Michael Powell

John and his class visit the Tower of London, where he loses his pet mouse. He falls asleep during a lesson on electricity, but with some help, ...

An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try ...

An Italian sports journalist arrives in Australia but finds no work. The only employment he can find is as a builder’s labourer. At first, ...

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he’s making a documentary on ...

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island’s German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the ...

Ballet performed to Dukas’ “The Sorceror’s Apprentice”.

Pseudonym Dr. Falke follows his wife through disguises and deceptions in postwar Vienna.

A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive ...

Hazel Woods, a beautiful and young Welsh girl, lives a wild, rustic life and loves animals — in particular, her pet fox. She is hotly desired by ...

As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who’ll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.

A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are ...

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an ...

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by ...

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.

General Candy, who’s overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn’t have the respect of the men he’s ...

During a raid on Germany, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland, where they’re ...

In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada’s Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers ...

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal ...

During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

A way of life is dying on a remote Scottish island, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.

A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love ...

After a masterful Shakespearean performance in a London theater, Ralph Richardson is sought for an autograph by Fred, his dresser. Later, Fred ...

Desperate to prove his father innocent of treason, a secretary arranges a clandestine assignation with his employer’s wife in order to get ...

Criminals pose as ghosts to scare a lighthouse keeper on the Welsh coast, in attempt to distract him. Jim Pearce deliberately maroons himself on ...

A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious ...

Jerry Mason inherits the Hotel Splendide at Speymouth but is disappointed when he sees it is a quiet place with few permanent residents. ...