Louis were rejected by the D'Ascoynes. Once adult, Louis decides to avenges his mother and him, by becoming the next...
7.6
5K votes
7.6
5K votes
If....
1968 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lindsay Anderson
Cast Malcolm McDowell · David Wood · Richard Warwick · Robert Swann
Synopsis In an inditement of the British Boys School, we follow Mick and his mostly younger friends through a series of indignities and occasionally abuse as any fond feelings toward these schools are destroyed. When Mick and his friends rebel, violently,...
7.0
4K votes
7.0
4K votes
This Sporting Life
1963 · Movie · 129 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lindsay Anderson
Cast Richard Harris · Glenda Jackson · Rachel Roberts · Alan Badel
Synopsis Richard Harris is Frank Machin, an aggressive rugby-playing miner in the north of England who destroys the relationship he wants most by the force of his rebellious will. Anderson's incisive comment on class expatiation is as forceful as it is...
7.0
858 votes
7.0
858 votes
O Lucky Man!
1973 · Movie · 183 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lindsay Anderson
Cast Malcolm McDowell · Ralph Richardson · Rachel Roberts · Arthur Lowe
Synopsis This sprawling, surrealist musical serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in Europe. Many actors play multiple roles, giving the film a stagy tone.
7.0
667 votes
7.0
667 votes
The Ruling Class
1972 · Movie · 154 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Medak
Cast Peter O'Toole · Alastair Sim · Arthur Lowe · Harry Andrews
Synopsis A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other somewhat-more respectable members of their family plot to...
6.6
212 votes
6.6
212 votes
Theatre of Blood
1973 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Douglas Hickox
Cast Vincent Price · Diana Rigg · Jack Hawkins · Ian Hendry
6.4
925 votes
6.4
925 votes
The Spider and the Fly
1949 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Hamer
Cast Eric Portman · Guy Rolfe · Nadia Gray · George Cole
Synopsis A clever and dedicated French police official, a cleverer master-thief whom he secretly admires, the woman loved by the official who is in love with the thief, at the outbreak of World War I.
6.2
24 votes
6.2
24 votes
The Lady Vanishes
1979 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Page
Cast Angela Lansbury · Cybill Shepherd · Elliott Gould · Herbert Lom
Synopsis During a travel by train across the pre-Second World War Germany, the American heiress Amanda Kelly met sweet English nanny Miss Froy. She mysteriously disappeared and everyone in the train denies having ever seen her. Amanda and American photographer Robert...
5.8
193 votes
5.8
193 votes
The White Bus
1967 · Movie · 46 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lindsay Anderson
Cast Patricia Healey · Arthur Lowe · John Sharp · Anthony Hopkins
Synopsis An impassive young girl is taken from her suicidal London life, back to her home in North England on a bizarre bus trip. Seen through the poetic eye of the camera, this is a commentary of doomed British morbidity. In...
5.0
38 votes
5.0
38 votes
Coronation Street (TV Series)
1960 · Series · 20 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Tony Warren · John Anderson · Tony Prescott · Ian Bevitt
Cast William Roache · Helen Worth · Simon Gregson · Anne Kirkbride
Synopsis TV Series (1960-Present). The UK's longest-running TV soap, Coronation Street focuses on the everyday lives of working class people in Manchester, England.
4.2
41 votes
4.2
41 votes
A Stranger in Town
1957 · Movie · 74 min. · United Kingdom
Direction George Pollock
Cast Alex Nicol · Anne Paige · Mary Laura Wood · Mona Washbourne
Synopsis In a sleepy village, a young composer is found shot dead and a woman is found gassed.
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Blind Spot
1958 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Maxwell
Cast Robert MacKenzie · Delphi Lawrence · Gordon Jackson · Anne Sharp
Synopsis A blind American Army officer becomes involved in a murder mystery and solves it after regaining his sight.
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No Sex Please - We're British
1973 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Cliff Owen
Cast Ronnie Corbett · Beryl Reid · Arthur Lowe · Ian Ogilvy
Synopsis Porn store owner Pete orders some new stuff from his supplier Niko but Niko mixes up the address with the address of the local Barclays Bank. Here, newly-weds David (the bank's assistant manager) and Penny Hunter is shocked when first...
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Hour of Decision
1957 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction C.M. Pennington-Richards
Cast Jeff Morrow · Hazel Court · Lionel Jeffries · Mary Laura Wood
Synopsis An American journalist solves the mystery of an unpleasant columnist's murder and clears his own wife, one of the many suspects.
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The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
1977 · Movie · 55 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph McGrath
Cast John Cleese · Arthur Lowe · Ron Moody · Holly Palance
Synopsis The grandchild of Professor James Moriarty had promised the world that it has only five days left to live. Moriarty is a master of disguise, a crack shot, and is very patient. Several government figures are shot to death, and...
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Dad's Army (TV Series)
1968 · Series · 30 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Croft · Harold Snoad · Bob Spiers
Cast Arthur Lowe · John Le Mesurier · Clive Dunn · Ian Lavender
Synopsis Dad's Army follows the Walmington-On-Sea Home Guard commanded by Captain Mainwaring and his assistant Sergeant Wilson. The large platoon are totally ill-prepared for an attack from the Nazis and none are fit to fight. Private Frazer is a moaning Scotsman,...
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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1970 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Kevin Billington
Cast Peter Cook · Denholm Elliott · Ronald Fraser · Vanessa Howard
Synopsis Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics, and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise...
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Final Appointment
1954 · Movie · 65 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Terence Fisher
Cast John Bentley · Eleanor Summerfield · Hubert Gregg · Liam Redmond
Synopsis A reporter and his girlfriend--also a reporter--investigate threats against a retired army officer and discover that they're linked to a series of murders and a court-martial that occurred during the war.
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High Terrace
1956 · Movie · 69 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Henry Cass
Cast Dale Robertson · Lois Maxwell · Derek Bond · Eric Pohlmann
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Spring and Port Wine
1970 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Hammond
Cast James Mason · Diana Coupland · Hannah Gordon · Susan George
Synopsis A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton.
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