Direction: Carol Reed

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Carol Reed. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Third Man

1949 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Joseph Cotten · Alida Valli · Trevor Howard · Orson Welles

Plot Holly Martins, a pulp novelist who has come to post-WWII Vienna with the promise of work from his friend, Harry Lime. When he finds that Lime has just been killed...

8.2

43K votes

8.2

43K 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

The Fallen Idol

1948 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Ralph Richardson · Michèle Morgan · Sonia Dresdel · Jack Hawkins

Plot An eight-year-old ambassador’s son, left in the care of manservant Baines and his suspicious wife, witnesses what he believes to be a murder.

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

The Agony and the Ecstasy

1965 · Movie · 139 min. · United States

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Charlton Heston · Rex Harrison · Diane Cilento · Harry Andrews

Plot Pope Julius is eager to leave behind works by which he will be remembered. To this end he cajoles Michelangelo into painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When not...

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

Odd Man Out

1947 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast James Mason · Robert Newton · Cyril Cusack · F.J. McCormick

Plot Johnny McQueen, leader of a clandestine Irish organization, has been hiding in the house of Kathleen and her mother, planning a hold-up that will provide his group with the funds...

Max

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K 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 Man Between

1953 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast James Mason · Claire Bloom · Hildegard Knef · Geoffrey Toone

Plot Young english Susanne Mallison (Claire Bloom) on visit to Berlin becomes involved with political racketeer in elaborate plot to lure espionage agent from the Western to the Eastern sector.

6.6

296 votes

6.6

296 votes

Night Train to Munich

1940 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Rex Harrison · Margaret Lockwood · Paul Henreid · Basil Radford

Plot When the Germans march into Prague, armour-plating inventor Dr Bomasch flees to England. His daughter Anna escapes from arrest to join him, but the Gestapo manage to kidnap them both...

6.5

301 votes

6.5

301 votes

Trapeze

1956 · Movie · 101 min. · United States

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Burt Lancaster · Tony Curtis · Gina Lollobrigida · Katy Jurado

Plot Former circus aerialist Burt Lancaster was the logical choice to star in the Technicolor drama Trapeze. Lancaster plays a crippled acrobat, disabled after attempting to perform a dangerous triple mid-air...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

Follow Me!

1972 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Mia Farrow · Topol · Michael Jayston · Margaret Rawlings

Plot A strait-laced British banker hires a strange private detective (Topol) to follow his free-spirited American wife (Farrow), whom he suspects is cheating on him. The wife becomes aware of the...

6.5

61 votes

6.5

61 votes

Outcast of the Islands

1952 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom

6.4

108 votes

6.4

108 votes

Girl in the News

1940 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Margaret Lockwood · Barry K. Barnes · Emlyn Williams · Roger Livesey

Plot Anne Graham (played by Margaret Lockwood) is a caretaker nurse who is taking care of an elderly woman. The old lady sneaks some pills out of Graham's stash and ends...

6.4

31 votes

6.4

31 votes

The Stars Look Down

1940 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Michael Redgrave · Margaret Lockwood · Emlyn Williams · Nancy Price

Plot Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets...

6.4

56 votes

6.4

56 votes

Bank Holiday

1938 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Margaret Lockwood · John Lodge · Hugh Williams · René Ray

Plot Britons take off for a summer holiday filled with romantic intrigue and dreams of better lives.

6.3

75 votes

6.3

75 votes

The Key

1958 · Movie · 114 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast William Holden · Sophia Loren · Trevor Howard · Oskar Homolka

Plot In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's...

6.2

205 votes

6.2

205 votes

A Kid for Two Farthings

1955 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Celia Johnson · Diana Dors · David Kossoff · Joe Robinson

Plot In a lower-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe, a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne, who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor...

6.1

45 votes

6.1

45 votes

The Way Ahead

1944 · Movie · 115 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast David Niven · Stanley Holloway · James Donald · Peter Ustinov

Plot A group of conscripts are called up into the infantry during WWII. At first they appear a hopeless bunch but their sergeant and Lieutenant have faith in them and mould...

6.0

39 votes

6.0

39 votes

The Young Mr. Pitt

1942 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Robert Donat · Robert Morley · Phyllis Calvert · John Mills

Plot In 1783, the English Parliament is led by the coalition of Charles James Fox and Lord North. King George III, who dislikes them, is pleased when they begin to lose...

6.0

31 votes

6.0

31 votes

The Ballad of the Running Man

1963 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Laurence Harvey · Lee Remick · Alan Bates · Felix Aylmer

Plot Hard up and with a grudge against insurance companies, Rex Black feigns his death and meets up with his wife and the money in Malaga when things seemed to have...

5.8

176 votes

5.8

176 votes

Midshipman Easy

1935 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Hughie Green · Margaret Lockwood · Harry Tate · Robert Adams

Plot Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well (some would say too keen)...

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