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1. The Avengers (1961–1969)

TV-14 | 50 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners.

Stars: Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman, Linda Thorson

Votes: 8,879

2. Space: 1999 (1975–1977)

TV-14 | 50 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from Earths orbit and into deep space.

Stars: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Nick Tate, Zienia Merton

Votes: 9,409

3. A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

R | 108 min | Comedy, Crime

In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool a very proper barrister.

Directors: Charles Crichton, John Cleese | Stars: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin

Votes: 153,799 | Gross: $63.49M

4. The Professionals (1977–1983)

TV-MA | 60 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Bodie and Doyle, senior agents of the British intelligence service CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their handler George Cowley fight terrorism and similar high-level crimes.

Stars: Gordon Jackson, Martin Shaw, Lewis Collins, Bridget Brice

Votes: 3,650

5. Things to Come (1936)

Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, War

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott

Votes: 9,053

6. Dick Turpin (1979–1982)

25 min | Action, Adventure, Biography

Famed 18th-century English highwayman Dick Turpin eludes authorities while romancing a farmer's daughter, though his days robbing coaches under the alias John Palmer may be numbered.

Stars: Richard O'Sullivan, Michael Deeks, Christopher Benjamin, Billy Dean

Votes: 607

7. The Thief of Bagdad (1940)

Not Rated | 106 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

After being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.

Directors: Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, Alexander Korda, Zoltan Korda, William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin

Votes: 14,490 | Gross: $0.27M

8. Secret Agent (1964–1967)

TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

John Drake is a special operative for M9, specializing in security assignments against any subversive element that threatens world peace.

Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Peter Madden, Frank Maher, Peter Brayham

Votes: 1,537

9. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass

Votes: 15,532

10. Dead of Night (1945)

Approved | 77 min | Drama, Horror

Guests invited to a weekend in the country share their supernatural stories, beginning with Walter Craig, who senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality.

Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer | Stars: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall

Votes: 14,200

11. The Adventures of Black Beauty (1972–1974)

Not Rated | 55 min | Adventure, Family

A thoroughbred horse in 19th century England is adopted by a widowed doctor and befriended by his children. The horse helps the children as they have weekly adventures and encounters with various characters.

Stars: William Lucas, Charlotte Mitchell, Roderick Shaw, Judi Bowker

Votes: 465

12. The Third Secret (1964)

103 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The first secret is what we don't tell people, the second secret is what we don't tell ourselves, and the third secret is the truth. The death of a psychologist is investigated by his teenage daughter and a former patient.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Diane Cilento

Votes: 1,280

13. Man in a Suitcase (1967–1968)

60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

McGill (known as "Mac") is a former U.S. intelligence agent based in London. After being thrown out of the agency for something he did not do, he finds his infamous reputation has preceded ... See full summary »

Stars: Richard Bradford, Ricardo Montez, Warren Stanhope, Frank Forsyth

Votes: 459

14. The Protectors (1972–1974)

TV-14 | 30 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Challenges abound for worldwide crime-fighting team The Protectors. Organised into a global secret society, their mission is to protect the innocent and apprehend the guilty. Starring Emmy winner Robert Vaughn "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.".

Stars: Robert Vaughn, Nyree Dawn Porter, Tony Anholt, Yasuko Nagazumi

Votes: 572

15. Return of the Saint (1978–1979)

TV-PG | 60 min | Adventure, Crime

This series chronicles the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.

Stars: Ian Ogilvy, Gayle Hunnicutt, Stratford Johns, Derren Nesbitt

Votes: 577

16. Here Come the Double Deckers! (1970– )

30 min | Family, Comedy

The adventures of a gang of seven kids whose clubhouse is an abandoned double decker bus in a London junkyard. Usually involves a bit of singing, a bit of dancing and general fun times.

Stars: Peter Firth, Brinsley Forde, Gillian Bailey, Michael Audreson

Votes: 285

17. Rentaghost (1976–1984)

25 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

After his death, Fred Mumford wants a second chance at achieving the success that eluded him in life. Coming back to Earth as a spirit, he recruits a Victorian gent and a medieval jester to set up "Rentaghost".

Stars: Michael Staniforth, Edward Brayshaw, Ann Emery, William Perrie

Votes: 664

18. Whisky Galore! (1949)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Crime

Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Catherine Lacey, Bruce Seton

Votes: 6,647

19. Omnibus (1967–2003)

Not Rated | 43 min | Documentary, Biography, Music

Arts documentary series with concerts and experimental dramatizations.

Stars: Humphrey Burton, Kirsty Wark, David Collings, Michael Hordern

Votes: 293

20. The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)

Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy

Volunteers take over their local passenger train service (against bus company resistance) when the government announces its closure.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Stanley Holloway, George Relph, Naunton Wayne, John Gregson

Votes: 3,308

21. Elephant Boy (1937)

Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

This black and white movie is based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai, of the Elephants", in which a small native lad claims he knows the congregating place of the elephant hordes.

Directors: Robert J. Flaherty, Zoltan Korda | Stars: Sabu, W.E. Holloway, Walter Hudd, Allan Jeayes

Votes: 852

22. ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)

90 min | Comedy, Drama

An anthology series from the U.K., from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television.

Stars: Derek Francis, Alfred Burke, Arthur Hewlett, Esther Lawrence

Votes: 93

23. Hue and Cry (1947)

82 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Alastair Sim, Frederick Piper, Harry Fowler, Vida Hope

Votes: 1,775

24. The Human Jungle (1963–1964)

60 min | Drama

Dr. Roger Corder, a gifted and compassionate psychologist, treats the mental disorders of his patients through a mix of Freudian and Laingian techniques.

Stars: Herbert Lom, Michael Johnson, Sally Smith, Mary Yeomans

Votes: 179

25. The Day After Tomorrow (1975 TV Movie)

52 min | Family, Sci-Fi

The crew of the lightship Altares are lost in space when the craft is struck by a meteor shower and goes out of control.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Brian Blessed, Joanna Dunham, Nick Tate, Katharine Levy

Votes: 136

26. Shirley's World (1971–1972)

30 min | Comedy

Shirley Logan (Shirley MacLaine) is a globe-trotting magazine writer-photographer, and Dennis Croft (John Gregson) her London-based editor.

Stars: Shirley MacLaine, John Gregson, Kim Smith, Burt Kwouk

Votes: 64

27. Strange Report (1969–1971)

60 min | Drama, Mystery

Retired Scotland Yard commissioner Adam Strange investigates bizarre mysteries in "Swinging Sixties" London.

Stars: Anthony Quayle, Kaz Garas, Anneke Wills, Charles Lloyd Pack

Votes: 175

28. NBC Special Treat (1975–1986)

Family, Sci-Fi

Anthology series of television specials geared towards teenagers.

Stars: Estelle Omens, Ricky Paull Goldin, Cheryl Arutt, Brian Blessed

Votes: 38

29. Against the Wind (1948)

Not Rated | 96 min | Action, Drama, War

A secret London school trains a motley group of men and women for sabotage work in German occupied Belgium during World War II. When one of them is captured by the Germans, five others are parachuted in to rescue him.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner, Gordon Jackson

Votes: 731

30. The Stranger in Between (1952)

Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A violent fugitive and a mistreated small boy team up to flee from authority.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Elizabeth Sellars, Kay Walsh

Votes: 1,415

31. 21 Days Together (1940)

Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

After Larry accidentally kills his lover Wanda's estranged blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. Larry and Wanda nervously await the verdict: if the innocent suspect is found guilty then Larry will give himself up.

Director: Basil Dean | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Francis L. Sullivan

Votes: 1,276

32. The Battle of the Sexes (1960)

84 min | Comedy

Angela Barrows, an accomplished business analyst from the US, attempts to contemporise the late MacPherson's tweed factory, shaking the very foundation of a men-only company.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings, Jameson Clark

Votes: 1,731

33. Floods of Fear (1958)

82 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Two inmates working to shore up a dike during a severe flood are swept away in the current along with their guard. The three of them wind up in an isolated house whose flooded interior contains a frightened woman.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Howard Keel, Anne Heywood, Cyril Cusack, Harry H. Corbett

Votes: 295

34. Sanders of the River (1935)

Approved | 85 min | Adventure, Drama, Music

A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.

Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Paul Robeson, Leslie Banks, Nina Mae McKinney, Robert Cochran

Votes: 730

35. Train of Events (1949)

Approved | 88 min | Drama

A train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them, and how they deal with it.

Directors: Sidney Cole, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden | Stars: Jack Warner, Gladys Henson, Susan Shaw, Patric Doonan

Votes: 479

36. Alien Attack (1976 TV Movie)

104 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

Earth's Moon is the site of Moonbase Alpha, a scientific research colony nestled in the crater Plato. Staffed by over 300 men and women from Earth, it is the operations center for several ... See full summary »

Directors: Charles Crichton, Lee H. Katzin, Bill Lenny | Stars: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Barry Morse, Roy Dotrice

Votes: 208

37. Decision Against Time (1957)

87 min | Drama, Thriller

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Sellars, Jeremy Bodkin, Gerard Lohan

Votes: 524

38. Man of the World (1962–1963)

60 min | Crime, Drama

Michael Strait is a high-flying photo-journalist and a real Man of the World. His business takes him to every corner of the world and every corner of society and with his eye for trouble it proves to be an irresistible combination.

Stars: Craig Stevens, Tracy Reed, Paul Maxwell, Ricardo Montez

Votes: 57

39. The Love Lottery (1954)

89 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone, he relocates to a remote Italian village ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: David Niven, Peggy Cummins, Anne Vernon, Herbert Lom

Votes: 357

40. He Who Rides a Tiger (1965)

103 min | Crime, Drama

Peter Rayston (Tom Bell), has been in and out of prison most of his life. At thirty-years-old, he is released for the eighth time, after serving a sentence for housebreaking. Immediately, ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Tom Bell, Judi Dench, Paul Rogers, Kay Walsh

Votes: 110

41. Smuggler (1981)

TV-MA | 30 min | Adventure, History

In 1802, the ex-British naval officer turned smuggler Jack Vincent eludes revenue officers along the coast of England. A headstrong loner, Vincent frequently finds himself entangled in the ... See full summary »

Stars: Oliver Tobias, Hywel Williams-Ellis, Lesley Dunlop, Peter Capell

Votes: 64

42. Dance Hall (1950)

Approved | 80 min | Drama, Music, Romance

The storyline centres on four young female factory workers who escape the monotony of their jobs by spending their evenings at the Chiswick Palais, the local dance hall, where they have various problems with their boyfriends.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Natasha Parry, Jane Hylton, Diana Dors, Petula Clark

Votes: 251

43. Cosmic Princess (1982 TV Movie)

91 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

_Space: 1999_ (1975) season 2 episodes The Metamorph and Space Ward were edited together to create this movie about the adrift in space crew of Moonbase Alpha that meets shape-shifting alien Maya and her father who wants their brains.

Directors: Charles Crichton, Peter Medak | Stars: Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell, Tony Anholt

Votes: 373

44. The Divided Heart (1954)

Approved | 89 min | Drama

A story of litigation between a birth mother and an adopted family due to a child lost during a war.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Cornell Borchers, Yvonne Mitchell, Armin Dahlen, Alexander Knox

Votes: 295

45. Adventurer (1986–1987)

30 min | Action, Drama

Jack Vincent, an aristocrat forced by circumstances to become a smuggler, is caught and transported on the IIMS Success to a penal colony on Norfolk Island, off the New Zealand coast. ... See full summary »

Stars: Oliver Tobias, Marshall Napier, Peter Hambleton, Temuera Morrison

Votes: 37

46. The Girl of the Canal (1945)

Approved | 48 min | Drama

Drama following the lives of two families living on the colourfully painted canal boats of Britain.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Jenny Laird, Bill Blewitt, May Hallatt, Robert Griffiths

Votes: 254

47. Nine Men (1943)

Approved | 68 min | Drama, War

The Nine men of the title are a British WWII Army patrol stuck in a desert fort during the African campaign. The Men must defend the fort against the Italian and German troops until they cam be relieved.

Director: Harry Watt | Stars: Jack Lambert, Grant Sutherland, Gordon Jackson, Frederick Piper

Votes: 328

48. The Boy Who Stole a Million (1960)

84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

A young lad working in a bank in Valencia 'borrows' a million pesetas so he can help his dad pay to get his taxi fixed. Instead he finds himself being chased all over town not only by the ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Virgilio Teixeira, Maurice Reyna, Marianne Benet, Harold Kasket

Votes: 127

49. If Looks Could Kill: The Power of Behaviour (2000 Video)

29 min | Short, Mystery

A woman is driven to suicide by the careless behavior of staff at the doctor's, the shoe shop, the post office and the railway station, and a detective must piece together her movements to see how their behavior led to her death.

Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Dawn French, Patrick Malahide, David Bamber, Bobby Barry

50. Another Shore (1948)

77 min | Comedy

A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti.

Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Robert Beatty, Moira Lister, Stanley Holloway, Michael Medwin

Votes: 154