The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. In the movie they write a family history for a duke…
After the Ball
The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility
I Believe in You
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of “The Blue Lamp”(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers and their charges.
There Is Another Sun
Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how ‘Racer’, a ‘Wall of Death’ rider in the same fairground, involves them in…
Life at the Top
Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But his career seems to have…
Three Men in a Boat
Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
WUSA
Rheinhardt, a cynical drifter, gets a job as an announcer for right-wing radio station WUSA in New Orleans. Rheinhardt is content to parrot WUSA’s reactionary editorial stance on the air,…
Romeo and Juliet
In Shakespeare’s classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the…
Expresso Bongo
A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation. Director Val Guest’s 1959 British drama stars Laurence Harvey, Cliff Richard, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Hermione…
The Running Man
An insurance man (Alan Bates) gets chummy in Spain with a couple (Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick) who have collected on a fake death.
A Dandy in Aspic
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying…
The Ceremony
A man has an affair with his condemned brother’s girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.
The Silent Enemy
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 – Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat,…
Women of Twilight
When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific…
The Outrage
At a disused railway station, three men — a con artist, a preacher and a prospector — discuss the recent trial and sentencing of the outlaw Juan Carrasco for the…
Of Human Bondage
Medical student Philip fall in love with Mildred, a waitress. Although she is a flirt, they have a love affair. But when Philip is told about her constant infideliy, they…
Night Watch
Ellen Wheeler, a rich widow, is recovering from a nervous breakdown. One day, while staring out the window, she witnesses a murder. But does anybody believe her?
Storm Over the Nile
Storm Over the Nile is a 1955 film adaptation of the novel The Four Feathers, directed by Terence Young. The film not only extensively used footage of the action scenes…
Walk on the Wild Side
At the Doll House, a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction both for clients and for Jo, the madame. Her comfortable if tedious life is disrupted by…
Landfall
A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his…
Man on the Run
A man recently gone AWOL from the Army (Derek Farr) is arrested in a store robbery that occurred while he was shopping. With help from a beautiful lawyer (Joan Hopkins),…
Room at the Top
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner’s daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
The Alamo
The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the…
The Long and the Short and the Tall
Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the…
The Good Die Young
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
F for Fake
Records the lives of notorious fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to prevent longer prison time, made his name by promoting forged works…
Darling
The Manchurian Candidate
Towards the conclusion of all the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is seized with communists and brainwashed. After the war, the platoon has been returned and Sergeant Raymond…