Results for : Jean Simmons

Cage of Gold
3 84 min. 1950 HD
A young woman, Judith Moray, deserts her prospective fiance, the nice doctor Alan Kearn, for an old flame, the dashing but roguish former wing commander Bill Glennan. Glennan makes her pregnant and marries her, but leaves her on the morning after the wedding when he learns that her father can't offer him financial support. Two years later she - having been told that Glennan is dead - has married Kearn and borne him a son. But then Glennan suddenly reappears and begins to blackmail her.
Director: Basil Dearden
Genres: Crime , Drama
Actors: Jean Simmons, David Farrar, James Donald, Herbert Lom, Madeleine Lebeau


Home Before Dark
4 136 min. 1958 HD
A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital. Director Mervyn LeRoy's 1958 drama stars Jean Simmons, Dan O'Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Joanna Barnes, Mabel Albertson, Stephen Dunne, Marjorie Bennett, Kathryn Card, Joan Weldon and Eleanor Audley.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Genres: Drama
Actors: Jean Simmons, Dan O'Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Mabel Albertson


The Way to the Stars
3 109 min. 1945 HD
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
Director: Anthony Asquith
Genres: Drama , War , Romance
Actors: Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John, Douglass Montgomery, Renée Asherson


Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
3 100 min. 1991 HD
At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.
Director: Norman Stone
Genres: Mystery , Drama , Crime
Actors: Joan Hickson, Jean Simmons, Joss Ackland, Faith Brook, Holly Aird


This Could Be the Night
3 104 min. 1957 HD
To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.
Director: Robert Wise
Genres: Comedy
Actors: Jean Simmons, Paul Douglas, Anthony Franciosa, Julie Wilson, Neile Adams


Hamlet
4 155 min. 1948 HD
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.
Director: Laurence Olivier
Genres: Drama
Actors: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, John Laurie, Esmond Knight, Anthony Quayle


Great Expectations
4 118 min. 1946 HD
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Director: David Lean
Genres: Drama , Romance
Actors: John Mills, Tony Wager, Valerie Hobson, Jean Simmons, Bernard Miles


Decisions! Decisions!
0 110 min. 1971 HD
The misadventures of a salesman and a sexologist with the audience deciding on the various separate plots.
Director: Alex Segal
Genres: TV Movie , Comedy , Drama
Actors: Jean Simmons, Bob Newhart, Jill St. John, Lou Jacobi, John Carradine

Meet Sexton Blake
3 80 min. 1945 HD
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
Director: John Harlow
Genres: Drama , Thriller
Actors: David Farrar, Manning Whiley, Dennis Arundell, John Varley, Betty Huntley-Wright

Désirée
3 110 min. 1954 HD
In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.
Director: Henry Koster
Genres: Drama , Romance
Actors: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Merle Oberon, Michael Rennie, Cameron Mitchell


The Big Country
4 159 min. 1958 HD
Retired wealthy sea captain Jim McKay arrives in the vast expanse of the West to marry fiancée Pat Terrill. McKay is a man whose values and approach to life are a mystery to the ranchers and ranch foreman Steve Leech takes an immediate dislike to him. Pat is spoiled, selfish and controlled by her wealthy father, Major Henry Terrill. The Major is involved in a ruthless civil war, over watering rights for cattle, with a rough hewn clan led by Rufus Hannassey. The land in question is owned by Julie Maragon and both Terrill and Hannassey want it.
Director: William Wyler
Genres: Drama , Western , Romance
Actors: Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives


Affair with a Stranger
2 89 min. 1953 HD
Director Roy Rowland's 1953 drama, depicting the rocky marriage of a young model and her Broadway playwright-husband, stars Victor Mature, Jean Simmons, Jane Darwell, Dabbs Greer, Nicholas Joy, Lillian Bronson and George Cleveland.
Director: Roy Rowland
Genres: Drama , Romance
Actors: Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Mary Jo Tarola, Monica Lewis, Jane Darwell

Mr. Emmanuel
3 97 min. 1944 HD
An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany, Mr. Emmanuel’s efforts to seek out Hertha Rosenhein are greeted by a wall of silence from the scared Jewish community and anti-Semitic hatred from many Germans.
Director: Harold French
Genres: Drama
Actors: Felix Aylmer, Greta Gynt, Walter Rilla, Ursula Jeans, Jean Simmons

Black Narcissus
4 101 min. 1947 HD
A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.
Director: Emeric Pressburger
Genres: Drama
Actors: Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson, Kathleen Byron, Sabu


Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
3 106 min. 2001 HD
Led by a strange dream, scientist Aki Ross struggles to collect the eight spirits in the hope of creating a force powerful enough to protect the planet. With the aid of the Deep Eyes Squadron and her mentor, Dr. Sid, Aki must save the Earth from its darkest hate and unleash the spirits within.
Director: Hironobu Sakaguchi
Genres: Adventure , Action , Animation , Fantasy , Science Fiction , Thriller , Romance
Actors: Ming-Na Wen, Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, Peri Gilpin


Mister Buddwing
2 100 min. 1966 HD
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
Director: Delbert Mann
Genres: Drama , Mystery
Actors: James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Katharine Ross, Angela Lansbury


Uncle Silas
3 98 min. 1947 HD
Victorian gothic melodrama based on the novel by Sheridan Le Fanu from a screenplay adapted by Aldwych farceur Ben Travers. This creepy chiller is saved from the doldrums by Robert Krasker's atmospheric cinematography, and fine performances from the ensemble cast. The BBC later filmed the story for television in 1987. In 1845, 17-year-old Caroline (Jean Simmons) is nursing her dying father. He has enough faith in the reform of his reprobate brother, Silas (Derrick de Marney), suspected but in the clear of murder, to place her under his wing after his death. The hitherto naive heroine soon learns that scheming Uncle Silas is planning to kill her in order to get his hands on the family fortune, aided by the equally corrupt governess Madame de la Rougierre.
Director: Charles Frank
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery
Actors: Jean Simmons, Katina Paxinou, Derrick De Marney, Derek Bond, Sophie Stewart


A Bullet Is Waiting
2 90 min. 1954 HD
A plane carrying a sheriff and a man indicted for manslaughter is wrecked on a lonely California beach and the prisoner manages to escape, after a struggle, only to be taken in hand by the female manager of a remote sheep ranch.
Director: John Farrow
Genres: Western
Actors: Rory Calhoun, Jean Simmons, Stephen McNally, Brian Aherne


Spartacus
4 181 min. 1960 HD
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , History , War
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov


Rough Night in Jericho
4 104 min. 1967 HD
The only business in the Wild West town of Jericho that corrupt sheriff Alex Flood doesn't control behind the scenes is the stagecoach owned by tough-willed widow Molly Lang and her right-hand man, Hickman. Former marshal Dolan, recently hired by Lang and Hickman as a driver, wants to stay out of the mess, but when he sees Flood's henchman Yarbrough assault Lang, he steps up to fight the corruption.
Director: Arnold Laven
Genres: Western
Actors: Dean Martin, George Peppard, Jean Simmons, John McIntire, Slim Pickens


The Woman in the Hall
3 93 min. 1947 HD
Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.
Director: Jack Lee
Genres: Drama
Actors: Ursula Jeans, Jean Simmons, Cecil Parker, Joan Miller, Edward Underdown


So Long at the Fair
4 81 min. 1950 HD
Vicky Barton and her brother, Johnny, take a trip to the 1896 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in a hotel. When the sister gets up the next morning, she finds her brother and his room had disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out what exactly happened to her brother.
Director: Terence Fisher
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Romance
Actors: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, Marcel Poncin, Cathleen Nesbitt


Young Bess
3 112 min. 1953 HD
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons' then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.
Director: George Sidney
Genres: Drama , History , Romance
Actors: Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kay Walsh


Divorce American Style
3 109 min. 1967 HD
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
Director: Bud Yorkin
Genres: Comedy
Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards, Jean Simmons, Tim Matheson


This Earth Is Mine
4 124 min. 1959 HD
Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not they wanted to cooperate with bootleggers to survive.
Director: Henry King
Genres: Drama
Actors: Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons, Dorothy McGuire, Claude Rains, Kent Smith


Hungry Hill
3 103 min. 1947 HD
Life becomes a tragedy for the wife (Margaret Lockwood) of an Irish heir (Dennis Price) to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Genres: Drama
Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Dennis Price, Cecil Parker, Dermot Walsh, Michael Denison


Howl's Moving Castle
4 119 min. 2004 HD
When Sophie, a shy young woman, is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Genres: Fantasy , Animation , Adventure
Actors: Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa, Tatsuya Gashûin, Ryunosuke Kamiki


December Flower
0 57 min. 1984 HD
Newly widowed Etta visits her beloved Aunt M and discovers her bedridden and listless. Etta's struggle to restore her aunt's dignity and cheer brings renewed meaning to the lives of both women, but also reveals family secrets and forces confrontations with her aunt's indifferent son and hostile daughter-in-law.
Director: Stephen Frears
Genres: Drama , TV Movie
Actors: June Ritchie, Bryan Forbes, Jean Simmons, Mona Washbourne


Androcles and the Lion
3 98 min. 1952 HD
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. Pascal’s final Shaw production is played broadly, with comic character actor Alan Young as the titular naïf. He’s ably supported by Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Robert Newton, and Elsa Lanchester.
Director: Nicholas Ray
Genres: Comedy
Actors: Victor Mature, Jean Simmons, Alan Young, Robert Newton, Maurice Evans


Say Hello to Yesterday
2 96 min. 1971 HD
Approaching middle-age and stuck in an unfulfilled marriage, a suburban British housewife allows herself a sexual fling with a brash young hunk she meets on a commuter train.
Director: Alvin Rakoff
Genres: Comedy , Drama
Actors: Jean Simmons, Leonard Whiting, Evelyn Laye, Geoffrey Bayldon, James Cossins


Adam and Evelyne
4 92 min. 1949 HD
The father of a girl in an orphanage has been writing his daughter, who doesn't remember him, tales of his success in business. Actually, he is impersonating a friend, a handsome gambler. When the father dies, the gambler takes to girl from the orphanage and tells her the truth. But the girl is now a full-grown beauty and complications arise, including those provided by a black-sheep brother.
Director: Harold French
Genres: Romance , Comedy
Actors: Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Edwin Styles, Raymond Young, Helen Cherry


Heidi
3 105 min. 1968 HD
Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her aunt Dete in Maienfeld, Switzerland. In order to get a job in Frankfurt, Dete brings 5-year-old Heidi to her grandfather, who has been at odds with the villagers for years and lives in seclusion on the alm. He at first resents Heidi's arrival, but the girl manages to penetrate his harsh exterior and subsequently has a delightful stay with him and her best friend, young Peter the goat-herd.
Director: Delbert Mann
Genres: Drama , Family
Actors: Jennifer Edwards, Michael Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, Jean Simmons, Walter Slezak


Give Us the Moon
3 95 min. 1944 HD
Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living. He discovers a society of "White Elephants" who are quite willing to be poor as long as they don't have to work. They are protected and guided by Nina (Margaret Lockwood) and her precocious sister Heidi (Jean Simmons).
Director: Val Guest
Genres: Comedy
Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver, Peter Graves, Roland Culver, Jean Simmons


Beggarman, Thief
3 240 min. 1979 HD
Sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man" with more characters branching off from the Jordache family.
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Genres: Drama , TV Movie
Actors: Jean Simmons, Glenn Ford, Lynn Redgrave, Tovah Feldshuh, Andrew Stevens


She Couldn't Say No
3 89 min. 1954 HD
An heiress decides to pass out anonymous gifts in a small town.
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Genres: Comedy
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Arthur Hunnicutt, Edgar Buchanan, Wallace Ford


The Egyptian
3 139 min. 1954 HD
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Genres: History , Drama
Actors: Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney, Peter Ustinov, Edmund Purdom

Shadows In The Sun
2 78 min. 2009 HD
A mysterious young loner changes the lives of one family and helps them rediscover their roots and deep affection for one another.
Director: David Rocksavage
Genres: Drama
Actors: Jean Simmons, Jamie Dornan, James Wilby, Ophelia Lovibond, Toby Marlow
Going Undercover
2 89 min. 1988 HD
Forever bungling private investigator Henry Brilliant (Chris Lemmon) has been hired by Maxine de la Hunt (Jean Simmons) to protect her step-daughter Marigold (Lea Thompson) during her trip to Denmark. A real caring parent should have hired an army of P.I.s to protect Marigold from Mr. Brilliant. His name, he's not.
Director: James Kenelm Clarke
Genres: Comedy
Actors: Chris Lemmon, Jean Simmons, Lea Thompson, Viveca Lindfors, Mills Watson

All the Way Home
3 97 min. 1963 HD
In the early 1900's Tennessee, a loving family undergoes the shock of the father's sudden, accidental death. The widow and her young son must endure the heartache of life following the tragedy, but slowly rise up from the ashes to face the hope of renewed life.
Director: Alex Segal
Genres: Drama
Actors: Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, Pat Hingle, Aline MacMahon, Thomas Chalmers

Daisies in December
2 98 min. 1995 HD
A seaside hotel for senior citizens is the setting for late-season love as costars Jean Simmons and Joss Ackland meet and make a match in this romantic human drama. Gerald's a stuffy ex-stockbroker who's been placed in the facility for his own best interest. Katherine's a warm and friendly resident with a soaring spirit and a zest for life. Their union is a transforming one, and also timely, as Katherine stands on the threshhold of a painful and very frightening battle with cancer. Poignant storytelling with a winning pair of costars.
Director: Mark Haber
Genres: Drama
Actors: Jean Simmons, Joss Ackland, Judith Barker, Muriel Pavlow, Barbara Lott

Guys and Dolls
3 150 min. 1955 HD
Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Genres: Comedy , Romance
Actors: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith


Until They Sail
4 94 min. 1957 HD
Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII.
Director: Robert Wise
Genres: Drama , Romance , War
Actors: Jean Simmons, Joan Fontaine, Paul Newman, Piper Laurie, Sandra Dee


Inherit the Wind
4 96 min. 1988 HD
Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.
Director: David Greene
Genres: Drama , TV Movie
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Jason Robards, Darren McGavin, Jean Simmons, Kyle Secor


Elmer Gantry
4 146 min. 1960 HD
When hedonistic but charming con man Elmer Gantry meets the beautiful Sister Sharon Falconer, a roadside revivalist, he feigns piousness to join her act as a passionate preacher. The two make a successful onstage pair, and their chemistry extends to romance. Both the show and their relationship are threatened, however, when one of Gantry's ex-lovers decides that she has a score to settle with the charismatic performer.
Director: Richard Brooks
Genres: Drama
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, Shirley Jones


Life at the Top
4 117 min. 1965 HD
Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But his career seems to have plateaued, leaving him disillusioned. This feeling is only exacerbated when he discovers his wife's infidelity with local man Mark. So he takes up with attractive TV host Norah and moves with her to London, aiming to reignite the fire that drove him to the top.
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Genres: Drama
Actors: Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig, Donald Wolfit
