Movies

Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays...

In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army...

Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work...

Be careful of what you wish for - it might come true, but no in the way you expect.

Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and...

Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam.

Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in...

A mixed party of West Indian settlers arrives in London, where they encounter prejudice from the white population and integrate themselves into the...

A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the...

The monkey's paw can make wishes come true. But not in the ways people expect. Note this should not be confused with the 1948 film with the same name.

Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London...

An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.

The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that...

A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily...

Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, meets a newspaper woman called "Steve." Together they investigate a gang of diamond robbers.

A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.

A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father--a prominent scientist--has been kidnapped. They find...

When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a...

A clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have a motive.

German scholar Wolf Hauser arrives for a year at Cambridge. Apart from his studies, he tries to muck in with the very English non-academic goings-on...