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Black Coffee
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Black Coffee

Aug 24, 1931
Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.
Crime
Lord Edgware Dies
5.5

Lord Edgware Dies

Jul 31, 1934
A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
Crime
Went the day well?
7.2

Went the day well?

Dec 07, 1942
Un détachement de l’armée britannique s’établit dans un village de la campagne anglaise. Les soldats s’intègrent à la communauté, avant que des évènements tragiques ne révèlent leur véritable identité : il s’agit en fait de soldats allemands qui exécutent un plan d’invasion. Les habitants, retenus prisonniers, organisent la défense...
War
Scrooge
6.1

Scrooge

Nov 26, 1935
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
Drama
The Skin Game
5.3

The Skin Game

Feb 26, 1931
Les Hillcrist, riches propriétaires terriens voient leur environnement transformé par l'installation d'un industriel, M. Hornblower. Celui-ci bouleverse le calme bucolique de la région avec ses usines. Lorsqu'un terrain mitoyen de la propriété des Hillcrist, la Gentry, est mis en vente, ils s'affrontent dans une vente aux enchères, remportée par Hornblower. Mais Mrs Hillcrist fait engager un détective privé qui révèle le passé trouble de Chloé, la belle-fille de l'industriel, et se sert de ces révélations pour le faire chanter et lui extorquer la Gentry. Mais le secret est mal gardé, le scandale éclate et Chloé se suicide. Les Hornblower, meurtris et humiliés, décident de quitter la région ; la victoire des Hillcrist est amère car ils y perdent leur dignité.
Drama
Le Roi des gueux
6.8

Le Roi des gueux

Sep 28, 1938
En 1463, la famine règne à Paris, alors que les Bourguignons assiègent la ville. Tandis que le roi Louis XI s'est rendu à la Cour des Miracles dans l'espoir de découvrir un espion, François Villon tue le Grand Connétable qui se trouve être le traître qui a vendu la capitale française aux Bourguignons. En remerciement, le roi Louis XI amnistie François Villon, recherché pour vol, et le nomme Grand Connétable mais il ne dispose que d'une semaine pour faire ses preuves.
Adventure
Royal Cavalcade
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Royal Cavalcade

Apr 15, 1935
Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through the many travels of a penny that was minted in the year of his accession: 1910. Through a series of individual stories, Royal Cavalcade covers a period of striking change in every area of life – from the suffragette movement to the trenches of World War One, the effects of the Depression to single events such as the first ever Royal Command Performance, featuring Anna Pavlova and George Robey.
Drama
It Happened One Sunday
1
A young woman who comes to Liverpool for domestic employment and finds romance with a young sailor who winds up in hospital after a fight.
Comedy
L'Auberge Fantôme
6.5

L'Auberge Fantôme

Feb 01, 1944
Alors que la tempête fait rage, un groupe de voyageurs trouve refuge dans une paisible auberge de campagne. L'atmosphère des lieux est étrange, à l'instar du propriétaire et de sa fille. Si le dernier journal disponible date d'une année et que la jeune fille ne projette aucune ombre, c'est sans doute parce que, comme son père, elle est morte au cours d'un bombardement...
Mystery
The Ware Case
6.3

The Ware Case

Dec 02, 1938
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house
Mystery
Tudor Rose
8.1

Tudor Rose

Sep 01, 1936
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
Drama
Strange Boarders
1

Strange Boarders

May 01, 1938
Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.
Thriller
Vive les étudiants
6.7

Vive les étudiants

Feb 18, 1938
Robert Taylor, un jeune athlète américain, arrive à l'Université d'Oxford. Son attitude arrogante lui vaut brimades et humiliations de la part des étudiants anglais. De plus, il tombe amoureux de Molly Beaumont, la sœur d'un chef d'une académie rivale.
Drama
Train de nuit pour Munich
7.2
Le 3 septembre 1939 à Prague — juste avant la déclaration de guerre —, le professeur Axel Bomasch, inventeur d'un procédé de blindage, ne voulant pas que sa trouvaille tombe aux mains de l'Allemagne nazie, parvient à s'enfuir à Londres, mais laisse derrière lui sa fille Anna, arrêtée par la Gestapo et envoyée en camp de concentration. Là, elle rencontre Karl Marsen, prisonnier comme elle. Ils parviennent à s'évader et à gagner Londres à leur tour. Par l'intermédiaire d'un agent des services secrets britanniques, Gus Bennett, la jeune femme retrouve son père, mais Karl, en réalité un officier nazi, kidnappe les Bomasch qui sont transférés à Berlin. Gus se rend alors dans la capitale du Reich, sous l'identité d'un officier allemand du Génie — il est germanophone —, pour tenter de ravir Anna et le professeur à la Gestapo et de les ramener en Angleterre…
Drama
Ten Days in Paris
7.5

Ten Days in Paris

Jun 01, 1940
Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and has no recollection of being anywhere for ten days. Bob decides to follow a note found in his jacket, to the woman who wrote it, "Miss D", and get to the bottom of the whole strange situation.
Drama
Cheer Boys Cheer
5.8

Cheer Boys Cheer

Aug 01, 1939
Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.
Comedy
Victoria the Great
5.3

Victoria the Great

Sep 01, 1937
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
Drama
Eugene Aram
1

Eugene Aram

Feb 28, 1924
A blackmailed ex-thief is executed for a murder he didn't commit.
Drama
A Night Like This
1

A Night Like This

Mar 16, 1932
Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
Comedy
Broken Blossoms
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Broken Blossoms

May 20, 1936
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
Drama
Crime Over London
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Crime Over London

Oct 21, 1936
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
Adventure