A.E. Matthews

Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made good his dream to own a pub. The trouble is, it's got no customers. But leave it to the Larkins to find unorthodox ways to bring in the punters.

Двое друзей напиваются и решают сменить личность. Один - парламентский секретарь, а другой - капитан корабля. Недостаток знаний о море у первого вызывает несколько катастроф, в том числе торпедирование Первого лорда Адмиралтейства.

The third of the "Doctor" films. Newly qualified doctor Simon Sparrow goes in search of a job. He applies for a surgery position at the hospital where he studied, but manages to insult the senior surgeon and one of the hospital's governors. So, instead he ends up as assistant to with a niggardly and rather scary GP with an amerous wife, followed by cushy but rather unmedical job with a Harley Street doctor, and then a job with a very nice GP whp is the opposite to the first one. But after getting the chance to rescue the hospital governor from a group of angry ladies at a resort in France, he finally lands a job at his beloved hosdpital.

Old man of class and character living in a London square after both have suffered from time. Before his house is pulled down the residents surprise him with a party.

Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.

Обогнуть земной шар всего за 80 дней? Смешно! Даже лучшие паровые корабли Ее Величества Виктории не смогут сделать это. Но точный и пунктуальный Филеас Фогг заявил, что сможет. А когда члены лондонского престижного Реформ-Клуба попросят Фогга подкрепить его похвальбу солидной денежной ставкой, мы отправимся в путешествие Вокруг света в 80 дней!

Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged...

At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's not too healthy either. While getting the dog back in shape, Willy crosses paths with a gang of crooks who's specialty is fixing the races with doped dogs.

Gorgeous Kate Dax and her crime-writer husband, Andrew, investigate the murder of eccentric spinster Miss Tulip at a remote country cottage.

A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel and a gambling den, racing greyhounds and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric Aunt Clara. Clara vows to "clean up" her new establishments, but complications ensue when she visits the crooked gambling den--just as it's being raided by the police.

The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed in an accident. His nephew, Jasper O'Leary, takes over the state and soon has aroused the displeasure of all, with the exception of Serena McGluskey, as much a schemer as he is a cad. Led by Thady O'Heggarty, the villagers plot to drive Jasper away. They use the occasion of "O'Leary Night", when the ghost of the first O'Leary walks the halls, to create general chaos.

Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.

Июнь 1903 года. Адамс, безработный американский моряк, оказывается в Лондоне. Оборванный и голодный он бесцельно бродит по улицам города, и в этот момент судьба сталкивает его с двумя братьями-миллионерами, которые делают ему необычное предложение. Они вручают ему банкноту в миллион фунтов стерлингов на следующих условиях: если этот банкнот не будет разменян Адамсом в течение месяца, то он получает любую работу. Таковы условия пари, заключенного между братьями. С этой минуты у Адамса начинается новая жизнь. Теперь он «эксцентричный миллионер», под его банкнот открыты кредиты всех магазинов и банков Лондона.

A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.

Story about a group of young cyclist track riders and their effort to retain their track against long odds.

Residents of the small English village of Dunmow react in comical ways when the Topham family hires a beautiful and young Hungarian maid.

A British Army Officer returning to civilian life after WWII, starts a catering company with some of his ex-army pals.

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.

The owner of a Scottish castle discovers that it is haunted by the spirit of a beautiful woman. He decides to use the ghost as a tourist attraction for his castle

Лампидорра - самая маленькая и самая бедная страна в Европе. Веками находясь вдали от прогресса цивилизации, к началу повествования страна была продана богатому американцу за 100 000 долларов. После скоропостижной кончины новоявленного Великого Герцога его наследницей стала Линди Смит, простая продавщица из Нью-Йорка. Ей предстоит спасти маленькую страну от финансового коллапса с помощью молодого британца, представителя крупной сырной компании...

Фильм посвящен трагической судьбе изобретателя первой в мире кинокамеры Уильяма Фриз-Грина. Свою деятельность Фриз-Грин начал в одной из фотостудий Бристоля и вскоре завоевал признание своими талантливыми снимками. Но ему хочется воспроизвести жизнь в движении. После долгих усилий ему удалось создать необходимый аппарат, но им никто не заинтересовался и бедность не покидала семейство Фриз-Гринов. Он похоронил первую жену, а вторая ушла, не вынеся постоянной нужды. Сыновья вступили в армию во время Первой мировой войны, и Фриз-Грин умер в полной неизвестности, одиноким, без всяких средств к существованию.

Mr. Drake and his wife live a nice, quiet life on their Sussex farm, until one of their ducks lays a radioactive egg made of uranium! When the government finds out about this, the Armed Forces storm onto the farm in a frantic search for the duck responsible.

После смерти известного мистификатора Генри Расселла осталось письмо, в котором он завещал своим родственникам каждому по 50,000 фунтов стерлингов. Однако они не сразу могли получить эти деньги. В письме говорилось, что каждый наследник может получить означенную сумму лишь после того, как выполнит определенное условие. Эти условия были настолько необычны, что родственники были озадачены, но никто не хотел лишиться такой суммы, поэтому все как один приступили к выполнению условий.

A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his actions, he volunteers for a deadly mission. His girlfriend meanwhile tries to prove that he is innocent.

Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generations. The request is a ruse to enable Pym to marry his wealthy American fiancee while she's still in England, but his masterplan backfires when he finds himself swept into an election campaign and beaten by Labour's Mr Cleghorn – who is then made a peer. In an attempt to save face, Pym decides to stand again – as a socialist. It all proves too much for the Pyms' loyal, true-blue butler, Mr Beecham...

In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert swoops in to help Adelaide.

William Brown attempts to secure more pay and shorter hours for schoolboys.

Comic adventures of an 11-year-old boy and his neighborhood pals.

The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.

A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son.

After discovering that she has only a short time left to live, concert pianist Lissa travels to Cornwall for the final fling of her life. While there, she falls in love with young mineral prospector Kit, a man whose dark secret prevents him from fighting in the War. Unbeknownst to Lissa, however, Kit's affections are also much in demand from a rival of hers.

People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city

A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to replace an infantry battalion that had suffered casualties at Dunkirk.

During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.

After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.

О жизни Клайва Кэнди, британского солдата. Она показана в эпизодах, начиная с 1902 года, когда он сделал блестящую карьеру молодого офицера в Бурской войне, до 1943 года, когда он скрипучим, старческим голосом рассказывает о времени бомбежки Лондона, размышляет о потерянной молодости и любви.

David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.

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.

A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.

Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of a noted stage critic to produce a glowing review of his 'Othello'.

The life and times of the Duke of Wellington