The best Bill Shine’s drama movies

Bill Shine

Bill Shine

20/10/1911- 24/07/1997
Today we present the best Bill Shine’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 Bill Shine’s movies.
Available on:
Year:

The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes
8.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 06/09/1948
  • Character: Her Mate
In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.

Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 15/10/1945
  • Character: Webster
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.

Under Capricorn

Under Capricorn
6.2/10
In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he arrives he meets powerful landowner and ex-convict, Sam Flusky, who wants to do a business deal with him. Whilst attending a dinner party at Flusky's house, Charles meets Flusky's wife Henrietta who he had known as a child back in Ireland. Henrietta is an alcoholic and seems to be on the verge of madness.

Wanted for Murder

Wanted for Murder
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/06/1946
  • Character: Detective Ellis
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.

Libel

Libel
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 23/10/1959
  • Character: The Guide
A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney.

The Deep Blue Sea

The Deep Blue Sea
6.6/10
A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. (TCM.com)

Champagne Charlie

Champagne Charlie
6.5/10
A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.

Waltzes from Vienna

Waltzes from Vienna
5.8/10
The story of Johann Strauss the elder and younger.

Bond of Fear

Bond of Fear
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/04/1956
  • Character: Hiker
An escaped killer hides out by forcing a travelling family to take him with them.

Captain Boycott

Captain Boycott
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 26/08/1947
  • Character: Press Photographer
Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.

The Man Inside

The Man Inside
5.8/10
A detective tracking a stolen gem begins to suspect there's more to the case than just theft.

Sensation

Sensation
5.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 16/12/1936
  • Character: Quirk
Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up. When a pretty waitress is found murdered, however, Pat falls in line with the rest of the 'Murder Gang' the pack of reporters who gather to glean stories by fair means or foul!

Farewell Again

Farewell Again
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/01/1937
  • Character: Cpl. Edrich
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.

The Squeaker

The Squeaker
6.1/10
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).

Women Without Men

Women Without Men
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/06/1956
  • Character: Reveller
In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accidentally hits him. He presses charges, claiming she hit him deliberately, and she is convicted and sent to prison. As her fiance is at sea and out of contact, she is terrified he will think she has jilted him when she does not keep a New Year's date. A kindly old convict, Gran', notorious as a prison-breaker, agrees to engineer an escape for Angela...

Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It

Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 17/05/1941
  • Character: Hotel Porter
Third and final film in the series of ‘Inspector Hornleigh’ comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.

The Green Cockatoo

The Green Cockatoo
5.8/10
Song and dance man John Mills, guv’nor of the eponymous nitery, helps new-girl-in-town René Ray flee a false murder charge, except neither knows the corpse is Mills’ brother Robert Newton, and both cops and the real killers are hot on their trail.

The Last Man to Hang

The Last Man to Hang
5.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/08/1956
  • Character: Underhay
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.

The Face at the Window

The Face at the Window
5.9/10
  • Genre: DramaHorror
  • Release: 07/04/1939
  • Character: Pierre, Babette's Beau
In 1880, the criminal called The Face is responsible for a murderous rampage in France. When the Brisson Bank is robbed in Paris and the employee Michelle is murdered, the wealthy Chevalier Lucio del Gardo is the only chance to save the bank. Chavalier proposes to the owner M. de Brisson to deposit a large amount of gold, but in return he would like to marry his daughter Cecile. However, Cecile is in love with the efficient clerk Lucien Cortier that belongs to the lower classes and refuses the engagement. In order to get rid off the rival, Chavalier uses evidences to incriminate Lucien, manipulating the incompetent Parisian chief of police.

The Diplomatic Corpse

The Diplomatic Corpse
5.5/10
London police and reporters from a local newspaper go after a gang of foreign criminals.

Related actors