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- 2 companies battle for Cyborg domination. One's built a cyborg/Angelina Jolie so human, that they hope, she'll get into the competition's HQ and explode. But she escapes with her human martial arts instructor.
- Professor Horatio Smith, while seeming very unassuming, rescues victims of Nazi persecution during World War II.
- A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
- A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
- Twenty years after the murder of Alice Barlow, her house is finally occupied again. However, the husband from the couple who have moved in has a secret which he will do anything to keep hidden.
- During a raid on Germany a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland and are aided by Dutch civilians.
- During World War I, a German spy and a French spy meet and fall in love.
- Early in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
- The Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
- Dock worker Tom Masterick is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to show that his alleged victim is still alive.
- Charters and Caldicott, touring in the Near East, are mistaken for German agents and handed in error a gramophone record which contains vital information for Britain's enemies.
- This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai, of the Elephants", in which a small native lad claims he knows the congregating place of the elephant hordes.
- Winifred Holtby realised that local government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda, but the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance. She built her story around six people working for a typical county council. Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. The story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting where country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
- During the Depression in England, a young lady from Lancashire decides to be a rich bookmaker's mistress, just to help the rest of her unemployed family.
- An ex-con, released after imprisonment for a jewel theft, swears vengeance on his former accomplices and devises an intricate plan to steal their fortune.
- On his father's death, an 18-year-old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realizing that the other directors want to keep him in the dark, he starts to ask questions and he soon goes undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
- Cardinal Richelieu spares the life of a convicted duelist (Veidt) provided he will capture the leader of the Huguenots.
- William Penn's heroic deeds, on the European and American continents, are told in this portrait of the founding father of both the Quakers and the Pennsylvania colony. Based on C.E. Vulliamy's biography "William Penn."
- June Allyson is a cashier in a dance hall and her friend Imogene Coca wants to get a job there as a dance hostess. June advises her she needs to first make herself attractive to men,and gives her a book on the subject. But Imogene, by mistake, picks up the wrong book and reads one on the art of jiu-jitsu. Imogene's first customer is a bashful sailor (Danny Kaye) who gets turned every which way but loose. Hank Henry also appears as a sailor. All four performers had better things ahead of them although,in the case of comedian Hank Henry, not by much.
- The police are investigating the suspicious death of a mine owner when they stumble upon a strange Nazi plot to invade England.
- A somewhat unbalanced college student kidnaps the leader of a group of students that has been constantly mocking and harassing him, and plans to bury him alive in a trunk.
- A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
- Cowboys and cows amidst Hawaiian scenery and song.
- Tells the tale of a seafaring tribe and its conquests.
- A visiting American woman is shown how the people of an English village responded to invasions and threats through four historical vignettes.
- A fisherman discovers he has a gift for healing and becomes an osteopath.
- Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.
- A charwoman comes upon a plot to steal the invention of a man who lives in a haunted house.
- Old mother Riley's daughter kitty marries an aristocrat. Old mother Riley then becomes a servant in the aristocrats household.
- A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young actress whom the other relatives didn't know was related to him. Several attempts on her life are thwarted by a detective, who sets out to discover who's behind the scheme to kill her.
- The film follows the history of a brooch after it is given as a present by a man to a woman in 1911.
- Famous detective and his trusty side-kick Tinker are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
- A socialist inherits the ownership of a major firm and begins wrestling with his beliefs.
- During World War II, the Canadian Navy gathered a troupe of diverse performers (dancers, comedians, singers, musicians) from its ranks and sent them off to entertain their shipmates and the revue ultimately played London's Hippodrome. The acceptance of the audience was based more on wartime London's appreciation of the gallantry of Britain's sons and daughters from overseas than it was on the artistic value of the show or the talent of the performers. The film is a mixture of fact and fiction of the adventures of the troupe members, and the ending, only partly filmed in Technicolor, is primarily the revue as seen at the Hippodrome.
- The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers are old friends gathered to celebrate their silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer.
- A generation of shipbuilders is nearly wiped out by the Great Depression, but a second Great War gets them back to work.
- 1943. Comedy. Directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Stars Richard Hearne, Ronald Shiner & Hermione Gingold. In debt to gamblers Rodney (Richard Hearne) agrees to pass as a butler at a gambling party.
- A naive young woman gets caught up in a loan-shark racket.
- A pilot loses his memory after a plane crash. A good friend helps him to remember his past by talking about a transport plane they built together.
- A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
- A farmer marries a beautiful city girl and tries to help her become more settled on the farm by buying her a calf to look after. She begins to spend their money so fast that the farmer goes broke, Then she runs away on her horse.
- Valeriy Chkalov is a name-dream, a name-legend and not only for passionate admirers of the heavenly spheres. He became the first pilot to cross the North Pole and land in America. The brave, daring, mischievous, often reckless conqueror of the sky in the bright performance of Vladimir Belokurov was not at all like the flat, one-sided, stencil characters inhabiting the films of that time.
- Mrs. Riley is tricked out of her licence for a pub and joins her daughter in Portugal.
- A seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.
- Old Mother Riley does her bit for the war effort by going undercover to foil a gang of black marketeers.
- A British secret service agent and his sister travel to Berlin to recover a top secret RAF invention which was stolen from the French government.
- Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again.
- A ventriloquist is murdered, leaving a show to be done. So, a midget goes undercover as the dummy. But, he always needs to find the criminal!
- A docu-drama about the troubles of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during World War II.
- The story of the rise of boxer Joe Thomas, which paralleled the life of Joe Louis.