6 Best Richard Attenborough Movies

By Vlad Zakh · February 11, 2026

Richard Attenborough built a distinguished acting career before becoming a celebrated director, and his early roles remain some of British cinema’s most memorable villains and heroes. The Great Escape orchestrates a massive prison breakout, Jurassic Park chaos erupts at a dinosaur theme park, 10 Rillington Place dramatises a notorious serial murder case, and Guns at Batasi keeps discipline at an African garrison. The League of Gentlemen and Brighton Rock round out the list.

Jurassic Park (1993)

IMDb ★ 8.2 RT 91% Metacritic 68

A theme park's cloned dinosaurs run amok after its security systems catastrophically fail.

Directed by Steven Spielberg · 2h 07m · Rated PG-13

Won 3 Oscars44 wins & 27 nominations

Where to watch

Stream: Hulu, Philo, YouTube TV, Starz Amazon Channel, Starz, Starz Apple TV channel · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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10 Rillington Place (1971)

TMDB ★ 7.5

Attenborough plays the quiet killer at the centre of one of Britain's most notorious real-life murder cases.

Directed by Richard Fleischer · 1h 51m · Rated PG

Where to watch

Stream: IndieFlix, IndieFlix Shorts Amazon Channel · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Guns at Batasi (1964)

TMDB ★ 6.8

A rigid British sergeant major maintains discipline at an African garrison during a political uprising.

Directed by John Guillermin · 1h 43m · Rated NR

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The Great Escape (1963)

IMDb ★ 8.2 RT 94% Metacritic 86

Allied prisoners of war plan an elaborate mass breakout from a heavily guarded German camp.

Directed by John Sturges · 2h 53m · Rated NR

Nominated for 1 Oscar3 wins & 12 nominations

Where to watch

Stream: Amazon Prime Video, Philo, YouTube TV, Amazon Prime Video with Ads · Rent: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Plex · Buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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The League of Gentlemen (1960)

TMDB ★ 7.1

Nigel Patrick appears as a disgraced former army officer recruits fellow veterans for an elaborate bank robbery.

Directed by Basil Dearden · 1h 56m · Rated NR

Where to watch

Stream: Criterion Channel · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Fandango At Home

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Brighton Rock (1948)

TMDB ★ 7.4

A young, vicious gangster marries a naive waitress to stop her testifying against him.

Directed by John Boulting · 1h 32m

Where to watch

Stream: Lionsgate+ Amazon Channel · Rent: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.

6 Best Richard Attenborough Movies

Jurassic Park (1993)

10 Rillington Place (1971)

Guns at Batasi (1964)

The Great Escape (1963)

The League of Gentlemen (1960)

Brighton Rock (1948)

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