Irene Handl
Irene Handl (27 December 1901 - 29 November 1987) was a British character actress.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.03 |
| Birthday | 1901-12-27 |
| Place of Birth | Maida Vale, London, England, UK |
| Also Known As |
1969
The Italian Job
7/769
Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose...
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The Italian Job
1960
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
6.2/18
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a...
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The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
1960
Carry On Constable
6.3/56
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse,...
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Carry On Constable
1959
I'm All Right Jack
6.7/73
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start fr...
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I'm All Right Jack
1959
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
5.9/6
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king...
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Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
1960
School for Scoundrels
6.9/62
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen...
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School for Scoundrels
1966
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
6.2/36
Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional b...
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Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1970
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
6.8/59
Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warre...
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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
1980
The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
6.3/46
A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols "documentary", told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position...
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The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
1968
Wonderwall
5.2/21
The eccentric professor Collins lives completely secluded in his chaotic apartment. When the model Penny moves in next to him, he becomes fascinated b...
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Wonderwall
1950
Stage Fright
6.8/331
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
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Stage Fright
1967
The Mini-Affair
0/0
A leading pop star is kidnapped in swinging London.
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The Mini-Affair
1960
No Kidding
6/7
A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the k...
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No Kidding
1942
Uncensored
0/0
During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter...
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Uncensored
1982
It's Your Move
8.2/6
A silent slapstick comedy depicting the travails of young couple moving into a new home, who hire an accident-prone firm of house removers, headed by...
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It's Your Move
1977
Come Play with Me
4.8/24
Two alluring young ladies live with their beautiful widowed aunt on a secluded wooded estate. The women have earned themselves quite a reputation in t...
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Come Play with Me
1977
Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
4.8/5
Some British soldiers in Singapore are more concerned with finding sex than finding Communists.
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Stand up, Virgin Soldiers
1949
The Perfect Woman
6/6
In need of cash, Roger Cavendish and his valet take a job escorting the perfect woman for a night on the town. She is in fact the robotic creation of...
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The Perfect Woman
1961
A Weekend with Lulu
5.4/8
Fred, Tim and Deirdre plan a fun weekend break on the coast. What they didn't make allowances for was the company of Deirdre's mother who insists on c...
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A Weekend with Lulu
1952
Top Secret
6/1
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyon...
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Top Secret
1949
Silent Dust
7.3/10
A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long before...
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Silent Dust
1945
For You Alone
0/0
Wartime romantic melodrama, suggested by a popular song of the same title, with a young woman torn between her love for a naval officer and duty to an...
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For You Alone
1960
The Night We Got the Bird
4.5/2
Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.
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The Night We Got the Bird
1944
Mr. Emmanuel
6.8/2
An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany, Mr...
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Mr. Emmanuel
1961
Watch It, Sailor!
6.5/2
Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-...
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Watch It, Sailor!
1944
Give Us the Moon
6.2/3
Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general...
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Give Us the Moon
1949
Cardboard Cavalier
5.7/3
Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film depict...
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Cardboard Cavalier
1963
Heavens Above!
6.261/23
A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and p...
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Heavens Above!
1947
The Shop at Sly Corner
6.2/12
The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, (Oskar Homolka) has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil's Is...
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The Shop at Sly Corner
1972
For the Love of Ada
7.3/3
Walter and Ada Bingley are celebrating their first wedding anniversary unaware that their friends and family are planning a surprise party for them.
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For the Love of Ada
1977
Adventures of a Private Eye
4.294/17
While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes it upon himself to "solve" a case that comes in. Complicati...
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Adventures of a Private Eye
1958
Happy Is the Bride
6.2/4
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else...
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Happy Is the Bride
1965
You Must Be Joking
5.625/8
A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items
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You Must Be Joking
1964
The Importance of Being Earnest
0/0
TV adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play. Jack pretends to be his foolish younger brother, Ernest in order to be a model of moral rectitude to his young...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
1946
I'll Turn to You
5/2
When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home.
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I'll Turn to You
1955
A Kid for Two Farthings
6.3/22
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tel...
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A Kid for Two Farthings
1960
Two Way Stretch
6.6/45
Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a daring jewel robbery, intending to establish the perf...
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Two Way Stretch
1959
Left Right and Centre
6/13
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stel...
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Left Right and Centre
1947
Temptation Harbour
5.1/8
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself...
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Temptation Harbour
1945
Kiss the Bride Goodbye
5.1/6
Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status...
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Kiss the Bride Goodbye
1939
On the Night of the Fire
5.2/9
A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
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On the Night of the Fire
1940
George and Margaret
0/0
The Frictions of a suburban family come to boiling point.
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George and Margaret
1938
Strange Boarders
0/0
Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a Lo...
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Strange Boarders
1943
The Flemish Farm
5.5/4
Wartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied France for the honour of his regiment.
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The Flemish Farm
1960
Make Mine Mink
7.1/15
In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of...
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Make Mine Mink
1959
Desert Mice
6/4
A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association) group. Fresh from the music halls, they bumble th...
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Desert Mice
1949
For Them That Trespass
5.2/11
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begi...
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For Them That Trespass
1961
Double Bunk
5.7/6
When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends...
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Double Bunk
1961
Nothing Barred
6.5/2
Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture, and...
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Nothing Barred
1960
Inn for Trouble
6.5/6
Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made...
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Inn for Trouble
1940
Girl in the News
6.417/6
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later...
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Girl in the News
1957
Small Hotel
6.5/2
The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert, an aged but very shrewd waiter. A past master of the gentle art of fiddlin...
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Small Hotel
1958
Next to No Time
8/2
Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack...
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Next to No Time
1958
Law and Disorder
6.2/8
When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out abo...
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Law and Disorder
1940
Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard
6.6/7
An eccentric woman detective investigates the murders of several people who visited the same medium.
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Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard
1960
Doctor in Love
5.4/13
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-c...
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Doctor in Love
1943
Rhythm Serenade
6.5/2
Patriotic musical romance. After her school is closed, teacher Ann tries to join up. However, she is persuaded to organise a nursery for a munitions f...
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Rhythm Serenade
1945
Brief Encounter
7.7/637
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuo...
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Brief Encounter
1961
The Rebel
7.8/26
Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Never...
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The Rebel
1959
Carry On Nurse
6.3/58
In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. The formidable Matron's debut gives everyone a chill...
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Carry On Nurse
1944
It's in the Bag
5.2/6
Gert and Daisy attempt to retrieve an old dress containing £2,000. They have to impersonate two thespians, and bring all sorts of trouble to a stage-p...
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It's in the Bag
1968
Lionheart
6/1
A lion escapes from a circus but is rescued and protected by a young boy.
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Lionheart
1970
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
6.8/288
Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing...
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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
1966
The Wrong Box
6.5/58
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
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The Wrong Box
1941
The Spell of Amy Nugent
5/3
A young man's fiancé dies after contracting a terminal illness, and in his efforts to contact her he gets involved with a group of spiritualists.
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The Spell of Amy Nugent
1976
Room to Let
0/0
Smoke bombs fail to dislodge an old busker who has taken over the kids' headquarters, an abandoned circus caravan. One of Magpie's hidden treasures, a...
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Room to Let
1986
Absolute Beginners
5.5/62
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model C...
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Absolute Beginners
1941
Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light
0/0
Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as...
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Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light
1941
Gasbags
5.5/7
It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by runnin...
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Gasbags
1941
'Pimpernel' Smith
7.1/24
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his exca...
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'Pimpernel' Smith
1944
Medal for the General
6.5/2
A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
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Medal for the General
1943
I'll Walk Beside You
5/2
John meets Ann at a music shop where she works. Love blossoms briefly before John is called away to serve on his naval ship. John suffers severe memor...
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I'll Walk Beside You
1967
Smashing Time
6.2/11
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
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Smashing Time
1970
Doctor in Trouble
4.8/6
Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also on board the cruise sh...
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Doctor in Trouble
1958
The Key
6/27
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to...
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The Key
1943
Millions Like Us
5.4/13
When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a fa...
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Millions Like Us
1986
Hotel du Lac
4/2
Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by obse...
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Hotel du Lac
1952
Treasure Hunt
5.4/8
Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.
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Treasure Hunt
1978
The Hound of the Baskervilles
4.6/24
The death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a curse that has followed the Baskerville family for two hundred years. Sherlock Holmes is out to un...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
1954
The Belles of St. Trinian's
6.3/53
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 th...
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The Belles of St. Trinian's
1978
The Light Princess
7/1
Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
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The Light Princess
1981
Riding High
4/4
Riding High is a 1981 British drama film directed by Ross Cramer and starring Eddie Kidd, Irene Handl and Murray Salem. The screenplay concerns a bore...
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Riding High
1954
Mad About Men
6.1/17
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
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Mad About Men
1942
Partners in Crime
0/0
A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver).
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Partners in Crime
1943
Get Cracking
6.5/4
Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was produce...
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Get Cracking
1954
Burnt Evidence
5.5/2
Duncan Lamont plays Jane Hylton's jealous husband. In a confrontation, Lamont accidentally shoots Hylton's lover. Convinced that he's a murderer, he h...
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Burnt Evidence
1954
The Weak and the Wicked
6/10
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At...
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The Weak and the Wicked
1957
Brothers in Law
7.063/8
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with...
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Brothers in Law
1959
The Crowning Touch
0/0
Several stories linked by a hat.
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The Crowning Touch
1956
The Silken Affair
1/1
An accountant who is creative with his firm's books uses the money to fund a romantic spree.
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The Silken Affair
1956
It's Never Too Late
6/2
To Laura Hammond's large family, she is simply the mother who makes all their lives run more smoothly. But although they don’t know it, she is a very...
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It's Never Too Late
1938
The Terror
6.3/7
For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, hav...
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The Terror
1959
The Night We Dropped a Clanger
5.9/6
The movie takes place during WWII. A dashing British RAF Officer is earmarked for a secret mission behind enemy lines in occupied France, but wishing...
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The Night We Dropped a Clanger
1953
The Wedding of Lilli Marlene
6/1
The story leading up to the wedding of Lilli Marlene.
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The Wedding of Lilli Marlene
1947
The Hills of Donegal
4.5/2
Eileen Hannay (Dinah Sheridan) is the singing star of an Irish operatic society but gives up to marry Terry O'Keefe (John Bentley).
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The Hills of Donegal
1940
Night Train to Munich
7.2/80
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England;...
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Night Train to Munich
1945
Great Day
7.3/5
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
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Great Day
1963
Just for Fun
3.7/3
When the government cuts the quota of musical programs permitted on television, teenagers Mark and Cherry lead others youngsters in forming their own...
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Just for Fun
1944
English Without Tears
5.7/6
While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her L...
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English Without Tears
1948
Woman Hater
7/2
A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.
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Woman Hater
1977
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
5.6/40
Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.
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The Last Remake of Beau Geste
1976
Confessions of a Driving Instructor
4.846/13
Timothy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney decide upon opening a driving school as their latest get-rich-quick scheme. Though he sincerely wants to tea...
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Confessions of a Driving Instructor
1949
Dark Secret
0/0
A young couple move into a charming rural cottage. They become fixated upon the mysterious death of the earlier female occupant.
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Dark Secret
1949
Adam and Evelyne
6.6/7
A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.
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Adam and Evelyne
1959
Upstairs and Downstairs
5.286/7
On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-...
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Upstairs and Downstairs
1956
Who Done It?
5.2/12
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective...
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Who Done It?
1953
Meet Mr. Lucifer
5.1/15
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
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Meet Mr. Lucifer
1960
A French Mistress
5.7/6
The boys of Melbury Primary School are plunged into turmoil when the new French Master turns out to be a Mistress! Madelin Leforge's (the French Mistr...
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A French Mistress
1969
Look at Life: Saturday Special
0/0
Behind the scenes with the Children's Film Foundation, including the making of Lionheart.
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Look at Life: Saturday Special
1951
One Wild Oat
4.5/5
A lawyer's plan to break up his daughter's budding romance backfires when the boyfriend's father becomes involved.
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