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Classic British comedy starring George Formby. Chimney sweep George Shuttleworth (Formby) is laughed at by his friends in Wigan when he declares his dream of winning the Isle of Man TT race. Undeterred, George presses on with his goal and, when he fails...

This British-made period drama tells the story of a young woman (Joan Greenwood) who is torn between her love for a dashing rogue (Stewart Granger), and her duty to her husband by an arranged marriage, George Louis of Hanover, later to become George I.

Made for the Festival of Britain and with a host of guest stars, this film is devoted to the life and career of William Friese-Greene, a British portrait photographer who helped pioneer the development of the cine-camera. A careful and expensive biopic...

A Boulting Brothers comedy starring a host of British stars. Roger Thursby (Ian Carmichael) is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly...

Richard Todd stars as Ward Prescott, a man who turns up at the Costa Brava house of an heiress (Anne Baxter), whose father has recently committed suicide and whose brother was seemingly killed in an accident. Prescott claims to be her dead brother but...

Paul Clifton (Stanley Baker) assembles twenty five of Britain's most notorious criminals to rob the Glasgow mail train. However, things go badly wrong, and Inspector Langden (James Booth), the detective in charge of the case, manages to catch the entire...

Double bill of 1940s classics from Ealing Studios. In 'The Foreman Went to France' (1941), after his bosses have sold three machines for making fighter cannons to a French company, an English factory foreman (Clifford Evans) travels to France in 1940 in...

Ealing Studios production following the stories of a variety of different people caught up in the same train crash. From the the train driver, who is only driving because his daughter's boyfriend has failed to show up for work, and the composer caught up...

An all boys public school, Melbury for Boys, is thrown into lustful wanting when their French tutor (Agnes Laurent) turns out to be gorgeous, sexy and female.

French war drama directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and based on the novel by Joseph Kessel. Drawing on the director's own experiences in World War II, the film follows a band of resistance fighters in German-controlled France. As the war continues, the...

Classic British comedy. William Fitch (Will Hay) is a disbarred barrister now summoned to court to face charges of sending begging letters. Falling back on his legal skills, Fitch manages to make mincemeat of the cross-examining lawyer, Claude Babbington...

From the legendary filmmaking duo Powell and Pressburger (A Matter of Life and Death, The Red Shoes), The Small Back Room is the story of the troubled love affair between a tormented back-room scientist and a secretary, told against a background of...

Early starring vehicle for George Formby, the man with the ukelele and the toothy grin. Despite being on his uppers, George is still prepared to pawn his beloved banjo in order to help his girlfriend save her niece from the orphanage. Help seems to be at...

For generations the Stoner and Smith families have lived and worked on the canals. But now this idyllic way of life is threatened - the younger generation long to break away and discover life outside the barges. Ted Stoner (Robert Griffith) dreams of...

Cry, the Beloved Country is the BAFTA nominated film of the acclaimed novel by Alan Paton. A black minister, Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) lives a quiet life as a parish priest in the back country of South Africa. When his son, Absolom, leaves the small...