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The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch
'The Battle of the River Plate' is a war film from the incomparable team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Ten days before before the outbreak... Read more
Black Narcissus (1947)
8/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Sabu, Jean Simmons
Plagued by uncertainties and worldly desires, five Protestant missionary nuns, led by Deborah Kerr's Sister Clodagh, struggle to establish a school in... Read more
Black Narcissus ( Blu-ray ) (1947)
8/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: David Farrar, Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons, Sabu
Plagued by uncertainties and worldly desires, five Protestant missionary nuns, led by Deborah Kerr's Sister Clodagh, struggle to establish a school in... Read more
A Matter of Life and Death ( aka Stairway to Heaven ) (1946)
8.1/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: David Niven, Roger Livesey, Raymond Massey, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring
One night over Europe, a crippled Lancaster Bomber struggles home across the English Channel, all crew dead except for the young pilot (David Niven) d... Read more
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
7.6/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown
In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's stunningly photographed comedy, romance flourishes in an unlikely place - the bleak and moody Scottish Hebr... Read more
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
8.2/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Deborah Kerr, Roger Livesey, Roland Culver
Considered by many to be the finest British film ever made, "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp", by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is a stir... Read more
The Red Shoes ( Blu-ray ) (1948)
8.3/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Esmond Knight, Al...
'The Red Shoes', the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema's quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the m... Read more
One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)
7.1/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Eric Portman, Godfrey Tearle, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles
Stunning British wartime saga from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger follows the plight of six RAF airmen as they endeavor to get back to England... Read more
The Red Shoes (1948)
8.3/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann, Esmond Knight, Al...
'The Red Shoes', the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema's quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the m... Read more
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp / A Matter of Life and Death ( aka Stairway to Heaven ) (1943)
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Deborah Kerr, Roger Livesey, David Niven, Kim Hunter, Raymond Ma...
"The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp" (1943, 157 minutes). Roger Livesey brilliantly portrays British officer Clive Candy, through the trials and trib... Read more
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
7.7/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price
A modern parallel to Chaucer's noted report is the story of the effects of that story's countryside on an American GI and three Britishers who find th... Read more
Gone to Earth (1950)
7.2/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack
A.k.a. 'The Wild Heart.' Jennifer Jones plays a beautiful young English Gypsy girl who loves animals and in particular her pet fox. She is hotly desir... Read more
The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
7.4/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Moira Shearer, Robert Rounseville
Jacques Offenbach's fantasy work is magnificently brought to the screen by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger ('The Red Shoes'). Robert Rounseville... Read more
Ill Met By Moonlight (1957)
5.8/10
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley
A taut World War II actioner set in Crete about the abduction of a high ranking German officer by a select band of British soldiers headed by Dirk Bog... Read more
Silver Screen Collection: The Battle of the River Plate / Above Us the Waves / 49th Parallel (1956)
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, Ralph Thomas
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, John Gregson, Peter Finch, John Mills, Anton Wa...
A triple feature set. 'The Battle of the River Plate' (1956) - Ten days before the outbreak of WWII, a powerful German battleship sails around the Sou... Read more