7.0

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

1951, UK

• Actors: James Mason, Ava Gardner, Nigel Patrick, Sheila Sim, Harold Warrender, Mario Cabré, Marius Goring, John Laurie, Pamela Mason, Patricia Raine, Margarita D'Alvarez, La Pillina, Abraham Sofaer, Francisco Igual, Guillermo Beltrán, Lilli Molnar, Phoebe Hodgson, Gabriel Carmona, Antonio Martín, Lolita Allergria, John Carew, Helen Cleverley, Pepe de la Isla, Christiana Forbes, Eddie Leslie, Ricardo Valle, Gerald Welsh
• Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
• Director(s): Albert Lewin
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Albert Lewin's interpretation of the legend of the Flying Dutchman. In a little spanish seaport named Esperanza, during the 30s, appears Hendrick van der Zee, the mysterious captain of a yacht (he is the only one aboard). Pandora is a beautiful woman (who men kill and die for). She's never really fallen in love with any man, but she feels very attracted by Hendrick... We are soon taught that Hendrick is the Flying Dutchman, this sailor of the 17th century that has been cursed by God to wander over the seas until the Doomsday... unless a woman is ready to die for him...

  7.9

Hamlet

1948, UK

• Actors: Laurence Olivier, John Laurie, Esmond Knight, Anthony Quayle, Niall MacGinnis, Harcourt Williams, Patrick Troughton, Tony Tarver, Peter Cushing, Stanley Holloway, Russell Thorndike, Basil Sydney, Eileen Herlie, Norman Wooland, Felix Aylmer, Terence Morgan, Jean Simmons, Anthony Bushell, Patricia Davidson, Doreen Lawrence, Christopher Lee, Desmond Llewelyn, Victor Lucas, Patrick Macnee
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Laurence Olivier
• Available languages:
  • English English.

William Shakespeare's tale of tragedy of murder and revenge in the royal halls of medieval Denmark. Claudius, brother to the King, conniving with the Queen, poisons the monarch and seizes the throne, taking the widowed Gertrude for his bride. Hamlet, son of the murdered King, mournful of his father's death and mother's hasty marriage, is confronted by the ghost of the late King who reveals the manner of his murder. Seeking revenge, Hamlet recreates the monstrous deed in a play with the help of some traveling actors to torment the conscience of the evil Claudius. In a visit with his mother, Hamlet expresses his anger and disappointment concerning her swiftly untimed marriage. Thinking a concealed spy in his mother's chamber to be the lurking Claudius, he mistakenly kills the meddling counselor, Polonius, father of Ophelia and Laertes. Claudius, on the pretext that Hamlet will be endangered by his subjects for the murder of Polonius, sends the prince to England.

  8.1

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

1943, UK

• Actors: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, Roland Culver, James McKechnie, Albert Lieven, Arthur Wontner, David Hutcheson, Ursula Jeans, John Laurie, Harry Welchman, Reginald Tate, A.E. Matthews, Carl Jaffe, Valentine Dyall, Muriel Aked, Felix Aylmer, Frith Banbury, Neville Mapp, Vincent Holman, Spencer Trevor, James Knight, Dennis Arundell, David Ward, Jan Van Loewen, Eric Maturin, Robert Harris, Theodore Zichy, Jane Millican, Phyllis Morris
• Genre: Drama, Romance, War
• Director(s): Michael Powell
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Portrays in warm-hearted detail the life and loves of one extraordinary man. We meet the imposingly rotund General Clive Wynne-Candy, a blustering old duffer who seems the epitome of stuffy, outmoded values. Traveling backwards 40 years we see a different man altogether: the young and dashing officer "Sugar" Candy. Through a series of relationships with three women and his lifelong friendship with a German officer, we see Candy's life unfold and come to understand how difficult it is for him to adapt his sense of military honor to modern notions of "total war."

  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.

  7.9

The 39 Steps

1935, UK

• Actors: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, John Laurie, Helen Haye, Frank Cellier, Wylie Watson, Gus McNaughton, Jerry Verno, Peggy Simpson, Ivor Barnard, Charles Bennett, Noel Birkin, Ex-Det. Sergt. Bishop, Matthew Boulton, Edgar K. Bruce, Kate Cutler, Philip Desborough, Pat Hagate, Alfred Hitchcock, Carleton Hobbs, Vida Hope, Robert Horton, Elizabeth Inglis, James Knight, Hubert Leslie, Miles Malleson, Quentin McPhearson
• Genre: Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Richard Hannay is a Canadian visitor to London. At the end of "Mr Memory"'s show in a music hall, he meets Annabella Smith who is running away from secret agents. He accepts to hide her in his flat, but in the night she is murdered. Fearing he could be accused on the girl's murder, Hannay goes on the run to break the spy ring.