Michael Powell Movies

A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and...

Thelma Schoonmaker on Martin Scorsese and 'The King of Comedy'

A corrupt bookmaker inherits a fortune by killing his step-daughter's husband and framing her lover.

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...

In a ballet rendition of the Goethe story of the same name, a young inexperienced apprentice of a powerful wizard tries to use magic to get through...

Michael Powell makes a moving return trip to the remote island of Foula, forty years after he shot his first major feature there - 'The Edge of the...

When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is surprised to find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after...

In June 1980, Michael Powell came to Dartmouth as an artist in residence, developing and producing a fifteen-minute pilot film with the students...

"A Woman of Paris" (1923) was the first film Chaplin made for United Artists Film Corporation, which he founded with his friends Mary Pickford,...

Lazybones is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world until his father cuts him off without a penny. He then meets an American heiress &...

Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him...

David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new...

Australian famer Kit Kelly and his new bride Anna are driving through Europe when they help a stranded motorist. They discover he is Antonio, a...

A prince makes a socialite think she spent the night in his room.

The tourist group are in Monte Carlo, where Mdm Papillion wins a fortune.

Detailed interview with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger looking back at their long career as influential British film-makers and their unusual...

Major Starr is an ambitious newspaper reporter who has taken undercover employment as chauffeur to Lady Susan Loman in the hope of witnessing...

A murderer is on the run from prison and is out to get everyone, especially the girl, who put him there. The detective gives chase with the help of a...

Publisher John Gillespie faces a financial crisis after his business partner skips town with all the firm's assets. Facing ruin, he reluctantly...