Cinematography: Ronald Neame

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Ronald Neame. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


This Happy Breed

1944 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Robert Newton · Celia Johnson · Stanley Holloway · John Mills

Plot Noel Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort...

6.9

639 votes

6.9

639 votes

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

1942 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Godfrey Tearle · Eric Portman · Hugh Williams · Bernard Miles

Plot During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of Our Aircraft...

6.6

92 votes

6.6

92 votes

Blithe Spirit

1945 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Rex Harrison · Constance Cummings · Kay Hammond · Margaret Rutherford

Plot To get background for a new book, author Charles and his second wife Ruth light-heartedly arrange for local mystic Madame Arcati to give a séance. The unfortunate result is that...

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6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

In Which We Serve

1942 · Movie · 115 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean · Noël Coward

Cast Noël Coward · John Mills · Bernard Miles · Celia Johnson

Plot Based on the true story of Lord Mountbatten's destroyer, In Which We Serve is one of the most memorable British films made during World War II. Unfolding in flashback as...

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6.2

536 votes

6.2

536 votes

Major Barbara

1941 · Movie · 131 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gabriel Pascal · David Lean · Harold French

Cast Wendy Hiller · Rex Harrison · Robert Morley · Robert Newton

Plot Filmed in London in 1941, during the Blitz, Major Barbara emerged from a troubled production to become a major success for George Bernard Shaw and producer-director Gabriel Pascal. Pygmalion’s Wendy...

6.0

85 votes

6.0

85 votes

To Hell with Hitler

1940 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Marcel Varnel

Cast George Formby · Phyllis Calvert · Garry Marsh · Romney Brent

Plot Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukulele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British...

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Trouble Brewing

1939 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Kimmins

Cast George Formby · Googie Withers · Gus McNaughton · Garry Marsh

Plot George has won a lot of money at the races but he's paid with counterfeit money. He sets about tracking down the criminals himself.

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Let's Be Famous

1939 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

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Brief Ecstasy

1937 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom

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Penny Paradise

1938 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Edmund Gwenn · Betty Driver · Jimmy O'Dea · Ethel Coleridge

Plot A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive...

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Come on George!

1939 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

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The Crimes of Stephen Hawke

1936 · Movie · 69 min. · United Kingdom

Direction George King

Cast Tod Slaughter · Marjorie Taylor · Eric Portman · Graham Soutten

Plot The film begins in a BBC studio with the 100th edition of "In Town Tonight". Flotsam and Jetsom open with a "topical number". Then there is an interview with a...

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Cafe Colette

1937 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom

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Keep Fit

1937 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom

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The Four Just Men

1939 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Walter Forde

Cast Hugh Sinclair · Griffith Jones · Francis L. Sullivan · Frank Lawton

Plot The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to...

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Saloon Bar

1940 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Walter Forde

Cast Gordon Harker · Elizabeth Allan · Mervyn Johns · Joyce Barbour

Plot Against a background of Christmas and the pending arrival of another baby for the landlord, a group of pub locals lead by bookie Joe Harris set out to prove that...

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The Phantom Strikes (The Gaunt Stranger)

1938 · Movie · 73 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Walter Forde

Cast Sonnie Hale · Wilfrid Lawson · Louise Henry · Alexander Knox

Plot Crooked lawyer Maurice Meister's (Lawson) life is threatened by his ex-partner who is a master of disguise known as the Ringer. The police give him protection and place in his...

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The Ware Case

1938 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Clive Brook · Jane Baxter · Barry K. Barnes · C.V. France

Plot A financier is accused of murder when his brother-in-law is found dead in his garden pond. After winning the court case he returns home to find that his lawyer has...

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Invitation to the Waltz

1935 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Paul Merzbach

Cast Lilian Harvey · Wendy Toye · Carl Esmond · Harold Warrender

Plot As the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.

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It's in the Air

1938 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

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