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1. Murder! (1930)
TV-PG | 92 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Edward Chapman
Votes: 6,941
2. Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956)
30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.
Stars: Boris Karloff, Ewan Roberts, Eric Pohlmann, Doris Nolan
Votes: 310
3. Tomorrow We Live (II) (1942)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A mayor's daughter poses as collaborator to help British agent escape to England with vital information to help the allied war effort.
Director: George King | Stars: John Clements, Godfrey Tearle, Hugh Sinclair, Greta Gynt
Votes: 238
4. Juno and the Paycock (1929)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
During the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Sara Allgood, Edward Chapman, Barry Fitzgerald, Maire O'Neill
Votes: 2,538
5. White Fire (1953)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama
In London, American Gregor Stevens searches for his convicted murderer brother facing execution. He allies with smuggler Yvonne Durante to prove his brother's innocence, putting her at risk from her criminal associates.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Scott Brady, Mary Castle, John Blythe, Gabrielle Brune
Votes: 415
6. Young Wives' Tale (1951)
79 min | Comedy, Romance
A post-war housing crisis leaves a shy woman to share a house with two couples. Comic situations arise as the new lodger becomes infatuated with one of the husbands.
Director: Henry Cass | Stars: Joan Greenwood, Nigel Patrick, Helen Cherry, Derek Farr
Votes: 459
7. Happy Go Lovely (1951)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A chorus girl gets a ride from millionaire Bruno's driver. The cash-strapped theater director thinks, she's Bruno's girlfriend and makes her the lead. She meets Bruno, thinking he's a reporter. More confusion follows.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: David Niven, Vera-Ellen, Cesar Romero, Bobby Howes
Votes: 877
8. Father's Doing Fine (1952)
83 min | Comedy, Romance
A domestic comedy based on the play "Little Lambs Eat Ivy", dealing with the adventures of an impoverished upper-class family consisting of a widowed mother and her four daughters.
Director: Henry Cass | Stars: Heather Thatcher, Diane Hart, Virginia McKenna, Mary Germaine
Votes: 126
9. The Hasty Heart (1949)
102 min | Drama, War
In the final days of WW2, in a M.A.S.H. unit in Burma, a seriously wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 1,550
10. So Little Time (1952)
88 min | Drama, Romance, War
During World War II, German soldiers occupy the home of a beautiful Belgian girl and her mother.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Maria Schell, Marius Goring, Lucie Mannheim, Gabrielle Dorziat
Votes: 267
11. Mary (1931)
78 min | Mystery, Thriller
A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Alfred Abel, Olga Tschechowa, Paul Graetz, Lotte Stein
Votes: 993
12. The Runaway Bus (1954)
78 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
After heavy fog prevents all aircraft from leaving London airport, a group of passengers take an airline bus to get them to an alternative airport. However, one amongst their number is the ... See full summary »
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Marianne Stone, Lionel Murton, Lisa Gastoni, Margaret Rutherford
Votes: 768
13. The Saint in London (1939)
Passed | 72 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
The Saint returns to London and with the help of an American pickpocket and a beautiful adventuress breaks a counterfeiting ring.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: George Sanders, Sally Gray, David Burns, Gordon McLeod
Votes: 995
14. They Met in the Dark (1943)
Approved | 95 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
During WW2, a Royal Navy Commander stumbles upon a murdered woman and discovers a network of Nazi spies and Fifth-Columnists.
Director: Karel Lamac | Stars: James Mason, Joyce Howard, Tom Walls, Phyllis Stanley
Votes: 540
15. Mr. Emmanuel (1944)
97 min | Drama
An elderly Jew travels from Britain to pre-war Nazi Germany to find out what's really going on.
Director: Harold French | Stars: Felix Aylmer, Greta Gynt, Walter Rilla, Peter Mullins
Votes: 127
16. Candlelight in Algeria (1943)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Mystery, War
An American sculptress in wartime Algiers gets mixed up with a British agent and a Nazi spy who knows that a top-secret meeting of Allied military leaders will be taking place in Algeria--... See full summary »
Director: George King | Stars: James Mason, Carla Lehmann, Raymond Lovell, Enid Stamp-Taylor
Votes: 477
17. The Dark Tower (1943)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
A struggling circus finds salvation in the form of an exciting new twist on their high-wire act.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Ben Lyon, Anne Crawford, David Farrar, Herbert Lom
Votes: 444
18. The Frightened Lady (1940)
75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
"Mark's Priory," the Lebanons' family seat, is a house of terror to Ilsa Crane, Lady Lebanon's niece and secretary. The strange behavior of two sinister footmen, Gilder and Brooks, adds ... See full summary »
Director: George King | Stars: Marius Goring, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Helen Haye, Felix Aylmer
Votes: 357
19. Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow (1952)
93 min | Comedy
A British sanitary engineer accidentally takes plans for a secret weapon on vacation thinking they're plumbing designs. Russians recruit him for the plans. He falls for a Russian agent, unaware the plans are for a dangerous weapon.
Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: George Cole, Oscar Homolka, Nadia Gray, Frederick Valk
Votes: 184
20. The Gay Dog (1954)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy
Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His friends bet on his dog while he bets against.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Wilfred Pickles, Petula Clark, Megs Jenkins, John Blythe
Votes: 141
21. Appointment with Crime (1946)
Unrated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
An ex-con, released after imprisonment for a jewel theft, swears vengeance on his former accomplices and devises an intricate plan to steal their fortune.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: William Hartnell, Robert Beatty, Joyce Howard, Raymond Lovell
Votes: 344
22. Man on the Run (1949)
82 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In post-war Britain, an army deserter unwittingly gets involved in murder and armed robbery and enlists the aid of a war widow to help clear his name.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Edward Chapman, Laurence Harvey
Votes: 448
23. The Lisbon Story (1946)
100 min | Drama, Musical, Thriller
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Patricia Burke, David Farrar, Walter Rilla, Lawrence O'Madden
Votes: 39
24. Affair in Monte Carlo (1952)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Romance
A writer tells a crowd in a café about a woman he knows, who once feel deeply in love with a desperate, compulsive gambler.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Merle Oberon, Richard Todd, Leo Genn, Stephen Murray
Votes: 193
25. Uneasy Terms (1948)
91 min | Thriller
Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?
Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Michael Rennie, Moira Lister, Faith Brook, Joy Shelton
Votes: 162
26. Atlantic Ferry (1941)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, History, Romance
After their state-of-the-art steamship the "Gigantic" sinks a few minutes after being launched, the MacIver brothers of Liverpool begin to plan for the future of their company. David (... See full summary »
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Griffith Jones, Hartley Power
Votes: 151
27. The Echo Murders (1945)
75 min | Thriller
The police are investigating the suspicious death of a mine owner when they stumble upon a strange Nazi plot to invade England.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: David Farrar, Dennis Price, Pamela Stirling, Julien Mitchell
Votes: 135
28. Those Were the Days (1934)
80 min | Comedy
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play "The Magistrate", in which the son of a stern magistrate visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: Will Hay, Iris Hoey, Angela Baddeley, Claud Allister
Votes: 114
29. Hai-Tang (1930)
80 min | Drama
A Chinese cabaret singer will do whatever it takes to save her brother when he is sentenced to death for trying to save her from a lecherous Duke.
Directors: Richard Eichberg, Jean Kemm | Stars: Anna May Wong, Marcel Vibert, Robert Ancelin, Armand Lurville
Votes: 23
30. The Dancing Years (1950)
Approved | 98 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, operetta star, ... See full summary »
Director: Harold French | Stars: Dennis Price, Gisèle Préville, Patricia Dainton, Anthony Nicholls
Votes: 81
31. My Brother Jonathan (1948)
Approved | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War
Doctor Jonathan Dakers in flashback tells his son Tony - a World War II veteran - about his life, dating from the 1900s. Whilst a medical student, he meets and falls for Edie. Before they ... See full summary »
Director: Harold French | Stars: Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Ronald Howard, Stephen Murray
Votes: 193
32. The Playboy (1938)
78 min | Musical
A millionaire in London falls for a poor girl with a great singing voice, but his gold-digging past girlfriend tries her best to ruin the relationship.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Bert Ambrose, Evelyn Dall, Harry Richman, Florence Desmond
Votes: 41
33. Patrol Car (1954–1956)
30 min | Crime, Drama
Dramatization of murder investigations and other criminal cases that Detective Superintendent Robert Fabian, a real-life Scotland Yard Inspector and the host of the show, worked on.
Stars: Bruce Seton, Robert Raglan, Philip Dale, Jack Melford
Votes: 23
34. The Song You Gave Me (1934)
86 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Victor Varconi, Frederick Lloyd, Claude Hulbert
Votes: 49
35. Dual Alibi (1947)
81 min | Crime, Drama
Twin trapezists fall out over a lottery ticket and a worthless woman, but later extract a unique revenge.
Director: Alfred Travers | Stars: Herbert Lom, Phyllis Dixey, Terence de Marney, Ronald Frankau
Votes: 278
36. You Can't Do Without Love (1944)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Musical
A young singer meets a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot, and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Vera Lynn, Donald Stewart, Mary Clare, Frederick Leister
Votes: 102
37. No Funny Business (1933)
76 min | Comedy
A misunderstanding leads two professional co-respondents to think each one is a client seeking a divorce.
Directors: Victor Hanbury, John Stafford | Stars: Gertrude Lawrence, Laurence Olivier, Jill Esmond, Edmund Breon
Votes: 34
38. Radio Parade of 1935 (1934)
96 min | Comedy, Musical
The Director General of the NBG is struggling with his staff as the complaints pile up on his programming.The staff put on a show that could turn the tide, if the DG can thwart a villainous agent and deal with his troublesome daughter.
Director: Arthur B. Woods | Stars: Will Hay, Helen Chandler, Clifford Mollison, Davy Burnaby
Votes: 158
39. Escape by Night (1953)
79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Bonar Colleano, Andrew Ray, Sidney James, Ted Ray
Votes: 137
40. The Peterville Diamond (1943)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
The ignored wife of an industrialist hatches a plot to make him pay more attention to her.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Anne Crawford, Donald Stewart, Renee Houston, Oliver Wakefield
Votes: 208
41. Her Panelled Door (1950)
Approved | 84 min | Drama
A young woman with amnesia finds herself in London during the second world war. She falls in love and marries a Polish man in the R.A.F. He gets killed and then a crippled man comes to her ... See full summary »
Director: Ladislao Vajda | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Edward Underdown, Helen Cherry, Richard Burton
Votes: 82
42. Double Exposure (1954)
61 min | Crime, Thriller
A chance photograph may reveal a murderer's identity - and someone's after the photographer!
Director: John Gilling | Stars: John Bentley, Rona Anderson, Garry Marsh, Alexander Gauge
Votes: 80
43. Mrs. Fitzherbert (1947)
99 min | Drama, History
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Peter Graves, Joyce Howard, Leslie Banks, Margaretta Scott
Votes: 51
44. Red Wagon (1933)
107 min | Drama
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Charles Bickford, Raquel Torres, Greta Nissen, Don Alvarado
Votes: 24
45. Flying Fortress (1942)
Passed | 68 min | Drama, Romance, War
Wartime drama of bomber crews based in England.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Richard Greene, Carla Lehmann, Betty Stockfeld, Donald Stewart
Votes: 128
46. Frenzy (1945)
72 min | Thriller
A seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.
Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Derrick De Marney, Frederick Valk, Beresford Egan, Joan Greenwood
Votes: 95
47. The Crouching Beast (1935)
78 min | Action, Drama, War
In Constantinople in 1915, Gail Dunbar, an American newspaper reporter, gets entangled in a spy network. Ahmed Bey, the head of the Turkish secret service,is trying to recover the stolen ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Hanbury | Stars: Fritz Kortner, Wynne Gibson, Richard Bird, Andrews Engelmann
48. The Flame of Love (1930)
74 min | Drama, Musical
In Russia, a Chinese dancer gives herself to a duke to save her brother's life.
Directors: Richard Eichberg, Walter Summers | Stars: Anna May Wong, Georg H. Schnell, John Longden, Percy Standing
Votes: 59
49. Invitation to the Waltz (1935)
80 min | Musical
In the Napoleonic era of the early 19th century, a ballerina moves thru Europe putting on different identities and becomes the mistress of a German Duke so he will sign a treaty beneficial to her country of England.
Director: Paul Merzbach | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Wendy Toye, Carl Esmond, Harold Warrender
Votes: 23
50. Valley of Song (1953)
80 min | Drama, Comedy
Rivalry among members of the male voice choir!
Director: Gilbert Gunn | Stars: Mervyn Johns, Clifford Evans, Maureen Swanson, John Fraser
Votes: 35