Gaslight

Gaslight 1940

7.06

Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and grows suspicious of Paul, who he feels bears a striking resemblance to one of Barlow's relatives. Rough must find the truth before the killer can strike again and reclaim his bounty.

1940

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing 1942

6.56

On its way back from a raid on the city of Stuttgart, Germany, a British bomber is shot down over Nazi-held Holland. Parachuting into Dutch farmlands under cover of darkness, the six-member crew connects with members of the local resistance, who shelter the Brits from their Nazi inquisitors as they make their way towards freedom.

1942

Bedelia

Bedelia 1946

5.20

Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.

1946

Crook's Tour

Crook's Tour 1940

5.70

Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence. Realizing their error, the German spies follow Charters and Caldicott to Istanbul and Budapest, trying to eliminate them and retrieve the record.

1940

'Pimpernel' Smith

'Pimpernel' Smith 1941

7.10

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.

1941

The Three Weird Sisters

The Three Weird Sisters 1948

7.00

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.

1948

The Agitator

The Agitator 1945

6.00

The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm where he works and tries to run it according to his socialist political beliefs. It was based on the 1925 novel Peter Pettinger by William Riley.

1945

Contraband

Contraband 1940

6.90

When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.

1940

Madame Pompadour

Madame Pompadour 1927

1

The French king's mistress frees her jailed lover and makes him her bodyguard.

1927

Love on the Dole

Love on the Dole 1941

5.70

Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.

1941

Green Fingers

Green Fingers 1947

6.00

A fisherman begins studying to be an osteopath. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he begins treating his landlady's daughter who is believed to have a chronic illness. He seems to cure her, and the case draws a lot of attention, some of it negative because he was unlicensed when he treated her. He still does not have a degree when he marries the daughter and begins practising osteopathy.

1947

Heaven Is Round the Corner

Heaven Is Round the Corner 1944

1

A country girl goes to Paris to sing professionally, where she falls in love with a member of the British Embassy. They are parted by the outbreak of the Second World War, but subsequently reunited again...

1944

Lisbon Story

Lisbon Story 1946

5.70

A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.

1946

The Second Mr. Bush

The Second Mr. Bush 1940

5.00

A writer poses as a shy butterfly hunter who has a fortune and is hounded by reporters.

1940

Medal for the General

Medal for the General 1944

6.50

A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.

1944

The Dummy Talks

The Dummy Talks 1943

4.70

An operation of counterfeit five pound notes is discovered at a variety theater, leading to murder during the performance.

1943

No Room at the Inn

No Room at the Inn 1948

7.00

A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.

1948

Debt of Honour

Debt of Honour 1936

1

A Colonel's daughter steals from the regimental mess funds to pay off her gambling debts. One of the officers, who is love with her, takes the blame, and is sent to Africa.

1936

Spies of the Air

Spies of the Air 1939

6.50

Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.

1939

The World Owes Me a Living

The World Owes Me a Living 1945

6.00

When a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside and remembers, in flashbacks, key episodes from their life together.

1945