Beatrice Varley

Two reporters, a youth and a girl, find romance during interviews with relatives and friends of passengers in an ill-fated airliner.

Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.

After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school...

An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.

Barbara is the long-lost sister of no-good Mike Roscoe. Paula Brown is the stripper whom Mike hires to pose as Barbara. It's all part of a scheme to...

A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.

Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney,...

In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he...

A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily...

The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle,...

A BAFTA award nominated fictional drama about young Molly Slade who awakens one morning in a depressed state that gradually leads to a complete...

A BAFTA award nominated dramatised documentary telling the story of two steelworkers who attempt to climb a rock in the Dolomites.

A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.

A clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have a motive.

In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the...

DI Campbell looks into the murder of a teacher at a girls' school where there are a number of suspects, including her colleagues and the married man...

After discovering that she has only a short time left to live, concert pianist Lissa travels to Cornwall for the final fling of her life. While...

The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend...

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

Can Professor Higgins transform flower-girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?

The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a...

The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.

Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into...

Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work...

The monkey's paw can make wishes come true. But not in the ways people expect. Note this should not be confused with the 1948 film with the same name.

Be careful of what you wish for - it might come true, but no in the way you expect.

Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, meets a newspaper woman called "Steve." Together they investigate a gang of diamond robbers.

A young couple prepare for post-war marriage. Propaganda short encouraging women to contribute to the war effort by investing in war loans through...

An uncredited Anthony Asquith is one of the directors of this WWII film (a joint UK/US production) which aims to explain British culture and...

When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined...

Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After pondering the difficult decision, Charles decides to...

Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and...

Four pilots become stranded on a tropical island inhabited by beautiful women.

During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.

John meets Ann at a music shop where she works. Love blossoms briefly before John is called away to serve on his naval ship. John suffers severe...

German scholar Wolf Hauser arrives for a year at Cambridge. Apart from his studies, he tries to muck in with the very English non-academic goings-on...

The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl...

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in...

War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan...

In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army...

During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help...

World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in...

A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.

A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.

A mixed party of West Indian settlers arrives in London, where they encounter prejudice from the white population and integrate themselves into the...

When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a...

A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.

A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the...

Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays...

The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and...

An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.

An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.

A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father--a prominent scientist--has been kidnapped. They find...

Based on a story by author Noel Streatfeild, the film tells the story of two sisters who are left penniless by their father's sudden death and lease...

Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam.

Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London...

A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.

The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that...

Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s...

A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.

A woman and her injured son are detained by one crook, whilst the other takes the safe keys to rob a factory. They fall out, and the boy is rescued...

Hazel Woods, a beautiful and young Welsh girl, lives a wild, rustic life and loves animals — in particular, her pet fox. She is hotly desired by...

A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain. The crew of the Sea...

War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan...

To help out his exact double, George Formby (in a dual role) takes the place of a noted South American tenor. This way he can help the opera star...

Working class family win £5oo and move to the country. They quickly run into the snooty upper class establishment who resent the newcomers.