Amy Veness Movies

A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Longden

The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Hawkins

A young Spanish woman marries a lowly Englishman, rather than the aristocrat her father had intended, much to his displeasure.

Genre: Music

Cast: Bebe Daniels

When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Howard Davies

Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leslie Fuller

In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Newton

An unkempt chorus girl is arrested on a minor charge. In court, she is spotted by a novelist who is looking for someone of her type on whom to model...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alla Nazimova

Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Celia Johnson

Released in Germany as Schwarze Rosen, Black Roses represented the return to UFA studios of British musical comedy favorite Lillian Harvey, after...

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Cast: Lilian Harvey

A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she's discovered by an ailing composer who's seeking the right singer for his songs.

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Cast: Gracie Fields

Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Kent

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emlyn Williams

The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix'...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Warner

A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Warner

Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Warner

The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margaret Johnston

Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's...

Genre: Action

Cast: Matheson Lang

Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derrick De Marney

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Murdock

Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Bickford

Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Mason

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Mason

A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stanley Holloway

Early '30s British drama, starring Heather Angel, about a poor girl who achieves success as a fashion designer.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Heather Angel

On the eve of his own marriage, a man offers shelter to a runaway wife with whom he strikes up an unexpected bond.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gene Gerrard

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Hay

Flying from one charming lady---eluding another---and almost losing both!

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maurice Chevalier

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

A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fred Emney

An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elaine Benson

A butcher and a draper stand for election to the local council.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leslie Fuller

High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victoria Hopper

Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!

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Cast: Robertson Hare

Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!

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Cast: Robertson Hare

An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang!

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Hulbert

Two cousins invite their girlfriends on a joy-ride, but car trouble leads to catastrophe!

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Cast: Gene Gerrard

When a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside and remembers, in flashbacks, key episodes from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Farrar

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice....

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Howard Davies

A comedy film directed by Frank Richardson

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Baxter

A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.

Genre: Romance

Cast: James Harcourt

Farcical confusions ensue when newlywed bride Peggy Gay overhears her husband Jack discussing the purchase of a piano, and somehow interprets what he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gene Gerrard

A drunken man is left by his wife but she later comes back to him when she realises how desperate he is.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Newcomb

As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Seymour Hicks

In France the husband of a purity league leader runs a shady nightclub.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Alexander Chapman

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patricia Roc

With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Margot Grahame

Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Kent

Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Valerie Hobson

War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Warner

The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Basil Radford

In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Phyllis Calvert

Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gregory Peck

The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.

Genre: Romance

Cast: John McCallum

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he has to explain the presence of her necklace in his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gene Gerrard

A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Wilfrid Lawson

After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jackie Hunter

A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Bird

Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anne Crawford

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Skylarks is a 1936 British comedy film directed by Thornton Freeland and starring Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jimmy Nervo

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anna Murdock

The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Phyllis Calvert