The best Denholm Elliott’s drama movies

Denholm Elliott

Denholm Elliott

31/05/1922- 06/10/1992
We present our ranking of the best Denholm Elliott’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Denholm Elliott.
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Watership Down

Watership Down
7.6/10
When the warren belonging to a community of rabbits is threatened, a brave group led by Fiver, Bigwig, Blackberry and Hazel leave their homeland in a search of a safe new haven.

A Room with a View

A Room with a View
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 13/12/1985
  • Character: Mr. Emerson
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?

A Bridge Too Far

A Bridge Too Far
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 15/06/1977
  • Character: RAF meteorologist officer
Operation Market Garden, September 1944. The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.

Maurice

Maurice
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 21/08/1987
  • Character: Doctor Barry
After his lover rejects him, a young man trapped by the oppressiveness of Edwardian society tries to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.

Robin and Marian

Robin and Marian
6.5/10
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.

Alfie

Alfie
7/10
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.

King Rat

King Rat
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 27/10/1965
  • Character: Larkin
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.

The Boys from Brazil

The Boys from Brazil
7/10
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

Zulu Dawn

Zulu Dawn
6.6/10
In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

September

September
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/12/1987
  • Character: Howard
After a suicide attempt, Lane has moved into her country house to recuperate. Her best friend, Stephanie, has come to join her for the summer. Lane's mother, Diane, has recently arrived with her husband Lloyd, Lane's stepfather. Lane is close to two neighbors: Peter, and Howard. Howard is in love with Lane, Lane is in love with Peter, and Peter is in love with Stephanie.

The Cruel Sea

The Cruel Sea
7.4/10
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer

The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/10/1984
  • Character: Elliott Templeton
He had everything and wanted nothing. He learned that he had nothing and wanted everything. He saved the world and then it shattered. The path to enlightenment is as sharp and narrow as a razor's edge.

Sunday Lovers

Sunday Lovers
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 31/10/1980
  • Character: Parker (segment "An Englishman's Home")
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Method" "Armando's Notebook" "Skippy"

Bad Timing

Bad Timing
6.9/10
Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's attracted to her young, carefree spirit. Despite the fact that Milena is already married, their friendship quickly turns into a deeply passionate love affair that threatens to overtake them both. When Milena ends up in the hospital from an overdose, Alex is taken into custody by Inspector Netusil.

The Wicked Lady

The Wicked Lady
4.8/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 21/04/1983
  • Character: Sir Ralph Skelton
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady, but despite her new wealthy situation, she gets bored and turns to highway robbery for thrills. While on the road she meets a famous highwayman, and they continue as a team, but some people begin suspecting her identity, and she risks death if she continues her nefarious activities.

Madame Sin

Madame Sin
5.7/10
A CIA agent is used as a pawn in an insane woman's plan to steal a Polaris submarine.

Cuba

Cuba
5.6/10
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.

Voyage of the Damned

Voyage of the Damned
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 22/12/1976
  • Character: Admiral Canaris
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.

Saint Jack

Saint Jack
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/04/1979
  • Character: William Leigh
Jack Flowers is an American hustler trying to make his fortune in 1970s Singapore in small time pimping. His dreams of building a fortune by running a brothel himself and returning to the States is materialized when he is offered the opportunity by the CIA to run a brothel for the R&R activities of U.S. soldiers on leave in Singapore.

Hanna's War

Hanna's War
6.1/10
Hanna's War is the true story of Hanna Senesh, a Hungarian-Jewish WW2 resistance fighter, who would become Israel's "Joan of Arc". As a young person, she fled Nazi-occupied Hungary for Palestine, where she was recruited and trained by the British to serve as a commando. After completing her training in Britain, she parachutes into Yugoslavia with a commando team to establish escape routes across the Hungarian-Yugoslavian border for downed British pilots. Her attempts to save Hungarian Jews in Nazi-occupied Hungary, however, leads to her capture, torture and demise at the hands of the Gestapo and the Nazi-controlled Hungarian police.

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