British National Films Popular Movie

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

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

Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are...

Genre: Crime

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

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

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

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Lucan

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

Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Lucan

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

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

Genre: Thriller

Cast: David Farrar

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 typical working family have to cope with living through the Blitz, adapting to its privations, and eventually making the ultimate sacrifice for...

Genre: War

Cast: Edward Rigby

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

A night watchman is being bludgeoned, as a safe is cracked open in the offices of the District Food Controller. A list of wartime foods to be...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arthur Lucan

The French king's mistress frees her jailed lover and makes him her bodyguard.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Gish

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

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

The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Hutcheson