Movies: J Arthur Rank Organisation

  • 1946
    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations (1946)

    Great Expectations

    7.31946HD

    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
  • 1942
    One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

    One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)

    One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

    6.41942HD

    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
  • 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
  • 1949
    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

    Kind Hearts and Coronets

    7.61949HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1948
    Hamlet

    Hamlet (1948)

    Hamlet

    7.41948HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1951
    The Browning Version

    The Browning Version (1951)

    The Browning Version

    7.61951HD

    Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fell...

    The Browning Version
  • 1963
    This Sporting Life

    This Sporting Life (1963)

    This Sporting Life

    6.91963HD

    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1945
    I Know Where I'm Going!

    I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)

    I Know Where I'm Going!

    7.11945HD

    Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed ...

    I Know Where I'm Going!
  • 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
  • 1944
    A Canterbury Tale

    A Canterbury Tale (1944)

    A Canterbury Tale

    6.81944HD

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

    A Canterbury Tale