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