The best Helen Haye’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Helen Haye’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Helen Haye.
The 39 Steps
7.6/10
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed -- with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as "The 39 Steps."
The Skin Game
5.7/10
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.
Hobson's Choice
7.7/10
Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be ‘no marriages’ to avoid the expense of marriage settlements at £500 each, his eldest daughter Maggie rebels.
The Spy in Black
6.9/10
A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
Anna Karenina
6.6/10
Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet.
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.
Atlantic
5.2/10
A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.
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.
The Case of the Frightened Lady
6.3/10
A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace. AKA "Scarf Murder Mystery."
Conspirator
6.1/10
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
My Teenage Daughter
5.7/10
Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black mad about jive, owner of a Bentley, and supposedly running through a legacy. Attracted to the daring young man, she rejects Mark, a young farmer who is in love with her. But it soon becomes apparent to everyone but Jan that neither Tony's fortune nor even his name may be his own, and her association with him will lead her into delinquency and danger.
Mine Own Executioner
6.7/10
Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
Action of the Tiger
5.1/10
A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson (Van Johnson) to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble is just beginning when they get there.
Sidewalks of London
6.9/10
On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby's dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.
Kipps
6.5/10
A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama.
A Place of One's Own
6.2/10
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.
Cotton Queen
5.7/10
The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
The Dictator
6.4/10
The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.
Lilacs in the Spring
5.1/10
A young actress must decide which of two lovers will be her husband. She daydreams about each one to help her decide.
The Girl in the Taxi
5.2/10
In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad, begins dating a seductive widow--the same widow his father has been seeing. Trouble ensues when the father refuses to let his daughter marry her true love. When the fiancée learns of the father-son shenanigans, he begins blackmailing them into letting him marry the daughter.
