Michael Powell Movies

Father Adrien had taken the vows of eternal silence, prayer and, of course, celibacy, when he entered the Trappist Monastry of Notre Dame d'Afrique...

During a raid on Germany, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland, where they're aided by...

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

Member of a village Purity League branch find things much livelier on a trip to London.

After losing his job and realizing that he is alone in the world, a businessman opts to voluntarily end his life. Lacking courage, he hires a...

An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once...

In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the...

The young talented girl Anya, dreaming of a ballet, enters the choreographic school. Due to poor health, learning for her becomes unbearably...

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.

A spoiled heiress defies her millionaire father by running off to France to pursue her lover. Things don't go entirely as planned.

John and his class visit the Tower of London, where he loses his pet mouse. He falls asleep during a lesson on electricity, but with some help, he...

An Italian sports journalist arrives in Australia but finds no work. The only employment he can find is as a builder's labourer. At first, he cannot...

The tour comes to an end and the party returns to Cannes. The sheik's disguise is dropped and he disappears with all of Mme. Papilion's belongings....

The tourists travel on to Grasse, the perfume factory, and the valley of the Wolves.

A South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is forced to stand trial for murder.

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the...

Winston Churchill understood the power of films, but the true extent of his use of cinema as a propaganda tool is rarely explored. In 1934, one of...

During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.

The further adventures of the group of tourists on a trip around the French Riviera. From Cannes they travel to Juan les Pins, the Grimaldi Chateau...