Search: Directed by Emeric Pressburger

Black Narcissus (1947)

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Perfectly controlled lighting simulates the thin air that exhausts the once disciplined sisters.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5

A group of nuns struggle to keep order in a remote Himalayan convent.
Gone To Earth (1950)

Review preview for Gone To Earth

With dialogue like this, you don't need a scene at the village fair to reinforce olde worlde cliches of English rural life, but you get it, anyway.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5

A barefooted Shropshire lass marries the vicar and is seduced by the squire.
A Matter Of Life And Death (1946)

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Undoubtedly one of the best films ever made.

Scott Macdonald · 5 out of 5

A wartime aviator begs a celestial court to let him escape death so he can be with the woman he loves. Out on re-issue in cinemas.
The Red Shoes (1948)

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The dance sequences are brilliantly performed and well worth watching the film for in their own right.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5

A dancer is torn between the man she loves and her obsessive commitment to her craft.
The Tales Of Hoffmann (1951)

Review preview for The Tales Of Hoffmann

The passage of time - and a beautiful 4k restoration - have been kind to this reimagining of Jacques Offenbach's opera, with its deliberately operatic gestures and colours and stylised production design feeling sharply avant garde even today.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5

A poet recalls three doomed romances.