Cinematography: Gilbert Taylor

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


Star Wars IV: A New Hope

1977 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction George Lucas

Cast Mark Hamill · Harrison Ford · Carrie Fisher · Alec Guinness

Plot In a distant galaxy, a long time ago, young Luke Skywalker, a young farmboy on Tatooine, is thrust into the struggle of the Rebel Alliance when he meets Obi-Wan Kenobi,...

7.9

135K votes

7.9

135K votes

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Peter Sellers · George C. Scott · Sterling Hayden · James Earl Jones

Plot Convinced that the Russians have infiltrated America's "vital essence", the crazed Ripper gives the go code to the 843rd bomb wing to attack Russia, setting in motion a series of...

Max

7.9

47K votes

7.9

47K votes

Frenzy

1972 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Jon Finch · Barry Foster · Alec McCowen · Anna Massey

Plot London is terrorised by a vicious sex killer known as the neck tie murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of...

7.5

16K votes

7.5

16K votes

Repulsion

1965 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Ian Hendry · Patrick Wymark · John Fraser

Plot A Belgian girl, Carol, works as a manicurist at a London beauty salon. While having lunch, a good looking young man, Colin, spots her and makes a date for another...

7.5

12K votes

7.5

12K votes

The Omen

1976 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Richard Donner

Cast Gregory Peck · Lee Remick · David Warner · Billie Whitelaw

Plot Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. He is the US Ambassador to Italy and they want for nothing in their lives, except one thing: they do not...

7.4

42K votes

7.4

42K votes

Cul-de-sac

1966 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Donald Pleasence · Françoise Dorléac · Lionel Stander · Jack MacGowran

Plot A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at a beachfront castle. The owners of the castle, a meek Englishman and his willful French wife, are initially the unwilling...

6.9

3K votes

6.9

3K votes

Meetings with Remarkable Men

1979 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Brook

Cast Grégoire Aslan · Mikica Dimitrijevic · Martin Benson · Colin Blakely

Plot The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.

6.9

233 votes

6.9

233 votes

Desert Attack (Ice-Cold in Alex)

1958 · Movie · 132 min. · United Kingdom

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast John Mills · Sylvia Syms · Anthony Quayle · Harry Andrews

Plot A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams...

6.8

147 votes

6.8

147 votes

Yield to the Night

1956 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Diana Dors · Yvonne Mitchell · Michael Craig · Marie Ney

Plot A young woman who has been abused and taken advantage of by all the men in her life, finally finds a man she believes truly loves her, but she snaps...

6.8

61 votes

6.8

61 votes

Macbeth

1971 · Movie · 140 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Jon Finch · Francesca Annis · Martin Shaw · Nicholas Selby

Plot Roman Polanski's version of Shakespeare's tragedy about a Scottish lord who murders the king and ascends the throne. His wife then begins hallucinating as a result of her guilt complex...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

A Hard Day's Night

1964 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Richard Lester

Cast The Beatles · John Lennon · Paul McCartney · George Harrison

Plot The Beatles--the world's most famous rock and roll band--travel from their home town of Liverpool to London to perform in a television broadcast. Along the way they must rescue Paul's...

Max

6.8

6K votes

6.8

6K votes

The Bedford Incident

1965 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

Direction James B. Harris

Cast Richard Widmark · Sidney Poitier · James MacArthur · Martin Balsam

Plot An American news writer assigned to interview the captain of the destroyer USS Bedford bears witness to a stunning game of cat and mouse in the frigid waters of the...

6.6

352 votes

6.6

352 votes

It's Great to Be Young!

1956 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Cyril Frankel

Cast John Mills · Cecil Parker · John Salew · Elizabeth Kentish

Plot Mr. Dingle is the popular music teacher in an English school, but when the headmaster threatens to close down the school band (partly because of Dingle's fondness of more modern...

6.6

60 votes

6.6

60 votes

Seven Days to Noon

1950 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Boulting

Cast Barry Jones · André Morell · Hugh Cross · Sheila Manahan

Plot An English scientist runs away from a research center with an atomic bomb. In a letter sent to the British Prime Minister he threatens to blow up the center of...

6.6

80 votes

6.6

80 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

Circle of Danger

1951 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Jacques Tourneur

Cast Ray Milland · Patricia Roc · Marius Goring · Hugh Sinclair

Plot Clay Douglas an American, comes to England, to find out the truth behind his brothers death during a commando operation in occupied France. After tracking down the surviving members of...

6.3

216 votes

6.3

216 votes

Dracula

1979 · Movie · 109 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Badham

Cast Frank Langella · Kate Nelligan · Laurence Olivier · Donald Pleasence

Plot When a schooner is wrecked off Whitby the only survivor is Count Dracula who has arrived with large amounts of Transylvanian soil to take up residence in Carfax Abbey. He...

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

The Yellow Balloon

1953 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Andrew Ray · Kathleen Ryan · Kenneth More · Bernard Lee

Plot One of two young boys accidentally falls to his death when playing in a bombed-out London neighborhood. Frankie, the survivor feels guilty about his friend's death. Len, a petty thief...

6.1

24 votes

6.1

24 votes

The Full Treatment

1960 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Val Guest

Cast Claude Dauphin · Diane Cilento · Ronald Lewis · Françoise Rosay

Plot After surviving a traumatic car accident, a race car driver travels to the Cote D'Azur to recover but is plagued by an urge to strangle his wife.

5.9

48 votes

5.9

48 votes

Before Winter Comes

1969 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast David Niven · Topol · Anna Karina · John Hurt

Plot A British major entrusted with the job of running a displaced persons camp at the end of World War II is faced with the dilemma of deciding over to whom...

5.7

66 votes

5.7

66 votes