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1. The 39 Steps (1935)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle
Votes: 61,612
2. The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss (1920)
Comedy
A millionaire bets £25,000 that he can earn his own living for six months.
Director: Henry Edwards | Stars: Henry Edwards, Chrissie White, Gerald Ames, Mary Dibley
Votes: 15
3. Badger's Green (1934)
68 min | Comedy
A picturesque village is threatened with redevelopment by a speculative builder, leading to widespread protest. In the end the builder agrees to settle the future of the village on the result of a cricket match.
Director: Adrian Brunel | Stars: Valerie Hobson, Bruce Lester, David Horne, Sebastian Smith
Votes: 17
4. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
Not Rated | 97 min | Adventure, Drama
A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 4,776
5. The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy
Chaos ensues for staff and students alike after an all-boys and an all-girls school are amalgamated into one.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, John Turnbull, Richard Wattis
Votes: 1,886
6. Julius Caesar (1938 TV Movie)
101 min | Drama, History
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Director: Dallas Bower | Stars: Alan Aldridge, Erik Chitty, D.A. Clarke-Smith, Van Courtland
Votes: 10
7. The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
Passed | 97 min | Biography, Drama
King Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon.
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Franklin Dyall, Miles Mander
Votes: 4,878
8. Rembrandt (1936)
Not Rated | 85 min | Biography, Drama
The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies.
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester, Edward Chapman
Votes: 1,994
9. So Well Remembered (1947)
Passed | 114 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Mayor George Boswell recalls events of the previous 25 years in his home town of Browdley. As councilman and newspaper editor George has fought hard to better working and living conditions in the bleak Lancashire mill town.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: John Mills, Martha Scott, Patricia Roc, Trevor Howard
Votes: 585
10. The Tempest (1939 TV Movie)
90 min | Fantasy
Exiled Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by the island, Prospero conjures a storm that wrecks the ship and changes all of their lives.
Directors: Dallas Bower, Antony Tudor | Stars: Alan Wheatley, Oliver Burt, John Abbott, Basil Langton
Votes: 9
11. Soft Lights and Sweet Music (1936)
86 min
Director: Herbert Smith | Stars: Bert Ambrose, Evelyn Dall, Western Brothers, Harry Tate
Votes: 11
12. Strange Boarders (1938)
74 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Mason | Stars: Tom Walls, Renée Saint-Cyr, Googie Withers, Ronald Adam
Votes: 91
13. The Passing of the Third Floor Back (1935)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The tenants of an old boarding house are terrorized by an evil slumlord. One day a strange man arrives at the house and begins to help them with their problems.
Director: Berthold Viertel | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Rene Ray, Frank Cellier, Anna Lee
Votes: 339
14. Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939)
77 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
It comes as no surprise when Inspector Hornleigh and his assistant, Sergeant Bingham, go to enjoy the winds and rains on their annual seaside vacation, when they run into a "busman's ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Linden Travers, Wally Patch
Votes: 241
15. The Black Mask (1935)
67 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Ralph Ince | Stars: Wylie Watson, Aileen Marson, Ellis Irving, Wyndham Goldie
Votes: 40
16. Daybreak (1948)
Approved | 75 min | Drama
A hangman conceals his true identity when he falls in love, and sets up home with his girl on a barge in the river Thames. Tragedy strikes when the hangman's assistant tries to seduce his ... See full summary »
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Eric Portman, Ann Todd, Maxwell Reed, Edward Rigby
Votes: 285
17. Man of Evil (1944)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Returning to 1870's London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny witnesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, James Mason, Wilfrid Lawson, Stewart Granger
Votes: 636
18. Nine Days a Queen (1936)
TV-PG | 80 min | Drama, History
A dramatization of Lady Jane Grey's short life, from her forced marriage (which she resisted), to her brief reign as monarch of England, and finally to her beheading. This movie portrays ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Nova Pilbeam, Cedric Hardwicke, John Mills, Felix Aylmer
Votes: 236
19. The Common Touch (1941)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama
On his father's death, an 18-year-old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realizing that the other directors want to keep him in the dark, he starts to ask... See full summary »
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt, Joyce Howard
Votes: 150
20. Don't Take It to Heart! (1944)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
The castle ghost helps the lady and the lawyer beat off developers.
Director: Jeffrey Dell | Stars: Richard Bird, Edward Rigby, Esma Cannon, Ivor Barnard
Votes: 212
21. The Hidden Menace (1938)
68 min | Drama, Romance
An attractive Viennese circus performer has romances with three different men.
Director: Albert de Courville | Stars: Otto Kruger, Gertrude Michael, John Clements, Patrick Barr
Votes: 12
22. Song of the Road (1937)
71 min | Drama, Family
The council whom Bill works for are turning to motor transport to replace the horse and cart. Bill, unable to accept the change, buys his horse and sets off to seek work in the country. He encounters many folk that he helps along the way.
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Bransby Williams, Ernest Butcher, Muriel George, Davy Burnaby
Votes: 50
23. Midshipmaid Gob (1932)
84 min | Comedy
Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along, and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.
Director: Albert de Courville | Stars: Jessie Matthews, A.W. Baskcomb, Basil Sydney, Frederick Kerr
Votes: 67
24. Return to Yesterday (1940)
69 min | Drama
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood or working with a small theatre company in England. When she falls in love with Maine, Carol has the same dilemma.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Clive Brook, Anna Lee, May Whitty, Hartley Power
Votes: 156
25. Saturday Night Revue (1937)
77 min | Drama, Musical
Mary, singer in a modest Soho club, is in trouble when a luxurious Mayfair one with the same name is to be visited by her father's recording company, and he expects to find her there. She and her partner Billy will try not to deceive him.
Director: Norman Lee | Stars: Billy Milton, Sally Gray, John Watt, Betty Lynne
Votes: 27
26. Hard Steel (1942)
86 min | Drama
A ruthless steelworks foreman alienates his workers and indirectly causes the death of one of his men.
Director: Norman Walker | Stars: Wilfrid Lawson, Betty Stockfeld, George Carney, John Stuart
Votes: 14
27. The Amazing Adventure (1936)
Approved | 61 min | Drama, Romance, Comedy
A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance.
Director: Alfred Zeisler | Stars: Cary Grant, Mary Brian, Peter Gawthorne, Henry Kendall
Votes: 2,183
28. The Rise of Catherine the Great (1934)
Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Drama, History
Straightforward biography of the Russian Empress, up to her assumption of the throne.
Directors: Paul Czinner, Alexander Korda | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson, Gerald du Maurier
Votes: 741
29. The Conquest of the Air (1931)
Not Rated | 71 min | Drama, History
This documentary traces man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
Directors: Alexander Esway, Zoltan Korda, John Monk Saunders, Alexander Shaw, Donald Taylor | Stars: Frederick Culley, Laurence Olivier, Franklin Dyall, Henry Victor
Votes: 278
30. Where There's a Will (1936)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy
An incompetent solicitor unwittingly becomes party to a bank robbery.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, H.F. Maltby, Norma Varden
Votes: 344
31. Make-Up (1937)
72 min | Drama
Bux is born to a circus life. At the wish of his parents he studies to become a surgeon but forsakes a brilliant medical career for that of a circus clown. Joy, his young ward, is secretly ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Zeisler | Stars: Nils Asther, June Clyde, Judy Kelly, Kenne Duncan
Votes: 15
32. Music Hath Charms (II) (1936)
70 min | Musical
Strange film intertwining several vignettes involving Henry Hall and his BBC dance orchestra, in the studio at broadcast house, and their mishaps at children's outing, and how their music ... See full summary »
Directors: Thomas Bentley, Alexander Esway, Walter Summers, Arthur B. Woods | Stars: Henry Hall, W.H. Berry, Carol Goodner, Arthur Margetson
Votes: 37
33. A Place of One's Own (1945)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Dennis Price
Votes: 959
34. The Phantom Strikes (1938)
58 min | Drama, Mystery
The ex-partner of a master criminal is protected by the police after his life is threatened. The criminal--a master of disguise--tracks down and kills him anyhow, in spite of the police protection.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Sonnie Hale, Wilfrid Lawson, Louise Henry, Alexander Knox
Votes: 137
35. The Lady Is Willing (1934)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy
A private detective is hired by three men to kidnap a wealthy man's wife in order to get a ransom, but he soon falls for her.
Director: Gilbert Miller | Stars: Leslie Howard, Cedric Hardwicke, Binnie Barnes, Nigel Playfair
Votes: 55
36. The Shipbuilders (1943)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
A generation of shipbuilders is nearly wiped out by the Great Depression, but a second Great War gets them back to work.
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Clive Brook, Morland Graham, Nell Ballantyne, Finlay Currie
Votes: 84
37. Spare a Copper (1940)
Not Rated | 77 min | Comedy, Musical
A brave wartime copper (policeman) becomes a hero when he thwarts a plot to destroy a battleship. But then the rest of the police get the idea that he is one of the enemy agents.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: George Formby, Dorothy Hyson, George Merritt, John Warwick
Votes: 199
38. Talking Feet (1937)
79 min | Musical
Hazel, the daughter of an East London fishmonger, is on her way to the rehearsal of a pantomime when her dog Patch is injured in a street accident. At a local hospital Dr Hood (John Stuart)... See full summary »
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Hazel Ascot, Jack Barty, Davy Burnaby, Enid Stamp-Taylor
Votes: 27
39. Lord Edgware Dies (1934)
80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
Director: Henry Edwards | Stars: Austin Trevor, Jane Carr, Richard Cooper, John Turnbull
Votes: 125
40. Spies of the Air (1939)
Unrated | 62 min | Adventure
Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for an (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in the U.S.A. in 1940, Europe was at war.
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Barry K. Barnes, Joan Marion, Roger Livesey, Basil Radford
Votes: 130
41. Man of Affairs (1936)
73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A complicated adventure involving twin brothers and the Foreign Office trying to thwart the ambitions of a hostile sheikh.
Director: Herbert Mason | Stars: George Arliss, Romilly Lunge, Rene Ray, Jessie Winter
Votes: 68
42. Hearts of Humanity (1936)
68 min | Drama
A clergyman finds himself hounded out of his clergy by gossip and turns to a new purpose in life.
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Bransby Williams, Wilfred Walter, Cathleen Nesbitt, Pamela Randell
Votes: 20
43. It's a Grand Old World (1937)
71 min
An unemployed man wins £16,000 on the football pools.
Director: Herbert Smith | Stars: Sandy Powell, Gina Malo, Cyril Ritchard, Frank Pettingell
Votes: 8
44. The Murder Party (1934)
61 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the Inspector isn't so sure ...
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Malcolm Keen, Jane Baxter, Leslie Banks, Ian Hunter
Votes: 165
45. Matinee Idol (1933)
75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A well-known actor is murdered. Another performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her sister is innocent of the crime.
Director: George King | Stars: Camilla Horn, Miles Mander, Marguerite Allan, Viola Keats
Votes: 33
46. The Lad (1935)
72 min | Comedy
An ex-con searching for a hidden jewel is assumed, by various parties, to be investigating their indiscretions.
Director: Henry Edwards | Stars: Gordon Harker, Betty Stockfeld, Gerald Barry, Jane Carr
Votes: 59
47. Murder at the Baskervilles (1937)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: Arthur Wontner, Ian Fleming, Lyn Harding, John Turnbull
Votes: 787
48. The Shadow (1933)
63 min | Mystery
A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
Director: George A. Cooper | Stars: Henry Kendall, Elizabeth Allan, Felix Aylmer, Jeanne Stuart
Votes: 233
49. The Medicine Man (1933)
52 min | Comedy
A drunken toff is mistaken for a doctor and is used by the police in a number of cases. Surprisingly, the drunken antics raise a few laughs.
Director: Redd Davis | Stars: Claud Allister, Frank Pettingell, Ben Welden, Ronald Simpson
Votes: 22
50. The Terror (1938)
64 min | Crime, Mystery
A criminal mastermind robs gold, frames his gang, keeps loot. Freed gang searches for ex-boss for revenge and their share.
Director: Richard Bird | Stars: Wilfrid Lawson, Bernard Lee, Arthur Wontner, Linden Travers
Votes: 281