British Cinema
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Murder! (1930)
Actress Diana Baring is found beside the body of a fellow performer and can’t remember what happened. She is convicted, but one of the jurors, the distinguished actor Sir John Menier, has doubts about the verdict. He begins looking into the touring company himself, with help from two people who know its backstage routines.
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The 39 Steps (1935)
A disturbance at a London music hall leads Richard Hannay to offer shelter to a woman who says she’s being followed. When she is killed in his flat, the police suspect him. With only a few clues to go on, Hannay boards a train for Scotland, where he crosses paths with Pamela, a fellow passenger who has little reason to…
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Channel Crossing (1933)
With a business deal in jeopardy, financier Jacob Van Eeden takes the ferry from Dover to Calais with his secretary, Marion Slade. A chance encounter with Peter Bradley, the man Marion loves, gives Van Eeden something else to worry about. As the passengers settle in for the crossing, the tensions between the three begin to spill over.
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Take My Life (1947)
When Nicholas Talbot is charged with murdering a woman he once knew, his wife Philippa sets out to clear his name. As the prosecution builds its case, a clue in a piece of music takes Philippa to a boys’ school in Scotland.
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Albert Finney plays a Nottingham factory worker whose weekends catch up with him in Karel Reisz’s British New Wave drama.
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The Boy Who Stole a Million (1960)
A boy takes a million pesetas to fix his father’s taxi and sets off a chase through Valencia.
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The League of Gentlemen (1960)
Jack Hawkins leads a team of former Army officers in Basil Dearden’s British heist comedy.
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The Entertainer (1960)
Laurence Olivier plays a fading music-hall comic in Tony Richardson’s adaptation of John Osborne’s play.
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Light Up the Sky! (1960)
Ian Carmichael, Tommy Steele and Benny Hill star in Lewis Gilbert’s comedy about a wartime searchlight crew.
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Cone of Silence (1960)
A British aviation drama about a veteran pilot, a jet accident and a colleague who questions the official account.
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The Battle of the Sexes (1959)
Home / British Cinema A quiet clerk takes drastic steps when an American efficiency expert comes for his Edinburgh tweed firm. 1959 · British comedy · Black and white · UK release February 1960 Synopsis On a trip to Edinburgh, American businesswoman Angela Barrows meets Robert Macpherson, the new head of a traditional tweed firm. He brings her in to…
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Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
Kim Stanley and Richard Attenborough star in Bryan Forbes’s British psychological drama about a medium and a staged kidnapping.