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The Red Shoes (1948) Movie | Drama, Music | UK | English, French
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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) Movie | Drama, Fantasy | UK | English, French
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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) Movie | Drama | UK | English, French
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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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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) Movie | Drama, Romance | UK | English, French
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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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I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) Movie | Drama, Romance | UK | English, Gaelic
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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) Movie | Comedy, Drama | UK | English
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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) Movie | Drama, Thriller | UK | English, French
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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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Emil und die Detektive aka Emil and the Detectives (1931) Movie | Adventure, Family | Germany | German
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Director Gerhard Lamprecht
Writer Erich Ka¤stner, Billy Wilder, Emeric Pressburger
Cast Rolf Wenkhaus, Ka¤the Haack, Fritz Rasp
Plot Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
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The Small Back Room aka Hour of Glory (1949) Movie | Drama, Romance | UK | English
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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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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942) Movie | Action, Adventure | UK | English, Dutch
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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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Operation Crossbow (1965) Movie | Action, Drama | UK, Italy | English, German
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Director Michael Anderson
Writer Duilio Coletti, Vittoriano Petrilli, Emeric Pressburger
Cast Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard
Plot Allied agents attempt to infiltrate a German rocket research site.
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The Battle of the River Plate aka Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956) Movie | Action, Adventure | UK | English, German
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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) Movie | Thriller, War | UK | English, German
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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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Behold a Pale Horse (1964) Movie | Drama, War | USA | English
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Director Fred Zinnemann
Writer Emeric Pressburger, J.P. Miller
Cast Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif
Plot Famous Spanish bandit Artiguez returns to his native Spanish village after 20 years in French exile, but Spanish cop Vinolas sets a trap for him.
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Contraband aka Blackout (1940) Movie | Crime, Drama | UK | English, Danish
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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) Movie | Action, Adventure | UK | English, Greek
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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) Movie | Drama, Romance | UK, USA | English
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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.
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Abschied (1930) Movie | Comedy, Drama | Germany | German
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Director Robert Siodmak
Writer Emeric Pressburger, Irma von Cube
Cast Brigitte Horney, Aribert Mog, Emilia Unda
Plot Peter Winkler's new job offer is about to take him away from his lover Hella, but he has been keeping it a secret from her. Mutual lack of trust and vicious gossip threatens their relationship as they plan to make their farewells.