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When Emperor Louis offers a reward to the tailor who designs the finest outfit for him to wear for his upcoming celebration, two swindlers convince the Emperor to wear a special design made of a fabric they claim is only visible to the wise.
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Holmes & Watson have one baffling clue to help them track down the crime of an American visitor in London.
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The classic tale of David Copperfield's life is brought to the screen in this faithful and entertaining animated feature for your kids and family.
10th Elder (uncredited)
Jor-El, um renomado cientista, prevê a destruição do seu planeta e alerta o governo, que não lhe dá credito. Assim, decide salvar seu filho, mandando-o ao planeta Terra, onde terá superpoderes. Na Terra, ele usa o nome de Clark Kent e, já adulto, trabalha como repórter em um jornal, não demonstra ter superpoderes. Mas quando uma situação inesperada põe em risco a vida de Lois Lane, uma colega de trabalho, ele é obrigado a se revelar para o público, ficando conhecido popularmente como Superman. Descontente com o surgimento de um super-herói na cidade, Lex Luthor, um gênio do mal, o obriga a se desdobrar para evitar a morte de milhões de pessoas.
English General
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
Beverley
A 1964 British action adventure film from Hammer studios. The Scarlet Blade is set during the english civil war. A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathisers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love triangle with Cavalier Edward Beverly and Roundhead officer Captain Sylvester the stage is set for double crossing and derring do.
Williams
A psychotic man schemes to drive his sister mad so that he can claim her inheritance, but a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins when an imposter intervenes.
Professor Smith
Em uma pequena cidade da Inglaterra todas as pessoas, de forma inexplicável, desmaiam por algumas horas. Dois meses depois do acontecido todas as mulheres com possibilidade de ter filhos ficam grávidas. Quando as crianças nascem elas se revelam extremamente inteligentes e com traços desconhecidos da raça humana, sugerindo serem alienígenas.
Police Officer
An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie's son as a Middle Eastern prince. The headmaster's madcap scheme is further complicated when an official from the Foreign Office arrives and announces that a real prince is to be placed under Edwards supervision, not due to the schools lofty reputation, but that a gang of kidnappers are unlikely to look for the regal child there.
Captain Kerr - 'Hood'
A história do esforço da Marinha Britânica, na Segunda Guerra Mundial, para derrotar o mais poderoso navio de guerra da Alemanha nazista.
Narra a fuga do Bismarck durante os primeiros dias da Segunda Guerra Mundial. Apresentado tanto do ponto de vista dos muitos navios de guerra de ambos os lados como do quartel general britânico, de onde a busca pelo super navio de guerra foi controlada.
Coroner
Egito, 1895. Três arqueologistas britânicos, John Banning (Peter Cushing), Stephen Banning (Felix Aylmer) e Joseph Whemple (Raymond Hutley), descobrem o túmulo de uma princesa egípcia, Ananka (Yvonne Furneaux), que morreu há quatro mil anos. Sem imaginar o que realmente fazia, Stephen lê o "Pergaminho da Vida". Isto faz voltar a vida Kharis (Christopher Lee), o guardião da tumba, que recebe a ajuda de Mehemet Bey (George Pastell), um egípcio que não aceita o túmulo ter sido profanado por "infiéis". Três anos depois, Mehemet leva para a Inglaterra Kharis, que terá a missão de matar os três arqueólogos que lideraram a expedição que achou a tumba de Ananka.
Inspector Jensen
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.
Dr. Warren
A physicist finds himself drawn into an investigation to track down a spy at his research station.
Admiral
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship Aristotle and, together with his second-in-command, Fairweather wreaks havoc when he is ordered to deliver the Aristotle to its new owners in a mythical Middle-Eastern country.
Bank Manager
When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
Inspector
O Barão Frankenstein foge da execução na guilhotina e usa o pseudônimo Dr. Stein para abrir sua clínica na Alemanha. Lá, recomeça seus experimentos com cadáveres, mas um de seus pacientes tem um destino diferente do que Stein planejou.
Police Inspector
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
The Police Commissioner
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
Chief Constable
When she has a fight, with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads for the local cinema, and in doing so, becomes the only eyewitness to a couple of crooks, who are robbing the cinema's safe. In her haste to escape the thieves, she is knocked down by a passing bus, and is taken to the local hospital. The two crooks follow, and wait for a chance to finish her off, and thus eliminate the only person who can tie them to the robbery.
Magistrate
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
Doctor
An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."
Dr. Underwood
A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into local life, is married and is serving on the board of the local hospital. Everything seems to be going well for him until a newly appointed consultant psychiatrist shows up and starts asking some probing questions.
Harding
Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police. Steve has to prove his brother's innocence.
Detective Inspector
Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera. Bob Grove, a builder has problems with the council, over building supplies that he needs to complete a job on a local housing estate. Under pressure to finish the job, his son gets them from a local crook. When the council find out, they call in the police, so the Grove family get together, to clear themselves, in time for the grand opening.
Moraine
Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from captivity in Germany. Though disguised as a troubadour, Robin is betrayed and captured. Lady Alys and the merry men help him escape in time to foil an intended ambush on King Richard as he returns from the Crusades.
Magistrate
London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.
Gardener
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
Owner of Kennels
Comedy of the theft of a poodle by a villain and the chase after him.
2nd Platform Man at Connaught
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.
Wilson
When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.
Det. Inspector Jim McBane
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.
Gerald Amersley
A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up murdered! Soon the psychic points the finger at her jealous husband.
Inspector
A gambler falls in love with a naive young girl. He thinks she is bringing him good luck. Then his main gambling rival arrives and he desires the girl as well.
Inspector Thornton
A maniac killer returns to the scene of a ten-year-old crime, only to find the ghost of a murdered servant girl waiting to exact her revenge.
Crabtree
In this psychological thriller, an avaricious man covets his stepbrother's home. The greedy fellow knows that his stepbrother has a heart condition and so sets off a fatal attack by smashing a beloved violin. However, his actions do not come without a terrible price.
Alquist
A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explored dehumanization through technology and the failure of a technologically driven utopia.
Duke of Bedford
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
Dr. John Hayling
Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
Inspector Webb
A hated country gentleman is murdered, and the inspector on the case takes the veiwer through his thoughts about the possible murderer and motives as he questions everyone concerned.
Guiseppe
In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.
William Gardener, Turf Commission
A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young actress whom the other relatives didn't know was related to him. Several attempts on her life are thwarted by a detective, who sets out to discover who's behind the scheme to kill her.
L.B. Ellington
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
Major Gaunt
Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S., the men are left unattended and dangerously bored. The trouble starts when Bandle is late for an end-of-leave party after giving a girlfriend a lift; Popday promises the wives he ll restrain his wayward friend when they return to duty, but Bandle evidently thinks otherwise.
Alan Saunders
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
Chief Police Officer Staples
When Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father.
Inspector Dicker
Rex Walton, millionaire man-about-town, mysteriously disappears on the eve of his wedding after an attempt at blackmail by infamous criminal The Panda. His plucky sister Joan aids the police in their investigations, but Rex’s disappearance sets in motion a chain of violent and incomprehensible events when blackmail turns to murder...
Bindle
Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.
Robert Cooper
During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by a torpedo. The spy winds up on a lifeboat with other survivors, one of whom is a counterintelligence agent who reveals the German spy's true identity.
Commdr. Hood
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
John Cartwright
Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention
Tony Morgan
Old Mother Riley does the laundry for the dancers in the pantomime "Aladdin", where her daughter Kitty works as a chorus girl. Sneaking a peek at the show one day, Mother Riley accidentally pops up through a trap door onto the stage. Accosted by the angry star, Mother Riley’s belligerent responses have the audience in stitches. Outraged, the star walks out, leaving Kitty to take over the leading role, to great success.
Peter Kerrigan
"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in investigating murders at Marsh Manor, home of the wealthy Claydon family. Plenty of suspects to choose from, Kerrigan believes that the murders may be connected to hidden treasure on the estate.
Dr. Roger Hood
An east London fishmonger's young daughter (Hazel Ascot) is so grateful to Dr Hood (John Stuart) for saving her dog Patch after a road accident that she persuades her dad and various friends to help stage a concert at the local Hippodrome to raise money to save the local hospital.
Mack McDonald
A singer tries to find success
Harry Willshire
About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.
Noel Hampton
A lawyer's love for a young girl causes him to defend the man he thinks to be her lover. During the trial the lawyer finds out that the man is his own son.
Talak Pasha, Officer of Turkish Army
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.
Captain Moonlight / Captain Freeman
Major John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintance with Lucy Merrall, but she tells him she is engaged to be married. He later learns that, Cravens, the man she is to marry already has a wife. He also learns that Craven cleaned out Lucy's father in a crooked gambling game, and Lucy is paying the price to hold the family home together.
Roger Drummond
Down on his luck inventor Roger (John Stuart) "borrows" some money from a handbag he finds but things go wrong when a necklace from the bag goes missing.
John Summers
When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to reveal that Peggy's brother Ralph was shot for cowardice during World War One.
Jeff Green
A dapper Englishman has an affair with his wife’s best friend. A risque and very British marital farce.
Nigel Armine
That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934. Conrad Veidt stars as sinister Egyptian Mahmoud Baroundi, who even before the film gets under way has left a long trail of ruined women behind him. His latest victim is American girl Mona Chepstow (Mary Ellis), whom Baroundi treats like dirt and makes her like it. The plot centers around a murder by poison, as evidenced by the film's deliberately exotic title. Critics in 1934 praised newcomer Mary Ellis for underplaying her role, but many film fans preferred Nazimova's arm-waving histrionics in the earlier version.
Larry Dean
A wealthy investor in a South African mine is murdered.
Frank Brooks
A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
Lord Rollestone
A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance.
John Trent
It follows a doctor who faces both a scandal and a moral dilemma when a patient of his dies while he is making love to a press magnate's daughter.
Pietro Morelli (Phase III)
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
Robert Blair
An American girl is framed for killing a cad while drunk.
Paul Kingslake
'Farmer loves singer whom his half-brother marries and abandons with baby.' (British Film Catalogue)
Henry Baring
Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.
David Graham
'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
Lt. Saint-Avit
In this mythical fantasy, the evil queen of Atlantis lives in a magnificent palace, the halls of which are filled with the mummified remains of former lovers.
Gentleman Burton
When 'Gentleman' Burton boards the Capri his aura of mystery makes the crew curious about his origins and makes him especially attractive to the Captain's daughter. But he little realises the danger that is to unfold when the Captain conceals diamonds on board as a favour...
James 'Iron' Harg
James Harg and his father work in a steelmaking plant which is incompetently run, with scant attention being paid to worker safety. In his own time, Harg works on ideas for a revolutionary new manufacturing process for hard steel. When his father is badly injured in a workplace accident resulting from employer negligence, Harg uses some of the compensation payment to develop his invention to a stage where it can be tested in practice. It is a huge success and Harg patents his process. He rises to a position on the board of the company, before staging a coup to oust his former employer and take over the business himself.
Barton
Uma história tensa e complexa sobre uma gangue de criminosos que se esconde após um roubo de jóias. Numa trama cheia de reviravoltas, o público perde o fôlego, enquanto um policial tenta deter os bandidos de escapar com a extraordinária fortuna.
Michael Ferrier
An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.
Larry Byrne
An impoverished man Jimmy Perkins is mistaken by a banker for a wealthy man with a similar name...
Alan Jeffcote
A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
Sir Henry Baskerville
On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from abroad and opens up the ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire. Holmes uncovers a plot to have Sir Henry murdered by a terrible trained hound.
Gordon
A casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model and actress Lia de Marita – landing her an audition for the producer of a new musical stage show. Marvelling at her good fortune, what Binnie doesn't know is that Lia is also the wife of a notorious jewel thief and that she's already fled the country in possession of a valuable, ill-gotten necklace!
Lord Jimmy Hilhoxton
A drama film directed by Castleton Knight .
Bill Alden
A romantic comedy directed by Charles Saunders.
Max Nicholson
A producer makes a star of the cockney waif who tried to rob him.
Tony Bracklethorpe
'Press lord ruins sailor father of son's fiancée.' (British Film Catalogue)
O filme é uma série de 19 cenas em formato de comédias musicais, apresentadas durante um programa de rádio ao vivo, encabeçado por Tommy Handley. Em uma das cenas, um ator deseja interpretar Shakespeare, mas é continuamente interrompido. Já em outra parte, outro comediante cria um aparelho no qual pensa que é possível assistir ao programa de rádio pela TV. Apesar de o filme ser em preto e branco, quatro cenas são coloridas (em tons de amarelo ou marrom). Elstree Calling foi dirigido pelos quatro maiores diretores ingleses da época, que incubiu de inserir o cinema britânico no gênero musical.
Jack Tremaine
A girl with amnesia believes she is a bachelor's wife.
Jack Devenish
'Lady's son poses as chauffeur to woo girl who buys taxi.' (British Film Catalogue)
Lawrence
A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.
Alex St. George
A shopgirl loves a paralysed amnesiac and kidnaps him from his interfering mother.
Richard Bristol
Kilian Gurlitt
The ship-owner Herr Reeder Roberts organizes a world trip on his luxury liner "Yoshiwara". Aboard are millionaires and famous artists, but also criminals. The manager of the ship-owner, Stefan Martini, has been murdered shortly before the departure in a mysterious way. Several persons are suspected and these are, precisely, the passengers of the "Yoshiwara".
Allan Jeffcote
A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.
In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
Hugh Fielding
Patsy e Jill trabalham como dançarinas em uma casa chamada Pleasure Garden. Elas namoram Levett e Hugh, soldados britânicos que cuidam de colônias nos Trópicos. Quando eles viajam pelo trabalho, Jill se esquece facilmente de Hugh e passa a prestar outro tipo de trabalho para os clientes da casa. Baseado no romance de Oliver Sandys.
Part of a series known as “Haunted Castles”.
Jack
A lonely squire throws a New Year's party for villagers and discloses that he is a poor girl's uncle.
Joseph Longley
A butler inherits a dukedom but stays in service to save a Lord's daughter from eloping with a married man.
George Douglas
The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.
Charles Surface
An uncle poses as a usurer to learn which nephew deserves his fortune.
Michael Rivven
A sacked skater falls into the clutches of an actor who abandoned a girl and her baby.
