Movies: J Arthur Rank Organisation

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1939
    Pygmalion

    Pygmalion (1939)

    Pygmalion

    6.91939HD

    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
  • 1952
    The Importance of Being Earnest

    The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)

    The Importance of Being Earnest

    7.11952HD

    Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities....

    The Importance of Being Earnest
  • 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
  • 1946
    Green for Danger

    Green for Danger (1946)

    Green for Danger

    6.71946HD

    In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?...

    Green for Danger
  • 1944
    This Happy Breed

    This Happy Breed (1944)

    This Happy Breed

    7.11944HD

    In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house in the suburbs, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of ...

    This Happy Breed
  • 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
    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
  • 1949
    The Blue Lagoon

    The Blue Lagoon (1949)

    The Blue Lagoon

    61949HD

    In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island in the company of kindly old sailor. Together they survive solely on their resourcefulness and the ...

    The Blue Lagoon
  • 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
  • 1948
    Saraband for Dead Lovers

    Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)

    Saraband for Dead Lovers

    6.51948HD

    Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace...

    Saraband for Dead Lovers
  • 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
  • 1945
    I Know Where I'm Going!

    I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)

    I Know Where I'm Going!

    7.01945HD

    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!
  • 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
  • 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