By Vlad Zakh · February 15, 2026
Drama intensethought provoking
Eric Portman brought commanding, precise intensity to British wartime cinema and often played conflicted authority figures in impossible circumstances. 49th Parallel and One of Our Aircraft Is Missing are wartime highlights, A Canterbury Tale investigates attacks on women in an English village, Wanted for Murder suspects a man haunted by his executioner father, The Colditz Story attempts escapes from an escape-proof castle, and Freud dramatises psychoanalysis’s early days.
01 Eric Portman features in this dramatisation of Sigmund Freud's early, controversial development of psychoanalysis.
Directed by John Huston · 2h 20m
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02 Eric Portman appears in this British war film about Allied prisoners of war at a supposedly escape-proof castle who repeatedly attempt daring breakouts.
Directed by Guy Hamilton · 1h 34m
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03 Eric Portman is in this British thriller about a troubled man haunted by his executioner father's legacy who is suspected in a string of stranglings.
Directed by Lawrence Huntington · 1h 41m · Rated NR
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04 Eric Portman features in this wartime drama about three travellers who investigate a mysterious series of attacks on women in a small English village.
Directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger · 2h 05m · Rated NR
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05 Eric Portman appears in this British war film about a downed bomber crew who rely on Dutch resistance fighters to evade capture by German forces.
Directed by Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell · 1h 42m · Rated NR
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06 Stranded Nazi submariners try a desperate overland escape across wartime Canada.
Directed by Michael Powell · 2h 03m · Rated NR
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