Michael Powell Movies

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the...

A spoiled heiress defies her millionaire father by running off to France to pursue her lover. Things don't go entirely as planned.

John and his class visit the Tower of London, where he loses his pet mouse. He falls asleep during a lesson on electricity, but with some help, he...

After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain's first and only movie mogul with his...

John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing, his friend Harry Jones suggests applying to the...

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

Martin Scorsese presents this very personal and insightful new feature-length documentary about British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric...

During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.

A way of life is dying on a remote Scottish island, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.

The young talented girl Anya, dreaming of a ballet, enters the choreographic school. Due to poor health, learning for her becomes unbearably...

Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian...

Member of a village Purity League branch find things much livelier on a trip to London.

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

A singer struggles to dance well in rehearsal with her band. A power outage leaves her alone in the studio, reviewing her life, when a mysterious...

A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a...

The tourists travel on to Grasse, the perfume factory, and the valley of the Wolves.

The daughter of a Cockney drunkard marries a young aristocrat who is presumed killed in action in WWI. When she gets the news she goes to stay with...

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.

Amazing documentary shows rarely seen side of a master director. 1990 was a very good year for Martin Scorsese. After making a diverse group of films...

After a masterful Shakespearean performance in a London theater, Ralph Richardson is sought for an autograph by Fred, his dresser. Later, Fred has...