Charles Frend Movies

In this opera-oriented musical, Riccardo Gatti, an Italian young tenor in Venice, meets a young woman who sneaks into the opera house to try and get...

The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.

British drama documentary from 1943, based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had...

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters while being stalked by a British warship. They both make it to the...

Sheila's fourteen. Her father abandoned her as a baby, her mum's in jail and she's stuck in a children's home. Every family that's tried to look...

Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

British war documentary

The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.

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

The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and...

Which soldier will the naive, impressionable Raina choose to love - the unromantic, hard-nosed, tough Bluntschli, or the handsome, dashing, reckless...

Competition between rival inventors endeavouring to win a prize for the first flight by a man-powered flying machine.

The story of an Eastern sultan who is inordinately proud of his son. The young man bids fair to break his father's heart by conducting an affair with...