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...

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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