Felix Aylmer
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1889-02-21
Locus Natus: Corsham, Wiltshire, England, UK
Et ut: Феликс Эйлмер
Exodus
Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from...
release : 1960.12.15popularis : 15.992
The Wandering Jew
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His...
release : 1933.11.15popularis : 5.86
The Case of the Frightened Lady
A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.
release : 1940.09.28popularis : 2.032
Quo Vadis
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical...
release : 1951.11.08popularis : 28.151
The Road to Hong Kong
When Chester accidentally memorises and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a new and improved rocket fuel, he and Harry are...
release : 1962.03.29popularis : 6.583
Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of...
release : 1952.07.31popularis : 13.058
The Improper Duchess
The King of Moldavia tries to negotiate a loan from the United States in return for oil concessions, with the wily assistance of the Duchess of Tann.
release : 1936.01.17popularis : 2.927
Night Train to Munich
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach...
release : 1940.08.31popularis : 6.889
Separate Tables
Boarders at an English resort struggle with emotional problems.
release : 1958.12.18popularis : 10.116
Becket
King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another...
release : 1964.03.11popularis : 17.998
As You Like It
Film version of Shakespeare's comedy of a young woman who disguises herself as a man to win the attention of the one she loves.
release : 1936.09.02popularis : 2.975
Prince of Foxes
In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate...
release : 1949.11.11popularis : 2.548
Bank Holiday
A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty...
release : 1938.01.27popularis : 2.198
Anastasia
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the...
release : 1956.12.13popularis : 14.69
The Chalk Garden
The peculiar antics of Laurel, an emotionally troubled young girl, are the focus of The Chalk Garden – a stately household drama set on the...
release : 1964.04.02popularis : 7.932
The Shadow
A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
release : 1933.03.02popularis : 3.063
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their...
release : 1960.03.04popularis : 7.347
Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem.
release : 1968.10.30popularis : 1.82
The Mummy
One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40...
release : 1959.08.01popularis : 20.822
Knights of the Round Table
In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen...
release : 1953.12.22popularis : 9.001
The Hands of Orlac
Famed concert pianist Stephen Orlac survives a plane crash, but his hands are permanently destroyed. Helpful surgeon Volcheff grafts a pair of new...
release : 1960.12.01popularis : 2.629
Seven Sinners
Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at an hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery...
release : 1936.06.01popularis : 3.823
Your Witness
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach...
release : 1950.03.06popularis : 3.671
The Love Lottery
Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone, he...
release : 1954.01.30popularis : 4.031
The Citadel
Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at...
release : 1938.10.29popularis : 4.005
Old Roses
An elderly man assists the police in solving a murder, but accidentally reveals his own criminal past in the process.
release : 1935.01.01popularis : 2.384
Uncensored
During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter...
release : 1942.08.24popularis : 3.515
Hostile Witness
Simon Crawford is a barrister whose daughter is killed in a hit-and-run accident. When his neighbor is also killed, evidence points to the barrister...
release : 1968.11.01popularis : 2.499
The Years Between
Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop...
release : 1946.07.08popularis : 1.971
Saint Joan
Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many...
release : 1957.05.08popularis : 7.408
Alice in Wonderland
This exceptional theatrical version of Lewis Carroll's 1865 classic features a combination of live characters and puppets.
release : 1949.05.13popularis : 6.728
The Running Man
An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an...
release : 1963.10.01popularis : 7.055
The Two-Headed Spy
Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly...
release : 1958.11.17popularis : 4.717
The Ghost of St. Michael's
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...
release : 1941.04.01popularis : 1.757
Time Flies
The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill...
release : 1944.05.08popularis : 3.615
Dusty Ermine
A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his...
release : 1936.12.01popularis : 4.105
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying...
release : 1947.10.30popularis : 2.365
The Black Sheep of Whitehall
A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and...
release : 1942.02.23popularis : 2.141
The Doctor's Dilemma
Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.
release : 1959.01.01popularis : 6.411
The Ghost Camera
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a...
release : 1933.01.31popularis : 3.934
The Peterville Diamond
Frantic farce involving a neglected wife, a stolen diamond and four identical briefcases.
release : 1943.01.11popularis : 0.966
I Accuse!
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an...
release : 1958.03.05popularis : 7.584
Green Fingers
A fisherman begins studying to be an osteopath. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he begins treating his landlady's daughter who is...
release : 1947.06.02popularis : 4.18
The Demi-Paradise
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking...
release : 1943.11.18popularis : 3.36
She Shall Have Murder
A clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have a motive.
release : 1950.12.01popularis : 2.12
The Rat
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...
release : 1937.11.11popularis : 1.152
The Vicar of Bray
The Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external...
release : 1937.05.09popularis : 2.233
Mr. Emmanuel
An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany,...
release : 1944.08.02popularis : 3.637
The Ace of Spades
The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of...
release : 1935.02.09popularis : 1.569
Royal Eagle
A clerk is suspected of committing a warehouse robbery and captures the real thieves aboard a pleasure boat.
release : 1936.01.01popularis : 0.668
From the Terrace
Alfred Eaton, an ambitious young executive, climbs to the top of New York's financial world as his marriage crumbles. At the brink of attaining his...
release : 1960.07.15popularis : 5.119
The Frog
In this Edgar Wallace adaptation, Sergeant Elk (a lugubrious Gordon Harker) sets out to unmask the Frog, the evil mastermind heading up a mysterious...
release : 1937.03.23popularis : 1.004
Edward, My Son
Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.
release : 1949.03.01popularis : 3.516
Land of Liberty
This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.
release : 1939.06.15popularis : 2.138
The Lady with a Lamp
Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young...
release : 1951.09.22popularis : 2.95
In the Soup
A young married couple try to impress a rich relation by posing as maid and butler of the household.
release : 1936.04.01popularis : 0.568
The Mill on the Floss
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill...
release : 1937.01.09popularis : 2.769
Jack of All Trades
In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a...
release : 1936.12.30popularis : 4.982
Escape!
When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy...
release : 1930.08.28popularis : 2.809
Kate Plus Ten
Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
release : 1938.03.17popularis : 0.803
South Riding
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity...
release : 1938.08.01popularis : 3.765
Loser Takes All
Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the...
release : 1956.09.09popularis : 10.032
A Man About the House
Handsome Italian laborer Kieron Moore works as caretaker of the Neopolitan villa inherited by plain-Jane Englishwomen Margaret Johnston and Dulcie...
release : 1947.10.03popularis : 1.668
The Wicked Lady
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
release : 1945.11.15popularis : 4.227
Action for Slander
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
release : 1937.07.21popularis : 2.548
Her Last Affaire
Desperate to prove his father innocent of treason, a secretary arranges a clandestine assignation with his employer's wife in order to get the proof...
release : 1935.10.21popularis : 0.411
She Shall Have Music
Millionaire shipbuilder Freddie Gates decides to publicize his ships by hiring Jack Hylton and his orchestra to broadcast from his yacht.. Brian...
release : 1935.04.14popularis : 0.685
Tudor Rose
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
release : 1936.09.01popularis : 1.259
The Boys
A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of...
release : 1962.08.31popularis : 3.833
The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp
An angel finds that she needs money to fulfill her mission on Earth. Her only solution to this problem is to pawn her harp.
release : 1954.09.09popularis : 1.253
Checkmate
A fence for a gang of jewel thieves comes under suspicion from the police.
release : 1935.09.26popularis : 1.736
Hamlet
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version...
release : 1948.12.10popularis : 14.351
The Saint's Vacation
While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.
release : 1941.05.09popularis : 1.489
Doctor's Orders
Leslie Fuller stars as a quack whose son qualifies as a doctor in total ignorance of his father's occupation!
release : 1934.11.01popularis : 1.457
Saloon Bar
A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
release : 1940.11.02popularis : 2.698
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. ...
release : 1940.08.31popularis : 1.12
Girl in the News
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later...
release : 1940.08.28popularis : 2.475
Victoria the Great
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule...
release : 1937.09.01popularis : 2.238
Macbeth
Hallmark Hall of Fame's second version of Shakespeare's classic play, with the same two stars and the same director as its first version, but a...
release : 1964.03.16popularis : 1.791
The Master of Ballantrae
Scottish highlander Jamie Durie falls into a life of piracy after joining the failed rebellion of Bonnie Prince Charlie against the British crown.
release : 1953.08.05popularis : 4.427
A Welcome to Britain
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...
release : 1943.01.01popularis : 2.93
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
A meek teller thinks he's killed his boss. He flees with a box of cash hoping for a new life with his younger mistress.
release : 1952.12.01popularis : 4.578
The Way to the Stars
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join...
release : 1945.06.16popularis : 4.205
Just like a Woman
A group of private detectives working for a jeweler pursue a gang of thieves in Argentina.
release : 1939.11.16popularis : 0.891
Glamorous Night
Based on Ivor Novello's hit stage play: an opera singer and her gypsy friends try to rescue their king from the clutches of a would-be dictator.
release : 1937.04.28popularis : 1.009
Sensation
Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him...
release : 1936.12.16popularis : 1.593
Henry V
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
release : 1944.11.24popularis : 11.808
I Thank You
Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded...
release : 1941.10.20popularis : 4.586
The Spell of Amy Nugent
A young man's fiancé dies after contracting a terminal illness, and in his efforts to contact her he gets involved with a group of...
release : 1941.05.10popularis : 2.808
The Path of Glory
Comedy about two Ruritanian countries who declare war on each other with the mutual intention of losing. Political satire that might have been...
release : 1934.10.08popularis : 2.259
Hello, Sweetheart
A young poultry farmer is flattered and persuaded into financing a film production. He attempts to interfere in the direction, is swindled and left...
release : 1935.05.30popularis : 0.634
Spies of the Air
Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released...
release : 1939.03.30popularis : 2.411
The Iron Duke
The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
release : 1934.11.30popularis : 1.729
The Young Mr. Pitt
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
release : 1942.09.21popularis : 2.639
Sixty Glorious Years
Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
release : 1938.11.18popularis : 1.259
Hi Gang!
Hi Gang! is a 1941 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon and Vic Oliver. It was a spin-off from the...
release : 1941.12.27popularis : 0.61
Atlantic Ferry
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
release : 1941.09.06popularis : 2.082
Major Barbara
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the...
release : 1941.05.14popularis : 3.444
Dreaming Lips
Dreaming Lips was lovingly assembled by filmmaker Paul Czinner as an "ideal" vehicle for his popular actress wife Elizabeth Bergner. The star plays...
release : 1937.02.02popularis : 1.214
The Seventh Survivor
During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by...
release : 1942.01.05popularis : 5.224
The Briggs Family
During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car
release : 1940.09.07popularis : 2.408
Escape to Danger
During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans invade.
release : 1943.10.18popularis : 1.418
The Temporary Widow
Kitty Kellermann is put on trial for murdering her husband, a failed painter. When her counsel resigns from his mandate, the mysterious Peter Bille...
release : 1930.07.13popularis : 2.576
The World, the Flesh and the Devil
A lawyer plans to murder an aristocrat and steal his inheritance.
release : 1932.11.01popularis : 3.147
Quartet
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
release : 1948.10.26popularis : 10.48
Trio
W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
release : 1950.10.10popularis : 4.327
Whispering Tongues
When his father commits suicide a gentleman sets out to avenge the death on those who swindled him out of a fortune.
release : 1934.09.24popularis : 2.148
Captain Brassbound's Conversion
A titled Englishwoman proves more than a match for the fearsome Captain Brassbound.
release : 1960.03.02popularis : 2.445
So Long at the Fair
Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny travel from Naples to visit the 1889 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in their hotel. When the...
release : 1950.05.31popularis : 7.926
Masquerade
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
release : 1965.04.13popularis : 2.301
The Man in the Mirror
A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he...
release : 1936.10.15popularis : 1.581
The October Man
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is...
release : 1947.08.28popularis : 3.713
Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. I: Julius Caesar - The Forum Scene - Act III. Scene 2
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to...
release : 1945.12.03popularis : 2.835
Caesar and Cleopatra
The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.
release : 1945.12.11popularis : 10.895
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered...
release : 1943.07.26popularis : 10.523
English Without Tears
While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her...
release : 1944.07.28popularis : 2.557
No Highway in the Sky
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His...
release : 1951.06.28popularis : 7.525
South American George
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...
release : 1941.12.27popularis : 0.852
The Clairvoyant
A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)
release : 1935.06.07popularis : 3.447
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is...
release : 1949.10.12popularis : 3.973
The Laughing Lady
A musical set during the French Revolution.
release : 1946.10.16popularis : 0.933
Thursday's Child
A couple's little girl becomes a movie star, but all it seems to bring is trouble.
release : 1943.03.24popularis : 1.025
The Magic Bow
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert...
release : 1946.09.20popularis : 3.082
Sabotage at Sea
The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.
release : 1942.09.07popularis : 1.826
This England
Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans,...
release : 1941.07.22popularis : 3.091
The Man Within
A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
release : 1947.05.19popularis : 3.31
Young Man's Fancy
An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball
release : 1939.07.31popularis : 4.494
The Calendar
The favourite for the big race is nobbled and suspicion falls on the owner. His secret admirer proves it wasn't him.
release : 1948.07.05popularis : 3.885