Alex Vetchinsky

El gerente de unas minas de Sudáfrica trama un plan en secreto para reducir la producción de oro y así poder subir su precio en el mercado. Para ello intentará valerse de la discreción de su nuevo ingeniero jefe de minas.

Jane Eyre es huérfana, enviada a la escuela de Lowood y, finalmente, se convierte en una institutriz en Thornfield Hall para una niña llamada Adele. Mientras ella está allí, suceden muchas cosas extrañas y, finalmente, ella y Edward Rochester, propietario de Thornfeild y el tutor de Adele, se enamoran. De repente, cuando Jane está a punto de ganar la felicidad que merece, un secreto oscuro sale a la luz, y hará falta todo su coraje, amor y comprensión para triunfar.

A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.

Algo misterioso está ocurriendo en la isla de Fara. Es noviembre y las temperaturas son tan elevadas que el calor ha calcinado campos y hombres. Todo es un caos: el sistema eléctrico está saturado y provoca la caída de las líneas de teléfono y la explosión de los aparatos eléctricos. Ante la aparición en la isla de extrañas criaturas que irradian grandes dosis de calor, la población huye aterrorizada.

Varios ejecutivos de empresas petroleras han sido asesinados. El investigador de seguros Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond es enviado a examinar los casos. Todas las víctimas han sido liquidadas por unas implacables asesinas, las cuales desaparecen sin dejar rastro. Pero Drummond descubre que estas mujeres operan bajo las órdenes de un siniestro genio criminal, decidido a apoderarse de concesiones petroleras en territorios árabes que han quedado vacantes ya que sus titulares han sido eliminados. Ahora deberá correr contra el tiempo para salvar la vida del Rey Fedra, quien se encuentra en la mira de los asesinos.

Sherlock Holmes y el Dr. Watson se lanzan a la búsqueda del asesino en serie conocido como "Jack el Destripador".

A bored housewife has an affair with her mother's lodger.

When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.

Melville Farr es un prestigioso abogado inglés felizmente casado con Laura. Sin embargo, detrás de su apariencia conservadora se esconde un homosexual que busca escarceos con jovencitos, a pesar de que le había prometido a su mujer que esa etapa de su vida ya estaba clausurada. Ambientada en una época en la que la homosexualidad era todavía considerada un delito que podía implicar penas de cárcel.

A finales de los años cincuenta, la sociedad británica experimenta un cierto clima de odio racial, que afecta sobremanera a los trabajadores de color, inmigrantes en su mayoría, que sienten la animadversión de algunos de sus jefes y de sus compañeros. Este no es el caso de Jacko Palmer, un artesano que realiza su oficio en una fábrica londinense, siempre dispuesto a ayudar a la comunidad negra. No obstante, la actitud que adopta Jacko Palmer en relación a este tema, se pone nuevamente a prueba cuando su hija Kathie se enamora de un colega suyo, el maestro de escuela de raza negra, originario de Jamaica, Peter Lincoln. Su convicción personal lleva a Jacko a aceptar la relación, pero encuentra la oposición de su esposa Nell. Tan sólo una revuelta que enfrenta a una banda de hampones con un grupo de jamaicanos indefensos hace recapacitar a Nell y, de esta forma, aceptar el futuro matrimonio entre su hija y el joven antillano.

En un pueblecito mexicano tiene lugar un enfrentamiento entre un bondadoso sacerdote (John Mills) y un malvado bandido (Bogarde) que se propone dominar el pueblo. El odio a la Iglesia lleva a éste a cometer todo tipo de abusos y tropelías para conseguir que el nuevo clérigo se vaya. Sin embargo, el cura, con su inmensa paciencia y mansedumbre, acaba por redimir al bandido, que recupera la fe en Dios.

Set in Haven Hospital where a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital put together. The formidable Matron's debut gives the patients a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who is a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell who wants his bunion removed straight away, so after drinking alcohol, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!

Fall in for the first ever film in the highly successful Carry On comedy series—now an acclaimed British institution. Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey are the prankish misfits who become the hilarious bane of Army Officers existence when he makes a bet he will turn them into ‘Star Squad’ Award soldiers—or bust!

El novelista Eric Ambler adaptó el libro del historiador Walter Lord que relata minuciosamente la primera y última travesía del Titanic, el lujoso barco de pasajeros, que se hundió en las frías aguas del Atlántico Norte en abril de 1912.

Creta, 1944. Un grupo de partisanos comandados por el Capitán Stanley Moss y el Mayor Patrick Leigh Fermor secuestran al general alemán Karl Kreipe y lo trasladan a El Cairo. (FILMAFFINITY)

During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief Captain Starlight. Making their way to Melbourne with the proceeds of a recent raid, the brothers meet and romance the Morrison sisters, Kate and Jean, whom they eventually marry; but just as they are poised to start a new life in America, Captain Starlight and his gang arrive in town, planning a raid at the local bank.

Un grupo de mujeres inglesas, hechas prisioneras por los japoneses durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), tiene que ser trasladado de un campo de concentración a causa del elevado número de prisioneros. Custodiado por soldados japoneses, el grupo se pone en marcha a través de selvas pantanosas. Las enfermedades y el cansancio harán estragos tanto en las prisioneras como en los soldados nipones. En una aldea, de manera inesperada, encuentran a un aviador australiano que es un luchador nato.

Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew members. Virtuous seaman Anthony Steel protects the girl from the lecherous advances of captain Peter Finch.

La acción transcurre en Camelot. Leonette, la hija de un conde, está enamorada de John, un intrépido caballero, pero su padre desaprueba esta relación. Un día los sorprende juntos, y John se ve obligado a huir. Pasado algún tiempo, unos vikingos asaltan el castillo, asesinando al Conde y a su famillia. Poco después, aparece en Inglaterra un caballero negro, que jura vengar la muerte del conde y los suyos. (FILMAFFINITY)

Robbie (Jon Whiteley), un niño huérfano de 6 años, vive falto de cariño y cuidado con sus padres adoptivos en Londres. Tras prender un pequeño fuego en la casa, y temiendo un severo castigo, el chico huye y comienza a vagar por las calles londinenses. Finalmente se refugia en un edificio donde se encuentra a Chris Lloyd (Dirk Bogarde), y al hombre qué ésta acaba justo de matar... (FILMAFFINITY)

Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.

A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.

Un marinero deja a su familia abandonada en las calles de Liverpool. Su hija crece y se convierte en una mujer, pero vive con la esperanza de que su padre regrese.

Basada en una obra teatral de Kenneth Woollard. Después de sufrir un accidente, la tripulación de un submarino lucha por sobrevivir. Cuando acabó el rodaje, un submarino de nombre profético, el HMS Truculent, se hundía en el Támesis causando 64 víctimas. El film de Roy Ward Baker estuvo a punto de ser "archivado" para siempre, pero, finalmente, se estrenó incluyendo un mensaje en recuerdo de las víctimas y de todos los integrantes de la Marina Británica.

A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.

A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.

A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II.

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.

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.

Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.

A paraplegic mistakes a man's pity for love.

A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.

Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run in with the army, and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village, during World War II.

Homenaje a la importante labor de las enfermeras durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area.

A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.

Checoslovaquia, marzo de 1939, en vísperas de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Mientras los invasores alemanes ocupan Praga, el inventor Axel Bomasch logra huir y llegar a Inglaterra; pero aquellos que necesitan poner sus conocimientos al servicio de la maquinaria de guerra nazi, con el propósito de llevar a cabo sus malvados planes de destrucción, no se detendrán ante nada para capturarlo.

An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.

A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.

El sargento de policía Samuel Dudfoot y sus dos agentes, Albert Brown y Jeremiah Harbottle simulan una serie de falsos crímenes con la intención de salvar sus empleos; sin embargo, se verán involucrados en la cruda realidad.

En un país centroeuropeo, el tren Transcontinental Express sufre un gran retraso a causa del mal tiempo. Los pasajeros pernoctan en un pequeño hotel, donde Iris Henderson entabla conversación con una vieja institutriz inglesa, la señora Froy. Poco después de reanudar el viaje, Iris se da cuenta de la desaparición de la anciana, pero los demás pasajeros afirman que su amiga no existe y que ella ha sufrido una alucinación.

Inglaterra, años 30. Las vacaciones de verano despiertan el romanticismo y los sueños de una vida mejor.

A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.

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.

Archie, un joven, hereda un establo para carreras de caballos, y su tía intenta convencerlo de que lo convierta en un hogar para chicas trabajadoras durante las vacaciones. Sin embargo, Archie es un jugador empedernido y, antes de que se dé cuenta, se mezcla con dos estafadores y una arena de lucha que acaba de quebrar.

El doctor Laurience, antaño científico respetado, comienza a investigar los orígenes de la mente y el alma. La comunidad científica rechaza sus teorías y le da la espalda, y Laurience lo pierde todo en pos de su obsesivo trabajo; es entonces cuando descubre un peligroso método de transferencia cerebral. Usándolo para salvar su investigación y para beneficio propio, Laurience empieza a transformarse en un "científico loco" imparable...

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

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

An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means - fair or foul!

Criminals pose as ghosts to scare a lighthouse keeper on the Welsh coast, in attempt to distract him. Jim Pearce deliberately maroons himself on the rock along with Alice Bright. When the light is later smashed, Jim reveals that his brother’s ship is the wreckers’ latest target, while Alice is a detective sent to investigate.

Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife. The couple are devoted to each other, but continually flirt with other people. Sir Duncan is appointed to the board of clothing retail chain. On his tour of inspection, he encounters a successful store run by the efficient Mr. Bullock. By contrast, a neighbouring shop is filled with unhelpful staff overseen by an incompetent and lazy manager, Raymond Penny, who is more interested in horseracing than running his shop. Craggs is unimpressed by Penny and summons him to a meeting in London. Both Bullock and his domineering wife travel up to London as well, fearing that Penny will tell Craggs malicious stories about them.

Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison. Smart appeals to the Governor to write him a good reference which he pretends to. Afterwards he writes his real recommendation which is very negative about Smart's talents. The trustee who works as the Governor's secretary, Faker Brown, "accidentally" gets the two letters mixed up and delivers the one praising Smart. On the basis of the letter, Lady Dorking, the who runs the Board of Governors appoints Smart to the job. This angers her deputy, Colonel Crableigh, who had favoured promoting his nephew, the Deputy head.

Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.

An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she finds herself in the middle of a dispute between Mike Kelly, the club's Chicago-born owner, and a group of American gangsters bent on taking over the club. To put pressure on Kelly, the gangsters kidnap "Zaza".

It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.

A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket.

In this comedy, two rival reporters vie for the scoop on the whereabouts of a missing heiress. They find her in Switzerland. One of the journalists falls in love with her and saves her from marrying an aristocrat. His rival gets to write the story as a consolation prize.

A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele

A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.

With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star plays the son of a celebrated Scotland Yard detective, who joins the force in hopes of following his father's footsteps. Unfortunately, Jack is something of a screw-up, and before long he has become the laughing stock of the force.

Herbert Marshall and Edna Best, husband and wife in 1933, star in the British drama Faithful Hearts. Best plays the daughter of Marshall, who years earlier had run out on his family. When Edna re-enters Marshall's life, it causes him to reassess his values-and to end his engagement to his judgmental fiancee. When Faithful Hearts was released in the US, all the voices were redubbed by American actors; even Herbert Marshall, a fixture in Hollywood films since the dawn of the talkie era, was submitted to this electronic augmentation. Original titled The Faithful Heart (Americans must have more of everything!), the film was based on a play by Monckton Hoffe.

A steward inherits the estate of an earl. To repel the advances of an unwanted fiancee, he pretends that he has regressed to childhood behaviors.

Sunshine Susie was a remake of the German film The Private Secretary, and retained many of the originals general characteristics. Renete Muller who starred in the original, was again cast as the country girl seeking fame and fortune in the big city. She takes a secretarial job at a bank, and sets about catching the heart of her boss, Herr Hasel (Jack Hulbert).

A young bride is deserted by her husband but finds happiness with another man. They contract a bigamous marriage for the sake of their child....

A young composer goes blind, and shortly afterward enters his most recent work in a competition. He believes he's won, but doesn't know that his wife couldn't bear to tell him that he didn't. Complications ensue.

A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which results in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade to take the Balaclava Heights.