With J. Arthur Rank Organisation (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Forbidden (1949)
87 min | Drama, Thriller
An ex-serviceman plans to escape his faithless wife.
Director: George King | Stars: Douglass Montgomery, Hazel Court, Patricia Burke, Garry Marsh
Votes: 155
2. The Paradine Case (1947)
PG | 125 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A happily married London barrister falls in love with the accused poisoner he is defending.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Gregory Peck, Ann Todd, Charles Laughton, Charles Coburn
Votes: 9,771
3. Brighton Rock (1948)
92 min | Crime, Drama
In Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses and a rival gang.
Director: John Boulting | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, William Hartnell, Harcourt Williams
Votes: 5,080 | Gross: $0.22M
4. Anna Karenina (1948)
PG | 139 min | Drama, Romance
A married woman's affair with a dashing young officer has tragic results.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore, Hugh Dempster
Votes: 2,377
5. The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
82 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Thora Hird
Votes: 5,252
6. The Blue Lamp (1950)
84 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The daily routine of two London Policemen is interrupted by a killer.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Jack Warner, Dirk Bogarde, Jimmy Hanley, Robert Flemyng
Votes: 1,562
7. The Winslow Boy (1948)
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: 1,244
8. Above Us the Waves (1955)
99 min | Drama, War
The attack by British submarines on the German battleship "Tirpitz" in a Norwegian fjord during World War II.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden, James Robertson Justice
Votes: 1,205
9. Home to Danger (1951)
66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A drug dealer tries to kill his partner's daughter, when she inherits an old house.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Guy Rolfe, Rona Anderson, Francis Lister, Alan Wheatley
Votes: 190
10. The Purple Plain (1954)
97 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In WW2 Burma, a Canadian bomber pilot becomes reckless after losing his bride in a Luftwaffe air-raid.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Gregory Peck, Bernard Lee, Win Min Than, Brenda de Banzie
Votes: 1,834
11. Madeleine (1950)
114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks
Votes: 1,386
12. Golden Salamander (1950)
87 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A man is torn between tackling a sinister crime syndicate or turning a blind eye to the suffering it creates.
Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Trevor Howard, Anouk Aimée, Herbert Lom, Walter Rilla
Votes: 502
13. Our Girl Friday (1953)
88 min | Comedy
Rich Sadie Patch (Dame Joan Collins) is marooned on a desert island after an emergency on her cruise ship. With her are Irish stoker Pat Plunkett (Kenneth More), prickly young Jimmy Carrol ... See full summary »
Director: Noel Langley | Stars: Joan Collins, George Cole, Kenneth More, Robertson Hare
Votes: 232
14. Obsession (1949)
96 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Clive Riordan plans a devilish revenge against his wife's lover.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Robert Newton, Sally Gray, Phil Brown, Naunton Wayne
Votes: 1,588
15. The Magnet (1950)
79 min | Comedy
A boy steals a powerful magnet from a younger boy and gets him into all sorts of trouble.
Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, James Fox, Meredith Edwards
Votes: 410
16. Morning Departure (1950)
102 min | Drama, History, War
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: John Mills, Nigel Patrick, Peter Hammond, Andrew Crawford
Votes: 692
17. The Woman for Joe (1955)
91 min | Drama, Romance
A sideshow owner and his main attraction, a midget, fall for the same woman.
Director: George More O'Ferrall | Stars: Diane Cilento, George Baker, Jimmy Karoubi, David Kossoff
Votes: 115
18. Waterfront (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 and the eldest daughter is not happy her father's decides to return.
Director: Michael Anderson | Stars: Robert Newton, Kathleen Harrison, Avis Scott, Susan Shaw
Votes: 261
19. Emergency Call (1952)
84 min | Thriller
Scotland Yard is mobilised in the hunt for blood donors in a race to save a dying girl.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Jack Warner, Anthony Steel, Joy Shelton, Freddie Mills
Votes: 129
20. Bond Street (1948)
109 min | Drama
A young British woman is getting married, and as she goes through her trousseau we see the stories behind four of the items that were bought on Bond Street in London.
Director: Gordon Parry | Stars: Jean Kent, Roland Young, Kathleen Harrison, Derek Farr
Votes: 83
21. Value for Money (1955)
90 min | Comedy, Romance
A young man from Yorkshire inherits a sizeable legacy from his millionaire father. He decides to try the nightlife of London and meets a young girl performing in a nightclub. She intends to... See full summary »
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: John Gregson, Diana Dors, Susan Stephen, Derek Farr
Votes: 168
22. Man of the Moment (1955)
85 min | Comedy
Civil Servant Norman becomes the favourite of the rulers of a South Seas island that the British have an interest in.
Director: John Paddy Carstairs | Stars: Norman Wisdom, Lana Morris, Belinda Lee, Jerry Desmonde
Votes: 473
23. Svengali (1954)
82 min | Drama, Romance
The story of a genius who hypnotizes an artist's model into becoming a great concert singer, and how she escapes from his influence only by his death.
Director: Noel Langley | Stars: Hildegard Knef, Donald Wolfit, Terence Morgan, Derek Bond
Votes: 120
24. Hunted (1952)
84 min | Crime, Drama
A violent fugitive and a mistreated small boy team up to flee from authority.
Director: Charles Crichton | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Elizabeth Sellars, Kay Walsh
Votes: 876
25. The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)
91 min | Drama, Fantasy
A young boy receives a rocking horse for Christmas and soon learns that he is able to pick the winning horse at the races.
Director: Anthony Pelissier | Stars: Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies, Ronald Squire, John Mills
Votes: 1,033
26. Highly Dangerous (1950)
90 min | Action, Thriller
A British lady entomologist travels to a Balkan country to look into germ warfare trials using various bugs as carriers.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Dane Clark, Marius Goring, Naunton Wayne
Votes: 464
27. Meet Me Tonight (1952)
81 min | Comedy
An omnibus of three Noel Coward tales: the first, "The Red Peppers" (featuring Kay Walsh, Ted Ray, Martita Hunt, Frank Pettingell and Bill Fraser) about a bickering vaudeville couple who ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Pelissier | Stars: Ted Ray, Kay Walsh, Martita Hunt, Bill Fraser
Votes: 150
28. Those People Next Door (1953)
78 min | Comedy
During the war, a titled family, object to their squadron leader son, being engaged to the daughter of a working class factory worker.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Jack Warner, Charles Victor, Marjorie Rhodes, Gladys Henson
Votes: 94
29. The Gay Dog (1954)
87 min | Comedy
Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His friends bet on his dog while he bets against.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Wilfred Pickles, Petula Clark, Megs Jenkins, John Blythe
Votes: 104
30. Forbidden Cargo (1954)
85 min | Crime, Drama
Inspector Michael Kenyon (Nigel Patrick) is a Narcotics Agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.
Director: Harold French | Stars: Jack Warner, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan
Votes: 189
31. Albert, R.N. (1953)
88 min | Drama, History, War
In 1944, at a POW camp in Germany the Allied prisoners use a dummy prop named Albert to fool the German guards and escape.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Anthony Steel, Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, William Sylvester
Votes: 261
32. The Square Ring (1953)
83 min | Drama
Boxing drama following the lives of five different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Bill Owen, Maxwell Reed
Votes: 214
33. The Final Test (1953)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Sam Palmer is a cricket player who is playing the last Test match of his career. His schoolboy son, Reggie, is a budding poet who disappoints Sam by not attending the penultimate day's play... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Jack Warner, Robert Morley, George Relph, Adrianne Allen
Votes: 182
34. Touch and Go (1955)
85 min | Comedy
After Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image, he threatens to resign and decides to uproot his family and emigrate to Australia. but his problems are only just beginning.
Director: Michael Truman | Stars: Jack Hawkins, Margaret Johnston, June Thorburn, John Fraser
Votes: 138
35. The Gentle Gunman (1952)
86 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In 1941, in wartime U.K., two Irish brothers working for the I.R.A. come against their local leader's ruthless methods.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Beatty, Elizabeth Sellars
Votes: 263
36. Lease of Life (1954)
94 min | Drama
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
Director: Charles Frend | Stars: Robert Donat, Kay Walsh, Adrienne Corri, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 194
37. Appointment with Venus (1951)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, War
During WW2, British Major Valentine Moreland is tasked with rescuing a prized pedigree cow from the German-occupied Channel Island of Armorel.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: David Niven, Glynis Johns, George Coulouris, Barry Jones
Votes: 240
38. Street Corner (1953)
94 min | Crime, Drama
A pseudo-documentary in style with an emphasis on the daily work and routine of women police built around three different story lines. The first involves eighteen-year-old Bridget Foster (... See full summary »
Director: Muriel Box | Stars: Anne Crawford, Peggy Cummins, Rosamund John, Terence Morgan
Votes: 186
39. The Quiet Woman (1951)
71 min | Crime, Drama
Coastal pub proprietress is inveigled into a smuggling plot.
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Derek Bond, Jane Hylton, Dora Bryan, Michael Balfour
Votes: 143
40. They Can't Hang Me (1955)
75 min | Crime, Drama
A senior civil servant is condemned to hang for murder but he claims to have top secret security information...
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Terence Morgan, Yolande Donlan, André Morell, Ursula Howells
Votes: 126
41. The Brave Don't Cry (1952)
89 min | Drama
A story about a true mining accident.
Director: Philip Leacock | Stars: John Gregson, Meg Buchanan, John Rae, Fulton Mackay
Votes: 88
42. Life in Emergency Ward 10 (1959)
86 min | Drama
A new registrar, with a revolutionary heart lung machine he has bought from America, joins a small county hospital, and has to win over his colleagues, including the senior house surgeon, ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Day | Stars: Christopher Witty, Rupert Davies, Dorothy Alison, Joan Sims
Votes: 60
43. The Frightened Man (1952)
69 min | Crime, Drama
The hidden life of a second-hand dealer inadvertently ensnares his son. Julius Rosselli (Dermot Walsh), whose expulsion from Oxford and subsequent participation with jewel thieves breaks ... See full summary »
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Dermot Walsh, Barbara Murray, Charles Victor, John Blythe
Votes: 113
44. Dance Little Lady (1954)
87 min | Drama
The story of a successful dancer's fight with her husband for the attention of their daughter.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Terence Morgan, Mai Zetterling, Guy Rolfe, Mandy Miller
Votes: 55
45. The Hills of Donegal (1947)
85 min | Drama
An Irish singer marries the wrong man.
Director: John Argyle | Stars: Dinah Sheridan, James Etherington, Moore Marriott, John Bentley
Votes: 28
46. 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: 40
47. How the Myth Was Made: A Study of Robert Flaherty's Man of Aran (1978)
59 min | Documentary
American documentary film-maker George C. Stoney visits the Aran Islands to try and unravel some of the myths surrounding a film that had engrossed him as a youngster - Robert Flaherty's ... See full summary »
Directors: James B. Brown, George C. Stoney | Stars: Michael Balcon, Arthur Calder-Marshall, Robert J. Flaherty, Walter Lassally
Votes: 20