Michael Balcon Movies

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

'Shipwrecked valet saves affianced master from native girl.' (British Film Catalogue)

David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building...

Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant...

A young pilot, annoyed at not being selected to take part in a raid on an enemy target, moans to his fiancée, who in turn chatters to a friend...

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

From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators....

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 family buy land set around a water hole in a remote location, that is occupied by native Australians. The two groups clash.

Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

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

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.

A man rescues his wife's lover during a disaster at a coal mine

An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!

A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a...

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of local superstition about a phantom train which is...

A re-creation of a bombing raid on Hanover, with the objective of promoting war savings bonds.

A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..

A young man is shocked to discover that his fiancé is the mistress of his mother's lover.