J.H. Roberts Movies

When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Nova Pilbeam

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Austin Trevor

A London barrister believes the woman who spent the night in his hotel suite is the erring wife of his newest client.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Merle Oberon

This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J....

Genre: War

Cast: Leslie Howard

A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lupe Vélez

A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A mad...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Leslie Banks

Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anton Walbrook

During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eric Portman

"It's a Boy" stars Horton as Dudley Leake, who is betrothed to Mary Bogle (the very pretty Wendy Barrie). Shortly before the wedding, Dudley blurts a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leslie Henson

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his pyjamas is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp and that when he cleans it a genie appears.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Flanagan

The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Hartnell

Throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. ...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Askey

Self-made businessman Sir Grant Rayburn is obsessed with making money to the exclusion of all else. He shows little interest in his daughter Jill and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gibb McLaughlin

Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ivor Novello

A financial drama set in New York. After the unexpected death of Captain Fairweather, who has lost all his money to a banker, his widow and children...

Genre: Drama

Cast: J.H. Roberts

Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leslie Banks

In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Greta Nissen

Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Yvette. She is later...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

A crime film directed by Herbert Wynne

Genre: Crime

Cast: Franklin Dyall

A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hugh Williams

An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Boris Karloff

Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Valerie Hobson

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Mason

Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell,...

Genre: History

Cast: Clifford Evans

A wealthy investor in a South African mine is murdered.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Stuart

The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Susan Shaw

While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ben Lyon

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....

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Michael Rennie

In 1783 England, King George III appoints William Pitt only 24 years old, as PM. When members of Parliament refuse to take Pitt seriously, he calls...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

Genre: Drama

Cast: W. Somerset Maugham

The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Morley