Emeric Pressburger Movies

This is a real curiosity; at best a reasonable film, but also a charming little gem. There is a story (in the line of "A Star is Born"), but this...

The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

A rich Brazilian, Mendoza, visited Paris in 1900 and was romantically involved with the star of Offenbach's 'La vie parisienne' which was playing at...

Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes...

Hella lives in a boarding house and has various romantic adventures before settling down with vacuum cleaner salesman Winkler.

Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into...

A young woman born illegitimately comes to terms with the challenge of getting married.

Detailed interview with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger looking back at their long career as influential British film-makers and their unusual...

It tells the story of the funny situations that occur when the advertisements placed in an advertising agency are mixed up due to the carelessness of...

French-language remake of Port Arthur (1936): espionage, action and romance in the Russo-Japanese War, as the conflict threatens Russian naval...

A wife believes her husband has been deceiving her and decides to have some fun at his expense. After a bit of mischief, her husband, a lawyer who is...

Käthe von Nagy plays Ronny, who designs the costumes for the upcoming premiere of an opera written by the young prince of Perusa (Willy Fritsch)...

A man creates a national scandal after he mistakenly kisses the wrong woman in a darkened cinema. The following year it was remade as an American...

Each evening, before saying their prayers, some children swallow their cod liver oil. One evening, the youngest child makes a daring request in his...

A 1934 film directed by Heinz Hille.

Based on the novel by Pierre Nord.

Helene has agreed to marry a man that she isn't in love with. On the day of her wedding her cousin arrives just in time to rescue her and they run...

An opera company tries to get an engagement.