Peter Gawthorne

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

A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has trouble getting the deal killed.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Dane Clark

Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Newton

A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Cary Grant

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Esmond Knight

The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Hay

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Hay

Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Hay

Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Hay

A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gilbert Harding

A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: John Bentley

Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gloria Swanson

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gordon Harker

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alastair Sim

Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Derrick De Marney

Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ralph Lynn

Being engaged against her will with a wealthy man, Princess Orsolini (Catherine Dale Owen) is in love with Captain Kovacs (John Gilbert), a cavalry...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Gilbert

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

A man is accused of a series of murders that were actually committed by a crazed killer called "The Tiger." He must prove his innocence and catch the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tod Slaughter

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cicely Courtneidge

An inventor of a deadly weapon to be used against the allies is injured in a crash. Surgeon, Sir James (Sebastian Shaw) saves his life but learns of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sebastian Shaw

Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Janet Gaynor

A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plunged into emotional turmoil by a reunion...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Paul Lukas

Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.

Genre: Music

Cast: Jessie Matthews

A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jack Hulbert

A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat

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

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gordon Harker

Charlie steps in to solve the murder of a wealthy American found dead in a London hotel. Settings include London, Nice, San Remo, Honolulu and Hong...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Warner Oland

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Geoffrey Toone

One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.

Genre: War

Cast: Tom Walls

An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Paul Robeson

A retired Scotland Yard detective, Patrick Fitzpatrick (Tom Walls) comes back to take one final case, tracking down a missing vase which has been...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Walls

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Askey

A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hugh Williams

The film depicts the character of Bulldog Drummond, a British adventurer and is based on the novel Temple Tower by Herman Cyril McNeile. Bulldog...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kenneth MacKenna

The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant, but the situation is...

Genre: Music

Cast: Zena Marshall

It follows a doctor who faces both a scandal and a moral dilemma when a patient of his dies while he is making love to a press magnate's daughter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anne Grey

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dennis Price

An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fifi D'Orsay

A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Janet Gaynor

In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to...

Genre: War

Cast: Fritz Kortner

James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Griffith Jones

The life and times of the Duke of Wellington

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Arliss

A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Walls

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 quota quickie directed by Maclean Rogers in 1938, "Easy Riches" featured character players George Carney & Gus McNaughton as a couple of rival...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Carney

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

Genre: War

Cast: Bud Flanagan

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Askey

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

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Leslie Banks

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

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 film features 17 year old Dinah Sheridan as the daughter of the owner of a cheese factory (veteran actor Goerge Carney), who helps save her...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Carney

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Will Fyffe

George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself...

Genre: War

Cast: George Formby

The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Napoleon at a fancy masquerade ball, but they are...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Reginald Denny

A man assists a woman to dispose of the body of her stepfather....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Garry Marsh

A Lieutenant is wrongly accused of cowardice

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry Edwards

The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jerry Verno

An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ivor Novello

Jimmy Forbes returns to England after being on the run in Australia for 20 years. He finds that his wife has gone up in the world and become wealthy....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Edward Rigby

With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Margot Grahame

A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Bruce Cabot

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Formby

Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Lucan

George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Formby

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Will Hay

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

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Bentley

After foiling a robbery, Ben, a window cleaner is hired by Lady Barr-Nunn to guard her valuables. A comedy based on class divisions and snobbery.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ben Wrigley

Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife. The couple are devoted to each other, but...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tom Walls

The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Neagle

Charles Peace leads a double life, by day he's a respected local businessman, but by night he's a professional thief who stops at nothing, not even...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Valentine Dyall

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Donat