Browse 28 movies from Paramount British Pictures
Lily is threatened with divorce by her husband after spending an innocent night with friend Rupert Harvey.
Mar 1932
A sailor falls in love with a woman he meets at the dockside, but is deeply conflicted because his former lover is in prison.
Feb 1932
Dice Allen is a square-playing gambler who falls in love with a girl whose father gambles away their ranch. He uses his skill at cards to win back the money but is robbed and beaten and suspected by the girl. Finally, learning the truth, she goes to Dice for help, and he enters his own horse in a race and wins enough money to save the ranch.
Mar 1925
A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton
Jul 1931
Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband's chips and egg. When her best friend wins a trip-for-two to Greece Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.
Aug 1989
In France a man frames his daughter for poisoning her rich husband.
Feb 1922
Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt his honeymoon with his wife Margot in the south of France and return to London to get his father to sign an important contract. While Margot, an actress, goes to a small resort where she will not be recognized, Kitty Lake, one of the young women Lord Grenham pursues, flirts with Willie. Two weeks pass and when Willie tells Margot on the telephone that he must stay in town, she threatens to engage in a violent flirtation with the next attractive man she sees. Karl von der Heide, from Vienna, who is waiting to use the telephone, overhears her and begins a flirtation. She identifies herself to him as Mrs. Margaret Spaulding, and they pursue the beginnings of a romance until Margot suddenly returns home.
'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Film Catalogue)
Nov 1931
A US steel king pawns the gems of his daughter who is loved by a student and a crook.
Jun 1921
'Africa. Half-caste Legionnaire dies to save governor, the son of major who hates him.' (British Film Catalogue)
Jul 1932
A Lord's son is engaged to his rich ward, but prefers a peasant.
Nov 1921
Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian finds time to romance co-worker Rebecca Howard.
Jan 1968
In order to deter his wife from having an affair a man hires an actress as part of an elaborate scheme.
A industrialist has a row with his son, who leaves home. Meanwhile, both his assistant and solicitor conspire to embezzle a fortune in bonds. A plucky young newspaper reporter pursues the rich man's daughter.
May 1937
A fairly conventional romance of an American heiress, loved by boy back home, bedazzled by a glamorous prince in beautiful Italian surroundings.
Apr 1922
A classy woman has an affair with a rake after she learns that she has a terminal disease
Feb 1933
Adapted from a popular Broadway play and concerns three veterans who return to London from the War only to discover that they have been officially listed as dead.
Jan 1922
A commuter's race to catch a rush-hour train, narrated in the style of a horse race.
Dec 1978
A private detective and his young assistant solve crimes.
May 1928
Max Tracey is the head waiter at a London hotel. He falls in love at first sight with Sylvia Robertson, an aristocratic woman, and poses as a prince to win her love. In this venture, he is aided by Mr. Westlake, a Ruritanian monarch who owes him a favour. When Sylvia discovers Max's deception, she is appalled, but the situation is resolved when her father tells her that he was once a hotel dishwasher.
Jan 1932