This cartoon propaganda short by Halas & Batchelor sweetens the pill of post-war coal prices by promising jam tomorrow.

A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a British submarine rather than a German U-boat. Unable to live with his…

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops…

In London, psychiatrist Clive Riordan suspects that his cool and polished wife, Storm, is having yet another affair. Abandoning his weekly card game, Clive returns home to find Storm with…

Agatha Christie tale of a man on trial for murder: a trial featuring surprise after surprise. Not to be confused with the later Hollywood adaptation.

Special Agent Dick Barton uncovers a ring of international psychopathic criminals with plans to dominate the world using a terrifying weapon of mass destruction.

At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Sammy Rice, a highly-skilled but haunted bomb-disposal officer, must overcome his…

An heiress suddenly vanishes! A detective comes to the forlorn mansion of the missing heiress’s wheel-chair-ridden uncle to discover the secret behind the disappearance.

Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.

Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.

Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father’s butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers…

Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking. When their spree gets out of hand,…

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he’s hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young…

Filmed in England but set in New York, No Orchids For Miss Blandish tells of a sheltered heiress (Linden Travers) who is abducted on her wedding night by a trio…

Hart and Moore are grave-robbers who provide cadavers to the medical students of 19th-century Edinburgh. When the supply becomes low and demand still great, the two decide to create their…

In this romantic comedy, a man returns to his wife after the war, but is disturbed by his continuing fixation upon the woman he met who claims to be a…

Once again the moving beam of “Spotlight” swings across the city of today to pinpoint a new story for the screen audience of tomorrow. This time we start from an…

Bubble and his talking taxi Squeaky investigate a haunted house.

The bewildered wife of a bigamist allows her child to be adopted and then regrets it.

A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the…

An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one.

Urban utopia beckons in this idealistic vision of postwar Manchester – fascinating to revisit as Northern Powerhouses and city devolution return to the agenda. Sponsored by the city council, it’s…

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham,…

When ghosts inhabit an Englishwoman’s home, Dyall, a ghost hunter of sorts, takes on the poltergeists. Developments reveal a trio of spirits that includes a sailor, the seaman’s late wife,…

A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.

A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany…

A seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor’s wife.

Part of BFI collection “Worth the Risk?”

Musical romantic comedy about an orphan and the son of a Colonel and his snooty wife, who refuses to give them her blessing.

Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that…

An English mystery novelist invites a medium to his home, so she may conduct a séance for a small gathering. The writer hopes to gather enough material for the book…

During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.

In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward…

Scripted by poet Dylan Thomas, this affecting docu-drama recalls the incendiary bombing of Coventry on 14 November 1940. The film focusses on reconstruction and morale: we see the city’s rebirth…

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

People from different walks of live mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city

Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. Askey plays a pilot who bales out over Paradise Island, not knowing that he is about to land in a bee-worshipping colony of women and…

Theatrical advertisement for National Savings Stamps.

A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as…

A film Directed by Ronald Haines..