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Beany and Cecil: Crime Doesn't Pay (1959)

6.7/10
Starring: Beany, Cecil

Join the fun with Beany and Cecil, the little boy and his sea serpent pal, in 12 hilarious cartoon capers, including; "The Monstrous Monster", "The Se... Read more

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953)

6.7/10
Director: Eugene Lourie
Starring: Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway

Atomic testing in the Arctic revives a gigantic "rhedosaurus" frozen in the ice for millions of years, and soon the creature is cutting a path of dest... Read more

The Man In The White Suit (1951)

7.4/10
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Starring: Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker

Alec Guinness plays an unassuming lab assistant who invents a miracle fabric that can be woven into indestructible cloth. Few films have chastised ind... Read more

The Admirable Crichton (1957)

8.2/10
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Cecil Parker, Diane Cilento, Kenneth More

Comedy based on James Barrie's classic play in which Kenneth More's English butler, shipwrecked with his employers, resourcefully leads them in their... Read more

The Ladykillers (Blu-ray) (1955)

7.7/10
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Starring: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Peter Sellers

Alec Guinness teams with Peter Sellers in this fabulous tale of a group of dumb crooks who become unhinged by a sweet old lady. An Ealing Studios gem. Read more

The Lady Vanishes (1938)

7.9/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Cecil Parker

One of Hitchcock's best British films; Dame May Whitty stars as the kindly old woman who befriends a young English girl on a European train, and then... Read more

A Tale of Two Cities (1958)

7.1/10
Director: Ralph Thomas
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker

A faithful retelling of the Dickens story in this well-made British production, with Dirk Bogarde a good Sydney Carton. Read more

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

7.5/10
Director: Tay Garnett
Starring: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway

Lana Turner and John Garfield are the illicit lovers in this James M Cain thriller, who plot to murder the husband who is standing in the way of a rea... Read more

23 Paces To Baker Street (1956)

7/10
Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: Cecil Parker, Van Johnson, Vera Miles

A blind American writer (Van Johnson) who is living in London, overhears a kidnapping plot, but neither his friends nor the authorities believe him, c... Read more

The Ladykillers (1955)

7.8/10
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Starring: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Peter Sellers

Alec Guinness teams with Peter Sellers in this fabulous tale of a group of dumb crooks who become unhinged by a sweet old lady. An Ealing Studios gem. Read more

The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

6.5/10
Director: Joe May
Starring: Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, John Sutton, Cecil Kellaway

The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness. Read more

Francis of Assisi (1961)

6.5/10
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart, Stuart Whitman, Cecil Kellaway

Michael Curtiz brings the life of St Francis to the screen in this colourful religious epic. Dolores Hart co-stars as the noblewoman who forsakes her... Read more

The Pure Hell of St Trinian's / The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery (1960)

Director: Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
Starring: Cecil Parker, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Frankie Howerd, Reg Varney

A St. Trinian's dvd double feature. "The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's" (1960) - Those outrageous St. Trinian's schoolgirls are back. Only this time they... Read more

Bad Faith (2006)

6.2/10
Director: Roschdy Zem
Starring: Cecile De France, Roschdy Zem

AKA 'Mauvais foi'. Roschdy Zem and Cecile de France star as a Muslim Arab and a Jewish woman who find their four-year love affair put to the ultimate... Read more

Unconquered (1947)

7.1/10
Director: Cecil B DeMille
Starring: Boris Karloff, Cecil Kellaway, Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Ward Bond

On the American frontier of the mid-1700s, Virginia militia leader Gary Cooper has his hands full defending Fort Pitt from marauding Indians (led by c... Read more

Indiscreet (1958)

6.8/10
Director: Stanley Donen
Starring: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Cecil Parker, Phyllis Calvert, David Kossoff, Megs J...

Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant are perfectly cast in this witty comedy, adapted by Norman Krasna from his own stageplay, 'Kind Sir'. Bergman is a weal... Read more

The Ladykillers / The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

7.6/10
Director: Alexander Mackendrick, Charles Crichton
Starring: Alec Guinness, Herbert Lom, Cecil Parker, Peter Sellers, Stanley Holloway, Sid J...

A Box Set comedy collection from the acclaimed Ealing Studios. 'The Ladykillers' - This outrageous caper farce stars Alec Guinness as the criminal ma... Read more

The Postman Always Rings Twice ( Blu-ray ) (1946)

7.5/10
Director: Tay Garnett
Starring: Audrey Totter, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, John Garfield, Lana Turner, Leon Ame...

Lana Turner and John Garfield are the illicit lovers in this James M Cain thriller, who plot to murder the husband who is standing in the way of a rea... Read more

I Was Monty's Double (1958)

Director: John Guillermin
Starring: Clifton James, John Mills, Cecil Parker, Marius Goring, John Le Mesurier

If official documentation didn't exist, we'd never believe a fantastic yarn like this. Actor M.E. Clifton James plays himself, a British stock-company... Read more

I Married a Witch (1942)

7.2/10
Director: Rene Clair
Starring: Cecil Kellaway, Fredric March, Susan Hayward, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, Rob...

Based on the unfinished novel by Thorne Smith (later filmed as 'Bell, Book and Candle' and the 'Bewitched' TV series), this saucy romantic comedy star... Read more

Carry On Jack (1963)

5.9/10
Director: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Kenneth Williams, Bernard Cribbins, Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey, Donald Housto...

The Carry On gang strikes again - this time in the bold, brave days of the Armada, a time when countries were judged by their strength at sea, and men... Read more

The Young Lovers (2021)

6.4/10
Director: Carine Tardieu
Starring: Fanny Ardant, Melvil Poupaud, Cecile De France

Two lovers meet 15 years after the first encounter, in the corridor of a hospital. She's 71, he's 45. Opposed but mesmerized by each other, they recon... Read more

Sci-Fi Double Feature: 'The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms' & 'Them' (1953)

6.7/10
Director: Eugene Lourie, Gordon Douglas
Starring: Paul Christian, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Joan Weldon, James Arness, James...

The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms: 1953. Atomic testing in the Arctic revives a gigantic "rhedosaurus" frozen in the ice for millions of years, and soon t... Read more

The Spanish Apartment ( L'Auberge Espagnole ) (2002)

7.3/10
Director: Cedric Klapisch
Starring: Romain Duris, Cecile De France, Judith Godreche, Audrey Tautou

Aka "Pot Luck". From the director of "When the Cat's Away" comes this frothy romantic comedy in which Xavier, a French college senior, signs up for a... Read more

Sister Smile (2009)

6.5/10
Director: Stijn Coninx
Starring: Jan Decleir, Sandrine Blancke, Cecile De France, Johan Leysen

Cecile de France stars in the true story of Jeannine Deckers, international '60s pop icon Soeur Sourire, or The Singing Nun. Jeannine's dull parents w... Read more

Chinese Puzzle (2013)

7/10
Director: Cedric Klapisch
Starring: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Cecile De France, Kelly Reilly

Following on from "The Spanish Apartment" and "Russian Dolls", Romain Duris reprises his role as writer Xavier Rousseau. Having reached the age of 40,... Read more

Just to Be Sure (Ôtez-moi d'un doute) (2017)

6.7/10
Director: Carine Tardieu
Starring: Francois Damiens, Cecile De France, Guy Marchand, Andre Wilms

A middle-aged bomb disposal expert faces a different kind of explosive situation when he learns that the man who raised him is not his biological fath... Read more

The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007)

6.4/10
Director: Eric Rohmer
Starring: Cecile Cassel, Andy Gillet, Veronique Reymond, Stephanie Crayencour

Veteran auteur Eric Rohmer's magical and extraordinary final film is a pastoral fantasy set in 5th century Gaul, based on a 17th century novel by Hono... Read more

Around the World in 80 Days (2004)

5.8/10
Director: Frank Coraci
Starring: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Cecile De France, Jim Broadbent

As an adventurer, Passepartout (Jackie Chan) ends up accompanying time-obsessed English gentleman Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan) on a daring mission to j... Read more

Un Secret (2007)

4.1/10
Director: Claude Miller
Starring: Cecile De France, Ludivine Sagnier, Julie Depardieu, Mathieu Amalric, Patrick Br...

Based on the autobiographical novel by Philippe Grimbert, this moving drama recalls the tragic events that occurred during the German occupation of Fr... Read more

Hereafter (2010)

6.5/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Matt Damon, Richard Kind, Cecile De France, Bryce Dallas Howard

Director Clint Eastwood's poignant film examines the possibility of an afterlife through a host of emotionally evocative characters. It centers on a m... Read more

My Last Five Girlfriends (2009)

5.8/10
Director: Julian Kemp
Starring: Jane March, Naomie Harris, Cecile Cassel, Michael Sheen, Brendan Patricks

A British rom-com loosely based on the novel "Essays in Love" by Alain de Botton, "My Last Five Girlfriends" sees Duncan (Brendan Patricks), bruised a... Read more

Quartet (1948)

7.4/10
Director: Arthur Crabtree, Harold French, Ken Annakin, Ralph Smart
Starring: Basil Radford, Cecil Parker, Dirk Bogarde, George Cole, Honor Blackman, James Ro...

One of Britian's finest novelists, W. Somerset Maugham, hosts a portmanteau of his own short stories adapted for the screen. The four celebrated tales... Read more

The Singer (2006)

6.5/10
Director: Xavier Giannoli
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Cecile De France, Mathieu Amalric, Christine Citti, Patrick Pi...

Gereard Depardieu stars as a fading singing star whose libido is reignited by a young woman who moves to town. Marian (Cecile de France) is an outwar... Read more

The Lady Vanishes / Jamaica Inn (1938)

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Dame May Whitty, Cecil Parker, Charles Laug...

An Alfred Hitchcock DVD double feature. 'The Lady Vanishes' (1938) - One of Hitchcock's best British films; Dame May Whitty stars as the kindly old wo... Read more

Russian Dolls (2005)

7/10
Director: Cedric Klapisch
Starring: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Cecile De France, Kelly Reilly, Kevin Bishop

Set five years after 'The Spanish Apartment', friends Xavier (Romain Duris), William (Kevin Bishop), Wendy (Kelly Reilly), Martine (Audrey Tatou) and... Read more

High Tension (2003)

6.8/10
Director: Alexandre Aja
Starring: Cecile De France, Maiwenn Le Besco, Philippe Nahon, Franck Khalfoun, Andrei Fint...

This stalk-and-slash fright-fest from French director Alexandre Aja starts with two friends, Marie and Alexa, visiting family in the country. When ni... Read more

The Kid with a Bike (2011)

7.4/10
Director: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Starring: Fabrizio Rongione, Jeremie Renier, Olivier Gourmet, Cecile De France, Thomas Dor...

Cyril (Thomas Doret), almost 12, has only one plan: to find the father who left him temporarily in a children's home. By chance he meets Samantha (Cec... Read more

Sunset Boulevard ( Blu-ray ) (1950)

8.5/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Buster Keaton, Erich Von Stroheim, Fred Clark, Gloria Swanson, Jack Webb, Nancy...

Billy Wilder's classic drama stars Gloria Swanson as reclusive silent movie queen Norma Desmond. Sharing a mansion with her live-in butler/former husb... Read more

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

8.5/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Buster Keaton, Erich Von Stroheim, Fred Clark, Gloria Swanson, Jack Webb, Nancy...

Billy Wilder's classic drama stars Gloria Swanson as reclusive silent movie queen Norma Desmond. Sharing a mansion with her live-in butler/former husb... Read more

Orchestra Seats (2006)

Director: Daniele Thompson
Starring: Claude Brasseur, Cecile De France, Albert Dupontel, Valerie Lemercier, Laura Mor...

A whirlwind ensemble comedy/drama set in the buzzing theatre district of Paris, where fresh-faced waitress Jessica (Cecile de France) dreams of fame a... Read more

Heavens Above! (1963)

6.8/10
Director: John Boulting
Starring: Isabel Jeans, Cecil Parker, Peter Sellers, Ian Carmichael, Bernard Miles, Brock...

Peter Sellers, in an unusually low-key performance stars as a young vicar whose tendencies to interpret Christian doctrine in his own individualistic... Read more

The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (2008)

7.6/10
Director: Remi Bezancon
Starring: Jacques Gamblin, Roger Dumas, Zabou Breitman, Deborah Francois, Cecile Cassel, M...

This charming dramatic comedy charts the rights of passage of a family of five. A portrait of their family life sketched out over twelve years, throug... Read more

Lost Illusions (2021)

7.4/10
Director: Xavier Giannoli
Starring: Cecile De France, Vincent Lacoste, Xavier Dolan, Jeanne Balibar, Andre Marcon, L...

Story of the rise and the fall of a young man in Paris who dreamed to be a writer and became a journalist. Read more

The Young Pope (2016)

8.4/10
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Starring: Diane Keaton, James Cromwell, Jude Law, Cecile De France, Silvio Orlando, Scott...

From Paolo Sorrentino, director of 'The Great Beauty' and 'Youth', 'The Young Pope' tells the controversial story of the beginning of Pius XIII's pont... Read more

Joan of Arc (Bergman) (1948)

6.7/10
Director: Victor Fleming
Starring: Cecil Kellaway, Francis L Sullivan, Gene Lockhart, Hurd Hatfield, Ingrid Bergman...

The life story of one of history's most remarkable heroines is boldly brought to the screen in this Academy Award winning production, an epic tale of... Read more

Oh! What A Lovely War (1969)

7.2/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm, John Gielgud, Kenneth More, Jack H...

Based on a 1963 stage show by Charles Chilton, lampooning World War I and war in general, and focused on the Smith family who have five sons to send o... Read more

The Sir Aliec Guinness Ealing Studios Comedy Collection: The Ladykillers / Kind Hearts and Coronets / The Man in the White Suit / The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

Director: Alexander Mackendrick, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer
Starring: H. Marion Crawford , Michael Gough, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobso...

A Box Set comedy collection from the acclaimed Ealing Studios. 'The Ladykillers' - This outrageous caper farce stars Alec Guinness as the criminal ma... Read more

Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 (2008)

5.7/10
Director: Jean-Francois Richet
Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Mathieu Amalric, Roy Dupuis, Vincent Cassel, Samuel Le Bihan,...

The incredible and brutal true story of France's most wanted man, Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel). Arch-fiend to some and folk hero to others, his cr... Read more

The Best of Ealing Studios Collection: The Ladykillers / Kind Hearts and Coronets / The Man in the White Suit / The Lavender Hill Mob / Passport To Pimlico (1949)

7.6/10
Director: Alexander Mackendrick, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer, Henry Cornelius
Starring: H. Marion Crawford , Michael Gough, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobso...

A Box Set collection from the acclaimed Ealing Studios. 'The Ladykillers' 1955 - This outrageous caper farce stars Alec Guinness as the criminal ma... Read more

The French Dispatch (2021)

7.2/10
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Bill Murray, Adrien Brody, Benicio Del Toro, Tilda Swinton, Lea...

A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection... Read more