Movies: J Arthur Rank Organisation

  • 1947
    Black Narcissus

    Black Narcissus (1947)

    Black Narcissus

    7.51947HD

    A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts...

    Black Narcissus
  • 1946
    A Matter of Life and Death

    A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

    A Matter of Life and Death

    7.71946HD

    When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him....

    A Matter of Life and Death
  • 1946
    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations (1946)

    Great Expectations

    7.21946HD

    In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionall...

    Great Expectations
  • 1948
    Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist (1948)

    Oliver Twist

    7.51948HD

    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
  • 1939
    Pygmalion

    Pygmalion (1939)

    Pygmalion

    71939HD

    When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her ri...

    Pygmalion
  • 1942
    One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

    One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)

    One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

    6.51942HD

    On its way back from a raid on the city of Stuttgart, Germany, a British bomber is shot down over Nazi-held Holland. Parachuting into Dutch farmlands under cover of darkness, the six-member crew connects with members of the local resistance, who shel...

    One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
  • 1945
    Brief Encounter

    Brief Encounter (1945)

    Brief Encounter

    7.71945HD

    Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into somethi...

    Brief Encounter
  • 1947
    It Always Rains on Sunday

    It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

    It Always Rains on Sunday

    6.61947HD

    During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance....

    It Always Rains on Sunday
  • 1942
    In Which We Serve

    In Which We Serve (1942)

    In Which We Serve

    6.81942HD

    The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country...

    In Which We Serve
  • 1943
    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

    7.51943HD

    General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his ...

    The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  • 1949
    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    7.71949HD

    When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family ...

    Kind Hearts and Coronets
  • 1947
    Odd Man Out

    Odd Man Out (1947)

    Odd Man Out

    7.31947HD

    Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery....

    Odd Man Out
  • 1945
    Blithe Spirit

    Blithe Spirit (1945)

    Blithe Spirit

    6.91945HD

    An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough material for the book he's working on, as well as to expose the medium as a charlatan. However, proceedings...

    Blithe Spirit
  • 1961
    Whistle Down the Wind

    Whistle Down the Wind (1961)

    Whistle Down the Wind

    7.11961HD

    When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ....

    Whistle Down the Wind
  • 1952
    The Importance of Being Earnest

    The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)

    The Importance of Being Earnest

    7.21952HD

    Algernon Moncrieff is surprised to discover that his affluent friend -- whom he knows as "Ernest" -- is actually named Jack Worthing. Jack fabricated his alter ego in order to escape his country estate where he takes care of his charge, Cecily Cardew...

    The Importance of Being Earnest
  • 1950
    Madeleine

    Madeleine (1950)

    Madeleine

    6.71950HD

    The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman....

    Madeleine
  • 1961
    Victim

    Victim (1961)

    Victim

    7.51961HD

    A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success....

    Victim
  • 1950
    The Woman in Question

    The Woman in Question (1950)

    The Woman in Question

    61950HD

    Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view....

    The Woman in Question
  • 1944
    This Happy Breed

    This Happy Breed (1944)

    This Happy Breed

    7.11944HD

    In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house in the suburbs, 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 ...

    This Happy Breed
  • 1946
    Green for Danger

    Green for Danger (1946)

    Green for Danger

    6.81946HD

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

    Green for Danger