List of the best Athene Seyler movies: Make Mine Mink(1960), Drake the Pirate(1935), Passport to China(1961), Satan Never Sleeps(1962), Curse of the Demon(1957), The Inn of the Sixth Happiness(1958), A Tale of Two Cities(1958), Be Mine Tonight(1932), Young Wives' Tale(1951), The Franchise Affair(1951), Happy Is the Bride(1959), I Thank a Fool(1962) ... ...
Comedy
UK
1960
101 Minutes
Terry-Thomas Athene Seyler Hattie Jacques Billie Whitelaw Elspeth Duxbury Irene Handl Jack Hedley Kenneth Williams Caroline Leigh Denis Shaw Michael Peake
landlady major maid boarder police officer witty quirky winsome cheeky boarding house england theft unlikely criminal friendship moral dilemma thrill seeking adventure underdog 1960s
A weird mix of social misfits and neighbors becomes a gang of thieves stealing mink coats in order to fund local charities.
Drama, History
UK
1935
96 Minutes
Queen Elizabeth
Matheson Lang Athene Seyler Jane Baxter
Adventure
UK
1961
75 Minutes
Mao Tai Tai
combat pilot travel agent old woman gripping gutsy china missing persons flying quest discovery 1950s
A pilot slips his plane into Red China to rescue an American girl trapped there, but when he lands he discovers that the girl has a surprise for him--she wants him to fill his plane with ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1962
126 Minutes
Sister Agness
William Holden Clifton Webb France Nuyen Athene Seyler Martin Benson Edith Sharpe Robert Lee Marie Yang Andy Ho Burt Kwouk Weaver Levy
priest colonel cook nun friend mother dark charming intense melodramatic china mission village bedroom garden war rape religion communism riots
During the Chinese Civil War of 1949, the Communists constantly harass the two priests of a remote Catholic mission outpost.
Horror
UK
1957
82 Minutes
Mrs. Karswell
Dana Andrews Peggy Cummins Niall MacGinnis Maurice Denham Athene Seyler Liam Redmond Reginald Beckwith Ewan Roberts Peter Elliott Rosamund Greenwood Richard Leech
professor psychologist niece skeptic cult leader devil worshipper creepy eerie uneasy england london british museum paranormal satanism curse diary mystery transformation 1950s
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a parapsychology conference, only to find himself investigating the mysterious actions of Devil-worshiper Julian Karswell.
Biography
USA
1958
158 Minutes
Jeannie Lawson
Ingrid Bergman Curt Jurgens Robert Donat Ronald Squire Athene Seyler Richard Wattis Noel Hood Joan Young
innkeeper military officer love interest mandarin spirited emotional china small town mountain england inn daunting task romance culture clash war rescue escape love 1930s
A tenacious British woman becomes a missionary and runs an inn for travelling merchants in China during the Japanese invasion and the tumultuous years leading up to the Second World War.
Drama, History
UK
1958
117 Minutes
Miss Pross
Dirk Bogarde Dorothy Tutin Cecil Parker Stephen Murray Athene Seyler Paul Guers Marie Versini Ian Bannen Alfie Bass Ernest Clark Rosalie Crutchley
aristocrat soldier duchess marquis doctor attorney chilling melodramatic france paris french revolution poverty power struggle french history redemption forbidden love fall wretched excess sacrifice 1790s
During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay, who's hiding his true identity and purpose.
Musical, Comedy, Romance, Drama
UK
1932
70 Minutes
Mrs. Pategg
Jan Kiepura Sonnie Hale Magda Schneider Edmund Gwenn Athene Seyler Betty Chester Aubrey Mather
An Italian operatic tenor is dominated by his female business manager.
Comedy
1951
78 Minutes
Nanny Gallop
Joan Greenwood Nigel Patrick Derek Farr Guy Middleton Athene Seyler Helen Cherry Audrey Hepburn Fabia Drake Irene Handl Joan Sanderson
The housing shortage in postwar London means one married couple (Joan Greenwood, Nigel Patrick) must live with another.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1951
88 Minutes
Aunt Lin
Michael Denison Dulcie Gray Ann Stephens Anthony Nicholls Marjorie Fielding Athene Seyler Hy Hazell John Bailey Avice Landone Kenneth More Moultrie Kelsall
mother daughter kidnapper missing girl orphan suspect thrilling suspenseful engaging gripping intense emotional great britain kidnapping investigation starvation innocence danger adventure discovery
Michael Denison plays a lawyer investigating kidnapping charges against Dulcie Gray. Based on a novel of Josephine Tey.
Comedy
UK
1959
84 Minutes
Aunt Harriet
Ian Carmichael Janette Scott Cecil Parker Nicholas Parsons Elvi Hale Athene Seyler Thorley Walters Terry-Thomas
englishwoman young man brother sister father aunt cheeky lighthearted unrestrained england small town household road church marriage family mistaken identity interrogation elopement love
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the ... See full summary »
Drama
UK
1962
100 Minutes
Aunt Heather
Susan Hayward Peter Finch Diane Cilento Cyril Cusack Kieron Moore Athene Seyler Richard Wattis Brenda De Banzie Miriam Karlin Laurence Naismith
doctor husband prosecutor father wife ex-convict tense engaging emotional ireland country house courtroom euthanasia mental breakdown new life family history accidental death deception discovery quest
After prosecuting a doctor for mercy killing, a district-attorney hires the same doctor to care for his mentally ill wife.
Drama
UK
1936
75 Minutes
Madame Anna Sabine
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 »
Comedy
1957
79 Minutes
Grannie
Charles Coburn Nigel Patrick Wendy Hiller Anthony Newley Katie Johnson Athene Seyler
A broke British nobleman (Nigel Patrick) targets his Canadian uncle (Charles Coburn), but other relatives get in the way.
Biography
USA
1961
106 Minutes
Aunt Buona
Bradford Dillman Dolores Hart Stuart Whitman Pedro Armendáriz Cecil Kellaway Eduard Franz Athene Seyler Finlay Currie Mervyn Johns Russell Napier John Welsh
god saint nun priest merchant inspiring powerful italy assisi religion catholic church canonization charity sacrifice rise metamorphosis 13th century
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
Musical, Romance
UK
1938
80 Minutes
Victoria Gulliver
Jessie Matthews Roland Young Barry MacKay Jack Whiting Noel Madison Frank Pettingell Alastair Sim Athene Seyler Margaret Vyner William Dewhurst Peggy Novak
barge worker millionaire entertainer financier agent chorus girl charming melodramatic endearing london thames river barge tower bridge music hall nightclub ambition working class romance show business success
Kay, who works on a Thames River barge, and Steve are secretly in love with each other but do their best to hide it. Kay wants desperately to be a music-hall star and Steve wants to be a ... See full summary »
Fantasy
UK
1949
95 Minutes
Princess Ivashin
Anton Walbrook Edith Evans Yvonne Mitchell Ronald Howard Mary Jerrold Anthony Dawson Miles Malleson Michael Medwin Athene Seyler Ivor Barnard Valentine Dyall
countess gambler soldier pretty woman creepy eerie russia ambition deception gambling showdown murder quest discovery fall revenge 19th century
An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the ... See full summary »
Drama
1937
94 Minutes
Mrs. Pullet
Geraldine Fitzgerald Frank Lawton Victoria Hopper Fay Compton James Mason Griffith Jones Sam Livesey Pauline de Chalus Mary Clare Athene Seyler Martita Hunt
owner solicitor daughter son mother melodramatic emotional tense england household river feud family scandal romance flooding forbidden love rivalry 19th century
A lawyer's crippled son (Frank Lawton) loves the daughter (Geraldine Fitzgerald) of a millowner ruined by his father in 19th-century England.
Drama
UK
1947
108 Minutes
Derek Bond Cedric Hardwicke Sybil Thorndike Alfred Drayton Cyril Fletcher Bernard Miles Sally Ann Howes Mary Merrall Vera Pearce Cathleen Nesbitt Athene Seyler
young man sister uncle headmaster love interest charming england london school reunion separation family honor class distinctions poverty adventure growing up underdog love victorian era
A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle.
Drama
UK
1938
112 Minutes
Robert Donat Rosalind Russell Rex Harrison Ralph Richardson Emlyn Williams Penelope Dudley Ward Francis L. Sullivan Mary Clare Cecil Parker Nora Swinburne Edward Chapman
doctor wife miner gutsy engaging inspiring moving wales london mining town hypocrisy tuberculosis medicine aspirations wretched excess underdog 1930s
Andrew Manson (Robert Donat), a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his ... See full summary »