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1. Skippy's Playground at Waratah Headquarters (TV Movie)
25 min | Documentary
Director: Maureen Walsh | Stars: Roberta Paterson, Children From El Pasafero Kindergarten
2. 13 East Street (1952)
72 min | Thriller
A cop robs a store to go undercover in a gang. In prison he meets a member and escapes. Now inside, he identifies the boss and thieves, but not the informant. As a big heist nears, the cop is distracted by the boss's girlfriend.
Director: Robert S. Baker | Stars: Patrick Holt, Sandra Dorne, Sonia Holm, Robert Ayres
Votes: 175
3. Fortune in Diamonds (1951)
Approved | 74 min | Adventure, Drama
Peter Brandt is a soldier journeying across the countryside of South Africa after the Boer War.
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Dennis Price, Jack Hawkins, Siobhan McKenna, Peter Hammond
Votes: 175
4. 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: 15,297 | Gross: $3.60M
5. 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
6. Portrait of Clare (1950)
100 min | Drama
The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed; a priggish lawyer; and a sympathetic barrister.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Margaret Johnston, Richard Todd, Robin Bailey, Ronald Howard
Votes: 78
7. The Girl Who Couldn't Quite (1950)
85 min | Drama
Smilie that is. A tramp cures a teenager's amnesia and she fails to recognise him afterwards.
Director: Norman Lee | Stars: Bill Owen, Elizabeth Henson, Betty Stockfeld, Iris Hoey
Votes: 83
8. Once a Sinner (1950)
78 min | Drama
A lowly bank clerk marries a good time girl but she two-times him for her old crooked boyfriend.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Pat Kirkwood, Jack Watling, Joy Shelton, Sydney Tafler
Votes: 127
9. The Spider and the Fly (1949)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A clever and dedicated French police official, a cleverer master-thief whom he secretly admires, the woman loved by the official who is in love with the thief, at the outbreak of World War I.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Eric Portman, Guy Rolfe, Nadia Gray, Edward Chapman
Votes: 407
10. Man on the Run (1949)
82 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In post-war Britain, an army deserter unwittingly gets involved in murder and armed robbery and enlists the aid of a war widow to help clear his name.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Edward Chapman, Laurence Harvey
Votes: 448
11. For Them That Trespass (1949)
Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama
Christy Drew, an aspiring young writer trying to broaden his experience, gets involved with Frankie Ketchen and her two suitors, Herb Logan and Jim Heal. One night, Jim finds Frankie has ... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti | Stars: Stephen Murray, Richard Todd, Patricia Plunkett, Rosalyn Boulter
Votes: 139
12. Celia (1949)
64 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An actress is persuaded by her boyfriend, the head of a private-detective agency, to take a job as a housekeeper in the home of a wealthy elderly woman. It seems that no one has seen the ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Searle | Stars: Hy Hazell, Bruce Lester, Elsie Wagstaff, John Bailey
Votes: 55
13. Cardboard Cavalier (1949)
96 min | Comedy
In Cromwellian England, royalists commission a barrow boy to carry a secret letter. Helped by Nell Gwynn, he succeeds after encounters with a castle ghost and custard pies.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood, Jerry Desmonde, Jack McNaughton
Votes: 133
14. Temptations (1949)
68 min | Thriller
A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up murdered. Soon the psychic points the finger at ... See full summary »
Director: Oswald Mitchell | Stars: John Stuart, Henry Oscar, Marie Burke, Gwyneth Vaughan
Votes: 32
15. Miranda (1948)
Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives in to her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue soon after.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Glynis Johns, Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, John McCallum
Votes: 1,145
16. 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
17. House of Darkness (1948)
63 min | Horror
A young man visiting a house that turns out to be haunted is terrorized by the ghost of a man who had been murdered there years before.
Director: Oswald Mitchell | Stars: Henry Oscar, Laurence Harvey, Lesley Osmond, Alexander Archdale
Votes: 186
18. Love in Waiting (1948)
60 min | Comedy, Romance
Set in England, post-World War II; three young women attempt to balance their waitress jobs and their respective love-lives whilst their employer's restaurant - and all the waitresses - is ... See full summary »
Director: Douglas Peirce | Stars: David Tomlinson, Andrew Crawford, Peggy Evans, Elspet Gray
Votes: 68
19. The Chronicles of Ben (1948– )
90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Stars: Jerry Verno, John Stuart, Wally Patch, Geoffrey Denton
20.
The Chronicles of Ben (1948– )
Episode:
The Room at the Top
(1948)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Stars: Jerry Verno, Wally Patch, Olaf Pooley, Larry Burns
21. The Inheritance (1947)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Following her father's death, a teenage British heiress goes to live with her guardian uncle--who is broke and schemes to murder her for her inheritance.
Director: Charles Frank | Stars: Jean Simmons, Derrick De Marney, Katina Paxinou, Derek Bond
Votes: 826
22. Green Fingers (1947)
83 min | Drama
A fisherman discovers he has a gift for healing and becomes an osteopath.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Robert Beatty, Carol Raye, Nova Pilbeam, Felix Aylmer
Votes: 126
23. Woman to Woman (1947)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Romance
An amnesiac lands up adopting his forgotten daughter from a previous girlfriend, a dancer, when his wife is unable to have children.
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Douglass Montgomery, Joyce Howard, Adele Dixon, Yvonne Arnaud
24. Escape Dangerous (1947)
62 min
Director: Digby Smith | Stars: Beresford Egan, Marianne Stone, Lily Lapidus, Daphne Day
Votes: 18
25. Bedelia (1946)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Bedelia, a newly remarried beautiful widow, is on honeymoon in Monte Carlo. A painter approaches her inquiring about her past. When she and her husband go back to England the artist will soon be there. Danger, crime and truth will follow.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Ian Hunter, Barry K. Barnes, Anne Crawford
Votes: 448
26. London Town (1946)
126 min | Comedy, Musical
An aging music-hall performer returns to London believing he's the star of a new show. When he discovers that he's only slated to be the understudy, his daughter sabotages the revue's star in order to get him back into the spotlight.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Sid Field, Greta Gynt, Tessie O'Shea, Claude Hulbert
Votes: 106
27. Springtime (1946)
80 min | Drama
The film follows the history of a brooch after it is given as a present by a man to a woman in 1911.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Peter Graves, Carol Raye, Lawrence O'Madden, Leni Lynn
Votes: 30
28. Here Comes the Sun (1946)
91 min | Comedy, Musical
A sports reporter on the run from the police seeks to clear his name.
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Elsa Tee, Joss Ambler
Votes: 50
29. Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
Approved | 123 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
At the height of the Roman Civil War, a young Cleopatra (Vivien Leigh) meets a middle-aged Julius Caesar (Claude Rains), who teaches her how to rule Egypt.
Director: Gabriel Pascal | Stars: Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson
Votes: 3,143
30. 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
31. I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945)
104 min | Musical
In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher convinces both songwriters and a music hall singer with his new ideas to make business, while fighting both competitors and piracy in a... See full summary »
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver, Michael Rennie, Peter Graves
Votes: 83
32. Waltz Time (1945)
Not Rated | 91 min | Musical, Romance
Old Vienna, at a time when the waltz was considered an immoral dance. Maria promises her dying father, the Emperor, that she will follow the wishes of the Council of Ministers when she ... See full summary »
Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Carol Raye, Peter Graves, Patricia Medina, John Ruddock
Votes: 37
33. 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
34. A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Not Rated | 124 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price, John Sweet
Votes: 6,495
35. Give Us the Moon (1944)
95 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
A young man falls in with a society whose principle is a complete disregard for work, and chaos ensues when the society decides to help run the hotel of his father.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver, Peter Graves, Roland Culver
Votes: 236
36. It Happened One Sunday (1944)
97 min | Comedy, Romance
Sweet innocent Moya arrives in Liverpool from her native Cork and immediately gets mixed up with handsome-but-dodgy Canadian seaman Tom. Both the rozzers and the bad guys are after him. Will true love prevail?
Director: Karel Lamac | Stars: Robert Beatty, Barbara White, Marjorie Rhodes, Ernest Butcher
Votes: 24
37. Candles at Nine (1944)
75 min | Mystery
A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young ... See full summary »
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Eliot Makeham, Beatrix Lehmann, John Salew, Joss Ambler
Votes: 144
38. While Nero Fiddled (1944)
65 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A pair of Jolly Jack Tars on shore leave take a Wren (lady sailor) to Stonehenge and get caught in a time warp finishing up in ancient Rome.
Director: Harry Watt | Stars: Tommy Trinder, Frances Day, Sonnie Hale, Francis L. Sullivan
Votes: 135
39. 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
40. Strawberry Roan (1944)
84 min | Drama
A farmer marries a beautiful city girl and tries to help her become more settled on the farm by buying her a calf to look after. She begins to spend their money so fast that the farmer goes broke, Then she runs away on her horse.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: William Hartnell, Carol Raye, Walter Fitzgerald, Sophie Stewart
Votes: 46
41. 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
42. Happidrome (1943)
87 min | Comedy
Mr Lovejoy, a struggling actor-manager returns to a small provincial town with plans to put on a show.
Director: Philip Brandon | Stars: Harry Korris, Robbie Vincent, Cecil Fredericks, Bunty Meadows
Votes: 33
43. Old Mother Riley Detective (1943)
80 min | Comedy
Old Mother Riley does her bit for the war effort by going undercover to foil a gang of black marketeers.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Ivan Brandt, Owen Reynolds
Votes: 66
44. The Shipbuilders (1943)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
A generation of shipbuilders is nearly wiped out by the Great Depression, but a second Great War gets them back to work.
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Clive Brook, Morland Graham, Nell Ballantyne, Finlay Currie
Votes: 84
45. It's That Man Again (1943)
84 min | Comedy
Con man local mayor gambles municipal treasury in a poker game and wins a broken down theatre.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Tommy Handley, Greta Gynt, Jack Train, Sydney Keith
Votes: 95
46. It Started at Midnight (1943)
84 min | Comedy, War
Director: Karel Lamac | Stars: Lloyd Pearson, Maggie Rennie, Julien Mitchell, Richard Attenborough
Votes: 27
47. Went the Day Well? (1942)
Approved | 92 min | Thriller, War
An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion.
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti | Stars: Leslie Banks, C.V. France, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr
Votes: 4,343 | Gross: $0.02M
48. The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
Approved | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of twenty-four.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Robert Donat, Geoffrey Atkins, Jean Cadell, Robert Morley
Votes: 445
49. The Goose Steps Out (1942)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy
A bumbling teacher turns out to be the double of a German general. He is flown into Germany to impersonate the general and cause chaos and hilarity in a Hitler Youth college.
Directors: Basil Dearden, Will Hay | Stars: Will Hay, Charles Hawtrey, Peter Croft, Barry Morse
Votes: 517
50. Uncensored (1942)
83 min | Drama, War
During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert, Griffith Jones, Raymond Lovell
Votes: 16