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A family butler tries to find the missing heir to a title.

An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at...

A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty...

An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.

Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up...

It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by...

The Thames river police try to track down smugglers.

Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of a noted stage critic to produce a glowing review...

'Admiral's son loves girl who becomes spy, and dies foiling her schemes.' (British Film Catalogue)

'1765. Judge sentences highwayman to die, then finds he is his son.' (British Film Catalogue)

Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles...

Jane is given a bracelet by an elderly admirer. He is in league with Cleaver, a suave crook, and the two plan to use Jane and the bracelet to smuggle...

A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his...

When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham,...

Without a job, a young man is given the opportunity to run his ill uncle's private-detective agency. He finds himself mixed up with everything from...

Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his pyjamas is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp and that when he cleans it a genie appears.

A fisherman begins studying to be an osteopath. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he begins treating his landlady's daughter who is...

A clerk is planning to murder a stockbroker but is foiled in the attempt.

Henry, an unemployed London street entertainer, gets his big break when he is engaged to perform as the opening act of a cabaret in local pub. He...

Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being...

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.

During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.

A British comedy about a blacksmith who in looking to get away from his wife discovers a talent for rugby league.

A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number.

Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that...

A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.

A British woman faces a downward social climb thanks to her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.

When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But...

Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start...

Following an argument with his co-star during the rehearsals for a new stage show, famous singer Richard King walks out of the theatre, still wearing...

An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house

A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.

One of a series of murder mysteries featuring the character Philo Vance. A Lost Movie

John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing, his friend Harry Jones suggests applying to the...

A British secret service agent falls in love with the daughter of a leading London criminal, and soon after becoming involved with her father finds...

An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him....

Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries...

A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.

Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of...

Can Professor Higgins transform flower-girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?

Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.

The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.

A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune.

Gert and Daisy accompany a crowd of Cockney children who are being evacuated to a stately home in the country.

An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.

Two London rubbish collectors come into possession of a valuable book, and thwart the attempts of some criminals to con them out of it. Meanwhile one...

George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications...

A girl tracks down the gang who had her detective brother killed.

A scientist seeks to transplant the brain of a young girl into his apeman.

A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.

Set in Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge football ground and featuring appearances from many real-life players from the day, this is the first film to...

Set against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of...

The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on...

'Innocent blacksmith hanged on circumstantial evidence.' (British Film Catalogue)

Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture,...

'Man borrows service flat to impress girl's parents.' (British Film Catalogue)

A doctor uses his unique medical knowledge to mastermind a lucrative life-insurance scam; in a rare film role, legendary thespian Gerald du Maurier...

'Stableboy buys ruined employer's horse and wins Derby.' (British Film Catalogue)

'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National...

Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. ...

A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.

Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.

A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.

Charles and Barbara are a devoted couple who, in seven years' marriage, have never spent a night apart. When they come up to town for a family...

George Formby plays George Harper, a tavern owner, who works to turn a waitress from her current employer, a rival tavern owner, when Formby falls in...

A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall...

A young man, whose main interest in life is stained glass, accidentally accepts a challenge to fight in a fair boxing booth.

The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian...

Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs.

The lives and loves of three young working class women, set in the pubs, terraced houses and factories of Battersea, South London.

As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for his girlfriend at the local pub. To keep moral up,...

After moving into a picturesque country cottage, a woman becomes increasingly concerned about the fate of the previous owner who she believes was...

Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him...

Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty...

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

A lovely English village is threatened with "development" by a speculative builder. The annual cricket match with another village shall decide its...

The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a...

A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed.

“Ex-convict saves his estranged daughter from a blackmailer.” - BFI.

“Professor Calthrop, actuated only by scientific motives, and his assistant, out for his own gain, have invented a system for the manufacture...

“Comedy of a little man forced by chance into a big jewel robbery.” - BFI.

“A troopship bringing home a battalion from Bermuda docks at Southampton and the men are granted only 6 hours leave. The film shows how some of...

A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age she marries and has a child--with an abusive thief who quickly ends up in prison....

Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment.

Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a manservant named Chapman at his fiancée's house...

A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.

The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On...

Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded...

Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly...

A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.

On the outbreak of the Second World War an idler is forced to join the army by his domineering wife.

During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by...

Home guardsman Albert is in love with Dolly, the daughter of commanding officer Diehard. In order to impress her, Albert tries to raise funds to buy...

An expelled horse owner clears his name and wins the Grand National.

When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in...

A drama film directed by Castleton Knight .

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

Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert...

A comedy film directed by Lupino Lane.

'Romance of the open road and the circus. A tramp poses as baronet's lost son but relinquishes his sweetheart to a younger man.' (British Film...

A British drama film directed by Widgey R. Newman

A bus conductor and his driver manage to round up a gang of criminals.

When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government...

Lucy and her brother are struggling to make a go of their Soho pet shop, until Lucy meets Tom, a street singer.

When Leonora Corbett phones Colin Keith-Johnson that she wants to give their marriage another chance, he tries to buy off his lover Judy Kelly. She...

A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold...

Scotland Yard investigate when a woman, apparently the estranged wife of a London painter, is murdered with a shotgun in rural Surrey at the same...

Paul Temple is called in to help Scotland Yard track down a serial killer who has murdered several wealthy women.

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes...

The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.

Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.

The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.

Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was...

Dastardly deeds are afoot in a smog of pipe smoke when a man is found dead - is it cyanide poisoning or smoke inhalation?

A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and...

A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.

The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various...

Lieutenant Commander John Byrne of the Naval Secret Service and his partner Pvt. Bill Riggers chase criminal Dr. Sin Fang, who is desperate to find a...

The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...

The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.

A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.

A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.

Gormless George Trotter (George Formby) moves down from Manchester to the bright lights of London in search of fame and fortune on the stage - only...

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach...

Old Mother Riley and her daughter's true love, Dan, go in search of Kitty who has run off with her new boyfriend to a gambling den.

Four war-time performers known for their concert parties, have a reunion. They decide they are still good together and form a successful nightclub...

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of...

Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or...

The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series...

Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a...

When a boy discovers that both his parents are in prison, he sets out to find them.

Old Mother Riley starts a new business.

The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying...

The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only...

Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he...

The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.

Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in...

Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are...

A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the...

When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months'...