Emeric Pressburger Movies

Käthe von Nagy plays Ronny, who designs the costumes for the upcoming premiere of an opera written by the young prince of Perusa (Willy Fritsch)...

The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The French language version of Sehnsucht 202 (1932).

Low-key British comedy starring Clive Brook as a successful playwright who is sued for breach of promise by a mysterious beauty he claims not to know.

Hella lives in a boarding house and has various romantic adventures before settling down with vacuum cleaner salesman Winkler.

Secret agents try to defeat terrorists on the Orient Express.

During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.

Espionage, war and romance in the Far East in 1904: Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky marries Youki, the sister of a fanatical Japanese officer,...

In London's colourful but seedy Soho, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, with little hope of finding happiness. Then he meets...

Each evening, before saying their prayers, some children swallow their cod liver oil. One evening, the youngest child makes a daring request in his...

Helene has agreed to marry a man that she isn't in love with. On the day of her wedding her cousin arrives just in time to rescue her and they run...

A man creates a national scandal after he mistakenly kisses the wrong woman in a darkened cinema. The following year it was remade as an American...

Detailed interview with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger looking back at their long career as influential British film-makers and their unusual...

An opera company tries to get an engagement.

It tells the story of the funny situations that occur when the advertisements placed in an advertising agency are mixed up due to the carelessness of...

A young woman born illegitimately comes to terms with the challenge of getting married.

After a mix-up with a newspaper advertisement, a shop-girl and a millionairess are mistaken for one another by two businessmen. A musical romantic...

Set on the Hungarian plains and in romantic Budapest, the film follows Rose Barsony’s spirited dancer-singer and Wolf Albach-Retty’s...