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1. 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: 9,083
2. Night and the City (1950)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe
Votes: 15,302 | Gross: $3.60M
3. The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
PG | 115 min | Comedy, Romance
An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.
Director: Laurence Olivier | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Laurence Olivier, Richard Wattis, David Horne
Votes: 9,189
4. Gaslight (1940)
Not Rated | 84 min | Mystery, Thriller
Twenty years after the murder of Alice Barlow, her house is finally occupied again. However, the husband from the couple who have moved in has a secret which he will do anything to keep hidden.
Director: Thorold Dickinson | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell
Votes: 5,288
5. The Private Secretary (1935)
70 min | Comedy
A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
Director: Henry Edwards | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Barry MacKay, Judy Gunn, Oscar Asche
Votes: 51
6. East of Shanghai (1931)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont, Betty Amann
Votes: 4,907
7. 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: 94
8. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Drama
Series of television plays performed live.
Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan
Votes: 179
9. Dulcimer Street (1948)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama
Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, Percy becomes mixed up with gangsters and a murder. ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Alastair Sim, Wylie Watson, Fay Compton
Votes: 459
10. Queen of Destiny (1938)
Not Rated | 95 min | Biography, Drama
Picking up where Victoria the Great (1937) left off, this sequel to the 1937 film has Anna Neagle return to the role of Queen Victoria in another colorful account of the revered British ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, C. Aubrey Smith, Walter Rilla
Votes: 114
11. Loyalties (1933)
67 min | Crime, Drama
While he's a houseguest at an upper-class gathering, wealthy Jewish man Ferdinand de Levis is robbed of £1,000 with evidence pointing towards the guilt of another guest, Captain Dancy.
Directors: Basil Dean, Thorold Dickinson | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Miles Mander, Alan Napier, Algernon West
Votes: 90
12. Saloon Bar (1940)
76 min | Comedy, Thriller
Against a background of Christmas and the pending arrival of another baby for the landlord, a group of pub locals lead by bookie Joe Harris set out to prove that former customer Eddie ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Gordon Harker, Elizabeth Allan, Mervyn Johns, Joyce Barbour
Votes: 293
13. Room to Let (1950)
68 min | Crime, Drama
In London in 1904, neighbours begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may in fact be the infamous Jack the Ripper.
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Jimmy Hanley, Valentine Dyall, Christine Silver, Merle Tottenham
Votes: 97
14. The Counterfeit Plan (1957)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama
A reformed forger runs into an acquaintance from his past, now an escaped murderer, who blackmails him into resuming his criminal career.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Zachary Scott, Peggie Castle, Mervyn Johns, Sydney Tafler
Votes: 151
15. Mozart (1936)
96 min | Drama
The story of Mozart and his wife Constance, set against a background of court intrigue and professional jealousy, with music conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham.
Director: Basil Dean | Stars: Stephen Haggard, Victoria Hopper, John Loder, Liane Haid
Votes: 59
16. Stars in Your Eyes (1956)
96 min | Comedy, Musical
A group of talented young performers buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts - but unscrupulous property developers plan dirty tricks to disrupt the first night's performance.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Nat Jackley, Pat Kirkwood, Bonar Colleano, Dorothy Squires
Votes: 36
17. Old Mother Riley in Society (1940)
81 min | Comedy
Old mother Riley's daughter kitty marries an aristocrat. Old mother Riley then becomes a servant in the aristocrats household.
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, John Stuart, Dennis Wyndham
Votes: 31
18. Television Is Here Again (1946 TV Movie)
Documentary
After World War II, television returned to British screens on 7 June 1946. 'Demonstration Film: Television is Here Again' showed viewers what they could expect. There were no Graphic ... See full summary »
Director: Philip Dorté | Stars: Jasmine Bligh, Debroy Somers, The Palladium Girls, Elizabeth Welch
19. Hamlet Part 1 (1947 TV Movie)
88 min | Drama
A live, early television version of the play
Director: Basil Adams | Stars: John Byron, Sebastian Shaw, Margaret Rawlings, W.E. Holloway
Votes: 12
20. The Love Test (1935)
63 min | Comedy, Romance
Mary Lee is the new head of a Chemistry Laboratory. Thompson and his work-mates are resentful of her appointment and try to make her fall in love with John in the hope that this will make her neglect her work.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Judy Gunn, Louis Hayward, David Hutcheson, Googie Withers
Votes: 99
21. Shall We Join the Ladies? (1939 TV Movie)
45 min
Stars: Frank Allenby, Veronica Turleigh, Basil Radford, Molly Lumley
22. Out of the Past (1933)
51 min | Drama, Crime
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Lester Matthews, Joan Marion, Jack Raine, Henry Mollison
23. Young Man's Fancy (1939)
77 min | Comedy
An aristocratic Englishman is engaged to a brewery heiress. He's not happy though and, during a visit to a circus he meets and falls in love with a human cannonball.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Griffith Jones, Anna Lee, Seymour Hicks, Martita Hunt
Votes: 111
24. The House of the Arrow (1940)
Approved | 66 min | Mystery
If the murderer of wealthy widow Mme.Harlowe (Louise Hampton) had not relied on information obtained from a book in her library, the old lady might have lived for years, as chronic invalids... See full summary »
Director: Harold French | Stars: Kenneth Kent, Diana Churchill, Belle Chrystall, Peter Murray-Hill
25. Murder in the Cathedral (1947 TV Movie)
65 min | Crime, Drama
T. S. Eliot's portrayal of the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170. The dialogue is written almost entirely in rhyming verse and the chorus in free verse.
Stars: Robert Speaight, Norman Tyrrell, Frank Foster, Stanley Lawson
26. Whistling in the Dark (1938 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Thriller
Stars: Walter Hudd, Joan Miller, George Pughe, Aubrey Dexter
27. The Show Goes On (1937)
93 min | Musical
A mill worker is plucked from obscurity and thrust towards fame and fortune when an ailing composer needs a singer to perform his work.
Director: Basil Dean | Stars: Gracie Fields, Owen Nares, John Stuart, Horace Hodges
Votes: 66
28. Cæsar's Friend (1939 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Pontius Pilate's most momentous decision told from his point of view.
Stars: D.A. Clarke-Smith, Mary O'Farrell, Alan Wheatley, Robert Atkins
29. The Rising Sun (1939 TV Movie)
85 min
Stars: Harcourt Williams, Deidre Doyle, Josephine Wilson, Lawrence Hanray
30. Sheppey (1939 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Stars: Aubrey Mather, Louise Hampton, Geoffrey King, Richard Cuthbert
31. The Viceroy of Peru (1938 TV Movie)
30 min
Stars: Morris Harvey, Sybille Binder, Denys Blakelock, Aubrey Dexter
32. Rake's Progress (1939 TV Movie)
145 min | Drama
A play on the life of John Wilkes, rake, scholar, wit, and man of fashion, who fought George III on the question of English liberty and won.
Stars: Robert Harris, William Fox, Lawrence Hanray, Stuart Latham
33. It's in the Bag (1936)
80 min | Comedy
Two porters come into some money and decide to open a nightclub. What they don't realize is that the money they came into belongs to a gang of counterfeiters who have mistaken them for ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Jimmy Nervo, Teddy Knox, Jack Barty, George Carney
Votes: 12
34. Mr. Jones Dines Out (1939 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy
Stars: Frederick Piper, Norman Claridge, Aubrey Dexter, Kathleen Kelly
35. Youth at the Helm (1938 TV Movie)
75 min | Comedy
Stars: Walter Hudd, Howell Davies, Sunday Wilshin, John Singer
36. Cross Currents (1935)
68 min | Comedy
Director: Adrian Brunel | Stars: Ian Colin, Marjorie Hume, Evelyn Foster, Frank Birch
37. The Circle (1939 TV Movie)
75 min
In London, aware of her husband's longstanding affair and feeling neglected, a woman flirts with a former flame in a plot to teach her husband a lesson without endangering their marriage.
Stars: Alan Wheatley, Henry Hallatt, Grizelda Hervey, Belle Chrystall
38. The Great Adventure (1939 TV Movie)
90 min
Stars: D.A. Clarke-Smith, Frank Snell, J. Hubert Leslie, Don Gemmell
39. Volpone (1948 TV Movie)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
A version of Ben Johnson's play: A swindler goes from town to town pretending to be a dying millionaire in order to attract (and dispose of) greedy "friends."
Director: Stephen Harrison | Stars: Cecil Trouncer, Alan Wheatley, Mark Dignam, Stanley Lathbury
40. The Torchbearers (1939 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy
Stars: Charles Heslop, Audrey Cameron, Molly Rankin, Kitty de Legh
41. Please Teacher (1937)
75 min | Comedy
Tommy Deacon inherits a fortune which is concealed in a bust - unfortunately the bust is in a house that he has sold and is now a girls school. So he has to find a way to gain entry into the school and search for the bust.
Director: Stafford Dickens | Stars: Bobby Howes, Rene Ray, Wylie Watson, Bertha Belmore
Votes: 31
42. Take Back Your Freedom (1948 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
The play takes place at Westminster and Oxford during a period of modern time which together with the characters, is purely imaginary.
Stars: Gillian Lind, Richard Wattis, Andrew Osborn, Aubrey Dexter
43. Caesar's Friend (1947 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Stars: Alan Wheatley, Abraham Sofaer, Kevin Sheldon, Anthony Sharp
44. Hamlet Part 1/II (1947 TV Movie)
88 min | Drama
Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.
Director: Basil Adams | Stars: John Byron, Sebastian Shaw, Margaret Rawlings, W.E. Holloway
45. His Brother's Keeper (1940)
70 min | Drama
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Clifford Evans, Tamara Desni, Una O'Connor, Peter Glenville
46. Mr. Bowling Buys a Newspaper (1950 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama, Thriller
Stars: Anthony Hawtrey, Vida Hope, Mignon O'Doherty, Jean Webster-Brough
47. The Tamer Tamed (1956 TV Movie)
45 min | Drama
A sequel to The Taming of the Shrew which depicts how Katharina and Petruchio have fared after a year of marriage.
Director: Anthony Pelissier | Stars: Bruno Barnabe, Judy Campbell, Michael Dear, Aubrey Dexter
48. The Chertsey Apprentice (1956 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Stars: Daphne Anderson, John Boxer, Madge Brindley, A.J. Brown
49.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Bridge of Estaban
(1950)
Drama
Stars: Alexander Archdale, Marie Burke, Eugene Deckers, Aubrey Dexter
50.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Love and Mr. Lewisham
(1952)
Drama
Stars: Emrys Jones, Sheila Shand Gibbs, Denis Bedford, Gordon Bell