David Lean

A Passage to India 1984

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft

7.3 IMDB Rating 383 Views
The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.

Category: Adventure, Drama, War

Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins

8.1 IMDB Rating 594 Views
Lawrence of Arabia (Part 1- Part 2) 1962

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama

Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn

8.3 IMDB Rating 6,001 Views
Doctor Zhivago 1965

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

Category: Drama, Romantic, War

Stars: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin

7.9 IMDB Rating 3,889 Views
Brief Encounter 1945

Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.

Category: Drama, Romantic

Stars: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway

8.0 IMDB Rating 2,577 Views