UK Films (1930-1959)

An ordinary man suddenly finds that anything he says comes true. Or at least, almost anything.

An Egyptologist returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb.

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.

The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.

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

Guests at an English estate recall nightmares.

A Scotland Yard Inspector investigates odd hospital deaths during the London Blitz.

In Brighton in 1935, small-time gang leader Pinkie Brown murders a journalist and later desperately tries to cover his tracks but runs into trouble with the police, a few witnesses, and a rival gang.

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

The story of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott's 1912 expedition and his quest to be the first to reach the South Pole.

An army officer becomes obsessed with learning the secret to a card game for which an elderly countess sold her soul years earlier.

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.

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

A young boy receives a rocking horse for Christmas and soon learns that he is able to pick the winning horse at the races.

When a lonely, unappreciated farm-equipment salesman discovers he has only a few weeks to live, he withdraws his savings for a final holiday at a "posh" resort.

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.

Andrew Crocker-Harris (Michael Redgrave), a classics teacher at an English school, is afflicted with a heart ailment and an unfaithful wife (Jean Kent). His interest in his pupils wanes as he looks towards his final days in employment.

An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.

Ebenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Christmas Eve, he will be visited by three spirits who will show him the error of his ways.

A wealthy family is visited by a police inspector, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman.

On a routine flight from Hong Kong to Japan, a British military transport aircraft's fate may or may not depend on a prophetic nightmare.

Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.

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.

In a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.

The sleuths of Scotland Yard try to solve a series of burglaries.