Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”

The Seventh Veil

1945

English

6.7

♡ 3

57%

Compton Bennett Director

Ann Todd as Francesca

John Slater as James

Albert Lieven as Maxwell Leyden

James Mason as Nicholas

A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.

90 Degrees in the Shade

1965

Czech

6.8

♡ 8

Jirí Weiss Director

Anne Heywood as Alena

Rudolf Hrusínský as invertuník JUDr Rudolf Kurka

Ann Todd as Kurková

Walter Taub as Lékar

In a Prague shop, an assistant has been carrying on an affair with the dishonest, married manager. An emotionally repressed auditor with domestic problems of his own uncovers serious stock discrepancies. A test of loyalties and a questioning of values concludes in tragedy.

So Evil My Love

1948

English

6.9

♡ 3

56%

Action

based on novel or book

Crime

Drama

female friendship

husband wife relationship

london, england

unlikely lovers

victorian england

Lewis Allen Director

Raymond Huntley as Henry Courtney

Ray Milland as Mark Bellis

Ann Todd as Olivia Harwood

Geraldine Fitzgerald as Susan Courtney

In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.

The Passionate Friends

1949

English

7.2

♡ 4

75%

David Lean Director

Lisa Daniely as Cinema Usherette

Ann Todd as Mary Justin

Trevor Howard as Prof. Steven Stratton

Arthur Howard as Smith - Butler

A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.

Beware My Brethren

1972

English

5.3

♡ 1

religion and supernatural

serial killer

slasher

Robert Hartford-Davis Director

Ann Todd as Birdy Wemys

David Lodge as C.I.D. Inspector

Tony Beckley as Kenny Wemys

Patrick Magee as Minister

Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!

Poison Pen

1939

English

6.6

♡ 6

Drama

Paul L. Stein Director

Ann Todd as Ann Rider

Roddy McDowall as Choirboy

Robert Newton as Sam Hurrin

Peter Murray-Hill as (uncredited)

The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.

Madeleine

1950

English

6.9

♡ 7

83%

David Lean Director

Anthony Newley as Chemist's Assistant

Aileen Lewis as Lady Watching Dance

Ann Todd as Madeleine Smith

Norman Wooland as William Minnoch

The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.

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The Return of Bulldog Drummond

Time Without Pity

The Seventh Veil

90 Degrees in the Shade

So Evil My Love

The Passionate Friends

Beware My Brethren

Poison Pen

Madeleine