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

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

A Canterbury Tale
(1944) [G]

A British wartime classic. Four people uprooted by the war are drawn towards Canterbury - and discover what they couldn't find in peacetime. Hailed as one of Powell and Pressburger's most suggestive and profound studies of English-ness.  More

The Tales of Hoffmann
(1951) [G]

This is a film version of the opera "The Tales of Hoffmann", however it is NOT just a film of a staged performance. 'Michael Powell' & Emeric Pressburger (and the rest of "The Archers") work their usual magic here. The opera dramatises the three great romances in the life of the poet-hero...  More