Ellen Pollock

5.3

La Griffe de Frankenstein

May 11, 1973

La Griffe de Frankenstein

1973 90 min 59 vues

Jason Jones, manager d'un groupe de rock, a besoin de décompresser. Un ami lui conseille de prendre quelques jours de vacances au manoir du Docteur Storm. Arrivé sur place, il découvre que le docteur transforme ses pensionnaires en robots afin de dominer le monde...

Comedy

6.9

La Fleur de l'âge

Aug 23, 1965

La Fleur de l'âge

1965 105 min 34 vues

Agnes, une adolescente solitaire, et son père, se lient d'amitié avec Joseph, un détenu évadé qui s'est réfugié dans leur ferme en Bretagne. Quand Joseph développe une attirance pour Agnes, le père de la jeune fille menace de briser leur union.

Drama

4

So Evil, So Young

Jan 01, 1961

So Evil, So Young

1961 77 min 2 vues

A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.

Drama

4

To Have and to Hold

Mar 01, 1951

To Have and to Hold

1951 63 min 3 vues

A man is permanently crippled in a horseback riding accident and then learns that he will soon die. He spends his last few days taking care of his family and trying to get his wife to find another man.

Drama

6.2

Moulin Rouge

Mar 21, 1928

Moulin Rouge

1928 137 min 12 vues

An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her daughter's fiance, only to have him fall obsessively in love with her and she with him. Alienation, betrayal and near tragedy result.

Music

5.7

Finders Keepers

Dec 08, 1966

Finders Keepers

1966 94 min 3 vues

Cliff Richard and the Shadows arrive in a small Spanish town for a concert when a U.S. plane accidentally drops a mini-bomb on it. The Shadows look for the bomb to return it.

Comedy

1

The Street Singer

Mar 01, 1937

The Street Singer

1937 86 min 1 vues

Following an argument with his co-star during the rehearsals for a new stage show, famous singer Richard King walks out of the theatre, still wearing his ragged stage costume. Mistaken for a beggar, he’s taken in by a pair of street entertainers and joins their act incognito.

Comedy

4.5

Millions

Sep 21, 1937

Millions

1937 70 min 2 vues

Two feuding millionaires try to destroy each other's business while their children fall in love with each other.

Comedy

1

Splinters in the Air

Jan 01, 1937

Splinters in the Air

1937 71 min 1 vues

An inventor is mistaken for his twin brother, and is forced to take his brother's place in the Royal Air Force.

Comedy

6.5

The Time of His Life

Jan 01, 1955

The Time of His Life

1955 74 min 4 vues

Mr Pastry's social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for ex-convicts, hides the fact that her father is himself a prisoner. When he is released and arrives at her home, she panics and locks him in the attic until a job can be found for him, preferably abroad!

Comedy

5.3

The Hypnotist

Jul 29, 1957

The Hypnotist

1957 89 min 3 vues

Culver is a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to treat his patients. When Carpenter, a test pilot, comes to see him complaining of blackouts that make his job difficult, Culver tries to mesmerise him into killing his wife.

Thriller

5.1

Kiss the Bride Goodbye

Jan 28, 1945

Kiss the Bride Goodbye

1945 89 min 6 vues

Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status, Gladys arranges for Joan to wed her boss Adolphus Pickering while Jack is away at war. Jack arrives home to discover his love is engaged to another man. Who will Joan decide to marry?

Comedy

5.5

The Fake

Sep 25, 1953

The Fake

1953 80 min 10 vues

Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason, a Tate employee, to recover the original.

Crime

6.8

Sons of the Sea

Dec 23, 1939

Sons of the Sea

1939 82 min 4 vues

The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target. He enlists the help of his own son Philip, a reluctant cadet at the college, to help him confirm his suspicions about planned enemy action... but meanwhile, there is a Secret Service agent staying at the college observatory, the foreign-born professor of astronomy is behaving strangely, and Naval Intelligence disclaim any knowledge of what is going on...

Drama

7

Spare a Copper

Dec 02, 1940

Spare a Copper

1940 77 min 4 vues

George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets out to clear his name with the aid of new girlfriend, Jane.

Comedy

2

Night Birds

Oct 16, 1930

Night Birds

1930 86 min 1 vues

Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club.

Drama

5.7

Something in the City

Sep 01, 1950

Something in the City

1950 76 min 3 vues

A man hides the fact that he lost his job from his wife by apparently going off to work each day as normal but runs into trouble when he is tailed by a reporter.

Comedy

1

Heads We Go

Jul 28, 1933

Heads We Go

1933 86 min 1 vues

A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star.

Comedy

1

Aren't Men Beasts!

Jan 19, 1937

Aren't Men Beasts!

1937 66 min 1 vues

Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!

6.4

Piccadilly

Feb 01, 1929

Piccadilly

1929 109 min 30 vues

Une jeune Chinoise travaillant dans la cuisine d'un club de danse de Londres a la chance de devenir l'actrice principale du club, ce qui mène à une trahison et au meutre.

Drama

1

It's a Bet

Feb 01, 1935

It's a Bet

1935 69 min 1 vues

A young English reporter makes a bet with a wealthy publisher that he can disappear for a month. In his absence the publisher makes much of the mysterious disappearance in an attempt to boost the circulation of his newspaper.

Comedy

1

The Last Coupon

Jul 21, 1932

The Last Coupon

1932 84 min 1 vues

A frugal coal miner turns into a spendthrift when he wins £20,000 on the football pools!

Comedy

1

Too Many Crooks

Aug 01, 1930

Too Many Crooks

1930 38 min 1 vues

A man tries to burgle his own safe on the same night that a professional criminal attempts it.

Comedy

1

My Wife's Family

Jun 03, 1931

My Wife's Family

1931 80 min 1 vues

Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow interprets what he has said to mean he is the father of an illegitimate child.

Comedy

1

The Happy Family

Jan 01, 1936

The Happy Family

1936 67 min 1 vues

A mother and father who, in order to shock their extended family out of their idle spendthrift ways, pretend to have lost all their money.

Comedy

6.3

Le Dénonciateur

Oct 16, 1929

Le Dénonciateur

1929 83 min 14 vues

Un homme trahit son meilleur ami, membre d’une organisation terroriste et est ensuite poursuivi par les autres membres de l’organisation.

Drama

6

Warning to Wantons

Jan 04, 1949

Warning to Wantons

1949 94 min 1 vues

Featuring an early role for accomplished French actress Anne Vernon alongside Mary Poppins star David Tomlinson, this effervescent comedy charts the romantic adventures of a young woman who swaps her strict convent school for the heady pleasures of high society. Seventeen-year-old Renee slips away from her convent school, joins her fashionable mother and launches herself into Society with one aim: to conquer the hearts of all the men she encounters. Setting her sights on Max, a bridegroom-to-be, her expert scheming and manipulative behaviour soon ensures that he falls under her spell... but his fiancee isn't giving up without a fight

Comedy

5.2

Bedelia

Jul 08, 1946

Bedelia

1946 90 min 6 vues

Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.

Drama

7

Who Killed the Cat?

Oct 07, 1966

Who Killed the Cat?

1966 76 min 2 vues

A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her.

Mystery

6.3

Non-Stop New York

Sep 13, 1937

Non-Stop New York

1937 69 min 9 vues

A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.

Drama

4

Don Chicago

Aug 06, 1945

Don Chicago

1945 80 min 1 vues

Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.

Comedy

1

The First Mrs Fraser

Apr 18, 1932

The First Mrs Fraser

1932 95 min 1 vues

'Rich man returns to first wife on finding second wife loves younger man.' (British Film Catalogue)

6

The Galloping Major

May 07, 1951

The Galloping Major

1951 82 min 8 vues

A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.

Comedy

6

Master Spy

Aug 19, 1964

Master Spy

1964 70 min 2 vues

Boris Turganev, un scientifique russe qui s'est enfui d'une prison communiste, a de la difficulté à convaincre ses supérieurs Britanniques qu'il est là pour travailler et non pour espionner pour les Russes.

Drama

4.9

La Dépravée

Apr 21, 1983

La Dépravée

1983 98 min 18 vues

Sir Ralph Skelton est sur un petit nuage. Il va se marier avec une jolie jeune fille à peine sortie de l'enfance dont il s'est occupé depuis sa prime jeunesse et qui porte le doux nom de Caroline. Tout irait pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes des petits nobliaux d'Angleterre s'il n'avait fallu que sa belle pucelle invite une amie à elle pour son mariage. Cette superbe femelle aux yeux verts est une sacrée arriviste et la pauvre Caroline se contentera de laisser sa place de Lady Skelton à sa meilleure amie. Cette dernière, à peine mariée, tombe follement amoureuse d'un superbe séducteur du nom de Kit. Elle se résout mal à sa vie campagnarde auprès de ce généreux propriétaire terrien qui lui sert de mari et la plus petite occasion fera d'elle un détrousseur de grand chemin. Oui, mais, voilà, elle est sur le territoire du brigand légendaire Jerry Jackson... Brigand, oui, mais brigand au grand cœur.

Drama

1

Ooh La La!

Jun 16, 1973

Ooh La La!

1973 min 1 vues

Series based on the short French farces written by Georges Feydeau, Eugène Labiche, Marc Michel and Sacha Guitry. All of them include mistaken identities and impeccable timing.