7.9

À bout de souffle

1960, France

• Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Henri-Jacques Huet, Van Doude, Claude Mansard, Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Balducci, Roger Hanin, Jean-Louis Richard, Liliane David, Jean Domarchi, Jean Douchet, Raymond Huntley, André S. Labarthe, François Moreuil, Liliane Robin, José Bénazéraf, Philippe de Broca, Michel Fabre, Louiguy, Michel Mourlet, Guido Orlando, Madame Paul, Raymond Ravanbaz, Jacques Serguine, Jacques Siclier, Virginie Ullmann, Emile Villion
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Jean-Luc Godard
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Michel Poiccard, an irresponsible sociopath and small-time thief, steals a car and impulsively murders the motorcycle policeman who pursues him. Now wanted by the authorities, he renews his relationship with Patricia Franchini, a hip American girl studying journalism at the Sorbonne, whom he had met in Nice a few weeks earlier. Before leaving Paris, he plans to collect a debt from an underworld acquaintance and expects her to accompany him on his planned getaway to Italy. Even with his face in the local papers and media, Poiccard seems oblivious to the dragnet that is slowly closing around him as he recklessly pursues his love of American movies and libidinous interest in the beautiful American.

  7.1

Our Man in Havana

1959, UK

• Actors: Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ernie Kovacs, Noel Coward, Ralph Richardson, Jo Morrow, Grégoire Aslan, Paul Rogers, Raymond Huntley, Ferdy Mayne, Maurice Denham, Joseph P. Mawra, Duncan Macrae, Gerik Schjelderup, Hugh Manning, Karel Stepanek, Maxine Audley, Elisabeth Welch, Yvonne Buckingham, Enrique Almirante, René de la Cruz, Madeleine Kasket, Shan Lawrence, John Le Mesurier, Anne Padwick, Rachel Roberts
• Genre: Drama, Thriller, Comedy
• Director(s): Carol Reed
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn't very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba. Wormold hasn't got a clue where to start but when his friend Dr. Hasselbacher suggests that the best secrets are known to no one, he decides to manufacture a list of agents and provides fictional tales for the benefit of his masters in London. He is soon seen as the best agent in the Western Hemisphere but it all begins to unravel when the local police decode his cables and start rounding up his "network" and he learns that he is the target of a group out to kill him.

  7.4

The Dam Busters

1955, UK

• Actors: Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Charles Carson, Stanley Van Beers, Colin Tapley, Frederick Leister, Eric Messiter, Laidman Browne, Raymond Huntley, Hugh Manning, Patrick Barr, Edwin Styles, Hugh Moxey, Anthony Shaw, Basil Sydney, Ernest Clark, Derek Farr, Laurence Naismith, Harold Siddons, Frank Phillips, Brewster Mason, Tony Doonan, Nigel Stock, Brian Nissen, Robert Shaw, Peter Assinder, Richard Leech, Richard Thorp, John Fraser
• Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
• Director(s): Michael Anderson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The British are desperate to shorten the length of WW2 and propose a daring raid to smash Germany's industrial heart. At first the objective looks impossible until a British scientist invents an ingenious weapon capable of destroying the planned target.

  6.2

The Ghost Train

1941, UK

• Actors: Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison, Peter Murray-Hill, Carole Lynne, Morland Graham, Betty Jardine, Stuart Latham, Herbert Lomas, Raymond Huntley, Linden Travers, D.J. Williams, Wallace Bosco, Wilfrid Lawson, George Merritt, Sydney Moncton
• Genre: Comedy, Horror
• Director(s): Walter Forde
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is said to travel these parts at dead of night, carrying ghosts from a long-ago train wreck in the area. The travelers eventually get to the bottom of the things that go bump in the night. In between the scary bits, comedian Arthur Askey plays the gags with his Vaudeville style humor, to the constant irritation of his fellow passengers.

  6.8

The Ghost of St. Michael's

1941, UK

• Actors: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Charles Hawtrey, Raymond Huntley, Felix Aylmer, Elliott Mason, John Laurie, Hay Petrie, Roddy Hughes, Manning Whiley, Charles Mortimer, Derek Blomfield, Clive Baxter, David Keir, Brefni O'Rorke, Derek Aylward, Gerald Campion, Laurence Hanray, Bryan Herbert, Jack May, Ben Williams
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Marcel Varnel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Hay, assisted by Claude Hulbert and Charles Hawtrey, has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim.