A Matter Of Life And Death
(1946) [PG]

It's night over Europe, the night of the 2nd of May 1945. A crippled Lancaster Bomber struggles home across the English Channel, all crew dead save for the young pilot (David Niven) desperately scanning the radio for signs of life. His prayers are answered, June (Kim Hunter), a young radio...  More

The Thief Of Bagdad (1940)
(1940) [G]

This spectacular romantic fantasy, in the best tradition of the Arabian Nights, features the boy thief Sabu, who aids the deposed King of Bagdad, Ahmad, to try and thwart the evil usurper Jaffar. When Ahmad sets eyes on the beautiful Princess, daughter of the Sultan, he falls hopelessly in love....  More

The Lion Has Wings / Q Planes
(1939) [G]

- "The Lion Has Wings": A documentary-drama produced by Alexander Korda, which was intended as a propaganda weapon designed to show the splendid efforts of the British people who bravely fought, both abroad and at home, against the evil Nazi war machine. - "Q Planes": Major Hammond of...  More

The Red Shoes (1948)
(1948) [G]

The Powell and Pressburger classic is widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made. The winner of two Academy Awards in 1948, for Hein Heckroth's Art and Set Direction, and Brian Easedale's music score, THE RED SHOES is the story of young ballerina Vicky Page (Moira Shearer), who...  More

The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp
(1943) [G]

In the Powell and Pressburger classic The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp, Roger Livesey brilliantly portrays British officer Clive Candy, through the trials and tribulations of three wars, three loves and a lifelong friendship across enemy lines. During the Boer War, Candy is sent to Berlin to...  More

Ill Met By Moonlight
(1957) [G]

The final film from the creative team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. On Nazi-occupied Crete, British officers Fermor (Dirk Bogarde) and Moss (David Oxley), aided by local patriots, are assigned the job of kidnapping the German commander-in-chief General Kreipe (Marius Goring). The...  More

Peeping Tom
(1960) [M]

From Michael Powell, the brilliant and acclaimed director of A Matter of Life And Death and Black Narcissus, comes a controversial masterpiece now recognised as one of the supreme achievements of British horror cinema. By day, clean cut Mark Lewis is a focus-puller at a film studio, supplementing...  More

The 49th Parallel
(1941) [PG]

49th Parallel is a powerful and important piece of World War 2 propaganda, which controversially was filmed from the point of view of a group of German soldiers. Asked to make a flag waver by the Ministry of Information, the brilliantly gifted film-making team of Michael Powell and Emeric...  More

Black Narcissus
(1947) [PG]

Powell and Pressburger added to their run of daring, stimulating and stylistic pictures with this melodrama about a group of Anglican nuns establishing a remote mission high in the Himalayas. Their physical environment - extreme temperatures, illness and a young Indian Prince's perfume (Black...  More

I Know Where I'm Going
(1945) [G]

Wendy Hiller takes the lead role in this classic romantic comedy as a sharp-witted young girl who intends to marry for money. But her mercenary plans go dramatically wrong when she finds herself stranded on a tiny island in the Hebrides and falls for a seemingly penniless young naval officer...  More