Soundtrack: Muir Mathieson
The best movies, series, and documentaries with a soundtrack by Muir Mathieson. Enjoy the titles that feature an unforgettable music.
This Happy Breed
1944 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Lean
Cast Robert Newton · Celia Johnson · Stanley Holloway · John Mills
Plot Noel Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort...
6.9
639 votes
6.9
639 votes
The L-Shaped Room
1962 · Movie · 126 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bryan Forbes
Cast Leslie Caron · Tom Bell · Bernard Lee · Brock Peters
Plot Jane (Leslie Caron), a young French woman, pregnant and unmarried, takes a room in a seedy London boarding house, which is inhabited by an assortment of misfits. She considers getting...
6.7
140 votes
6.7
140 votes
Circus of Horrors
1960 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sidney Hayers
Cast Anton Diffring · Erika Remberg · Yvonne Monlaur · Donald Pleasence
Plot In 1947 England, a plastic surgeon must beat a hasty retreat to France when one of his patients has ghastly problems with her surgery. Once there, he operates on a...
5.8
89 votes
5.8
89 votes
Once More, With Feeling!
1960 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stanley Donen
Cast Yul Brynner · Kay Kendall · Geoffrey Toone · Maxwell Shaw
5.3
71 votes
5.3
71 votes
Call Me Bwana
1963 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gordon Douglas
Cast Bob Hope · Anita Ekberg · Edie Adams · Lionel Jeffries
Plot A returning moon capsule with vital information goes off course and lands in Africa where the little-known Ekele tribesmen find it. Washington orders the great African Authority Matthew Merriwether (Bob...
4.6
31 votes
4.6
31 votes
What a Carve Up! / No Place Like Homicide!
1961 · Movie · 87 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Pat Jackson
Cast Sid James · Kenneth Connor · Shirley Eaton · Donald Pleasence
Plot Ernie's uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral home with the rest of his relatives. Before long the guests...
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Tread Softly Stranger
1958 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gordon Parry
Cast Diana Dors · George Baker · Terence Morgan · Patrick Allen
Plot An irresistible temptress causes trouble between two brothers when the more handsome charismatic ones turns up, leading to robbery and death.
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Steel
1945 · Documentary · 35 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ronald H. Riley
Cast John Laurie
Plot A Technicolor masterpiece, 'Steel' explores the manufacture of steel and the workings of a foundry. 'The backbone of Britain's industrial power lies in her great Steel Industry. In the blast...
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The Private Life of the Gannets (S)
1934 · Documentary · 10 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Julian Huxley
Plot A 1934 GB production that was picked up in 1937 by Educational for 20th Century Fox distribution about the gannet, (a beautiful white and exceedingly graceful bird deemed the best...
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Crooks Anonymous
1962 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Annakin
Cast Leslie Phillips · Stanley Baxter · Julie Christie · Wilfrid Hyde-White
Plot Forsdyke, a pathological petty thief subjects himself to a strict correction course run by a wealthy ex-con Widdowes and his Crooks Anonymous organization. Forsdyke's young and innocent girlfriend Babette, holds...
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Waterfront
1950 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Anderson
Cast Robert Newton · Kathleen Harrison · Avis Scott · Susan Shaw
Plot A good-for-nothing sailor walks out on his young family leaving them to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums. They make a go of their lives and the eldest daughter,...
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Calamity the Cow
1967 · Movie · 59 min. · United Kingdom
Direction David Eastman
Cast John Moulder-Brown · Elizabeth Dear · Stephen Brown · Phil Collins
Plot Farmer Grant's children get him to buy a cow from another farmer. The children work hard to make the cow fit and healthy enough for the show ring. But at...
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Hide and Seek
1964 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Cy Endfield
Cast Ian Carmichael · Curd Jürgens · Janet Munro · George Pravda
Plot A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. The Russian is working with shady businessman Marek and they...
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The Heart of Britain (S)
1941 · Documentary · 9 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Humphrey Jennings
Cast Edward R. Murrow
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Power on the Land (S)
1943 · Documentary · 15 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Keene
Plot 'Power on the Land' demonstrates how advances in technology and machinery have helped modernise agriculture. 'British agriculture is the most mechanised in the world. Root crops are picked by machinery;...
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Hunted in Holland
1961 · Movie · 61 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Derek Williams
Cast Sean Scully · Jacques Verbrugge · Sandra Spurr · Walter Randall
Plot Tim (Sean Scully) comes over to Amsterdam to visit his penfriend Piet (Jacques Verbrugge). An Englishman operating as a tourist guide is a diamond-smuggler and the boys along with Piet's...
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Q Planes (Clouds Over Europe)
1939 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Tim Whelan · Arthur B. Woods
Cast Laurence Olivier · Ralph Richardson · Valerie Hobson · George Curzon
Plot When enemy agents steal plans for an experimental plane, the test pilot fights to clear his name.
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