Top Movies from United Kingdom
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Busman's Honeymoon (1940)
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When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...
Return to Yesterday (1940)
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Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
Sailors Three (1940)
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Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.
The Case of the Frightened Lady (1940)
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A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.
The Flying Squad (1940)
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Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940)
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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
Let George Do It! (1940)
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Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
Pastor Hall (1940)
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The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.
Saloon Bar (1940)
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A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
21 Days Together (1940)
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After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.
Crimes at the Dark House (1940)
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In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit Glyde's estate in England. On arriving in England, "Sir Percival" schemes to marry an heiress for her money, and, with the connivance of the cunning Dr. Isidor Fosco, embarks on a killing spree of all who suspect him to be an imposter and would get in the way of his plans to stay Lord of the Manor.
Catapult Ships (1940)
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Instructional film concerning the launching and recovery of aircraft in ships fitted with catapults.
The Body Vanished (1939)
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A Scotland Yard inspector and his reporter friend arrive on vacation in a small village and are immediately involved in what is claimed to be a murder but the body has disappeared, leaving it to the inspector to find the body, determine the motive and find the killer.
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939)
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During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
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A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
The Spy in Black (1939)
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A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
The Four Feathers (1939)
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A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.