By Vlad Zakh · January 28, 2026
Drama intensethought provoking
Leslie Howard brought a refined, intellectual sensitivity to Hollywood and British film, often playing thoughtful men caught between duty and desire. Gone with the Wind, Pygmalion and The Petrified Forest show the range, from a Southern romance to a phonetics professor transforming a flower girl to a drifting intellectual in a desert diner. The First of the Few follows the designer of the Spitfire. The Scarlet Pimpernel and Of Human Bondage round out the list.
01 Leslie Howard stars in a dramatisation of the aircraft designer who created the Spitfire fighter.
Directed by Leslie Howard · 1h 58m · Rated G
Stream: Criterion Channel · Rent or buy: Amazon Video
Rent or buy: Amazon Video
Stream: Criterion Channel
Rent or buy: Amazon Video
02 A headstrong Southern belle's tumultuous romances unfold against the backdrop of the Civil War.
Directed by Victor Fleming · 3h 58m · Rated G
Won 8 Oscars26 wins & 10 nominations
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Stream: HBO Max Amazon Channel, Now TV Cinema, HBO Max · Rent or buy: Apple TV Store, Rakuten TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, Sky Store, YouTube
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03 A phonetics professor transforms a Cockney flower girl into a convincing high-society lady, with Leslie Howard in the lead.
Directed by Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard · 1h 36m
Stream: fuboTV, HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, FlixFling, HBO Max, Artiflix · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, FlixFling
Stream: Artiflix
Stream: Criterion Channel, FlixFling, Artiflix · Rent or buy: FlixFling
Stream: Beamafilm, Artiflix · Rent: Beamafilm
Stream: Artiflix
04 A wandering intellectual and a desperate gangster converge at a remote desert diner and gas station.
Directed by Archie Mayo · 1h 22m · Rated NR
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Rent or buy: Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Amazon Video
Rent or buy: Apple TV Store, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube
05 Leslie Howard plays a foppish English aristocrat who secretly leads a daring operation to rescue nobles from the guillotine.
Directed by Harold Young · 1h 37m · Rated NR
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Rent or buy: Apple TV Store, Amazon Video
06 A sensitive medical student's obsessive infatuation with a cruel, manipulative waitress consumes his life.
Directed by John Cromwell · 1h 23m · Rated NR
Stream: Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, Philo, Brew, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, FlixFling
Stream: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Brew · Rent or buy: Amazon Video
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Stream: Brew · Rent or buy: Amazon Video
Stream: Brew
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