Movies: Michael Balcon

  • 1928
    Easy Virtue

    Easy Virtue (1928)

    Easy Virtue

    5.11928HD

    Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's secret....

    Easy Virtue
  • 1935
    The 39 Steps

    The 39 Steps (1935)

    The 39 Steps

    7.31935HD

    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 all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy...

    The 39 Steps
  • 1927
    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

    7.11927HD

    London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room...

    The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
  • 1951
    The Lavender Hill Mob

    The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

    The Lavender Hill Mob

    7.21951HD

    A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country....

    The Lavender Hill Mob
  • 1934
    The Man Who Knew Too Much

    The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

    The Man Who Knew Too Much

    6.41934HD

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

    The Man Who Knew Too Much
  • 1949
    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    7.61949HD

    When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family ...

    Kind Hearts and Coronets
  • 1951
    The Man in the White Suit

    The Man in the White Suit (1951)

    The Man in the White Suit

    6.81951HD

    The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buy...

    The Man in the White Suit
  • 1955
    The Ladykillers

    The Ladykillers (1955)

    The Ladykillers

    7.21955HD

    Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians....

    The Ladykillers
  • 1937
    Sabotage

    Sabotage (1937)

    Sabotage

    6.71937HD

    Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life....

    Sabotage
  • 1945
    Dead of Night

    Dead of Night (1945)

    Dead of Night

    7.21945HD

    Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled gues...

    Dead of Night
  • 1950
    The Blue Lamp

    The Blue Lamp (1950)

    The Blue Lamp

    6.61950HD

    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 unabl...

    The Blue Lamp
  • 1936
    Secret Agent

    Secret Agent (1936)

    Secret Agent

    6.11936HD

    After three British agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences....

    Secret Agent
  • 1957
    Barnacle Bill

    Barnacle Bill (1957)

    Barnacle Bill

    6.41957HD

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

    Barnacle Bill
  • 1949
    Whisky Galore!

    Whisky Galore! (1949)

    Whisky Galore!

    6.81949HD

    Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing ...

    Whisky Galore!
  • 1958
    Dunkirk

    Dunkirk (1958)

    Dunkirk

    6.71958HD

    A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to...

    Dunkirk
  • 1949
    Passport to Pimlico

    Passport to Pimlico (1949)

    Passport to Pimlico

    6.81949HD

    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 of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by ...

    Passport to Pimlico
  • 1961
    The Long and the Short and the Tall

    The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)

    The Long and the Short and the Tall

    7.11961HD

    Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. As they progr...

    The Long and the Short and the Tall
  • 1942
    Went the Day Well?

    Went the Day Well? (1942)

    Went the Day Well?

    7.21942HD

    The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion. Once the villagers discover the true identity of the troops, ...

    Went the Day Well?
  • 1934
    Man of Aran

    Man of Aran (1934)

    Man of Aran

    7.31934HD

    A documentary on the life of the people of the Aran Islands, who were believed to contain the essence of the ancient Irish life, represented by a pure uncorrupted peasant existence centred around the struggle between man and his hostile but magnific...

    Man of Aran
  • 1933
    The Ghoul

    The Ghoul (1933)

    The Ghoul

    5.51933HD

    British Egyptologist, Professor Morlant, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlant returns to earth to seek vengeance upon those who removed the jewel from his grave....

    The Ghoul