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Criterion Channel
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7.3
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69
/150/
69
/117/
3.6
/7080/
88
/16/
76
/122/

49th Parallel (1941)
In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.
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JustWatchTV
76
68
7.1
/5803/
71
/106/
69
/93/
3.5
/3816/
94
/18/
83
/127/

Passport to Pimlico (1949)
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.
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The Roku Channel
73
66
7.2
/6957/
69
/121/
68
/98/
3.4
/4036/
90
/20/
75
/107/

In Which We Serve (1942)
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship’s first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.
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Kanopy
72
54
7.1
/2670/
70
/64/
65
/68/
3.5
/3584/
90
/20/
67
/19/

It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
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Kanopy
55
52
6.3
/12076/
60
/239/
61
/234/
3.0
/9528/
54
/24/
36
/162/
52
/13/

Jamaica Inn (1939)
In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.
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Kanopy
69
50
6.8
/2881/
65
/58/
66
/59/
3.4
/1866/
83
/6/
68
/13/

The Blue Lamp (1950)
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
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44
7.4
/1958/
73
/33/
70
/31/
3.5
/563/
92
/958/

Oh, Mr. Porter! (1937)
Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a toothless old gaffer and a portly young loudmouth. Hilarious adventures ensue, including a locomotive chase after gunrunners make off with a train.
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67
39
6.7
/1998/
66
/32/
64
/47/
3.5
/1294/
70
/18/

Hue and Cry (1947)
A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.
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66
34
7.0
/1677/
66
/21/
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/23/
3.4
/568/
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/639/

The October Man (1947)
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
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69
30
7.3
/1540/
68
/33/
69
/42/
3.6
/944/
64
/3/

Hunted (1952)
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
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56
24
6.3
/1281/
58
/18/
64
/25/
3.3
/542/
30
/80/

The Frightened City (1961)
A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
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63
24
6.7
/659/
71
/8/
52
/11/
65
/59/

Very Important Person (1961)
Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist who is sent undercover on a bombing mission to monitor the effectiveness of his latest invention, a new-fangled radar. When the plane is attacked, he parachutes to safety - only to be sent to a POW camp, where he takes on the alias of Lieutenant Farrow. There, the somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits suspect their acerbic new fellow prisoner of being a spy, and all sorts of culture clashes and misunderstandings ensue.
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65
23
6.3
/1093/
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69
/20/
3.3
/442/
61
/19/

What a Carve Up! (1961)
Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather eccentric relatives. Ernie's imagination has been affected by his constant immersion in cheap horror novels, but his wildest fears turn out to be justified when the guests begin to drop dead.
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61
23
6.5
/1505/
58
/15/
58
/29/
3.3
/671/
61
/6/

Only Two Can Play (1962)
John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and Liz ever manage to consummate their affair, that is.
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23
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/11/
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/71/

San Demetrio London (1943)
Based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned. When one of the lifeboats drifted back to the burning tanker the day after, and found that she still hadn't exploded, they decided to board her and put out the fires. Eventually, they managed to start the engine again and decided to try to reach Britain against all odds.
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21
5.8
/1181/
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/19/
56
/21/
3.1
/327/
33
/160/

Doctor at Sea (1955)
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Brigitte Bardot is around.
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65
19
6.7
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/27/
64
/22/
3.4
/458/
59
/4/

Barnacle Bill (1957)
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
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64
17
6.7
/776/
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/8/
60
/19/
3.4
/483/

Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)
Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists used to wrap parcels containing poison).
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63
16
6.7
/901/
56
/14/
63
/17/
3.3
/302/

Home at Seven (1952)
Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.
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63
11
6.1
/462/
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/4/
59
/17/
3.2
/251/

Catacombs (1965)
A rich woman who uses meditation to deal with pain is visited by her niece who returns from Paris. The woman can be a handful and one of her employees suggests to her husband that he kill her freeing them both. When an affair starts between the husband and the niece murder becomes a real possibility. However some people won't stay dead.
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51
11
6.6
/699/
55
/10/
59
/16/
25
/3/

A Touch of Larceny (1960)
After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
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61
11
6.6
/472/
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/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.
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Kanopy
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11
5.2
/636/
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/29/
50
/20/
3.0
/340/
14
/4/

Burke & Hare (1972)
Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
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49
6
6.0
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/2/
56
/7/
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/15/

Red Ensign (1934)
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all. Can he get the ship built in spite of the opposition from his own bankers as well as the rival shipbuilders and their infiltrated militants.
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6.7
/14/

Jig-Saw: Careless Talk Costs Lives (1943)
Scraps of information are gathered and pieced together by an enemy who lurks in the shadows, proving that nowhere is safe to discuss sensitive wartime information on the home front.
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61
?
6.5
/318/
67
/4/
52
/8/

Champagne Charlie (1944)
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.
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?
6.8
/27/
10
/1/

The Piper's Tune (1962)
A group of children fleeing Napoleon's armies attempt to protect a mountain escape route from being discovered by a pursuing French platoon.
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?
6.0
/82/
60
/2/
55
/2/

East of Piccadilly (1941)
A series of murders in the West End of London baffle the officers of Scotland Yard and draw the interest of a crime reporter to the case.
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?
6.4
/72/

Fly Away Peter (1948)
Director Charles Saunders' low-key domestic comedy, adapted from A.P. Dearsley's play, centers on a middle-aged London couple who react in different ways as their four children grow up, fall in love and make career choices.
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40
?
6.1
/118/
35
/2/
50
/5/

Everything Is Thunder (1936)
The story, starring Constance Bennett and Douglass Montgomery, involves a Canadian POW being hidden by a German citizen during World War I.
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51
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6.3
/259/
30
/3/
62
/5/

Deadly Nightshade (1953)
Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.
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58
?
5.9
/200/
58
/3/

It's Not Cricket (1949)
Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. " This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...
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45
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6.4
/210/
10
/1/
63
/3/

The Man in the Road (1956)
A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret formula.
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58
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5.9
/89/
60
/1/
55
/2/

Jack of All Trades (1936)
In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.
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?
10
/1/

Quay South (1955)
Facing pressure from authorities to relinquish control of his ship the Ebb Tide, Capt. Daniel Thwaite (Roger Livesey) struggles to decide what course of action he should pursue in this riveting military drama set in 1940 northeastern England. Based on a novel by Howard Clewes, this episode from the "ITV Television Playhouse" series co-stars Michael Bates, Miriam Karlin and Peter Barkworth.
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56
?
5.5
/217/
60
/2/
57
/4/

Penny and the Pownall Case (1948)
A glamour model helps Scotland Yard to catch a criminal gang.
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?
6.9
/99/
60
/1/
60
/1/

The Master of Bankdam (1947)
Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam.
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?
6.7
/91/
40
/3/
70
/2/

Ricochet (1963)
Solicitor Alan Phipps formulates a plan to blackmail his wealthy and unfaithful wife, Yvonne, and at the same time, get revenge against her boyfriend, John Brodie, by setting him up to appear that he is the blackmailer and for Yvonne to kill him.
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45
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6.3
/202/
10
/2/
62
/4/

The Four Just Men (1939)
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
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27
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6.3
/130/
35
/2/
10
/1/

Suspended Alibi (1957)
A married man having an affair visits a friend to establish an alibi for a rendezvous with his girlfriend. His friend is murdered the same night and he is accused of the crime.
poster
65
?
6.5
/118/
43
/3/

Feather Your Nest (1937)
A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.
poster
64
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6.4
/366/
66
/8/
66
/5/
60
/5/

Where There's a Will (1936)
Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
poster
65
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6.8
/358/
53
/3/
74
/7/

Lease of Life (1954)
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
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55
?
6.3
/180/
30
/2/
61
/9/
3.4
/225/

To the Public Danger (1948)
Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking. When their spree gets out of hand, each person faces a moral choice with lasting consequences.
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70
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6.5
/117/
75
/2/

Don't Ever Leave Me (1949)
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him give up.
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MGM Plus
48
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5.7
/327/
30
/2/
55
/2/
50
/3/

One Way Pendulum (1965)
A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to sing in the attic.
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52
?
6.3
/161/
35
/2/
60
/4/

Conflict of Wings (1954)
In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocket practice.
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46
?
5.7
/248/
46
/3/
63
/7/
20
/6/

Brandy for the Parson (1952)
A young couple get involved with a smuggler


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