Acclaimed British neo-realist filmmaker Ken Loach made his theatrical debut with this bleak kitchen-sink drama. Joy...
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1968
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They All Died Laughing plays for satire what any other film might have played for suspense. Leo McKern plays a college...
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1964
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This British comedy drama of the lower classes features actors with such thick cockney accents that some prints of the film...
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1963
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In this interesting mystery, a police inspector learns that an artist's wife has been murdered and her identity assumed by...
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1962
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A beautiful and wealthy woman in the market for a husband believes she has found the right man -- only to discover he isn't...
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1961
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In this British farce, an impoverished lord teams up with the plumber he mistook for a burglar. Together they conspire to...
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1961
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1960
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In this romantic comedy, three bunglers find jobs at a matchmaking service. None are pleased with their jobs until a...
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1960
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Set in the 1950s in Britain, this award-winning social comedy by director and co-writer John Boulting features...
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1959
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In this mystery, the wife of the recently kidnapped Dr. Manning enlists the assistance of a Scotland Yard detective and a...
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1958
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Released in the U.S. as Your Past Is Showing, the British The Naked Truth is a wickedly funny satire of the tabloid-press...
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1957
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In this comedy, a remake of the 1936 comedy, two sanitation workers get an unexpected bonus when they encounter a rare book...
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1956
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In this British crime drama, a philanderer finds himself accused of murder after the man he used for his alibi is found...
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1956
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In this romantic comedy, a womanizing uncle tells the story of his good-hearted but fickle niece, whose tendency to always...
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1955
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This romantic and tuneful war drama tells the story the singer who captured the hearts of Allied soldiers during WW II. It...
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1953
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In this detective story, based on a novel by John Creasey, a smooth-talking detective helps a young woman solve her uncle's...
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1952
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1952
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In this mystery, a woman desiring to locate her missing employer engages the services of "The Toff," a suave amateur...
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1952
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This mystery is based upon the popular radio quiz show, Twenty Questions and chronicles the endeavors of panelists to solve a...
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1950
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H. G. Wells' non-fantasy efforts have, with the exception of Kipps, proven traditionally difficult to transfer to film....
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1949
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1949
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In this upbeat film four war-time performers known for their concert parties, have a reunion. They decide they are still...
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1948
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In this mystery, a married team of private investigators look into the background of a nerve doctor whose patients have been...
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1948
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In this drama, black market smugglers do all they can to keep away from the police. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1948
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Not a film about scientific research, The Guinea Pig (US title: The Outsider) is the story of an incipient "affirmative...
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1948
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1947
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In this melodrama, a fisherman begins studying to be a doctor. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he begins...
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1947
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Tavern owner Formby works to turn a waitress from her current employer, a rival tavern owner, when Formby falls in love with...
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1946
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Anne Fielding (Dulcie Gray), a shop clerk, meets Jack Williams (Derek Farr), a bus conductor, on the London Underground....
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1946
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Though its title suggests that Gaiety George is yet another vehicle for British comedian George Formby, the film is in fact a...
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1946
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Also known as Stairway to Heaven, A Matter of Life and Death is the remarkable British fantasy film that became the surprise...
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1946
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The crown jewels are at stake in this crime comedy featuring the efforts of London bobby Gray against American gangster...
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1945
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In this thriller, an aspiring actor from London lets a room in a hotel filled with theatrical personalities. No sooner does...
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1945
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Leo Martin (William Hartnell) is a low-level member of a smash-and-grab gang run by shady dance-club owner Loman (Raymond...
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1945
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In this episode of the long-running series, the famed Irish washerwoman has her hands full (actually, "she" was comic actor...
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1945
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1943
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In this comedy, a young playboy and a petty thief both simultaneously attempt to impersonate an non-existent butler. ~...
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1943
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Mechanic Formby bests a neighboring rival at a Home Guard exercise and when others obtain an army weapon, Formby converts a...
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1943
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Bob Randall (Richard Greene) is a reporter who gets to witness first-hand the British retreat from Dunkirk in May of 1940. He...
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1942
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Set during WW II, this drama follows the travails of a cargo ship captain as he launches a desperate search of his vessel...
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1942
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Let the People Sing is an offshoot of J. B. Priestly's earlier show business-based fable The Good Companions. In Companions,...
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1942
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Comic actors Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen, members in good standing of Britain's "The Crazy Gang", head the cast of the...
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1942
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Few morale-boosting wartime films have retained their power and entertainment value as emphatically as Noël Coward's In Which...
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1942
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There's no one named Bob in the British comedy Bob's Your Uncle; the title is a bit of cockney slang, which we won't attempt...
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1941
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Scottish stage, radio and film favorite Will Fyffe heads the cast of Neutral Port. The star is cast as crusty Captain...
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1941
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The old reliable plot device known as premarital hanky-panky was the basis of the Esther McCracken stage play Quiet Wedding....
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1941
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This wartime drama is set during WW II and centers on 6 survivors of a torpedo attack adrift in a lifeboat. One of them is a...
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1941
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Never mind that first name; Bunny Doyle is the male protagonist of the British Facing the Music. Doyle plays a clumsy...
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1941
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In the late 1930s-early 1940s, diminutive British music-hall and radio comedian Arthur Askey enjoyed a popularity...
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1941
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Based on the Evadne Price-Ken Attiwell stage play, Once a Crook stars Gordon Harker as ex-safecracker Charlie Hopkins....
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1941
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When the Waters sisters and their charges are accused of stealing Esmond's gems, they work to uncover the real thieves. ~...
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1941
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One of the few "Inspector Hornleigh" films to gain a wide US distribution, Mail Train stars Gordon Harker as Hornleigh and...
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1941
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Cottage to Let is a taut British wartime spy thriller, laced with moments of genuinely hilarious comedy. The "maguffin" in...
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1941
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In this socially conscious drama, an eccentric, wealthy young man impersonates a hobo in order to save a flophouse that is...
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1941
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In this wartime comedy, a garage owner, and his pal, a ventriloquist enlist and head for France where they are soon captured...
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1940
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Based on a play by Barre Lyndon, They Came by Night stars beloved Scottish actor Will Fyffe as jeweler James Fothergill....
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1940
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1940
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Rex Harrison astonished his fans by donning a Nazi uniform in the British suspenser Night Train (originally titled Night...
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1940
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The popular British troupe The Crazy Gang do their zany thing in this fast-paced comedy adventure. The story begins as the...
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1940
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In this wartime comedy, set after the beginning of WW II, a British entertainer is drafted and immediately finds himself at...
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1940
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George Turner plays Henry in this late-model British quota quickie. Lauded as a hero after discovering a cache of stolen bank...
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1940
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The Band Waggon was the BBC radio series that catapulted diminutive comic Arthur Askey to stardom as "Big-Hearted Arthur"....
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1940
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In this entry in the long-running British comedy series, boisterous Irish washerwoman Mother Riley gets into deep trouble...
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1940
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Will Fyffe makes another appearance as Mr. Reeder, the seemingly absent-minded Scotland Yard sleuth created by Edgar Wallace....
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1940
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A delightful film that begs to be rediscovered, Return to Yesterday was adapted from Goodness, How Sad, a play by...
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1940
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What a combination! Break the News boasted the talents of English stage star Jack Buchanan, French entertainer...
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1939
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Inspector Hornleigh was the first of three lively British crime films inspired by the popular BBC radio serial "Monday Night...
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Sam Holt
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1939
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In this three-hanky crime drama, a junkman offers a little sage advice for a young woman who has fallen in love with a...
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1939
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In this comedy, an inmate relishes the peace and solitude of prison life as it affords him a welcome escape from his nagging...
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1939
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In this psychological drama set in a small English village, the villagers become hysterical after a series of damning...
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1939
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1939
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This film is an adaptation of the Brandon Thomas stage perennial Charley's Aunt, starring bespectacled British radio comedian...
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1939
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In this drama, a young son follows in his father's and his grandfather's footsteps by attending military college at...
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1939
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In this mystery, the last entry in the Inspector Hornleigh series, Inspector Harker and his assistant take a two-week...
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Police Sergeant
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1939
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A minor effort from a major director, Bank Holiday is little more than a series of anecdotes involving middle-class...
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1938
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Owd Bob is a remake of the silent film of the same name, which in turn was based on a story by Alfred Olivant. Dominating the...
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1938
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This 1938 remake of the 1930 British farce Almost a Honeymoon makes a few slight alterations in the text. Originally, a...
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1938
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1938
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The continued adventure of the magic button that was crafted from the metal of Aladdin's magic lamp. Alf finds that this...
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1938
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In this taut drama, a wealthy financier is tried for the murder of his brother-in-law after the damning corpse is found...
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1938
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In this British comedy, two street performers find themselves involved with a woman arrested for being a jewel thief. To...
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1938
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In this farce, a loving husband spending his first night apart from his wife in seven years goes out with a friend to get...
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1938
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1938
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When the Russians find and destroy the hidden artillery, the 13 man Austrian gun crew is suspected of harboring a traitor in...
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1938
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A transatlantic race is featured in this exciting drama. One of the captains involved almost loses after he saves an actress...
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1937
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Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour...
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1937
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In this drama, two young truckers leave a crooked company to form their own. Their former boss sends his charming daughter...
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1937
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With a plot that twists like a plumber's snake, this is more a story of family secrets than anything else, in which the...
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1937
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Star Jack Buchanan shared directorial credit with cinematographer Lee Garmes for the breezy British musical comedy The Sky's...
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1937
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In this British musical, the trouble begins when a performer has a tiff with his singing partner during a show and ends up...
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1937
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Sixty-nine-year-old George Arliss at first seems an unlikely casting choice for Dr. Syn, the 18th-century...
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1937
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As a result of a discussion between a trio of gods over the true worthiness of Earth, a retiring British shop assistant is...
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1936
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A Scotland Yard Inpsector sets off to prove that prominent director is really an American gangster in disguise. ~ Sandra...
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1936
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1936
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In this comedy, a man has a rare talent for picking winning horses for his pals, but refuses to gamble himself until he gets...
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1936
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1936
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In this comedy, two Cockney sanitation workers get an unexpected bonus when they encounter a rare book that was accidentally...
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Screen Story
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1936
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In this comedy, a helpful friend offers to care for the apartment of a honeymooning couple. As soon as they leave, he brings...
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1936
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The port of Southampton provides the locale for a series of escapades of British sailors on a 6 hour leave. ~ Rovi...
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1936
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1936
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The British Excuse My Glove proves that Hollywood had no monopoly on trying to turn athletes into actors. Top British boxer...
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1936
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In this drama, a Secret Service agent must prevent a notorious international crook for taking an important treaty....
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1936
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1936
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In this romantic comedy, an American movie star marries a steamer captain so she can obtain British citizenship. As soon as...
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1936
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Something of a precursor to 1947's A Double Life, Men Are Not Gods takes its title from a line in Othello -- aptly so, as...
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1936
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1936
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Screen Story
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1936
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Befitting its title, Death on the Set takes place in a British film studio (thereby saving on set-construction costs!)....
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1936
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In this comedy, a divorced couple marry other people but must pretend they are still married to curry favor with a wealthy...
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1935
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Blacksmith Howard turns to a career of soccer in this comedy. ~ Rovi...
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1935
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In this British drawing room comedy, a poor-but-plucky shopgirl decides to teach a prominent family the true meaning of...
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1935
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Hay Petrie ingests the scenery as the demonic, hunchbacked Mr. Quilp in this 1935 British adaptation of Dickens' The Old...
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1935
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1935
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In this politically oriented sci-fi film, a star's collision with the moon causes a British village to be shot into space....
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1935
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In this charming comedy, the driver of a hansom cab, reluctant to modernize, finds himself hating newfangled motorized taxi...
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1935
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In this drama, a pet shop owner endeavors to help his new friend, a busker, extricate himself from the criminals he is...
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1935
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In this comedy, an itinerant fellow finds himself a detective after he inherits his late uncle's agency. Nothing in his...
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1935
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Dandy Dick stars the magnificent Will Hay as supercilious village vicar Rev. Richard Jedd, presently anxious to raise enough...
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1935
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A royal Ruritanian family opens a restaurant with Garrick, their daughter's boyfriend. Queen Grey is the cook and King...
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1935
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1935
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In this comedy, a young man encounters opposition when he gets engaged. His jilted girlfriend's mother then has her daughter...
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1935
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1935
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In this drama, a young man defends himself after he is attacked by a mugger. He shoots the thief, and believes that he has...
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1934
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In this drama a rich banker loses his fortune in the stock market. His secretary's lover finds out that the banker has been...
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1934
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In this comedy, a pair of hard-working fellows at the Henry VIII Pub find their labors unappreciated by their boss. One of...
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1934
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Ex-con Carney manages to keep blackmailer's away from his daughter who never realizes who her hero is because Carney had...
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1934
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The venerable Warwick Deeping story Sorrell and Son was dusted off again for this 1934 screen incarnation. Repeating his role...
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1934
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In this comedy, a nephew, fearing that he has lost his aunt's precious ring, devises a strange scheme to get it back. He has...
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1934
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1934
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In this comedy, an upstanding judge marries a woman whom he believes is much younger than she really is. To keep the...
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1934
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In this drama, a clerk and another get involved in an easy-money scam. Unfortunately things go horribly awry and the clerk...
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1934
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Often consigned to comic relief roles in Hollywood, Reginald Gardiner is awarded top billing in the British Borrow a Million....
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1934
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Badger's Green, a barnstorming British theatrical piece by R. C. Sheriff, was given its first talking picture treatment in...
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1934
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Hollywood movie-making is satirized in this comedy. The trouble begins when an American filmmaker decides to us a British...
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1934
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This musical tells of a retire showman who returns to help an old music hall remain open through the use of modern...
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1934
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1934
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In this fantastical mystery, a scientist devises and ingenious, if not cold-blooded plan for collecting insurance money....
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1934
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In this 1934 drama, a rabid feminist utterly despises all men. She changes her tune when her financial benefactor, her aunt,...
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1934
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In this comedy mystery, the trouble begins when the town skinflint and his maid mysteriously disappear. Two rival cops begin...
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1934
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In this musical, a middle-class cockney fishwife yearns to become a movie star. Her plans go swimmingly. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1933
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In this comedy drama, a cruise ship steward is assigned to keep an eye on a famous jewel thief. When the thief steals a...
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1933
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Based on a novel by J. B. Priestley, this British musical-comedy follows an unlikely trio as they try to revive the fortunes...
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1933
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1933
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In this drama, a married pair of lighthouse keepers take in a foster daughter whose father, unbeknownst to her, is serving a...
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1933
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In this crime melodrama, a young couple moves into a charming rural cottage. There the wife becomes fixated upon the...
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1933
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Definitely no relation to the horror-film series of the same name, the British Friday the 13th is a variation of the "Bridge...
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1933
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The French/British Don Quixote is a faithful rendition of the Cervantes novel, with a poignant ending added by director...
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1933
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This 5-reel British quota quickie takes place virtually in its entirety in an Old Dark House. Mad scientist Eric Adeney is...
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1932
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This comic farce tells of Clarke attempting to impress his future in-laws through the use of a borrowed apartment with...
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1932
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In this British drama, a woman squanders her husband's fortune and then boots him out. With no savings, she and a friend...
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1932
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In this crime drama, a gangster murders his own girlfriend and kidnaps a wealthy socialite. He takes her to his boat and...
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1931
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In this comedy, a struggling artist who wants to die puts out a contract on himself, but then receives a large inheritance...
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1931
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In this romantic drama, a wealthy man masquerades as a hobo and hits the road to find adventure. In time he begins getting a...
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1931
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In this sporting comedy, two gamblers are visiting the home of a staunch anti-gambler. The host is most self-righteous about...
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1931
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The "Great Game" is football -- not the American brand, but the British version. The hero, Dicky Brown (John Batten), is the...
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1930
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Financially strapped Stuart Rome sells all of his horses except one colt which goes on to win the big race giving him the...
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1930
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Based on a play by Pemberton Billing, High Treason is set in The Future -- 1940, to be exact. The Federated Countries of...
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1929
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