Hugh Griffith

A poet's tale of a day in the lives of the villagers of a Welsh fishing town of Llareggub.

An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.

Director Paul Morrissey applies a hefty dose of humor to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective story in this interpretation of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Comedian Peter Cook takes on the role of brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes, who's not so gifted here as he relegates much of the investigation of demonic dogs to his bumbling sidekick, Watson (Dudley Moore), while he spends time with his mother and searches for an assistant.

A group of Welsh rugby fans go over to see Wales play France in the final match of the Six Nations rugby tournament. Caradog Evans goes there also to seek an old flame from his wartime combat in the 1940s. His son, finds a love in Paris too. Written by Reece Lloyd

Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.

Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.

While hiding from the royal authorities, Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Giacomino, a fugitive petty con man. Meanwhile, the Arabian Caliph and his wife are arriving in Venice for a state visit, and she insists on a night with the legendary lover. Through a series of erotic encounters and mistaken-identity comedies, Giacomo and Giacomino make their way back to Venice for their appointment with the Caliph's wife.

Dramatization of the controversial best-seller that posits an alternate version of the birth of Christianity. In this version, Jesus planned for His crucifixion by taking a drug that would simulate death. After His unconscious body was placed in the tomb, a religious sect known as the Zealots would secretly steal Christ's body from the tomb, then spread the rumor that He had risen, thus fulfilling Biblical prophecy.

A travelling circus in 19th century France adopts and showcases a feral "wolf boy", who grows into adulthood only to kill the one-man band. He runs off to Paris, where he develops a jealous, overprotective crush on a prostitute, leading him to attack her client, incurring a pursuit by a determined police surgeon.

Jack Palance stars as a demented art dealer & antique-shop owner who performs nightly rituals in honor of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimaginable wealth and power if he merely offers up human sacrifice. His methods are fairly creative, ranging from impalement, slashing and burning, to scaring people to death with an ooga-booga fright mask. But it's all about to blow up in his face...

A shy schoolboy's life changes when his uninhibited female cousin stays at his home for the summer.

One sixteenth-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.

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!

After the death of his Nobel Prize-winning father, billionaire physicist Jerry Cornelius becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious "Final Programme", developed by his father. The programme, a design for a perfect, self-replicating human being, is contained on microfilm. A group of scientists, led by the formidable Miss Brunner (who consumes her lovers), has sought Cornelius's help in obtaining it. After a chase across a war-torn Europe on the verge of anarchy, Brunner and Cornelius obtain the microfilm from Jerry's loathsome brother Frank. They proceed to an abandoned underground Nazi fortress in the Arctic to run the programme, with Jerry and Miss Brunner as the subjects.

Italian comedy

A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.

Segunda parte da Trilogia da Vida do aclamado diretor italiano Pier Paolo Pasolini, o longa é baseado nas obscenas histórias de Geoffrey Chaucer do século XIV. Mergulhando com prazer em alguns dos mais perversos e lascivos contos, Pasolini celebra de forma ardente quase toda forma imaginável de ato sexual com um humor rico, rude e visual mágico. Para completar, Pasolini faz uma representação de inferno que teria deixado Hieronymos Bosch orgulhoso.

O Doutor Phibes se coloca em animação suspensa por três anos desde os eventos do filme anterior. Em 1928, ele desperta graças a um esperado alinhamento da Lua e descobre que sua casa foi destruída e um papiro antigo que guardava num cofre fora roubado. Esse documento trazia um mapa com a localização de uma tumba de faraó desconhecida a qual seria banhada pelo lendário "Rio da Vida" de tempos em tempos, de acordo com o movimento da Lua alinhada com os outros planetas. Phibes descobre quem roubou o papiro e o recupera, com a ajuda de sua assistente Vulnávia (que não está com a face afetada pelo derramamento de ácido ocorrido no fim do filme anterior). Com o papiro em seu poder ele parte até o Egito, levando o corpo de sua falecida esposa Victória, a qual pretende ressuscitar banhando-a no Rio da Vida. Em seu encalço vão o misterioso Biederbeck, o ladrão que sabe sobre a tumba, além dos policiais Trout e Waverley, que investigam os crimes do doutor maníaco.

A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.

O famoso organista Anton Phibes fica terrivelmente desfigurado em um acidente automobilístico enquanto move-se para o lado de sua esposa ferida que presume estar morta. Quando Phibes descobre que sua esposa morreu na mesa de operação, ele está convencido de que os médicos são os responsáveis e começa a executar sua vingança contra todos os envolvidos.

An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. One set is haughty and aristocratic, the other poor and somewhat dim. They find themselves involved in palace intrigues as history happens around them. Based, very loosely, on Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities," Dumas's "The Corsican Brothers," etc.

In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.

The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the Moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy-- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor. Written by Marg Baskin

Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.

Adaptação musical da obra Oliver Twist de Charles Dickens, um conto clássico de um órfão que foge do lugar onde trabalha e se junta com um grupo de meninos comandados por Dodger Artful e é treinado para ser um pickpockets, um batedor de carteiras, pelo mestre ladrão Fagin.

Ignazio is married to a much younger girl, as she starts being attracted by a handsome young man. The new couple set up several plans to kill the cuckhold, but.. it always seems to work out for lucky Ignazio!

A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.

A woman brings her son and husband to a tropical vacation spot for a little rest and relaxation. The only problem is that the husband has been dead for quite some time, and his wife had him stuffed and carries him everywhere with her. Complications ensue.

Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a yacht bound for Greece, but they don't find the sailor. After a stop in Africa, Louis de Mozambique joins the party and suggests that the sailor may never have existed other than in Anna's mind.

The story of the strange friendship between a seventy-year-old man and a six-year-old girl.

Nicole Bonnet é a filha de um falsificador de obras de arte que pede a ajuda de Simon Dermott, um desconhecido que recentemente invadiu sua casa, para roubar uma estátua. O pedido é feito porque seu pai, Charles Bonnet, emprestou sua preciosa Venus de Cellini a um prestigiado museu de Paris e sem ler os documentos, autorizou exames que provem a autenticidade da obra. Infelizmente a Venus não foi esculpida por Cellini mas pelo avô de Nicole, um exímio falsificador de esculturas. Quando os testes forem feitos ficará claro que a obra é falsa, assim como todos os quadros que Charles vendeu serão testados de todas as formas e será comprovado que ele é um falsificador. Mas Nicole nem imagina quem é que a está ajudando nesse roubo quase impossível de ser realizado.

Neste filme antidrogas narrado por Grace Kelly, um grupo de agentes de combate aos narcóticos, trabalhando para as Nações Unidas, injeta um composto radioativo em um carregamento de ópio apreendido na fronteira entre o Afeganistão e o Irã, na esperança de que isso os leve à heroína do principal distribuidor de drogas na Europa. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)

A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. The Russian is working with shady businessman Marek and they plan to kidnap the professor and make it look as though he has defected to the Soviet Union.

After a lock-keeper entrusts his daughter to a canal Casanova, he is shocked to learn that she is pregnant. He then refuses to open his locks - causing barges to pile up in every direction until the guilty party confesses.

No século XVIII, uma criança abandonada é criada por um nobre inglês. Quando adulto, Tom Jones torna-se um playboy mulherengo. Mas quando seu tutor morre e ele se apaixona por Sophie, vê-se obrigado a mudar o seu comportamento. O roteiro é baseado no romance The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, de Henry Fielding, publicado em 1749.

O Bounty sai de Portsmouth em 1787. Seu destino: navegar para Tahiti e pegar uma carga de fruta pão. O capitão Bligh fará qualquer coisa para chegar o mais rápido possível, usando qualquer meio para manter uma disciplina rigorosa. Quando chegam a Tahiti, é como um paraíso para a tripulação, algo completamente diferente do inferno que vivem à bordo do navio. No caminho de volta para a Inglaterra, quando voltam a disciplina e os castigos, o oficial Fletcher Christian se torna o líder de um motim. 2 versões de montagem: 178 min = Lançamento 185 min = Na Inglaterra

A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including his bitter wife, Anna. When the lovely young Shirley Taylor, one of Weir's students, falls for her unfortunate instructor, he is tempted and flattered but turns down her advances. Taylor's subsequent actions make Weir's life even more complicated.

At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.

Holden interpreta um executivo sueco, Erick Ericksson, de origem americana que, aceitando ser agente duplo para os Aliados, finge-se de simpatizante dos nazistas visando ganhar-lhes a confiança e ter livre acesso à Alemanha, para onde viaja rotineiramente a pretexto de fazer negócios. Manifestando publicamente sua simpatia pelo nazismo, Erick acaba por ver-se abandonado pela família e hostilizado pelos amigos que se afastam dele devido a suas 'convicções fascista'. Na Alemanha, seu contato é uma mulher de família tradicional, católica, Marianne Möllendorf (Palmer), esposa de um oficial alemão, e ambos simulam ser amantes para se encontrar num apartamento e trocar informações. Com o tempo, eles realmente acabam por se apaixonar, mas os nazistas desconfiam e passam a segui-los. Em crise emocional porque suas informações permitiram aos Aliados bombardear uma região onde foram atingidas e mortas muitas crianças, Marianne vai-se confessar com um padre que, em verdade, é agente da Gestapo.

Based on Leon Uris' novel, this historical epic provides a dramatic backstory to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, in the aftermath of World War II. Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.

Na Londres de 1901, três homens em missão pelo IRA planejam roubar todo o ouro contido nos depósitos do Banco da Inglaterra.

The good doctor is on trial before the British Medical Association Council, if he is found guilty, he will no longer be allowed to practice medicine. The story unfolds through flashbacks which depict his career and his subsequent downfall.

An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman's husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.

Na Judéia invadida pelos conquistadores romanos, o príncipe Ben-Hur tenta conduzir seu povo rumo à liberdade. Mas isso gera um conflito de interesses com o seu amigo de infância, Messala, agora um severo comandante dos exércitos de Roma. Preso, o príncipe é enviado para trabalhar como escravo, longe de suas terras, família e sua amada Esther (Haya Harareet). O pacífico Ben-Hur transforma-se em um guerreiro forte e corajoso, disposto a enfrentar seus inimigos e restabelecer a paz.

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.

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 old man is unperturbed, even regarding the infernal trumpet sound which plays throughout.

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

Musical adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

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.

A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.

Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.

When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains. Unfortunately the local bus company starts to use methods that can hardly be seen as fair competition.

Quando o Famoso Brincalhão Henry Russell morre ele deixa £ 50.000 para cada um de seus quatro herdeiros. Mas o seu testamento tem uma última piada - que cada um tem para realizar uma tarefa completamente fora do caráter dentro de um mês. Quando cada um recebe a sua tarefa, eles começam a achar que além da herança prometida, estão inesperadamente recebendo também um desafio muito grande. Todos, exceto o tosco Simon Russell, é claro. É o segundo filme da carreira de Audrey Hepburn, onde faz o papel de Cigarette Girl, a garota dos cigarros. O ator Sebastian Cabot, também em inicio de carreira, aparece como um jogador de cartas.

A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.

Jennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsey girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack Reddin a fox hunting squire who vies for her affection and pursues her even after her marriage to the local pastor.

Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort. Instead, the brothers are launched into an adventure with some London riff-raff. It is up to the reporter to look out for the brothers, and what a job it turns out to be!

A mãe de Louis Manzzini pertence à aristocrata família D'Ascoyne, até ela fugir com um cantor de ópera. A partir daí, ela e Louis são rejeitados pelos D'Ascoynes. Quando vira um adulto, Louis resolve se vingar, tornando-se o próximo Duque da família. O caminho mais fácil para ele acaba sendo assassinar o sucessor natural ao cargo.

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

An heiress suddenly vanishes! A detective comes to the forlorn mansion of the missing heiress's wheel-chair-ridden uncle to discover the secret behind the disappearance.

Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.

In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.

Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estate and the town have fallen on hard times. When the land crumbles and a number of homes in the town are destroyed the sisters promise to rebuild the homes.

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.

Tchecoslováquia, março de 1939, na véspera da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Enquanto os invasores alemães ocupam Praga, o inventor Axel Bomasch consegue fugir e chegar à Inglaterra; mas aqueles que precisam colocar os seus conhecimentos ao serviço da máquina de guerra nazi, para levar a cabo os seus maléficos planos de destruição, não pararão em nada para o capturar…

A BAFTA nominated documentary reviewing events from 1933.