Michael Powell

All Movies of Michael Powell

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 Year

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  7.9
  Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
  In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier whe...
  Character: Himself (voice) (archive sound)

   2010

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  Cinéma, de notre temps (TV Series)
  TV Series (1988-Present Day).
  Character:  Self 1 episode, 1993

   1988

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  They're a Weird Mob
  Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant who arrived in Australia with the promise of a job as a journalist on his cousins magazine, only to find that when he gets there the magazine's folded, the cousins done a runner & the money his...
  Director of the film

   1966

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  Espionage (TV Series)
  Director of the film

   1963

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  7.0
  Peeping Tom
  As a boy, Mark Lewis was subjected to bizarre experiments by his scientist-father, who wanted to study and record the effects of fear on the nervous system. Now grown up, both of his parents dead, Mark works by day as a focus-pull...
  Director of the film

   1960

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  Honeymoon
  Australian famer Kit Kelly and his new bride Anna are driving through Europe when they help a stranded motorist. They discover he is Antonio, a famous dancer. Upon learning that Anna was a ballerina before she married, Antonio att...
  Director of the film

   1959

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  6.3
  Ill Met by Moonlight
  During World War II, a gang of desparadoes (British officers enlisted for "hostilities only" and local partisans) went to the occupied island of Crete and kidnapped a German General from under the nose of his army. That was the ea...
  Director of the film

   1957

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  The Battle of the River Plate
  Set during the early years of World War II, the War in the Atlantic. The Royal Navy was fighting a desperate battle to keep the convoy routes open to keep the British Isles supplied. One great danger was the surface raiders, huge ...
  Director of the film

   1956

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  7.3
  The Wild Heart
  A re-editing of Gone to Earth (1950) after a disagreement and court case between director Michael Powell and producer David O. Selznick. Selznick's changes are mainly:- (1) Adding a prologue. (2) Adding scenes explaining things, o...
  Director of the film

   1952

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  7.7
  The Tales of Hoffmann
  This a film version of the opera "The Tales of Hoffmann", however it is NOT just a film of a staged performance. 'Michael Powell' & Emeric Pressburger (and the rest of "The Archers") work their usual magic here. The opera dramatis...
  Director of the film

   1951

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  7.0
  The Elusive Pimpernel
  Director of the film

   1950

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  Gone to Earth
  Hazel Woodus (Jennifer Jones) is a child of nature in the Shropshire countryside in 1897. She loves and understands all the wild animals more than the people around her. Whenever she has problems she turns to the book of spells an...
  Director of the film

   1950

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  The Small Back Room
  Sammy Rice (David Farrar) is a British scientist working with a specialist "back room" team in London during World War II. Rice is embittered because he feels military scientific research is being incompetently managed. ...
  Director of the film

   1949

• 
  8.3
  The Red Shoes
  Under the authoritarian rule of charismatic ballet impressario Boris Lermontov, his proteges realize the full promise of their talents, but at a price: utter devotion to their art and complete loyalty to Lermontov himself. Under h...
  Director of the film

   1948

• 
  7.9
  Black Narcissus
  Five young British nuns are invited to move to a windy "palace", former house of the concubines of an old general, in the top of a mountain in Mopu, Himalaya, to raise the convent of Saint Faith Order, a school for child...
  Director of the film

   1947

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  7.0
  A Matter of Life and Death
  Returning to England from a bombing run in May 1945, flyer Peter Carter's plane is damaged and his parachute ripped to shreds. He has his crew bail out safely, but figures it is curtains for himself. He gets on the radio, and talk...
  Director of the film

   1946

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  7.3
  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
  Portrays in warm-hearted detail the life and loves of one extraordinary man. We meet the imposingly rotund General Clive Wynne-Candy, a blustering old duffer who seems the epitome of stuffy, outmoded values. Traveling backwards 40...
  Director of the film

   1943

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  6.5
  One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
  During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of Our Aircraft Is Missing". Behind these sombre words hid tales of death...
  Director of the film

   1942

• 
  7.1
  49th Parallel
  Michael Powell directed this odd wartime propaganda film, set in Canada, before the American entry into WWII. A German U-boat has infiltrated the Canadian coastline, seeking to attack and subvert our neighbors to the North, before...
  Director of the film

   1941

• 
  8.5
  The Thief of Bagdad
  Prince Ahmad is the rightful King of Bagdad but he has been blinded and cast out as a beggar. Now a captive of the wicked Grand Vizier Jaffar he is cast into a dungeon where he meets Abu, the best thief in all Bagdad. Together the...
  Director of the film

   1940

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  6.9
  U-Boat 29
  A German sub tries to sink the British fleet during World War I.
  Director of the film

   1939

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  The Edge of the World
  A trio wanders the cliffs of a Shetland island and encounters a gravestone at the edge of a precipice; it reads, "Peter Manson ... gone over." One man in the trio knows the story of the gravestone and tells it to the oth...
  Director of the film

   1937

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  Lazybones
  Lazybones is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world until his father cuts him off without a penny. He then meets an American heiress & marries her but finds she has been disinherited as well. They find even more troubl...
  Director of the film

   1935