Most Viewed From British National Films

During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of...

Genre: War

Cast: Godfrey Tearle

Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Adolf Wohlbrück

Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Leslie Howard

A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.

Genre: War

Cast: Godfrey Tearle

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Geoffrey Hibbert

A musical set during the French Revolution.

Genre: Music

Cast: Anne Ziegler

The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Graves

A French PR man and his girlfriend steal a lottery ticket from twin trapeze artists, prompting murder.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Herbert Lom

The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Hartnell

Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: William Hartnell

When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Conrad Veidt

The film follows the history of a brooch after it is given as a present by a man to a woman in 1911.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Graves

When she learns that the Nazis have confiscated Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece Mona Lisa, art-loving South American wanna-be spy Tamara (Jane Carr)...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Francis L. Sullivan

An operation of counterfeit five pound notes is discovered at a variety theater, leading to murder during the performance.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jack Warner

Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Nancy Price

Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail on behalf of the Bank of England.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Peter Murray-Hill

A Colonel's daughter steals from the regimental mess funds to pay off her gambling debts. One of the officers, who is love with her, takes the blame,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Leslie Banks

Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Deborah Kerr

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Morley