68 Dirk Bogarde Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

Tony is a British aristocrat who hires a mysterious man named Hugo Barrett as his household servant. However, Tony is forced to send him away after Hugo causes unrest in the household and brings his girlfriend to live with him. However, Hugo has a darker side to him, which Tony is yet to experience.

Diana Scott is a beautiful and young model in London, who manages to become popular, after she is acquainted with the well-known TV journalist Robert Gold. Eventually, Robert gets so infatuated with her, that he abandons his family to be with Diana. Things seem to go well, until Diana finds someone who may be able to provide even more money and fun than Robert can.

It is based on the events of ‘Operation Market Garden’ of September, 1944. In order to bring a quick end to the WWII, the allied forces decide to drop thousands of paratroopers to secure strategic bridges in Netherlands to obtain access into Germany. The main bridge was the one to Arnhem. But tough German resistance and faulty allied intelligence led to failure.

A World War II veteran, Jeffrey Buckenham, sees Baronet Sir Mark Sebastian Loddon on TV and decides that Loddon is actually an imposter named Frank Wellney. All three were held in a POW camp in Germany. As the matter ends up in court and Loddon’s traumatized memory is tested, the truth finally comes through. 

Based on the true story of Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, the movie follows the British prisoner of war as he is captured by the German Army during World War II. Even after being incarcerated at the horrific German war camps he not only escapes to his own freedom but inspires many others to escape. 

After a young thug breaks into a psychotherapist’s home, the doctor surprisingly gains the upper hand. The criminal agrees to rehabilitation at the doctor’s home, rather than jail, but within time, the doctor’s wife becomes infatuated with him. 

During the Cold War, a former Oxford Professor, who is also now an officer for the British intelligence, falls in love with a woman, after she is able to spell his name backwards. He offers her a job, but soon after she joins, there is a security breach, and everything goes into jeopardy. 

During WWII, British RAF Flight Lt. Michael Quinn, stationed in far-east Asia, is asked to join army intelligence and learn Japanese language to interrogate Japanese POWs. He falls in love with his pretty Japanese instructor Sabby, or Suzuki San. She is, however, perceived as an enemy by the British officers, so they marry secretly. But the destiny has different plans!

High ranking KGB official, Aleksey Teodorovic Vlassov, defects and claims to have a list of double agents embedded in Western Europe, including NATO. During the debriefing, he is questioned by DCI Allan Davies and MI6 representative Philip Boyle who doubt his claims. But as people on the list start mysteriously dying Vlassov’s true intentions are revealed. 

The Gentle Gunman is a crime drama thriller film which takes us to the UK, and revolves around two Irish brothers working for the IRA, who take a stand against the ruthless methods of their local leader, and also question their own loyalty to the cause.

A young teen is arrested for driving the getaway car in a robbery. He is sentenced for three years in a reformatory, which is run by a sympathetic governor. However, he soon finds himself in a more complicated situation after he knocks out a man with a lamp.

When a murderous bandit is terrorizing all the residents of a Mexican village, an idealistic priest is the only person who is able to stand up against him.

Subtitled The Story of Franz Liszt, the film focuses on the life of the famous Hungarian pianist and composer, Franz Liszt. Caught in an unhappy marriage, he is thinking of quitting performances and devoting his life to God, when he meets Princess Carolyne, the wife of Prince Nicholas of Russia and falls in love with her. 

A single doctor who is about to be awarded the knighthood, for his claim of curing tuberculosis, finds himself falling for a beautiful and charming woman, who wants him to save her artist husband. When the doctor finds that her husband has an immoral character, he is unsure whether he should save him or not.  

Eager to escape boredom and unwarranted female attention, Dr. Simon Sparrow joins an all-male cargo ship, SS Lotus, as a medical officer, where he encounters quick-tempered, severe, woman-hater skipper, Wentworth Hogg. Simon meets French nightclub singer Hélèn Colbert in Brazilian port, where Capt. Hogg is compelled to take onboard shipping-line owner’s daughter, Muriel, and her friend Hélèn, which pleases Simon no end. 

Juno Kozani is an American archeology student visiting Cyprus during the war of independence against Britain. However, he unfortunately finds himself caught between the two sides.

Alexander Diakim is a revolutionary who has been banished from his country, but he soon sees an opportunity to return and lead an uprising to remove the fascist regime in power in his nation.  

Fifth film in the Doctor series, the story focuses on Simon Sparrow, now a senior doctor at a London hospital and Sir Lancelot Spratt, its pompous medical director. Both the doctors are in love. Sparrow has fallen for a model-cum-aspiring actress, who he met while treating her sprain, while Spratt’s object of adulation is his physiotherapist. 

Set in the backdrop of Spanish Civil War, the story follows a young Catholic priest, who resigns from priesthood due to the church’s indifference to the poor. Later in the same day, he meets an attractive entertainer and over the time they are drawn towards each other. Meanwhile the civil war continues to rage, engulfing the duo in its orbit. 

Justine is a drama film, which tells the story of a widowed single mother who takes up a job as a caretaker for a young girl suffering from spina bifida. Eventually, an unlikely friendship blossoms between them. 

We Joined the Navy is a comedy film which revolves around Lieutenant Commander Robert Badger, who is an excellent naval officer, but he has one big problem in his life, which is speaking the truth at inappropriate times.

Come on George! is a comedy musical film which tells the story of George, a young stable-hand who discovers that he is the only one who can calm down a nervous horse, and make it win races.

After the end of the Second World War, two soldiers Ted and Peters return to their home in Britain. While Ted becomes a taxi driver, Dave gets involved with the mob. When Dave gets in a fight with his boss over money, he is shot and killed. When Ted finds his body, he decides to take revenge for his friend’s death, and expose the criminal group and their leader.