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The Red Shoes (1948)
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Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer Hans Christian Andersen, Emeric Pressburger, Keith Winter
Cast Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer
Plot A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
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A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
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Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote
Plot A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
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Black Narcissus (1947)
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Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer Rumer Godden, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson
Plot A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.
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Peeping Tom (1960)
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Director Michael Powell
Writer Leo Marks
Cast Karlheinz Baahm, Anna Massey, Moira Shearer
Plot A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
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Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook
Plot From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
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The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
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Director Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan
Writer Miles Malleson, Lajos Bira, Miklas Razsa
Cast Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez
Plot After being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.
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I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
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Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown
Plot A young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts.
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A Canterbury Tale (1944)
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Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price
Plot Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
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49th Parallel (1941)
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Director Michael Powell
Writer Emeric Pressburger, Rodney Ackland
Cast Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Richard George
Plot A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.
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The Small Back Room aka Hour of Glory (1949)
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Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer Nigel Balchin, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast David Farrar, Jack Hawkins, Kathleen Byron
Plot As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on Britain in 1943, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.
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The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
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Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer Dennis Arundell, Jules Barbier, Michael Powell
Cast Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Ludmilla Tcherina
Plot A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.
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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)
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Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Cast Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Burden
Plot During a raid on Germany a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland and are aided by Dutch civilians.
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The Edge of the World (1937)
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Director Michael Powell
Writer Michael Powell, John L. Balderston, John Byrd
Cast Niall MacGinnis, Belle Chrystall, John Laurie
Plot A way of life is dying on an Outer Hebridean island fishing port, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.
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The Battle of the River Plate aka Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956)
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Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch
Plot In the first major naval battle of World War II, the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship.
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The Spy in Black aka U-Boat 29 (1939)
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Director Michael Powell
Writer J. Storer Clouston, Emeric Pressburger, Roland Pertwee
Cast Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw
Plot A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
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Age of Consent (1969)
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Director Michael Powell
Writer Peter Yeldham, Norman Lindsay
Cast James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran
Plot A grizzled Australian painter decides to jolt his stale creativity by moving to a remote island on the Great Barrier Reef, where he takes on an alluring, uninhibited young woman as his muse.
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Contraband aka Blackout (1940)
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Director Michael Powell
Writer Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, Brock Williams
Cast Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie
Plot Early in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
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Ill Met by Moonlight aka Night Ambush (1957)
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Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Writer W. Stanley Moss, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley
Plot Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo, Egypt to embarrass the occupiers.
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Gone to Earth (1950)
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Director Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Rouben Mamoulian
Writer Mary Webb, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack
Plot A beautiful, superstitious, animal-loving Gypsy is hotly desired by a fox-hunting squire even after she marries a clergyman.
