After being sold to the mortician Sowerberry, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by their elderly mentor Fagin in 1830s London in this musical based on Charles Dickens' Oliver T...
A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.
Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English, Polynesian
Director
Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed, George Seaton
Writer
Charles Lederer, Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall
Cast
Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris
Plot
In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti, but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by first officer Fletcher Christian.
Movie | Drama, Romance | UK, USA | English, German
Director
Carol Reed
Writer
Gordon Wellesley, Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Cast
Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid
Plot
After Germany invades Czechia, the German and the British intelligence services try to capture Czech scientist Dr. Axel Bomasch (James Harcourt), inventor of a new type of armor-plating.
Expatriate vacuum cleaner salesman Jim Wormold agrees to work as an agent, and to recruit new agents, for the British Secret Service in Cuba, but he soon realizes that his deceptive ways are going to get him in trouble.
A crippled circus acrobat is torn emotionally between two ambitious young trapeze artists, one a talented young American and a less-gifted but beautiful Italian.
World War II drama that follows a group of British draftees, starting with their rigorous basic training, and ending with their deployment in North Africa.
In post-WW2 Berlin, when travel to the East was still possible, the sister of a British officer from West Berlin is abducted by Communist agents and taken into the Soviet sector where her eventual rescue is arranged by a German sm...
During World War II, successive tugboat British Captains sent on dangerous salvage missions pass-on the key to a home-port apartment, where a lonely Swiss-Italian young war-widow lives.
In a small coal-mining village Bob Fenwick leads a strike over safety standards at the local colliery. Meanwhile his son, David, goes off to university with the hope one day to return to help the miners with their working conditions.
A man occupies a position of trust with a merchant in an East Asian port. He's sacked after he's caught stealing, but he pretends to commit suicide, and a Captain he befriended agrees to take him to a secret trading post.
