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- In Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home.
- A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.
- A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.
- A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
- Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.
- A humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.
- In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, and his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
- A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
- A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle.
- A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
- In the Victorian period, two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island in the South Pacific and fall in love while growing up together.
- Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.
- A young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts.
- A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
- This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
- On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
- In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
- A noblewoman begins to lead a dangerous double life in order to alleviate her boredom.
- The daily routine of two London Policemen is interrupted by a killer.
- Joe Sullivan (Dennis O'Keefe) has taken the rap for Rick (Raymond Burr), who double-crosses him with a flawed escape plan and other means intended to get rid of him.
- Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
- After the nurse who declares that a recent surgical death was a murder also dies, an enigmatic Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate.
- Two US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.
- "Destination Moon", tells the tale of when Doctor Charles Cargraves and retired General Thayer approach Jim Barnes, the head of his own aviation construction firms to help build a rocket that will take them to the moon.
- The story of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott's 1912 expedition and his quest to be the first to reach the South Pole.
- A woman meets a man whose love she rejected years ago.
- At the height of the Roman Civil War, a young Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh) meets a middle-aged Julius Caesar (Claude Rains), who teaches her how to rule Egypt.
- Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife's lover.
- A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives in to her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue soon after.
- Pursued by the big-time gambler he robbed, John Muller assumes a new identity, with unfortunate results.
- Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
- An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.
- The childless widow of Allan Fury bequeaths the Fury estate to her Fuller relatives, but Allan's illegitimate son who masquerades as a servant hopes to grab the estate for himself.
- In Tulsa, after a rancher dies during a feud with a major oil company, his daughter, driven by revenge, starts digging for oil herself.
- Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, Percy becomes mixed up with gangsters and a murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
- Set in an apartment building whose occupants include Arthur Earthleigh, a meek and mild type married to the beautiful-but-domineering Mae; a Bohemian artist, David Galleo and his always-there model, Deborah Tyler; and Olive Jenson, a Greenwich Village type who is always slightly-but-continuously inebriated, and whose motto is "love and let love." She calls on Arthur while his wife is out, and when she passes out during his attempts to get her out before his wife returns, he thinks she is dead and deposits her on Galleo's terrace. Galleo takes advantage of the situation by using it in a blackmail scheme against Arthur, which is shaky, at best, as Olive refuses to stay dead.
- Philippa Shelley races against time to clear her husband Nicholas Talbot of a murder he did not commit. While she works on getting proof, the prosecution is doing all it can to force a conviction.
- A mother struggles to maintain normalcy at home as D-Day nears. With lodgers, absent children in the Navy, and no war job, she questions her choice to remain a housewife when her son's ship is damaged.
- A secret London school trains a motley group of men and women for sabotage work in German occupied Belgium during World War II. When one of them is captured by the Germans, five others are parachuted in to rescue him.
- A poor boy who saved a rich girl from drowning is adopted by her family, but he grows into a money-hungry ruthless businessman who would step on others to get to the top of the social ladder.
- A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
- A young Irish woman hates England so much she becomes a spy for Germany.
- 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.
- When the murder of a young woman happens, her next-door neighbor is under suspicion due to his previous stay in a mental hospital.
- In the 1890s, Trottie True moves from bit theatre parts to stardom, and from balloonist Sid Skinner to more prominent men. She later wonders if Sid wasn't better after all, and seeks to find out.
- An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
- Three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham, "The Verger", "Mr. Know-All", and "The Sanatorium" are introduced by the author.
- Twelve inmates plan a prison break from the Colorado State Penitentiary but one of them reluctantly joins the group.
- A drama set during World War II. A tale of adultery and desertion.
- In 17th century England, Jassy is believed to be a witch because she has visions of approaching disasters. After Barney Hatton, an impoverished gent whose gambling father has lost the family home, helps her anyway she will not forget and will try to help him get his property back - but at any price?