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1. The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
Approved | 82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
While awaiting execution for murder, Baron Victor Frankenstein tells the story of a creature he built and brought to life - only for it to behave not as he intended.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Christopher Lee
Votes: 12,658 | Gross: $17.44M
2. Doctor at Large (1957)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy
Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) graduates and sets out into the world. Hilarious internships follow - with a miserly doctor and his young wife, a country doctor paid in kind not cash, and ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Muriel Pavlow, Donald Sinden, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 891
3. Who Done It? (1956)
85 min | Comedy, Crime
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Benny Hill, Belinda Lee, David Kossoff, Garry Marsh
Votes: 427
4.
ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1967)
Episode:
Skipper Next to God
(1956)
Drama
Director: Stuart Latham | Stars: Bruno Barnabe, John Glen, Donald Houston, Ernest Jay
5. Two Grooms for a Bride (1955)
75 min | Comedy, Romance
A money-to-burn and girl-chasing Texas oilman and a sensitive, dignified entomologist find themselves together in Winchester, England charged with taking care of a brood of wild kids.
Director: Henry Cass | Stars: John Carroll, Virginia Bruce, Brian Oulton, Kay Callard
Votes: 66
6. 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
7. The Sword and the Rose (1953)
Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
During the reign of Henry VIII, Mary Tudor seeks to flee a forced marriage with the French king by escaping to America with her true love, but her plans are not so easily executed.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough
Votes: 999
8. Wicked Wife (1953)
75 min | Crime, Thriller
After race horse trainer Gerald Coates' (Nigel Patrick) horse wins the Grand National, his wife comes home drunk, and the two of them have a violent argument, and she is accidentally killed... See full summary »
Director: Bob McNaught | Stars: Nigel Patrick, Moira Lister, Beatrice Campbell, Betty Ann Davies
Votes: 255
9. The Young Discovery (1953 TV Movie)
Drama, Family
Stars: Sonny Doran, Maureen Pryor, Patricia Lowi, Pamela Barnard
10. I Believe in You (1952)
Approved | 95 min | Drama
When a retired colonial serviceman takes a job as a probation officer he finds it a challenge. He and his colleague attempt to reform a hardened criminal and a juvenile delinquent from the London slums.
Directors: Basil Dearden, Michael Relph | Stars: Cecil Parker, Celia Johnson, Harry Fowler, Joan Collins
Votes: 292
11. Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow (1952)
93 min | Comedy
A British sanitary engineer accidentally takes plans for a secret weapon on vacation thinking they're plumbing designs. Russians recruit him for the plans. He falls for a Russian agent, unaware the plans are for a dangerous weapon.
Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: George Cole, Oscar Homolka, Nadia Gray, Frederick Valk
Votes: 184
12.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Taming of the Shrew
(1952)
Drama
Brutish, fortune-hunting scoundrel Petruchio tames his wealthy shrewish wife, Katharina.
Director: Desmond Davis | Stars: Margaret Johnston, Stanley Baker, Sheila Shand Gibbs, Ernest Jay
13.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
The Taming of the Shrew/II
(1952)
88 min | Drama
Brutish, fortune-hunting scoundrel Petruchio tames his wealthy shrewish wife, Katharina.
Director: Desmond Davis | Stars: Margaret Johnston, Stanley Baker, Ernest Jay, Eric Messiter
14. The Franchise Affair (1951)
88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Michael Denison plays a lawyer investigating kidnapping charges against Dulcie Gray. Based on a novel of Josephine Tey.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Anthony Nicholls, Marjorie Fielding
Votes: 392
15. BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Drama
Series of television plays performed live.
Stars: Richard Caldicot, George Woodbridge, Robert Brown, Michael Brennan
Votes: 179
16. The Inheritance (1950)
86 min | Drama
An English governess marries a complete stranger while he is on his deathbed. After he dies, she inherits his estate but is soon involved with some French spies working for Napoleon. At the... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Jean Kent, Guy Rolfe, Paul Dupuis, Lana Morris
Votes: 107
17.
BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950–1959)
Episode:
Jonah
(1950)
Drama
Stars: Robin Bailey, Jill Balcon, Beckett Bould, George Curzon
18. The History of Mr. Polly (1949)
Approved | 95 min | Drama
With an inheritance after his father's death, Alfred Polly finds love in the arms of a schoolgirl but marries an unattractive cousin and opens a shop, leading him to unhappiness, arson, suicide attempts and escape.
Director: Anthony Pelissier | Stars: John Mills, Sally Ann Howes, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins
Votes: 652
19. Edward, My Son (1949)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance
A businessman's desire to protect his corrupt son's fortune leads to tragedy.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr, Ian Hunter, James Donald
Votes: 1,410
20. The Gay Adventure (1949)
82 min | Comedy
Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Paula Valenska, Kathleen Harrison
Votes: 31
21. The Gentle People (1949 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama
Stars: Robert Ayres, Robert Cawdron, Paul Demel, Ernest Jay
22. So Evil My Love (1948)
Approved | 112 min | Crime, Drama
Olivia Harwood, missionary's widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. After Olivia opens a lodging house, Mark becomes her ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Ray Milland, Ann Todd, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Leo G. Carroll
Votes: 957
23. 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
24. Vice Versa (1948)
Not Rated | 111 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Paul is sending his son Dick to boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other.
Director: Peter Ustinov | Stars: Roger Livesey, Kay Walsh, Petula Clark, David Hutcheson
Votes: 402
25. Neighbours (1948 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Stars: Ernest Jay, Angela Baddeley, Dorothy Gordon, Tony Wager
26. Death in the Hand (1948)
43 min | Short, Mystery
A pianist aboard a train reads the palms of passengers and predicts their deaths. Soon those deaths begin to happen.
Director: A. Barr-Smith | Stars: Esme Percy, Ernest Jay, Cecile Chevreau, Carleton Hobbs
27. Secret Flight (1946)
72 min | Drama, War
During World War II, on the eve of the Battle of Britain, British scientists develop the first radar systems to be employed against the German Luftwaffe.
Director: Peter Ustinov | Stars: Ralph Richardson, Raymond Huntley, John Laurie, Ernest Jay
Votes: 246
28. 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
29. Little Ladyship (1939 TV Movie)
95 min | Comedy
The story of Eve, wife of Sir John Brent, who was also a member of the Fifth form at the Euphemia Tadworthy Foundation.
Stars: Lilli Palmer, Cecil Parker, Joan White, Elliott Mason
30. 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
31. Telecrime (1938– )
10 min | Crime, Drama
A series of short whodunnits with enough clues to enable viewers to solve the crime.
Stars: James Raglan, J.B. Rowe, Richard George, Shelagh Furley
Votes: 16
32. Winter Sunshine (1938 TV Movie)
75 min | Comedy
Stars: Athene Seyler, Nicholas Hannen, Archibald Batty, Mignon O'Doherty
33. The Crooked Billet (1938 TV Movie)
60 min
Stars: Dorothy Hyson, Basil Gill, Francis L. Sullivan, Charles Farrell
34. Bardell Against Pickwick (1938 TV Movie)
25 min | Drama
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find. In the course of their travels, they repeatedly ... See full summary »
Stars: Roy Byford, Mark Dignam, Wilfred Fletcher, Patrick Gover
35. The Ringer (1938 TV Movie)
90 min | Crime, Drama
A shifty lawyer receives a threatening note that he will die in two days, but the threat comes from a criminal who supposedly died in Australia.
Stars: Cecil Parker, Gina Malo, Garry Marsh, Neville Brook
36. A Farewell Supper (1938 TV Short)
20 min | Short, Drama
Stars: Alec Clunes, Meriel Forbes, Ernest Jay, Anthony Quayle
37.
Telecrime (1938– )
Episode:
The Back-Stage Murder
(1938)
Crime, Drama
Stars: Mercie Carnell, Shelagh Furley, Ernest Jay, Mardale Owen
38. You're in the Army Now (1937)
87 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Two soldier friends vie for the affections of the Sergeant Major's daughter, against a background of military pomp and adventure.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Wallace Ford, John Mills, Anna Lee, Grace Bradley
Votes: 168
39. Song of the Road (1937)
71 min | Drama, Family
The council whom Bill works for are turning to motor transport to replace the horse and cart. Bill, unable to accept the change, buys his horse and sets off to seek work in the country. He encounters many folk that he helps along the way.
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Bransby Williams, Ernest Butcher, Muriel George, Davy Burnaby
Votes: 50
40. Broken Blossoms (1936)
84 min | Drama
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's "Masterpiece".
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Dolly Haas, Emlyn Williams, Arthur Margetson, C.V. France
Votes: 145
41. Rhodes (1936)
Approved | 90 min | Biography
This rousing adventure film tells the true story of Cecil Rhodes, a diamond miner who helped found the South African colonies.
Directors: Berthold Viertel, Geoffrey Barkas | Stars: Walter Huston, Oscar Homolka, Basil Sydney, Frank Cellier
Votes: 223
42. The House of the Spaniard (1936)
71 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A mild-mannered young British man finds himself caught up in a web of smuggling, counterfeiting and political chicanery, and falls for a beautiful Spanish senorita whose father is one of the heads of the criminal gangs threatening him.
Director: Reginald Denham | Stars: Brigitte Horney, Peter Haddon, Jean Galland, Allan Jeayes
Votes: 62
43. Men of Yesterday (1936)
82 min | Drama
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Stewart Rome, Sam Livesey, Hay Petrie, Eve Lister
44. The Phantom Light (1935)
76 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A lighthouse keeper has been murdered in mysterious circumstances and, during the ensuing investigation a Phantom Light keeps appearing at the scene of his death.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Binnie Hale, Gordon Harker, Donald Calthrop, Milton Rosmer
Votes: 658
45. Checkmate (1935)
67 min | Crime
An under-cover detective lodges with a family as he tries to foil a gang of jewellery thieves.
Director: George Pearson | Stars: Felix Aylmer, Evelyn Foster, Sally Gray, Maurice Evans
Votes: 107
46. Tiger Bay (1934)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A young Englishman abroad, Michael, visits the local low-life spot of Tiger Bay to test his assertion that the spirit of human romance survives even in the most unpromising of circumstances... See full summary »
Director: J. Elder Wills | Stars: Anna May Wong, Henry Victor, Lawrence Grossmith, Margaret Yarde
Votes: 87
47. The Iron Duke (1934)
88 min | Biography, Drama
Chronicling the life of Arthur Wellesley the first duke of Wellington, who faced down Napoleon's armies at Waterloo, and served as prime minister.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: George Arliss, Gladys Cooper, Ellaline Terriss, A.E. Matthews
Votes: 119
48. Spy 77 (1933)
89 min | Drama, Romance, War
Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur B. Woods | Stars: Greta Nissen, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Don Alvarado, Lester Matthews
Votes: 66
49. My Lucky Star (1933)
63 min | Comedy
A shop-girl posing as a film star loves a porter who is posing as an artist.
Directors: Louis Blattner, John Harlow | Stars: Florence Desmond, Oscar Asche, Charlie Naughton, Jimmy Gold