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1. The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James, Alfie Bass
Votes: 15,588
2. Odd Man Out (1947)
Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, F.J. McCormick
Votes: 11,433
3. 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: 9,085
4. Henry V (1944)
Not Rated | 137 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Director: Laurence Olivier | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks, Felix Aylmer
Votes: 7,084
5. 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: 4,773
6. It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
92 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An escaped convict tries to hide out at his former lover's house, but she has since married and is reluctant to help him.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Googie Withers, Jack Warner, John McCallum, Edward Chapman
Votes: 2,389 | Gross: $0.01M
7. 'Pimpernel' Smith (1941)
Passed | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Professor Horatio Smith, while seeming very unassuming, rescues victims of Nazi persecution during World War II.
Director: Leslie Howard | Stars: Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Allan Jeayes, Mary Morris
Votes: 1,852
8. 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: 1,367
9. The Clouded Yellow (1950)
Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A former British agent is employed at the Fenton country estate where he aids Fenton's niece in eluding the police after she's unjustly accused of murdering a local gamekeeper.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard, Sonia Dresdel, Barry Jones
Votes: 985
10. Terror on a Train (1953)
Not Rated | 72 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
After a terrorist plants a bomb on board a train, the police call in an army bomb disposal expert to find and dismantle it, but once it has been made safe, he has another shock in store.
Director: Ted Tetzlaff | Stars: Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham, Harcourt Williams
Votes: 874
11. The Saint Meets the Tiger (1941)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The last words uttered by by a conscience-stricken crook dying on the Saint's doorstep lead the detective in pursuit of gold smugglers and the master crook known as the Tiger.
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Hugh Sinclair, Jean Gillie, Gordon McLeod, Clifford Evans
Votes: 603
12. Cage of Gold (1950)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama
In post-WW2 Britain, a young woman marries an old flame but after he disappears, and is later declared dead, she re-marries, only to be blackmailed by the supposedly-dead first husband who suddenly re-appears in her life, in need of money.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Jean Simmons, David Farrar, James Donald, Madeleine Lebeau
Votes: 551
13. Waterfront Women (1950)
80 min | Drama
A worthless sailor walks out on his young family leaving them to fend for themselves in the Liverpool slums. They make a go of their lives, but the eldest daughter is not happy when her father decides to return.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison, Avis Scott, Susan Shaw
Votes: 489
14. Train of Events (1949)
Approved | 88 min | Drama
A train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them, and how they deal with it.
Directors: Sidney Cole, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden | Stars: Jack Warner, Gladys Henson, Susan Shaw, Patric Doonan
Votes: 480
15. Good-Time Girl (1948)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama
A young girl from the ghetto gets involved with some criminals. Driving while drunk, she knocks down and kills a Policeman. She runs away with two G. I.s who are also on the run and they start a crime wave.
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Diana Dors, George Merritt, Flora Robson, Jean Kent
Votes: 463
16. Death at a Broadcast (1934)
71 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
When an actor is murdered at the BBC Inspector Gregory finds he has many suspects to choose from.
Director: Reginald Denham | Stars: Ian Hunter, Austin Trevor, Lilian Oldland, Henry Kendall
Votes: 366
17. Black Sheep of Whitehall (1942)
80 min | Comedy
Professor Davis, who teaches at a correspondence school, discovers that a Nazi Agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America. The agent is posing ... See full summary »
Directors: Basil Dearden, Will Hay | Stars: Will Hay, John Mills, Basil Sydney, Henry Hewitt
Votes: 357
18. Something Always Happens (1934)
TV-G | 69 min | Comedy, Romance
Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Ian Hunter, Nancy O'Neil, Peter Gawthorne, John Singer
Votes: 354
19. Daughter of Darkness (1948)
91 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Emily, a pretty young Irish girl, gets a job on an English farm owned by the Tallent family. The local men take to her but the women don't, objecting to her flirtatious nature with their ... See full summary »
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Anne Crawford, Siobhan McKenna, Maxwell Reed, George Thorpe
Votes: 353
20. My Brother's Keeper (1948)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
War hero George Martin escapes prison handcuffed to crook Willie Stannard. They obtain railway tickets. Pursued by police and press, George aims to break free from Willie and escape.
Director: Alfred Roome | Stars: Jack Warner, Jane Hylton, George Cole, Bill Owen
Votes: 316
21. 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: 293
22. Unpublished Story (1942)
92 min | Drama, War
A journalist investigates a network of German fifth columnists operating in the midst of the Blitz.
Director: Harold French | Stars: Richard Greene, Valerie Hobson, Basil Radford, Roland Culver
Votes: 263
23. Vote for Huggett (1949)
84 min | Comedy
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw, Petula Clark
Votes: 251
24. Wings and the Woman (1942)
Approved | 94 min | Biography, Drama
The story of flyer Amy Johnson who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Robert Newton, Edward Chapman, Nora Swinburne
Votes: 249
25. Derby Day (1952)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The stories of four sets of characters intersect via chance-encounters at Epsom Downs racecourse on the morning of Derby Day.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Googie Withers, John McCallum
Votes: 226
26. 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
27. Midshipman Easy (1935)
73 min | Adventure
A young man runs away to sea but finds more adventures than he was expecting.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Hughie Green, Margaret Lockwood, Harry Tate, Robert Adams
Votes: 211
28. Lost Daughter (1949)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Intrigued by the portrait of a Jewish girl at a London art gallery, a British Army Major attempts to find her amongst the refugees living in various camps for displaced people in post-World War II Germany.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Mai Zetterling, Robert Beatty, Guy Rolfe, Herbert Lom
Votes: 202
29. Johnny Frenchman (1945)
Approved | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
There exists an age-old rivalry between the Cornish and Breton fisherfolk, but harbormaster Nat Pomeroy holds a particular grudge - not just for the Bretons' incessant poaching, but for the harbor dues he loses in the process.
Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Françoise Rosay, Tom Walls, Patricia Roc, Ralph Michael
Votes: 197
30. The Secret Four (1939)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
The four men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Francis L. Sullivan, Frank Lawton
Votes: 188
31. There Goes the Bride (1932)
79 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the victim of a bag thief in the train. When she ... See full summary »
Director: Albert de Courville | Stars: Jessie Matthews, Owen Nares, Carol Goodner, Jerry Verno
Votes: 185
32. 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
33. It's Not Cricket (1949)
Approved | 77 min | Adventure, Comedy
Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos.
Directors: Roy Rich, Alfred Roome | Stars: Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Susan Shaw, Maurice Denham
Votes: 184
34. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Drama
Series of television plays performed live.
Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan
Votes: 179
35. The Gay Lady (1949)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
In the 1890s, Trottie True moves from bit theatre parts to stardom, and from balloonist Sid Skinner to more prominent men. She later wonders if Sid wasn't better after all, and seeks to find out.
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst | Stars: Jean Kent, James Donald, Hugh Sinclair, Lana Morris
Votes: 177
36. 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
37. Time Flies (1944)
88 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A minor music hall star uses a professor's time machine to travel back to the Elizabethan era.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Tommy Handley, Evelyn Dall, George Moon, Felix Aylmer
Votes: 162
38. Look Up and Laugh (1935)
80 min | Comedy, Musical
Gutsy lass Gracie rallies fellow stall-holders at Birkenhead Market to prevent its takeover and demolition by a department store chain. She invokes the Market's foundation by Royal Charter ... See full summary »
Director: Basil Dean | Stars: Gracie Fields, Vivien Leigh, Douglas Wakefield, Alfred Drayton
Votes: 152
39. I See Ice! (1938)
Not Rated | 84 min | Comedy, Musical
George plays an aspiring news photographer that gets pictures by way of a spy camera in his bow tie. Comic confusion and chases arise from his inadvertently taking blackmail-able snaps of ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: George Formby, Kay Walsh, Betty Stockfeld, Cyril Ritchard
Votes: 152
40. 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
41. Now Barabbas (1949)
87 min | Drama
A humane prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Richard Greene, Cedric Hardwicke, Kathleen Harrison, Ronald Howard
Votes: 149
42. 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
43. Sally in Our Alley (1931)
74 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A British soldier goes off to fight in World War I, and his girlfriend waits and worries at home. He is soon wounded in battle. When he realizes that he is crippled, he comes to the ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Gracie Fields, Ian Hunter, Florence Desmond, Ivor Barnard
Votes: 136
44. Mr. Lord Says No (1952)
86 min | Comedy
After the Government decides to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are ... See full summary »
Director: Muriel Box | Stars: Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison, Naunton Wayne, Dandy Nichols
Votes: 130
45. 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
46. Lorna Doone (1934)
90 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600's. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna.
Director: Basil Dean | Stars: Victoria Hopper, John Loder, Margaret Lockwood, Roy Emerton
Votes: 107
47. Don't Ever Leave Me (1949)
85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
In a pleasant variation on "The Ransom of Red Chief," elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Jimmy Hanley, Petula Clark, Linden Travers, Hugh Sinclair
Votes: 103
48. I Married a Spy (1937)
59 min | Drama
A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.
Director: Edmond T. Gréville | Stars: Brigitte Horney, Neil Hamilton, Raymond Lovell, Charles Carson
Votes: 102
49. Three Silent Men (1940)
72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Foreign scientist is selling a secret weapon to the British. He is badly injured in a car accident and is operated on by a surgeon, after the operation he dies mysteriously. An investigation follows.
Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: Sebastian Shaw, Derrick De Marney, Patricia Roc, Arthur Hambling
Votes: 97
50. He Snoops to Conquer (1945)
103 min | Comedy
Odd job man George Gribble (George Formby) causes problems for the local council he works for when he inadvertently helps two newspapermen expose corruption amongst the council leaders.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: George Formby, Robertson Hare, Elizabeth Allan, Claude Bailey
Votes: 96