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Kanopy
79
78
7.4
/12129/
78
/363/
69
/152/
3.6
/4653/
100
/11/
85
/201/
cc age 10+

The Dam Busters (1955)
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.
poster
78
72
7.1
/7494/
74
/188/
70
/153/
3.5
/3110/
100
/13/
83
/110/
cc age 7+

The Crimson Pirate (1952)
Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.
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Britbox Apple TV Channel
78
71
7.9
/12228/
77
/160/
74
/132/
3.7
/4936/
81
/21/
86
/287/

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.
poster
69
44
7.0
/2457/
68
/42/
70
/45/
3.4
/1215/
71
/26/

Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
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Criterion Channel
62
37
6.3
/1615/
58
/27/
52
/26/
3.2
/692/
100
/9/
39
/21/

King Solomon's Mines (1937)
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
poster
64
36
6.6
/1597/
62
/21/
56
/26/
3.3
/798/
80
/5/
56
/19/

The End of the Affair (1955)
During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she and Maurice eventually give in to their mutual attraction, leading to an affair that lasts several months. Maurice's jealousy, along with the bombing of London by the Germans, seemingly leads to the end of their relationship. However, the reasons are later revealed to be more complex.
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63
24
6.6
/1720/
67
/23/
62
/29/
3.3
/617/
55
/6/

The Naked Edge (1961)
Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.
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69
24
7.3
/1057/
81
/6/
62
/15/
3.5
/225/
62
/110/

Quartet (1948)
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
poster
68
20
7.0
/1273/
70
/11/
62
/25/
3.5
/408/
72
/6/

The Captive Heart (1946)
A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis. To do this, he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Other inmates’ stories are also revealed. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability.
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Hoopla
62
11
6.5
/492/
51
/7/
67
/11/
3.3
/271/

Cone of Silence (1960)
A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for scientific reasons for the crashes.
poster
61
11
6.6
/473/
58
/8/
54
/16/
3.3
/246/

Escape (1948)
A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes and goes on the lam, aided by a local girl.
poster
66
10
7.0
/627/
60
/3/
50
/14/
86
/3/

So Well Remembered (1947)
A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
poster
59
10
6.2
/549/
61
/5/
70
/11/
44
/4/

The Gentle Sex (1943)
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
poster
?
6.1
/40/

The Hundred Pound Window (1944)
An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.
poster
?
7.0
/26/
10
/1/

Souls in Conflict (1954)
An actress, a factory worker, and a jet pilot all face up to their personal problems after attending a rally by Dr. Billy Graham.
poster
?
5.9
/131/

The Iron Duke (1934)
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
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Amazon Prime Video
51
?
5.6
/298/
35
/2/
62
/5/

Dangerous Exile (1957)
Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors.
poster
?
6.4
/96/

Evensong (1934)
Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...
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?
7.0
/19/

Down River (1931)
A murderous skipper involved in dope trafficking.
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?
7.0
/33/
10
/1/
80
/2/

Rx Murder (1958)
An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor, Doctor Dysert (or Doctor Deadcert as they call him) have had mysterious deaths. And now Doctor Dysert is treating his own secretary, Kitty, who he wants to make her his next wife, as she has inexplicably fallen ill.
poster
66
?
6.6
/278/
63
/3/
70
/4/

Landfall (1949)
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 actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.
poster
50
?
5.8
/112/
35
/2/
58
/2/

The Rossiter Case (1951)
The happy marriage of Liz and Peter Rossiter is shattered after Liz is paralysed in an accident. Peter soon finds solace with Honor, his sister-in-law, but when she tells him she is expecting his child he is racked with guilt and turns to drink. When Honor is found murdered with Peter's gun next to her, the police arrest him. Unable to remember his movements he must discover the secret behind "The Rossiter Case".
poster
?
6.1
/99/
70
/1/
60
/1/

The Shipbuilders (1943)
A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by George Blake.
poster
56
?
6.3
/428/
47
/8/
60
/13/

Left Right and Centre (1959)
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.
poster
60
?
6.2
/178/
63
/3/
55
/3/

Atlantic Ferry (1941)
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
poster
61
?
6.1
/131/
62
/4/
60
/2/

The Agitator (1945)
The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm where he works and tries to run it according to his socialist political beliefs. It was based on the 1925 novel Peter Pettinger by William Riley.
poster
59
?
5.9
/311/
60
/1/

The Prime Minister (1941)
A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria.
poster
56
?
6.2
/139/
56
/3/
52
/5/

Nightbeat (1947)
After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.
poster
52
?
5.4
/222/
35
/2/
50
/3/

The Spell of Amy Nugent (1941)
A young man's fiancé dies after contracting a terminal illness, and in his efforts to contact her he gets involved with a group of spiritualists.
poster
?
7.5
/17/

Dreyfus (1931)
In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into the dubious evidence used in the trial, an institutional coverup begins, aided by fears of army disgrace and anti-Semitic paranoia against Dreyfus. But a determined group, headed by prominent author Émile Zola, leads a mounting public call to reopen the Dreyfus case.
poster
61
?
5.8
/345/
70
/2/
55
/4/

Dinner at the Ritz (1937)
The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
poster
?
5.6
/52/
70
/1/
60
/2/

Mrs. Fitzherbert (1947)
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
poster
?
5.9
/67/
60
/1/
52
/4/

Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife (1936)
Mozart biopic.
poster
64
?
6.3
/208/
70
/12/
60
/1/

Top Secret (1952)
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
poster
56
?
6.5
/333/
52
/4/
52
/9/

On the Night of the Fire (1939)
A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
poster
61
?
6.2
/111/
60
/1/
60
/4/

One Exciting Night (1944)
A young singer meets a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot, and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend.
poster
53
?
5.6
/191/
50
/1/

O.H.M.S. (1937)
American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie is then forced to join the British army in the dead man's place. He falls in love with the Canadian's childhood playmate, Sally Briggs, and becomes a hero after saving an isolated English colony in China.
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44
?
5.8
/107/
30
/2/
65
/4/

The Time of His Life (1955)
Mr Pastry's social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for ex-convicts, hides the fact that her father is himself a prisoner. When he is released and arrives at her home, she panics and locks him in the attic until a job can be found for him, preferably abroad!
poster
68
?
6.5
/247/
70
/5/
69
/8/

Forbidden (1949)
Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronald Shiner). Following a fight with local hoods over pitch spaces, Jim falls for Jane (Hazel Court), the girl on a nearby candy floss stall. The two begin dating but Jim fails to mention he is already married.
poster
48
?
5.7
/366/
30
/2/
58
/4/

Surprise Package (1960)
Comic crime caper, set on a Greek island, starring Yul Brynner and Mitzi Gaynor.
poster
?
5.8
/58/
70
/1/
50
/2/

The Outsider (1939)
A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.
poster
66
?
6.6
/223/
70
/1/
62
/4/

All Over the Town (1949)
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's partner and son offers Nat a position as editor in return for his financial backing. But Nat's reluctance to shy away from controversial issues raises more than a few eyebrows.
poster
63
?
6.1
/218/
70
/1/
60
/3/

Dear Mr. Prohack (1949)
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
poster
?
5.2
/30/

Dear Octopus (1943)
Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of smoothing out all the deep-set hostilities and jealousies.
poster
52
?
5.9
/138/
43
/3/
55
/2/

Circumstantial Evidence (1952)
Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly reappears, he attempts to blackmail the couple with a threat of ruining Michael's career. When her husband is murdered, Michael appears to be the only obvious suspect - but will the circumstantial evidence be enough to sentence him to death?
poster
50
?
6.4
/255/
40
/5/
46
/7/

Before I Wake (1955)
A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim
poster
61
?
6.6
/154/
67
/4/
52
/11/

For Them That Trespass (1949)
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
poster
?
6.1
/79/
60
/2/
50
/1/

The Show Goes On (1937)
A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she's discovered by an ailing composer who's seeking the right singer for his songs.


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