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1. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Passed | 132 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin
Votes: 24,875
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: 15,303 | Gross: $3.60M
3. Hobson's Choice (1954)
Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Widower Henry Hobson refuses to let his three daughters get married because he doesn't want to pay settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, Daphne Anderson
Votes: 8,822
4. Reach for the Sky (1956)
Approved | 123 min | Biography, Drama, War
Biopic of RAF Group Captain Douglas Bader who, after having lost both legs, flew a British fighter plane during WWII.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook, Lee Patterson
Votes: 2,994
5. The Ghost of St. Michael's (1941)
82 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A hapless teacher named Will Lamb is hired by a grim school in Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Felix Aylmer, Raymond Huntley
Votes: 623
6. Doctor in Love (1960)
93 min | Comedy
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St. Swithin's for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Michael Craig, Virginia Maskell, Leslie Phillips, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 437
7. Island Rescue (1951)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During WW2, British Major Valentine Moreland is tasked with rescuing a prized pedigree cow from the German-occupied Channel Island of Armorel.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: David Niven, Glynis Johns, George Coulouris, Barry Jones
Votes: 379
8. It's Great to Be Young! (1956)
Not Rated | 94 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
It's heaven at Angel Hill Grammar School until the arrival of the new headmaster, Mr. Frome, who prohibits sixth formers from their beloved music-making. Dingle, a very unconventional music master, helps the students in their time of need.
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: John Mills, Cecil Parker, John Salew, Elizabeth Kentish
Votes: 337
9. The Ship Was Loaded (1957)
83 min | Comedy
Two friends have a drunken reunion, where they dress in each other's clothes. They become mistaken for each other, and wind up having to assume these different identities. With resultant calamitous consequences, to both their careers.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: David Tomlinson, Peggy Cummins, Brian Reece, Eunice Gayson
Votes: 336
10. East of Sudan (1964)
Approved | 85 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
During the Mahdist insurrection in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, veteran colonial Private Baker teams up with freshly arrived gentleman Murchison, trying to evacuate from southern Barash the ... See full summary »
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms, Derek Fowlds, Jenny Agutter
Votes: 276
11. Recoil (1953)
Not Rated | 79 min | Crime, Drama
Jean Talbot poses as a crook to infiltrate the gang of thieves who killed her jeweler father, Michael.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Kieron Moore, Elizabeth Sellars, Edward Underdown, John Horsley
Votes: 219
12. Small Hotel (1957)
59 min | Comedy
The crafty and experienced waiter Albert keeps things running smoothly at the Jolly Fiddler Hotel, and he is the only one who can placate the crabby justice of the peace who is a permanent ... See full summary »
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Gordon Harker, Marie Lohr, John Loder, Irene Handl
Votes: 214
13. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Drama
Series of television plays performed live.
Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan
Votes: 179
14. 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
15. Emil and the Detectives (1935)
71 min | Adventure, Family
Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
Director: Milton Rosmer | Stars: John Williams, George Hayes, Mary Glynne, Clare Greet
Votes: 135
16. It's a Wonderful World (1956)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Musical
Two struggling songwriters have an unexpected hit on their hands after they discover a unique way of composing.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Terence Morgan, George Cole, Kathleen Harrison, Mylène Demongeot
Votes: 132
17. BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960–1963)
60 min | Drama
BBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960.
Stars: Brian Rix, Joby Blanshard, Cyril Luckham, John Bennett
Votes: 131
18. Turn of the Tide (1935)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Romance
The arrival in a Yorkshire fishing village of the Lunns with a modern fishing boat is deeply resented by the Fosdycks. Eventually hostilities are overcome and the families join forces to get a modern deep sea fishing boat.
Director: Norman Walker | Stars: John Garrick, J. Fisher White, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson
Votes: 118
19. Dial 999 (1958–1959)
30 min | Crime
Robert Beatty stars as Detective Inspector Mike Maguire, a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman posted to New Scotland Yard, in this popular 1950s series depicting London's fight against crime.
Stars: Robert Beatty, John Howlett, Richard Bebb, Hugh Moxey
Votes: 109
20. The Floating Dutchman (1954)
76 min | Crime, Drama
In England, two men working on the docks close to London's Tower Bridge find the dead body of a man floating in the River Thames. They call the local police who later identify the body to ... See full summary »
Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Dermot Walsh, Sydney Tafler, Mary Germaine, Guy Verney
Votes: 109
21. First Night (1963–1964)
Drama
Stars: Madge Ryan, Anthony Bate, James Maxwell, Michael Caine
Votes: 104
22. No Hiding Place (1959–1967)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Tales of Scotland Yard centering on a detective team. A sort of halfway house between "Dixon of Dock Green" and "'Z' Cars." The detectives are still 1950s-style with good elocution and ... See full summary »
Stars: Raymond Francis, Eric Lander, Johnny Briggs, Michael McStay
Votes: 97
23. 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
24. After Mein Kampf?: The Story of Adolph Hitler (1940)
Approved | 75 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Mixture of re-enactments and documentary footage relates the story of the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and his Nazis in Germany and the danger they pose to Europe and the rest of the world.
Director: Norman Lee | Stars: Adolf Hitler, Robert Beatty, Derek Blomfield, Heinz Guderian
Votes: 81
25. The Vise (1954–1961)
30 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
This British production featured lesser-known actors in filmed plays showing people caught in "the vise" of fate created by their own deeds.
Stars: Donald Gray, Colin Tapley, Ron Randell, Robert Arden
Votes: 75
26. Alibi (1942)
66 min | Crime, Mystery
A bar hostess (Lockwood) is used by a killer to obtain an alibi.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Hugh Sinclair, James Mason, Raymond Lovell
Votes: 72
27. Fate Takes a Hand (1961)
72 min | Drama
A mail bag stolen in a robbery 15 years ago, is found and the post office decide that the letters should be delivered. A newspaper reporter, accompanied by a post office security officer ... See full summary »
Director: Max Varnel | Stars: Ronald Howard, Christina Gregg, Basil Dignam, Willoughby Goddard
Votes: 71
28. Emergency-Ward 10 (1957–1967)
30 min | Drama
Set in Oxbridge General Hospital, this soap opera focused equally on the lives and loves of its medical staff and the pressure of their work.
Stars: Jill Browne, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Frederick Bartman, Desmond Carrington
Votes: 70
29. ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1967)
60 min | Drama
Richard O. Sullivan as a child genius in the play "Honour Bright".
Stars: Campbell Singer, Thomas Heathcote, Richard Caldicot, June Brown
Votes: 67
30. Love on Wheels (1932)
86 min | Musical
A shy shop assistant tries to romance a pianist he always sees on the morning bus to work.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Jack Hulbert, Leonora Corbett, Gordon Harker, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 59
31. Escort for Hire (1960)
66 min | Crime, Drama
Unemployed actor Steve gets a job with Miss Kennedy's agency as an escort-bodyguard, but ends up being framed for murder after a wealthy client, Miss Elizabeth Quinn, is killed.
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: June Thorburn, Pete Murray, Noel Trevarthen, Jan Holden
Votes: 48
32. Identity Unknown (1960)
66 min | Drama
Two reporters find romance during interviews with relatives and friends of passengers in an ill-fated airliner.
Director: Frank Marshall | Stars: Richard Stapley, Pauline Yates, Patricia Plunkett, Beatrice Varley
Votes: 44
33. Shipmates o' Mine (1936)
87 min | Musical
Sailor rises ranks to captain, marries, has son, loses command when ship rammed to save passengers. Lives in countryside for years until grown son contacts old crewmates and ship is recommissioned with sailor as captain again.
Director: Oswald Mitchell | Stars: John Garrick, Jean Adrienne, Derek Blomfield, Guy Dixon
Votes: 43
34. Read All About It (1945)
28 min | Short
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Joss Ambler, Frank Atkinson, Roy Ward Baker, Alfie Bass
Votes: 36
35. The Cheaters (1960–1962)
30 min | Mystery
Cases of an Insurance Claims Investigator.
Stars: John Ireland, Robert Ayres, Ann Hanslip, Colin Tapley
Votes: 32
36. The Gay Adventure (1949)
82 min | Comedy
Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Paula Valenska, Kathleen Harrison
Votes: 31
37. Man from Interpol (1960– )
30 min | Crime, Drama
The series followed the globetrotting adventures of Anthony Smith (The Man From Interpol) as he sought to bring master criminals from all corners of the globe to justice.
Stars: Richard Stapley, John Longden, John Serret, Michael Peake
Votes: 31
38. Probation Officer (1959–1962)
60 min | Drama
An early hit for ATV, this absorbing, rigorously researched and very human drama series centres on the work of a team of probation officers based in London, and the lives of the men and ... See full summary »
Stars: John Paul, John Scott, Jessica Spencer, David Davies
Votes: 30
39. Persuasion (1960–1961)
Drama, History, Romance
Eight years earlier, Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, was persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young seaman, who, though ... See full summary »
Stars: Paul Daneman, Daphne Anderson, William Mervyn, George Curzon
Votes: 25
40. Suspense (1962–1963)
Thriller
Anthology series telling suspenseful tales.
Stars: Bill Meilen, Ray Handy, John Carson, Alex Scott
Votes: 22
41.
Dial 999 (1958–1959)
Episode:
Key Witness
(1959)
30 min | Crime
A criminal pursues a murder witness through London streets in order to kill him and so stop him testifying.
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Robert Beatty, Richard Bebb, Barrie Cookson, Patrick Troughton
Votes: 19
42. The English Programme (1976–2003)
Not Rated | Drama
Long-running series for schools and colleges produced by Thames Television, and in its final years by independent companies - although documentaries and dramas produced by other ITV ... See full summary »
Stars: Charlie Stafford, Stephen Warbeck, Christopher Neame, Ann Hasson
Votes: 11
43. The Guinea Pig (1949 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
A working-class kid from the slums wins a scholarship to a public school.
Stars: Barry MacGregor, Pamela Alan, Edith Sharpe, D.A. Clarke-Smith
Votes: 11
44. An Inspector Calls (1948 TV Movie)
105 min | Drama
Another adaptation of J.B. Priestly's well-known drawing room play about a well-to-do family are about to sit down for a celebratory dinner, when a police understood arrives and informs ... See full summary »
Stars: Julien Mitchell, Mary Merrall, Joy Shelton, Derek Blomfield
45. Vanity Fair (1956–1957)
30 min | Drama
Stars: Joyce Redman, Petra Davies, Derek Blomfield, Alan Badel
46. Rupert of Hentzau (1964– )
180 min | Adventure
Rudolf Rassendyll returns to Ruritania, to play the King once more.
Stars: George Baker, Barbara Shelley, Peter Wyngarde, John Phillips
47. The Anatomist (1949 TV Movie)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A doctor employs two men to dig up graves in order for him to have bodies on which to perform experiments, but the men begin to get their own ideas of where to get bodies.
Stars: Alastair Sim, Eleana Johnson, Alexis France, George Cole
48. The Winslow Boy (1949 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, and his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
Stars: Roger Livesey, Valerie White, Walter Fitzgerald, Jack Watling
49. Adventure Theater (1956–1957)
30 min | Adventure, Drama
With some unusual item as his starting point, storyteller Paul Douglas weaves a tale of how the item came to be in his possession.
Stars: Paul Douglas, Robert Raglan, Hugh Latimer, Hazel Court
50. Eight to a Bar (1952– )
30 min | Drama, Thriller
Stars: John Slater, Joan Newell, Kenneth Kent, Michael Ashwin