List of the best Anthony Asquith movies: An Evening With the Royal Ballet(1964), The Browning Version(1951), Pygmalion(1938), Escape from Dartmoor(1929), The Importance of Being Earnest(1952), Orders to Kill(1958), Libel(1959), French Without Tears(1940), Court Martial(1955), We Dive at Dawn(1943), The Battle of Gallipoli(1931), Quiet Wedding(1941) ... ...
8.3/10
Musical
UK
1964
85 Minutes
Director
Anthony Havelock-Allan
rudolf nureyev margot fonteyn ballerina partner poet charming spectacular theater stage london royal ballet performance fairy tales poetry rise discovery 1960s
Documentary about the Royal Ballet. Includes selections from "Les Sylphides" and "The Sleeping Beauty".
8.2/10
Drama
UK
1951
90 Minutes
Director
Michael Redgrave Jean Kent Nigel Patrick Wilfrid Hyde-White Ronald Howard Bill Travers
teacher student wife heartwarming emotional boarding school england family home education infidelity aging school transformation 1950s
Forced to retire from an English public school, an unpopular professor must confront his failure as a teacher and husband.
7.7/10
Romance
UK
1938
96 Minutes
Director
Leslie Howard Wendy Hiller Wilfrid Lawson Marie Lohr David Tree Scott Sunderland Jean Cadell Everley Gregg Leueen MacGrath Esme Percy
flower girl professor socialite father charming endearing witty london party household class distinctions love culture clash transformation love 1910s
A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.
7.6/10
Crime, Drama
UK|Sweden
1929
88 Minutes
Screenwriter
Norah Baring Uno Henning Hans Adalbert Schlettow Anthony Asquith Judd Green
A former barber escapes from a high security prison. Flashback story of an escape from the lonely, high-security Dartmoor Prison.
7.5/10
Comedy
UK
1952
95 Minutes
Director
Michael Redgrave Michael Denison Edith Evans Richard Wattis Margaret Rutherford Joan Greenwood Dorothy Tutin Walter Hudd Miles Malleson Aubrey Mather
impostor wealthy man woman governess aunt priest witty hilarious emotional england london country house apartment identity wealth marriage social standing deception family love
When Algernon discovers that his friend, Ernest, has created a fictional brother for whenever he needs a reason to escape dull country life, Algernon poses as the brother, resulting in ever increasing confusion.
7.2/10
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1958
93 Minutes
Director
Eddie Albert Paul Massie Lillian Gish James Robertson Justice Irene Worth Leslie French John Crawford Lionel Jeffries Sandra Dorne Nicholas Phipps Anne Blake
pilot lawyer traitor assassin double agent husband gripping melodramatic bleak france hospital espionage world war ii moral dilemma french resistance kidnapping murder adventure quest transformation
American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance.
7.1/10
Drama
UK|USA
1959
100 Minutes
Director
A shell-shocked World War II veteran with memory problems is accused of being an impostor by a former comrade.
7.0/10
Romance
UK
1940
67 Minutes
Director
Ray Milland Ellen Drew Guy Middleton Janine Darcey Roland Culver David Tree Jim Gerald Kenneth Morgan Margaret Yarde Toni Gable
The love affairs of three young Englishmen at a language cramming school in the south of France. Diana, the sister of one of the boys, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates.
7.0/10
Drama
UK
1955
105 Minutes
Director
englishman war hero wife judge intense melodramatic emotional sultry profound intricate united kingdom court war heroes financial troubles life after wartime unhappy marriage rise fall revenge underdog
A court-martial attempts to find out why, and if, an officer embezzled his unit's funds.
6.7/10
War
UK
1943
98 Minutes
Director
Eric Portman John Mills Leslie Weston Reginald Purdell Niall MacGinnis Joan Hopkins Josephine Wilson Louis Bradfield Ronald Millar Jack Watling Caven Watson
commanding officer sailor military officer enemy resistance fighter patriotic underwater military base england denmark world war ii submarine military engagement chase pursuit escape 1940s
All leave is cancelled so that a British submarine can be sent after a new German warship. They chase it so far that they have no fuel to get home.
6.5/10
Drama, War
UK
1931
80 Minutes
Director
Fay Compton Tony Bruce Carl Harbord Dennis Hoey C.M. Hallard Gerald Rawlinson Frederick Lloyd Sam Wilkinson Wally Patch Hubert Harben
Two friends enlist in the British army during World War 1 and take part in the Gallipoli campaign.
6.5/10
Comedy
UK
1941
80 Minutes
Director
A young couple become engaged, but enjoy several comedic adventures before their wedding day.
6.4/10
Comedy
UK
1964
122 Minutes
Director
Rex Harrison Shirley MacLaine Ingrid Bergman Jeanne Moreau Edmund Purdom George C. Scott Omar Sharif Art Carney Alain Delon Roland Culver Wally Cox
marquess wife gangster girlfriend widow resistance fighter intricate emotional amusing offbeat london italy yugoslavia car marriage infidelity forbidden love crime nazi occupation cars
Anthology movie about three owners of a yellow Rolls-Royce. A British diplomat buys the car for his French wife. A mobster's girlfriend has an affair in Italy. An American woman drives a Yugoslavian partisan to Ljubljana on the eve of the Nazi invasion.
6.3/10
Comedy, Drama
UK
1963
119 Minutes
Director
Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton Louis Jourdan Elsa Martinelli Margaret Rutherford Maggie Smith Rod Taylor Orson Welles Linda Christian Dennis Price
wife husband millionaire producer actress duchess engaging intense passionate intricate airport london hotel wealth social standing airports financial crisis affair marriage transformation
As fog delays departure for a group of travellers bound for New York City, they wait at the lounge of London's Heathrow airport, with each passenger at a moment of crisis in his or her life.
6.3/10
Adventure
UK
1935
69 Minutes
Director
Betty Balfour Walter Forde John Mills Barry MacKay Jimmy Hanley Howard Marion-Crawford H. G. Stoker
In 1914, after a German warship picks-up survivors from a sinking British warship it undergoes repairs off a deserted island but it faces sabotage attempts and attacks from one of the escaped rescued sailors.
5.9/10
Drama
UK
1936
75 Minutes
Director
Harry Baur Laurence Olivier Penelope Dudley Ward Robert Cochran Morton Selten Athene Seyler
captain war profiteer nurse spy roommate parent sad gripping suspenseful melodramatic russia hospital courtroom war debt espionage family love triangle jealousy rivalry
During World War I, Russian Captain Ivan Ignatoff falls in love with his nurse, Natasha Kovrin. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy ... See full summary »
5.5/10
Comedy
UK
1960
90 Minutes
Director
Sophia Loren Peter Sellers Alastair Sim Vittorio De Sica Dennis Price Gary Raymond Miriam Karlin Noel Purcell Virginia Vernon
heiress rich girl doctor boss philanthropist tennis player charming amusing london office hospital river thames marriage trading places money wealth opposites attract sacrifice transformation 1960s
A Millionairess and a doctor cannot marry until they meet conditions set-up by their respective parents.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, War
1941
90 Minutes
Director
Leslie Banks Alastair Sim John Mills Michael Wilding Carla Lehman Catherine Lacey George Cole Jeanne de Casalis Frank Cellier Muriel Aked Wally Patch
evacuee pilot tenant inventor butler wife playful engaging quirky london scotland village laboratory cottage street world war ii suspicion espionage inventions military intelligence
A British agent (Alastair Sim) foils a Nazi plot to steal an inventor's (Leslie Banks) design for a bombsight.
War
1941
83 Minutes
Director
Clive Brook Diana Wynyard Raymond Huntley Derek Farr Joyce Howard Howard Marion-Crawford John Penrose Morland Graham Ronald Squire Gibb McLaughlin Muriel George
nazi doctor radio host wife engineer resistance fighter tense inspiring suspenseful intense gripping engaging nazi germany berlin radio station resistance subterfuge radio propaganda world war ii
A German doctor (Clive Brook), disillusioned with Nazi propaganda and philosophies, creates a secret radio-feed condemning the movement.
Romance
1943
115 Minutes
Director
Laurence Olivier Penelope Dudley Ward Marjorie Fielding Margaret Rutherford Felix Aylmer Edie Martin Joyce Grenfell Jack Watling Miles Malleson John Laurie Wilfrid Hyde-White
russian landlady englishman scientist inventor communist cheeky winsome england apartment building russia cross-cultural romance culture clash inventions immigration allied forces world war ii love rivalry discovery
The Russian inventor (Laurence Olivier) of a new marine propeller falls in love with a woman (Penelope Ward) in 1939 London.
Mystery & Thriller
1950
88 Minutes
Director
Jean Kent Dirk Bogarde John McCallum Susan Shaw Hermione Baddeley Charles Victor Duncan Macrae
fortuneteller housekeeper sister brother-in-law lover sailor cheeky fascinating amusing england village house police station neighborhood shop investigation murder family neighbors deception
Acquaintances of a murdered fortune-teller give a police investigator diverse opinions of the victim's character.
Drama
1927
80 Minutes
Director
Brian Aherne Annette Benson Chili Bouchier David Brooks Donald Calthrop Ella Daincourt Judd Green Wally Patch Tubby Phillips Ian Wilson
Comedy
1953
91 Minutes
Director
Jack Warner Robert Morley Brenda Bruce George Relph Adrianne Allen Ray Jackson Stanley Maxted Joan Swinstead Richard Bebb Valentine Dyall
cricket player poet son father athlete spirited charming engaging cricket match house england cricket sports father/son relationship difficult decision poetry family discovery quest rise
An English cricket player (Jack Warner) plays his last game in front of his son and a distinguished poet.
War
1945
109 Minutes
Director
John Mills Michael Redgrave Rosamund John Douglass Montgomery Renee Asherson Stanley Holloway Basil Radford Felix Aylmer
pilot wife friend american officer airman confident emotional solemn england air force base village hotel household airplane hangar world war ii air force home front death family
Drama
1948
117 Minutes
Director
Robert Donat Cedric Hardwicke Margaret Leighton Basil Radford Kathleen Harrison Francis L. Sullivan Marie Lohr Jack Watling Frank Lawton Neil North Walter Fitzgerald
father son sister mother lawyer emotional spirited england courtroom school court battles lawsuit family justice school quest sacrifice 1900s
The plight of a young boy unjustly accused of stealing touches off a massive lawsuit for defamation of character.
7.6/10
Crime, Drama
UK|Sweden
1929
88 Minutes
Screenwriter
Norah Baring Uno Henning Hans Adalbert Schlettow Anthony Asquith Judd Green
A former barber escapes from a high security prison. Flashback story of an escape from the lonely, high-security Dartmoor Prison.
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