Thora Hird Movies

BBC Play of the Month adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic love story.

A schoolgirl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.

Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.

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...

Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.

A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...

On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film...

A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get...

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...

Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor...

A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.

A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering...

In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a...

An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.

After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his...

Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets,...

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

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.