List of the best Joyce Carey movies: The October Man(1947), Brief Encounter(1945), A Nice Girl Like Me(1969), In Which We Serve(1942), Blithe Spirit(1945), The Rough and the Smooth(1959), London Belongs to Me(1948), Happy Go Lovely(1951), The Naked Edge(1961), The Black Windmill(1974) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1947
86 Minutes
Mrs. Vinton
John Mills Joan Greenwood Edward Chapman Joyce Carey Kay Walsh Felix Aylmer Juliet Mills
scientist doctor girlfriend boss boarder landlady dark gritty uneasy england bus hospital boardinghouse park memory murder investigation mental illness romance mystery
When the murder of a young woman happens, her next-door neighbor is under suspicion due to his previous stay in a mental hospital.
Romance, Drama
UK
1945
86 Minutes
Myrtle Bagot
Celia Johnson Trevor Howard Stanley Holloway Cyril Raymond Joyce Carey Everley Gregg Marjorie Mars Margaret Barton Dennis Harkin Valentine Dyall Nuna Davey
wife husband doctor friend somber mushy cafeteria train family home suburbia england infidelity marriage love forbidden love 1940s
Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.
Romance
UK
1969
90 Minutes
Aunt Celia
Barbara Ferris Harry Andrews Gladys Cooper James Villiers Joyce Carey Christopher Guinee Fabia Drake Irene Prador Totti Truman Taylor Ann Lancaster Douglas Wilmer
Candy is a fetching unwed young lady with a penchant for pregnancy. Her adventures begin when she leaves her sheltered boarding school background for Paris. The result is the birth of Valentine nine months later.
War, Drama
UK
1942
114 Minutes
Katherine Lemmon Hardy
Noel Coward Noel Coward John Mills Bernard Miles Celia Johnson Kay Walsh Joyce Carey Michael Wilding James Donald Richard Attenborough
captain military officer sailor wife mother heartwarming patriotic ship military base london egypt world war ii quest escape 1930s
This "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.
Fantasy
UK
1945
96 Minutes
Violet Bradman
Rex Harrison Constance Cummings Kay Hammond Margaret Rutherford Hugh Wakefield Joyce Carey Jaqueline Clarke
writer psychic wife ghost airy amusing lighthearted family home love triangle ghosts writing pursuit quest 1940s
A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
Romance
1959
96 Minutes
Mrs. Thompson
Nadja Tiller Tony Britton William Bendix Donald Wolfit Adrienne Corri Joyce Carey Natasha Parry Norman Wooland John Welsh
archaeologist german woman fiancé fiancée emotional melodramatic gutsy tense london pub england united kingdom love love triangle affair scandal love forbidden love growing up
A London archaeologist (Tony Britton) drops his fiancee for a foreign temptress (Nadja Tiller) who has a strange hold over her boss (William Bendix).
Comedy, Drama
1948
112 Minutes
Mrs. Vizzard
Richard Attenborough Alastair Sim Stephen Murray Fay Compton Wylie Watson Susan Shaw Ivy St. Helier Joyce Carey Andrew Crawford Eleanor Summerfield Gladys Henson
The residents of a South London boarding house rally to the defense of a young neighbor accused of murder.
Musical, Comedy
UK
1951
97 Minutes
Vera-Ellen David Niven Cesar Romero Bobby Howes Diane Hart Sandra Dorne Gordon Jackson Henry Hewitt Gladys Henson Hugh Dempster Joyce Carey
chorus girl wealthy man chauffeur theatrical producer reporter roommate lighthearted edinburgh, scotland theater apartment restaurant mistaken identity show business deception rumors wealth love transformation 1950s
B.G. Bruno, a rich bachelor, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially a kind man but respectable to the point of stodginess and extreme stuffiness. An ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
1961
99 Minutes
Gary Cooper Deborah Kerr Eric Portman Diane Cilento Hermione Gingold Peter Cushing Michael Wilding Ronald Howard Ray McAnally Sandor Eles Wilfrid Lawson
suspect employee business partner wife blackmailer husband engaging suspenseful office courtroom household blackmail murder case husband/wife relationship investigation false accusations quest mystery 1960s
Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|France
1974
106 Minutes
Michael Caine Donald Pleasence Delphine Seyrig Clive Revill John Vernon Joss Ackland Janet Suzman Catherine Schell Joseph O'Conor Denis Quilley Derek Newark
A British Agent's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.