Estelle Brody
Actor · 1900 – 1995 · New York City, New York, USA
From Wikipedia Estelle Brody (15 August 1900 – 3 June 1995) was an American actress who became one of the biggest female stars of British silent film in the latter half of the 1920s. Her career was then derailed by a series of ill-advised decisions and she disappeared from sight for many years before re-emerging between the late 1940s and the 1960s in smaller supporting film and television roles.
Movies21
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
Movie7.3DramaMysteryPeter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
1960 · 49 votes
Movie7.0DramaEighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident that killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is persuaded to help educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband.
The Story of Esther Costello
1957 · 15 votes
Movie7.1DramaCrimeIn 1943, an Italian-administered POW camp for captured Allies embark on a series of failed escapes only to culminate in a daring plan for a dramatic mass escape.
Breakout
1959 · 4 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
A man loves a dancer who becomes a producer's mistress.
White Heat
1927 · 1 votes
Movie6.4WarThe film begins in a WW II training depot of a British Guards armoured regiment where recruits from many walks of life learn to survive the strict discipline and training together before going into battle in tanks. There is a cameo appearance by the real Sgt. Major Brittain who was famous in the British guards regiments.
They Were Not Divided
1950 · 9 votes
Movie5.6AdventureWealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he gets the killer and Linda.
Safari
1956 · 18 votes
Movie5.8DramaRomanceAfter a love affair ending in an abortion, a young prison reformer submerges herself in her work. She then falls for a controversial and married judge and scandal looms again.
Ann Vickers
1933 · 12 votes
- Movie9.0Comedy
'1914. Knight poses as rating aboard son's cruiser and helps Q-ship sink U-boat.' (British Film Catalogue)
Sailors Don't Care
1928 · 1 votes
Movie9.0ComedyRomanceLorna, the daughter of an American playboy, enters a girls' school for the international smart-set, in the Alps, where the main course of study appears to be how to trap a rich man. At first, she is dominated and looked down on by the school ring-leaders, and forced into rooming with - horrors - a scholarship student. But when a rich young American shows interest in her she is elevated to the international clique of the upper-termers. Then she falls in love with - horrors again - a poor local mountaineer.
- MovieMusic
A film featuring some of best jazz musicians from the early twenties.
Me and the Boys
1929
Movie10.0DramaAdventureIn China, a pilot saves British residents from a Bolshevik's massacre plot.
The Flight Commander
1928 · 1 votes
Movie6.0RomanceDramaAlex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two fall in love, marrying before Alex is sent to the front. But his snobbish mother disapproves of the match, and when Alex returns home paralysed and in a cataleptic state, Mrs. St. George plots to keep him from his wife until she can arrange an annulment. But the determined Kitty has plans of her own....
Kitty
1929 · 2 votes
Movie7.1DramaRomanceA young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.
Hindle Wakes
1927 · 9 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
Movie6.0ComedyJack Benny, his finances at a low ebb, watches a newsstand for a friend and picks up a young lady customer, equally broke.
A Broadway Romeo
1931 · 4 votes
Movie9.0DramaWarA French girl meets her captured British lover whilst acting as a spy.
Mademoiselle from Armentieres
1927 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0Comedy
'Newlywed poses as burglar to scare flighty wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
This Marriage Business
1927 · 1 votes
Movie10.0Comedy'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an excuse for their absence from home by pretending that they are accompanying a famous airman on a flight, but the latter does not proceed according to plan, and they have a hard time countering the suspicious questionings and moves of the sophisticated wife.' (BFI)
The Glad Eye
1927 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Comedy
A lawyer spends the weekend with a married actress at the same hotel as his wife and her lover. This British silent film exists in an abridged 2-reel (32-min) format.
Week-End Wives
1929 · 2 votes
- Movie7.0Crime
Mademoiselle Parley Voo
1928 · 1 votes