During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower) Read More »
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Tabloid (2001) David Blair, Matthew Rhys, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, John Hurt
A slimy television host, who makes a living by embarrassing celebrities, is tricked into revealing some dark secrets of his own. Read More »
Busman’s Honeymoon (1940) Arthur B. Woods, Richard Thorpe, Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks
Lord Peter Wimsey is an amateur detective. He is to be married to Harriet Vane, who writes crime novels, at a big Society wedding. Read More »
The Wooden Horse (1950) Jack Lee, Ian Dalrymple, Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony Steel
In a POW camp, the Nazis have placed the huts far from the boundary so that any escape tunnel would have to be a long one. Read More »
The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964) Anthony Asquith, Ingrid Bergman, Rex Harrison, Shirley MacLaine
Three stories about the lives and loves of those who own a certain yellow Rolls-Royce Read More »
That’ll Be the Day (1973) Claude Whatham, David Essex, Ringo Starr, Rosemary Leach
Abandoned by his father at an early age, Jim MacLaine seems to have inherited the old man’s restlessness. Read More »
Jackpot (1960) Montgomery Tully, William Hartnell, Betty McDowall, Eddie Byrne
A safe in ‘The Jackpot Club’ is robbed of £6,000. Read More »
Lady Caroline Lamb (1972) Robert Bolt, Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain
A noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron. Read More »
Smooth Talk (1985) Joyce Chopra, Treat Williams, Laura Dern, Mary Kay Place
Free-spirited fifteen-year-old Connie Wyatt may be too young to drive, but she’s already driving the boys crazy. Read More »
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook
Portrays in warm-hearted detail the life and loves of one extraordinary man. Read More »
Twins of Evil (1971) John Hough, Inigo Jackson, Judy Matheson, Peter Cushing
In nineteenth century middle-Europe, orphaned teenage twins Maria and Frieda go to live with their uncle Gustav Weil Read More »
Natural Enemy (2004) Pierre-Erwan Guillaume, Jalil Lespert, Aurélien Recoing, Patrick Rocca
Set in Brittany, a detective called Nicolas Luhel is asked to unravel the circumstances of a teenage boy’s death. Read More »
Thunder in the City (1937) Marion Gering, Edward G. Robinson, Nigel Bruce, Constance Collier
Dan comes to England to learn more sedate business practices. Read More »
The House in the Woods (1957) Maxwell Munden, Ronald Howard, Patricia Roc, Michael Gough
The spirit of a murdered woman returns to take her revenge. Read More »
The Diplomatic Corpse (1958) Montgomery Tully, Robin Bailey, Susan Shaw, Liam Redmond
London police and reporters from a local newspaper go after a gang of foreign criminals. Read More »