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1. Brent: A Documentary about Brent (2019)
5 min | Short, Comedy
A 'Mockumentary' about Brent Clean-Air-Systems (Dibdin Fitzgerald)'s training, routines and his match between Paul Wilcox (Carl Sun) which could lead to boxing world fame.
Director: Josh Colley | Stars: Josh Colley, Henry Crutchfield, Dibdin Fitzgerald, Gustav Foletta
2. Don't Talk to Strange Men (1962)
Not Rated | 65 min | Crime, Drama
An innocent girl is "groomed" over the telephone and nearly becomes the victim of the attacker, only to put her younger sister's life in grave danger.
Director: Pat Jackson | Stars: Christina Gregg, Janina Faye, Cyril Raymond, Gillian Lind
Votes: 470
3. The Doctor's Dilemma (1958)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Drama
A single doctor about to be awarded a knighthood for his claim of curing tuberculosis is infatuated by a woman's beauty and charm, promising to save her husband's life, only to change his mind after discovering the man's immoral character.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Leslie Caron, Dirk Bogarde, Alastair Sim, Robert Morley
Votes: 496
4. You Can't Escape (1957)
77 min | Thriller
An up and coming young writer accidentally kills his ex-girlfriend then tries to cover it up but just tangles up a web of lies he weaves. The more he tries to hide, the deeper he digs the hole.
Director: Wilfred Eades | Stars: Noelle Middleton, Guy Rolfe, Robert Urquhart, Peter Reynolds
Votes: 60
5. Above Us the Waves (1955)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, War
The attack by British submarines on the German battleship "Tirpitz" in a Norwegian fjord during World War II.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 1,631
6. An Impossible Crime (1954)
98 min | Crime
A famous novelist is murdered in a closed room inside and out. Suicide is ruled out, as there are signs of fighting and the shot that killed him was in the back.
Director: César Fernández Ardavín | Stars: José Suárez, Félix Fernández, Nani Fernández, Ángel Picazo
Votes: 25
7. The House of the Arrow (1953)
Approved | 73 min | Mystery
A rich old lady dies in bed and leaves all of her money to her recently adopted daughter, who is quickly accused and exonerated of her murder. But that most British of questions remains. Who dunnit? (1953; B&W)
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Oscar Homolka, Robert Urquhart, Yvonne Furneaux, Josephine Griffin
Votes: 155
8. The Good Beginning (1953)
65 min | Drama
A struggling pen-pusher and his wife envy the casual, live-now-pay-later lifestyle of their irresponsible friends.
Director: Gilbert Gunn | Stars: John Fraser, Eileen Moore, Peter Reynolds, Lana Morris
Votes: 20
9. Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951–1978)
Comedy, Drama
Probably the longest-running anthology series on television, the "Hallmark Hall of Fame" has been presenting television dramatizations of famous plays and books, as well as original programs especially written for the series, since 1951.
Stars: Sarah Churchill, Howard Wierum, Frank Daly, Robert Daggett
Votes: 337
10. Flesh and Blood (1951)
Unrated | 102 min | Drama
Three generations of a Scottish family suffer from the effects of heredity
Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, Joan Greenwood, André Morell
Votes: 88
11. Naughty Arlette (1949)
80 min | Comedy
Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor ... See full summary »
Director: Edmond T. Gréville | Stars: Mai Zetterling, Hugh Williams, Margot Grahame, Petula Clark
Votes: 92
12. Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949)
73 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Special Agent Dick Barton uncovers a ring of international psychopathic criminals with plans to dominate the world using a terrifying weapon of mass destruction.
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Don Stannard, Bruce Walker, Sebastian Cabot, James Raglan
Votes: 209
13. The Silk Noose (1948)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama
In post- WW2 Britain, an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancé, and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym attempt to bring black market organized crime to justice.
Director: Edmond T. Gréville | Stars: Carole Landis, Joseph Calleia, Derek Farr, Stanley Holloway
Votes: 406
14. Dick Barton, Detective (1948)
70 min | Action, Crime
Government agent Dick Barton battles a ring of Nazi spies who are planning to poison the entire London water supply.
Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Don Stannard, George Ford, Jack Shaw, Gillian Maude
Votes: 191
15. The BBC Television Newsreel (1948–1954)
15 min | News
BBC Television's first presentation of news items on the pattern of cinema newsreels.
Stars: Richard Baker, Edward Halliday
16. While I Live (1947)
85 min | Thriller
25 years later, a spinster still obsesses over the death of her composer sister and concludes she has returned, reincarnated, in an amnesiac woman who chances upon her house seeking help.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Tom Walls, Clifford Evans, Carol Raye, Patricia Burke
Votes: 168
17. Night Boat to Dublin (1946)
Approved | 100 min | Thriller, War
The allies plan to rescue a Swedish atomic scientist from under the noses of the Nazis.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Robert Newton, Raymond Lovell, Guy Middleton, Muriel Pavlow
Votes: 404
18. Carnival (1946)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Romance
A dancer attempts to escape from the narrow conventions of society and from the fate foretold for her at her birth.
Director: Stanley Haynes | Stars: Sally Gray, Michael Wilding, Stanley Holloway, Bernard Miles
Votes: 166
19. Beware of Pity (1946)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, Romance
A man asks a pretty young woman for a dance and discovers that she has been paralyzed in a fall from a horse and can't walk. Taking pity on her, he begins spending more and more time with ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Lilli Palmer, Albert Lieven, Cedric Hardwicke, Gladys Cooper
Votes: 306
20. Quiet Weekend (1946)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy
The ordinary and extraordinary adventures of a British family and their various guests during a weekend in their country cottage : the son and his socialite flirt hated by his adoring ... See full summary »
Director: Harold French | Stars: Derek Farr, Frank Cellier, Marjorie Fielding, George Thorpe
Votes: 181
21. Johnny in the Clouds (1945)
87 min | Drama, Romance, War
The wartime daily routine on a British bomber base in southeastern England is revealed through the eyes of newly arrived Flying Officer Peter Penrose (Sir John Mills).
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John, Douglass Montgomery
Votes: 1,647
22. The Man from Morocco (1945)
Approved | 89 min | Action, Adventure
A story of war, mystery, love and adventure following a group of members of the International Brigade and their artist captain fighting in the Spanish Civil War who undergo internment in a ... See full summary »
Director: Mutz Greenbaum | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Margaretta Scott, Mary Morris, Reginald Tate
Votes: 78
23. The Agitator (1945)
85 min | Drama
A socialist inherits the ownership of a major firm and begins wrestling with his beliefs.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: William Hartnell, Mary Morris, John Laurie, Moore Marriott
Votes: 103
24. The World Owes Me a Living (1945)
90 min | Drama, Romance, War
A pilot loses his memory after a plane crash. A good friend helps him to remember his past by talking about a transport plane they built together.
Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: David Farrar, Judy Campbell, Sonia Dresdel, Jack Livesey
Votes: 47
26. Medal for the General (1944)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, War
A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Godfrey Tearle, Jeanne De Casalis, Morland Graham, Mabel Constanduros
Votes: 107
27. Her Man Gilbey (1944)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance, War
While bird-fancier Lady Christabel Beauclark (Dame Margaret Rutherford) scurries around demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is ... See full summary »
Director: Harold French | Stars: Michael Wilding, Margaret Rutherford, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Lilli Palmer
Votes: 345
28. Candles at Nine (1944)
75 min | Mystery
A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young ... See full summary »
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Eliot Makeham, Beatrix Lehmann, John Salew, Joss Ambler
Votes: 144
29. It Happened One Sunday (1944)
97 min | Comedy, Romance
Sweet innocent Moya arrives in Liverpool from her native Cork and immediately gets mixed up with handsome-but-dodgy Canadian seaman Tom. Both the rozzers and the bad guys are after him. Will true love prevail?
Director: Karel Lamac | Stars: Robert Beatty, Barbara White, Marjorie Rhodes, Ernest Butcher
Votes: 24
30. Twilight Hour (1944)
85 min | Crime, Drama
John Smith, Lord Chetwood's head gardener, is an enigma. He is an artist and a philosopher. Lord Chetwood treats him as a friend and Michael Chetwood confides in him. One day a diamond ... See full summary »
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Mervyn Johns, Basil Radford, Marie Lohr, A.E. Matthews
31. Sports Day (1944)
24 min | Short
Director: Francis Searle | Stars: David Anthony, Ernest Borrow, Harry Herbert, Peter Hobbes
Votes: 14
32. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Not Rated | 163 min | Drama, Romance, War
From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, James McKechnie
Votes: 16,362
33. Warn That Man (1943)
82 min | Comedy, Thriller, War
During the war, Nazi agents devise a plan to kidnap British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. They will have an agent pose as Lord Buckley, who owns a large estate that Churchill frequently... See full summary »
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Gordon Harker, Raymond Lovell, Finlay Currie, Philip Friend
Votes: 163
34. Thursday's Child (1943)
82 min | Comedy, Drama
Family tensions arise after a schoolgirl becomes a successful child actor.
Director: Rodney Ackland | Stars: Sally Ann Howes, Wilfrid Lawson, Kathleen O'Regan, Eileen Bennett
Votes: 122
35. Women Aren't Angels (1943)
85 min | Comedy, War
Farce: Two business partners and their hardworking wives become heroes when they capture some fifth columnists.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton, Polly Ward, Joyce Heron
Votes: 28
36. Terror House (1942)
79 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A pair of young teachers look into the disappearance of their friend in the Yorkshire Moors. They soon run across the man they suspect is the murderer, and have to sit out a storm with him.
Director: Leslie Arliss | Stars: James Mason, Wilfrid Lawson, Mary Clare, Joyce Howard
Votes: 862
37. The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
Approved | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of twenty-four.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Robert Donat, Geoffrey Atkins, Jean Cadell, Robert Morley
Votes: 445
38. King Arthur Was a Gentleman (1942)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy
Arthur King joins the army, and soon starts fantasising about King Arthur and his knights.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Arthur Askey, Evelyn Dall, Anne Shelton, Max Bacon
Votes: 126
39. Suspected Person (1942)
78 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The mastermind behind money stolen from an American bank takes it to London. He is then pursued by the gangsters he tried to cheat and have convicted Stateside, as well as by the Met Police.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Clifford Evans, Patricia Roc, David Farrar, Anne Firth
Votes: 130
40. Bombsight Stolen (1941)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, Jeanne De Casalis, Carla Lehmann
Votes: 1,366
41. The Remarkable Mr. Kipps (1941)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
Kipps, the draper's apprentice, falls in love with a girl above his station. After he unexpectedly inherits a fortune, he thinks his dream has come true. But money can't make him a gentleman, or bring him the girl he really wants.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Phyllis Calvert, Philip Frost, Diana Wynyard
Votes: 519
42. Tower of Terror (1941)
62 min | Thriller, War
A British secret agent in Germany takes a job as the assistant to an elderly lighthouse keeper, planning to make his escape with some valuable documents when a British boat arrives to pick them up.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Wilfrid Lawson, Movita, Michael Rennie, Morland Graham
Votes: 212
43. Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama
The plot pits Hornleigh and Bingham against a clever gang of Nazi espionage agents. Most of the action takes place aboard a speeding train, with our heroes never quite certain who can be ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Phyllis Calvert, Edward Chapman
Votes: 291
44. I Thank You (1941)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy
Struggling entertainers who are trying to put on a show pose as servants to wealthy woman in hopes of raising the money.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Lily Morris, Moore Marriott
Votes: 208
45. Gasbags (1941)
Not Rated | 77 min | Adventure, Comedy
The Crazy gang invade Nazi Germany !! They accidentally pilot a balloon over enemy territory.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox
Votes: 180
46. My Wife's Family (1941)
82 min | Comedy
A naval officer attempts to juggle a visit from his wife's family, and a visit from an ex-girlfriend, with farcical results.
Director: Walter C. Mycroft | Stars: Charles Clapham, John Warwick, Patricia Roc, Wylie Watson
Votes: 9
47. Night Train to Munich (1940)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
After Germany invades Czechoslovakia, the German and the British intelligence services try to capture Czech scientist Dr. Axel Bomasch (James Harcourt), inventor of a new type of armor-plating.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford
Votes: 5,588
48. Haunted Honeymoon (1940)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A dead body is discovered in the newly-purchased home of a gentleman sleuth and his mystery-novelist bride.
Directors: Arthur B. Woods, Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks, Seymour Hicks
Votes: 882
49. The Girl in the News (1940)
Not Rated | 78 min | Crime, Thriller
Nurse Anne is acquitted of murder after her patient has died under suspicious circumstances. Changing her name, she gets a position nursing Edward Bentley who soon dies of what appears to be a copycat murder. Again Anne is arrested.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Barry K. Barnes, Emlyn Williams, Roger Livesey
Votes: 351
50. They Came by Night (1940)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Drama
Jeweler James Fothergill helps Scotland Yard recover a valuable ruby by worming his way into the gang which stole it and setting them up for the police.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Will Fyffe, Phyllis Calvert, Anthony Hulme, George Merritt
Votes: 37