Frederick Piper Movies

Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Robert Donat

In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Charles Laughton

While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Leslie Banks

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Googie Withers

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Rex Harrison

A glamour model helps Scotland Yard to catch a criminal gang.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ralph Michael

British drama documentary from 1943, based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had...

Genre: Action

Cast: Walter Fitzgerald

The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Françoise Rosay

A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Herbert Lom

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jack Warner

Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Mervyn Johns

A study of absurdity in a suburban family: father recreates the Old Bailey in the living room while the son teaches speak-your-weight machines to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eric Sykes

An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

Mike Billing's newspaper series about quasi-illegal gambling parties in Mayfair have so far been works more of imagination than genuine journalism. ...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Vincent Ball

A group of children fleeing Napoleon's armies attempt to protect a mountain escape route from being discovered by a pursuing French platoon.

Genre: Family

Cast: Mavis Ranson

Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. " This is the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Basil Radford

An obsessed man returns to claim the woman he loves.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: John Ireland

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

“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Emlyn Williams

Romance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Sid James

The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noël Coward

The story, starring Constance Bennett and Douglass Montgomery, involves a Canadian POW being hidden by a German citizen during World War I.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Constance Bennett

British war documentary

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Cast: Leo Genn

A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alec Guinness

Scraps of information are gathered and pieced together by an enemy who lurks in the shadows, proving that nowhere is safe to discuss sensitive...

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Cast: Jimmy Hanley

In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Hulbert

The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Hugh Sinclair

A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.

Genre: Music

Cast: George Formby

King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Burton

Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ralph Richardson

When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is surprised to find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Beatrix Thomson

Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife's birthday through Customs....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tony Britton

Deborah and Charles, young executives at the thriving Pontifex Advertising Agency, are very much in love. Deborah is recognised by her employers as...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Adrienne Corri

The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Googie Withers

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim

Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leslie Banks

The Guv'nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Arliss

A married man having an affair visits a friend to establish an alibi for a rendezvous with his girlfriend. His friend is murdered the same night and...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Honor Blackman

In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by...

Genre: War

Cast: Leslie Howard

A series of murders in the West End of London baffle the officers of Scotland Yard and draw the interest of a crime reporter to the case.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Judy Campbell Exner

The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate.

Genre: Family

Cast: Rachel Clay

Director Charles Saunders' low-key domestic comedy, adapted from A.P. Dearsley's play, centers on a middle-aged London couple who react in different...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frederick Piper

Comedy in which a bungling railway worker is given the job of stationmaster at a rundown station in rural Ireland, where his sidekicks are a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Hay

When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stanley Holloway

When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Raft

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

John Lewis is bored of his job and his wife. Then Liz, wife of a local councillor, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Sellers

Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Mills

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

The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the...

Genre: War

Cast: Gordon Jackson

Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Kenney

A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret formula.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Derek Farr

A rich woman who uses meditation to deal with pain is visited by her niece who returns from Paris. The woman can be a handful and one of her...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Gary Merrill

Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Emrys Jones

Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Hay

David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leslie Banks

A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tommy Trinder

Unable to recall the past 24 hours, a British bank clerk is the prime suspect for a robbery/murder.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ralph Richardson

After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Mason

Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking. When...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dermot Walsh

Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jimmy Hanley

Two British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tommy Trinder

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

In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Gregson

A young couple get involved with a smuggler

Genre: Comedy

Cast: James Donald

Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tommy Trinder

Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Harry Andrews

A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Morley

Facing pressure from authorities to relinquish control of his ship the Ebb Tide, Capt. Daniel Thwaite (Roger Livesey) struggles to decide what course...

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Cast: Peter Sallis