Perfect Understanding

Perfect Understanding 1933

6.10

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.

1933

Yellow Caesar

Yellow Caesar 1941

5.80

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

1941

Read All About It

Read All About It 1945

4.60

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.

1945

Young Veteran

Young Veteran 1940

1

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

1940

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest 2002

6.83

Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.

2002

Food for Thought

Food for Thought 1940

1

In this film collaboration between the famous Ealing Film Studios and the Ministry of Food, we have a ‘ringside seat’ at a meeting of the ‘Hillside Road Food Club’, whose members are gathered around a table in a front parlour room. The leader of the group has some robust exchanges with a cantankerous ‘Grandma’ (known to the audience at the time as radio character ‘Grandma Buggins’ played by the comedienne Mabel Constanduros).

1940

A Run for Your Money

A Run for Your Money 1949

6.00

Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort. Instead, the brothers are launched into an adventure with some London riff-raff. It is up to the reporter to look out for the brothers, and what a job it turns out to be!

1949

The Blue Lamp

The Blue Lamp 1950

6.59

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

1950

The Foreman Went to France

The Foreman Went to France 1942

6.60

Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

1942

All Hands

All Hands 1940

8.00

From a series of films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators. This Ealing Studios production features well-known 1940s actor John Mills, playing a sailor who then divulges his sailing details to his girlfriend aloud.. The consequences prove disastrous when his boat next leaves to cross the English Channel.

1940

Pink String and Sealing Wax

Pink String and Sealing Wax 1945

6.00

Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists used to wrap parcels containing poison).

1945

Trouble Brewing

Trouble Brewing 1939

6.75

Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, George proves a greater menace to public order than the criminals he is chasing.

1939

Return to Yesterday

Return to Yesterday 1940

6.20

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

1940

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

The Black Sheep of Whitehall 1942

7.80

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.

1942

Death Drives Through

Death Drives Through 1935

5.00

The race car designer Kit Woods is in love with Kay Lord. Kay's father is against her relationship with Kit. Kit also has to do with the competition from his rival Garry Ames.

1935

Valiant

Valiant 2005

5.57

Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he immediately sets out for London. On the way, he meets a smelly but friendly pigeon named Bugsy, who joins him, mainly to get away from clients he cheated in a game of find-the pebble, and helps him sign up for the war.

2005

It Always Rains on Sunday

It Always Rains on Sunday 1947

6.60

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

1947

Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray 2009

6.04

Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton, handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special portrait that will weather the winds of time while he remains forever young. When Gray's obsession spirals out of control, his desperate attempts to safeguard his secret turn his once-privileged life into a living hell.

2009

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Kind Hearts and Coronets 1949

7.63

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.

1949