Thora Hird Movies

A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother.

Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor...

An ill tailor is trying to finish a coat for a wealthy man. He is hindered by his cat and helped by some grateful mice.

Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work...

A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.

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

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...

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and...

An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.

Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in...

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

Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael...

Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the...

During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.

On the first night of his London assignment, newsagency reporter John Desmonmd becomes heavily involved with enigmatic Anna Ray. The affair ends when...

A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London...

Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her...

A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.

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