196 Christopher Lee Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

The fight for control of the future of Middle-earth intensifies as Aragorn, aided by Gandalf, Legolas, and Gimli, rallies his army at Minas Tirith to fight against the evil forces of Sauron. However, it is only a distraction to give Frodo and Sam more time to destroy the One Ring at the fires of Mount Doom.

After inheriting a mysterious ring forged millennia ago by Dark Lord Sauron to conquer Middle-earth, Frodo Baggins volunteers to carry it to be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom. In this epic quest, he is accompanied by The Fellowship consisting of Wizard Gandalf, Elf Legolas, Dwarf Gimli, Boromir of Gondor, Isildur's heir Aragorn, and fellow Hobbits Sam, Merry, Pippin.

The second installment of The Lord of the Rings saga continues Frodo and Sam's epic quest to destroy the One Ring and sees them enlisting the guidance of the mysterious Gollum to traverse through the treacherous Dead Marshes, while their friends from the Fellowship, including resurrected Gandalf, help free King Theoden of Rohan from Saruman's deadly spell.

Following an unexpected visit from the wizard Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins, a simple hobbit from the Shire, reluctantly joins thirteen dwarves on a perilous quest to reclaim their home under the Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug. They travel through treacherous lands across the Middle-Earth and encounter various dangerous creatures, including the mysterious Gollum obsessed with his 'precious' ring.

Anakin Skywalker, now a Jedi Knight disillusioned with the crumbling order, is encouraged by Chancellor Palpatine to use the dark side to kill Count Dooku while rescuing the former with Obi-Wan Kenobi. When he gets visions of his pregnant wife Padmé Amidala dying in childbirth, Palpatine again lures him to the dark side, promising him powers to prevent death.

Hugo, an orphan boy, sneakily maintains the clocks of the Paris train station he lives in while his uncle is mysteriously missing. He often steals toy parts from bitter store owner Georges to repair an automaton found by his late father, but it can only be activated with a special key in possession of Georges' goddaughter Isabelle.

This is a folk horror film centering on a police sergeant’s visit to an isolated Scottish island in search of a missing girl.  His enquiry draws a blank as he is told there was no such girl. He also notices the residents following pagan rituals and openly displaying frivolous sexual activities.  When he returns to his seaplane he finds it sabotaged. 

Based on the novel The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien, this epic fantasy film serves as one of the three prequels to The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. The film revolves around a hobbit Bilbo Baggins, who engages in a war along with his comrades, to protect the Lonely Mountain from falling into the hands of darkness. 

Sleepy Hollow is a thriller directed by Tim Burton set in the gothic town of the same name, where a detective tries to solve the murders committed by a local legend, the headless horseman. Johnny Depp stars as an eccentric New York detective who uncovers the secret of the murderer's penchant for killing his victims by decapitation of their heads.

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. is an action adventure war film which revolves around the adventures of a British Navy Captain, in the seas of Central America. Along with his crew, he battles a Spanish warship, as well as a group of Central American rebels. He also saves Lady Barbara Wellesley and falls in love with her, but she is unfortunately betrothed to someone else.

Jim Hawkins is a young man who is running the Benbow Inn along with his mother. His life takes a turn when he discovers the map to a hidden treasure. He embarks on a dangerous adventure, hoping to find the treasure, and on the way, he forms an unlikely bond with a pirate who is also looking for the treasure.

The Three Musketeers is an action adventure film based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas.  The film tells the story of a young man from the countryside, who comes to Paris, after learning swordsmanship from his father. He soon faces several adventures along with his Musketeer friends.

During the 1700s, Pirate captain Vallo seizes a British warship and along with several Caribbean rebels, he gets involved in many moneymaking schemes.

A famous detective and his sidekick investigate the disappearance of the husband of a Russian ballerina. The case causes them to uncover a host of strange occurrences including secret naval experiments.

Baron Victor Frankenstein, trying to evade execution for murder, recounts his life-story to a priest. After inheriting his family estate, Frankenstein appoints Krempe as tutor and later they carry experiments to bring dead creatures to life. However, Krempe withdraws when Frankenstein starts assembling parts from different human corpses. The creature that he brings to life turns disobedient and violent, and lands Frankenstein in trouble.   

The Four Musketeers is adapted from the second part of the novel The Three Musketeers. Four valiant swordsmen save the Queen of France and her dressmaker from an evil clergyman and his spy.

A Swiss professor who teaches philosophy, notices a young woman who is about to commit suicide, by jumping from a bridge. He decides to save her life, after which she accompanies him to the school where he teaches. However, she leaves in the middle of her class, without her coat. The professor decides to start searching for her, but in vain.

The sensitive solar cell technology, Solex Agitator, goes missing and then is being sold to the highest bidder. On a mission to recover it, James Bond is beleaguered by the world’s most expensive assassin, Francisco Scaramanga, famous for carrying a golden gun. As Bond tracks him down with the help of Mary Goodnight, the two have a deadly confrontation on Scaramanga’s faraway island. 

Eccentric candy maker Willy Wonka hides five golden tickets in random chocolate bars that will grant five children a special tour of his amazing chocolate factory. Amidst massive rush, a poor boy named Charlie manages to win the fifth ticket and is accompanied by his grandfather in this once-in-a-lifetime adventure that will change his life forever.

The second movie in Star Wars prequel trilogy has the former queen of Naboo, Padmé Amidala serving as the Senator in the Galactic Republic. When there is an assassination attempt on her, Obi-Wan Kenobi sets out to investigate the matter and discovers a massive army of clones. Meanwhile, Anakin Skywalker, while protecting Padme Amidala, falls in love with her.

Corridor of Mirrors is a mystery drama film which tells the story of a wealthy British artist who falls for a beautiful young woman. However, he also starts to believe that he may have loved her in a previous life. However, soon his preoccupation with the past turns into an obsession.

Nick Morell is the son of a famous English philosopher who gets friendly with Guido, a young man, while vacationing in Italy. He discovers that Guido possesses an incredible talent for music.

Professor Sir Alexander Saxton, a renowned British anthropologist is traveling along with various other passengers on the Trans-Siberian Express from Shanghai to Moscow. With him are the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature, which he believes might be the missing link in the evolution of mankind. Things get ugly when the creature comes to life and begins to attack the passengers.

The orphaned Mogwai Gizmo is captured by wicked Dr. Catheter inside the sky-scraper Clamp Tower, where Billy and Kate work for media-tycoon Daniel Clamp. Gizmo accidently spawns innumerable offspring who create chaos in Clamp Tower. As Gizmo and humans try to control them, the Gremlins, led by Brain Gremlin, plan to escape into New York after dark. Will they be stopped in time?

As the World War II is approaching, Anne Keyes, daughter of a wealthy politician is pursuing an acting career. Since the government is trying to make sure that no war ever happens, Anne is quite comfortable with her life. Her life takes a turn when she begins to discover dark secrets regarding her family.

After his mother’s death and his father’s disappearance, Bosse suffers neglect at the hands of his guardians. Eventually, one night, he decides to run away to seek his own father. He soon meets a genie who takes him to a fantasy land where his actual father is the King. He begins to live a happy and comfortable life, but things take a turn when he learns that an Evil Knight has been kidnapping children and turning them into slaves. He decides to set out on a quest to set things right. 

Mark Walsh is a photojournalist who has earned a reputation for working in various unforgiving locations on Earth. When his editor assigns him to Kurdistan, he heads off with full confidence, along with his friend and colleague David. However, after being separated from David, he comes back home. His behavior gets strange and his girlfriend Elena gets worried about him, and about what happened to his friend.

In the eighteenth century, Collinsport, Barnabas Collins spurns the romantic advances of Angelique, a witch and becomes cursed. Everything he loves dies, including his fiancée Josette and he is buried as a vampire. When he escapes two centuries later, he must stop Angelique and other evil forces while trying to save Victoria Winters, a doppelganger of Josette.  

Harry Faversham, defies his family’s military tradition, and decides to avoid the British war by staying at his home in London. While his fellow officers call him a coward, his fiancée Mary calls off their engagement. 

In a parallel universe where the ruling power detests free thinkers, an unknown group is kidnapping children. An orphan joins a bunch of sailors, on their way to the far North, to look for the missing children. This fantasy adventure is based on the 1995 book Northern Lights.

This black comedy film revolves around two grave robbers in the nineteenth century, who find that providing cadavers for a medical school can be quite a lucrative business.

Paul Linden is a wealthy and successful architect who returns to his home in Marylebone, London, with a new, beautiful and young French wife named Nicole. He tries to introduce Nichole to his teen daughter Jennifer, but the girl seems quite unhappy about her father’s remarriage, and also seems to dislike her new stepmother. Shortly after, she sneaks out to attend a music event with her friends, where she finds herself attracted to a guy named Dave.

This action adventure film takes us to 1948, in a fictional country named Zakharstan, where a young diplomat working at the US embassy is asked to find Ellen Jasper, the daughter of an influential US senator. He soon comes to know that she might be living among a tribe, whose leader is an outlaw having a bitter relationship with the government.  

In order to restore another man’s faith in love, a man starts to recall his relationships with the women in his life whom he had loved. He also tells the story of the woman whom he ended up marrying, and how she left him during childbirth.

The Pirates of Blood River is an action adventure thriller film which tells the story of a man named Jonathan, who is imprisoned after being falsely accused of adultery. Eventually, he manages to escape captivity, but he is soon captured by Capt. LaRoche, a pirate who is looking for a treasure. It seems that the treasure is located in Jonathan’s home village, and LaRoche forces him to lead him back to retrieve it.    

A French reporter who is working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints in Soho district in London, soon gets involved in the lives of the owners.

When a dead body is found, Detective Pierre Niemans is called to investigate. Soon it seems that it may be a cult killing based on obscure passages from the Bible. He soon finds himself in the middle of an international conspiracy, which goes back to the Second World War.

After the Pearl Harbor attack, California, which is feared to be the next target of the Japanese, is gripped in a panic wave. As hysteria spreads after spotting a Japanese sub off the California coast, varied groups of Californians set their own defense actions in motion. Major-General Joseph Stilwell, sent to compose the paranoid public, tries to make sense of the goings-on. 

Trottie True is a chorus girl in the 1890s who gets married to Lord Digby Landon, which makes her the Duchess of Wellwater, shortly after when he succeeds to the dukedom. Although the staff is delighted by her music hall background, it displeases her aristocratic in-laws.

Set in the early 19th century France, the film follows a traveling circus, which has been invited by Count Drago to perform in his castle in exchange of handsome payment. When the circus eventually reach the castle, they find its doors open and on entering a room find numerous stuffed toys. These toys are so well made that they seem to be alive.    

Beyond Mombasa is an adventure mystery film which tells the story of an American man who decides to go to East Africa, in order to investigate the death of his brother.

A group of art thieves hijack a Boeing 747 carrying a collection of priceless works of art. Due to circumstances, however, the plane hits an oil rig, after which it crashes into the sea, which leads the passengers and crew to fight for their survival.

Circle of Iron is a martial arts fantasy adventure film which tells the story of Cord, a young martial artist, who competes for the right to go on a quest for the Book of All Knowledge, which is held by a wizard named Zetan. Although he loses, he decides to go on the quest anyway. His journey eventually leads him to an aging blind man, who shows him the true meaning of life and martial arts.

Evil sorcerer, Caliph Alquazar, promises his daughter’s hand in marriage to Prince Hasan, if Hasan can bring him the magical Rose of Elil. Prince Hasan embarks on a magical adventure, overcoming obstacles, genies and battling monsters to reach the rose and claim the hand of the Princess Zuleira. 

During the Second World War, Captain Invincible helped the Allied Forces by using his superpowers against the Nazis, and he was proclaimed a hero. But when they accused him of being a supporter of the communists, he retires and goes to Australia. Now his help is required once again, after a super secret weapon is stolen in the US. 

Dr. Mandeville, with his sister, Sarah, is trying to locate a fortune hidden on the estate of his deceased patient Andrew Marr. Edward Foster, the mentally unstable rightful heir, also arrives and starts getting flashbacks of the past, wherein Andrew killed his wife and children for murdering his mistress. The money they are looking for is bricked in a wall along with those bodies.

A pianist who loses his hands in a plane crash undergoes a transplant surgery arranged by his fiancée. He receives the hands of an executed criminal. However, the hands have the same murderous tendencies of the previous owner. 

The movie follows Carabinieri Colonel, Dante Matucci, investigating murders of different people in powerful positions in Italy. A drawing of a salamander is left behind at each murder scene. A sinister Fascist plot to overthrow the Italian government is revealed as the body count keeps increasing. 

In order to crack the mystery behind an international drug smuggling circuit, the Scotland Yard takes the help of a Chinese detective, who is also trying to find the ‘Daffodil Killer`. 

This historical adventure romantic drama film revolves around the life of widowed Princess Ana de Mendoza who becomes the object of rivalry between three men. They include her cousin Don Inigo, King Phillip II of Spain, and lastly, Antonio Perez, his secretary of state.

The Satanic Rites of Dracula is a horror film which tells the story of a vampire researcher, who is hired by the British Secret Service, to investigate the mysterious death of an agent who had died while he was working to expose a satanic cult.

One by one, three trustees of the Van Traylen fund die within months by committing suicide. When the remaining three are involved in a mysterious bus accident with thirty other orphan children, police officer Colonel Bingham joins forces with Sir Mark Ashely and starts investigating. Sinister revelations follow. 

After an armored car heist on Tower Bridge ends with the death of a guard, suspicion falls on the members of the traveling Barberini's Circus. Detective Jim Elliott starts investigating a web of lies, deceit, blackmail, and murder that reveals a much darker conspiracy. 

A crusader, Behmen, return to his home in Europe and finds it to be devastated by black plague. A peasant girl is considered a witch whose evil power is behind the outbreak. At the command of the church, Behmen agrees to transport the witch to a remote abbey. The journey, though, is not an easy one as frightening discoveries stun Behmen and his group and they face dangers beyond imagination.

This crime thriller mystery drama film revolves around Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson who investigate a stolen necklace of Cleopatra, which was found by archaeologists in Egypt. Eventually, it seems that the evil professor Moriarty is behind it.  

Bradley, who is a security officer at a diamond mine, plans to steal from the company in order to infiltrate a gang of criminals planning a major heist. Although he finally manages to earn the trust of the jewel thieves before they begin to plan their operation, his mission may cost Bradley his life.  

Gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons. In order to arrest them, the Scotland Yard joins hands with the FBI. 

Terrick, a police officer in rural Rhodesia is looking towards his early retirement, so that he can have a peaceful life with his fiancée Sally in his farm. However, his world turns upside down when his farm attacked and Sally is raped and murdered.   

Recently separated from boyfriend Jack, ER surgeon Juliet Devereau is surprised to get the apartment of handsome, lonely owner Max at a bargain. Still in love with Jack, yet attracted towards Max, she is soon confronted with strange, unsettling events, and a feeling that she is not alone. Juliet is horrified as she discovers the secrets behind the walls of her apartment.

When Rip Reardon gets to know about his wife being dead, he suspects foul play. He tries to convince Inspector Colonel that she has been murdered whereas Colonel feels that she committed suicide.

The comedy action film follows Bob Mitchell, an American playboy who is vacationing in Hong Kong. When he finds a mysterious note on a dead body that only reads ‘Five Golden Dragons,’ he inadvertently gets drawn into dangerous operations of an international crime organization and the local gangsters. Can Mitchell uncover the secret syndicate that controls the illicit trafficking of world’s gold?

When Princess Kyra goes on strike demanding equal rights for women, it begins to frustrate the caliph Hassan. With the help of Ezar, the calipth’s godson, who agrees that women are equal to men, he soon begins to see the error of his polygamous ways.

Eddie Miles comes to know about a major auto race that starts in Africa and sends team over multiple continents. He is soon approached by a reporter, who says that she wishes to write a story about the race, but needs him to drive for her.   

The Face of Eve is an adventure thriller film which revolves around a man named Mike Yates, who is a treasure hunter and adventurer. While looking for his missing partner during his hunt for a lost treasure in the jungles of Amazon, he meets a beautiful girl named Eve. When he learns about the problems that she is facing, he decides to help her.

Elliot, and his fiancée, Tracy, work together to turn her father’s unsuccessful Miami hotel into a thriving brothel. However, soon Tracy suspects that Liza, a model, is sleeping with Elliot. She soon arranges to have an affair of her own, but meanwhile, her father hires an arsonist to blow up the place.

A dim-witted family, who are convinced that they are victims of a conspiracy, comes to know about an illegal arms deal while they are hunting for their ‘stolen’ garbage. Colonel Neidermever, the man behind the operation, tries to get rid of them, but he fails.    

This martial arts action film tells the story of a secret agent, whose partner is killed by an international drug cartel. He teams up with a karate expert and sets out to take them down.

Ben White learns that his sister Karen has become a werewolf. However, this is the least of his worries, because he is soon recruited by an occult investigator to travel to Transylvania to destroy an immortal werewolf queen, before she is restored to her full power.