Edwin Styles

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The Five Pound Man
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The Five Pound Man

Jan 01, 1937
British comedy crime film. Richard Fordyce released from prison after serving a sentence for counterfeiting of which he was innocent, determines to find out who framed him. He puts himself up for auction and is bought for £5 by Margaret Fenton whose husband happened to be the counterfeiter.
Crime
The Full Treatment
6.3

The Full Treatment

Oct 01, 1960
Le jour de son mariage, un homme est victime d'un grave accident de voiture. En convalescence, après des mois d'hospitalisation, il tente un beau jour d'étrangler sa femme. Un psychiatre se propose de le soigner de cette morbide pulsion...
Mystery
Adam et Evelyne
6.6

Adam et Evelyne

May 31, 1949
Sur le point de mourir, un joueur invétéré implore son ami Adam de prendre soin de sa fille Evelyne, pensionnaire d'un orphelinat. Adam, fidèle à sa promesse, accueille la demoiselle sous son toit. Très vite, les ennuis commencent. Evelyne, en effet, prend Adam pour son père, et celui-ci n'a pas le courage de la détromper. D'autre part, Moira, la petite amie d'Adam, considère la jeune fille comme une rivale en puissance. Cédant à une pulsion sadique, elle révèle à Evelyne ses peu glorieuses origines...
Romance
Out of the Shadow
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Out of the Shadow

Jun 01, 1961
A reporter learns that his brother, a student, has committed suicide. Unconvinced, he begins his own investigation when the police dismiss his suspicions. Could a killer be on the loose in Cambridge?
Mystery
Hell Below
6.3

Hell Below

Jun 08, 1933
On leave in Italy, Lt. Tommy Knowlton falls in love with Jean Standish, who's not only married, but is the daughter of his submarine's commander. Friction between the two officers becomes intolerable once at sea and after Commander Toler is forced to abandon Tommy's best friend topside while the sub dives to escape enemy planes, Tommy is no longer able to contain his anger.
Romance
Isn't Life Wonderful!
5.6

Isn't Life Wonderful!

Nov 10, 1954
Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles. Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes shocked when she attends a carnival.
Comedy
Top Secret
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Top Secret

Nov 10, 1952
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
Comedy
The Lady with a Lamp
6.1

The Lady with a Lamp

Sep 22, 1951
Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.
Drama
Road House
5.5

Road House

Nov 29, 1934
Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
Crime
Derby Day
6.5

Derby Day

Jun 09, 1952
Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and lover who have murdered her husband, and the working class couple who are excited about their chance to go to the races, but end up listening to it on the radio in the car-park because they've got such a bad view.
Drama
Up in the World
6.3

Up in the World

Dec 06, 1956
Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head and can't remember Norman's heroic stand
Comedy
Les Briseurs de barrages
6.9
En 1942, alors que l'Angleterre ne cesse d'être victime des raids aériens allemands, l'ingénieur Barnes N. Wallis étudie le moyen de faire sauter les trois barrages de la Moehne sur la Ruhr. Seule une bombe explosant au fond de l'eau pourra, l'onde de choc aidant, ébranler la formidable maçonnerie. Wallis parvient à ses fins en imaginant un engin cylindrique de cinq tonnes qui, lâché à une vitesse précise et une distance bien déterminée, rebondira par ricochets sur la surface de l'eau pour couler au pied du barrage. Après plusieurs tentatives infructueuses sur des maquettes, Wallis réussit à faire adopter son projet par la R.A.F. grâce à l'intervention du général Arthur Harris. Aidé du commandant Whitworth, le lieutenant-colonel Gibson, à la tête d'un imposant groupe d'aviateurs, met au point la technique très délicate du bombardement...
Drama
The Weak and the Wicked
5.9
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
Drama
Fromage à Gogo
6.4

Fromage à Gogo

Mar 24, 1952
Un milliardaire américain meurt après avoir acheté le petit pays de Lampidorra, situe au carrefour de trois pays européens. Une jeune vendeuse de magasin, lointaine parente du milliardaire devient ainsi princesse. Elle y interdit tout d'abord la pratique de la contrebande qui y était légale.
Comedy