Direction: Ronald Neame

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


The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

1969 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Maggie Smith · Robert Stephens · Pamela Franklin · Gordon Jackson

Synopsis A liberated young schoolteacher at an Edinburgh girls' school in the period between the two wars, instructs her girls on the ways of life. Ignoring the more mundane subjects, she teaches them of love, politics and art. Her affairs with...

7.0

405 votes

7.0

405 votes

Scrooge

1970 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Albert Finney · Alec Guinness · Edith Evans · Kenneth More

Synopsis 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 Cratchit and clients, giving a bitter treatment to his own...

6.9

741 votes

6.9

741 votes

The Odessa File

1974 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Jon Voight · Maximilian Schell · Maria Schell · Mary Tamm

Synopsis 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 camp during World War II. Miller eventually finds himself involved...

6.8

3K votes

6.8

3K votes

The Man Who Never Was

1956 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Clifton Webb · Gloria Grahame · Robert Flemyng · Josephine Griffin

Synopsis 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 a plan for England to invade Greece a dead body...

6.8

676 votes

6.8

676 votes

Man with a Million

1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Gregory Peck · Ronald Squire · Joyce Grenfell · A.E. Matthews

Synopsis An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who has conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the...

6.6

971 votes

6.6

971 votes

Tunes of Glory

1960 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Alec Guinness · John Mills · Dennis Price · Kay Walsh

Synopsis Major Jock Sinclair has been in this Highland regiment since he joined as a boy piper. During the Second World War, as Second-in-Command, he was made acting Commanding Officer. Now the regiment has returned to Scotland, and a new commanding...

6.6

310 votes

6.6

310 votes

The Poseidon Adventure

1972 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Gene Hackman · Ernest Borgnine · Red Buttons · Carol Lynley

Synopsis The Poseidon Adventure (1972) follows a group of passengers aboard the luxury ocean liner SS Poseidon on New Year's Eve. When a massive tidal wave capsizes the ship, survivors must navigate the inverted vessel to escape. Led by a determined...

6.6

6K votes

6.6

6K votes

The Chalk Garden

1964 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Deborah Kerr · Hayley Mills · Edith Evans · John Mills

Synopsis A grandmother seeks a governess for her 16 year old granddaughter, Laurel, who manages to drive away each and every one so far by exposing their past, with a record of three in one week! When an applicant with a...

6.4

216 votes

6.4

216 votes

The Horse's Mouth

1958 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Alec Guinness · Kay Walsh · Renee Houston · Mike Morgan

Synopsis Gulley Jimson is broke, difficult, conniving, uncouth, and a welcher - but an artist. The visions in his head may not really satisfy him when realized, but the quest continues, for the perfect wall. The Beeders leave for six weeks...

6.3

255 votes

6.3

255 votes

The Card

1952 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Alec Guinness · Glynis Johns · Valerie Hobson · Petula Clark

Synopsis A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing- some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman...

6.3

51 votes

6.3

51 votes

Gambit

1966 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Shirley MacLaine · Michael Caine · Herbert Lom · Roger C. Carmel

Synopsis Harry Dean has a plan to pull off a major robbery and needs Nicole as a gambit and windowdressing. He outlines his ideas about his perfect crime in a dream sequence and then meets Nicole, and nothing goes quite right...

6.2

640 votes

6.2

640 votes

Hopscotch

1980 · Movie · 107 min. · United States

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Walter Matthau · Glenda Jackson · Sam Waterston · Ned Beatty

Synopsis The most dangerous man in the world. He's about to expose the CIA, the FBI, the KGB...and himself. CIA agent Miles Kendig, tired of his incompetent colleagues, decides to get out of 'the game' and to ensure he's left alone...

6.2

287 votes

6.2

287 votes

Golden Salamander

1950 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Trevor Howard · Herbert Lom · Wilfrid Hyde-White · Anouk Aimée

Synopsis An archeologist finds hilmself facing a criminal organización in a journey to Africa.

6.0

43 votes

6.0

43 votes

Escape from Zahrain

1962 · Movie · 93 min. · United States

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Yul Brynner · Sal Mineo · Jack Warden · Anthony Caruso

Synopsis The film is set in the fictional state of Zahrain located in the Arabian Peninsula. The main characters are part of a group of condemned prisoners who flee across the desert in an attempt to reach the Protectorate of Aden....

5.7

60 votes

5.7

60 votes

I Could Go on Singing

1963 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Judy Garland · Dirk Bogarde · Jack Klugman · Aline MacMahon

Synopsis Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an...

5.6

42 votes

5.6

42 votes

5.0

55 votes

Meteor

1979 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Sean Connery · Natalie Wood · Henry Fonda · Karl Malden

Synopsis Sean Connery leads a team of asteroid-battling astronomers in Meteor, one of the last and most unusual examples of the disaster movie craze of the 1970s. In this one, a killer asteroid named Orpheus threatens to collide with the Earth,...

4.8

1K votes

4.8

1K votes

Mister Moses

1965 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Robert Mitchum · Carroll Baker · Ian Bannen · Alexander Knox

Synopsis The latter-day Mister (Joe) Moses is a snake-oil pitchman who is chased out of an African village and is found, literally, in the bull-rushes by Julie Anderson, daughter of missionary Reverand Anderson who has learned that he is a diamond...

Not rated

Not rated

The Seventh Sin

1957 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Ronald Neame

Cast Eleanor Parker · Bill Travers · George Sanders · Jean-Pierre Aumont

Synopsis In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with a married man. Her husband discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to a remote mainland village or face the scandal of a very public...

Not rated

Not rated