Movies with David Niven
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The Brain
Genres: Comedy, Crime
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, David Niven, Bourvil
Directors: Gérard Oury
Country: France
Year: 1969
Available Quality: Hi Def
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing
Bonjour tristesse
Genres: Drama
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Geoffrey Horne, David Niven, Roland Culver, Jean Seberg, Walter Chiari, Martita Hunt
Directors: Otto Preminger
Country: USA
Year: 1958
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod
Cecile, decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father Raymond. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life.
The Guns of Navarone
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Anthony Quayle, James Robertson Justice, Irene Papas, Percy Herbert, Gregory Peck, David Niven
Directors: J. Lee Thompson
Country: USA, UK
Year: 1961
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod
Two powerful German guns control the seas past the Greek island of Navarone making the evacuation of endangered British troops on a neighboring island impossible. Air attack is useless so a team of six Allied and Greek soldiers is put ashore to meet up with partisans to try and dynamite the guns. The mission is perilous enough anyway but are the Germans on the island getting further help too?.
The Pink Panther (1963)
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Family
Starring: Brenda De Banzie, John Le Mesurier, Robert Wagner, Peter Sellers, David Niven, Michael Trubshawe, Claudia Cardinale
Directors: Blake Edwards
Country: USA, UK
Year: 1963
The trademark of The Phantom, a reknowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for Switzerland, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who anyone else really is...
Casino Royale (1967)
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Starring: Ursula Andress, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Peter Sellers, Deborah Kerr, William Holden, Kurt Kasznar, David Niven
Directors: Ken Hughes, Val Guest
Country: USA, UK
Year: 1967
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
After the death of M, Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH and Le Chiffre, Bond thinks up the ultimate plan. That every agent will be named James Bond. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle, especially when the ultimate villain turns out to be Bonds nephew, Jimmy Bond.
The Moon Is Blue
Genres: Comedy
Starring: William Holden, David Niven, Tom Tully, Fortunio Bonanova, Dawn Addams, Maggie McNamara, Gregory Ratoff
Directors: Otto Preminger
Country: USA
Year: 1953
Successful architect Don Gresham (William Holden) engages a young actress, Patty O'Neill (Maggie McNamara), in conversation on top of the Empire State Building, and she accepts his invitation to dinner. Dropping in at his apartment on the way, they decide to dine there as Patty announces herself an excellent cook. Don slips out to buy food, and Patty is briefly visited by his ex-fianc
The Prisoner of Zenda
Genres: Adventure, Romance, Drama
Starring: Raymond Massey, David Niven, Florence Roberts, C. Aubrey Smith, Mary Astor, Torben Meyer, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Directors: John Cromwell
Country: USA
Year: 1937
This is a classic swashbuckler. Rudolph Rassendyll, Rudolf V's identical distant cousin, is asked to risk his life and impersonate the would-be king when his relative is kidnapped before his impending coronation. If Rudolf V isn't present at the ceremony, he will forfeit the crown to his younger brother. Complications ensue when Princess Flavia, the cousin's betrothed, begins to notice a "personality change" in her fianc
Separate Tables
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Cathleen Nesbitt, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Rod Taylor, David Niven, Rita Hayworth, Gladys Cooper
Directors: Delbert Mann
Country: USA
Year: 1958
It's the off-season at the lonely Beauregard Hotel in Bournemoth, and only the long-term tenants are still in residence. Life at the Beauregard is stirred up, however, when the beautiful Ann Shankland arrives to see her alcoholic ex-husband, John Malcolm, who is secretly engaged to Pat Cooper, the woman who runs the hotel. Meanwhile, snobbish Mrs Railton-Bell discovers that the kindly if rather doddering Major Pollock is not what he appears to be. The news is particularly shocking for her frail daughter, Sibyl, who is secretly in love with the Major.
A Matter of Life and Death
Genres: Romance, Fantasy, Drama
Starring: Raymond Massey, Kim Hunter, David Niven, Richard Attenborough, Kathleen Byron, Bonar Colleano, Marius Goring
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Country: UK
Year: 1946
Returning to England from a bombing run in May 1945, flyer Peter Carter's plane is damaged and his parachute ripped to shreds. He has his crew bail out safely, but figures it is curtains for himself. He gets on the radio, and talks to June, a young American woman working for the USAAF, and they are quite moved by each other's voices. Then he jumps, preferring this to burning up with his plane. He wakes up in the surf. It was his time to die, but there was a mixup in heaven. They couldn't find him in all that fog. By the time his "Conductor" catches up with him 20 hours later, Peter and June have met and fallen in love. This changes everything...
Escape to Athena
Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure
Starring: Telly Savalas, Elliott Gould, Roger Moore, Richard Roundtree, David Niven, Paul Picerni, Claudia Cardinale
Directors: George P. Cosmatos
Country: UK
Year: 1979
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a greek island are trying to escape. They don't want only their freedom, but they also seek for an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the top of the island's mountain.
The Bishop's Wife
Genres: Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
Starring: Tito Vuolo, David Niven, Regis Toomey, Cary Grant, Gladys Cooper, Sara Haden, Elsa Lanchester
Directors: Henry Koster
Country: USA
Year: 1947
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.
Bachelor Mother
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Starring: Charles Coburn, Frank Albertson, David Niven, Dennie Moore, Paul Stanton, Ginger Rogers, E.E. Clive
Directors: Garson Kanin
Country: USA
Year: 1939
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling. Outraged at Polly's unmotherly conduct, David Merlin becomes determined to keep the single woman and "her" baby together.
55 Days at Peking
Genres: Drama, History, War
Starring: Charlton Heston, John Ireland, Robert Helpmann, Harry Andrews, Kurt Kasznar, David Niven, Flora Robson
Directors: Nicholas Ray
Country: USA
Year: 1963
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp, Miles Mander, Cecil Kellaway, Leo G. Carroll
Directors: William Wyler
Country: USA
Year: 1939
The story of unfortunate lovers Heathcliff and Cathy who, despite a deep affection for one another, are forced by circumstance and prejudice to live their apart. Heathcliff and Cathy first meet as children when her father brings the abandoned boy to live with them. When the old man dies several years later Cathy's brother, now the master of the estate, turns Heathcliff out forcing him to live with the servants and working as a stable boy. The barrier of class comes between them and she eventually marries a rich neighbor, Mr. Edgar Linton, at which point Heathcliff disappears. He returns several years later, now a rich man but little can be do...
The Statue
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Robert Vaughn, John Cleese, David Niven, Derek Francis, Ann Bell, Erik Chitty, Virna Lisi
Directors: Rod Amateau
Country: USA, UK
Year: 1971
Bolt, a British linguist, develops a universal language, so he's a sudden sensation and receives a Nobel prize. An ambitious diplomat, capitalizing on Bolt's celebrity, arranges for the U.S. to commission a statue for a London square to honor Bolt's achievement. Bolt's Italian wife, a renowned artist, sculpts an 18-foot nude of Bolt. In a pique, because he's neglected her for years to do his work, she gives the statue a spectacular phallus, telling Bolt that he wasn't its model. Thinking he's a cuckold, Bolt goes on a jealous search for a man matching the statue. The diplomat, too, wants changes in the statue to protect his conservative image...
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Starring: Herman Bing, Gary Cooper, David Niven, Claudette Colbert, Franklin Pangborn, Elizabeth Patterson, Edward Everett Horton
Directors: Ernst Lubitsch
Country: USA
Year: 1938
US multi-millionaire Michael Barndon marries his eight wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to "tame" him.
Thank You, Jeeves!
Genres: Comedy
Starring: David Niven, Douglas Walton, Arthur Treacher, Virginia Field, Lester Matthews, Colin Tapley, John Graham Spacey
Directors: Arthur Greville Collins
Country: USA
Year: 1936
Erudite manservant Jeeves hopes to keep his frivolous employer Bertie out of new harrowing adventures, but a damsel in distress, carrying half of some mysterious plans, intrudes on their London flat one rainy night. Bertie follows her to country hotel Mooring Manor, prepared to do slapstick battle with crooks posing as Scotland Yard men.
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance
Starring: Patric Knowles, Olivia de Havilland, Robert Barrat, David Niven, Donald Crisp, Errol Flynn, Nigel Bruce
Directors: Michael Curtiz
Country: USA
Year: 1936
Why is The Charge of the Light Brigade so rarely even mentioned among Errol Flynn's swashbucklers? It's a terrific movie, something like the peak of spectacular Hollywood action filmmaking and the bravura style of Michael Curtiz. The setting--till the Crimean War climax--is the Indian frontier (impersonated, as so often, by rocky Lone Pine, California), where the 27th Bengal Lancers run afoul of an Oxford-educated slime named Surat Khan (C. Henry Gordon). Flynn and Olivia de Havilland bring real tenderness to two-thirds of a romantic triangle (the other corner is the hero's brother, Patric Knowles). There's the fearsome siege of Chukoti, an u...
Dodsworth
Genres: Romance, Drama
Starring: David Niven, John Payne, Paul Lukas, Maria Ouspenskaya, Mary Astor, Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton
Directors: William Wyler
Country: USA
Year: 1936
A bittersweet tale of the increasing estrangement of a retired automobile tycoon and his wife. Increasingly obsessed with maintaining an appearance of youth, she falls in with a crowd of frivolous socialites during their "second honeymoon" European vacation. He, in turn, meets a woman who is everything she is not; self-assured, self-confident, and able to take care of herself.
Death on the Nile
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Starring: I.S. Johar, Jon Finch, Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Maggie Smith, Bette Davis, Mia Farrow
Directors: John Guillermin
Country: UK
Year: 1978
Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot has a set of murder suspects on a boat in the Nile after a rich heiress is killed. Can he find the culprit before they reach port ?