Marie Lohr

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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
Pygmalion
6.993

Pygmalion

Mar 03, 1939
Le professeur Henry Higgins, expert en phonétique, fait la connaissance de la jeune Eliza Doolittle au langage populaire. Avec son ami, le colonel Pickering, il fait le pari de la faire passer pour une duchesse...
Comedy
Anna Karénine
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Anna Karénine

Jan 22, 1948
1875. 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
Reasonable Doubt
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Reasonable Doubt

Jan 01, 1936
A lawyer's love for a young girl causes him to defend the man he thinks to be her lover. During the trial the lawyer finds out that the man is his own son.
Drama
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
5.9
La Grande-Bretagne a conclu un accord international au cours des 50 dernières années avec une petite île du Pacifique. Il a été ignoré jusqu'à ce que la mort de leur roi le porte à l'attention du Foreign Office à Whitehall. Ils décident d'envoyer Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne pour rétablir des relations amicales.
Comedy
Major Barbara
6.6

Major Barbara

May 14, 1941
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 with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.
Comedy
Winslow contre le roi
6.9

Winslow contre le roi

Sep 24, 1948
Parce que son fils a été injustement renvoyé de l'Académie navale, un retraité intente un procès au roi d'Angleterre. Sa famille paye le prix de sa détermination.
Drama
Ma vie commence en Malaisie
6.3
Après la guerre, Jeanne Paget quitte à nouveau Londres pour retourner en Malaisie. Il lui faut revoir ce pays où elle a tant souffert. Secrétaire militaire, au moment où les Japonais envahissent la Malaisie, elle reçoit l'ordre de se replier. Mais tandis que ses compagnes gagnent le dernier train, elle s'attarde pour recevoir un coup de téléphone: c'est la femme de son chef qui réclame de l'aide pour le départ avec ses trois enfants…
War
Pour que les autres vivent
7.4
Après le naufrage du paquebot Crescent Star, près d’une vingtaine de rescapés trouve refuge dans un canot de survie prévu à peine pour dix. C’est le commandant Holmes qui va devoir décider lesquels vont rester à bord d’une embarcation toujours plus fragilisée par de multiples épreuves…
Drama
Great Catherine
5.6

Great Catherine

Nov 29, 1968
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 suitable lover for Catherine, and he coerces the bewildered visitor into her bedchamber. Edstaston manages to escape, but he is repeatedly recaptured and delivered to the mischievous Catherine.
Comedy
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
The Rake's Progress
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The Rake's Progress

Dec 06, 1945
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of sweethearts, family and friends, and Marriage for money. All this with no signs of remorse or redemption, since his life as a completely unprincipled rake is quite enjoyable...for him, at least. Then, World War II breaks out and he is given a chance to die a heroic death for flag and country. Maybe.
Drama
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
5.2
The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.
Comedy
Always a Bride
5.9

Always a Bride

Aug 12, 1953
Set against the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera, this comedy follows the misadventures of a father and daughter con artist team (Ronald Squire and Peggy Cummins) who pose as a married couple and swindle wealthy clients at the region's swankiest resorts. But their scams take on a whole new dimension when daughter Clare falls for a British government bureaucrat (Terence Morgan) who may have a secret or two of his own. [Netflix]
Comedy
The Magic Bow
5.3

The Magic Bow

Sep 20, 1946
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.
Music
Escapade
5.2

Escapade

Aug 05, 1955
An English pacifist's (John Mills) sons run away from school and hijack a plane to Vienna to petition for peace.
Comedy
Silent Dust
7.3

Silent Dust

Feb 01, 1949
A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long before the dedication ceremony is to be held, the son shows up; it turns out that he wasn't killed in battle but deserted, and has become a blackmailer and a killer. He wants to get some money to "start a new life", but his blind father senses that something is wrong and sets out to find out what's going on.
Drama
Oh, Daddy!
5

Oh, Daddy!

Feb 08, 1935
Member of a village Purity League branch find things much livelier on a trip to London.
Comedy
Dreams Come True
1

Dreams Come True

Dec 08, 1936
A popular opera singer falls in love with a gangly farm boy. Anton's father is left all alone when his son runs off to the Big City with Ilona. Things really get sticky when Albert becomes obsessed with the notion that Ilona is actually his own illegitimate daughter!
Music
South Riding
6.2

South Riding

Aug 01, 1938
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
Drama
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
5.1
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
Lady in Danger
5.7

Lady in Danger

Nov 27, 1934
Dexter becomes involved in a revolution and is asked to hide the Queen. This leads to misunderstanding with his firm and his fiancee.
Comedy
Fighting Stock
1

Fighting Stock

Apr 09, 1935
The Aldwych Theater farceurs are at it again in Fighting Stock. The punning title refers to a well-stocked rural fishing stream, which sparks a battle royale between two rival groups of fishermen. Brigadier-General Sir Donald Rowley (Tom Walls) gets involved in the fray when he rents a country cottage with his nephew Sydney (Ralph Lynn). While the nephew pitches woo at the local maidens, General Rowley adopts military tactics to reclaim the stream from village squire Duck (J. Robertson Hare).
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
Little Big Shot
4.5

Little Big Shot

Jan 01, 1952
Harry Hawkwood is the son of 'Pa' Hawkwood, one of England's greatest crooks, and it's Harry's ambition to follow in father's footsteps and be as good as Dad. Alas! Harry has a kind heart, and it is only out of respect for the old man that his father's gang tolerates him. When the gang decides to go for the Maddox jewels, Harry is given the job of "inside man" will his good nature get the better of him once again?
Comedy
Small Hotel
6.5

Small Hotel

Oct 14, 1957
The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert, an aged but very shrewd waiter. A past master of the gentle art of fiddling, he extracts the maximum profit from his job while managing to endear himself to both the customers and staff. Then, there's a visit from Mr Finch, who feels it's time Albert was replaced.
Comedy
Aren't We All?
1

Aren't We All?

Mar 17, 1932
Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt his honeymoon with his wife Margot in the south of France and return to London to get his father to sign an important contract. While Margot, an actress, goes to a small resort where she will not be recognized, Kitty Lake, one of the young women Lord Grenham pursues, flirts with Willie. Two weeks pass and when Willie tells Margot on the telephone that he must stay in town, she threatens to engage in a violent flirtation with the next attractive man she sees. Karl von der Heide, from Vienna, who is waiting to use the telephone, overhears her and begins a flirtation. She identifies herself to him as Mrs. Margaret Spaulding, and they pursue the beginnings of a romance until Margot suddenly returns home.
Comedy
Foreign Affaires
1

Foreign Affaires

Nov 21, 1935
An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!
Comedy
Aimé des dieux
5.2

Aimé des dieux

Feb 22, 1936
L'histoire de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart et de sa femme Constance, dans un contexte d’intrigues de cour et de jalousie professionnelle.
Drama
On Such a Night
1

On Such a Night

Feb 01, 1956
An American tourist on a day trip to Sussex from London inadvertently finds himself at Glyndebourne Opera House in Sussex where he learns to appreciate Opera.
Comedy
Present Laughter
1

Present Laughter

Feb 28, 1967
An aging and self-obsessed actor finds himself in a situation bordering on farce when he is besieged by the demands of his estranged wife, women who want to seduce him, and a crazed playwright.
Comedy