The best Amy Veness’s drama movies

Amy Veness

Amy Veness

26/02/1876- 22/09/1960
Today we present the best Amy Veness’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Amy Veness’s movies.

Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist
7.8/10
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.

Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
7.3/10
A naval adventure, based on the novels by C.S. Forester, about the heroic, 19th-century British seafarer. The story sails with his ship, the Lydia, through battles with Spain and then France won with wit rather than might.

This Happy Breed

This Happy Breed
7.3/10
In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. Flint, sister-in-law Sylvia and three children. Years pass, with the daily routine of family infighting and reconciliation occasionally broken by a strike or a festival.

The Man in Grey

The Man in Grey
6.5/10
After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.

Angels One Five

Angels One Five
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 19/03/1952
  • Character: Aunt Tabitha
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.

Blanche Fury

Blanche Fury
6.7/10
Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she has a daughter. But before long, boredom sets in, and Blanche begins a tempestuous romance with stableman Philip Thorn. Together, they hatch a murderous plan to gain control of the estate.

The Magic Box

The Magic Box
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1952
  • Character: Grandmother in Wedding Group
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.

Madonna of the Seven Moons

Madonna of the Seven Moons
6.2/10
In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.

Chance of a Lifetime

Chance of a Lifetime
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/04/1950
  • Character: Lady Davis
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.

Millions Like Us

Millions Like Us
6.8/10
Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It stars Patricia Roc, Eric Portman, Megs Jenkins, and Anne Crawford, was written by Sidney Gilliat, and directed by Gilliat and Frank Launder. It was filmed at Gainsborough Studios. When Celia Crowson (Roc) is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life, and begins a relationship with a young airman.

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
6.2/10
The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements and a series of bike thefts.

My Brother's Keeper

My Brother's Keeper
6.2/10
War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.

Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone
5.6/10
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600's. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.

Bond Street

Bond Street
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/05/1948
  • Character: Seamstress
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.

This England

This England
5.8/10
Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.

Tom Brown's Schooldays

Tom Brown's Schooldays
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/11/1951
  • Character: Mrs. Wixie
When Tom Brown (John Howard Davies) arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully, Flashman (John Forrest). With the help of his friend East (John Charlesworth), plucky Brown devises a plan to get back at Flashman; in the meantime, he’s asked to look out for a timid new student (Glyn Dearman), whose life is accidentally put in peril during a school race.

Here Come the Huggetts

Here Come the Huggetts
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/12/1948
  • Character: Grandma Huggett
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.

The Astonished Heart

The Astonished Heart
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/03/1950
  • Character: Alice Smith
Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But Leonora could do without Barbara's husband, Christian (Noel Coward), whom she finds arrogant and off-putting ... at first. One evening alone together, romance is set ablaze, leaving Christian with a lot of explaining to do to Barbara.

Good-Time Girl

Good-Time Girl
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/04/1948
  • Character: Mrs. Chalk
Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.

The Old Curiosity Shop

The Old Curiosity Shop
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/12/1934
  • Character: Mrs. Jarley
An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him. They are pursued both by Quilp and by the shop-keeper's long-lost brother, who wants to find them for a different reason.

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