Alexander Korda — Producer (14)
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Fire Over England (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Fire Over England
director: William K. Howard actor: Flora Robson / Raymond Massey …
other title: Elisabetta d'Inghilterra / Feuer über England …
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.
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21 Days (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
21 Days
director: Basil Dean actor: Vivien Leigh / Laurence Olivier …
other title: Fatalità / 21 días juntos …
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.
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Dark Journey (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Dark Journey
director: Victor Saville actor: Vivien Leigh / Conrad Veidt …
other title: Le tre spie / Jornada Sinistra …
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair.
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Knight Without Armour (1937) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Knight Without Armour
director: Jacques Feyder actor: Marlene Dietrich / Robert Donat …
other title: L'ultimo treno da Mosca / Tatjana …
In the last days of Czarist Russia, Russian-speaking Briton A.J. Fothergill is enlisted by his government to go undercover as Bolshevik radical Peter Ouranoff in an attempt to gain access to the revolutionaries' inner circle. Tasked with accompanying lovely aristocrat Alexandra Vladinoff from Moscow to Petrograd to be tried for crimes against the proletariat, Peter attempts to spirit her out of the war-torn country.
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Rembrandt (1936) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Rembrandt
director: Alexander Korda actor: Charles Laughton / Gertrude Lawrence …
other title: L'arte e gli amori di Rembrandt
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
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The Private Life of Don Juan (1934) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Private Life of Don Juan
director: Alexander Korda actor: Douglas Fairbanks / Merle Oberon …
other title: La vita privata di Don Giovanni / Das Privatleben des Don Juan …
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
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Anna Karenina (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Anna Karenina
director: Julien Duvivier actor: Vivien Leigh / Ralph Richardson …
other title: Anna Karénine / Ana Karenina
In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
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Q Planes (1939) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Q Planes
director: Tim Whelan / Arthur B. Woods actor: Ralph Richardson / Laurence Olivier …
other title: Ali che non tornano / Testflug QE 97 …
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
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The Shop at Sly Corner (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Shop at Sly Corner
director: George King actor: Oskar Homolka / Derek Farr …
other title: Ricatto / Butikken på hjørnet …
In Britain, a man with a shady past uses his antiquities shop as a front for smuggled diamonds but his young shop-assistant starts blackmailing him, leading to murder and to a police investigation.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Private Life of Henry VIII
director: Alexander Korda actor: Charles Laughton / Robert Donat …
other title: Le sei mogli di Enrico VIII / Das Privatleben Heinrichs VIII. …
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second betrothed, executed on charges of treason, Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that wedded bliss also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the tyrannical king chooses German-born Anne of Cleves, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and so Henry's reign of spousal terror continues.
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Richard III (1955) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Richard III
director: Laurence Olivier actor: Laurence Olivier / Cedric Hardwicke …
other title: Riccardo III / Richard den Tredje …
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.
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The Spy in Black (1939) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Spy in Black
director: 迈克尔·鲍威尔 actor: 康拉德·韦特 / 塞巴斯蒂安·肖 …
other title: 黑色间谍 / 黑衣间谍 …
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.