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Emeric Pressburger has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1960s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by A Matter of Life and Death.

The Red Shoes
1948 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 4%Max · Included

Black Narcissus
1947 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 14%Max · Included

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
1943 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 16%Max · Included

I Know Where I'm Going!
1945 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 23%Tubi · Free w/ ads

A Canterbury Tale
1944 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 36%Tubi · Free w/ ads

49th Parallel
1941 · Movie · Writer
Top 38%Max · Included

A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger · With Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Moira Shearer

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.
Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger · With David Niven, Kim Hunter, Roger Livesey

A group of Anglican nuns, led by Sister Clodagh, are sent to a mountain in the Himalayas. The climate in the region is hostile and the nuns are housed in an odd old palace. They work to establish a school and a hospital, but slowly their focus shifts. Sister Ruth falls for a government worker, Mr. Dean, and begins to question her vow of celibacy. As Sister Ruth obsesses over Mr. Dean, Sister Clodagh becomes immersed in her own memories of love.
Dir. Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell · With Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar

General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
Dir. Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell · With Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.
Dir. Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell · With Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger · With Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price

In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.
Dir. Michael Powell · With Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Raymond Massey

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
Dir. Michael Anderson · With Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard
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