Stuart Lindsell
Actor
Movies19
Movie6.1DramaRomanceAfter marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
The Man in Grey
1943 · 47 votes
Movie5.8RomanceDramaA factory worker quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
Once a Jolly Swagman
1949 · 15 votes
Movie6.2DramaHistoryIn 1783 England, King George III appoints William Pitt only 24 years old, as PM. When members of Parliament refuse to take Pitt seriously, he calls for a general election and wins. Pitt works to reform England, focusing on rebuilding the navy while across the sea in France, Napoleon Bonaparte begins his conquest of Europe.
The Young Mr. Pitt
1942 · 9 votes
Movie6.9ThrillerBritish intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
Night Boat to Dublin
1946 · 11 votes
Movie6.7ThrillerDramaAn Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.
Man on the Run
1949 · 17 votes
Movie6.9ComedyWhen an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.
Passport to Pimlico
1949 · 103 votes
Movie6.0ActionAdventureWith the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans. However, one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies.
The Man from Morocco
1945 · 2 votes
Movie5.8DramaRomanceIn the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island in the company of kindly old sailor. Together they survive solely on their resourcefulness and the bounty of their remote paradise.
The Blue Lagoon
1949 · 16 votes
Movie5.5DramaRomanceReturning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.
Fanny by Gaslight
1944 · 10 votes
- Movie4.6Drama
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
Read All About It
1945 · 9 votes
Movie5.8ActionAdventureChristopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
Christopher Columbus
1949 · 15 votes
Movie6.8DramaJonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
My Brother Jonathan
1948 · 6 votes
Movie9.0DramaDuring the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people. They are so effective that the Nazis offer a reward for the capture of the paper's staff, although they don't know their identities. One of them is a well-known entertainer, and when his jealous partner hears of the reward, he turns him in. The paper's publishers escape capture, but their staff doesn't. The paper's founders must find not only a way to keep from getting captured by the Nazis but keep their newspaper going and get their staff released.
Uncensored
1942 · 1 votes
Movie7.1DramaImpoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counterfeiter Jimmy Smart...
Once a Sinner
1950 · 5 votes
Movie5.7ActionThrillerMen from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
High Treason
1951 · 11 votes
Movie5.5AdventureGame warden Bob Payton tracks an ivory smuggling ring through some of the most treacherous passages of the African veldt.
West of Zanzibar
1954 · 6 votes
Movie6.3DramaLilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
Lilli Marlene
1950 · 5 votes
Movie6.3DramaCrimeAce crime reporter Watling tries to discover the identity of a notorious jewel thief, but his informant is murdered. At a house party, Watling helps detective Adam expose the criminal.
Flannelfoot
1953 · 3 votes
- Movie6.0Drama
The editor of a magazine falls in love with the publisher's daughter. The only trouble is that the publisher's wife quite fancies him as well. Then he's accused of embezzling funds.
Profile
1954 · 4 votes