George Cole

Young couple Jackie and Leo move from North London to a suburban home in the green belt paradise of Southern England. At the birthday party of a neighbor, they soon discover the strict social hierarchies of village life.

An outspoken single mum is determined her son will go to the school of her choice, and he ends up at a private school. Only then does she discover the headmaster offered a place merely to win a bet.

Mitchel, a mild-mannered suburban stockbroker spirals out of control after losing his job, finding his wife in flagrante with a sleazy neighbour, and discovering his dad is dying of cancer, all on the eve of his 44th birthday.

At a rural railway station in Victorian England, Jim is a spunky Jack Russell Terrier who escapes his mean master at the circus, and is soon befriended by station porter Bob and lonely orphan Henry. His performing feats soon become a local attraction, and before long he's in the middle of a battle to save the local orphanage.

Violet Moon wants to be in control of the circumstances and people in her life. Particularly her son and daughter-in-law who she discovers are considering selling the farm where she has known some of the happiest times of her life. Violet's control is not only threatened by their decision, but also by the sudden reappearance of someone from her past whom she meets at a local spiritualists club. Someone who has the potential to resurrect a long buried secret as well expose her current plot to put a stop to the sale of the farm. When Violet takes the opportunity to silence this person, she doesn't consider that enemies have friends...

Teenager James Greville has lived in children's homes his whole life, so he is surprised when a Great Uncle invites him to his country manor for a holiday. While exploring the sprawling Greville Lodge he soon discovers that it has many secrets.

Mary Reilly es una fiel sirvienta, atenta siempre a las necesidades de su patrón, el doctor Henry Jekyll. Aunque es una joven tranquila e inocente, esconde un carácter fuerte, gracias al cual ha podido superar un pasado marcado por el dolor y la violencia. Jekyll, que está inmerso en un nuevo experimento, confía en que Mary sea discreta con su ayudante Mr. Hyde. La joven, siempre dedicada en cuerpo y alma a Jekyll, se siente atraída por los encantos de Hyde. Pero Mary observa que conforme éste se va fortaleciendo, el doctor se debilita cada vez más.

A 70 year old man gets shunned into a retirement home.

Comedy thriller. Walter Bryce hires the professional services of the sinister Vincent to eliminate his rich, neurotic wife, Celia. All this to achieve a place in the sun with his secretary Angie. What seems to be a neat idea goes wrong when Vincent becomes involved on a personal level.

Bawdy adaption of Tom Sharpe's comic tale. A landowning MP attempts to have a motorway built through the grounds of his wife's ancestral home.

Story is told by George Cole and Sheila Hancock ; adapted by Milton Subotsky from the original stories by Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault. Contains Puss in Boots, The Ugly Duckling, Rapunzel, The Four Musicians, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Princess And The Pea

Mytyl y Tyltyl, dos niños hijos de un leñador, buscan ”El Pájaro Azul de la Felicidad” para curar a una vecinita enferma. En su viaje, los guía la Luz y los acompaña su viejo amigo El Pan y su compañero más fiel, El Perro. En su búsqueda llegan al castillo de La Noche, al engañoso Jardín de los Sueños, al Campo de la Voluptuosidad y, finalmente, al Bosque, de cuyos terrores logran huir ayudados por El Perro. Por fin, encuentran un lugar apacible: el Reino del Futuro, donde esperan su nacimiento generaciones enteras. Allí vive El Padre del Tiempo, que observa cuidadosamente lo que la tierra puede necesitar. En su viaje los niños han descrito un círculo completo para encontrar El Pájaro Azul de la Felicidad, que, en definitiva, estaba donde había estado siempre: en su propia casa.

When Lady Sheila Boothroyd hears that the planning authorities are determined to drive a road through her grounds, she announces her intention to kill herself at the precise moment that the bulldozers start on their shameful work. As the hour strikes and the bulldozers' roar is heard, her husband General Sir William Boothroyd enters in full regimental regalia, while his old ex-army servant sounds the Last Post. Then, as the whole family stands stricken, the door opens...

Tim (Cliff Richard) is a successful ambitious young financier working for a London Merchant bank, but even his happy-go-lucky attitude is severely jolted when he is sent to Birmingham instead of his promised New York for his posting! But comedy reigns when the enterprising bank manager helps an unsuccessful Birmingham restaurant compete with its rivals by introducing a new fast food - the Brumburger!

Una mujer contrata a una joven como babysitter para que cuide de su pequeño hijo. Pero las cosas se distorsionan por completo cuando la chica se ve acosada por el marido, que se ha fugado de un asilo para enfermos mentales y está en busca de su esposa e hijo.

Douglas Willetts is a shrew of a man in his mid-40s, barely able to communicate and renting a bedroom in a typically working-class two up-two down. Only he has a bit of a past. For Douglas, every day is just a question of getting through it as painlessly as possible – and that usually means retreating to his bedroom. Is it in order to escape the mundanities of the present? Or to ruminate on his past?

Un joven caballero acude al castillo de los Karnstein para vengar la muerte de su hermana, muerta por los vampiros. Allí, tras apoderarse del sudario de uno de los vampiros, lo atrae hacia sí. Pero el terror lo paraliza, y sólo lo salva la cruz que pende de su cuello. Y entonces, decapita a una vampira.

A woman discovers that her husband has rented a flat in London for his mistress, and sets out to catch him in the act

A school story with a noticeable difference - the adults regress to children.

The story of a comedian with a talent close to genius but with an insecurity problem.

A film by Alan Clarke for the 'A Man of Our Times' anthology series.

Visiting unemployed brothers Clack and Ged, social security inspector Mr. Hicks finds few reasons for sympathy. However, the tables are turned on the investigator: Clack defends Ged as 'a paying member of the welfare state' rather than a case for charity, and events take a sinister turn.

The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.

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.

Emitida originalmente como una serie de tres capítulos para TV. Narra la historia de la doble vida de un vicario. Aparentemente, es un ciudadano ejemplar y leal al opresivo gobierno británico, pero en realidad es un notorio bandolero que utiliza sus botines para beneficiar a los pobres de su aldea.

La apasionada y ambiciosa reina egipcia Cleopatra tiene la determinación de seducir al emperador romano Julio César. Cuando Julio César es asesinado, Cleopatra redirige sus atenciones a su general Marco Antonio, quien jura llegar al poder. Pero el sucesor del césar tiene otros planes...

The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.

Based on a novel by Nigel Tranter, The Bridal Path is a light-hearted look at the somewhat unfortunate results that can come of the continued marrying of fairly close cousins in a restricted and remote community. Set in the Hebrides off Scotland, the story tells how Ewan MacEwan leaves the isle of Eorsa in search of the perfect wife, but finally returns to marry Katie.

Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with his wife Lucy. Gordon makes out he couldn't be more pleased, spuring Lucy to take charge of the hopeless bunch of villains.

During World War II, four British soldiers are commissioned to set up an observation post on a seemingly deserted island in the Mediterranean. However, while surveying the island, the Brits come across four German soldiers holed up in a monastery. The Brits and the Germans agree to a truce, sharing the monastery together until either the British or German troops arrive. But when a shipwrecked Slavic girl ends up on the island, a battle over her erupts amongst the men.

With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.

A las órdenes de sus misteriosos jefes de Oriente Medio, el relojero Hawkins es en realidad un asesino a sueldo que siente predilección por matar a sus objetivos con bombas. Tras liquidar a un dictador y a un millonario, recibe el encargo de asesinar a un político que se alojará en el remoto hotel The Green Man con su secretaria, con quien mantiene una relación secreta. Una vez allí el plan de Hawkins será descubierto por el vendedor de aspiradoras William Blake, quien intentará detenerlo.

A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.

Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. When the tune hits the top of the charts, they find themselves having to produce the "real" composer.

A horror drama directed by Dennis Vance.

Adaptación de una novela de Max Cotto. Terminada la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), Joe Lawrence (Richard Widmark), un oficial americano, se instala en Berlín y se enamora de Maria, una refugiada (Mai Zetterling). El objetivo de ella es ahorrar suficiente dinero para llevar a Sudámerica a un grupo de huérfanos alemanes y proporcionarles una vida mejor. Joe, movido por la compasión y por el amor que siente hacia ella, tratará de ayudarla. Para ello, él y dos amigos planean el robo de una gran fortuna en oro que el ejército va a trasladar en avión desde Inglaterra a Alemania.

Bajo el marco del siglo XV, el joven escocés Quentin Durward actua como emisario de su tío para enviar sus respetos a la joven Isabel, Condesa de Macroy, con la cual se casará próximamente. Pero la opinón de la muchacha es distinta, reacia a contraer matrimonio, decide huir a Borgoña para dirigirse a la ciudad de Tours.

Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world. But more detective work starts to uncover an alarming chain of further stunning wives and a way of going on that the new Charles finds pretty unacceptable.

A Cockney family inherit a ramshackle Devon farm. The rest of the family don't want to leave London but the father insists and off they go, to face the unknown.

The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of Princess Fatima of Makyad coincides with the return of recently expelled Arabella Fritton, who has the kidnap of a prize racehorse on her mind. The first film in the classic comedy series.

El alcalde de Rathberney en Irlanda, es asesinado y le sucede un pariente lejano que está dispuesto a limpiar la ciudad de todo tipo de rateros, desaprensivos y delincuentes. Pero los ciudadanos deciden eliminarlo.

1912. La cena de una acaudalada familia inglesa se ve interrumpida por un inspector de policía, que les comunica que una muchacha conocida por todos los presentes ha muerto en misteriosas circunstancias. Parece que cualquiera de ellos podría haber sido el responsable. ¿Pero quién es este inspector y que quiere de ellos? (FILMAFFINITY)

Una joven rica y hermosa naufraga en una isla desierta con tres hombres, cada uno de los cuales intentará seducirla.

Story of how two youngsters round up crooks planning to blow up the British fleet off Gibraltar.

When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.

A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the world's greatest lover and becomes a terrorizing Casanova.

A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from a question on the rights and wrongs of marriage that there is more going on between three of the panelists than he wants to know about - though the audience obviously thinks differently.

A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...

When Miles Cornwall returns suddenly to the home he shares with his father and sister in a grace-and-favour house at St. James's Palace, he's amazed to find a pretty Irish girl in his favorite armchair. Intrigued, he turns on the charm but, as she explains her situation, he finds himself unaccountably falling in love with this pretty interloper.

When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr. Lord and his family. When the Lords refuse to be bought off, and decline the compensation offered by the authorities. the police and the bailiffs try to evict them, only to come under fire from the family, who have barricaded themselves inside the shop.

Ebeneezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) es un cruel avaro hasta una Nochebuena fatídica cuando es visitado por tres fantasmas. Los espíritus le muestran cómo su comportamiento durante los años le ha hecho un hombre solitario, amargo. Utilizan eventos del pasado idealista de Scrooge, su tristre presente y su lúgubre futuro, las apariciones harán todo lo posible para derretir su alma steely. Cicatero Ebeneezer Scrooge aprende de sus errores justo a tiempo para las vacaciones de Navidad y consigue que la vida de todos sea un poco mejor.

Marjory gana un premio de belleza en su ciudad y se encuentra desfilando como lady Godiva, aunque no del todo. Acaba compitiendo para el título mundial en Londres.

When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This is the film which introduced Audrey Hepburn.

Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.

Hazel Woodus (Jennifer Jones) es una muchacha crecida entre la naturaleza, que vive en los confines de Shropshire a finales del siglo XIX. Es hija de un arpista ciego, y vive obsesionada por las supersticiones de su difunta madre. A pesar de la atracción que siente por el sádico señor del lugar, Jack Reddin (David Farrar), Hazel accede a contraer matrimonio con el sumiso reverendo Edward Marston (Cyril Cusack).

Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.

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.

"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cast as police-chief Maubert, who will not rest until Ledocq is behind bars. And Nadia Gray is Madeleine, the woman beloved by both Ledocq and Maubert. Just as Maubert has managed to capture his man, Ledocq is released at the behest of the government, who wants him to steal secrets from the German embassy revealing the whereabouts of the Kaiser's secret agents. And just how does Madeleine figure into all of this? Spider and the Fly is a diverting precursor to the 1960s TV series It Takes a Thief." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

"Cuarteto" es una película británica con cuatro segmentos, cada uno basado en una historia de W. Somerset Maugham. Cada segmento es presentado por el autor. Fue un éxito y eso propició producir dos secuelas "Trio" (1950) y "Encore" (1951), y popularizó el formato de película de compendio. Los guiones de las historias fueron escritos por R. C. Sherriff.

War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.

Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.

Guerra de los Cien Años. Tras una vida disoluta, Enrique V (1413-1422) hereda el trono de Inglaterra y toma conciencia de sus responsabilidades. En 1415 reúne un ejército de 30.000 hombres y reanuda la guerra contra los franceses. Ese mismo año los derrota en la batalla de Azincourt y, a continuación, ocupa Normandía y París.

Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naïve about British people and convinced by hearsay that they are shallow and hypocritical, Ivan is both bemused and amused by them. He is blunt in his opinions about Britons and at first this puts off his hosts, including the lovely Ann Tisdall, whose grandfather runs the shipbuilding firm that will make use of Ivan's propeller. The longer Ivan stays, however, the more he comes to understand the humor, warmth, strength, and conviction of the British people, and the more they come to see him as a friend rather than merely a suspicious Russian. As a romantic bond grows between Ivan and Ann, a cultural bond begins to grow as well, particularly as the war begins and Russia is attacked by Germany.

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.