Direction: Michael Powell

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Anton Walbrook · Moira Shearer · Marius Goring · Leonid Massine

Synopsis Under the authoritarian rule of charismatic ballet impressario Boris Lermontov, his proteges realize the full promise of their talents, but at a price: utter devotion to their art and complete loyalty to Lermontov himself. Under his near-obsessive guidance, young ballerina...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Roger Livesey · Anton Walbrook · Deborah Kerr · John Laurie

Synopsis Portrays in warm-hearted detail the life and loves of one extraordinary man. We meet the imposingly rotund General Clive Wynne-Candy, a blustering old duffer who seems the epitome of stuffy, outmoded values. Traveling backwards 40 years we see a different...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Deborah Kerr · Sabu · David Farrar · Flora Robson

Synopsis Five young British nuns are invited to move to a windy "palace", former house of the concubines of an old general, in the top of a mountain in Mopu, Himalaya, to raise the convent of Saint Faith Order, a school...

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Karlheinz Böhm · Moira Shearer · Anna Massey · Maxine Audley

Synopsis As a boy, Mark Lewis was subjected to bizarre experiments by his scientist-father, who wanted to study and record the effects of fear on the nervous system. Now grown up, both of his parents dead, Mark works by day as...

Direction Ludwig Berger · Michael Powell · Tim Whelan · William Cameron Menzies

Cast John Justin · Sabu · June Duprez · Conrad Veidt

Synopsis Prince Ahmad is the rightful King of Bagdad but he has been blinded and cast out as a beggar. Now a captive of the wicked Grand Vizier Jaffar he is cast into a dungeon where he meets Abu, the best...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Moira Shearer · Leonid Massine · Robert Helpmann · Robert Rounseville

Synopsis This a film version of the opera "The Tales of Hoffmann", however it is NOT just a film of a staged performance. 'Michael Powell' & Emeric Pressburger (and the rest of "The Archers") work their usual magic here. The opera...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast David Niven · Kim Hunter · Roger Livesey · Raymond Massey

Synopsis Returning to England from a bombing run in May 1945, flyer Peter Carter's plane is damaged and his parachute ripped to shreds. He has his crew bail out safely, but figures it is curtains for himself. He gets on the...

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Niall MacGinnis · John Laurie · Belle Chrystall · Finlay Currie

Synopsis A trio wanders the cliffs of a Shetland island and encounters a gravestone at the edge of a precipice; it reads, "Peter Manson ... gone over." One man in the trio knows the story of the gravestone and tells it...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Jennifer Jones · David Farrar · Cyril Cusack · Sybil Thorndike

Synopsis Hazel Woodus (Jennifer Jones) is a child of nature in the Shropshire countryside in 1897. She loves and understands all the wild animals more than the people around her. Whenever she has problems she turns to the book of spells...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Wendy Hiller · Roger Livesey · Finlay Currie · Pamela Brown

Synopsis An eloquent tribute to the mystery of the British landscape. Joan has known what she wants since early childhood. Now she's about to marry a millionaire, but a storm strands her on a Hebridean island and the forces of nature...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast David Farrar · Kathleen Byron · Jack Hawkins · Leslie Banks

Synopsis Sammy Rice (David Farrar) is a British scientist working with a specialist "back room" team in London during World War II. Rice is embittered because he feels military scientific research is being incompetently managed. He is also enduring unremitting pain...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

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

Synopsis 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 a farm as a 'Land Girl'. Peter Gibbs is an...

Direction Michael Powell

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

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

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Eric Portman · Leslie Howard · Laurence Olivier · Raymond Massey

Synopsis Michael Powell directed this odd wartime propaganda film, set in Canada, before the American entry into WWII. A German U-boat has infiltrated the Canadian coastline, seeking to attack and subvert our neighbors to the North, before Uncle sam can wake...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Godfrey Tearle · Eric Portman · Hugh Williams · Bernard Miles

Synopsis During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of Our Aircraft Is Missing". Behind these sombre words hid tales of death,...

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Conrad Veidt · Sebastian Shaw · Valerie Hobson · Marius Goring

Synopsis A German sub tries to sink the British fleet during World War I.

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger · Rouben Mamoulian

Cast Jennifer Jones · David Farrar · Cyril Cusack · Sybil Thorndike

Synopsis A re-editing of Gone to Earth (1950) after a disagreement and court case between director Michael Powell and producer David O. Selznick. Selznick's changes are mainly:- (1) Adding a prologue. (2) Adding scenes explaining things, often by putting labels or...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Peter Finch · John Gregson · Anthony Quayle · Ian Hunter

Synopsis Set during the early years of World War II, the War in the Atlantic. The Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to keep the convoy routes open to keep the British Isles supplied. One great danger was the surface...

Direction Michael Powell · Emeric Pressburger

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Marius Goring · David Oxley · Dimitri Andreas

Synopsis During World War II, a gang of desparadoes (British officers enlisted for "hostilities only" and local partisans) went to the occupied island of Crete and kidnapped a German General from under the nose of his army. That was the easy...

Direction Michael Powell

Cast James Mason · Helen Mirren · Jack MacGowran · Neva Carr-Glynn

Synopsis An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once more. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form...