Some Well-Connected Movies
The Greatest Story Ever Told

The life of Jesus Christ.
1965
David Lean
director
On the Waterfront

An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.
1954
Rod Steiger
actor
Doctor Zhivago
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.
1965
David Lean
director
Geraldine Chaplin
actor
Julie Christie
actor
Omar Sharif
actor
Rod Steiger
actor
A Passage to India

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
1984
David Lean
director
The Bridge of San Luis Rey

In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge.
2004
Geraldine Chaplin
actor
Finding Neverland

The story of J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.
2004
Julie Christie
actor
Hidalgo

In 1890, a down-and-out cowboy and his horse travel to Arabia to compete in a deadly cross desert horse race.
2004
Omar Sharif
actor
Waterloo

Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo.
1970
Rod Steiger
actor