Peeping Tom (1960)
Drama | Horror | Thriller
A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
Starring: Karlheinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Pamela Green, Brenda Bruce
Director: Michael Powell
The Red Shoes (1948)
Drama | Music | Romance
Michael Powell directs Hans Christian Andersen's tale of a famous ballerina who must choose between art and love filmed in glorious Technicolor Jack Cardiff cinematography.
Starring: Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Robert Helpmann, Albert Bassermann, Ludmilla Tchérina
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
49th Parallel / The Invaders (1941)
Drama | Thriller | War
In the early years of World War II, a German U-boat (U-37) sinks Allied shipping in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and then tries to evade Canadian Military Forces seeking to destroy it by sailing up to Hudson Bay. The U-boat's Fanatical Nazi captain sends some members of his crew to look for food and other supplies at a Hudson Bay Company outpost. No sooner than the shore party (lead by Lieutenant Hirth) reaches the shore, the U-boat is spotted and sunk by the Canadian Armed Forces leaving the six members of the shore party stranded in Canada. The Nazi Lieutenant then starts to plan his crews' return to the Fatherland. He needs to reach the neutral United States or be captured. Along the way they meet a variety of characters each with their own views on the war and nationalism.
Starring: Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massey, Anton Walbrook, Eric Portman
Director: Michael Powell
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A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Comedy | Drama | Mystery | War
A 'Land Girl', an American GI, and a British soldier find themselves together in a small Kent town on the road to Canterbury. The town is being plagued by a mysterious "glue-man", who pours glue on the hair of girls dating soldiers after dark. The three attempt to track him down, and begin to have suspicions of the local magistrate, an eccentric figure with a strange, mystical vision of the history of England in general and Canterbury in particular.
Starring: Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, John Sweet
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
Hans Langsdorff is captaining the crack German battleship Graf Spee through the South Atlantic, unaware that a small number of lightweight British battle cruisers are hot on his trail. When the British cruisers manage to trap the powerful German ship in the Uruguayan harbor of Montevideo, they attempt to trick Langsdorff into believing that an entire battle fleet is waiting to destroy his vessel at sea.
Starring: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Ian Hunter, Jack Gwillim, Bernard Lee
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
