Noel Purcell Movies

When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sophia Loren

A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hildegard Knef

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Marlon Brando

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Burt Lancaster

An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kirk Douglas

The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

While fleeing across the Irish countryside, two orphans are pursued by their villainous uncle, a master of disguises.

Genre: Family

Cast: Ron Moody

When eccentric English teacher Andrew Larabee needs a raise in order for his fiancée to marry him, his interest in archaeology leads him to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danny Kaye

During the troubles in Ireland an IRA bomb plot is hatched to blow up a British power station. Sean Rogan (Tom Bell) is an IRA bomb expert and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Bell

William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold. He is soon fired and offered a job by the nearby...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenneth More

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leslie Phillips

Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Curd Jürgens

When the details of a secret torpedo are destroyed by an incompetent seaman, the crew of the ship rally round, when the Admiral needs the plans to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kenneth Connor

The story of a husband's implication in his wife's death, his stupid disposal of her body and the police enquiry which almost embroils him in a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Nigel Patrick

Tommy is a happy sailor, travelling the world, singing his favourite songs. When he visits Spain, he gets mistaken for a famous bullfighter. Tommy...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tommy Steele

At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on...

Genre: Romance

Cast: David Niven

The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anne Helm

A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jack Hawkins

Billy Brannigan, a mechanic, has some difficulties and problems when he gets mixed up with the police looking for a jewel thief. An identical...

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Cast: Jimmy O'Dea

The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald Sinden

Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Glynis Johns

A man inherits a harem of three wives from his late uncle, which he brings home to his real wife in England. British comedy from 1962.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Hewer

Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. The...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Attenborough

Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tyrone Power

In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Simmons

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stewart Granger

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea...

Genre: Action

Cast: James Cagney

A young man, convinced of his paternity, aims to emulate his notorious father by committing daring crimes. However, his childhood friend is equally...

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Hurt

After being discredited as a coward, a 19th century seaman lives for only one purpose: to redeem himself. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Peter O'Toole

Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights. Dismissed from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Gregson

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Holden

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ian Carmichael

Nick tries to kill his wife to get her money, but when learning of this, she plans the same for him!

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tony Curtis

A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer looking for the heir to half a million pounds; the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Warner

Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Juliet Mills

Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leslie Phillips

An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Laurence Harvey

The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help him investigate the whereabouts of the people who...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: George C. Scott

Based on the adventures of Jack Sheppard, the thief and jail-breaker who became a folk hero in 1720s London.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Tommy Steele

A German U-Boat commander plans a daring escape from a PoW camp in Scotland.

Genre: Action

Cast: Brian Keith

Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Joan Fontaine

A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Harvey

When the atheistic ranting of Irish-American author James Mulcahy upsets the inhabitants of the Irish village to which he has retired, a mob...

Genre: Crime

Cast: William Bendix

Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Glynis Johns

The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Gregson

The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Hayter

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gregory Peck

What happens to the saints and sinners of a small Irish village on the day the world is supposed to end.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kieron Moore

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Terry-Thomas

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Paul Newman

The brilliant British documentary filmmaker Paul Rotha made his feature-film debut with 1950's No Resting Place. Filmed on location in Ireland, the...

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Cast: Michael Gough

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Mason