56 Laurence Harvey Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

Towards the end of the Korean War, a platoon of captured US soldiers is taken to Manchuria by their captors. Three days later, Staff Sergeant Raymond Shaw and Captain Bennett Marco return to UN lines and eventually to the USA to a hero’s welcome. But very soon, Marco starts having terrible nightmare, unaware that he has been brainwashed by the communists. 

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.

The Alamo is a Western historical war drama film which takes to the middle of the 19th century, where Mexican forces are invading Texas. Though the Mexican forces are stronger in number and have better arms and training, the Texans are not willing to give up, and their morale still remains high.

Set at the backdrop of the 1942 Malayan Campaign, the film focuses on seven British soldiers on a short jungle exercise, taking refuge from rain in an abandoned tin mine. While trying to make contact with the base, they pick up a Japanese signal, indicating the enemy is close by. Then, they capture a Japanese soldier.   

Mike is an injured aging boxer who can’t find a job. Joe is an unemployed clerk cuckolded by his mother-in-law. Eddie is an AWOL American airman with an unfaithful wife. Down on their luck, these three are lured to commit a robbery, by the scoundrel playboy Miles ‘Rave’ Ravenscourt who has gambling debts, with violent consequences. 

Joe Lampton's ideal suburban family life takes a turn when he learns of his wife's affair which brings his drive to succeed to a screeching halt. In the hope to rediscover his former ambitious self, Joe moves to London with an attractive TV host.

Based on Christopher Isherwood's 1945 book, The Berlin Stories, the film focuses on an unusual friendship between an aspiring English novelist and a flamboyant cabaret entertainer in pre-Nazi era Berlin. Released in July 1955, it went on to become one of the greatest box office hits in Great Britain. 

Landfall is a war drama film which tells the story of a British barmaid Mona who decides to help her fiance who is a pilot. Her fiance is accused of sinking a British submarine, which he had mistaken for a German one. Mona decides to investigate and find out what really happened. It is eventually revealed that it was a German submarine that had torpedoed the British submarine, and had taken its place, and it was the same submarine that Rick had sunk.

BUtterfield 8 is a drama film which tells the story of a woman named Gloria Wandrous, who has a very active night-life. However, things take a turn when she finds herself falling for a married man, leading to tragic consequences.

When Rex Black’s claim for his crashed plane is rejected by insurance company due to just expired policy, Rex, owner of one-plane transport company, decides to get even and fakes his death in a glider accident. With another identity, he moves to Malaga, Spain, and meets his wife and the insurance money. Then insurance investigator Stephen Maddox appears in Malaga, unsettling the Blacks. 

A retired Colonial Serviceman Henry Phipps takes on the job of a probation officer and finds it quiet challenging. Phipps along with his colleagues attempts to reform a young delinquent and a hardened criminal.

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. 

Tschaikovsy is a biographical drama film which revolves around the life and work of Pyotr Ilyich Tschaikovsky, who is famous for having written some of the most popular concert and theatrical music in the classical repertoire.

A Roman leader Cethegus attempts to start a war between two kingdoms. However, things don’t according to his plan.

Vivanne is an unmarried nightclub singer whose life turns upside down after Jerry, her lover is arrested for murder. She eventually finds shelter at a boarding-house run by Nellie, a woman who provides help to unmarried mothers. However, unknown to Vivanne, Nellie is actually a cruel and selfish woman with an ulterior motive.

John and Rae take their yacht for a cruise through the Indian Ocean, on the occasion of their honeymoon. They rescue a young man named Hughie, who claims to have escaped from another vessel after three of its crew members died due to food poisoning. John finds Hughie’s story unconvincing, and when Hughie is sleeping, he goes to inspect the sinking ship. He is surprised to find two passengers still alive.

In this British American suspense thriller, an unhappy housewife - Ellen Wheeler - who is recovering from a nervous breakdown claims to have witnessed a murder in the neighbourhood. However, upon investigation, the police does not find anything. Her husband John and friend Sarah have their doubts too, but Ellen soon claims she saw yet another murder.

Cethergus, who is leader of the Roman nobility, travels to Bizantium, hoping to raise an army to attack the Goths.  

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.

British agent Eberlin is instructed by his superiors to find and assassinate KGB agent Krasnevin who has killed many of their top agents. What they do not know is that Eberlin himself is the double-agent Krasnevin. When the ruthless, sociopathic British agent Gatiss is sent to assist him, Eberlin must find a way to survive. 

Adapted from the famous play of William Shakespeare, of the same name, this romantic drama film tells the story of a son of the Montagues family, and a daughter of the Capulets family, who fall in love, despite the fact that their families have hated each other strongly for years. 

Ivan is a photographer from Europe, who is in Japan, but he wants to immigrate to the US. His frustration increases as his VISA keeps getting delayed again and again. Although he is in love with a Japanese girl, he uses his charm with women to entrap an embassy woman, hoping that it will help him get the VISA.

A diverse group of British passengers fly to Paris for a weekend. An elderly lady-painter looks for fellow-artists in Louvre, while a young girl romances a Frenchman. A British diplomat attends important negotiations, but a cricket-fan spends time in an English bar. A Scotsman flaunts his kilt, whereas drummer befriends a local girl. Paris touches each one’s life in some way or the other. 

The Ceremony is a crime drama film which tells the story of a bank robber, who is sentenced to jail after an innocent person is killed during his robbery attempt. Eventually, his brother comes up with a plan to get him out of prison, but only on the condition that he allows him to date his girlfriend.

While leading the Third Crusade, to win back the holy lands, King Richard the Lionheart has to deal with treachery in his own camp.  Things also get complicated as he finds himself attracted to an English woman.  

Rheinhardt, an alcoholic wanderer, accepts an announcer’s job at WUSA, a New Orleans right-wing radio station, although he doesn’t agree with the station’s political views. When friend Geraldine and activist neighbor Rainey question him about WUSA’s involvement in hate propaganda and conspiracy to instigate a riot at a planned rally, Rheinhardt realizes that he can’t insulate himself, and needs to take a stand.

A hippie girl is provided shelter by a Korean War veteran, who lives with his sister in a mansion. However, soon the girl begins to suspect that something weird and sinister might be going on in the mansion.  

An alcoholic croupier lands a job in Lebanon, only to find that he was actually hired to act as a decoy in order to help the police arrest an international crime syndicate.  

Anna Vorontosov, an American teaching in New Zealand, feels that Western teaching methods are not suitable for her largely Maori students, so she uses unconventional techniques, winning appreciation of students. Her fellow-teacher, Paul Lathrope, and senior inspector of primary schools, unhappily-married Englishman William Abercrombie, both fall in love with Anna. Frightened of love, sexually inhibited Anna learns to come to terms with herself.

On a hot day, three friends decide to get away from London, and go on a boating holiday in order to get more fresh air and exercise. However, soon they realize that they are not well equipped for the trials of riverbank life.