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Bernard Lee

John Bernard "Bernard" Lee was an English actor, best known for his role as M in the first eleven James Bond films. more

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The Third Man
(1949)
Mystery, Thriller
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and fal...
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Carol Reed
Cast:
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Paul Hörbiger
8.1
99%
97
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Goldfinger
(1964)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Guy Hamilton
Cast:
Sean Connery, Honor Blackman, Gert Fröbe, Shirley Eaton, Tania Mallet
7.7
99%
87
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From Russia with Love
(1963)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Agent 007 is back in the second installment of the James Bond series, this time battling a secret crime organization known as SPECTRE. Russians Rosa Klebb and Kronsteen are out to snatch a decoding device known as the Lektor, using the ravishing Tatiana to lure Bond into helping them. Bond willingly travels to meet Tatiana in Istanbul,...
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Terence Young
Cast:
Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Daniela Bianchi, Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw
7.4
97%
83
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Dr. No
(1962)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
In the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to confront a megalomaniacal villain in his massive island headquarters.
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Terence Young
Cast:
Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Bernard Lee
7.2
95%
78
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The Spy Who Loved Me
(1977)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
Runtime:
125 min
Director:
Lewis Gilbert
Cast:
Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel, Caroline Munro
7.1
81%
55
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Thunderball
(1965)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
Runtime:
130 min
Director:
Terence Young
Cast:
Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi, Rik Van Nutter
7.0
87%
64
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You Only Live Twice
(1967)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.
Runtime:
117 min
Director:
Lewis Gilbert
Cast:
Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Karin Dor, Mie Hama, Tetsurō Tamba
6.9
73%
61
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Live and Let Die
(1973)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond must investigate a mysterious murder case of a British agent in New Orleans. Soon he finds himself up against a gangster boss named Mr. Big.
Runtime:
121 min
Director:
Guy Hamilton
Cast:
Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour, Clifton James, Julius Harris
6.8
65%
55
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The Man with the Golden Gun
(1974)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Cool government operative James Bond searches for a stolen invention that can turn the sun's heat into a destructive weapon. He soon crosses paths with the menacing Francisco Scaramanga, a hitman so skilled he has a seven-figure working fee. Bond then joins forces with the swimsuit-clad Mary Goodnight, and together they track Scaramang...
Runtime:
125 min
Director:
Guy Hamilton
Cast:
Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, Hervé Villechaize
6.7
39%
43
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
(1969)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.
Runtime:
142 min
Director:
Peter R. Hunt
Cast:
George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Ilse Steppat
6.7
81%
61
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Diamonds Are Forever
(1971)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The mission takes him to Las Vegas where Bond meets his archenemy Blofeld.
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Guy Hamilton
Cast:
Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean
6.6
64%
59
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Moonraker
(1979)
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, J...
Runtime:
126 min
Director:
Lewis Gilbert
Cast:
Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale, Corinne Cléry, Richard Kiel
6.3
60%
66
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
(1965)
Drama, Thriller
British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Martin Ritt
Cast:
Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner, Sam Wanamaker, George Voskovec
7.6
89%
N/A
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The Fallen Idol
(1948)
Drama, Thriller
Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Carol Reed
Cast:
Ralph Richardson, Michèle Morgan, Sonia Dresdel, Bobby Henrey, Denis O'Dea
7.7
100%
88
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Sink the Bismarck!
(1960)
Action, Drama, History, War
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into ...
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Lewis Gilbert
Cast:
Kenneth More, Kenneth More, Dana Wynter, Dana Wynter, Carl Möhner
7.1
86%
N/A
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Beat the Devil
(1953)
Adventure, Comedy
The script, which was written on a day-to-day basis as the film was being shot, concerns the adventures of a motley crew of swindlers and ne'er-do-wells trying to lay claim to land rich in uranium deposits in Kenya as they wait in a small Italian port to travel aboard an ill-fated tramp steamer en route to Mombasa.
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
John Huston
Cast:
Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Robert Morley
6.5
71%
N/A
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The Battle of the River Plate
(1956)
Drama, History, War
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are scouring the ocean for cargo ships to sink.
Runtime:
119 min
Director:
Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Cast:
John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch, Ian Hunter, Jack Gwillim
6.6
82%
N/A
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Whistle Down the Wind
(1961)
Crime, Drama
When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Bryan Forbes
Cast:
Alan Bates, Hayley Mills, Bernard Lee, Norman Bird, Diane Clare
7.8
100%
N/A
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
(1965)
Horror
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire; a huge plant takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodo...
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Freddie Francis
Cast:
Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Donald Sutherland, Bernard Lee, Max Adrian
6.7
N/A
N/A
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Dunkirk
(1958)
Drama, War
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to ...
Runtime:
134 min
Director:
Leslie Norman
Cast:
John Mills, John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Robert Urquhart
7.1
60%
N/A
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
(1974)
Horror, Science Fiction
Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man fr...
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Terence Fisher
Cast:
Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith, David Prowse, John Stratton
6.3
57%
N/A
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Last Holiday
(1950)
Comedy, Drama
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Henry Cass
Cast:
Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh, Grégoire Aslan, Jean Colin
7.4
100%
N/A
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The Purple Plain
(1954)
Adventure, Drama, War
A RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has became a reckless warrior, and is feared by his comrades, who consider him a madman. Dr. Harris, the squadron physician, is determined to help him heal his tormented soul.
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Robert Parrish
Cast:
Gregory Peck, Win Min Than, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Lee, Maurice Denham
6.6
N/A
N/A
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The L-Shaped Room
(1962)
Drama
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relations...
Runtime:
126 min
7.5
N/A
N/A
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The Blue Lamp
(1950)
Crime, Drama
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
Runtime:
84 min
Director:
Basil Dearden
Cast:
Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng, Bernard Lee
6.9
N/A
N/A
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The Angry Silence
(1960)
Drama
A young factory worker stands alone against a proposed strike.
Runtime:
95 min
7.6
N/A
N/A
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Kidnapped
(1960)
Action, Adventure, Drama, Family
Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading the redcoats.
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Robert Stevenson
Cast:
Peter Finch, James MacArthur, Bernard Lee, John Laurie, Niall MacGinnis
6.8
N/A
N/A
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The Key
(1958)
Drama, Romance, War
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 given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.
Runtime:
134 min
Director:
Carol Reed
Cast:
William Holden, Sophia Loren, Trevor Howard, Bernard Lee
6.7
N/A
N/A
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The Spanish Gardener
(1956)
Drama
British diplomat Harrington Brande takes up his new lowly post in Spain accompanied by his son Nicholas. That his wife had left him seems to have affected his career. Nicholas sees it all as something of an adventure and soon becomes friends with the new gardener, Jose. As Nicholas begins to spend more time with Jose, his father take...
Runtime:
97 min
6.9
N/A
N/A
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Morning Departure
(1950)
Drama
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Roy Ward Baker
Cast:
John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Nigel Patrick, George Cole, Bernard Lee
7.1
N/A
N/A
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Across the Bridge
(1957)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
In Mexico, a financier on the run poses as a man he just murdered, only to find out that the man was also a murderer.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Ken Annakin
Cast:
Rod Steiger, David Knight, Marla Landi, Noel Willman, Bernard Lee
7.3
N/A
N/A
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Odette
(1950)
Drama, History, War
The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp to be executed. However, against all odds she survived the war and testified against the prison guards at the Hamburg Ravensbrück Tri...
Runtime:
124 min
7.1
N/A
N/A
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Sailor of the King
(1953)
Action, Drama, War
A British naval officer has a brief affair with a woman in England and never knows that she bears him a son. 20 years later the boy is on a ship under his command when he is tracking a German Raider. When the boy is captured after his ship is sunk, he finds a way to slow the German's progress while a lethal hunt for him goes on.
Runtime:
83 min
Director:
Roy Boulting
Cast:
Jeffrey Hunter, Michael Rennie, Wendy Hiller, Bernard Lee
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Beauty and the Beast
(1979)
Family, Fantasy, Romance, TV Movie
A beautiful girl agrees to marry a hideous, deformed beast and live in his castle in order to save her father's life.
Runtime:
74 min
Director:
Fielder Cook
Cast:
George C. Scott, Trish Van Devere, Virginia McKenna, Bernard Lee, Patricia Quinn
7.4
N/A
N/A
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Danger Within
(1959)
War
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Don Chaffey
Cast:
Richard Todd, Bernard Lee, Michael Wilding, Peter Arne
6.9
N/A
N/A
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Nowhere to Go
(1958)
Crime, Thriller
A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.
Runtime:
89 min
Director:
Seth Holt
Cast:
George Nader, Maggie Smith, Bernard Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Bessie Love
6.9
N/A
N/A
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The Secret Partner
(1961)
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
Runtime:
91 min
6.6
N/A
N/A
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The Raging Moon
(1971)
Drama, Romance
Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
Runtime:
111 min
Director:
Bryan Forbes
Cast:
Malcolm McDowell, Nanette Newman, Georgia Brown, Bernard Lee
7.2
N/A
N/A
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A Christmas Carol
(1977)
Drama, Family, TV Movie
"If I could work my will, every idiot that goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips would be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly in his heart" So spoke the immortal words of Christmas’ most famous miser, Charles Dicken’s Ebenezer Scrooge. Too mean to join in with the festivities; he sits alone on Christmas...
Runtime:
58 min
Director:
Moira Armstrong
Cast:
Michael Hordern, John Le Mesurier, Bernard Lee, Patricia Quinn, Carol MacReady
6.8
N/A
N/A
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Crossplot
(1969)
Action, Thriller
A successful London ad-exec hires a beautiful Hungarian girl to pose for some modeling shots, little realising that she has overheard an assassination plot and is now being hunted by some dangerous killers.
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Alvin Rakoff
Cast:
Роджер Мур, Martha Hyer, Alexis Kanner, Claudie Lange, Derek Francis
5.4
N/A
N/A