
Barbara Everest
Actor · 1890 – 1968 · Southfields, Surrey, England, UK
Barbara Everest (19 June 1890 – 9 February 1968) was a British stage and film actress. She was born in Southfields, Surrey, and made her screen debut in the 1916 film The Man Without a Soul. On stage she played Queen Anne in the 1935 historical play Viceroy Sarah by Norman Ginsbury. Her most famous rôle was Elizabeth, the rather deaf servant in Gaslight (1944). Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Everest, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie6.2HorrorRomanceFollowing a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful young soprano Christine Dubois the star of the opera and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.
Phantom of the Opera
1943 · 224 votes
Movie7.5ThrillerDramaA newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Gaslight
1944 · 592 votes
Movie6.8ActionDramaEpic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
El Cid
1961 · 312 votes
Movie6.9DramaRomanceAfter a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Jane Eyre
1943 · 157 votes
Movie7.2DramaRomanceMary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the wealthy Scott family which controls the mill. Mary catches the attention of handsome scion Paul Scott, but their romance is complicated by Paul's engagement to someone else and a bitter strike among the mill workers.
The Valley of Decision
1945 · 29 votes
Movie6.9MysteryHorrorA pair of siblings from London purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price—and soon they’re caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave.
The Uninvited
1944 · 235 votes
Movie10.0DramaRomanceLily is threatened with divorce by her husband after spending an innocent night with friend Rupert Harvey.
Lily Christine
1932 · 1 votes
Movie4.3DramaRomanceA gypsy loves a married farmer who is blinded blowing up a tree.
Fox Farm
1922 · 4 votes
Movie6.3HorrorScience FictionAn American tourist and a troubled young woman are chased by her gang leader brother to a top secret British government facility that conducts experiments on children.
The Damned
1962 · 131 votes
Movie6.3ThrillerMysteryJoe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the obstruction he meets makes him suspect foul play.
The Man Who Finally Died
1963 · 16 votes
Movie5.3DramaA young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
The Man Behind the Mask
1936 · 6 votes
Movie5.7WarDramaAmbassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.
Mission to Moscow
1943 · 21 votes
Movie7.0MysteryThe film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.
Passing Shadows
1934 · 2 votes
Movie7.2CrimeDramaAn upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could have had a hand in her death. But who is the mysterious Inspector and what can he want of them?
An Inspector Calls
1954 · 112 votes
Movie6.5CrimeComedyRogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Rotten to the Core
1965 · 11 votes
Movie5.5WarDramaA gentle widower with a small daughter finds his peaceful small rural village suddenly invaded by Nazis and, enraged in short order by their atrocities, becomes the leader of an aggressive underground movement.
Commandos Strike at Dawn
1942 · 24 votes
Movie6.1DramaFantasyEbenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
Scrooge
1935 · 53 votes
Movie5.8ComedyOn marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank robbers, a Welsh lass who takes one look at London and runs, and an Italian charmer who turns the place into a bawdy house. Then when Ingrid arrives from Sweden things actually start to get complicated.
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959 · 9 votes
Movie6.8DramaCrimeMadeleine's middle-class family cannot understand why she puts off marrying a respectable young man, as they know nothing about her long-term affair with a Frenchman.
Madeleine
1950 · 39 votes
Movie7.8DramaFantasyThe tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
1935 · 11 votes
Movie6.5DramaHistoryA biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria.
The Prime Minister
1941 · 2 votes
Movie8.0RomancePamela (Duke) and Herbert Arnott (Royce) have been happily married for five years and have had two children. On the day of their wedding anniversary, Pamela receives a letter from another woman signed Lucy Arnott which states that she is the legal wife of Herbert.
The Bigamist
1921 · 1 votes
Movie6.0CrimeDramaSafe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.
The Safecracker
1958 · 7 votes
Movie8.0MysteryMaxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder.
Meet Maxwell Archer
1940 · 1 votes
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TV7.3DramaZ-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
Z-Cars
1962 · 7 votes
TV6.0DramaArmchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
Armchair Theatre
1956 · 6 votes
TV8.0DramaAfter a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Jane Eyre
1956 · 1 votes