Movies: J Arthur Rank Organisation

  • 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
  • 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
  • 1961
    Victim

    Victim (1961)

    Victim

    7.41961HD

    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
  • 1948
    Hamlet

    Hamlet (1948)

    Hamlet

    7.31948HD

    Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy D...

    Hamlet
  • 1945
    Brief Encounter

    Brief Encounter (1945)

    Brief Encounter

    7.61945HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1944
    A Canterbury Tale

    A Canterbury Tale (1944)

    A Canterbury Tale

    6.91944HD

    Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury....

    A Canterbury Tale
  • 1949
    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus (1949)

    Christopher Columbus

    5.71949HD

    Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical....

    Christopher Columbus
  • 1963
    This Sporting Life

    This Sporting Life (1963)

    This Sporting Life

    71963HD

    In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver....

    This Sporting Life
  • 1953
    Malta Story

    Malta Story (1953)

    Malta Story

    5.81953HD

    Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl....

    Malta Story
  • 1948
    The Weaker Sex

    The Weaker Sex (1948)

    The Weaker Sex

    61948HD

    A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II....

    The Weaker Sex
  • 1952
    The Importance of Being Earnest

    The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)

    The Importance of Being Earnest

    7.11952HD

    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
    The Blue Lamp

    The Blue Lamp (1950)

    The Blue Lamp

    6.51950HD

    P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unabl...

    The Blue Lamp
  • 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