Michael Balcon Movies

An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she...

A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele

A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.

The Mad Morgans are a family song and dance act touring the British Music Halls. Young Davy is the star of the act but should he stay with his family...

Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new...

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.

In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander...

A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part...

Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show...

A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the...

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.

The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.

It's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth"...

A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating...

In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a...