Search results for "Alastair Sim"
The Littlest Horse Thieves

The Littlest Horse Thieves

The Littlest Horse Thieves
IMDb: 6.9
104

When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine’s pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three children plan to steal them to…

Genre: Drama, Family
The Green Man

The Green Man

The Green Man
IMDb: 7.1
80

Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a…

Genre: Comedy
The Ruling Class

The Ruling Class

The Ruling Class
IMDb: 7.3
154

When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Laughter in Paradise

Laughter in Paradise

Laughter in Paradise
IMDb: 7.1
97

When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their…

Genre: Comedy
Royal Flash

Royal Flash

Royal Flash
IMDb: 6.3
102

Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman’s (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own…

Rogue Male

Rogue Male

Rogue Male
IMDb: 6.6
103

Early in 1939 Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie, War
School for Scoundrels

School for Scoundrels

School for Scoundrels
IMDb: 7.3
94

Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably…

Genre: Comedy
An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls
IMDb: 7.5
80

Based on a famous stage play and set in the year 1912, an upper crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known…

Scrooge

Scrooge

Scrooge
IMDb: 8.1
86

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel miserly businessman until one fateful Christmas Eve when he is visited by three spirits, sent show him how his unhappy childhood…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Green for Danger

Green for Danger

Green for Danger
IMDb: 7.4
91

In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Cottage to Let

Cottage to Let

Cottage to Let
IMDb: 6.7
90

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor’s nearly perfected bomb sight.

Stage Fright

Stage Fright

Stage Fright
IMDb: 7
110

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he’s accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

Genre: Thriller
Hue and Cry

Hue and Cry

Hue and Cry
IMDb: 6.8
82

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip’s wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first…

The Happiest Days of Your Life

The Happiest Days of Your Life

The Happiest Days of Your Life
IMDb: 7.2
81

Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it’s an all-girls school…

Genre: Comedy
The Millionairess

The Millionairess

The Millionairess
IMDb: 5.4
89

When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world’s richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician,…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Belles of St. Trinian’s

The Belles of St. Trinian’s

The Belles of St. Trinian’s
IMDb: 6.7
91

The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian’s are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of…

Genre: Comedy
Captain Boycott

Captain Boycott

Captain Boycott
IMDb: 6.5
93

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic…

Genre: Drama, History
The Doctor’s Dilemma

The Doctor’s Dilemma

The Doctor’s Dilemma
IMDb: 5.9
99

About a young artist, his wife and a doctor who, when the artist suffers from consumption, uses his limited serum on a more worthwhile case. (BFI Website)

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s

Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s

Blue Murder at St. Trinian’s
IMDb: 6.4
86

With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty’s prison, the St Trinian’s girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a…

Genre: Comedy
A Fire Has Been Arranged

A Fire Has Been Arranged

A Fire Has Been Arranged
IMDb: 5.6
70

A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison,…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Folly to Be Wise

Folly to Be Wise

Folly to Be Wise
IMDb: 6.1
91

A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from…

Genre: Comedy
Geordie

Geordie

Geordie
IMDb: 6.9
95

Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. The film was released as “Wee Geordie” in…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Left Right and Centre

Left Right and Centre

Left Right and Centre
IMDb: 6.2
95

At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists. Amateur politician against committed…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Squeaker

The Squeaker

The Squeaker
IMDb: 6.1
77

London’s jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard,…

Innocents in Paris

Innocents in Paris

Innocents in Paris
IMDb: 5.8
102

Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.

Genre: Comedy