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Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World

Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
TMDb: 6.7
N/A

Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from captivity in…

Status: Released
Friends and Neighbours

Friends and Neighbours

Friends and Neighbours
IMDb: 5.2
78

During the Cold War, a British family struggles to overcome cultural differences as they welcome two Russian social workers into their home for a visit.

Genre: Comedy
The Titfield Thunderbolt

The Titfield Thunderbolt

The Titfield Thunderbolt
IMDb: 7
84

When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member…

Genre: Comedy
The Horse’s Mouth

The Horse’s Mouth

The Horse’s Mouth
IMDb: 7
95

Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the…

Genre: Comedy
Gonks Go Beat

Gonks Go Beat

Gonks Go Beat
IMDb: 4.3
90

A swiftly assembled musical fantasy movie made to capitalise on the mid-Sixties, British craze for gonks (a sort of soft, furry toy). Today it is of more interest for featuring…

The Night We Got the Bird

The Night We Got the Bird

The Night We Got the Bird
IMDb: 6.2
78

Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.

Genre: Comedy
There Was a Crooked Man

There Was a Crooked Man

There Was a Crooked Man
IMDb: 6.5
107

When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught and jailed. When he is released he goes straight and then notices…

Genre: Comedy
Lease of Life

Lease of Life

Lease of Life
IMDb: 6.9
94

The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.

Genre: Drama
Five Golden Hours

Five Golden Hours

Five Golden Hours
IMDb: 5.6
90

A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all…

Genre: Comedy
The Lyons in Paris

The Lyons in Paris

The Lyons in Paris
IMDb: 6.9
81

The second in the series of films about the Lyon family, based on the BBC radio series Life With the Lyons. Ben Lyon appears to have forgotten his wedding anniversary…

Genre: Comedy
Mister Drake’s Duck

Mister Drake’s Duck

Mister Drake’s Duck
IMDb: 5.5
85

Mr. Drake and his wife live a nice, quiet life on their Sussex farm, until one of their ducks lays a radioactive egg made of uranium! When the government finds…

Bottoms Up!

Bottoms Up!

Bottoms Up!
IMDb: 6.1
90

An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie’s…

Genre: Comedy
Night of the Eagle

Night of the Eagle

Night of the Eagle
IMDb: 6.9
90

A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms…

Genre: Drama, Horror
The Day the Earth Caught Fire

The Day the Earth Caught Fire

The Day the Earth Caught Fire
IMDb: 7.2
98

British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress… and they’re right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously…

Genevieve

Genevieve

Genevieve
IMDb: 7.1
86

Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.

Genre: Comedy
Another Man’s Poison

Another Man’s Poison

Another Man’s Poison
IMDb: 7
90

Novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary’s fiancĂ© and when her estranged…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Lancelot and Guinevere

Lancelot and Guinevere

Lancelot and Guinevere
IMDb: 5.7
116

In and around the castle Camelot, brave Cornel Wilde (as Lancelot) and virtuous Brian Aherne (as King Arthur) vie for the affections of lovely Jean Wallace (as Guinevere).

The Big Job

The Big Job

The Big Job
IMDb: 6.5
88

A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving…

A Touch of the Sun

A Touch of the Sun

A Touch of the Sun
IMDb: 5.7
80

A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.

Genre: Comedy
The Captain’s Table

The Captain’s Table

The Captain’s Table
IMDb: 5.9
90

A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship,…

Genre: Comedy
The Men of Sherwood Forest

The Men of Sherwood Forest

The Men of Sherwood Forest
IMDb: 5.8
77

Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from captivity in…

Scott of the Antarctic

Scott of the Antarctic

Scott of the Antarctic
IMDb: 7
111

The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole – only to find…

Doctor in Love

Doctor in Love

Doctor in Love
IMDb: 5.7
93

Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then…

Genre: Comedy
Expresso Bongo

Expresso Bongo

Expresso Bongo
IMDb: 6.2
108

A seedy London promoter turns a naive, working-class teenager into a pop singing sensation. Director Val Guest’s 1959 British drama stars Laurence Harvey, Cliff Richard, Sylvia Syms, Yolande Donlan, Hermione…

Genre: Comedy
The Password Is Courage

The Password Is Courage

The Password Is Courage
IMDb: 6.8
116

Based on a true story, this film follows Sergeant-Major Charles Coward (Dirk Bogarde), a brave British soldier captured by German forces during World War II. When he’s thrown into a…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Dentist on the Job

Dentist on the Job

Dentist on the Job
IMDb: 5.3
88

Colonel Proudfoot of Proudfoot Industries tries to entice a couple of newly qualified dentists to advertise “Dreem”, a revolutionary type of toothpaste, but he knows that if the dentists learn…

Genre: Comedy
Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim
IMDb: 6
95

Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse,…

Genre: Comedy
Freedom Radio

Freedom Radio

Freedom Radio
IMDb: 6.4
95

Hitler’s doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn’t as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to “disappear” into the camps. His wife is courted…

Genre: Drama, War
The Million Pound Note

The Million Pound Note

The Million Pound Note
IMDb: 6.9
90

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds….

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Desert Mice

Desert Mice

Desert Mice
IMDb: 5.4
81

A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association) group. Fresh from the music halls, they bumble their way from army camp to…

Genre: Comedy
Night of the Demon

Night of the Demon

Night of the Demon
IMDb: 7.5
96

American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the…

The Ugly Duckling

The Ugly Duckling

The Ugly Duckling
IMDb: 5.5
84

Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula…

Genre: Comedy, Crime