Cinematography: Ernest Steward
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Ernest Steward. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
The Professionals (TV Series)
1977 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Brian Clemens · William Brayne · Martin Campbell · Dennis C. Lewiston
Cast Gordon Jackson · Martin Shaw · Lewis Collins · Bridget Brice
Plot This TV Series (1977-1983) chronicled the lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to...
6.9
79 votes
6.9
79 votes
Payroll
1961 · Movie · 117 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sidney Hayers
Cast Michael Craig · Françoise Prévost · Billie Whitelaw · William Lucas
Plot A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry...
6.8
37 votes
6.8
37 votes
The Avengers (TV Series)
1961 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sydney Newman · Don Leaver · Peter Hammond · Kim Mills
Cast Patrick MacNee · Diana Rigg · Honor Blackman · Linda Thorson
Plot TV Series (1961-1969). 7 Seasons. 161 Episodes. The Avengers was an British television series featuring secret agents in 1960s Britain. The programmes were made by TV company Associated British Corporation,...
6.6
1K votes
6.6
1K votes
Simon and Laura
1955 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Muriel Box
Cast Peter Finch · Kay Kendall · Muriel Pavlow · Hubert Gregg
Plot In the 1950's days of only BBC television, a wet-behind-the-ears producer has the idea of basing a family drama series on a real-life happily married actor couple. Unfortunately he chooses...
6.4
27 votes
6.4
27 votes
A Tale of Two Cities
1958 · Movie · 117 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Dorothy Tutin · Paul Guers · Marie Versini
Plot British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue...
6.3
116 votes
6.3
116 votes
The Wrong Arm of the Law
1963 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Cliff Owen
Cast Peter Sellers · Lionel Jeffries · Bernard Cribbins · Davy Kaye
Plot The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as...
6.3
383 votes
6.3
383 votes
Ten Little Indians
1965 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction George Pollock
Cast Hugh O´Brian · Shirley Eaton · Fabian · Leo Genn
Plot Ten people are invited to a luxury mountaintop mansion, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
6.3
326 votes
6.3
326 votes
Very Important Person
1961 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Annakin
Cast James Robertson Justice · Leslie Phillips · Stanley Baxter · Eric Sykes
Plot A somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits in a German POW camp find their new acerbic fellow prisoner is a key officer who must be got out at all cost.
6.1
24 votes
6.1
24 votes
Conspiracy of Hearts
1960 · Movie · 113 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast Lilli Palmer · Sylvia Syms · Yvonne Mitchell · Ronald Lewis
Plot In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what may be going on but...
6.0
42 votes
6.0
42 votes
The 39 Steps
1959 · Movie · 93 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast Kenneth More · Taina Elg · Brenda De Banzie · Barry Jones
Plot Second adaptation of the novel by John Buchan, with a more comedy than its predecessor.
6.0
34 votes
6.0
34 votes
The Wind Cannot Read
1958 · Movie · 115 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Yoko Tani · Ronald Lewis · John Fraser
Plot Dirk Bogarde is an officer during World War II learning Japanese in India in order to do intelligence work on the Indian front. While there he gets a Japanese teacher,...
5.9
30 votes
5.9
30 votes
Campbell's Kingdom
1957 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Stanley Baker · Michael Craig · Barbara Murray
Plot Adapted from the novel of the same name by Hammond Innes. Bruce Campbell (Dirk Bogarde) inherits "Campbell's Kingdom" in the Canadian Rockies on the death of his grandfather. He has...
5.9
96 votes
5.9
96 votes
Hennessy
1975 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Don Sharp
Cast Rod Steiger · Lee Remick · Richard Johnson · Trevor Howard
Plot Set in the Seventies, Niall Hennessy is a Irishman who believes in peace, but who has had connections to the IRA. Hennessy's family is killed, and he plots revenge, setting...
5.8
80 votes
5.8
80 votes
Above Us the Waves
1955 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast John Mills · John Gregson · Donald Sinden · James Robertson Justice
Plot The greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. Being anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack it with any chance of success. But...
5.7
116 votes
5.7
116 votes
Nobody Runs Forever
1968 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast Rod Taylor · Christopher Plummer · Lilli Palmer · Camilla Sparv
Plot Rod Taylor plays a policeman sent to return a sensitive case; An Australian citizen, currently acting as high commissioner for peace talks who is wanted for an old charge --...
5.7
99 votes
5.7
99 votes
Appointment with Venus
1951 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast David Niven · Glynis Johns · George Coulouris · Barry Jones
Plot At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the...
5.6
175 votes
5.6
175 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
The New Avengers (TV Series)
1976 · Series · 60 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ray Austin · Sidney Hayers · Robert Fuest · James Hill
Cast Patrick MacNee · Gareth Hunt · Joanna Lumley · Maurice Marsac
Plot John Steed and his new accomplices Purdey and Gambit find themselves facing new and deadly dangers in the bizarre world of espionage.
5.5
144 votes
5.5
144 votes
Agent 008 3/4
1964 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Sylva Koscina · Robert Morley · Leo McKern
Plot Unemployed Czech-speaking writer Nicholas Whistler thinks he's got a job visiting Prague for a bit of industrial espionage. In fact he is now in the employ of British Intelligence. His...
5.3
64 votes
5.3
64 votes
The High Bright Sun
1964 · Movie · 114 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast Dirk Bogarde · George Chakiris · Susan Strasberg · Denholm Elliott
Plot In 1957, Juno (Susan Strasberg), an American archaeology student, is visiting Cyprus and staying with the family of her father's best friend, Dr Andros (Joseph Furst). She witnesses an attack...
5.2
65 votes
5.2
65 votes