Search results for "Thora Hird"
Lost for Words

Lost for Words

Lost for Words
IMDb: 8
75

Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her first stroke…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Maytime in Mayfair

Maytime in Mayfair

Maytime in Mayfair
IMDb: 5.9
94

Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfair fashion salon. His intention is to sell it as quickly as possible, but on meeting…

Genre: Music
Once a Jolly Swagman

Once a Jolly Swagman

Once a Jolly Swagman
IMDb: 6.4
100

A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Rattle of a Simple Man

Rattle of a Simple Man

Rattle of a Simple Man
IMDb: 6.7
92

Percy Winthram is a naive young man who still lives at home with his mum. In London for the Cup Final with his friends, he finds himself in a Soho…

Genre: Comedy
Turn the Key Softly

Turn the Key Softly

Turn the Key Softly
IMDb: 6.9
81

A bitter burglar (Yvonne Mitchell), a prostitute (Joan Collins) and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Entertainer

The Entertainer

The Entertainer
IMDb: 7.1
96

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Genre: Drama, Music
Conspirator

Conspirator

Conspirator
IMDb: 6.1
87

A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.

Genre: Drama
The Long Memory

The Long Memory

The Long Memory
IMDb: 7
96

1953 British noir thriller, starring John Mills. An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court. Based on…

Genre: Crime
Term of Trial

Term of Trial

Term of Trial
IMDb: 7.1
130

A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including his bitter wife, Anna. When the…

Genre: Drama
The Black Sheep of Whitehall

The Black Sheep of Whitehall

The Black Sheep of Whitehall
IMDb: 6.7
80

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.

Genre: Comedy
Boys in Brown

Boys in Brown

Boys in Brown
IMDb: 6.1
84

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where…

Genre: Crime
A Kind of Loving

A Kind of Loving

A Kind of Loving
IMDb: 7.4
108

As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Time, Gentlemen, Please!

Time, Gentlemen, Please!

Time, Gentlemen, Please!
IMDb: 6.5
82

Because of its high productivity and “almost” 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The “almost” is because of Dan…

Genre: Comedy
The Nightcomers

The Nightcomers

The Nightcomers
IMDb: 5.8
96

Prequel to the Henry James classic “Turn of the Screw” about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the slow corruption of the…

Simon and Laura

Simon and Laura

Simon and Laura
IMDb: 6.3
91

Bickering married performers agree to star in a “Mr. and Mrs.” TV show. Director Muriel Box’s 1956 British comedy also stars Muriel Pavlow, Ian Carmichael, Maurice Denham and Richard Wattis.

Genre: Comedy
For Better, for Worse

For Better, for Worse

For Better, for Worse
IMDb: 5.8
85

In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Madness of the Heart

Madness of the Heart

Madness of the Heart
IMDb: 6.1
91

A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family’s chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Magnet

The Magnet

The Magnet
IMDb: 6.9
79

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

Genre: Comedy
Some Will, Some Won’t

Some Will, Some Won’t

Some Will, Some Won’t
IMDb: 5.8
90

Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.

Genre: Comedy