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Total trailers found: 36
21 August 1933
The first film adaptation, and most faithful, of Noel Coward's 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet. This tells the story of Sarah Linden's romance, the tale begins with Sarah, now older, reminiscing about her first love.
15 April 1935
Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through the many travels of a penny that was minted in the year of his accession: 1910.
07 October 1936
Believing real life is an operetta, the citizens of the European country Lucco break into song at every blink of an eye.
20 May 1946
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
31 July 1930
When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt.
10 July 1933
Hugo Carmody, the impoverished secretary to Lord Emsworth falls for Millicent the boss's niece, and steals his Lordship's prize pig in a scheme to raise funds to marry her.
01 August 1934
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth.
19 June 2020
An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
01 March 1934
Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, becomes romantically involved with a King(John Loder).
16 August 1936
John Zinga, a descendent of slaves, has an ancient medallion around his neck and a fragment of song passed down generations.
23 March 1937
In this Edgar Wallace adaptation, Sergeant Elk (a lugubrious Gordon Harker) sets out to unmask the Frog, the evil mastermind heading up a mysterious network responsible for a litany of sensational crimes.
01 October 1935
As the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.
15 December 1933
Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk.
09 September 1945
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare.
05 August 1935
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party.
21 October 1936
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.
18 December 1936
Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Yvette.
25 September 1937
Trouble is brewing in the banana republic of Bianco for both His Excellency, El Presidente, and the British Consul, Brant.
19 May 1936
An officer becomes entangled in a love affair with a woman who works as a maid.
21 September 1942
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
26 April 1936
A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty.
11 December 1945
The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
06 October 1938
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet.
05 March 1937
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
06 August 1953
Shows the improved services and other benefits that oil brings to the backward territories. The financial and technical resources of foreign lands have tapped the liquid wealth hidden below the surface of the earth.
01 January 1957
George Bernard Shaw’s illustrious friends pay tribute to his talents – with anecdotes, artefacts and one-liners.
27 December 1941
Hi Gang! is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Vic Oliver.
07 January 1940
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime.
01 October 2025
It's back! A fourth compelling collection of SHORT SHARP SHOCKS revisits the heyday of the supporting program with a compendium of eerie and eccentric British short films presented for the first time in High Definition.
30 June 1935
Paul, artistically-inclined son of an American millionaire, moves to Paris where he can find inspiration and study the masters.
17 June 1933
A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket.
02 January 1936
A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love.
30 October 1947
The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit.
23 August 1934
Composer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in front of a princess of the royal family.
29 March 1948
A pianist aboard a train reads the palms of passengers and predicts their deaths. Soon those deaths begin to happen.