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Barnacle Bill
1957 • Comedy
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
Why matched: genres Comedy
Steptoe & Son
1972 • Drama • Comedy
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live together at the junk yard. Harold, who likes the b…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
The Sleeping Tiger
1954 • Drama • Thriller
A petty thief breaks into the home of a psychiatrist and gets caught in a web of a doctor who wishes to experiment on him and a doctor's wife who wishes to seduce him.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Cruel Sea
1953 • Drama • History • War
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life mis…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Genevieve
1953 • Comedy
Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.
Why matched: genres Comedy
Perfect Friday
1970 • Crime • Comedy
The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his…
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
The Ladykillers
1955 • Crime • Comedy
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
I'm All Right Jack
1959 • Comedy
Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the ma…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Murder at the Gallop
1963 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby. Yet they have their doubts about what happened. The police don't believe th…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
23 Paces to Baker Street
1956 • Thriller • Mystery • Crime
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
The Big Job
1965 • Mystery • Crime • Comedy
A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrievi…
Why matched: genres Mystery, Crime
Dad's Army
1971 • Comedy • War
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon materi…
Why matched: genres Comedy, War
The Early Bird
1965 • Comedy
Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Pitkin does his best to save the dairy (and his…
Why matched: genres Comedy
The Horse's Mouth
1958 • Comedy
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Bee…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Billion Dollar Brain
1967 • Thriller
A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
Why matched: genres Thriller
The Battle of the Sexes
1960 • Comedy
Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she meets Robert MacPherson, a busin…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Carrington V.C.
1954 • Drama
Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces two other charges that could finish his distinguished service career. He dec…
Why matched: genres Drama
Doctor at Sea
1955 • Comedy
The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practic…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Pool of London
1951 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
To Sir, with Love
1967 • Drama
A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.
Why matched: genres Drama