Movies

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

Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film...

An eccentric woman detective investigates the murders of several people who visited the same medium.

'A clerk embezzles money to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.' (British Film Institute)

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...

A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.

Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's...

The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.

A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.

Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to...

A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.

Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and...

High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of...

Veteran music-hall entertainer Jerry Stanford a washed-up comedian hopes to stage a comeback in a glittering new revue. Alas, Stanford is hired as...

A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a...

In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper...

Second of three versions of Margaret Kennedy’s novel about a sickly, sensitive Belgian schoolgirl, Tessa (Victoria Hopper), in love with...

A comedy film directed by Harry Revier.

An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.

The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.