Frederick Leister Movies

A young dancer trying to make it in London during World War II discovers that people like her singing voice, too. Although she's at first reluctant...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Vera Lynn

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

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

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Rex Harrison

Throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Douglass Montgomery

A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Redgrave

Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Gary Cooper

During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Deborah Kerr

Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Louis Jourdan

Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roger Livesey

An actress, a factory worker, and a jet pilot all face up to their personal problems after attending a rally by Dr. Billy Graham.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joan Winmill Brown

American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie...

Genre: Action

Cast: John Mills

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.

Genre: Music

Cast: Gracie Fields

A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Mills

The happy marriage of Liz and Peter Rossiter is shattered after Liz is paralysed in an accident. Peter soon finds solace with Honor, his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Helen Shingler

A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Cole

Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...

Genre: War

Cast: Evelyn Laye

A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Gielgud

At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ian Carmichael

The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Todd

Mr Pastry's social climbing daughter, president of a society for the rehabilitation for ex-convicts, hides the fact that her father is himself a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Richard Hearne

Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Patricia Medina

The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Hartnell

A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ralph Richardson

After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anne Crawford

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Todd

An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rick Jason

A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Sanders

A jeweler is targeted by confidence tricksters pretending to be connected with the exiled Russian Royal Family. He manages to turn the tables on them...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bert Coote

The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Michael Redgrave

The story of Mozart and his wife Constance, set against a background of court intrigue and professional jealousy, with music conducted by Sir Thomas...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Stephen Haggard

A young man's fiancé dies after contracting a terminal illness, and in his efforts to contact her he gets involved with a group of...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Derek Farr

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: David Niven

The life and times of the Duke of Wellington

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Arliss

Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.

Genre: History

Cast: Anna Neagle

A murderous skipper involved in dope trafficking.

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Cast: Charles Laughton

Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

An accountant who has to take a second job working at a racetrack, soon becomes mixed up with a shady crowd.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Anne Crawford

A young singer meets a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot, and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vera Lynn

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, Major Esterhazy. When investigations begin into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cedric Hardwicke

A lawyer plans to murder an aristocrat and steal his inheritance.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harold Huth

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

Genre: Drama

Cast: W. Somerset Maugham

A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Stewart Granger

A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable...

Genre: War

Cast: Michael Denison

During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Joan Gates

A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Craig

White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.

Genre: Action

Cast: Paul Robeson

A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mona Freeman

A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Clive Brook

A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cecil Parker

Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mervyn Johns

The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Robert Beatty

Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rona Anderson

The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Annabella

The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Graves

Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sarah Churchill

Comic crime caper, set on a Greek island, starring Yul Brynner and Mitzi Gaynor.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yul Brynner

In 1783 England, King George III appoints William Pitt only 24 years old, as PM. When members of Parliament refuse to take Pitt seriously, he calls...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat