Lily Kann
Actor · 1893 – 1978 · Berlin, Germany
Movies24
Movie6.9ComedyRomanceAfter marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
I Was a Male War Bride
1949 · 150 votes
Movie5.8ThrillerWhen a reclusive, enigmatic millionaire dies suddenly on the Riviera, his press agent begins to investigate his employer's shady past.
Foreign Intrigue
1956 · 28 votes
Movie5.8DramaRomanceWhen the Dutch resistance brings in Carla Van Oven to spy on the Nazis, Col. Pieter Deventer initially suspects she could be a double agent. Van Oven eventually convinces Deventer of her character, and when she is sent into occupied territory, she joins up with a rebel leader known as "The Scarf". As the resistance endures severe losses and their missions fail, Deventer starts to wonder whose side Van Oven is fighting on.
Betrayed
1954 · 23 votes
Movie6.7DramaJoe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.
A Kid for Two Farthings
1955 · 30 votes
Movie6.1AdventureDramaA ship's captain gets mixed up with murder during the hunt for lost Nazi treasure.
The House of the Seven Hawks
1959 · 13 votes
Movie6.5Drama"The Awakening" is a 1954 short drama film of Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat".
The Awakening
1954 · 2 votes
Movie5.8DramaCrimeBased on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
No Trees in the Street
1959 · 11 votes
Movie6.6CrimeThrillerA professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.
Nowhere to Go
1958 · 31 votes
Movie5.0DramaMysteryAn Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory
A Tale of Five Cities
1951 · 9 votes
Movie6.9CrimeDramaOnly a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.
Eight O'Clock Walk
1954 · 8 votes
Movie6.3MysteryThrillerAfter leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers finds work catalouging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux. Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together.
The Clouded Yellow
1950 · 22 votes
Movie7.4ComedyRomanceA group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures.
A Day to Remember
1953 · 6 votes
Movie5.2DramaRomanceAn ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.
Beautiful Stranger
1954 · 17 votes
Movie4.9HorrorA psychiatrist treats a woman who is convinced that she turns into a killer leopard because of a family curse.
Cat Girl
1957 · 22 votes
Movie7.0DramaBased upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
Flesh and Blood
1951 · 1 votes
Movie5.5ThrillerDramaA pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.
Street Corner
1953 · 13 votes
Movie6.3DramaCrimeThe ex-girlfriend of a German fugitive hides with the captain and crew of a ship on the Rhine.
Whirlpool
1959 · 7 votes
Movie6.5DramaA prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
Now Barabbas
1949 · 4 votes
Movie4.5ThrillerHorrorA spooky seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.
Frenzy
1946 · 5 votes
Movie6.7DramaHistoryThe tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
Mrs. Fitzherbert
1947 · 3 votes
Movie6.5DramaRomanceA Canadian officer, David Anson, who falls for French dancer Nicolette Bonnett during wartime, has a child with her, and returns heartbroken after her death from a weak heart, only for his wife to adopt the son, linking their lives across continents and tragedy, exploring themes of love, duty, and lost time.
Woman to Woman
1947 · 2 votes
Movie8.8DramaIn a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.
The White Unicorn
1947 · 2 votes
Movie8.0ThrillerDuring the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.
Escape to Danger
1943 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaTwo years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up – causing their three children to react in different ways and their son secretly determined to do Bill harm.
Background
1953 · 2 votes
Series2
TV7.2DramaTheatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Theatre 625
1964 · 5 votes
- TV8.0Drama
An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.
Festival
1963 · 1 votes