Cinematography: Oswald Morris
The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Oswald Morris. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.
Sleuth
1972 · Movie · 138 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast Laurence Olivier · Michael Caine · Alec Cawthorne · John Matthews
Plot Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier) is a famous writer of crime novels. Moreover, his passion for puzzles and riddles has led him to transform his mansion into a museum where bizarre...
8.2
30K votes
8.2
30K votes
The Man Who Would Be King
1975 · Movie · 129 min. · United States
Direction John Huston
Cast Sean Connery · Michael Caine · Christopher Plummer · Saeed Jaffrey
Plot The film begins with author Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) working in his office, his privacy is broken by the arrival of a dishevelled old acquaintance and fellow Freemason, Peachy Carnahan...
7.9
28K votes
7.9
28K votes
Lolita
1962 · Movie · 152 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stanley Kubrick
Cast James Mason · Sue Lyon · Shelley Winters · Peter Sellers
Plot Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial LOLITA is a wicked satire of sexual obsession, sadomasochism, and fetishism. When mild-mannered professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason) arrives in the small town...
7.6
23K votes
7.6
23K votes
Fiddler on the Roof
1971 · Movie · 181 min. · United States
Direction Norman Jewison
Cast Topol · Norma Crane · Leonard Frey · Molly Picon
Plot This rousing musical, based on the stories of Shalom Aleichem, takes place in pre-revolutionary Russia and centers on the life of Tevye (Topol), a milkman who is trying to keep...
7.5
7K votes
7.5
7K votes
The Guns of Navarone
1961 · Movie · 158 min. · United Kingdom
Direction J. Lee Thompson
Cast Gregory Peck · David Niven · Richard Harris · Anthony Quinn
Plot During WWII, British Intelligence in the Middle East sends six men to the Aegean island of Navarone to destroy guns manned by the Germans. Consistently interesting war epic based on...
7.4
25K votes
7.4
25K votes
The Hill
1965 · Movie · 122 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sidney Lumet
Cast Sean Connery · Harry Andrews · Ian Bannen · Alfred Lynch
Plot In a British Army "glasshouse" (military detention camp) in the Libyan Desert, the prisoners are British soldiers convicted of service offences such as insubordination, drunkenness on duty, or profiteering, and...
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
Moby Dick
1956 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Huston
Cast Gregory Peck · Richard Basehart · Leo Genn · James Robertson Justice
Plot The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
7.3
9K votes
7.3
9K votes
Moulin Rouge
1952 · Movie · 123 min. · United States
Direction John Huston
Cast José Ferrer · Zsa Zsa Gabor · Colette Marchand · Claude Nollier
Plot Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec frequently visits the Moulin Rouge, where he drinks cognac and draws sketches of the dancers and singers. Though the son of a French count, Henri's legs were...
7.2
3K votes
7.2
3K votes
Oliver!
1968 · Movie · 153 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast Mark Lester · Ron Moody · Shani Wallis · Oliver Reed
Plot Adaptation of Lionel Bart's musical version of the Dickens classic. Oliver (Mark Lester) is a nine-year-old orphan who's sold to an undertaker by workhouse officials for objecting to his scant...
7.2
5K votes
7.2
5K votes
Look Back in Anger
1958 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Tony Richardson
Cast Richard Burton · Claire Bloom · Mary Ure · Edith Evans
Plot Archetypal British "angry young man" Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton) is a college-educated bloke who can't seem to get any better job than working in a candy store. Jimmy's relationship with...
7.1
769 votes
7.1
769 votes
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
1965 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Martin Ritt
Cast Richard Burton · Claire Bloom · Oskar Werner · Peter van Eyck
Plot When a fellow British agent is killed at Checkpoint Charlie right before his eyes, Alec Lemas, head of the Berlin station, returns to London headquarters. There his boss, Control, inquires...
7.1
3K votes
7.1
3K votes
The Dark Crystal
1982 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Jim Henson · Frank Oz
Plot Another planet, another time. 1000 years ago the Dark Crystal was damaged by one of the Urskeks and an age of chaos began. Now the time of the great conjunction...
7.0
15K votes
7.0
15K votes
Scrooge
1970 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ronald Neame
Cast Albert Finney · Alec Guinness · Edith Evans · Kenneth More
Plot In 1860, the stingy and cranky Ebenezer Scrooge that hates Christmas; loathes people and defends the decrease of the surplus of poor population runs his bank exploiting his employee Bob...
6.9
741 votes
6.9
741 votes
Our Man in Havana
1959 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast Alec Guinness · Burl Ives · Maureen O'Hara · Ernie Kovacs
Plot Graham Greene wrote this witty comedy inspired by Cold War paranoia. Jim Wormald (Alec Guiness) is an Englishman selling vacuum cleaners in Cuba on the cusp of the revolution. Hawthorne...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
The Odessa File
1974 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ronald Neame
Cast Jon Voight · Maximilian Schell · Maria Schell · Mary Tamm
Plot After reading the diary of an eldery Jewish man who commited suicide, freelance journalist Peter Miller begins to investigate the alleged sighting of a former SS-Captain who commanded a concentration...
6.8
3K votes
6.8
3K votes
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
1957 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Direction John Huston
Cast Deborah Kerr · Robert Mitchum
Plot For different reasons, Irish Catholic nun Sister Angela and U.S. Marine Corporal Allison are stranded on deserted Tuasiva Island in the South Pacific in 1944, the island deserted due to...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
The Man Who Never Was
1956 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ronald Neame
Cast Clifton Webb · Gloria Grahame · Robert Flemyng · Josephine Griffin
Plot British Intelligence during World War II is trying to get the German High Command to shift it's forces away from Italy prior to the invasion. To create the illusion of...
6.8
676 votes
6.8
676 votes
Reflections in a Golden Eye
1967 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction John Huston
Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Marlon Brando · Brian Keith · Julie Harris
Plot Peculiar, overheated melodrama about sexual frustration, jealousy and madness on a Southern military base. Pretentious treatment bores some viewers, but hysterical performances, over-the-top scenario should keep Southern Gothic fans entertained.
6.8
2K votes
6.8
2K votes
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1969 · Movie · 152 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Herbert Ross
Cast Peter O'Toole · Petula Clark · Michael Redgrave · Alison Leggatt
Plot In this updated musical version of the James Hilton novel, Peter O'Toole plays Chips, the shy professor who falls in love with a musical-comedy actress (played by Petula Clark), complete...
6.7
713 votes
6.7
713 votes
Term of Trial
1962 · Movie · 130 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Glenville
Cast Laurence Olivier · Simone Signoret · Sarah Miles · Terence Stamp
Plot Graham Weir (Laurence Olivier) is an alcoholic schoolteacher whose criminal record for refusing to fight during the Second World War has prevented him from progressing further in his teaching career....
6.6
188 votes
6.6
188 votes