Good Time Girl, directed by David MacDonald and based on a story by Arthur La Bern (It Always Rains On Sunday) starts off...
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1948
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This unsparing, brutal look at the British criminal underbelly stars Richard Attenborough as Pinkie Brown, a pock-marked gang...
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1947
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Prolific British second-feature director Lewis Gilbert made his cinematic debut with The Little Ballerina. Yvonne Marsh stars...
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1947
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In this children's movie a young inventor dreams of becoming an engineer. He has even created a new gadget, but before he...
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1947
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1947
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In this comedy, a band of British birdwatchers fight to save a rare species of birds from destruction. The title bird is a...
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1947
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The British Woman to Woman was the third film version of the war-horse stage play by Michael Morton. Hollywood's...
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1946
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Anne Fielding (Dulcie Gray), a shop clerk, meets Jack Williams (Derek Farr), a bus conductor, on the London Underground....
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1946
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While awaiting access to England's Technicolor cameras for their upcoming super-production Stairway to Heaven, the...
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Mr. Webster
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1945
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This 1949 British film told a very plausible story about a triangle between a woman, her soldier husband, and her new lover....
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1945
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Future Dr. Who star William Hartnell heads the cast of the 1949 sociopolitical melodrama The Agitator. Set in a British...
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1945
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Like the better-known (and more popular) A Canterbury Tale, Welcome Mr. Washington is a sometimes amusing, sometimes poignant...
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1944
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In this propagandistic WW II drama, an innocent merchant vessel is targeted by Nazi bombers. The boat is nearly sunk after...
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1944
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Adapted from the stage hit by J. B. Priestly, When We Are Married is a barbed satire of smug British conservatism. Set in...
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1943
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Filmed in Britain by Czechoslovakian director Karel Lamac, Schweik's New Adventures is a based on a book by Czech humorist...
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Gendarme
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1943
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In this WWII thriller, an agent parachutes into Holland to retrieve an important document, posing as an American reporter....
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1943
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Robert Ardrey's theatrical semi-fantasy Thunder Rock was transformed in 1944 into one of the most successful British films of...
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1942
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Few morale-boosting wartime films have retained their power and entertainment value as emphatically as Noël Coward's In Which...
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1942
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Also known as The Avengers, the British The Day Will Dawn is set in Norway at the outbreak of WW2. British foreign...
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1942
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Bob Randall (Richard Greene) is a reporter who gets to witness first-hand the British retreat from Dunkirk in May of 1940. He...
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1942
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In this drama, an Irish singer heads for the US to make it big. He leaves his wife and child in Britain. In the States he...
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1942
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Carol Reed directed this adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel about a British shopkeeper who inherits money and tries to crash...
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1941
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In this socially conscious drama, an eccentric, wealthy young man impersonates a hobo in order to save a flophouse that is...
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1941
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In this drama, an amiable steel worker suddenly changes when he becomes a foreman. Suddenly Mr. Nice Guy becomes Mr. Hard...
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1941
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Filmed in the North Country of England, this is a film noir set in the 1930s as a family struggles with poverty and...
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Mr. Hardcastle
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1941
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In this family drama a crippled young man is arrested and accused of robbery. His father, a lawyer's clerk, must now defend...
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1940
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Clive Brook heads the cast of this low-key British war film. Brook plays the skipper of a tiny English cruiser, performing...
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1940
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Filmed in 1939 but not put into general release until 1942, Lady in Distress stars Michael Redgrave as an innocent bystander...
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1939
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A. J. Cronin's novel was brought to the screen by director Carol Reed. The film is set in a northern England mining town (far...
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1939
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In this gentle comedy, an aristocratic English fellow is not happy to be betrothed to a brewery heiress. One day he goes to...
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1939
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British Writer/director Anthony Kimmins was willing to expand his range from drawing room comedy to the "low" humors of the...
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1939
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In this farce, a loosely moraled chorine gets involved with a married man and the fiancé of the man's daughter. The real...
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1938
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A con man with fake land development plans provides the impetus for the uniting of business rivals, owners of a cement works...
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1938
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1938
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This British musical comedy was designed as a vehicle for popular 1930s bandleader Ambrose, here cast as "himself". The plot,...
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1938
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In this comedy, a poor fellow is only able to survive because his landlady is willing to overlook his lack of payment. His...
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1938
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"Father" is British blowhard George Carney, a well-to-do cheese manufacturer. Despite his business savvy, Carney falls victim...
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1937
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1937
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British author W.W. Jacobs, whose love of the sea and seafarers permeated everything he wrote, was responsible for the story...
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1937
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In this British comedy, a working-class father wins a fortune on the football pools and ends up buying a tiny tea shop in...
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1937
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1936
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Imagine a whole country where music is outlawed! Director Walter Forde and writer Marian Dix dreamed up such a horrendous...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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In this romantic melodrama a young composer falls for a pretty woman who is unfortunately, betrothed to a rich man. ~ Sandra...
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1935
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In this drama, a group of shopkeepers unite to prevent the owners of a major department store from buying up their stalls....
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1935
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In this musical, the talented Boyd family try to run their musical hall. Trials, tribulations, and several popular acts...
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1935
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Boy meets girl, boy and girl fight, boy and girl make up, boy and girl get married as lock keepers' son Carney falls in love...
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1935
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In this British musical a fire engine drive is forced to retire after a major crash. His good son tries to bring up his...
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1935
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In this drama, an aging ironworker inherits enough money to lead a comfortable life. Unfortunately his family seems...
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1935
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In this British working-class drama, a worker gets fired for voicing his opinions on labor-saving technology. He is too...
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1935
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This musical tells of a retire showman who returns to help an old music hall remain open through the use of modern...
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1934
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1934
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Ex-con Carney manages to keep blackmailer's away from his daughter who never realizes who her hero is because Carney had...
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1934
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Produced on behalf of the Canadian Legion, Lest We Forget offers a different perspective of the First World War. The film...
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1934
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This British musical showcase presents a number of cockney variety acts as it tells the story of two ailing and impoverished...
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1934
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This musical quota-quickie was produced by Twickenham Films, the British "sister firm" of Universal Pictures. Mary Clare...
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1934
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In this British melodrama, a retired sergeant must accept the blame for the way his son, who just robbed an office, has...
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1933
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1932
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