Thora Hird Movies

Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious telephone calls predicting their impending deaths...

A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clashes with another soldier.

Friends, colleagues and fans, including Julie Walters, Jonathan Ross, Norman Wisdom, Keith Barron and Victoria Wood, pay tribute to Dame Thora Hird,...

Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.

Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a...

A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering...

BBC Play of the Month adaptation of Shakespeare's tragic love story.

A bookmaker struggles to cope with his two mothers-in-law.

A man falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begins to suspect that he may have also loved her in a previous life.

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his...

Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of...

A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get...

Julie and The Cadillacs, a struggling young pop group, are enticed to London and signed up by London PR men...

Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.

A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him,...

Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections...

A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The...