British movies I still need list

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British movies released between 1930 and 1979 still needed for my collection.

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1. Alf's Button (1930)

96 min | Comedy, Fantasy

A soldier discovers a button made from Aladdin's lamp grants wishes when rubbed.

Director: W.P. Kellino | Stars: Tubby Edlin, Alf Goddard, Nora Swinburne, Polly Ward

Votes: 17

2. Almost a Honeymoon (1930)

85 min | Comedy

Misunderstandings abound when a penniless young man lets his flat to an engaged couple.

Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Clifford Mollison, Dodo Watts, Lamont Dickson, Donald Calthrop

3. Mystery at the Villa Rose (1930)

99 min | Crime, Mystery

Jewel thieves kill a rich widow and frame a fake medium.

Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Norah Baring, Austin Trevor, Richard Cooper, Barbara Gott

4. Atlantis (1930)

Drama

A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.

Directors: Ewald André Dupont, Jean Kemm | Stars: Maxime Desjardins, Alice Field, Constant Rémy, Marcel Vibert

Votes: 32

5. Bed and Breakfast (1930)

68 min | Comedy

A newlywed couple have a fight, and to get even with each other, each decides to take a lover--without actually going through with "the deed." Complications ensue.

Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Jane Baxter, Richard Cooper, Sari Maritza, Alf Goddard

Votes: 18

6. Canaries Sometimes Sing (1930)

80 min | Comedy

The Canaries of the title is an allusion to the protagonists, caged by marriage. There are two unhappy, incompatible couples, one is a simple-living playwright and his sophisticated, ... See full summary »

Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Tom Walls, Yvonne Arnaud, Cathleen Nesbitt, Athole Stewart

7. Caste (1930)

70 min | Drama

The daughter of a Cockney drunkard marries a young aristocrat who is presumed killed in action (in WWI). When she gets the news she goes to stay with her aristocratic in-laws.

Directors: Campbell Gullan, Michael Powell | Stars: Hermione Baddeley, Nora Swinburne, Alan Napier, Sebastian Shaw

Votes: 63

9. Latin Love (1930)

85 min | Musical, Romance

A Soho restaurateur's protégée becomes a star.

Director: Sinclair Hill | Stars: Sari Maritza, William Freshman, Martin Lewis, Bert Coote

Votes: 15

10. Hai-Tang (1930)

80 min | Drama

A Chinese cabaret singer will do whatever it takes to save her brother when he is sentenced to death for trying to save her from a lecherous Duke.

Directors: Richard Eichberg, Jean Kemm | Stars: Anna May Wong, Marcel Vibert, Robert Ancelin, Armand Lurville

Votes: 23

11. Harmony Heaven (1930)

61 min | Musical

A girl helps a composer win fame despite a flirtatious socialite.

Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: Polly Ward, Stuart Hall, Trilby Clark, Jack Raine

Votes: 42

13. Knowing Men (1930)

95 min | Comedy, Romance

An heiress poses as a marquise's companion to avoid fortune hunters.

Director: Elinor Glyn | Stars: Carl Brisson, Elissa Landi, Helen Haye, C.M. Hallard

14. Loose Ends (1930)

95 min | Crime, Drama

A girl reporter is blackmailed for learning that a man is a freed murderer.

Director: Norman Walker | Stars: Edna Best, Owen Nares, Miles Mander, Adrianne Allen

16. Night Birds (1930)

97 min | Crime, Drama

(1930) Jameson Thomas, Muriel Angelus, Jack Rain. Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club.

Director: Richard Eichberg | Stars: Jameson Thomas, Jack Raine, Muriel Angelus, Eve Gray

Votes: 45

17. Not So Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

50 min | Comedy, Musical

A cook recalls a night spent in a French estaminet in 1915.

Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Leslie Fuller, Mona Goya, Wilfred Temple, Stella Browne

18. One Family (1930)

70 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

A young boy dreams he's on a guided tour of Buckingham Palace and various countries in the British Empire.

Director: Walter Creighton | Stars: Douglas Beaumont, Sam Livesey, Michael Hogan, Joan Maude

Votes: 18

20. Raise the Roof (1930)

77 min | Musical

An actor is bribed by a rich man to ruin his son's touring review.

Director: Walter Summers | Stars: Betty Balfour, Maurice Evans, Jack Raine, Sam Livesey

Votes: 8

21. Red Pearls (1930)

Drama, Crime

A Japanese merchant drives a financier insane by sending him letters from the man he killed.

Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Lillian Rich, Frank Perfitt, Arthur Pusey, Frank Stanmore

22. One Embarrassing Night (1930)

90 min | Comedy

A husband tries to hide a runaway girl from his wife and mother-on-law.

Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Ralph Lynn, Tom Walls, Winifred Shotter, Mary Brough

Votes: 25

23. School for Scandal (1930)

76 min | Comedy

At the start of the play, Charles (Henry Hewitt), Joseph (Ian Fleming), and Sir Benjamin (John Charlton) are in love with Maria (Dodo Watts), and Lady Sneerwell (Anne Grey) is in love with ... See full summary »

Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Basil Gill, Madeleine Carroll, Ian Fleming, Henry Hewitt

Votes: 29

25. Suspense (1930)

75 min | Drama, War

The First World War; a British Army platoon are delighted to be assigned to a quiet area of the trenches..front line, but quiet. Their first indication of a problem is when they meet the ... See full summary »

Director: Walter Summers | Stars: Mickey Brantford, Cyril McLaglen, Jack Raine, Hay Petrie

26. Symphony in Two Flats (1930)

86 min | Drama

A young composer goes blind, and shortly afterward enters his most recent work in a competition. He believes he's won, but doesn't know that his wife couldn't bear to tell him that he didn't. Complications ensue.

Director: Gareth Gundrey | Stars: Ivor Novello, Benita Hume, Jacqueline Logan, Cyril Ritchard

Votes: 14

28. The Chinese Bungalow (1930)

74 min | Drama

A wealthy Chinese banker marries a British singer and takes her back to his estate in the Malayan jungle. But his frequent absences on business make her feel abandoned and she has an affair... See full summary »

Directors: Arthur Barnes, J.B. Williams | Stars: Matheson Lang, Jill Esmond, Anna Neagle, Ballard Berkeley

Votes: 18

29. The Flame of Love (1930)

74 min | Drama, Musical

In Russia, a Chinese dancer gives herself to a duke to save her brother's life.

Directors: Richard Eichberg, Walter Summers | Stars: Anna May Wong, Georg H. Schnell, John Longden, Percy Standing

Votes: 59

30. The Great Game (1930)

79 min | Comedy, Sport

Dicky Brown (John Batten) is a young, aspiring footballer who plays for a struggling side, the fictional Manningford Football Club, a team in the midst of a successful cup run. He manages ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Randle Ayrton, Neil Kenyon, Kenneth Kove, A.G. Poulton

Votes: 37

31. The Last Hour (1930)

77 min | Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi

A crooked prince uses a death ray to force down airships and steal their cargo.

Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Stewart Rome, Richard Cooper, Kathleen Vaughan, Alexander Field

Votes: 20

32. The Loves of Robert Burns (1930)

96 min | Biography, Musical

Biography of the ploughboy poet.

Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Joseph Hislop, Dorothy Seacombe, Eve Gray, Nancy Price

33. The Middle Watch (1930)

72 min | Comedy

Nautical comedy in which several girls aboard a boat have to be concealed, the farce features typical scenes of characters running in and out of rooms.

Director: Norman Walker | Stars: Owen Nares, Jacqueline Logan, Jack Raine, Dodo Watts

34. The Night Porter (1930)

55 min | Comedy

A hotel porter mistakes honeymooners for jewel thieves.

Director: Sewell Collins | Stars: Donald Calthrop, Trilby Clark, Gerald Rawlinson, Barbara Gott

Votes: 30

35. The Price of Things (1930)

84 min | Drama, Crime

A Duke's twin takes his place at his wedding when he is drugged by spies.

Director: Elinor Glyn | Stars: Elissa Landi, Stewart Rome, Walter Tennyson, Mona Goya

36. The Squeaker (1930)

90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.

Director: Edgar Wallace | Stars: Percy Marmont, Anne Grey, Gordon Harker, Trilby Clark

Votes: 42

37. The Temporary Widow (1930)

84 min | Comedy, Mystery

A woman pretends her artist husband has died in a drowning accident, so that his paintings will finally find buyers.

Director: Gustav Ucicky | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Laurence Olivier, Athole Stewart, Gillian Dean

Votes: 36

38. The W Plan (1930)

87 min | Action, Adventure, War

A British spy helps prisoners of war destroy Germans' secret tunnels.

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Brian Aherne, George Merritt, C.M. Hallard, Frederick Lloyd

Votes: 42

39. The Woman from China (1930)

Crime

A jealous wife helps a Chinaman kidnap a lieutenant's fiancée.

Director: Edward Dryhurst | Stars: Julie Suedo, Gibb McLaughlin, Frances Cuyler, Tony Wylde

Votes: 16

41. To What Red Hell (1930)

100 min | Crime

A woman shelters her epileptic son when he kills a prostitute.

Director: Edwin Greenwood | Stars: Sybil Thorndike, John Hamilton, Bramwell Fletcher, Jillian Sand

42. Tons of Money (1930)

97 min | Comedy

Aubrey Henry Maitland Allington is an unsuccessful inventor with a list of debts longer than his name. When financial relief arrives in the form of a large inheritance, Aubrey's exuberance ... See full summary »

Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Ralph Lynn, Yvonne Arnaud, Mary Brough, Robertson Hare

43. Two Worlds (1930)

95 min | War, Drama

An old Jew is forced to hied the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.

Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Norah Baring, John Longden, Donald Calthrop, Randle Ayrton

Votes: 13

44. Why Sailors Leave Home (1930)

70 min | Comedy

Leslie Fuller and Syd Courtney team up once again, this time a 1930s musical set aboard ship on its way to the Middle East.

Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Leslie Fuller, Peter Bernard, Eve Gray, Gladys Cruickshank

Votes: 17

46. You'd Be Surprised! (1930)

64 min | Comedy, Musical

A songwriter is mistaken for a convict.

Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Walter Forde, Joy Windsor, Frank Stanmore, Frank Perfitt

47. Young Woodley (1930)

79 min | Drama

A schoolboy falls in love with his teacher's young wife.

Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Frank Lawton, Sam Livesey, Gerald Rawlinson

Votes: 16

48. 77 Park Lane (1931)

82 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

When a 'man about town' takes a young lady back to his house they are both surprised to find that it has been turned into an illegal casino in his absence.

Director: Albert de Courville | Stars: Dennis Neilson-Terry, Betty Stockfeld, Malcolm Keen, Ben Welden

Votes: 21

49. A Gentleman of Paris (1931)

78 min | Crime, Drama

A prominent Parisian judge is a witness to a murder while he is at a rendezvous with his mistress. A woman is arrested for the crime and brought before him for trial. It turns out that the ... See full summary »

Director: Sinclair Hill | Stars: Arthur Wontner, Vanda Gréville, Hugh Williams, Phyllis Konstam

Votes: 18

50. A Night in Montmartre (1931)

69 min | Mystery

A young couple lives under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they come under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur... See full summary »

Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Horace Hodges, Hugh Williams, Franklin Dyall, Heather Angel

Votes: 66

52. Alibi (1931)

75 min | Mystery

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.

Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Austin Trevor, Franklin Dyall, Elizabeth Allan, J.H. Roberts

Votes: 31

53. Almost a Divorce (1931)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy

Angela threatens divorce after her husband Richard meets up with the drunk Mackintosh at their club.

Directors: Jack Raymond, Arthur Varney | Stars: Nelson Keys, Sydney Howard, Margery Binner, Eva Moore

54. Black Coffee (1931)

78 min | Mystery

A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.

Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Austin Trevor, Adrianne Allen, Richard Cooper, Elizabeth Allan

Votes: 27

55. Bracelets (1931)

50 min | Crime

An elderly jeweler is victimized by con artists pretending to be the Russian royal family. He sets out to turn the tables on the criminals and earn a reward that will give him enough to buy... See full summary »

Director: Sewell Collins | Stars: Bert Coote, Joyce Kennedy, D.A. Clarke-Smith, Margaret Emden

56. The Love Storm (1931)

62 min | Drama

A lighthouse on a lonely coast of New Zealand is looked after by lighthouse keeper William Kell. Kell marries Eileen, a dancer in a cabaret, who winds up having an affair with Kell's ... See full summary »

Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Fay Compton, Frank Harvey, Ian Hunter, Edmund Willard

Votes: 63

57. Carmen (1931)

77 min | Drama

Opera adaptation: the story of a duplicitous Spanish gypsy girl working in a cigarette factory, whom men fight over.

Director: Cecil Lewis | Stars: Marguerite Namara, Thomas F. Burke, Lance Fairfax, Lester Matthews

Votes: 13

58. Venetian Nights (1931)

88 min | Drama

During a performance of Othello, a jealous actor attempts to strangle his wife, believing that she has committed adultery.

Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Matheson Lang, Joseph Schildkraut, Chili Bouchier, Lilian Braithwaite

Votes: 10

59. Farewell to Love (1931)

96 min | Musical, Romance

An English rich woman travels to Naples seeking distraction. She finds it in her Italian guide, who has such a voice for singing she decides to make him famous, taking him with her to London and offering help for an operatic career.

Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Jan Kiepura, Betty Stockfeld, Hugh Wakefield, Heather Angel

Votes: 26

60. Dance Pretty Lady (1931)

64 min | Drama

A ballerina falls in love with a wealthy young artist. However, rather than marry her, he wants her to become his mistress. She refuses. Not long afterwards, he tells her he's changed his ... See full summary »

Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Ann Casson, Carl Harbord, Michael Hogan, Moore Marriott

Votes: 28

62. Down River (1931)

73 min | Crime, Drama

A customs investigator and his fiancee track down a gang of smugglers whose leader may be a murderer.

Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Charles Laughton, Jane Baxter, Harold Huth, Kenneth Kove

Votes: 19

63. The Dreyfus Case (1931)

90 min | Biography, Drama

The story of the infamous case against Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer, who was accused of high treason and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.

Directors: F.W. Kraemer, Milton Rosmer | Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Carson, George Merritt, Sam Livesey

Votes: 14

64. Fascination (1931)

70 min | Drama

A vampish actress comes between a happily married couple.

Director: Miles Mander | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Carl Harbord, Dorothy Bartlam, Kay Hammond

Votes: 48

66. Hindle Wakes (1931)

79 min | Drama

A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Sybil Thorndike, John Stuart, Norman McKinnel, Edmund Gwenn

Votes: 86

67. Hobson's Choice (1931)

65 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Henry Hobson runs a successful boot-maker's shop in nineteenth-century Salford. A widower with a weakness for the pub opposite, he tries forcefully to run the lives of his three unruly ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: James Harcourt, Viola Lyel, Frank Pettingell, Belle Chrystall

Votes: 33

68. Let's Love and Laugh (1931)

85 min | Comedy

A young bachelor gets drunk on the eve of his wedding - and marries a dancer.

Director: Richard Eichberg | Stars: Gene Gerrard, Muriel Angelus, Margaret Yarde, Frank Stanmore

Votes: 10

70. Madame Guillotine (1931)

74 min | History, Romance

During the French Revolution, a revolutionary falls in love with and marries an aristocratic woman.

Director: Reginald Fogwell | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Brian Aherne, Henry Hewitt, Frederick Culley

Votes: 14

76. Potiphar's Wife (1931)

79 min | Drama, Romance

Lady Diana attempts to seduce her young chauffeur only to later charge him with assaulting her.

Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Nora Swinburne, Laurence Olivier, Norman McKinnel, Guy Newall

Votes: 26

77. Rynox (1931)

48 min | Drama

Business tycoon F. X. Benedik claims he has been threatened by a mysterious stranger Boswell Marsh. When F. X. Benedik is found murdered. Tony takes over the business and tries to track down the mysterious Marsh.

Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Stewart Rome, John Longden, Dorothy Boyd, Charles Paton

Votes: 95

78. Shadows (1931)

57 min | Crime

The estranged son of a newspaper owner, who returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.

Director: Alexander Esway | Stars: Jacqueline Logan, Bernard Nedell, Gordon Harker, Derrick De Marney

79. Splinters in the Navy (1931)

76 min | Comedy

A sailor defeats a champion at boxing and wins a girl.

Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Sydney Howard, Frederick Bentley, Helena Pickard, Paddy Browne

81. Strictly Business (1931)

46 min | Comedy, Crime

An heiress is saved from a blackmailer.

Directors: Mary Field, Jacqueline Logan | Stars: Betty Amann, Carl Harbord, Molly Lamont, Percy Parsons

82. The Bells (1931)

75 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn But Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad. The ... See full summary »

Directors: Harcourt Templeman, Oscar Friedrich Werndorff | Stars: Donald Calthrop, Jane Welsh, Edward Sinclair, O.B. Clarence

Votes: 31

83. Bachelor's Folly (1931)

80 min | Drama

An ex-convict butler helps a bankrupt horse-owner prove that he did not deliberately lose a race.

Director: T. Hayes Hunter | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Edna Best, Anne Grey, Gordon Harker

Votes: 16

85. The Flying Fool (1931)

65 min | Comedy, Drama

The pilot Vincent Floyd is an amateur sleuth. He infiltrates a gang of criminal jewel smugglers lead by Morella Arlen. Vincent exposes these smugglers with the help of the former gangster ... See full summary »

Director: Walter Summers | Stars: Henry Kendall, Benita Hume, Wallace Geoffrey, Martin Walker

Votes: 10

88. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1931)

72 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Director: Gareth Gundrey | Stars: John Stuart, Robert Rendel, Frederick Lloyd, Heather Angel

Votes: 60

89. The Love Race (1931)

81 min

A mix-up with suitcases lands a wealthy racing driver (Stanley Lupino) into an embarrassing situation with his fiancée at a party.

Director: Lupino Lane | Stars: Stanley Lupino, Jack Hobbs, Dorothy Boyd, Dorothy Bartlam

Votes: 44

92. The Gaunt Stranger (1931)

60 min | Thriller

A master of disguise commits a series of daring crimes. Nobody knows what he looks like. He even masquerades as a doctor and kills his own partner whilst under police protection because he was about to betray him.

Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Patric Curwen, Esmond Knight, John Longden, Carol Goodner

Votes: 47

95. Third Time Lucky (1931)

85 min | Comedy

A country rector, Rev. Arthur Fear, finds his ward Jennifer is being blackmailed by a former lover, Captain Crowther, who holds incriminating letters. Fear attempts to steal them back, but ... See full summary »

Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Bobby Howes, Dorothy Boyd, Gordon Harker, Henry Mollison

Votes: 55

97. A Night Like This (1932)

72 min

Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. ... See full summary »

Director: Tom Walls | Stars: Tom Walls, Ralph Lynn, Winifred Shotter, Mary Brough

Votes: 15

98. After Dark (1932)

45 min | Crime, Drama

Richard Morton brought back valuable emeralds from a trip. He has met on the boat a beautiful girl and her uncle. They all take the train together, and the emeralds disappear. Morton has reasons to suspect the uncle.

Director: Albert Parker | Stars: Horace Hodges, Hugh Williams, Grethe Hansen, George Barraud

Votes: 63

99. After Office Hours (1932)

78 min | Drama, Romance

A bird's-eye view of life in a City of London office.

Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: Frank Lawton, Heather Angel, Viola Lyel, Garry Marsh

100. Aren't We All? (1932)

80 min | Comedy

A honeymoon couple quarrel and part, flirting with others until their reconciliation.

Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Gertrude Lawrence, Hugh Wakefield, Owen Nares, Wallace Geoffrey

Votes: 10



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