Michael Balcon Movies

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself....

A historical satire critical of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Based on the novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger, Jew Süss is the story of...

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth"...

A true story about an Englishman working as a game warden in Kenya who is disgusted by the ongoing destruction of African wildlife, and decides to...

The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.

Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their...

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which...

Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the...

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander...

After his father sells his car, an immature playboy steals it back, and gets involved with a gang of professional car thieves. British remake of...

A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city

A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.

Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a...