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

Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Basil Radford

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

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

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 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

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

Genre: War

Cast: Godfrey Tearle

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...

Genre: War

Cast: Austin Trevor

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

Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective....

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Michael Rennie

When a British pilot is hospitalized after a plane crash, the woman he loves sits by his bedside and remembers, in flashbacks, key episodes from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Farrar

Turn of the Tide is a 1935 British film directed by Norman Walker. It was the first feature film made by J. Arthur Rank. It is set in a North...

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Garrick

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Herbert Lom

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: William Hartnell

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

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

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emlyn Williams

A silent film version of the Gershwin stage musical

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dorothy Gish

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