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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: 61,468
2. 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: 6,909
3. Storm in a Teacup (1937)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Directors: Ian Dalrymple, Victor Saville | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker, Sara Allgood
Votes: 1,113
4. 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: 83
5. 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: 956
6. The Sidewalks of London (1938)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy
Pickpocket Libby gets support from street performer Charles, and her dancing leads to her invitation to theater patron Harley's party which in turn launches Libby's stage career while Charles keeps on struggling in the streets.
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Charles Laughton, Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Larry Adler
Votes: 1,463
7. The Citadel (1938)
Passed | 110 min | Drama
An enthusiastic young doctor happily embarks on his career, but it isn't long before he finds out what being a doctor really entails.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Richardson, Rex Harrison
Votes: 2,371
8. The Avengers (1942)
Approved | 87 min | Drama, War
On the eve of WWII, a British journalist is sent to neutral Norway to report on the possible Nazi intentions there; later he's tasked with a secret combat mission after Germany invades that country.
Director: Harold French | Stars: Hugh Williams, Griffith Jones, Deborah Kerr, Ralph Richardson
Votes: 586
9. The Divorce of Lady X (1938)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Divorce lawyer Everard Logan thinks the woman who spent the night in his hotel room is the erring wife of his new client.
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Binnie Barnes, Ralph Richardson
Votes: 1,599
10. Q Planes (1939)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A quirky British Secret Service Agent named Major Hammond tries to discover who is using a secret weapon to steal experimental planes.
Directors: Tim Whelan, Arthur B. Woods | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Valerie Hobson, George Curzon
Votes: 1,126
11. This Was a Woman (1948)
Passed | 102 min | Crime, Drama
A wife whose goal is power begins a game of manipulation that insidiously destroys her family.
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Sonia Dresdel, Barbara White, Walter Fitzgerald, Cyril Raymond
Votes: 201
12. South Riding (1938)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance
Winifred Holtby realised that local government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda, but the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn, Ann Todd
Votes: 184
13. Trouble Brewing (1939)
Not Rated | 87 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
George has won a lot of money at the races but he's paid with counterfeit money. He sets about tracking down the criminals himself.
Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: George Formby, Googie Withers, Gus McNaughton, Garry Marsh
Votes: 281
14. Jeannie (1941)
101 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Based on Aimée Stuart's play. Little Scots girl decides to use her inheritance for a grand tour of the Continent.
Director: Harold French | Stars: Barbara Mullen, Michael Redgrave, Wilfrid Lawson, Kay Hammond
Votes: 103
15. Keep Your Seats, Please! (1936)
82 min | Comedy, Musical
A fortune in gems is hidden in one of six chairs, and it's up to the prospective heir to find it.
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: George Formby, Florence Desmond, Gus McNaughton, Alastair Sim
Votes: 266
16. Happy (1933)
80 min | Comedy, Musical
British musical-comedy involving a down-on-his-luck musician who invents an anti-theft device for cars, then hits the big time when he sells it to an insurance firm. The good luck continues... See full summary »
Director: Frederic Zelnik | Stars: Stanley Lupino, Laddie Cliff, Will Fyffe, Dorothy Hyson
Votes: 36
17. 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
18. Leave It to Me (1933)
76 min | Comedy
The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a necklace from being stolen by thieves.
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Gene Gerrard, Olive Borden, Molly Lamont, George K. Gee
19. Courageous Mr. Penn (1942)
Approved | 78 min | Drama
William Penn's heroic deeds, on the European and American continents, are told in this portrait of the founding father of both the Quakers and the Pennsylvania colony. Based on C.E. Vulliamy's biography "William Penn."
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Clifford Evans, Deborah Kerr, Dennis Arundell, Aubrey Mallalieu
Votes: 167
20. 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
21. Money Talks (1932)
66 min | Comedy
Comedy of Jewish domestic life depicts an impecunious old man who is to inherit a legacy if he can prove he is in need. He begins to gamble with his savings, but things don't seem to work in his favor.
Director: Norman Lee | Stars: Julian Rose, Judy Kelly, Bernard Ansell, Jack 'Kid' Berg
Votes: 56
22. Keep Fit (1937)
82 min | Comedy, Musical
A weak, cowardly barber (George Formby)gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing match.
Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: George Formby, Kay Walsh, Guy Middleton, Gus McNaughton
Votes: 191
23. South American George (1941)
92 min | Comedy
George Butters is a double for a South American opera singer.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: George Formby, Linden Travers, Enid Stamp-Taylor, Jacques Brown
Votes: 114
24. Action for Slander (1937)
83 min | Drama
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
Directors: Tim Whelan, Victor Saville | Stars: Clive Brook, Ann Todd, Margaretta Scott, Arthur Margetson
Votes: 92
25. Much Too Shy (1942)
92 min | Comedy
A handyman and amateur artist gets into trouble when nude female bodies are added to the heads he has drawn of prominent ladies, and are sold as soap adverts.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: George Formby, Kathleen Harrison, Hilda Bayley, Eileen Bennett
Votes: 205
26. The Turners of Prospect Road (1947)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
A London taxi driver finds a greyhound puppy and gives it to his daughter.
Director: Maurice J. Wilson | Stars: Wilfrid Lawson, Helena Pickard, Maureen Glynne, Amy Veness
Votes: 45
27. There Ain't No Justice (1939)
83 min | Drama
A young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter.
Director: Pen Tennyson | Stars: Jimmy Hanley, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare, Edward Chapman
Votes: 63
28. Who Is Guilty? (1939)
69 min | Comedy, Mystery
Director: Frederic Zelnik | Stars: Ben Lyon, Syd Walker, Terence de Marney, Barbara Blair
Votes: 12
29. The Trojan Brothers (1946)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
Comedy set in opposing ends of a pantomime horse. The 'head' is dating a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Patricia Burke, David Farrar, Bobby Howes, Barbara Mullen
Votes: 19
30. 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
31. The Charming Deceiver (1933)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery
A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star.
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Constance Cummings, Frank Lawton, Binnie Barnes, Gus McNaughton
Votes: 41
32. Lucky Girl (1932)
75 min | Musical
Gene Gerrard stars as the king of a tiny European country who has a night out at the home of an English duke, falling in love with his daughter after being mistaken for a jewel thief.
Directors: Gene Gerrard, Frank Miller | Stars: Gene Gerrard, Molly Lamont, Gus McNaughton, Spencer Trevor
Votes: 26
33. Demobbed (1944)
96 min | Comedy
Demobbed from the army Nat, Norman and Dan get new jobs, solve a crime and stage a concert party.
Director: John E. Blakeley | Stars: Norman Evans, Nat Jackley, Dan Young, Betty Jumel
Votes: 69
34. Children of Chance (1930)
75 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Alexander Esway | Stars: Elissa Landi, Mabel Poulton, Dorothy Minto, John Stuart
Votes: 36
35. Regal Cavalcade (1935)
104 min | Biography, Drama, History
Through the use of newsreel footage and re-enacted sequences, this B.I.P. production, modelled along the lines "The March of Time" shorts, presents a record of the highlights of the ... See full summary »
Directors: Herbert Brenon, W.P. Kellino, Norman Lee, Walter Summers, Thomas Bentley, Marcel Varnel | Stars: Marie Lohr, Hermione Baddeley, Robert Hale, J.H. Roberts
Votes: 27
36. Their Night Out (1933)
74 min | Comedy, Musical
Silly ass Jimmy (Claude Hulbert) gets drunk in a nightclub, and is then confused with the leader of a gang of robbers.
Director: Harry Hughes | Stars: Renee Houston, Claude Hulbert, Judy Kelly, Jimmy Godden
Votes: 28
37. Smiling Along (I) (1938)
83 min | Comedy, Musical
Entertainer quits a crooked London theater and sets up her troupe on her uncle's farm. A famous musician joins the group and helps them get a legitimate booking.
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Gracie Fields, Roger Livesey, Mary Maguire, Peter Coke
Votes: 13
38. Let the People Sing (1942)
105 min | Comedy
A Czech political exile and a washed-up music hall comedian form an unlikely partnership to try and save a town's concert hall from the planners, businessmen, and bureaucrats.
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Alastair Sim, Fred Emney, Edward Rigby, Oliver Wakefield
Votes: 66
39. Blind Folly (1939)
Comedy
Director: Reginald Denham | Stars: Clifford Mollison, Lilli Palmer, Leslie Perrins, William Kendall
40. We're Going to Be Rich (1938)
78 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A drifter Dobbie and his wife Kit leave Australia in the 1880s for South African gold fields. She discovers happiness is where her husband is.
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Gracie Fields, Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Coral Browne
Votes: 35
41. The Lighter Side (1951– )
30 min | Comedy
Comical version of current events
Stars: Lionel Gamlin, Christopher Hewett, Irene Handl, Eleanor Summerfield
42. Crime on the Hill (1933)
69 min | Crime
Murder runs amok in an English Manor house as the local vicar turns sleuth to solve the mystery.
Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Sally Blane, Nigel Playfair, Lewis Casson, Anthony Bushell
Votes: 94
43. George and Margaret (1940)
70 min | Comedy
A maid finds herself in the middle of having to try to sort out the problems of the zany family she works for.
Director: George King | Stars: Marie Lohr, Judy Kelly, Noel Howlett, Oliver Wakefield
Votes: 19
44. Here Comes the Sun (1946)
91 min | Comedy, Musical
A sports reporter on the run from the police seeks to clear his name.
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Elsa Tee, Joss Ambler
Votes: 50
45. Barnacle Bill (1935)
90 min | Drama
A sailor is torn between his wife and child and his passion for the sea.
Director: Harry Hughes | Stars: Archie Pitt, Joan Gardner, Gus McNaughton, Jean Adrienne
46. The Luck of a Sailor (1934)
66 min | Comedy, Romance
Exiled King Karl marries penniless Helen, then is recalled to his country.
Director: Robert Milton | Stars: Greta Nissen, David Manners, Clifford Mollison, Camilla Horn
Votes: 23
47. Radio Parade (1933)
70 min | Comedy, Music
Directors: Richard Beville, Archie de Bear | Stars: Doris Arnold, Elsie Carlisle, Charles Clapham, Mabel Constanduros
Votes: 14
48. Old Bill and Son (1941)
96 min | Comedy
World War I veteran Bill is inspired to re-enlist in 1939, and ends up serving with his son.
Director: Ian Dalrymple | Stars: Morland Graham, John Mills, Mary Clare, Renee Houston
Votes: 127
49. Facing the Music (1941)
79 min | Comedy
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Bunny Doyle, Betty Driver, H.F. Maltby, Chili Bouchier
50. You're the Doctor (1938)
78 min | Comedy
A young woman pretends to be ill to avoid going on a cruise with her parents, which leads to a series of confusions.
Director: Roy Lockwood | Stars: Barry K. Barnes, Googie Withers, Norma Varden, Joan White