Screenplay: David Lean

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by David Lean. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Brief Encounter

1945 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Celia Johnson · Trevor Howard · Stanley Holloway · Joyce Carey

Plot Laura Jesson is a country housewife bored with the security of her husband and family. She goes into town once a week for shopping and a matinee picture. On one...

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8.1

11K votes

8.1

11K votes

Oliver Twist

1948 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Alec Guinness · Robert Newton · Francis L. Sullivan · John Howard Davies

Plot Based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. Oliver is...

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7.4

3K votes

7.4

3K votes

Great Expectations

1946 · Movie · 118 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast John Mills · Valerie Hobson · Martita Hunt · Alec Guinness

Plot Pip, a good-natured, gullible young orphan, lives with kind blacksmith Joe Gargery and his bossy, abusive wife 'Mrs. Joe'. When the boy finds two hidden escaped galley convicts, he obeys...

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7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

Hobson's Choice

1953 · Movie · 107 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Charles Laughton · John Mills · Brenda De Banzie · Daphne Anderson

Plot David Lean backs up vicious wit with tender romance in this thrilling adaptation of Harold Brighouse's play. As Henry Hobson, a tyrannical bootshop owner, Charles Laughton (Mutiny on the Bounty)...

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7.3

1K votes

7.3

1K votes

A Passage to India

1984 · Movie · 163 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Judy Davis · Victor Banerjee · Peggy Ashcroft · James Fox

Plot Circa 1920, during the Indian British rule, Dr. Aziz H. Ahmed was born and brought up in India. He is proficient in English, and wears Western style clothing. He meets...

7.1

4K votes

7.1

4K votes

This Happy Breed

1944 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Robert Newton · Celia Johnson · Stanley Holloway · John Mills

Plot Noel Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort...

6.9

639 votes

6.9

639 votes

Summertime

1955 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Rossano Brazzi · Darren McGavin · Jane Rose

Plot Jane Hudson, a jaunty as well as attractive middle-aged secretary from Akron, Ohio, has finally made it to Venice, Italy, for her long-awaited dream vacation. Never-married Jane is a self-described...

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6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Lost and Found: The Story of Cook’s Anchor (TV)

1979 · Documentary · 37 min. · New Zealand

Direction David Lean

Cast David Lean · Robert Bolt · Eddie Fowlie

Plot Filmmaker David Lean is scouting locations in Tahiti for a feature film about the famous mutiny on the HMS Bounty. His property master, Eddie Fowlie, discovers the whereabouts of an...

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