Filmes

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice....

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite...

In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...

Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of...

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young...

Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert...

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty...

When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed...

A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware,...

When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.

The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes involved with the criminals who make various...

A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money...

White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a...

Anne Maitland, a female lawyer, receives an unexpected late-night visit from ex-boyfriend Guy Ransome. She agrees to let him sleep on the sofa but he...

A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.

An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.

A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.