Emlyn Williams

Cuando en un desgraciado accidente perece la familia real británica, el único heredero de la dinastía es Rafi Jones, un gordo y despreocupado pianista de las Vegas. Pero ocupar el trono supone un drástico cambio en su vida: se acabó la comida barata, las camisas hawaianas y las palabrotas. Desde ahora deberá asistir a banquetes oficiales, vestirse con elegantes uniformes y aprender a hablar correctamente. Aunque Rafi, lo intenta, no puede evitar que constantemente salga a la superficie su verdadero yo.

67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old disgracefully.

Several criminal lawyers reunite every year in the Swiss mountains to entertain themselves with fake trials and murder mysteries. At one year's party, an unwitting American becomes part of the game.

Miss Moffat (Katharine Hepburn), una inglesa que se va a vivir a un publo minero de Gales, se queda completamente horrorizada cuando comprueba que también los niños trabajan en las minas. Se plantea entonces la necesidad de hacer algo por ellos y decide escolarizarlos. Nueva adaptación de la obra de Emlyn Williams, que ya en 1945 conoció una versión protagonizada por Bette Davis

A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into romance and for the first time in her life she is truly happy. This happiness is short lived, however, as little by little she discovers her partner has been lying to her about his past. It is soon revealed that he and his friends have been planning to rob the auction house that she works for and they require her inside knowledge in order to pull off the crime.

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.

The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.

El marqués Philippe de Montfauçon, un gran terrateniente, acude a su castillo de Bellenac, donde sus sirvientes le dan cuenta de las malas cosechas de la temporada. Aunque obliga a su esposa y a sus hijos a permanecer en Londres, éstos finalmente se desplazan a Bellenac. Una vez allí, su esposa descubre perpleja cómo su marido y sus empleados practican viejos ritos paganos cuya finalidad desconoce.

Danny es un psicópata de la clase trabajadora que se muda con una viuda rica para redecorar su casa, mientras tanto, "juega" con la hija y la criada mientras la viuda duerme.

Jane (Leslie Caron), una joven francesa soltera y embarazada, llega a Londres y alquila un cuarto en una sórdida casa, cuyos huéspedes son toda clase de marginados. Cuando piensa en la posibilidad de abortar, se siente muy infeliz. Mantiene una relación sentimental con Toby (Tom Bell), un joven escritor que vive en la misma casa. Con el tiempo entabla amistad con la gente de la casa, pero sigue sin resolver dos problemas: qué hacer con el niño y con Toby.

John Sand, capitán de un barco de rescate, encuentra al carguero 'Mary Deare' a la deriva. En su interior se encuentra escondido Gideo Patch, un hombre misterioso y algo aturdido que ha presenciado los hechos y conoce las razones por las que el buque ha perdido el rumbo. Además, está seguro de que su testimonio evitará que los dueños del barco estafen a la compañía de seguros.

A World War II evacuee (Van Johnson) returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.

Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.

Un hombre alcohólico (Michael Redgrave) dispone tan solo de 24 horas para probar que su hijo (Alec McCowen) no es culpable de una violación y un asesinato. Filme inspirado en "Someone Waiting", obra teatral de Emlyn Williams.

A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. (TCM.com)

A su vuelta de las Cruzadas, el Rey Ricardo Corazón de León es apresado en Austria. Su hermano Juan se niega a pagar la elevada suma de dinero que exigen a cambio de su libertad, ya que así puede seguir usurpando el trono de Inglaterra. El caballero Ivanhoe, uno de los partidarios de Ricardo, intentará por todos los medios conseguir el dinero del rescate.

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.

Una escritora de novelas de misterio (Bette Davis) está enamorada de un muchacho (Anthony Steel). Su marido, un presidiario, se fuga de la cárcel y se reúne con ella en los páramos del Yorkshire. Se enzarzan en una pelea y el marido muere. Otro presidiario (Gary Merrill, marido en la vida real de Bette Davis), que también se había fugado, ha visto lo ocurrido y llega a un pacto con la escritora: ocultará el cadáver y no la denunciará, si ella acepta que él se haga pasar por su marido hasta que las cosas se calmen...

A man believe to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.

When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.

An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.

An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.

An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.

Miss Moffat (Bette Davis), una inglesa que va a vivir a un pequeño pueblo galés, descubre que los niños trabajan en las minas. Impresionada por esta situación, decide escolarizarlos. Adaptación de la obra de Emlyn Williams. En 1979 el maestro George Cukor dirigió otra versión protagonizada por Katharine Hepburn.

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. When Madden is offered the lead in a new King Lear and Robert lands a composing job in Hollywood, better times seem for a while to beckon.

The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embraced with thick stone walls. The townsfolk nickname the fortress "Hatter's Castle", for James Brodie, the man who built it. Brodie is a hatter who keeps the members of the family in fear and submission; he is brutal, arrogant, selfish and cruel. His wife, who has long been ailing, and his daughter Mary, are in awe of him. His son Angus, aged 15, alone dear to his heart, suffers under his love as the others suffer under his sternness.

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.

Biography of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (Robert Morley), who rose to fame through performances of his songs by the tenor Ellaline Terriss (Dorothy Hyson). The peak of Stuart's success in the early 1900s is followed by poverty and obscurity with the arriving Jazz Age. In debtor's prison, Stuart is rescued by friends from happier times, and achieves a comeback in British music halls shortly before his death.

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.

The Stars Look Down is based on A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel of the same name, about injustices in a mining community in North East England. While the novel follows the development of three young men in the small mining town, the film focuses on just one of them; the smart David Fenwick who gets a scholarship to university, meets a girl who only marries him because her former boyfriend has abandoned her, and eventually returns to the mine town as a teacher and takes part in a futile rescue effort when the mine is flooded, trapping both his father and his younger brother.

Última película inglesa de Hitchcock, antes de su etapa americana. A finales del siglo XVIII, Mary (Maureen O'Hara), una joven huérfana irlandesa, va a Cornuailles para reunirse con su tía Patience, cuyo marido tiene una posada en la costa. Se trata de un lugar sórdido, cuyos huéspedes son bandidos que se dedican al saqueo de barcos y gozan de una impunidad total porque el cabecilla de la banda es un hombre respetable, un juez de paz (Charles Laughton) que les proporciona la información necesaria sobre el paso de las naves.

“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.

Andrew Manson, un joven médico que consigue su primer empleo en una población minera de Gales, se entrega al cuidado de trabajadores enfermos y gentes oprimidas. Las circunstancias, sin embargo, acabarán poniendo a pruebo sus principios morales.

Andrew Manson, un joven médico que consigue su primer empleo en una población minera de Gales, se entrega al cuidado de trabajadores enfermos y gentes oprimidas. Las circunstancias, sin embargo, acabarán poniendo a pruebo sus principios morales.

Charles and Barbara are a devoted couple who, in seven years' marriage, have never spent a night apart. When they come up to town for a family engagement, an urgent business appointment obliges Charles to let Barbara go on without him. Left alone and bored in the hotel, Charles agrees to accompany a man-about-town friend to a nightclub. He gets helplessly drunk among dubious company, and come the morning finds that a hangover is the least of his problems..!

The middle aged matron at a Norwich school wins a large prize in a French lottery. She is murdered in London and the murderer's secretary impersonates her and draws the old lady's prize money. There follows a series of killings until the murderer realises that he is trapped and commits suicide.

Danny (Robert Montgomery) es un joven apuesto que entabla amistad con la enferma anciana Mrs. Bramson, sintiéndose enseguida atraído por su sobrina Olivia (Rosalind Russell). Las cosas cambian cuando las noticias anuncian el terrible asesinato de una persona a manos de un homicida; y Olivia comienza a sospechar de Danny. ¿Será el chico el brutal asesino que está aterrorizando a toda la ciudad?

A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.

A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.

British musical film directed by Carmine Gallone.

A young woman who is in love with a penniless composer, but believes she must marry a wealthy man to please her father. But only realises after various tribulations she should follow her heart rather than her head.

The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.

Bob y Jill Lawrence son un matrimonio que está de vacaciones en Suiza con su hija Betty. Allí entablan amistad con Louis Bernard, un francés que recibe un disparo en el corazón mientras baila con Jill. Justo antes de morir, Louis le pide a Bob que entregue a las autoridades unos documentos que tiene escondidos en su habitación. Bob descubre que Bernard era, en realidad, un espía británico que seguía los pasos de una misteriosa organización que planeaba asesinar a un político extranjero en Londres. A continuación Bob recibe la llamada de un desconocido que le exige que abandone el asunto o su hija sufrirá las consecuencias.

The life and times of the Duke of Wellington

Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.

Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...

In this opera-oriented musical, Riccardo Gatti, an Italian young tenor in Venice, meets a young woman who sneaks into the opera house to try and get her fiancé hired as the orchestra's pianist.

Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later she reappears on the stage as young looking and beautiful as ever.

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.

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 British romantic drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter

In the years after his graduation Allen Shepherd has become a successful novelist and has married Jane Anderson. A firm proponent of traditional sex roles, Shepherd leaves Jane when she accepts a teaching post at Oxford. He later changes his views, and the couple is reunited.

A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to fear for her life.

One person can make all the difference. Miss Lily Moffat arrives in rural North Wales, determined to help young local miners out of poverty by teaching them to read and write. Lily soon spots talent in the unruly Morgan Evans, but when she faces growing resistance from the community, she does everything in her power to forge him a new future.