Search results for "Michael Powell"
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
IMDb: 6.4
13

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

Genre: Fantasy, Music
The Phantom Light

The Phantom Light

The Phantom Light
IMDb: 6.2
76

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

Genre: Mystery, Thriller
The Magician

The Magician

The Magician
IMDb: 6.7
83

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 of a handsome surgeon, Arthur…

Genre: Drama, Horror
Ill Met by Moonlight

Ill Met by Moonlight

Ill Met by Moonlight
IMDb: 6.6
104

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

49th Parallel

49th Parallel

49th Parallel
IMDb: 7.3
123

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 led by commanding…

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
IMDb: 8.1
163

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 training and is considered out-of-touch with what’s needed…

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Age of Consent

Age of Consent

Age of Consent
IMDb: 6.4
108

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 once more….

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom
IMDb: 7.7
101

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 fear, which involves recording the…

Oh… Rosalinda!!

Oh… Rosalinda!!

Oh… Rosalinda!!
IMDb: 6
101

In post-war Vienna, Rosalinda and her husband become embroiled in a series of complicated escapades that puts their marital bliss at risk.

Genre: Music
The Battle of the River Plate

The Battle of the River Plate

The Battle of the River Plate
IMDb: 6.6
119

In the opening years of World War II the Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open and the British Isles supplied. Of great…

Gone to Earth

Gone to Earth

Gone to Earth
IMDb: 6.9
111

Jennifer Jones plays Hazel Woods, a beautiful young English Gypsey girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desired by Jack Reddin a fox hunting…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Tales of Hoffmann

The Tales of Hoffmann

The Tales of Hoffmann
IMDb: 7.2
127

In this film adaptation of the Offenbach opera, a young poet named Hoffman broods over his failed romances. First, his affair with the beautiful Olympia is shattered when he realizes…

The Thief of Bagdad

The Thief of Bagdad

The Thief of Bagdad
IMDb: 7.5
106

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 place, as well…

The Spy in Black

The Spy in Black

The Spy in Black
IMDb: 6.9
82

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

Genre: Thriller, War
I Know Where I’m Going!

I Know Where I’m Going!

I Know Where I’m Going!
IMDb: 7.5
91

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Black Narcissus

Black Narcissus

Black Narcissus
IMDb: 7.8
100

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 housed in…

Genre: Drama
Contraband

Contraband

Contraband
IMDb: 6.9
92

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…

The Edge of the World

The Edge of the World

The Edge of the World
IMDb: 7.3
75

A way of life is dying on a Shetland island fishing port, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.

The Boy Who Turned Yellow

The Boy Who Turned Yellow

The Boy Who Turned Yellow
IMDb: 5.7
55

John and his class go on a school trip to the Tower of London. While he is there he loses his pet mouse and vows to return and find her…

Genre: Adventure, Family
A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death

A Matter of Life and Death
IMDb: 8.1
104

When a young airman miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world…

The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes
IMDb: 8.1
133

In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her…

Genre: Drama, Romance
A Canterbury Tale

A Canterbury Tale

A Canterbury Tale
IMDb: 7.5
124

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

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
The Small Back Room

The Small Back Room

The Small Back Room
IMDb: 7.2
106

At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Sammy Rice, a highly-skilled but haunted bomb-disposal officer, must overcome his…

They’re a Weird Mob

They’re a Weird Mob

They’re a Weird Mob
IMDb: 6.5
112

Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia, and attempts to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday urban Australians of the 1950s and ’60s…. and…

Genre: Comedy
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
IMDb: 7
102

During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that “A raid took place last night over …, One (or often more) of Our Aircraft…

Genre: Drama, War