The Red Shoes (1948) more movies like this

directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
featuring Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Léonide Massine, Albert Basserman

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's influential musical tragedy set the stage for the climactic dance ballets that became a staple of the Arthur Freed-MGM musicals (An American in Paris, Singin' in the Rain and The Band Wagon) of the early 1950s. Hans Christian Andersen's tragic fairy tale forms the basis of this film about betrayal, love and ...

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Black Narcissus (1947) more movies like this

directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
featuring Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Esmond Knight, Flora Robson, Jean Simmons

British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger once again deliberately courted controversy and censorship with their 1947 adaptation of Rumer Godden's novel. Deborah Kerr and Kathleen Byron play the head nuns at an Anglican hospital/school high in the Himalayas. The nuns' well-ordered existence is disturbed by the presence of a handsome ...

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The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) more movies like this

directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
featuring Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville, Robert Helpmann, Pamela Brown, Frederick Ashton

Most baby-boomers are familiar with the Powell-Pressburger production of the Offenbach opera Tales of Hoffman only through the full-color stills from the film which were reproduced in the "Motion Picture" section of The World Book Encyclopedia. If this is your only memory of the film, we advise you to seek out a videotaped copy of this lengthy but ...

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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) more movies like this

directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
featuring Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, Roland Culver, Albert Lieven, Spencer Trevor, James McKechnie

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's much-lauded epic Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, which satirizes British traditionalism, stirred up impassioned hostilities and indignations among the Brits when released in 1943. It so infuriated Winston Churchill, in fact, that he refused to allow its exportation to other countries, particularly the U.S. ...

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I Know Where I'm Going! (1945) more movies like this

directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
featuring Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, George Carney, Petula Clark, Walter Hudd

While awaiting access to England's Technicolor cameras for their upcoming super-production Stairway to Heaven, the producer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger dashed off a delightful "personal" project, I Know Where I'm Going. Young middle-class Englishwoman Joan Webster (Wendy Hiller) is determined to have the finer things in ...

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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1941) more movies like this

directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
featuring Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles, Hugh Burden, Pamela Brown

This subtle, unadorned British war drama was the second collaboration between "The Archers," Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Six British bomber crewmen are obliged to bail out over Holland. To escape detection from the Nazis, the crewmen accept the hospitality of several Hollanders, all dedicated to the freedom-fighting activities of the ...

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A Matter of Life and Death (1946) more movies like this

directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
featuring David Niven, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Richard Attenborough

Also known as Stairway to Heaven, A Matter of Life and Death is the remarkable British fantasy film that became the surprise hit of 1946. David Niven stars as Peter Carter, a World War II RAF pilot who is forced to bail out of his crippled plane without a parachute. He wakes up to find he has landed on Earth utterly unharmed...which wasn't ...

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The Small Back Room (1949) more movies like this

directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
featuring David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Cyril Cusack, Michael Gough, Leslie Banks

Few British films were run on American TV in 1950s with such frequency as The Small Back Room (U.S. title: Hour of Glory). A typically multilayered effort from the Powell-Pressburger team, the film stars David Farrar as crippled munitions genius Sammy Rice. During WW II, Rice is constantly frustrated by the limits of his handicap and by the never ...

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Pursuit of the Graf Spee (1956) more movies like this

directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
featuring John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch, Ian Hunter, Jack Gwillim, Bernard Lee

Widely regarded as one of the best and most intelligent British war dramas of the 1950s, The Battle of River Plate is the story of Britain's first significant naval victory in WW2. John Gregson heads the cast as Captain Bell, skipper of the Exeter, one of several vessels engaged in pursuit of the "indestructable" Geman battleship Graf Spee. Taking ...

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A Canterbury Tale (1944) more movies like this

directed by Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
featuring Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, John Sweet, Charles Hawtrey

Set not in the 14th century milieu of Geoffrey Chaucer but in wartime Britain, A Canterbury Tale begins with rural justice of the peace Eric Portman adopting a "lock up your daughters" policy when the American soldiers are stationed nearby. To escape the arbitrary edicts of Portman, British tank sergeant Dennis Price, American GI John Sweet and ...

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