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- 2 companies battle for Cyborg domination. One's built a cyborg/Angelina Jolie so human, that they hope, she'll get into the competition's HQ and explode. But she escapes with her human martial arts instructor.
- Twenty years after the murder of Alice Barlow, her house is finally occupied again. However, the husband from the couple who have moved in has a secret which he will do anything to keep hidden.
- A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
- During a raid on Germany a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland and are aided by Dutch civilians.
- Professor Horatio Smith, while seeming very unassuming, rescues victims of Nazi persecution during World War II.
- A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
- During World War I, a German spy and a French spy meet and fall in love.
- During the Depression in England, a young lady from Lancashire decides to be a rich bookmaker's mistress, just to help the rest of her unemployed family.
- Early in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
- Dock worker Tom Masterick is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an old man, he vows to show that his alleged victim is still alive.
- This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai, of the Elephants", in which a small native lad claims he knows the congregating place of the elephant hordes.
- The Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
- Winifred Holtby realised that local government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda, but the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance. She built her story around six people working for a typical county council. Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. The story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting where country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
- Charters and Caldicott, touring in the Near East, are mistaken for German agents and handed in error a gramophone record which contains vital information for Britain's enemies.
- An ex-con, released after imprisonment for a jewel theft, swears vengeance on his former accomplices and devises an intricate plan to steal their fortune.
- On his father's death, an 18-year-old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realizing that the other directors want to keep him in the dark, he starts to ask questions and he soon goes undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
- Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.
- Famous detective and his trusty side-kick Tinker are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
- Cardinal Richelieu spares the life of a convicted duelist (Veidt) provided he will capture the leader of the Huguenots.
- A generation of shipbuilders is nearly wiped out by the Great Depression, but a second Great War gets them back to work.
- A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
- Singing cowboy Randy shows up at Mrs. Blake's ranch. She is beset by bad guys, and Randy loves her daughter Janet.
- The film follows the history of a brooch after it is given as a present by a man to a woman in 1911.
- A farmer marries a beautiful city girl and tries to help her become more settled on the farm by buying her a calf to look after. She begins to spend their money so fast that the farmer goes broke, Then she runs away on her horse.
- A seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.
- A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
- June Allyson is a cashier in a dance hall and her friend Imogene Coca wants to get a job there as a dance hostess. June advises her she needs to first make herself attractive to men,and gives her a book on the subject. But Imogene, by mistake, picks up the wrong book and reads one on the art of jiu-jitsu. Imogene's first customer is a bashful sailor (Danny Kaye) who gets turned every which way but loose. Hank Henry also appears as a sailor. All four performers had better things ahead of them although,in the case of comedian Hank Henry, not by much.
- A ventriloquist is murdered, leaving a show to be done. So, a midget goes undercover as the dummy. But, he always needs to find the criminal!
- The police are investigating the suspicious death of a mine owner when they stumble upon a strange Nazi plot to invade England.
- The story of the rise of boxer Joe Thomas, which paralleled the life of Joe Louis.
- A somewhat unbalanced college student kidnaps the leader of a group of students that has been constantly mocking and harassing him, and plans to bury him alive in a trunk.
- 1943. Comedy. Directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Stars Richard Hearne, Ronald Shiner & Hermione Gingold. In debt to gamblers Rodney (Richard Hearne) agrees to pass as a butler at a gambling party.
- William Penn's heroic deeds, on the European and American continents, are told in this portrait of the founding father of both the Quakers and the Pennsylvania colony. Based on C.E. Vulliamy's biography "William Penn."
- The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers are old friends gathered to celebrate their silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer.
- A hero goes undercover to uncover outlaws while singing to a heroine and being sneered at by a bad guy.
- A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young actress whom the other relatives didn't know was related to him. Several attempts on her life are thwarted by a detective, who sets out to discover who's behind the scheme to kill her.
- A British secret service agent and his sister travel to Berlin to recover a top secret RAF invention which was stolen from the French government.
- Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again.
- The history of Germany from 1924 through Hitler's rise in power is described through newsreel footage. Freelance press representative Isobel Lillian Steele travels to Germany to work as a translator/journalist for the English language magazine Germany and You . Thinking a story on the German film industry would be interesting, she becomes acquainted with Herr Luger, the Nazi representative in charge of motion picture employment. Through him she becomes friendly with German actress Catherine Stoloff and eventually Baron Yurick Von Sosnowski, a modern-day Casanova whose parties are the talk of Berlin. While an overload of work on 28 Feb 1934 causes Isobel to miss one of the wealthy nobleman's soirees, the secret police arrest the baron on charges of espionage and his guests are detained, some for weeks, for questioning. Unaware of the imprisonments because the police feign ignorance, Isobel searches for Catherine, which arouses police suspicion that she is a collaborator. Even after Catherine is released a month later, she reveals nothing to Isobel, for the actress, like the other detainees, have been sworn to an oath of silence, which if violated would mean three years imprisonment. On 3 May, the People's Court is formed in Germany. It issues new edicts concerning foreign nationals and anti-Hitlerite activities. Film producer Henry Reicher, a communist sympathizer, contacts Isobel about writing a screenplay for his film Social Espionage which would depict the arrest of the baron and his guests by the secret police. Unaware of his propagandist motives, Isobel begins writing the script with Baroness Von Elmendorff, another of the baron's acquaintances. Although they plan to change the names of the characters in their final draft, the first version of the script contains the real names of the people involved. By 10 August, after President Von Hindenburg has died, removing the last obstacle to Hitler's control, Isobel's script is completed. Two secret policemen, having infiltrated Reicher's company as his secretaries, arrest Reicher and Isobel. Sent to Alexanderplatz, she is charged with espionage when confronted with her first draft. Other charges follow, including treason and associating with communists. Detained as a political espionage prisoner, she is taken to a women's prison. Only slowly does she acclimate to the harsh conditions and bad food. When finally allowed to receive the American Consul as a visitor, she is forbidden to discuss details of her case. Isobel's mother, on the eve of a trip to the United States to seek help for her daughter, is allowed a short visit, but is told not to discuss Isobel's imprisonment. After a constant barrage of distorted accusations by the police, on 11 Sep Isobel is suddenly transferred to Moabit prison, where the Sosnowski women victims have been retained. Her personal belongings confiscated, Isobel finds comfort in a small yarn doll, named Malvina after the first initials of her friends, which becomes her "fetish of hope" in a lonely existence. Denied the simplest pleasures, her condition worsens. Mrs. Steele, having arrived in Boise, Idaho, to recruit the assistance of her son, contacts Senator William E. Borah in Washington, D.C., whose involvement in the matter at year's end forces Isobel's case to be "temporarily closed," allowing for her deportation and freedom. Clutching her doll, she sails for New York. As her ship enters New York Harbor, she proudly smiles as the Statue of Liberty rises in the background.
- An amnesiac lands up adopting his forgotten daughter from a previous girlfriend, a dancer, when his wife is unable to have children.
- A fisherman discovers he has a gift for healing and becomes an osteopath.
- Bunting (Edward Rigby) is sacked in 1938 but when war breaks out in 1939 he is reinstated and also becomes an air raid warden. His two sons enlist in the war, leaving Bunting and his wife looking after their baby grandson.
- A charwoman comes upon a plot to steal the invention of a man who lives in a haunted house.
- A docu-drama about the troubles of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during World War II.
- Tells the tale of a seafaring tribe and its conquests.
- A Czech political exile and a washed-up music hall comedian form an unlikely partnership to try and save a town's concert hall from the planners, businessmen, and bureaucrats.
- Valeriy Chkalov is a name-dream, a name-legend and not only for passionate admirers of the heavenly spheres. He became the first pilot to cross the North Pole and land in America. The brave, daring, mischievous, often reckless conqueror of the sky in the bright performance of Vladimir Belokurov was not at all like the flat, one-sided, stencil characters inhabiting the films of that time.
- Old Vienna, at a time when the waltz was considered an immoral dance. Maria promises her dying father, the Emperor, that she will follow the wishes of the Council of Ministers when she assumes the reign. Empress Maria wishes to marry the dashing Count Franz von Hofer, but the old fashioned Council advises against it due to his philandering reputation. The Prime Minister's daughter, Cenci Prohaska, asks Maria to help her marry her beloved Lieutenant Stefan Ravenne, because her father has plans for her to marry the rich, but boring, Ferdinand Hohenlohe. Cenci tells her that she wore a mask to waltz at the Golden Lantern and that von Hofer flirted with her there. So Maria hatches a plan to also visit the Golden Lantern in disguise.
- A naive young woman gets caught up in a loan-shark racket.
- A visiting American woman is shown how the people of an English village responded to invasions and threats through four historical vignettes.