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Kanopy
80
8.1
/29013/
80
/811/
74
/357/
3.8
/20140/
86
/36/
89
/904/
cc age 8+

Scrooge (1951)
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
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The Roku Channel
72
7.2
/7230/
70
/101/
64
/93/
3.7
/5840/
83
/12/
85
/258/

The Ruling Class (1972)
When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.
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71
69
7.0
/17626/
71
/307/
68
/354/
3.5
/16222/
92
/24/
68
/207/
62
/11/

Stage Fright (1950)
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
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Kanopy
74
66
7.5
/5958/
74
/149/
72
/105/
3.6
/5486/
80
/1171/

An Inspector Calls (1954)
An 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?
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76
66
7.3
/4266/
76
/99/
69
/70/
3.5
/1892/
100
/6/
71
/54/

School for Scoundrels (1960)
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.
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Criterion Channel
73
64
7.4
/6173/
69
/102/
67
/97/
3.6
/5442/
73
/15/
83
/120/

Green for Danger (1946)
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
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59
6.3
/2406/
64
/39/
58
/28/
3.3
/894/
50
/6/
63
/26/

Royal Flash (1975)
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
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Hoopla
75
57
7.5
/2215/
72
/62/
71
/57/
3.7
/3395/
83
/217/

A Christmas Carol (1971)
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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66
54
6.7
/3124/
68
/81/
63
/60/
3.3
/1603/
67
/6/
68
/60/

The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of Princess Fatima of Makyad coincides with the return of recently expelled Arabella Fritton, who has the kidnap of a prize racehorse on her mind. The first film in the classic comedy series.
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70
45
7.2
/2091/
62
/37/
66
/41/
3.5
/878/
84
/572/

The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
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Kanopy
72
42
7.1
/2625/
72
/51/
69
/37/
3.5
/1351/
80
/15/

The Green Man (1956)
Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.
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67
39
6.7
/2008/
66
/32/
64
/49/
3.5
/1334/
70
/18/

Hue and Cry (1947)
A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.
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Amazon Prime Video
64
33
6.4
/1538/
62
/32/
67
/30/
3.2
/687/
65
/28/

Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957)
With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.
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68
32
7.1
/2246/
72
/37/
64
/32/
3.4
/777/
66
/11/

Laughter in Paradise (1951)
When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This is the film which introduced Audrey Hepburn.
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Plex
48
29
5.4
/2183/
64
/42/
53
/37/
2.9
/1000/
20
/5/
39
/33/

The Millionairess (1960)
When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.
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67
23
6.7
/1561/
75
/15/
67
/22/
3.4
/525/
60
/10/

Cottage to Let (1941)
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
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62
21
6.6
/1204/
65
/37/
65
/20/
3.4
/723/
50
/6/

Rogue Male (1976)
In 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.
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62
19
6.5
/745/
68
/5/
59
/18/
3.3
/264/
41
/292/

Waterloo Road (1945)
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.
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61
18
6.8
/996/
64
/13/
68
/10/
3.3
/239/
40
/42/

Geordie (1955)
Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. The film was released as "Wee Geordie" in the USA.
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66
11
6.8
/499/
71
/17/
68
/12/
60
/4/

The Littlest Horse Thieves (1976)
When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three children plan to steal them to keep them safe. But when they're caught, it's up to the mine owners and the miners themselves to decide what's right.
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59
10
6.9
/496/
77
/4/
70
/14/
20
/3/

London Belongs to Me (1948)
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
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39
8
5.9
/580/
38
/8/
50
/16/
12
/5/

Innocents in Paris (1953)
Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.
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?
7.5
/19/

The Big Noise (1936)
A clerk in an oil company is promoted ostensibly to take the blame when it looks like the bosses' dodgy dealings will be found out by the authorities.
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?
5.9
/57/

Troubled Waters (1936)
James Mason is teamed up once again with Virginia Cherill whom he appeared with in his debut film, 'Late Extra'. He plays a government agent (John Merriman) who makes a few enquiries and follows leads. Cherill plays June Elkhardt.
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?
10
/1/

Festival in Edinburgh (1955)
A look at some of the events that took place as part of the 1954 Edinburgh Festival.
poster
57
?
6.0
/268/
50
/1/
62
/3/

Climbing High (1938)
Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and mountaineering are the result.
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?
7.4
/73/
70
/1/
40
/2/

The Prodigal Daughter (1975)
An elderly priest recruits a young woman as housekeeper in the presbytery he shares with two young priests, but temptation and jealousy soon sew discord and doubt in some minds.
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41
?
5.4
/121/
10
/1/
60
/1/

The Anatomist (1956)
To acquire a fresh supply of cadavers for use in his medical school experiments, Dr. Knox turns two of his inept students into graverobbers.
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66
?
6.7
/143/
60
/1/
70
/1/

Gangway (1937)
Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.
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58
?
5.8
/137/
60
/2/
55
/4/

Late Extra (1935)
A newspaper reporter sets out to track down the murderer of a policeman.
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69
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6.8
/284/
65
/2/
74
/4/

Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939)
During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.
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68
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6.7
/337/
70
/3/
69
/9/

Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941)
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
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57
?
5.5
/149/
30
/3/
73
/3/

Alf's Button Afloat (1938)
Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his pyjamas is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp and that when he cleans it a genie appears.
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70
?
6.7
/388/
70
/6/
73
/5/

Inspector Hornleigh (1939)
When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.
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56
?
6.3
/431/
47
/8/
60
/13/

Left Right and Centre (1959)
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed activist. But could it become boy-who-fancies-girl against girl-who-fancies-boy? The party agents are soon colluding against such a disaster.
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?
7.2
/24/

This Man in Paris (1939)
A British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.
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Criterion Channel
56
?
6.1
/328/
55
/4/
52
/5/

The Squeaker (1937)
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
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?
6.4
/70/
55
/2/
55
/2/

The Private Secretary (1935)
A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
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57
?
5.5
/320/
60
/3/
63
/7/

The Terror (1938)
For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-crossing sent them to Dartmoor prison without their share of the bullion stolen in a daring raid.
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?
5.7
/101/
70
/1/

Law and Disorder (1940)
On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed by a satisfactory cast.
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?
7.2
/57/

To See Such Fun (1977)
Compilation of classic British comedy moments
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?
10
/1/

The General's Day (1972)
When Mrs Hinch, the sinister charlady, decides to move in, General Suffolk fights his last battle.
poster
49
?
5.8
/537/
30
/6/
61
/8/

The Doctor's Dilemma (1959)
Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.
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?
4.6
/111/
60
/2/
50
/3/

The Mysterious Mr. Davis (1939)
A man beset by creditors invents a fictitious partner
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61
?
6.0
/199/
53
/3/
70
/1/

The Man in the Mirror (1936)
A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he always wanted to but never could.
poster
57
?
5.5
/165/
60
/2/
58
/4/

A Fire Has Been Arranged (1935)
A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison, and when they're let out they go back to the burial ground, only to find out that it's no longer a bucolic pasture but the site of a large department store. Despite that setback, they're still determined to dig up their stash.
poster
60
?
6.1
/384/
51
/5/
67
/10/

Folly to Be Wise (1952)
A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from a question on the rights and wrongs of marriage that there is more going on between three of the panelists than he wants to know about - though the audience obviously thinks differently.
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50
?
5.8
/421/
50
/5/
50
/9/

The Riverside Murder (1935)
This is a great rainy day/night murder mystery in a mansion that all whodunit lovers will appreciate. A woman reporter helps an inspector solve the deaths of four financiers on the eve of a group shareout. Based on "Les Six Hommes Morts" (Editions du Masque) by Stanislas-André Steeman.


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