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1	The Thief of Bagdad (1940) more movies like this directed by Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, Sr. featuring Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin, Rex Ingram In ancient Bagdad, the young prince Ahmad (John Justin) is betrayed, deposed, and imprisoned by his vizier Jaffar (Conrad Veidt), an evil and calculating man who is also a master of the Black Arts. But Ahmad is saved from prison, and certain execution, by Abu (Sabu), a young thief who has made his way in life by stealing whatever he needs. ... see all copies from $7.49! new only from $31.47!
2	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 ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $19.99!
3	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 ... see all copies from $2.04! new only from $31.88!
4	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 ... see all copies from $4.59! new only from $31.77!
5	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. ... see all copies from $11.90! new only from $28.72!
6	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 ... see all copies from $12.94! new only from $32.39!
7	Peeping Tom (1960) more movies like this directed by Michael Powell featuring Karl Heinz Böhm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey, Maxine Audley, Esmond Knight, Shirley Ann Field Michael Powell's controversial meditation on violence and voyeurism effectively destroyed his career when it was first released, but later generations have come to regard it as a masterpiece. Karl Heinz Boehm stars as Mark, the son of a psychologist who kept a video journal of the boy's upbringing for research purposes. The constant intrusions ... see all copies from $33.16! new only from $33.16!
8	The 49th Parallel (1941) more movies like this directed by Michael Powell featuring Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Laurence Olivier, Anton Walbrook, Glynis Johns 49th Parallel is a British wartime entreaty for Empire solidarity, concentrating on rousing the patriotic fervor of the citizens of Canada. A group of Nazi naval officers and crewmen are stranded on Canadian soil (we have no sympathy for the castaways, inasmuch as we have just seen them refusing food and water to a group of torpedoed British ... see all copies from $7.75! new only from $21.95!
9	Contraband (1940) more movies like this directed by Michael Powell featuring Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Joss Ambler, Raymond Lovell, Esmond Knight The Danish freighter Helvig approaches English waters in early 1940 and, in keeping with the needs of British security, it is boarded by customs and naval officials in search of contraband cargo. Her skipper, Captain Anderson (Conrad Veidt), is compelled to ascede to British demands, but dreads the delay, pointing out that the medical supplies in ... see all copies from $5.89! new only from $22.90!
10	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 ... see all copies from $6.49! new only from $12.00!
11	The Night of the Party (1934) more movies like this directed by Michael Powell featuring Jane Baxter, Viola Keats, Ian Hunter, Leslie Banks, Ernst Thesiger Based upon the play Murder Party by Roland Pertwee and John Hastings Turner, Night of the Party uses one of the murder mystery genre's favorite conventions, that of a parlor game gone wrong. In this instance, the game is being held after a dinner party thrown by the ruthless publishing tycoon, Lord Studholme, in honor of the visiting Princess ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!
12	Lazybones (1935) directed by Michael Powell Adapted from a play by Ernest Denny, this was one of director Michael Powell's "quota quickies" that lived up to the name, being filmed in a scant thirteen nights. (The stars were appearing in West End plays and couldn't film during the day, a not-uncommon practice at the time.) The lazybones of the title is Sir Reginald Ford, a baronet who has ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!
13	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 ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!
14 view cover	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 ... see all copies from $33.16! new only from $33.16!
15 view cover	The Edge of the World (1937) more movies like this directed by Michael Powell featuring John Laurie, Belle Chrystal, Eric Berry, Finlay Currie, Niall MacGinnis, Grant Sutherland, Campbell Robson, George Summers A key film in the career of director Michael Powell, The Edge of the World was his first original idea to be realized onscreen, and its success attracted the attention of producer Alexander Korda. Korda's bankrolling of Powell's next several films catapulted the filmmaker into the first rank of British directors. Powell was attracted to the idea ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!
16 view cover	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 ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!
17 view cover	The Spy in Black (1939) more movies like this directed by Michael Powell featuring Conrad Veidt, Sebastian Shaw, Valerie Hobson, Marius Goring, June Duprez The Spy In Black is the story of a German World War I submarine captain (Conrad Veidt) who is given a mission to discover British intelligence secrets. Once he arrives in the Orkney Islands, he meets up with a female schoolteacher (Valerie Hobson), who happens to be a German agent. Veidt falls in love with Hobson before discovering she's actually ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!
18	The Phantom Light (1935) more movies like this directed by Michael Powell featuring Binnie Hale, Donald Calthrop, Milton Rosmer, Ian Hunter Three talented screenwriters collaborated in adapting Evadne Price and Joan Roy Byford's play The Haunted Light to the screen as Phantom Light. This British chiller-diller-thriller begins with the mysterious murder of a lighthouse keeper. After his death, the region is plagued by shipwrecks, each heralded by a "phantom light" beaming from the ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $14.99!
19 view cover	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 ... see all copies from $9.68!

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