Thora Hird Movies

The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in...

Genre: War

Cast: Leslie Banks

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Brian Donlevy

A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eric Portman

As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alan Bates

A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the slow...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marlon Brando

In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

Norman is the oldest orphan at Greenwood Children's Home and now acts as their caretaker. All the orphans are very happy and well cared for. The...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Norman Wisdom

An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mark Stevens

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stephen Murray

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Mills

A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Taylor

A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurence Olivier

Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Byrne

A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

A British girl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gene Tierney

A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yvonne Mitchell

U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in...

Genre: Crime

Cast: David Farrar

Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Beverly Michaels

Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ronnie Corbett

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Hay

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Dirk Bogarde

Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tyler Butterworth

The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: David Tomlinson

A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare,...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jack Warner

After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Askey

Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victoria Wood

Based on The Hand and the Flower, a novel by Jerrard Tickell, A Day to Remember stars Stanley Holloway as Charley Porter, captain of London darts...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stanley Holloway

Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Thora Hird

In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Beverly Michaels

Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pat Kirkwood

Howes plays Pamela Dickson, an impulsive young bride-to-be, while Guy Rolfe portrays her long-lost father Paul. Ostensibly a cad and bounder, Paul...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sally Ann Howes

A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mai Zetterling

Ministry of Information-sponsored comedy short showing wartime audiences how to deal with the threat of incendiary bombs.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Hay

Percy Winthram is a naive young man who still lives at home with his mum. In London for the Cup Final with his friends, he finds himself in a Soho...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry H. Corbett

A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clashes with another soldier.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Frankie Vaughan

The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.

Genre: Romance

Cast: John McCallum

The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing...

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Cast: James Hayter

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Denison

When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They've never really got on, so Midgley wants to be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alan Bennett

A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Neville Smith

Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry Man

Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alan Bennett

A series of monologues.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patricia Routledge

Julie and The Cadillacs, a struggling young pop group, are enticed to London and signed up by London PR men...

Genre: Music

Cast: Tina Hall

Bickering married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peter Finch

Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Valerie Hobson

When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Veronica Hurst

Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mervyn Johns

Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eric Portman

A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Janet Munro

Diana and Deric have an ideal marriage: they thrive in each other's company, they're funny, and they enjoy their two grown children and Deric's dotty...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Julie Walters

London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Anne Crawford

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Merle Oberon

During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.

Genre: War

Cast: Phyllis Calvert

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Peggy Mount

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Eric Portman

When George discovers that he has won the pools, there is huge excitement in the household. But it turns out that it's his son who has won, in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Warner

A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ursula Jeans

On the first night of his London assignment, newsagency reporter John Desmonmd becomes heavily involved with enigmatic Anna Ray. The affair ends when...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Larry Parks

Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfair fashion salon. His intention is to sell it as...

Genre: Music

Cast: Anna Neagle

A stolid British family from Bishops Stortford are adventurous and book a holiday in a villa in Morocco, where things befall them.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thora Hird

The first in a series of new plays. Arthur and Gwen, a cosy middle-aged couple, remember with nostalgia the pre-Motorway Britain of their youth. When...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald Pleasence

On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Wilding

Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dermot Walsh

Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maggie Smith

Sergeant Jack Hardacre returns from the war to his contemptible fiancée Janey Jenkins intending to reconcile with her against all odds. But he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Donat

Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

Genre: War

Cast: Clifford Evans

George Watson's domestic bliss is shattered when his wife discovers he has broken his promise never to gamble again.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thora Hird

Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captain Barnabus Butcher who fools Robinson into...

Genre: Family

Cast: Timothy Spall

Olive Major is determined that her year of office as Mayor will be a happy and successful one. But her appointment of Ex-Warrant Officer Higham as...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Thora Hird

A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Janette Scott

In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one...

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Cast: Kika Markham

An ill tailor is trying to finish a coat for a wealthy man. He is hindered by his cat and helped by some grateful mice.

Genre: Family

Cast: Ian Holm

The uneasy relationship between elderly couple Thora Hird and Ron Moody and a cheerful stranger who moves in with them (Ronald Lacey). Written by...

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Cast: Thora Hird