Cast: Joss Ambler

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Joss Ambler. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Citadel

1938 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction King Vidor

Cast Robert Donat · Rosalind Russell · Ralph Richardson · Rex Harrison

Plot Andrew Manson, a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his...

7.1

464 votes

7.1

464 votes

The Years Between

1946 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

6.8

24 votes

6.8

24 votes

A Canterbury Tale

1944 · Movie · 124 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Eric Portman · Sheila Sim · Dennis Price · John Sweet

Plot Three people arrive in a village in Southern England in the early years of World War II. Alison Smith is a London girl who is due to start working on...

6.8

364 votes

6.8

364 votes

Contraband

1940 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Conrad Veidt · Valerie Hobson · Hay Petrie · Joss Ambler

Plot Early in World War II, Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.

6.7

35 votes

6.7

35 votes

Trouble Brewing

1939 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Kimmins

Cast George Formby · Googie Withers · Gus McNaughton · Garry Marsh

Plot George has won a lot of money at the races but he's paid with counterfeit money. He sets about tracking down the criminals himself.

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Headline

1943 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Harlow

Cast David Farrar · Anne Crawford · John Stuart · Antoinette Cellier

Plot A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his boss's wife who had witnessed a murder.

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Sons of the Sea

1941 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Walter Forde

Cast Michael Redgrave · Valerie Hobson · Griffith Jones · Hartley Power

Plot After their state-of-the-art steamship the Gigantic sinks minutes after being launched, the MacIver brothers of Liverpool begin to plan for the future of their company. David takes a business-like approach...

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Miss Tulip Stays the Night

1955 · Movie · 68 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Leslie Arliss

Cast Diana Dors · Patrick Holt · Jack Hulbert · Cicely Courtneidge

Plot A crime writer and his wife go for a break to a country cottage. They receive an unexpected visitor, the bossy Miss Tulip, who needs shelter for the night. In...

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The Black Sheep of Whitehall

1942 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden · Will Hay

Cast Will Hay · John Mills · Basil Sydney · Henry Hewitt

Plot Will Hay plays a Professor teaching at a correspondence school who discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America....

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Something Money Can't Buy

1952 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Pat Jackson

Cast Patricia Roc · Anthony Steel · Moira Lister · A.E. Matthews

Plot A British Army Officer returns to civilian life after WWII. He finds that his wife is running a successful employment agency so he must become a "house husband". He doesn't...

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Mine Own Executioner

1947 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Kimmins

Cast Burgess Meredith · Dulcie Gray · Michael Shepley · Christine Norden

Plot Pretty Molly Lucian enlists the reluctant aid of psychologist Felix Milne in treating her potentially homicidal husband Adam, who refuses to see a "real" psychiatrist. Traumatized in a Japanese prison...

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The Peterville Diamond

1943 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

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Come on George!

1939 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

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Battle for Music

1943 · Documentary · 74 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Donald Taylor

Cast Joss Ambler · Clifford Buckton · Charles Carson · Mavis Clair

Plot A docu-drama about the troubles of the London Philharmonic Orchestra during World War II.

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Soho Incident

1956 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Vernon Sewell

Cast Faith Domergue · Lee Patterson · Rona Anderson · Martin Benson

Plot A Canadian living in London is trying to succeed as a prizefighter, without much luck. He meets the sister of a local mob leader, and she soon draws him into...

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Who Goes There!

1952 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Anthony Kimmins

Cast Nigel Patrick · Valerie Hobson · Peggy Cummins · Anthony Bushell

Plot A private in the Guards is forced to leave his girl friend in the (not-for-long) empty house of a high-ranking civil servant. The son discovers her and promptly falls in...

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Rhythm Serenade

1943 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gordon Wellesley

Cast Vera Lynn · Peter Murray-Hill · Julien Mitchell · Charles Victor

Plot Patriotic musical romance. After her school is closed, teacher Ann tries to join up. However, she is persuaded to organise a nursery for a munitions factory.

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Much Too Shy

1942 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Marcel Varnel

Cast George Formby · Kathleen Harrison · Hilda Bayley · Eileen Bennett

Plot A handyman and amateur artist gets into trouble when nude female bodies are added to the heads he has drawn of prominent ladies, and are sold as soap adverts.

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Penn of Pennsylvania

1942 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lance Comfort

Cast Clifford Evans · Deborah Kerr · Dennis Arundell · Aubrey Mallalieu

Plot William Penn's heroic deeds, on the European and American continents, are told in this portrait of the founding father of both the Quakers and the Pennsylvania colony.

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The Silver Fleet

1943 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Vernon Sewell · Gordon Wellesley

Cast Ralph Richardson · Googie Withers · Esmond Knight · Beresford Egan

Plot Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a...

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