Sydney Tafler

Pews (1980)

Liftchick has a problem. As beadle to the synagogue he is responsible for getting ten men together to say Kaddish, but it is holiday-time and the town is empty. ...

Oy Vay Maria (1977)

Jewish boy loves Catholic girl - will love triumph over family objections? ...

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case. ...

Nightmare for a Nightingale (1975)

An opera singer finds out her late husband isn't actually dead when he shows up at her apartment. In the heat of the moment, she kills him but his body mysteriously disappears. ...

Children of Rage (1975)

The viscous conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is now a generation old. For many of the children of the region, the terrorist war has been going on for their entire lifetimes, killing their family and friends, and overshadowing their lives. ...

Baby Blues (1973)

Lavinia has been yearning and trying for ten years to conceive, and finally gives birth to a live baby. However, she finds that things are not as she dreamed and envisaged, and she suffers from depression after the birth,beginning to have dangerous feeling ...

Danger Point (1971)

Three irresponsible teenagers borrow a yacht belonging to the local Sea Scouts and run out of fuel. They hoist the sail in an endeavour to stop the boat drifting on to the notoriously dangerous Bradda Head, but find themselves in even greater trouble in th ...

The Adventurers (1970)

The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He return ...

The Cellar and the Almond Tree (1970)

The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed to obtain from her the keys to her wine-cellar, which are needed for a celebration dinner. First shown in ...

The Birthday Party (1968)

Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party". Then, even ...

Berserk! (1967)

A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders. ...

The Sandwich Man (1966)

A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters. ...

Way Off Beat (1966)

Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club. ...

Alfie (1966)

A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life. ...

Promise Her Anything (1966)

A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is her employer doesn't know about her son and he doesn't particularly care for children despite his profession ...

Runaway Railway (1965)

A group of young railway enthusiasts attempt to stop the closure of the local railway by trying to raise money to buy it and the steam engine "Matilda. ...

The 7th Dawn (1964)

Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War. ...

A Weekend with Lulu (1961)

Fred, Tim and Deirdre plan a fun weekend break on the coast. What they didn't make allowances for was the company of Deirdre's mother who insists on coming along as her daughter's chaperone. ...

Carry On Regardless (1961)

After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house. ...

Five Golden Hours (1961)

A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes. ...

The Bulldog Breed (1960)

Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, he attempts suicide, but can't even do that. He is saved from jumping off a cliff at 'Lover's Leap' by a Ro ...

No Kidding (1960)

A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. ...

Make Mine Mink (1960)

In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army ...

Light Up the Sky! (1960)

Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II. ...

An Arabian Night (1960)

Bottoms Up! (1960)

An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie's son as a Middle Eastern prince. The headmaster's madcap scheme is furt ...

Sink the Bismarck! (1960)

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of Wor ...

The Crowning Touch (1959)

Several stories linked by a hat. ...

Too Many Crooks (1959)

Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with h ...

Follow a Star (1959)

Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer whose star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman singing and passes it off as himself. ...

The Bank Raiders (1958)

A third rate con man lands himself the job of a get-away driver for a bank heist that has complications. ...

Carve Her Name with Pride (1958)

London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group. ...

The Surgeon's Knife (1957)

A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances. ...

Booby Trap (1957)

An absent minded professor invents a pen that will explode on the sound of bells, then leaves it in a taxi ...

Interpol (1957)

Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally A ...

The Counterfeit Plan (1957)

An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who knew nothing of his past, to counterfeit 5-pound notes for mass distribution around the countryside. ...

Reach for the Sky (1956)

The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II. ...

Fire Maidens of Outer Space (1956)

An astronaut and crew land on Jupiter's 13th moon and find a monster and women from Atlantis. ...

The Long Arm (1956)

Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. ...

Guilty? (1956)

Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name. ...

Dial 999 (1955)

A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed for the murder. The wife and her brother hide him and try to find out who the real killer was. The more the ...

The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)

During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them. ...

The Woman for Joe (1955)

A carnival boss and a little person from the sideshow compete for the same woman. ...

A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)

Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying ...

The Glass Cage (1955)

A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by "Sapolio", on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning! ...

The Crowded Day (1954)

One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store. ...

The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1954)

During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about the ...

The Floating Dutchman (1954)

Two men working on the docks close to London's Tower Bridge find the body of an unidentified man floating in the Thames. The police later identify the body to be that of a diamond courier from Holland. The police have to find his murderer, as well as the m ...

Operation Diplomat (1953)

A physician is forced to operate on a mystery figure under shady circumstances. ...

The Saint's Return (1953)

A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend. ...

The Square Ring (1953)

Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers. ...

Johnny on the Run (1953)

A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after encountering trouble through his innocent implication in a robbery. ...

There Was a Young Lady (1953)

A super-efficient secretary circumvents the schemes of smash-and grab gangsters. ...

Venetian Bird (1952)

Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the ...

Time, Gentlemen, Please! (1952)

Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The "almost" is because of Dan Dance (Eddie Byrne), an old rogue who would rather drink and philosophize than w ...

Emergency Call (1952)

A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors. ...

Wide Boy (1952)

Picking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal in London. ...

Secret People (1952)

This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed. ...

Blind Man's Bluff (1952)

Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results in nothing but irritation for his elders. But when a boarding house becomes the headquarters for a criminal ...

Mystery Junction (1951)

In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a novelist is around to prove him innocent. ...

Hotel Sahara (1951)

In World War II, desert hotel proprietors Emad and Yasmin are caught between the warring armies and have to constantly shift their political allegiance to whichever army happens to control the area. ...

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country. ...

The Galloping Major (1951)

A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper. ...

Scarlet Thread (1951)

Tale of Cambridge college exploits of two smash-and-grab thieves on the run. ...

Assassin for Hire (1951)

Antonio Riccardi, a rare stamp dealer who is secretly a hired killer, pays for the violin lessons of his gifted brother Giuseppe. To meet the expenses of Giuseppe's concert debut he accepts a further job, but his decision to do so provides Detective Inspec ...

Once a Sinner (1950)

Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counterfeite ...

Dance Hall (1950)

Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine perspective. Today, it is mainly recognised for its post-war London atmosphere, with b ...

Passport to Pimlico (1949)

When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by settin ...

No Room at the Inn (1948)

A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman. ...

London Belongs to Me (1948)

Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentione ...

Uneasy Terms (1948)

Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible? ...

The Monkey's Paw (1948)

A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow. ...

It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance. ...

Cottage to Let (1941)

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight. ...