Movies: George Bernard Shaw

  • 1964
    My Fair Lady

    My Fair Lady (1964)

    My Fair Lady

    7.51964HD

    A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society....

    My Fair Lady
  • 1939
    Pygmalion

    Pygmalion (1939)

    Pygmalion

    71939HD

    When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her ri...

    Pygmalion
  • 1957
    Saint Joan

    Saint Joan (1957)

    Saint Joan

    6.51957HD

    Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch....

    Saint Joan
  • 1945
    Caesar and Cleopatra

    Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)

    Caesar and Cleopatra

    6.11945HD

    The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play....

    Caesar and Cleopatra
  • 1959
    The Devil's Disciple

    The Devil's Disciple (1959)

    The Devil's Disciple

    6.51959HD

    In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing anothe...

    The Devil's Disciple
  • 1960
    The Millionairess

    The Millionairess (1960)

    The Millionairess

    5.41960HD

    When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients....

    The Millionairess
  • 1941
    Major Barbara

    Major Barbara (1941)

    Major Barbara

    6.71941HD

    Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned...

    Major Barbara
  • 1983
    Pygmalion

    Pygmalion (1983)

    Pygmalion

    8.51983HD

    An adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play....

    Pygmalion
  • 2008
    The Soviet Story

    The Soviet Story (2008)

    The Soviet Story

    7.12008HD

    “The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Assisted by the West, this power triumphed on May 9th, 1945. Its crimes were made taboo, and the compl...

    The Soviet Story
  • 1959
    The Doctor's Dilemma

    The Doctor's Dilemma (1959)

    The Doctor's Dilemma

    6.11959HD

    Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband....

    The Doctor's Dilemma
  • 1952
    Androcles and the Lion

    Androcles and the Lion (1952)

    Androcles and the Lion

    5.81952HD

    George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Chris...

    Androcles and the Lion
  • 1958
    Arms and the Man

    Arms and the Man (1958)

    Arms and the Man

    6.31958HD

    1865: Swiss captain Bluntschli fights as mercenary in the war between Bulgaria and Serbia. When his group's attacked by a few Bulgarian troopers, he learns that he's got the wrong ammunition for his cannon and has to flee. His flight leads him right ...

    Arms and the Man
  • 1974
    The Millionairess

    The Millionairess (1974)

    The Millionairess

    01974HD

    Teleplay by the Vakhtangov Theater based on B. Shaw's play of the same name....

    The Millionairess
  • 1968
    Great Catherine

    Great Catherine (1968)

    Great Catherine

    5.61968HD

    When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia, he is stunned by the palace's disorderly condition. The severely intoxicated Prince Potemkin concludes that the handsome Edstaston would be a ...

    Great Catherine
  • 1972
    The Millionairess

    The Millionairess (1972)

    The Millionairess

    8.51972HD

    One of Shaw's later plays, The Millionairess explores his fascination with the machinations of capitalism. Epifania is glamorous, clever... and also the richest woman in the world. Brought up by a money-mad father, she will only consider a man for ma...

    The Millionairess
  • 1981
    Pygmalion

    Pygmalion (1981)

    Pygmalion

    01981HD

    Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw....

    Pygmalion
  • 1987
    Mournful Unconcern

    Mournful Unconcern (1987)

    Mournful Unconcern

    4.61987HD

    The action in this lavishly produced film takes place at an oddly ark-shaped mansion during World War I, and in spirit (although not in story) it reflects the play which inspired it, the ferociously antiwar Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw. A ...

    Mournful Unconcern
  • 1977
    Heartbreak House

    Heartbreak House (1977)

    Heartbreak House

    01977HD

    Captain Shotover, a retired seafarer, is reluctantly hosting a weekend house party for his two daughters and their bohemian friends. As they indulge in dangerous flirtations, will anyone notice their drift to destruction?...

    Heartbreak House
  • 1987
    The Devil's Disciple

    The Devil's Disciple (1987)

    The Devil's Disciple

    61987HD

    Shaw turned to the classic Victorian melodrama to focus on the insincerity of much that his audience held dear, especially family and marriage. In 1777 as the American War of Independence rages, Dick Dudgeon returns to the family he revolted against ...

    The Devil's Disciple
  • 1950
    The Century Is Fifty

    The Century Is Fifty (1950)

    The Century Is Fifty

    01950HD

    As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of several European film reserves, director Denise Tua offers a fascinating mosaic of the people and events t...

    The Century Is Fifty