John Singer

Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: John Williams

Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama -...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Betty Balfour

Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expectations when he takes into partnership an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eliot Makeham

It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tod Slaughter

An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tod Slaughter

A Cornish fishing village is struck by tragedy.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cathleen Nesbitt

Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ian Hunter

Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Olga Lindo

A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jack Hulbert

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nova Pilbeam

A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer’s...

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Cast: Stanley Lupino

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ralph Richardson

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...

Genre: War

Cast: Jameson Thomas

This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer –...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leslie Fuller

It is love at first sight between Juliet and Allan as they catch sight of each other on passing trains. Allan has his song-writing friend Bill to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marian Marsh

Two teenage gang members are forced to be page boys at a hotel where a criminal gang are operating.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leslie Fuller

Comedy of an incompetent photographer and scoutmaster who achieves his wife's ambition for him of office with the local council more by luck than...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sydney Howard

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noël Coward

At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jack Hawkins

Army buddies help Private Trevor court the daughter of their commanding officer. All efforts fail - until a hero is revealed and the sergeant...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Korris

Wee Georgie Wood and his gang have their sights set on a notorious villain.

Genre:

Cast: Wee Georgie Wood

Director Charles Saunders' low-key domestic comedy, adapted from A.P. Dearsley's play, centers on a middle-aged London couple who react in different...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frederick Piper

Two criminals are reformed when they meet and fall in love.

Genre: Music

Cast: Rosemary Ames

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

Genre: Music

Cast: John Garrick

Don't Get Me Wrong is a 1937 British comedy film co-directed by Arthur B. Woods and Reginald Purdell and starring Max Miller and George E. Stone. It...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Max Miller

Gracie Fields' second film Looking on the Bright Side was a smash hit film of 1932. It contains a lot of her biggest hit songs of the period.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gracie Fields

A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Madeleine Carroll

Johann Strauss Jr. is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery, where he falls in love with Resi, the baker's daughter. The girl...

Genre: History

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jack Warner

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Hay

There's pandemonium in a country house when various relatives come to stay.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Patrick Holt

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."

Genre: Documentary

Cast: William Mervyn

Musical comedy. An opera singer falls for a stowaway on the way to Monte Carlo

Genre: Music

Cast: Jan Kiepura

While working at a top hotel, the head porter falls in love with a wealthy female guest.

Genre: Music

Cast: Stanley Lupino