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

Set just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Barry K. Barnes

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

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 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

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

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

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

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 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

As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for his girlfriend at the local pub. To keep moral up,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Tommy Trinder

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

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

Genre: War

Cast: Godfrey Tearle

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

Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: David Farrar

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

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

An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a serviceman's home.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Gish

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