Best British & Irish Movies

A madman adopts the daughter of the dead woman who rejected him and forces her to marry a crook.

A lighthouse keeper's wife shelters her fugitive lover.

A director's nephew unmasks a manager as a wrecker of trains.

A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.

After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.

A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.

While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.

A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.

This "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.

From the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military.

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.

A humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor.

A group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.

In Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home.

A young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina.

Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.

A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.

A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.

A young man finds a very special school. It teaches him how to take advantage of people. He begins to put the lessons into operation.