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1. The Human Monster (1939)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Horror
Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.
Director: Walter Summers | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Edmon Ryan
Votes: 1,528
2. Gypsy Girl (1966)
Not Rated | 105 min | Drama, Romance
A young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden traumatic death of a childhood friend ten years earlier.
Director: John Mills | Stars: Hayley Mills, Annette Crosbie, Laurence Naismith, Geoffrey Bayldon
Votes: 819
3. Now and Forever (1956)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides to elope.
Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: Janette Scott, Vernon Gray, Kay Walsh, Jack Warner
Votes: 192
4. Pacific Destiny (1956)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
Life is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the testy resident commissioner, who had been expecting an experienced man, soon shows his disapproval.
Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: Denholm Elliott, Susan Stephen, Felix Felton, Peter Bathurst
Votes: 80
5. The Outsider (1948)
97 min | Drama
Jack Read, a working-class boy, wins a scholarship to a public school as part of a post-World War II experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together. He meets much snobbery... See full summary »
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim, Bernard Miles, Cecil Trouncer
Votes: 447
6. The Good Die Young (1954)
Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In London, three otherwise law-abiding good men and their unscrupulous leader are about to commit a serious crime, but for different reasons.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Richard Basehart, Joan Collins
Votes: 1,506
7. The Slasher (1953)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The life of a juvenile delinquent is threatened by his own incessant desire for trouble.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: James Kenney, Joan Collins, Betty Ann Davies, Robert Ayres
Votes: 509
8. Dead by Morning (1955)
68 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A crime writer and his wife go for a break to a country cottage. They receive an unexpected visitor, the bossy Miss Tulip, who needs shelter for the night. In the morning there is a dead body in the house.
Director: Leslie Arliss | Stars: Diana Dors, Patrick Holt, Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge
Votes: 173
9. The Great Game (1953)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: James Hayter, Diana Dors, Thora Hird, John Laurie
Votes: 105
10. Escape from Dartmoor (1930)
88 min | Crime, Drama
A former barber escapes from a high security prison. Flashback story of an escape from the lonely, high-security Dartmoor Prison.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Uno Henning, Norah Baring, Anthony Asquith
Votes: 1,236
11. The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Not Rated | 151 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.
Director: Akira Kurosawa | Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi
Votes: 14,015
12. Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Approved | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
In need of quick money, a fallen former cop recruits a hard-bitten ex-con and a debt-ridden nightclub singer to pull off a bank job. But as the animosity between them boils over, the entire plan threatens to implode.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Shelley Winters
Votes: 5,562
13. Night and the City (1950)
Not Rated | 96 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe
Votes: 15,270 | Gross: $3.60M
14. Convicted (1950)
Passed | 91 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A D.A. becomes the prison warden where he tries to help an inmate he prosecuted, because he believes his sentence was excessive.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Glenn Ford, Broderick Crawford, Millard Mitchell, Dorothy Malone
Votes: 1,486
15. Friedemann Bach (1941)
102 min | Drama, Music
During a house concert, the Bach family gets a visit by their son Wilhelm Friedemann, who has just given up his position in Dresden because he no longer could endure the reprisals of his superiors.
Directors: Traugott Müller, Gustaf Gründgens | Stars: Gustaf Gründgens, Leny Marenbach, Johannes Riemann, Camilla Horn
Votes: 107
16. Hell's House (1932)
Approved | 72 min | Drama
Jimmy idolizes bootlegger Matt, and when he refuses to implicate his friend, he is sent to reform school. He befriends Shorty, a boy with a heart condition, and escapes to let the world know about the brutal conditions.
Director: Howard Higgin | Stars: Bette Davis, Pat O'Brien, Junior Durkin, Frank Coghlan Jr.
Votes: 1,451
17. The Little Rascals (1955)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Television syndication package of the classic 1929-1938 shorts from the "Our Gang Comedies" movie series.
Stars: Wally Albright, Sherwood Bailey, Bobbie 'Cotton' Beard, Matthew 'Stymie' Beard
Votes: 1,374
18. A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
Not Rated | 128 min | Drama, History, Romance
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amidst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
Directors: Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen
Votes: 6,298
19. Berlin Correspondent (1942)
Approved | 70 min | Drama, Thriller, War
In 1941, a U.S. radio correspondent (Dana Andrews as Bill Roberts) in Berlin broadcasts sensitive information about the Nazis, prompting the Gestapo to investigate these leaks and how they pass the censors.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Virginia Gilmore, Dana Andrews, Mona Maris, Martin Kosleck
Votes: 513
20. Nurse Edith Cavell (1939)
Approved | 108 min | Biography, Drama, War
An English nurse with a great reputation for her work in Belgian hospitals, becomes outraged at the number of Allied soldiers detained in German prisoner-of-war camps during World War I, and devises a secret plan to help hundreds escape.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Anna Neagle, Edna May Oliver, George Sanders, May Robson
Votes: 403
21. Show Boat (1936)
Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson
Votes: 3,692
22. Day of Anger (1967)
M | 111 min | Action, Drama, Western
A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of a famed gunfighter, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.
Director: Tonino Valerii | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Giuliano Gemma, Walter Rilla, Christa Linder
Votes: 5,560
23. Horror Maniacs (1948)
80 min | Drama, Horror
A story of body snatchers in Edinburgh, based on Burke and Hare.
Director: Oswald Mitchell | Stars: Tod Slaughter, Henry Oscar, Jenny Lynn, Winifred Melville
Votes: 235
24. Deadly Trackers (1972)
92 min | Western, Drama
Jeff sets out to murder each one of the five outlaws who robbed, raped and killed his poor sister. He lays a fragment of her poncho on each of his victims' dead bodies as a mark of his revenge in a gripping, exciting tale.
Director: Tanio Boccia | Stars: Richard Harrison, Anita Ekberg, Rik Battaglia, Furio Meniconi
Votes: 156
25. The Man in Search of His Murderer (1931)
97 min | Comedy, Film-Noir
A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Heinz Rühmann, Lien Deyers, Raimund Janitschek, Hans Leibelt
Votes: 243
26. East of Shanghai (1931)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont, Betty Amann
Votes: 4,897
27. Inn for Trouble (1960)
90 min | Comedy
When a couple from London move to the country to take over a pub they have inherited, they find that rural life isn't as idyllic as they'd imagined, thanks to the manoeuvrings of a powerful local brewery.
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards | Stars: Shaun O'Riordan, Peggy Mount, Ronan O'Casey, David Kossoff
Votes: 254
28. Brother Orchid (1940)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sothern, Donald Crisp
Votes: 3,169
29. Dead of Night (1945)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Horror
Guests invited to a weekend in the country share their supernatural stories, beginning with Walter Craig, who senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality.
Directors: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer | Stars: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall
Votes: 14,212
30. Something in the City (1950)
76 min | Comedy
Mr Ningle has been living a lie for seven years. Every day, he journeys in and changes into the disguise of his alter ego: an artist who sells paintings on the sidewalk in Trafalgar Square.
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Richard Hearne, Garry Marsh, Ellen Pollock, Betty Sinclair
Votes: 98
31. The Time of His Life (1955)
74 min | Comedy
The ex-convict father of a prominent society woman is released from prison, and goes to live with his daughter. She pretends he is an old friend, but tries to keep him out of sight, but all he wants to do is go back to prison.
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Richard Hearne, Ellen Pollock, Richard Wattis, Robert Moreton
Votes: 93
32. The Butler's Dilemma (1943)
83 min | Comedy
1943. Comedy. Directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Stars Richard Hearne, Ronald Shiner & Hermione Gingold. In debt to gamblers Rodney (Richard Hearne) agrees to pass as a butler at a gambling party.
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Richard Hearne, Francis L. Sullivan, Judy Kelly, Hermione Gingold
Votes: 79
33. The Madame Gambles (1951)
80 min | Comedy
Employees of a dress shop battle with a crooked gambler to get their jobs back.
Director: Maclean Rogers | Stars: Richard Hearne, Petula Clark, Garry Marsh, Hilda Bayley
Votes: 60
34. Tons of Trouble (1956)
77 min | Comedy
The eccentric caretaker of a block of flats, Mr. Pastry is in charge of two of its boilers, whom he names "Mavis" and "Ethel." His love for the pair leads him into unforeseen problems
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott | Stars: Richard Hearne, William Hartnell, Austin Trevor, Ralph Truman
Votes: 75
35. The History of Mr. Polly (1949)
Approved | 95 min | Drama
With an inheritance after his father's death, Alfred Polly finds love in the arms of a schoolgirl but marries an unattractive cousin and opens a shop, leading him to unhappiness, arson, suicide attempts and escape.
Director: Anthony Pelissier | Stars: John Mills, Sally Ann Howes, Betty Ann Davies, Megs Jenkins
Votes: 652
36. Brass Monkey (1948)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
Radio personality Carroll Levis becomes involved in a case of theft and murder.
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Carroll Levis, Carole Landis, Herbert Lom, Avril Angers
Votes: 210
37. It's in the Air (1935)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Sport
Calvin Churchill, a confidence-man, and his sidekick/stooge, "Clip" McGurk, are being pursued by an Internal Revenue agent, Henry Potke, for their failure to file an income-tax on the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Jack Benny, Ted Healy, Una Merkel, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 99
38. George Takes the Air (1938)
Not Rated | 74 min | Comedy, Musical, War
A case of mistaken identity leads to accident-prone George Brown (George Formby) entering the Royal Air Force and falling in love with the Sergeant Major's daughter.
Director: Anthony Kimmins | Stars: George Formby, Polly Ward, Jack Hobbs, Garry Marsh
Votes: 250
39. Keep Your Seats, Please! (1936)
82 min | Comedy, Musical
A fortune in gems is hidden in one of six chairs, and it's up to the prospective heir to find it.
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: George Formby, Florence Desmond, Gus McNaughton, Alastair Sim
Votes: 266
40. Please Keep Me in Your Dreams (1937)
8 min | Animation, Short, Music
After a parody newsreel, the title song is sung by Barbara Blake and played by Henry King and his orchestra with a Bouncing Ball.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Roland Crandall | Stars: Henry King, Barbara Blake
Votes: 27
41. Kismet (1930)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Musical
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Otis Skinner, Loretta Young, David Manners, Sidney Blackmer
Votes: 84
42. The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Approved | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An Englishman on a Ruritarian holiday must impersonate the king when the rightful monarch, a distant cousin, is drugged and kidnapped.
Directors: John Cromwell, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Massey
Votes: 5,066
43. Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
Approved | 86 min | Action, Adventure
A doctor calls on Tarzan to topple the native witch doctor whose black-magic remedies are killing patients.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Gordon Scott, Eve Brent, Rickie Sorensen, Jil Jarmyn
Votes: 567 | Gross: $1.57M
44. The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
Passed | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A nineteenth-century New Hampshire farmer makes a pact with Satan for economic success, then enlists famed orator Daniel Webster to extract him from his contract.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon
Votes: 5,606
45. The Beasts of Marseilles (1957)
70 min | Drama, Romance, War
Escaping British prisoners of war hide out in German-occupied France.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Stephen Boyd, James Robertson Justice, Kathleen Harrison, Tony Wright
Votes: 370
46. Chain of Evidence (1957)
Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A paroled inmate accidentally becomes an amnesiac, aimlessly wanders around and is later used as a patsy by an adulterous wife and her lover after they kill her rich husband.
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Bill Elliott, Jimmy Lydon, Don Haggerty, Claudia Barrett
Votes: 99
47. Kill Me Tomorrow (1957)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama
A boozy old reporter finds his life is falling apart around him. He loses his wife and then his job. He is dragged back to reality when his son needs help. He goes to ask for his old job back but finds his old boss dead in the office ...
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Lois Maxwell, George Coulouris, Wensley Pithey
Votes: 186
48. Courage of Lassie (1946)
G | 92 min | Drama, Adventure, Family
Academy Award-winner Elizabeth Taylor stars in this touching family drama about a young girl who rehabilitates an Army's shell-shocked collie.
Director: Fred M. Wilcox | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Morgan, Tom Drake, Selena Royle
Votes: 1,685
49. The Lost World (1960)
Approved | 97 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Professor Challenger leads an expedition of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep in the Amazonian jungle to verify his claim that dinosaurs still live there.
Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Michael Rennie, Jill St. John, David Hedison, Claude Rains
Votes: 4,471
50. Les Misérables (1935)
Approved | 108 min | Drama, History, Romance
In early-19th-century France, an ex-convict who failed to report to parole is relentlessly pursued over a 20-year period by an obsessive policeman.
Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Rochelle Hudson
Votes: 3,925
51. Les Misérables (1958)
210 min | Drama
Jean Valjean, convicted of a minor crime, spends the rest of his life being pursued by a cruel and unrelenting policeman, Javert.
Director: Jean-Paul Le Chanois | Stars: Jean Gabin, Bernard Blier, René Fleur, Julienne Paroli
Votes: 1,780
52. So Little Time (1952)
88 min | Drama, Romance, War
During World War II, German soldiers occupy the home of a beautiful Belgian girl and her mother.
Director: Compton Bennett | Stars: Maria Schell, Marius Goring, Lucie Mannheim, Gabrielle Dorziat
Votes: 267
53. Where's That Fire? (1939)
73 min | Comedy
A hapless fire crew are given the ultimatum: put out a fire successfully or else be sacked. They fail miserably, and their ancient fire engine is stolen by criminals attempting to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Eric Clavering
Votes: 423
54. Waterfront (1944)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A Nazi spy passes himself off as an optometrist in San Francisco's waterfront district. Someone robs him of his codebook, and he must get it back.
Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: John Carradine, J. Carrol Naish, Maris Wrixon, Edwin Maxwell
Votes: 295
55. Behind the Rising Sun (1943)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, War
In Japan, foreigners and their Japanese friends are caught up in the rising tide of militarism.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Margo, Tom Neal, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Ryan
Votes: 385
56. Neutral Port (1940)
89 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A crusty sea captain steals an enemy supply ship after his ship is sunk by a U-boat during the opening days of World War II.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Will Fyffe, Leslie Banks, Yvonne Arnaud, Phyllis Calvert
Votes: 109
57. The Mysterious Mr. Reeder (1939)
61 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Mr. Reeder, a somewhat eccentric old gentleman employed by the Director of Public Prosecutions, gets it into his head to break up a counterfeiting ring.
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Will Fyffe, Kay Walsh, George Curzon, Chili Bouchier
Votes: 7
58. The Missing People (1939)
69 min | Mystery
J.G. Reeder, an elderly gentleman who fancies himself a detective, decides to investigate the strange disappearance of 27 well-to-do people, who all vanished under similar circumstances.
Director: Jack Raymond | Stars: Will Fyffe, Kay Walsh, Lyn Harding, Ronald Shiner
Votes: 8
59. They Came to Blow Up America (1943)
Passed | 73 min | Drama, War
An FBI agent infiltrates a Nazi sabotage school in Germany where men are trained for strategic destruction inside American borders.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: George Sanders, Anna Sten, Ward Bond, Dennis Hoey
Votes: 250
60. This Land Is Mine (1943)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, War
A mild-mannered school teacher in a German-occupied town during World War II finds himself torn between collaboration and resistance.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, George Sanders, Walter Slezak
Votes: 3,732
61. Paris After Dark (1943)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, War
Members of the French underground resistance, live their "normal" lives during the day, and fight the occupying Nazis in the war-torn Paris after dark. Some will end their lives fighting, and some will find purpose in life once again.
Director: Léonide Moguy | Stars: George Sanders, Philip Dorn, Brenda Marshall, Madeleine Lebeau
Votes: 177
62. The Scarlet Coat (1955)
Approved | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, History
During the Revolutionary War, American Major John Boulton feigns desertion in order to uncover a British plot to seize the stronghold of West Point.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Michael Wilding, George Sanders, Anne Francis
Votes: 770
63. The Howards of Virginia (1940)
Approved | 116 min | Drama, History, War
Just prior to the American War of Independence, aristocratic Virginian Jane Peyton marries unsophisticated rustic farmer and surveyor Matt Howard who takes her to his Shenandoah Valley plantation and later goes to war.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal
Votes: 1,263
64. Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941)
Not Rated | 87 min | Crime, Drama
The plot pits Hornleigh and Bingham against a clever gang of Nazi espionage agents. Most of the action takes place aboard a speeding train, with our heroes never quite certain who can be ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Phyllis Calvert, Edward Chapman
Votes: 291
65. All Through the Night (1942)
Approved | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Karen Verne, Jane Darwell
Votes: 4,930
66. Thunder Rock (1942)
Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, War
Cynical, embittered newspaperman David Charleston (Michael Redgrave) is tormented, then inspired, by visions he keeps having of people who have drowned.
Director: Roy Boulting | Stars: Michael Redgrave, James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Lilli Palmer
Votes: 808
67. Reunion in France (1942)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Romance, War
In German-occupied Paris, a Frenchwoman tries to help smuggle a downed RAF pilot into Portugal despite strict surveillance by suspicious Gestapo officers.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Philip Dorn, Reginald Owen
Votes: 1,892
68. Hitler's Children (1943)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance, War
This lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American girl declared legally German by the Nazi government.
Directors: Edward Dmytryk, Irving Reis | Stars: Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Otto Kruger
Votes: 998 | Gross: $3.36M
69. Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)
Approved | 71 min | Mystery, Thriller, War
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson travel to Washington D.C. in order to prevent a secret document from falling into enemy hands.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Marjorie Lord, Henry Daniell
Votes: 4,746
70. We've Never Been Licked (1943)
Approved | 103 min | Action, Drama, Romance
WWII morale film for Texas A&M graduates fighting overseas. Young Brad Craig (Langton) enters the military school with a chip on his shoulder which Mitchum and other upperclassmen quickly ... See full summary »
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Richard Quine, Anne Gwynne, Martha O'Driscoll, Noah Beery Jr.
Votes: 192
71. Turn the Key Softly (1953)
81 min | Crime, Drama
Follows three women through their first day of freedom after they are released from prison.
Director: Jack Lee | Stars: Yvonne Mitchell, Terence Morgan, Joan Collins, Kathleen Harrison
Votes: 712
72. Double Confession (1950)
80 min | Crime, Drama
After his wife is murdered, the husband tries to divert suspicion from himself to someone else. Unfortunately, his scheme winds up getting him mixed up with some real murderers.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre, William Hartnell
Votes: 422
73. Temptation Harbor (1947)
91 min | Crime, Drama
A signalman on a quay sees a fight between two men. One of the men is deliberately pushed into the water and the signalman cannot save him, but decides to keep his suitcase which he later finds is full of banknotes with a value of £5000.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Robert Newton, Simone Simon, William Hartnell, Marcel Dalio
Votes: 204
74. I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
A young Irish woman hates England so much she becomes a spy for Germany.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley, Michael Howard
Votes: 1,760
75. Wanted for Murder (1946)
Approved | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A woman becomes the target of a man who is gradually becoming insane, unable to resist his urge to strangle women to death, but who appears to be purposely leaving pieces of evidence behind.
Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Eric Portman, Dulcie Gray, Derek Farr, Roland Culver
Votes: 804
76. Great Day (1945)
62 min | Drama
An impending Eleanor Roosevelt visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Eric Portman, Flora Robson, Sheila Sim, Isabel Jeans
Votes: 229
77. Dear Octopus (1943)
86 min | Comedy, Drama
Members of a well-to-do family reunite for Golden Wedding celebrations.
Director: Harold French | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Wilding, Celia Johnson, Roland Culver
Votes: 25
78. Much Too Shy (1942)
92 min | Comedy
A handyman and amateur artist gets into trouble when nude female bodies are added to the heads he has drawn of prominent ladies, and are sold as soap adverts.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: George Formby, Kathleen Harrison, Hilda Bayley, Eileen Bennett
Votes: 205
79. I've Got a Horse (1938)
77 min | Comedy
Sandy Powell accepts a horse as settlement for a bad debt, but when he tries it out on the racecourse it starts doing circus tricks, so Sandy and his horse join the circus for a new life together.
Director: Herbert Smith | Stars: Sandy Powell, Norah Howard, Felix Aylmer, Evelyn Roberts
80. Broken Blossoms (1936)
84 min | Drama
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's "Masterpiece".
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Dolly Haas, Emlyn Williams, Arthur Margetson, C.V. France
Votes: 145
81. Hobson's Choice (1931)
65 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Henry Hobson runs a successful boot-maker's shop in nineteenth-century Salford. A widower with a weakness for the pub opposite, he tries forcefully to run the lives of his three unruly ... See full summary »
Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: James Harcourt, Viola Lyel, Frank Pettingell, Belle Chrystall
Votes: 33
82. Billy Budd (1962)
Approved | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, War
When a kind-hearted sailor is made to join an English vessel at war, he finds himself caught between devotion to his crew mates and obedience to their hated, cruel master-at-arms.
Director: Peter Ustinov | Stars: Robert Ryan, Peter Ustinov, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Rogers
Votes: 4,884
83. Secret Flight (1946)
72 min | Drama, War
During World War II, on the eve of the Battle of Britain, British scientists develop the first radar systems to be employed against the German Luftwaffe.
Director: Peter Ustinov | Stars: Ralph Richardson, Raymond Huntley, John Laurie, Ernest Jay
Votes: 246
84. Let the People Sing (1942)
105 min | Comedy
A Czech political exile and a washed-up music hall comedian form an unlikely partnership to try and save a town's concert hall from the planners, businessmen, and bureaucrats.
Director: John Baxter | Stars: Alastair Sim, Fred Emney, Edward Rigby, Oliver Wakefield
Votes: 66
85. One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1942)
Not Rated | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During a raid on Germany a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. They land in Holland and are aided by Dutch civilians.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles
Votes: 2,531
86. The Thief of Baghdad (1961)
Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
In the time of the Arabian Nights, the city of Baghdad is ruled by Sultan Ali Bajazeth but actually controlled by the scheming Grand Vizier Ghamal. The poor of Baghdad are aided by Karim, the Thief of Baghdad.
Directors: Bruno Vailati, Arthur Lubin | Stars: Steve Reeves, Giorgia Moll, Arturo Dominici, Edy Vessel
Votes: 679
87. A.J. Cronin's Hatter's Castle (1942)
102 min | Drama
James Brodie (Robert Newton) is the only hatter in a small area in Scotland. Ruthless in business as well as at home, he is a tyrant to his family and intimidating to everyone he knows. But... See full summary »
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Robert Newton, James Mason, Deborah Kerr, Emlyn Williams
Votes: 392
88. Rio Bravo (1959)
Passed | 141 min | Western
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the brother of the local bad guy.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson
Votes: 68,055 | Gross: $12.54M
89. Hitler: Beast of Berlin (1939)
Approved | 87 min | Drama, War
Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Roland Drew, Steffi Duna, Greta Granstedt, Alan Ladd
Votes: 161
90. This Gun for Hire (1942)
Passed | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When assassin Philip Raven shoots a blackmailer and his beautiful female companion dead, he is paid off in marked bills by his treasonous employer who is working with foreign spies.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Preston, Laird Cregar
Votes: 10,615
91. The Spider's Web (1960)
88 min | Mystery
When an intruder is killed in her house, the comfortable life of Clarissa Hailsham-Browne is turned upside-down.
Director: Godfrey Grayson | Stars: Glynis Johns, John Justin, Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge
Votes: 273
92. Soldier and Me (1974)
Thriller
Two teenage boys witness the murder of an old man, only for the old man to turn up alive after the boys notify the police.
Stars: Richard Willis, Gerry Sundquist, Constantine Gregory, Richard Ireson
Votes: 19
93. The Soldier and the Lady (1937)
Passed | 85 min | Adventure, History, Romance
A Russian courier struggles to deliver a message to the troops fighting Tartar invaders.
Director: George Nicholls Jr. | Stars: Anton Walbrook, Elizabeth Allan, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Grahame
Votes: 265
94. The Crimson Pirate (1952)
Not Rated | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
During the 1700s, pirate Captain Vallo seizes a British warship and gets involved in various money-making schemes involving Caribbean rebels led by El Libre, British envoy Baron Jose Gruda, and a beautiful courtesan named Consuelo.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok, Torin Thatcher
Votes: 6,988
95. Two Thousand Women (1944)
Not Rated | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Women in a French internment camp conceal downed British airmen from German soldiers, and try to help them escape. Produced by Edward Black. Written and directed by Frank Launder.
Director: Frank Launder | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Flora Robson, Patricia Roc, Renee Houston
Votes: 513
96. Mad Max (1979)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Steve Bisley
Votes: 222,326 | Gross: $8.75M
97. E.T. (1982)
PG | 115 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee Wallace
Votes: 437,470 | Gross: $435.11M
98. The Last Drop (2006)
R | 103 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Different factions in World War II Holland race to find a stash of German gold.
Director: Colin Teague | Stars: Laurence Fox, Louis Dempsey, Lucy Gaskell, Coral Beed
Votes: 2,644
99. My Learned Friend (1943)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Thriller
An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Fitch is on the list, and co-opts Claude Babbington to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.
Directors: Basil Dearden, Will Hay | Stars: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns, Lawrence Hanray
Votes: 427
100. The Gods Must Be Funny in China (1994)
85 min | Comedy
Hijinks ensue when N!xau the Bushman travels to Beijing, where he's recruited to accompany a track team on a week-long survival race through the Chinese wilderness.
Director: Kin-Nam Cho | Stars: N!xau, Kent Cheng, Pei-Pei Cheng, Gloria Yip
Votes: 455
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