Pearls Bring Tears
Mar 20, 1937About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.
Comedy
Annie Esmond
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The Yellow Claw
Jan 13, 1921A frightened woman is murdered in the London apartment of a well-known novelist named Henry Leroux. The police arrest Leroux's butler, but he escapes and runs off to a mysterious opium den, the lair of a drug dealer named Mister King. Gaston Max, a detective from Paris, arrives in London to investigate the drug trafficking. Although the police take down the gang, Mr. King escapes and manages to keep his true identity a secret.
Crime
Murder in the Family
Jan 01, 1938After a wealthy woman is killed, her extended family all fall under suspicion of murder.
Thriller
The Improper Duchess
Jan 17, 1936The King of Moldavia tries to negotiate a loan from the United States in return for oil concessions, with the wily assistance of the Duchess of Tann.
Comedy
East of Ludgate Hill
Dec 23, 1937When the City stockbroker firm of Macintyre & Son records a substantial yearly profit, its senior staff are each promised a £50 bonus. But their hasty plans for spending their windfalls are put in jeopardy the following morning, as a set of negotiable bonds are discovered missing.
Drama
Innocent
Mar 01, 1921An orphan named Innocence leaves her county home after her foster-father dies. She travels to the city and makes a living as a novelist. Subsequently, she has an affair with a painter named Amadis de Jocelyn, who later dumps her.
Drama
Let the People Sing
Aug 11, 1942An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.
Comedy
Lend Me Your Husband
Jan 12, 1935A dapper Englishman has an affair with his wife’s best friend. A risque and very British marital farce.
Comedy
Stolen Life
Jan 18, 1939Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth Bergner, whose husband Paul Czinner directed the film. Bergner stars as identical twins Sylvina and Martina, whose mild sibling rivalry intensifies when one of the girls tricks the other's sweetheart Alan McKenzie (Michael Redgrave) into proposing to the wrong twin.
Drama
Save a Little Sunshine
Oct 01, 1938Dave Smalley buys a lost Archaeopteryx fossil by accident at an auction and uses the reward money for this to buy a share in his landlady's lodging- house. She turns him into an exploited man-of-all-work about the house, but after a lady guest persuades him that he resembles Napoleon he becomes convinced that he is a born leader and mounts a takeover bid to reverse their roles.
The Man Who Won
Dec 01, 1918A proud architect learns his vicar's daughter is adopted, so she weds a workman who inherits a fortune.
Drama
His Lordship Regrets
Oct 31, 1938The impoverished Lord Cavender woos a phony heiress, Mabel Van Morgan, only to find that his secretary Mary, whom he really loves, is a genuine heiress. His Lordship does quickly and truly regret.
Comedy
Tiptoes
Jun 19, 1927
Service for Ladies
Jan 14, 1932Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince to win her love. In this venture, he is aided by Mr. Westlake, a Ruritanian monarch who owes him a favour. When Sylvia discovers Max's deception, she is appalled, but the situation is resolved when her father tells her that he was once a hotel dishwasher.
Comedy
Abdul the Damned
Aug 05, 1935In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.
Drama
The Silent Passenger
Jun 01, 1935A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
Crime
La Vie privée d'Henry VIII
Aug 17, 1933Comment après avoir usé et assassiné plusieurs femmes, le terrible Henry VIII se laissera mener par le bout du nez jusqu'à un âge avancé par Catherine Parr.
History
The Good Companions
Feb 28, 1933Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
Romance
Saloon Bar
Nov 02, 1940A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
Thriller
Prince of Arcadia
Jul 01, 1933A Ruritanian Prince is due to marry a princess with acting ambitions, but he has fallen in love with another woman.
Music
Gert and Daisy's Weekend
Feb 16, 1942Gert and Daisy accompany a crowd of Cockney children who are being evacuated to a stately home in the country.
Comedy
The Jewel
Oct 01, 1933
Love, Life and Laughter
Jun 01, 1923Love, Life and Laughter tells the story of a pair of working class youngsters with big dreams – a cheery chorus girl and a serious writer. The film toys with our expectations, blurring the boundaries of reverie and reality; tragedy and comedy. Directed by George Pearson, the film was considered lost for many years until in March 2014 when a copy was discovered in an old Dutch cinema.
Drama
Alf's Button
Mar 24, 1930A soldier discovers a button made from Aladdin's lamp grants wishes when rubbed.
Comedy
The Sins Ye Do
Sep 30, 1924
The Iron Duke
Nov 30, 1934The Claydon Treasure Mystery
Sep 04, 1938"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in investigating murders at Marsh Manor, home of the wealthy Claydon family. Plenty of suspects to choose from, Kerrigan believes that the murders may be connected to hidden treasure on the estate.
Crime
Cottage à louer
Sep 06, 1941Dans son cottage des environs de Glasgow, en Ecosse, John Barrington ne se doute pas que deux espions allemands sont venus dans son village tout spécialement pour l'enlever. Il est vrai qu'on est en pleine Seconde Guerre mondiale et que Barrington est l'inventeur d'une arme de guerre très puissante, dont les forces de l'axe aimeraient s'emparer. Heureusement, un agent du contre-espionnage britannique a eu vent de l'affaire. Grâce à l'aide d'un jeune homme venu de l'ouest de Londres et qui s'improvise détective, il va tenter de déjouer les plans de l'ennemi...
Thriller
Stamboul
Oct 20, 1931In the lead-up to the First World War, a French military attaché falls in love with the wife of a prominent German in Stamboul in the Ottoman Empire.
Drama
To Oblige a Lady
Feb 16, 1931A couple rent a luxury flat and try to pass it off as their own in order to impress a wealthy relative.
Comedy
The Officers' Mess
May 08, 1931The Passionate Friends
Jan 01, 1922An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.
Drama
The Outsider
Apr 20, 1931An unorthodox osteopath cures one of his patients, the daughter of a fellow Doctor.
Drama
Men of Tomorrow
Sep 29, 1932In the years after his graduation Allen Shepherd has become a successful novelist and has married Jane Anderson. A firm proponent of traditional sex roles, Shepherd leaves Jane when she accepts a teaching post at Oxford. He later changes his views, and the couple is reunited.
Drama
After the Verdict
Jan 01, 1929Sally Bishop
Oct 17, 1932All That Glitters
Dec 01, 1936A bank manager who has successfully bought into a lucrative gold mine manages to foil the plot of some confidence tricksters who plan to swindle him out of his investment.
Crime
Thunder in the City
Apr 22, 1937A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
Comedy
A Little Bit of Fluff
Jul 28, 1928Syd Chaplin And Betty Balfour star in this British International Picture.
Comedy
All Hands
May 31, 1940From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators. This Ealing Studios production features well-known 1940s actor John Mills, playing a sailor whose girlfriend thoughtlessly blunders away vital wartime secrets. The consequences prove disastrous when his boat next leaves to cross the English Channel.
War
Bulldog Drummond at Bay
May 01, 1937Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
Action
A Scandal in Bohemia
Apr 01, 1921Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.
Mystery
It's a Cop
Mar 01, 1934Comedy
Ebb Tide
Feb 16, 1932A sailor falls in love with a woman he meets at the dockside, but is deeply conflicted because his former lover is in prison.
Drama
The Recoil
Mar 01, 1922Crime
The Knave of Diamonds
Jul 01, 1921Romance
Lucky Loser
Mar 01, 1934Comedy
