Doctor Syn
Aug 25, 1937A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
Drama
Leonard Sharp
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The Hangman Waits
Jun 01, 1947
Three Crooked Men
Oct 01, 1958
Le Grand Alibi
Feb 23, 1950Jonathan Cooper, épris d'une comédienne et chanteuse, Charlotte Inwood, est soupçonné d’être l'assassin de son mari. Il réussit à convaincre son amie Ève de son innocence. Elle décide de l'aider.
Thriller
Convict 99
Sep 26, 1938A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.
Comedy
Hard Steel
May 18, 1942A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
Drama
Hard Steel
May 18, 1942A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
Drama
They Drive by Night
Dec 01, 1938“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.
Crime
Chaussure à son pied
Apr 19, 1954À la fin du XIXème siècle en Angleterre. Henry Horatio Hobson est un prospère cordonnier à Salford dans le Lancashire. Il est veuf, et sa maison et son commerce sont tenus par ses trois filles. Hobson est aussi avare que buveur. Si ses filles sont les commerciales de son commerce, l'artisan est Willie Mossop qui travaille sans relâche, dans la cave de la boutique. Il est un Napoléon de la chaussure mais ignore son talent, exploité par Hobson. Il permet à ses deux plus jeunes filles, Alice et Vicky de faire d'enrichissants mariages, mais a décidé que l'aînée, Maggie, restera à la maison pour s'occuper de lui. Elle lui est trop utile pour être perdue. Or Maggie, habile et intelligente, a d'autres idées en tête, et elle compte bien mener sa vie vers la prospérité sociale et financière...
Comedy
Rendez-vous avec la peur
Nov 09, 1957Le professeur Harrington trouve la mort dans de mystérieuses circonstances après avoir publiquement accusé le docteur Karswell, spécialiste en sciences occultes, de charlatanisme. Un confrère de la victime, l’éminent savant américain John Holden, enquête sur sa disparition. Lorsqu’il rencontre Karswell, celui-ci tente de l’effrayer : il ne lui resterait que 3 jours à vivre…
Fantasy
Feather Your Nest
Mar 12, 1937
For Them That Trespass
Apr 21, 1949In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Drama
For Them That Trespass
Apr 21, 1949In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Drama
The Fake
Sep 25, 1953Someone 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
At the Stroke of Nine
Jun 01, 1957A prominent journalist is kidnapped by a lunatic who threatens to kill her unless she writes flattering articles about him.
Drama
Neutral Port
Dec 06, 1940A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.
War
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Aug 31, 1940Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
Comedy
Radio Cab Murder
Oct 01, 1954Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.
Crime
Tueurs de dames
Dec 08, 1955Le commissariat de police de la petite ville de Richmond a l'habitude de la visite de Margaret Wilberforce, veuve d'un officier de marine, complètement mythomane. Un jour, le digne professeur Marcus loue une chambre à la vieille dame où, tous les soirs, il répète avec ses amis musiciens un menuet de Boccherini. En réalité, ils préparent le hold-up du siècle.
Comedy
King of the Underworld
Jul 05, 1952A sinister crook is implicated in blackmail, greed for emeralds, a secret formula and murder. Thee episodes from a 1952 British television series called "Inspector Morley, Late of Scotland Yard, Investigates" were joined together and released theatrically.
Drama
Gasbags
Feb 01, 1941It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.
War
Love on the Dole
Jun 28, 1941Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
Drama
The Dummy Talks
Oct 25, 1943An operation of counterfeit five pound notes is discovered at a variety theater, leading to murder during the performance.
Mystery
Satellite dans le ciel
Jul 21, 1956Un équipage vigoureux (et une journaliste) pilotent un vaisseau stratosphérique dans son premier vol spatial. Sa mission consiste en la mise à feu dans l'espace d'une bombe au tritonium, une tentative d'intimidation sensée dissuader tout conflit …
Drama
Sheepdog of the Hills
Dec 22, 1941Farmers are all losing their Sheep, all except 'Riggy's'. Is it because of his great sheepdog or something more sinister.
Drama
Chance of a Lifetime
Apr 24, 1950The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
Drama
Windbag the Sailor
Dec 01, 1936Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
Comedy
A Christmas Carol
Dec 27, 1950On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife.
Drama
Death by Design
Jan 23, 1943Dastardly deeds are afoot in a smog of pipe smoke when a man is found dead - is it cyanide poisoning or smoke inhalation?
Crime
Murder at 3am
Jul 01, 1953
Le Gentleman et la Parisienne
Oct 02, 1956An accountant who is creative with his firm's books uses the money to fund a romantic spree.
Comedy
Les Forbans de la nuit
Jun 15, 1950Londres. Harry Fabian, un petit truand paranoïaque et mégalomane, plus ambitieux qu'intelligent, exerce les fonctions de rabatteur pour le compte de Phil Nosseross, patron du Silver Fox, une boîte de nuit du quartier de Soho, à Londres. Dans l'espoir de faire rapidement fortune, il décide d'organiser des combats de lutte gréco-romaine truqués. Un vieux lutteur, le Grand Gregorius, et la femme de son patron, qui tous deux poursuivent leur propre chimère, l'aident à trouver des fonds. Mais Harry s'attaque au monopole de Kristo. Et celui-ci, qui se trouve être le père de Gregorius, n'entend pas que quelqu'un d'autre le concurrence sur ce terrain...
Drama
Trottie True
Sep 29, 1949Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
Music
They Met in the Dark
Aug 11, 1943A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
Mystery
Un soir de rixe
Feb 05, 1945Pendant le Blitz , à Londres, un soldat se démobilise pour retrouver sa femme séduite par un voyou.
Drama
Warn That Man
Jul 13, 1943At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany.
War
Adventure in the Hopfields
Jun 06, 1954A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.
Adventure
Rembrandt
Nov 06, 1936Le film, comme le titre l'indique, est une biographie du peintre hollandais du XVIIe siècle, qualifié de « plus grand peintre de tous les temps » dans le texte qui défile à l'écran en guise de préambule.
Drama
Violent Playground
Jan 14, 1958A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
Crime
Week-end
Jan 27, 1938Un long week-end, c’est presque des vacances ! C’est en tout cas ce que pensent les Anglais, prompts à profiter de leurs quelques jours de congés pour oublier leur quotidien en allant à la mer. Mais ce n’est pas le cas de Stephen Howard, qui vient de perdre sa femme en plein accouchement. Catherine, son infirmière, s’apprête elle aussi à partir en week-end et à rejoindre son fiancé sur le littoral. Mais, touchée par son chagrin, elle se demande rapidement si elle a bien fait de laisser le jeune veuf seul...
Comedy
Anna Karénine
Jan 22, 19481875. Anna Karénine vit à Saint-Pétersbourg, entourée de son fils et de son mari, un homme austère accaparé par ses fonctions. Son frère la fait venir à Moscou pour qu'elle intercède en sa faveur auprès de sa femme, la douce Dolly.
Drama
Skid Kids
Feb 01, 1953Story about a group of young cyclist track riders and their effort to retain their track against long odds.
Family
Hancock's Half Hour
Jun 30, 1961Hancock's Half Hour is a BBC radio comedy, and later television comedy, series of the 1950s and 60s written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. The series starred Tony Hancock, with Sid James; the radio version also co-starred, at various times, Moira Lister, Andrée Melly, Hattie Jacques, Bill Kerr and Kenneth Williams. The final television series, renamed simply Hancock, starred Hancock alone.
Comedian Tony Hancock starred in the show, playing an exaggerated and much poorer version of his own character and lifestyle, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock, a down-at-heel comedian living at the dilapidated 23 Railway Cuttings in East Cheam.
The series was influential in the development of the situation comedy, with its move away from radio variety towards a focus on character development.
Comedy
