A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.

Acceptable Damage

2019

English

4.8

♡ 8

Action

Drama

Lavinia Simina Director

Fraser Ayres as Councillor Bettany

Rebecca Peyton as Job Centre Worker

John Marfoh as Schoolboy

Adele James as Zoe

Lucy and her daughter Katy are under siege from a street gang. The gang leader Rabbit wants to make them feel as low as he has been made to feel; as he fights a war against himself and the world around him.

Black Gold

1947

English

6.1

♡ 3

Phil Karlson Director

Raymond Hatton as Bucky

Robert Patten as Jockey

Darryl Hickman as Schoolboy

Jonathan Hale as Senator Watkins

A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.

My Wonderful Life

2021

Polish

5.9

♡ 4

64%

Lukasz Grzegorzek Director

Agata Buzek as Joanna 'Jo' Lisiecka

Hubert Grysztar as Schoolboy

Mikolaj Dumanowski as Schoolboy

Aleksandra Stefanowicz as Schoolgirl

A caring daughter, a laid-back mother, a popular teacher, a wife you are thick as thieves with – Joanna – is outstanding in each of these roles. But in none of them does she feel like herself. That is why she leads a double life. She has a secret she shares with no-one.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1938

English

7.1

♡ 14

82%

Action

Adventure

aunt nephew relationship

based on novel or book

Norman Taurog Director

Victor Jory as Injun Joe

Harry Myers as Irate Churchgoer

Margaret Hamilton as Mrs. Harper

Lon McCallister as Schoolboy

Tom Sawyer and his pal Huckleberry Finn have great adventures on the Mississippi River, pretending to be pirates, attending their own funeral and witnessing a murder.

I Could Go on Singing

1963

English

6.9

♡ 2

100%

parent child relationship

singer

Ronald Neame Director

Aileen Lewis as Backstage Parent

Jack Klugman as George

Tony Robinson as Schoolboy

Brian Godfrey as Undetermined Secondary Role

Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she never had. When David returns, Matt is torn between his loyalty to his father and his affection for Jenny.