Cast: Dora Bryan

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


A Taste of Honey

1961 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Rita Tushingham · Dora Bryan · Murray Melvin · Robert Stephens

Synopsis In a working-class British neighborhood, a 17-year-old girl is living with an alcoholic, promiscuous mother who ignores her. When her mother runs out on her with a new boyfriend, she finds a friend in a middle-aged gay man, who aspires...

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7.2

722 votes

7.2

722 votes

The Fallen Idol

1948 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Ralph Richardson · Michèle Morgan · Sonia Dresdel · Jack Hawkins

Synopsis An eight-year-old ambassador’s son, left in the care of manservant Baines and his suspicious wife, witnesses what he believes to be a murder.

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

The Green Man

1956 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Robert Day

Cast Alastair Sim · George Cole · Terry-Thomas · Jill Adams

Synopsis Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England just after the war is a different matter. His apparently easy target, a pompous government minister, is off for some hanky-panky at the Green...

6.2

26 votes

6.2

26 votes

MirrorMask

2005 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Dave McKean

Cast Stephanie Leonidas · Jason Barry · Gina McKee · Rob Brydon

Synopsis MirrorMask centers on Helena, a 15 year old girl in a family of circus entertainers, who often wishes she could run off and join real life. After a fight with her parents about her future plans, her mother falls quite...

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

The Blue Lamp

1950 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Basil Dearden

Cast Jack Warner · Jimmy Hanley · Dirk Bogarde · Robert Flemyng

Synopsis A pair of London hoodlums, rejected by the established criminal set, execute a spate of robberies which finally results in the death of a policeman.

6.1

128 votes

6.1

128 votes

The Interrupted Journey

1949 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Daniel Birt

Cast Valerie Hobson · Richard Todd · Tom Walls · Alexander Gauge

Synopsis When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train...

6.1

96 votes

6.1

96 votes

Apartment Zero

1988 · Movie · 124 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Martin Donovan

Cast Colin Firth · Hart Bochner · Dora Bryan · Liz Smith

Synopsis Set in modern day Buenos Aires, the film centers around a relationship between two emotionally crippled roommates. Adrian LeDuc is a lonely sociopath who is forced to rent his insane mothers room due to poor ticket sales at his revival...

5.9

74 votes

5.9

74 votes

Hands of the Ripper

1971 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Peter Sasdy

Cast Eric Porter · Angharad Rees · Jane Merrow · Keith Bell

Synopsis The infant daughter of Jack the Ripper is witness to the brutal murder of her mother by her father. Fifteen years later she is a troubled young woman who is seemingly possessed by the spirit of her father. While in...

5.8

248 votes

5.8

248 votes

The Cockleshell Heroes

1955 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction José Ferrer

Cast José Ferrer · Trevor Howard · Dora Bryan · Victor Maddern

Synopsis A British Army Reserve Major must work with a veteran Captain and a group of incorrigible recruits to attempt what is generally regarded as a suicide mission: the covert destruction of an entire German shipyard in occupied France.

5.4

120 votes

5.4

120 votes

An Angel For May

2002 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Harley Cokeliss

Cast Tom Wilkinson · Geraldine James · Hugo Speer · Anna Massey

Synopsis Set in South Yorkshire, An Angel for May, tells the tale of schoolboy Tom who is transported from the present to the time of the Second World War. Tom's time tunnel is a burnt out fireplace in the ruins of...

5.3

133 votes

5.3

133 votes

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As Long as They're Happy

1955 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Jack Buchanan · Brenda De Banzie · Janette Scott · Jeannie Carson

Synopsis A stockbroker's youngest daughter tricks an American singer into visiting her family at their suburban Wimbledon home. Her two sisters and their oddball husbands also visit and the stockbroker notes the effect of the singer on his lovelorn family.

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The Fake

1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Godfrey Grayson

Cast Dennis O'Keefe · Coleen Gray · Hugh Williams · Guy Middleton

Synopsis An American has to guard da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" when it is being shown in Britain. When it arrives he suspects it is not the real painting.

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Small Hotel

1957 · Movie · 57 min. · United Kingdom

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No Trace

1950 · Movie · 76 min. · United Kingdom

Direction John Gilling

Cast Hugh Sinclair · Dinah Sheridan · John Laurie · Dora Bryan

Synopsis When crime-writer Robert Southley finds his well-healed London lifestyle threatened by blackmail from a former American criminal associate he murders him. He is surprised when a Scotland Yard friend then invites him to help solve the case. To make matters...

Not rated

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Scarlet Thread

1951 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Kathleen Byron · Laurence Harvey · Sydney Tafler · Dora Bryan

Synopsis Two villains team up to steal some jewelry. The robbery goes wrong and an innocent man is shot.

Not rated

Not rated

Traveller's Joy

1950 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom

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Operation Bullshine

1959 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gilbert Gunn

Cast Donald Sinden · Barbara Murray · Carole Lesley · Ronald Shiner

Synopsis The fun starts when a group of A.T.S. girls are posted to a light ack-ack command post on a remote part of the English coast.

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Bernard's Watch

1997 · Series · 20 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Cobham · Rachel Tillotson · Dominic MacDonald · N.G. Bristow

Cast David Peachey · Liza Goddard · Ruth Hudson · Martin Neil

Synopsis A young boy is given a watch that can stop time by "The Postman".

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Not rated