Soundtrack: John Greenwood
The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by John Greenwood. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.
Man of Aran
1934 · Documentary · 75 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert J. Flaherty
Plot Robert J. Flaherty’s award-winning Man of Aran uses stunning location photography and brilliant montage editing to build a forceful drama of life on the Aran Islands. Situated among the frequent...
7.4
1K votes
7.4
1K votes
Frieda
1947 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Basil Dearden
Cast David Farrar · Glynis Johns · Mai Zetterling · Flora Robson
Plot An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped...
6.9
22 votes
6.9
22 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
'Pimpernel' Smith
1941 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie Howard
Cast Leslie Howard · Francis L. Sullivan · Mary Morris · Hugh McDermott
Plot It is mid-1939 and both Germany and England are preparing for an inevitable conflict. Professor Horatio Smith, an effete academic, asks his students to come with him to the continent...
6.6
66 votes
6.6
66 votes
Another Man's Poison
1951 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Irving Rapper
Cast Bette Davis · Gary Merrill · Emlyn Williams · Anthony Steel
Plot Mystery writer Janet Frobisher lives alone in a dark English country house, when she's not philandering with her secretary's fiancée. At an extremely awkward moment, she has an unwelcome visitor:...
6.6
200 votes
6.6
200 votes
Trio
1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Annakin · Harold French
Cast James Hayter · Kathleen Harrison · Felix Aylmer · Lana Morris
Plot Three short playlets are presented in this omnibus feature. "The Verger" focuses on a church verger who loses his position when it is discovered that he can neither read nor...
6.3
52 votes
6.3
52 votes
The Gentle Sex
1943 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie Howard · Maurice Elvey
Cast Joan Gates · Jean Gillie · Joan Greenwood · Joyce Howard
Plot This film tells the stories of seven 'gentle' British girls who decide to "do their bit" and help out during World War II.
5.9
23 votes
5.9
23 votes
21 Days
1940 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Basil Dean
Cast Vivien Leigh · Leslie Banks · Laurence Olivier · Francis L. Sullivan
5.9
151 votes
5.9
151 votes
The Drum
1938 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Zoltan Korda
Cast Sabu · Raymond Massey · Roger Livesey · Valerie Hobson
Plot Set in the India of the British Raj. All the Indians are portrayed as untrustworthy, plotting to overthrow their British masters. The only 'loyal' Indian is Prince Azim who tries...
5.9
153 votes
5.9
153 votes
Elephant Boy
1937 · Movie · 79 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert J. Flaherty · Zoltan Korda
Cast Sabu · W.E. Holloway · Walter Hudd · Allan Jeayes
Plot This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai, of the Elephants", in which a small native lad claims he knows the congregating place of the elephant hordes.
5.9
128 votes
5.9
128 votes
The Sleeping Cardinal
1931 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie S. Hiscott
Cast Arthur Wontner · Ian Fleming · Minnie Rayner · Norman McKinnel
Plot First of five movies with Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes. Card cheat Ronald Adair hears a disembodied voice coming from a painting of cardinal threatening him with exposure and disgrace...
5.7
38 votes
5.7
38 votes
The Constant Nymph
1933 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Basil Dean
Cast Brian Aherne · Victoria Hopper · Leonora Corbett · Lyn Harding
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Family Portrait (S)
1950 · Documentary · 25 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Humphrey Jennings
Cast Michael Goodliffe
Plot In preparation for the celebration of the 1951 Festival of Britain, this short film was released to assure British citizens of their nation's place in the world and of their...
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Seven Sinners
1936 · Movie · 67 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Albert de Courville
Cast Edmund Lowe · Constance Cummings · Thomy Bourdelle · Henry Oscar
Plot US private eye sorts out European crime wave. With female sidekick in tow, wisecracking private eye follows a trail of corpses around Europe, shaking up a sinister criminal network which...
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Alibi
1931 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie S. Hiscott
Cast Austin Trevor · Franklin Dyall · Elizabeth Allan · J.H. Roberts
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The Lamp Still Burns
1943 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Maurice Elvey
Cast Rosamund John · Stewart Granger · Godfrey Tearle · Sophie Stewart
Plot A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
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The Lost People
1949 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Muriel Box · Bernard Knowles
Cast Dennis Price · Mai Zetterling · Richard Attenborough · Siobhan McKenna
Plot Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees (displaced persons) in this theatre, prior to returning...
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The Gentle Gunman
1952 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Basil Dearden
Cast John Mills · Dirk Bogarde · Robert Beatty · Elizabeth Sellars
Plot IRA member Terry modifies his violent views after working undercover in wartime London. When his co-conspirators are arrested, he ensures that his brother Matt escapes back to Ireland. Terry follows...
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San Demetrio London
1943 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Frend
Cast Arthur Young · Walter Fitzgerald · Ralph Michael · Neville Mapp
Plot The San Demetrio of the title is a British merchant ship in an Atlantic convoy in 1940. Disabled and left to the mercy of patrolling U-boats the crew must keep...
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Hungry Hill
1947 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Brian Desmond Hurst
Cast Margaret Lockwood · Dennis Price · Cecil Parker · Dermot Walsh
Plot Much to the consternation of the local townsfolk, the very rich Copper John Brodrick begins to develop a copper mine on Hungry Hill. He imports Cornish workers hoping to eventually...
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