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1. Men of Rochdale (1944)
42 min | Short, Drama, History
Drama-documentary celebrating 100 years of Co-operative shops
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Brefni O'Rorke, Julian Somers, Margaret Withers, Scott Harrold
Votes: 9
2. The Scales of Justice (1962–1967)
Crime, Drama
Series of courtroom dramas introduced by criminologist Edgar Lustgarten.
Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Michael Hordern, Kenneth Benda, Carleton Hobbs
Votes: 79
3. Idol of Paris (1948)
106 min | Drama
The story of the journey of a poor rag-man's daughter all the way to the Paris high-life.
Director: Leslie Arliss | Stars: Michael Rennie, Beryl Baxter, Christine Norden, Miles Malleson
Votes: 22
4. The Winslow Boy (1948)
Not Rated | 117 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.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford, Margaret Leighton
Votes: 1,816
5. Quartet (1948)
Approved | 120 min | Drama, Romance
Four of W. Somerset Maugham's short stories are brought to the screen with each introduced by the author. In "The Facts of Life", a young man with great potential on the tennis courts goes ... See full summary »
Directors: Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French, Ralph Smart | Stars: Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Ian Fleming, Jack Raine
Votes: 986
6. Mister Hobo (1935)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy
George Arliss plays Spike an elegant British tramp who is accidentally mistaken for a member of the Rothschild family and made a bank director.
Director: Milton Rosmer | Stars: George Arliss, Gene Gerrard, Frank Cellier, Patric Knowles
Votes: 189
7. The Upturned Glass (1947)
Not Rated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
A British brain surgeon punishes the murderess of his lover.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: James Mason, Rosamund John, Pamela Mason, Ann Stephens
Votes: 1,362
8. Encore (1951)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama
Adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham comprise this anthology film in which the celebrated author introduces each segment of the film in front of the camera.
Directors: Harold French, Pat Jackson, Anthony Pelissier | Stars: Nigel Patrick, Roland Culver, Alison Leggatt, Charles Victor
Votes: 602
9.
The Scales of Justice (1962–1967)
Episode:
The Hidden Face
(1965)
27 min | Crime, Drama
When a member of parliament commits suicide, his son seeks the author of the book that triggered the tragedy.
Director: Patrick Dromgoole | Stars: Edgar Lustgarten, Christine Finn, Richard Butler, Alex MacIntosh
Votes: 28
10. Murder on Monday (1952)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
David Preston, a banker, has a 24-hour memory lapse. Accused of robbery and murder, he can't account for his lost time. With no alibi, police press him to explain the missing hours, jeopardizing his freedom.
Director: Ralph Richardson | Stars: Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins, Campbell Singer
Votes: 806
11. Man with a Million (1954)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
As part of a bet, two aristocrats offer a penniless American a loan, without telling him that the amount is £1,000,000 in the form of a single banknote.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Gregory Peck, Jane Griffiths, Ronald Squire, Joyce Grenfell
Votes: 4,203
12. Dual Alibi (1947)
81 min | Crime, Drama
Twin trapezists fall out over a lottery ticket and a worthless woman, but later extract a unique revenge.
Director: Alfred Travers | Stars: Herbert Lom, Phyllis Dixey, Terence de Marney, Ronald Frankau
Votes: 278
13. The Seventh Veil (1945)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Music
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: James Mason, Ann Todd, Herbert Lom, Hugh McDermott
Votes: 2,376
14. Blanche Fury (1948)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The childless widow of Allan Fury bequeaths the Fury estate to her Fuller relatives, but Allan's illegitimate son who masquerades as a servant hopes to grab the estate for himself.
Director: Marc Allégret | Stars: Stewart Granger, Valerie Hobson, Walter Fitzgerald, Michael Gough
Votes: 1,020
15. Daybreak (1948)
Approved | 75 min | Drama
A hangman conceals his true identity when he falls in love, and sets up home with his girl on a barge in the river Thames. Tragedy strikes when the hangman's assistant tries to seduce his ... See full summary »
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Eric Portman, Ann Todd, Maxwell Reed, Edward Rigby
Votes: 285
16. The 39 Steps (1959)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda de Banzie, Barry Jones
Votes: 2,337
17. 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
18. 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
19. Beau Brummell (1954)
Approved | 113 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1796, Captain George Bryan "Beau" Brummell of the 10th Royal Hussars Regiment offends the Prince of Wales with his straightforward outspokenness and gets fired from the Army but is chosen as the Prince's personal advisor.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Stewart Granger, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Ustinov, Robert Morley
Votes: 1,748
20. If This Be Sin (1949)
72 min | Drama, Romance
A lonely wife of a workaholic husband on the magical Isle of Capri meets a charming and attractive young man. An exciting affair must end when word gets back to the husband and he becomes ill. Then the daughter enters the scene.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Myrna Loy, Roger Livesey, Peggy Cummins, Richard Greene
Votes: 146
21. Great Day (1945)
62 min | Drama
An impending Eleanor Roosevelt visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Eric Portman, Flora Robson, Sheila Sim, Isabel Jeans
Votes: 230
22. Fuss Over Feathers (1954)
84 min | Comedy, Drama
In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocket practice.
Director: John Eldridge | Stars: John Gregson, Kieron Moore, Harry Fowler, Guy Middleton
Votes: 123
23. The Mailbag Robbery (1957)
70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Ronnie, earning very little from his own exploits, gathers together a band of villains to carry out a robbery on 'The Flying Scotsman' passenger train. The train is carrying withdrawn bank notes from Scotland to London to be destroyed.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Lee Patterson, Kay Callard, Alan Gifford, Margaret Withers
Votes: 389
24. Sin of Esther Waters (1948)
Passed | 108 min | Drama
Esther (Kathleen Ryan) goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William (Sir Dirk Bogarde), who then takes off with his employer's daughter. ... See full summary »
Directors: Ian Dalrymple, Peter Proud | Stars: Kathleen Ryan, Dirk Bogarde, Cyril Cusack, Ivor Barnard
Votes: 262
25. Adventure for Two (1943)
Not Rated | 114 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naive about British people, and ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Marjorie Fielding, Margaret Rutherford
Votes: 538
26. City After Midnight (1957)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama
A series of daring robberies has taken place on Rue des Anges, a quiet street in the town of La Bandelette. Standing by an open window in his study, Sir Maurice Lawes sees a gendarme beaten... See full summary »
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Phyllis Kirk, Dan O'Herlihy, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Petula Clark
Votes: 121
27. The Astonished Heart (1950)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance
This movie begins with a scene in which Barbara (Celia Johnson) rings Leonora (Margaret Leighton) to tell her that something has happened to Chris (Noël Coward). At this point, we don't ... See full summary »
Directors: Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher | Stars: Celia Johnson, Noël Coward, Margaret Leighton, Joyce Carey
Votes: 452
28. 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
29. Beyond the Curtain (1960)
88 min | Drama
Karin finds herself back at home in Dresden when the flight on which she is stewardess, is forced down. She is then used by the State police to find her wanted brother, so when Jim arrives to get her back, he has to watch his back.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Richard Greene, Eva Bartok, Marius Goring, Lucie Mannheim
Votes: 178
30. The Flemish Farm (1943)
82 min | War, Drama
Wartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied Belgium for the honour of his regiment.
Director: Jeffrey Dell | Stars: Clive Brook, Clifford Evans, Jane Baxter, Philip Friend
Votes: 253
31. 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: 183
32. It Started in Paradise (1952)
88 min | Drama
As she rises in the fashion world, a talented dress designer loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Jane Hylton, Ian Hunter, Terence Morgan, Muriel Pavlow
Votes: 62
33. Car of Dreams (1935)
72 min | Comedy
A pretty young factory worker is window-shopping at a Rolls-Royce dealership, and dreamily mentions that she would love to have a car like that. The son of the factory's owner happens to be... See full summary »
Directors: Graham Cutts, Austin Melford | Stars: John Mills, Mark Lester, Norah Howard, Robertson Hare
Votes: 169
34. Ferry to Hong Kong (1959)
Approved | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Mark Conrad, a habitual drunk and troublemaker with a shady past, is expelled by Hong Kong police after one too many bar fights. He's sent to Macao on the Fa Tsan, a ferry owned by Captain ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms, Jeremy Spenser
Votes: 513
35. How to Undress in Public Without Undue Embarrassment (1965)
50 min | Comedy
Comic survey of methods of undressing through the ages, from Victorian modesty to modern strip clubs.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Jon Pertwee, Reginald Beckwith, Christine Child, Zelma Malik
Votes: 95
36. Silk, Satin, Cotton, Rags (1952– )
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Stars: Gladys Henson, Cecile Chevreau, Barry K. Barnes, Clive Morton
37.
Emergency-Ward 10 (1957–1967)
Episode:
Episode #1.348
(1960)
Drama
Director: John Cooper | Stars: Frederick Bartman, Jill Browne, Erik Chitty, Jane Downs
38.
Emergency-Ward 10 (1957–1967)
Episode:
Episode #1.349
(1960)
Drama
Director: James Ferman | Stars: Margo Andrew, John Brooking, Erik Chitty, James Copeland
39.
Emergency-Ward 10 (1957–1967)
Episode:
Episode #1.351
(1960)
Drama
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Frederick Bartman, Rodney Burke, Desmond Carrington, Gladys Dawson
40.
Emergency-Ward 10 (1957–1967)
Episode:
Episode #1.358
(1960)
Drama
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Frederick Bartman, Jill Booty, Jill Browne, Colin Campbell
41.
Silk, Satin, Cotton, Rags (1952– )
Episode:
Satin
(1952)
Comedy, Drama
Stars: Cecile Chevreau, Leal Douglas, Harry Fine, Gladys Henson