Emeric Pressburger

All Movies of Emeric Pressburger

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 Year

• 
  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

• 
  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

• 
  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

• 
  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

• 
  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

• 
  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

• 
  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