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...
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
Direction Carol Reed
Cast Ralph Richardson · Trevor Howard · Robert Morley · Wendy Hiller
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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