Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to...

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife...

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing...

A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of...

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he...

While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected.

“Spy comedy with operatic background.” - BFI.

Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast...

Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily...

A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a...

A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.

Michel, a young sailor, returns home to Marseilles to find that his former lover, Francine, now works in the local brothel. In a jealous rage, he...

A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver).

A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.

A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.

A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home...

Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their...