Vincent Holman

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• Movie7.3

  ComedyCrime

  Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

  The Ladykillers

  1955 · 572 votes

• Movie7.5

  WarDrama

  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 to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

  1943 · 278 votes

• Movie6.3

  AdventureDrama

  In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's commission in order to remain with his fiancée Mary Burroughs in England. His friends and fellow officers John Durrance, Peter Burroughs and Tom Willoughby brand him a coward and present him with the white feathers of cowardice. His fiancée, Mary, adds a fourth feather and breaks off their engagement. However, former Lieutenant Faversham decides to regain his honor by fighting in the Sudan incognito.

  Storm Over the Nile

  1955 · 10 votes

• Movie6.4

  DramaThriller

  In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.

  So Evil My Love

  1948 · 28 votes

• Movie7.1

  AdventureDrama

  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.

  "Pimpernel" Smith

  1941 · 32 votes

• Movie6.5

  DramaRomance

  A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of aviation, just as commercial jet airliners are about to enter service.

  The Sound Barrier

  1952 · 61 votes

• Movie6.3

  CrimeDrama

  In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit Glyde's estate in England. On arriving in England, "Sir Percival" schemes to marry an heiress for her money, and, with the connivance of the cunning Dr. Isidor Fosco, embarks on a killing spree of all who suspect him to be an imposter and would get in the way of his plans to stay Lord of the Manor.

  Crimes at the Dark House

  1940 · 18 votes

• Movie6.6

  DramaRomance

  After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.

  Perfect Strangers

  1945 · 27 votes

• Movie5.5

  ComedyCrime

  This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.

  Who Done It?

  1956 · 14 votes

• Movie6.7

  ComedyWar

  Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.

  The Goose Steps Out

  1942 · 14 votes

• Movie6.3

  WarAction

  A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain. The crew of the Sea Tiger are summoned from leave on shore with their families, and sent on a secret mission to intercept the Nazi battleship Brandenburg. In the ensuing battle the British submarine is damaged by a German destroyer. The submarine is leaking fuel so badly that the crew won't be able to make it back to Britain before running out somewhere along the Danish coast. When it seems that their only option may be to blow up the submarine and try to escape to Denmark, seaman James Hobson hatches a plan...

  We Dive at Dawn

  1943 · 30 votes

• Movie6.3

  DramaAdventure

  A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.

  The Wicked Lady

  1945 · 36 votes

• Movie6.5

  Drama

  Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.

  The Stars Look Down

  1940 · 29 votes

• Movie7.2

  Mystery

  During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.

  The Arsenal Stadium Mystery

  1939 · 12 votes

• Movie6.1

  Mystery

  An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.

  Death at Broadcasting House

  1934 · 14 votes

• Movie7.7

  WarDrama

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

  Medal for the General

  1944 · 3 votes

• Movie6.1

  Drama

  Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.

  The Bad Lord Byron

  1949 · 7 votes

• Movie6.0

  DramaRomance

  During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.

  Waterloo Road

  1945 · 20 votes

• Movie6.3

  Drama

  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.

  The Agitator

  1945 · 3 votes

• Movie6.0

  ComedyScience Fiction

  The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?

  Time Flies

  1944 · 4 votes

• Movie9.0

  Drama

  The Three Maxims are trapeze artists Pat (Anna Neagle), Toni (Tuilio Carminati) and Mac (Leslie Banks). After spending most of their careers in the small time, the threesome finally get their big chance in Paris, at which point Mac realizes he's in love with Pat.

  The Three Maxims

  1936 · 1 votes

• Movie8.3

  CrimeThriller

  Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?

  Kate Plus Ten

  1938 · 3 votes

• Movie8.0

  CrimeDrama

  A British secret service agent falls in love with the daughter of a leading London criminal, and soon after becoming involved with her father finds himself in prison facing a charge of manslaughter..

  Prison Breaker

  1936 · 1 votes

• Movie8.0

  DramaRomance

  A young couple prepare for post-war marriage. Propaganda short encouraging women to contribute to the war effort by investing in war loans through National Savings.

  Victory Wedding

  1944 · 1 votes