91 Trevor Howard Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

Struggling American writer Holly Martins arrives in post-WWII Vienna to meet his childhood friend Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, but learns that he died in a road accident recently. Finding inconsistencies in different stories about his friend's death, he begins an investigation into the matter, and also becomes attracted to his lover Anna Schmidt.

Based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, the movie begins in South Africa when a young Gandhi is thrown out of the train for travelling in the first class compartment despite having tickets for it. He begins a nonviolent protest campaign and later uses it in India’s fight for independence. 

Brief Encounter is an American romantic drama film, which tells the story of a bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson, who, while returning from a shopping trip from a nearby town, gets acquainted with a virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. She eventually finds herself attracted to him, and is tempted to cheat on her husband.

Ryan’s Daughter is a romantic comedy film which revolves around Rosy Ryan, a young married woman living in a small village in Ireland, during the time just before the World War I. She finds herself attracted to a young British officer who is a customer in her father’s pub.

In the 18th century, the Bounty sets sail to Tahiti from Britain, under the command of Captain William Bligh. His mission involves retrieving a shipload of breadfruit saplings, and transporting them to Jamaica, as the government hopes it will prove to be a cheap source of food for slaves.

Father Goose is a romantic comedy war adventure film which tells the story of an American man who is persuaded to live in an isolated island during the World War II, to spy on planes that pass over the area. His life takes a turn when he meets a schoolteacher trying to save herself and her students from the Japanese forces.

A former British spy who is employed at the Fenton country estate aids Fenton’s niece escape from the police after the latter is unjustly accused of murdering a local gamekeeper. 

After not seeing his younger friend for a long time, documentary director Steve James decides to catch up with Stephen Fielding, a boy from Illinois, whom he once mentored. However, Fielding is no longer the nerdy kid he once knew, but is now a damaged adult who is convicted of serious crimes.  

This drama film takes us to the time of the Second World War. It revolves around a Catholic police officer stationed in Sierra Leone, who is going through a loveless marriage. He eventually falls in love with a young Austrian woman and starts an affair with her. However, he soon starts feeling guilty due to his religion.

Jor-EI, a scientist from the doomed Planet Krypton, sends his infant son Kal-EI on a spaceship to Earth. Brought up in Smallville by farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent, he becomes aware of his extraordinary abilities during boyhood. Later, working for Daily Planet as a gentle and polite reporter Clark Kent, he uses his superhuman powers to fight criminal mastermind, Lex Luthor. 

In 1940, German Luftwaffe begins a series of concentrated aerial attacks to establish air superiority over England. The dedicated pilots of Britain’s RAF face terrible odds, yet repeatedly take to the skies in a desperate battle to stop the outnumbering German Luftwaffe from taking over English skies. Finally, the aggressive counter-attack by the determined RAF succeeds in fending off the Nazi invasion of England.

This war action adventure film takes us to the Second World War and it revolves around Colonel Ryan, a US Army Air Corps pilot, who finds himself captured by the enemy. Now, he must win the support of the British prisoners of war, so that they can plan a daring escape together.

After serving in the police force for twenty years, Detective Sergeant Johnson finds himself deeply affected psychologically by the various kinds of crimes that he has investigated. While interrogating a man named Kenneth Baxter, who has been suspected of rape, his anger surfaces and he beats up Baxter severely, which eventually leads to the latter’s death. Johnson is therefore suspended. He is later brought in and questioned by the police and he begins to narrate the events that took place during the interrogation.  

So Well Remembered is a drama film which tells the story of George Boswell, a town councilor and newspaper editor, who at the end of the Second World War, starts to recall the past twenty six years of his life in his hometown. He remembers how as a councilor and newspaper editor, he had fought for better living and working conditions for the people.

Sir Henry’s brother, Hubert, was accidentally killed while escaping without trouser from an illicit affair and now roams around trouserless in the corridors of Rawlinson End. The story revolves around Sir Henry’s attempt to exorcise his brother’s ghost with the help of his weird family members and old retainers. 

In this US-Swedish psychological thriller film, a man, Salem is imprisoned in an asylum for the criminally insane for a couple of years after being convicted for a murder. Determined to get revenge from those who were responsible for his wrongful conviction and subsequent confinement in the mental institution, he breaks out of the asylum and plots a series of murder.

Polly Barlow sees the world for the first time after she decides to spend some time with her wealthy aunt as a traveling companion. While in India, her aunt passes away, leaving her alone. She soon starts having a romance with a local tour boy.

A middle-aged Captain of a steamboat believes in rigorous self-control when it comes to one’s needs, emotions and desires. However, things take a turn when begins to develop feelings for a beautiful female stowaway.

After pulling off a major heist, a jewel thief backstabs his partner-in-crime, leaves his girlfriend and goes on the run along with the loot. The locksmith and the girlfriend decide to team up to go after him, and soon they find themselves in Spain.

Around the World in 80 Days is an Oscar winning adventure comedy film which is based on a novel of the same name by Jules Verne. The story revolves around Phileas Fogg, an English gentleman, living in the 19th century, who makes a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days.  Along with his French valet Passepartout, he sets out on an adventurous journey.

A war film set in 1941 during the Battle of the Atlantic, the film The Key is based on the 1951 novel Stella written by Jan de Hartog. The movie, which tells the love story of a former tugboat captain, was one of the most popular films in Britain in 1958. 

During the WWII, a US second lieutenant stationed in India shoots dead an unarmed British staff sergeant in front of 11 witnesses. Although it is an open and shut case and the authorities want the trial to be thrown away in order to defuse the tension between the two armies, Lt. Col. Barney Adams, who has been assigned to defend the Lt. decides to put up a fight.   

The movie follows eco-conservationist and environmentalist, Morel, who will do anything to protect the African wildlife from extinction in French Equatorial Africa. He is helped by nightclub hostess, Minna, and a disgraced former British officer, Major Forsythe, who wants to redeem himself. 

Growing up in a Kenyan wildlife reserve with her mother and stepfather, 11-years-old Tina is comfortable with tribal customs and enjoys company of wild animals, especially her best friend, a lion. Worried that Tina is turning into a primitive, uncivilized girl, mother Christine calls Tina’s biological father, Robert, to help with Tina’s upbringing. But that may not be all that Christine wants.  

Katie Connors journeys to San Marcos, Mexico to interview reclusive novelist and adventurer Mike Latimer. When she reaches there, the two fall in love. Mike offers to fly her back to Mexico City but their plane crashes. They are rescued by three men but their rescuers turn out to be Nazi war criminals who want to kill them. 

Conflict is a drama film which tells the story of Richard Mason, who has fallen in love with Evelyn, the younger sister of his wife Kathryn. He gets infuriated when Kathryn indirectly asks Evelyn to go back home to their mother. His health deteriorates and his physician Dr Grant suggests that they both go to a mountain resort, but at the last minute, Richard says that he will need to stay home to finish some work, and Kathryn is forced to go alone, unaware that it is actually a plan by Richard to get rid of her.

Set in around 1890, the story focuses on Lt. Drake and Lt. Millington arriving in India to join a British regiment. When at a mess dance, a respected widow accuses a drunken Millington of attacking her Drake becomes his defending officer.  Although pressured to plead guilty by his superiors, Drake does not believe Millington to be the culprit. 

Small-time diamond merchant, Howard R. Chesser, is asked to supervise the cutting of a massive diamond owned by Clyde Massey. Unfortunately, when the diamond is stolen from him, he has to plan a major heist at The System, a vault full of gems, with the help of his girlfriend and inside man, Watts. 

Golden Salamander is a crime drama adventure film which revolves around British archaeologist David Redfern, who is in Tunisia, on an assignment of collecting art relics. Things get complicated when he comes across evidence of a gun-smuggling racket. He is unsure if he should report it to the authorities, or just keep quiet. He decides to do  the right thing when a man gets murdered. However, he is soon targeted for death by the smugglers.

Eight years after his court martial, a Naval officer returns to the Royal Navy to fight for England during the Second World War. When he is put in command of a Royal Navy destroyer, he finds himself clashing with his new officers and the men. However, as they prepare for battle, they eventually forge a bond. 

Young David Balfour is cheated out of his inheritance by his Uncle Ebeneezer Balfour, who has David kidnapped by sea captain Hoseason. David forms a friendship with Alan Breck on board the ship and the two embark on a life-changing adventure, with David even falling in love with Catriona. 

Pickup Alley is an action thriller crime drama film which tells the story of a U.S. DEA Agent Charles Sturgis who attempts to track down an international narcotics smuggler named Frank McNally. Sturgis has to travel through various countries in order to find and locate his target.

Nora and her dictatorial, controlling husband, Torvald Helmer, are living an outwardly happy married life. But a past forgery, that she had committed to save her husband, keeps haunting Nora. Now she is being blackmailed for it and she is worried that Torvald would find out. But when he does, outburst of his wrath results in a revelation that shocks Nora. 

Set during the Northern Ireland conflict, the story follows a former IRA soldier, who has shunned violence and now leads a peaceful life with his wife and daughter in Belfast. The plot picks up when one day his family is caught in a riot and killed by the British. Enraged, he decides to move to London to avenge his loved ones.  

A young unsophisticated girl somehow manages to win a beauty contest. But, soon she finds herself in trouble.

British intelligence officer, Mostyn, recruits former Sergeant, Boysie Oakes, to assassinate enemy spies in his organization. Oakes is given the codename ‘L’ for liquidator. However, Oakes has lost his taste for violence and hires a freelance assassin to do the job. Things go well until Oakes is forced to get his own hands dirty. 

In order to protest against British oppression and tyranny, a tribal leader becomes a bandit.  The policeman assigned to the case is quite impressed by his integrity and ingenuity, and is determined to arrest him alive, rather than dead, as his superiors might wish. 

This television film revolves around Narcotics agents who work for the UN, as they attempt to trace heroin shipments from the Afghanistan-Iran border to the main European distributor. 

Also known as ‘Lola’ the movie tells the story of 40 years old erotic novel writer Scott Wardman who falls in love with 16 years old school girl Twinky. In spite of her parents’ protests, the two get married and move to Scotland. However, the age difference soon comes to play driving the two apart. 

Terrick, a police officer in rural Rhodesia is looking towards his early retirement, so that he can have a peaceful life with his fiancée Sally in his farm. However, his world turns upside down when his farm attacked and Sally is raped and murdered.   

Pope Joan tells the story of a Midwestern evangelist who thinks that she is a reincarnation of a Pope in the ninth-century. She explains why she feels this way to her psychiatrist.

When British Fabienne goes to Bucharest for honeymoon, her husband gets arrested as a spy by the Soviets. When she is told that a spy is necessary to trade for her husband, her efforts to get one lead to amusing situations. She encounters Andrej, a microfilms smuggler who had used her luggage for smuggling, but both get abducted by the enemy, complicating the matter.

The US and the USSR joins forces to save the human race from extinction, when a gigantic asteroid heads towards Earth.

Based on The Infernal Idol, a 1967 novel by Henry Seymour, the story follows a London antique shop owners, who worships an African idol called Chuku. Believing that that the idol will reward him with wealth and power if he offers human sacrifice to it, he starts sacrificing women, killing them by various means until the law catches up with him.  

During the late 19th century, as the slave trade is dwindling, two slave traders find themselves in conflict with each other.

Hurricane is a romantic adventure film which tells the story of a desperate love affair, between a Navy captain’s daughter and a young native. As tensions begin to boil, as her father is against their love, disaster strikes in the form of a big hurricane. 

Tom Jones is the son of a maid, who was adopted by the nobleman whom she had worked for. After growing up, he embarks on a series of misadventures.

Wealthy widow Carrie Masters, a crippled cat-lover, takes out all her bitterness on son David. Years later, when he returns with wife Janie and young son, Carrie again dominates and tortures him. Janie suffers breakdown when Carrie’s cat suffocates her baby. Carrie hires a nurse, mainly to separate the couple; but when David loses Janie, he goes after Carrie to take revenge.