Direction: Terence Young

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


Wait Until Dark

1967 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Alan Arkin · Richard Crenna · Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Synopsis In Wait Until Dark (1967), a blind woman named Susy becomes the target of three criminals searching for a heroin-stuffed doll hidden in her apartment. Unaware of its presence, Susy relies on her sharp wits and heightened senses to outmaneuver...

7.4

7K votes

7.4

7K votes

Dr. No

1962 · Movie · 111 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Sean Connery · Ursula Andress · Jack Lord · Joseph Wiseman

Synopsis In the first James Bond spy classic, Sean Connery is the ever-suave and fearless secret Agent 007 on a mission in Jamaica to thwart a fanatical scientist's world-threatening scheme.

6.8

31K votes

6.8

31K votes

From Russia With Love

1963 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Sean Connery · Robert Shaw · Daniela Bianchi · Lotte Lenya

Synopsis In From Russia With Love (1963), British secret agent James Bond is sent to Istanbul to retrieve a coveted Soviet encryption device, the Lektor, offered by a defecting Russian clerk, Tatiana. Unbeknownst to Bond, the mission is a trap orchestrated...

6.6

11K votes

6.6

11K votes

Corridor of Mirrors

1948 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Eric Portman · Edana Romney · Barbara Mullen · Hugh Sinclair

Synopsis A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

6.5

33 votes

6.5

33 votes

Thunderball

1965 · Movie · 129 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Sean Connery · Claudine Auger · Adolfo Celi · Luciana Paluzzi

Synopsis In Thunderball (1965), James Bond is sent to the Bahamas to recover two stolen NATO nuclear warheads, hijacked by the sinister SPECTRE organization. The villainous Emilio Largo plans to use them for global ransom. Bond's mission takes him through glamorous...

6.3

7K votes

6.3

7K votes

Triple Cross

1966 · Movie · 126 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Christopher Plummer · Romy Schneider · Yul Brynner · Trevor Howard

Synopsis Plummer is a British safecracker imprisoned on the channel islands at the outbreak of WWII. When the Germans move in, he offers to work for them if they set him free. The Germans buy his story and send him to...

6.1

590 votes

6.1

590 votes

The Valachi Papers

1972 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Terence Young

Cast Charles Bronson · Lino Ventura · Jill Ireland · Walter Chiari

Synopsis When Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura), he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the...

6.1

473 votes

6.1

473 votes

Storm Over the Nile

1955 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Zoltan Korda · Terence Young

Cast Laurence Harvey · Anthony Steel · James Robertson Justice · Mary Ure

Synopsis Korda directs The Four Feathers again, not so much a remake as a re-mount: with the same director, same script and much of the same footage. Charisma-free Anthony Steel is the man given the white feather treatment for cowardice, Laurence...

6.0

245 votes

6.0

245 votes

The Dirty Game

1965 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Terence Young · Werner Klingler · Carlo Lizzani · Christian-Jaque

Cast Henry Fonda · Robert Ryan · Vittorio Gassman · Annie Girardot

Synopsis The US intelligence chief in Europe relates the stories of three different operations that he was involved in with colleagues in Paris and Djibouti, Rome, and Berlin.

6.0

29 votes

6.0

29 votes

The Rover

1967 · Movie · 107 min. · Italy

5.7

183 votes

5.7

183 votes

Red Sun

1971 · Movie · 109 min. · France

Direction Terence Young

Cast Charles Bronson · Toshirô Mifune · Ursula Andress · Alain Delon

Synopsis The Japanese ambassador is travelling through the Wild West by train, when gangsters hold up the train, to rob a gold shipment. They also carry an ancient Japanese sword the embassador was carrying as a present for the US president....

5.7

1K votes

5.7

1K votes

Mayerling

1968 · Movie · 140 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Omar Sharif · Catherine Deneuve · James Mason · Ava Gardner

Synopsis In the 1880s, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria (Sharif) clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (Mason) and his mother Empress Elisabeth (Gardner), over implementing progressive policies for their country. Rudolf soon feels he is a man...

5.5

307 votes

5.5

307 votes

No Time to Die

1958 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Victor Mature · Leo Genn · Bonar Colleano · Anthony Newley

Synopsis Daniel Thatcher is an American sergeant serving with a British tank corps in North Africa. He and most of his unit are captured by the Germans, who learn his identity as a man who once tried to assassinate Josef Goebbels,...

5.5

25 votes

5.5

25 votes

Safari

1956 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Victor Mature · Janet Leigh · John Justin · Roland Culver

Synopsis When his family is wiped out by Mau Mau insurrectionists, white hunter Mature assembles an expedition to track down the tribal leader responsible for the massacre. The British authorities don't want Mature to foment further difficulty by seeking revenge, so...

5.3

206 votes

5.3

206 votes

Bloodline

1979 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Terence Young

Cast Audrey Hepburn · Ben Gazzara · James Mason · Claudia Mori

Synopsis When her father is murdered, a cosmetics heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.

5.2

277 votes

5.2

277 votes

That Lady

1955 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Olivia de Havilland · Gilbert Roland · Paul Scofield · Françoise Rosay

Synopsis Ana, the Princess of Eboli, wears a black patch over her right eye, where she was blinded as a youth when fighting a duel in defense of her king, the despotic Philip. Thereafter she and the monarch were close friends,...

5.2

151 votes

5.2

151 votes

The Klansman

1974 · Movie · 112 min. · United States

Direction Terence Young

Cast Lee Marvin · Richard Burton · Cameron Mitchell · O.J. Simpson

Synopsis A small southern town Alabama in the late '60s has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young woman has been violently raped. The white town fathers immediately declare that the attacker had to be black, and place the blame...

5.1

288 votes

5.1

288 votes

The Red Beret

1953 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Alan Ladd · Leo Genn · Susan Stephen · Harry Andrews

Synopsis Alan Ladd is the focus of this story based on the wartime raid on the German radar station at Bruneval. The raid was a combined services operation and the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Parachute Brigade was led by Major...

5.1

68 votes

5.1

68 votes

The Christmas Tree

1969 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction Terence Young

Cast William Holden · Virna Lisi · Bourvil · Madeleine Damien

Synopsis Since the death of his mother, Pascal, ten years old, spends his holidays with his father, the rich Laurent Segur. One day, when diving near the shores of Corse, an aircraft falls into the sea. The holiday goes on happily...

5.0

30 votes

5.0

30 votes