Movies: Amy Veness

  • 1948
    Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist (1948)

    Oliver Twist

    7.41948HD

    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. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and ...

    Oliver Twist
  • 1951
    Captain Horatio Hornblower

    Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)

    Captain Horatio Hornblower

    6.81951HD

    Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels....

    Captain Horatio Hornblower
  • 1943
    The Man in Grey

    The Man in Grey (1943)

    The Man in Grey

    5.91943HD

    After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband....

    The Man in Grey
  • 1952
    Angels One Five

    Angels One Five (1952)

    Angels One Five

    5.91952HD

    The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balan...

    Angels One Five
  • 1954
    Doctor in the House

    Doctor in the House (1954)

    Doctor in the House

    6.31954HD

    The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon...

    Doctor in the House
  • 1944
    This Happy Breed

    This Happy Breed (1944)

    This Happy Breed

    7.01944HD

    In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighti...

    This Happy Breed
  • 1943
    Millions Like Us

    Millions Like Us (1943)

    Millions Like Us

    5.31943HD

    When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life and begins ...

    Millions Like Us
  • 1947
    The Master of Bankdam

    The Master of Bankdam (1947)

    The Master of Bankdam

    61947HD

    Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam....

    The Master of Bankdam
  • 1945
    Madonna of the Seven Moons

    Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)

    Madonna of the Seven Moons

    6.31945HD

    In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day ...

    Madonna of the Seven Moons
  • 1948
    My Brother's Keeper

    My Brother's Keeper (1948)

    My Brother's Keeper

    6.11948HD

    War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a wa...

    My Brother's Keeper
  • 1952
    The Magic Box

    The Magic Box (1952)

    The Magic Box

    6.31952HD

    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 include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was...

    The Magic Box
  • 1949
    A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

    A Boy, a Girl and a Bike (1949)

    A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

    4.91949HD

    The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts....

    A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
  • 1950
    Chance of a Lifetime

    Chance of a Lifetime (1950)

    Chance of a Lifetime

    6.31950HD

    The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out....

    Chance of a Lifetime
  • 1949
    The Huggetts Abroad

    The Huggetts Abroad (1949)

    The Huggetts Abroad

    6.61949HD

    Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel acr...

    The Huggetts Abroad
  • 1948
    Blanche Fury

    Blanche Fury (1948)

    Blanche Fury

    61948HD

    Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she has a daughter. But before long, boredom sets in, an...

    Blanche Fury
  • 1950
    The Astonished Heart

    The Astonished Heart (1950)

    The Astonished Heart

    4.51950HD

    Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But Leonora could do without Barbara's husband, Christian (Noel Coward), whom she finds arrogant and off-putti...

    The Astonished Heart
  • 1950
    Portrait of Clare

    Portrait of Clare (1950)

    Portrait of Clare

    6.51950HD

    The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young....

    Portrait of Clare
  • 1944
    Fanny by Gaslight

    Fanny by Gaslight (1944)

    Fanny by Gaslight

    5.71944HD

    Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother ...

    Fanny by Gaslight
  • 1935
    Drake of England

    Drake of England (1935)

    Drake of England

    71935HD

    Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of England, one of his final films, he takes the ti...

    Drake of England
  • 1948
    Good-Time Girl

    Good-Time Girl (1948)

    Good-Time Girl

    5.91948HD

    Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a...

    Good-Time Girl