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The Roku Channel
84
7.8
/27986/
73
/438/
73
/363/
3.8
/17634/
100
/29/
88
/427/
90
/15/
cc age 10+

Great Expectations (1946)
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
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Kanopy
79
73
7.7
/10359/
73
/156/
69
/153/
3.7
/8812/
100
/17/
84
/183/

Pygmalion (1938)
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
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Kanopy
77
72
7.2
/11523/
71
/224/
68
/196/
3.6
/8534/
100
/15/
81
/168/
cc age 9+

The Man in the White Suit (1951)
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...
poster
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58
7.0
/3614/
71
/82/
70
/55/
3.5
/1902/
79
/847/

The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts to use methods that can hardly be seen as fair competition.
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68
34
7.0
/1280/
63
/15/
64
/26/
3.4
/431/
90
/10/
57
/11/

The Stars Look Down (1940)
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
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Kanopy
68
32
6.8
/1039/
67
/12/
64
/31/
3.3
/517/
80
/5/
65
/8/

Wanted for Murder (1946)
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
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20
7.2
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70
/10/
52
/12/
3.4
/431/
42
/73/

Skyscraper Souls (1932)
After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan. Despite the devotion of longtime mistress Sarah, the ruthless David, while seeking bank mergers to protect his building, tries to seduce Sarah's secretary, Lynn. David then agrees to a plot by a bank board member to inflate his bank's stock and sell short — just before the market crashes.
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19
6.5
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68
/5/
59
/18/
3.3
/250/
41
/292/

Waterloo Road (1945)
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
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14
5.8
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54
/7/
40
/12/
3.0
/919/

Ladies' Man (1931)
A society gigolo goes after a rich mother and her daughter, but tries to find true happiness with his girlfriend, who is neither rich nor in "society."
poster
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10
6.6
/780/
60
/8/
49
/14/
3.3
/211/
46
/3/

Wicked as They Come (1956)
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
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Kanopy
59
9
5.9
/415/
60
/6/
58
/12/
3.1
/240/

The Green Cockatoo (1937)
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.
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Kanopy
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6.8
/107/

Night Mail (1935)
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7.9
/41/

The Path of Glory (1934)
Comedy about two Ruritanian countries who declare war on each other with the mutual intention of losing. Political satire that might have been Britain’s answer to Duck Soup.
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4.3
/21/

Be Careful, Mr. Smith (1935)
British comedy film directed by Max Mack
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6.0
/63/
70
/3/
55
/2/

Road House (1934)
Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
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5.4
/41/
53
/3/

The Outcast (1934)
A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.
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5.3
/51/
45
/2/

The Man Called Back (1932)
Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.
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4.3
/45/
50
/1/

Shipmates o' Mine (1936)
A through-the-years story with songs and sentiments. A sailor rises from first officer to captain, gets married and has a son, but loses his command when his ship is rammed and the vessel is abandoned to save passengers. For years he lives in the countryside. Then his son, now grown, contacts his father's old shipmates and eventually their ship is put back into commission with its old skipper in command.
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3.2
/18/
10
/1/

At the Stroke of Nine (1957)
A prominent journalist is kidnapped by a lunatic who threatens to kill her unless she writes flattering articles about him.
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7.2
/13/
35
/2/

Circus Friends (1956)
A group of circus children and their friends band together to save the show from financial disaster.
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?
6.2
/29/

The Morals of Marcus (1935)
A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.
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74
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7.0
/451/
80
/6/
70
/10/

Where's That Fire (1939)
Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.
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53
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6.3
/120/
45
/2/
50
/4/

Sailor's Luck (1933)
U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San Francisco, but Jimmy becomes jealous and tells her off when he learns Sally has entered a marathon dance contest sponsored by a lecherous snake named Baron Portola. Along with several of his Navy pals, Jimmy goes to the ballroom the night of the dance marathon, to try to change Sally's mind and win her back.
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6.3
/71/
40
/2/
75
/4/

Ten Days in Paris (1940)
Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and has no recollection of being anywhere for ten days. Bob decides to follow a note found in his jacket, to the woman who wrote it, "Miss D", and get to the bottom of the whole strange situation.
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6.0
/89/
40
/1/

The Amateur Gentleman (1936)
A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court in an effort to find out who framed his father and why.
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7.0
/34/
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.
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58
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5.7
/226/
60
/4/

The Body Vanished (1939)
A Scotland Yard inspector and his reporter friend arrive on vacation in a small village and are immediately involved in what is claimed to be a murder but the body has disappeared, leaving it to the inspector to find the body, determine the motive and find the killer.
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6.3
/96/
10
/1/
70
/2/

The Kitchen (1961)
In the business end of a kitchen, a polyglot staff strives to cope with a superhuman task. A microcosm of the world, the kitchen looms around and encloses its workers; they include Peter, the German cook, who is in love with waitress Monica, and constantly asks her to leave her husband. The pressure of the day becomes unendurable, and when Peter realises that Monica does not mean to divorce her husband his grief and pain cause him to run berserk!
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6.4
/20/

Hard Steel (1942)
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
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6.1
/65/
45
/2/

Me and Marlborough (1935)
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
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54
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5.8
/190/
54
/5/
50
/1/

The Broken Horseshoe (1953)
When a hit and run patient is murdered an attending doctor is placed under suspicion.
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69
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6.4
/290/
71
/5/
73
/5/

Great Day (1945)
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
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38
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5.5
/160/
10
/1/
48
/5/

Stormy Crossing (1958)
After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her other boyfriend, Sheldon Lawrence. John Ireland plays an Interpol detective who stems Bond's homicidal hijinks. Black Tide was produced by Monty Berman in his pre-Saint days.
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56
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6.3
/427/
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.
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5.0
/19/

Freedom of the Seas (1934)
George Smith, a mild-mannered clerk with a crush on his boss's daughter, is led astray by an old friend of his father. A midday sojourn to a public bar results in him insulting his boss, getting sacked and enlisting in the Navy. Will he still remain a feeble second-best, or will active service make a man of him?
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45
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5.6
/120/
35
/2/
45
/2/

The Night We Got the Bird (1960)
Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.
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5.2
/92/
50
/1/

Death Drives Through (1935)
The race car designer Kit Woods is in love with Kay Lord. Kay's father is against her relationship with Kit. Kit also has to do with the competition from his rival Garry Ames.
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49
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5.5
/273/
30
/2/
62
/4/

The Black Rider (1954)
When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...
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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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5.7
/36/
70
/1/
46
/9/

Read All About It (1945)
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
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58
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6.1
/541/
63
/10/
55
/10/

The Fake (1953)
Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason, a Tate employee, to recover the original.
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62
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6.2
/214/
62
/5/

Much Too Shy (1942)
A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.
poster
61
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5.8
/185/
65
/4/

Get Cracking (1943)
Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was produced by Marcel Varnel, Ben Henry and Columbia (British) Productions. This comedy explores the wayward rivalry between mechanic and Home Guard Lance Corporal George Singleton (George Formby) and an adversary also in the Home Guard (Ronald Shiner). When the rival Home Guard units of Major Wallop and Minor Wallop are sent on battle manoeuvres, George Singleton (Formby) launches his own unique style of commando raid against neighbouring Major Wallop to steal a Vickers machine gun. The raid fails and Singleton loses his Lance Corporal's stripe, so he and a little evacuee girl named Irene (Vera Frances) decide to fall back on 'Plan B' - to build their very own tank.
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5.5
/77/
30
/3/
54
/5/

The Green Buddha (1954)
Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have purloined a costly antique jade figure from an exhibit. He tracks the thieves to Battersea, where he rescues the fair Germaine from their unsavory clutches, and the Buddha boosters gain only jaded justice.
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60
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6.3
/162/
57
/3/

Pleasure Cruise (1933)
Shirley, a married woman, who is fed up of her husband's incessant nagging, decides to go on a cruise. Her husband also gets on the cruise as a worker in the barber shop to keep an eye on her.
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Criterion Channel
50
?
5.5
/354/
44
/7/
53
/5/

Over the Moon (1939)
Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds. He makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the money and what it can buy, and Jane sets off alone on a spree pursued by two ardent suitors. Jarvis finds he has gained notoriety for turning down such a catch and his plans for ernest research are soon compromised.
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6.2
/36/
48
/5/

The Great Defender (1934)
Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his great lost love a woman his own strong sense of duty led him to give up twenty years ago, and whom he still loves deeply walks into his chambers to ask that he defend her adulterous husband, now to stand trial for murder. Reluctantly agreeing to take on the case, Sir Douglas soon finds there is more to the story than meets the eye.
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4.9
/47/
60
/1/

Play Up the Band (1935)
A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition.


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