Lewis Gilbert

Lewis Gilbert
Country: UK
Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Actor), 37 (Director), 13 (Writer)
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Alfie
Alfie is the ultimate Ladykiller. He is wonderfully successful with women. He also rarely gets emotionally involved with them... (imdb)
Operation Daybreak
In 1942 Czechoslovakia, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich is appointed to become the Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia... (imdb)
You Only Live Twice
Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked.
Moonraker
James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.
The Spy Who Loved Me
007 must work with his female Soviet counterpart to find the answer to the disappearance of nuclear missile carrying submarines.
Educating Rita
A young wife decides to complete her education and take her exams. She meets a professor who teaches... (imdb)
Haunted
Professor David Ash is invited to Edbrook to calm the fears of the elderly nanny of the Mariell family. Nanny Tess is seeing things, and Ash's book debunking such phenomenon makes him a good choice to set her mind at ease and convince her she is just tired and stressed... (imdb)
Shirley Valentine
Shirley's a middle-aged Liverpool housewife, who finds herself talking to the wall while she prepares her husband's chip'n'egg, wondering what happened to her life. She compares scenes in her current life with what she used to be like and feels she's stagnated and in a rut. But when her best friend wins an all-expenses-paid vacation to Greece for two, Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light. (imdb)
Reach for the Sky
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II. (imdb)
Sink the Bismarck!
Chronicles the breakout of the Bismark during the early days of World War Two. Seen both from the point of view of the many naval vessels on both sides and from the central headquarters of the British where the search for the super battleship was controlled. (imdb)
Paradise Lagoon
Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household; he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant Crichton and lady's maid Tweeny, the class system is put to the test. (imdb)
Carve Her Name with Pride
Violette Bushell is the daughter of an English father and a French mother, living in London in the early years of World War 2. She meets a handsome young French soldier in the park and takes him back for the family Bastille day celebrations. They fall in love, marry and have a baby girl when Violette Szabo receives the dreaded telegram informing her of his death in North Africa. Shortly afterwards, Violette is approached to join the SOE (Special Operations Executive). (imdb)
Friends
The story begins on a level that might be described as pornographic Horatio Alger, and descends from there. A little French girl, who speaks English in a cloyingly cute accent, comes to the city because her father has died and she is an orphan. But her relatives do not love her. Meanwhile, a rich English boy, likewise unloved, runs away from his Paris home and meets the girl in the zoo. They become friends and decide to leave the world of adults and exist on their own. (Roger Ebert)
Damn the Defiant!
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases. (imdb)
The Good Die Young
Three good men - a broken boxer, an American veteran trying to win back his mother-dominated wife, and an air force sergeant married to a faithless actress - are corrupted by Miles Ravenscourt, an amoral "gentleman." Because they need money, they let Miles lure them into his scheme to rob a postal van with a large cash cargo. (imdb)
The 7th Dawn
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War. (imdb)
Ferry to Hong Kong
Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain Hart. Conrad's papers are out of order and Macao refuses him entry. Unable to go ashore, Conrad is a permanent passenger on the ferry with Hart, who detests him. (imdb)
Cast a Dark Shadow
A British fortune-hunter playboy is killing his rich wives in order to inherit their wealth. (imdb)
Stepping Out
It's Liza-as-you-love-her in Stepping Out, a modest heartwarmer about a bunch of suburban left-feeters getting it together for a charity dance spot. Fragile ensemble item often creaks under the Minnelli glitz, but results are likeable enough. Adapted by Richard Harris from his 1984 award-winning play, action is switched from a London church hall to a Buffalo, NY, equivalent. Minnelli is a former pro hoofer who's now teaching amateur dance classes on the side. (Variety)
The Adventurers
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was really murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country--a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren't quite as black and white as he had assumed. (imdb)
The Greengage Summer
The film tells the sensible story of a British girl who awakes from childhood on vacations in France finding life and love. (imdb)
Not Quite Paradise
While working in a kibbutz (an Israeli voluntary farming collective community), a tourist and a female worker fall in love. However, he can't stay and she can't leave her work. Will love triumph? (imdb)
The Hundred Hour Hunt
A doctor enlists the help of a policeman in order to search for a blood donor with a rare blood type.
Break to Freedom
When several escapes at an German pow camp go wrong, the prisoners begin to think, that there is an informer revealing their plans to the enemy. Then Lt Ainsworth, an artist in civvie street, invents a model head of a fictious prisoner, who can take the place of an escaper, when the men march back from the bath house, which is situated outside the camp. (imdb)
A Cry from the Streets
A welfare worker becomes emotionally involved with her charges, a group of adorable, homeless orphans. (imdb)
Light Up the Sky!
A comedy drama set in a WWII British Army Searchlight Squad. They are an odd bunch of misfits but somehow manage to get the job done. (imdb)
There Is Another Sun
The story about a prizefighter and a motorcycle daredevil that vie for the beautiful girl from the Carnival.
Johnny on the Run
Janek (Eugeniusz Chylek) is a war orphan from Poland who now lives with a distant relative in Edinburgh, his aunt (Mona Washbourne) and her three children, but he is not made to feel at all welcome by his relatives, aside from his younger cousin Janet (Margaret McCourt) who shows him the only kindness.
Cosh Boy
Amongst the bomb-sites and dark alleys of postwar London Roy Walsh and his gang of juvenile delinquents waylay and rob old ladies. Without parental control from his war-widowed doting mother, Welsh, already on probation, drifts into more and more devious and serious offences.
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
In the North Sea in 1944, passengers of a downed RAF transport aircraft talk about their lives while awaiting rescue in their dinghy.
The Little Ballerina
A young girl has an ambition to dance with the famous Sadlers Wells troupe but first she must win a scholarship. Includes a performance of Les Sylphides by Margot Fonteyn.
Seven Nights in Japan
The fictional British royal Prince George travels to Japan and falls in love with a local female tour guide named Sumi. He considers breaking the rules and staying with her there, but a Japanese gangster wants him dead. (imdb)
Time, Gentlemen, Please!
Due to its high productivity and (almost) 100% employment, the British Prime Minister is set to visit the village of Little Hayhoe, and the residents want to send the local tramp (Eddie Byrne) to an almshouse.
Paul and Michelle
The continuation of Friends (1971). The story begins three years after Paul Harrison is forced to leave Michelle Latour and their baby, Sylvie, alone in the Camargue after the police finally locate his workplace.
Once a Sinner
A lowly bank clerk marries a good time girl but she two-times him for her old crooked boyfriend.
Scarlet Thread
Two villains team up to steal some jewelry. The robbery goes wrong and an innocent man is shot.
The Ten Year Plan
The British Government's ten year plan for providing prefabricated homes.