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A Matter of Life and Death(1946)

3.9/5 (with 157 votes)

When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.

Oliver Twist(1948)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 56min | Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family
3.8/5 (with 93 votes)

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. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Black Narcissus(1947)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 40min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 185 votes)

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.

Great Expectations(1946)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 58min | Romance / Love, Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 131 votes)

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

Blithe Spirit(1945)

1h 36min | Comedy, Fantasy
3.5/5 (with 54 votes)

An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough material for the book he's working on, as well as to expose the medium as a charlatan. However, proceedings take an unexpected turn, resulting in a chain of supernatural events being set into motion that wreak havoc on the man's present marriage.

Hamlet(1948)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 35min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 99 votes)

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.

Brief Encounter(1945)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 26min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 253 votes)

Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.

Caesar and Cleopatra(1945)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 18min | Drama, History, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 20 votes)

The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.

The Red Shoes(1948)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 13min | Drama, Romance / Love
4.0/5 (with 255 votes)

In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.

I Know Where I'm Going!(1945)

1h 31min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 57 votes)

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.

Odd Man Out(1947)

1h 56min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 76 votes)

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

This Happy Breed(1944)

3.6/5 (with 21 votes)

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. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival.

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The Passionate Friends(1949)

1h 30min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 17 votes)

A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.

Henry V(1944)

2h 17min | Drama, History, War
3.4/5 (with 47 votes)

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

A Canterbury Tale(1944)

2h 4min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery, War
3.5/5 (with 46 votes)

Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.

The Blue Lamp(1950)

1h 24min | Crime, Drama
3.4/5 (with 21 votes)

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 easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.

Madeleine(1950)

1h 54min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.

The Love Lottery(1954)

2.3/5 (with 9 votes)

Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone, he relocates to a remote Italian village where unanticipated trouble arises when unwittingly he becomes the prize for an international lottery.

Green for Danger(1946)

1h 31min | Crime, Mystery, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 34 votes)

In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?

Pool of London(1951)

1h 25min | Crime, Drama
3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Jewel thieves, murder and a manhunt swirl around a sailor (Bonar Colleano) off a cargo ship in London.

Obsession(1949)

1h 36min | Thriller, Crime
3.5/5 (with 16 votes)

A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.

Directed by Edward Dmytryk - With Robert Newton

The Weaker Sex(1948)

1h 24min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 3 votes)

A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II.

Cage of Gold(1950)

1h 24min | Crime, Drama
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

A young woman, Judith Moray, deserts her prospective fiance, the nice doctor Alan Kearn, for an old flame, the dashing but roguish former wing commander Bill Glennan. Glennan makes her pregnant and marries her, but leaves her on the morning after the wedding when he learns that her father can't offer him financial support. Two years later she - having been told that Glennan is dead - has married Kearn and borne him a son. But then Glennan suddenly reappears and begins to blackmail her.

The Rake's Progress(1945)

3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of sweethearts, family and friends, and Marriage for money. All this with no signs of remorse or redemption, since his life as a completely unprincipled rake is quite enjoyable...for him, at least. Then, World War II breaks out and he is given a chance to die a heroic death for flag and country. Maybe.

Corridor of Mirrors(1948)

3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

The Wicked Lady(1945)

1h 44min | Adventure, Drama
3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.

Genevieve(1953)

1h 26min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 18 votes)

Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.

Dear Murderer(1947)

1h 30min | Thriller
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.

The Woman in Question(1950)

1h 28min | Mystery
2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.

I See a Dark Stranger(1946)

1h 52min | Drama, Thriller, War
3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Determined, independent Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland thinking all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. We next find her working in a pub near a British military prison, using her sex appeal in the service of the enemy. But chance puts a really vital secret into her hands, leading to a chase involving Bridie, a British officer who's fallen for her, a German agent unknown to them both, and the police...paralleled by Bridie's own internal conflicts.

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