Early Horror/Mystery British Films
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1. The Silent House (1929)
82 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A Mandarin hypnotises his partner's daughter to locate hidden bonds.
Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Mabel Poulton, Gibb McLaughlin, Arthur Pusey, Gerald Rawlinson
Votes: 43
2. The Frightened Lady (1940)
75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
"Mark's Priory," the Lebanons' family seat, is a house of terror to Ilsa Crane, Lady Lebanon's niece and secretary. The strange behavior of two sinister footmen, Gilder and Brooks, adds ... See full summary »
Director: George King | Stars: Marius Goring, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Helen Haye, Felix Aylmer
Votes: 357
3. The Ticket of Leave Man (1937)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A man is accused of a series of murders that were actually committed by a crazed killer called "The Tiger." He must prove his innocence and catch the murderer.
Director: George King | Stars: Tod Slaughter, John Warwick, Marjorie Taylor, Frank Cochran
Votes: 217
4. Crime on the Hill (1933)
69 min | Crime
Murder runs amok in an English Manor house as the local vicar turns sleuth to solve the mystery.
Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Sally Blane, Nigel Playfair, Lewis Casson, Anthony Bushell
Votes: 94
5. The Shadow (1933)
63 min | Mystery
A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
Director: George A. Cooper | Stars: Henry Kendall, Elizabeth Allan, Felix Aylmer, Jeanne Stuart
Votes: 233
6. The Ghost Camera (1933)
66 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Henry Kendall, John Mills, Victor Stanley, George Merritt
Votes: 502
7.
The Avengers (1961–1969)
Episode:
Man-Eater of Surrey Green
(1965)
TV-14 | 52 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A man-eating plant from outer space lands in Middle England and takes several top horticulturists as its prisoners in an effort to germinate the Earth. Fortunately for the Earth, Steed just happens to be a herbicidal maniac.
Director: Sidney Hayers | Stars: Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Derek Farr, Athene Seyler
Votes: 366
8.
Gideon C.I.D. (1964–1966)
Episode:
The 'V' Men
(1964)
50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Victory Movement is a fascist political party that is contesting the next election and a bomb is exploded outside the flat of the party's leader. A woman is a witness but Gideon has to find her and convince her to talk.
Director: Cyril Frankel | Stars: John Gregson, Alexander Davion, Daphne Anderson, Roland Culver
Votes: 65
9. A London Flat Mystery (1915)
50 min | Crime, Drama
A shot girl recovers in time to save her framed fiancé.
Director: Walter West | Stars: Vera Cornish, George Foley, Reginald Stevens, Constance Backner
10. The Kinks: Dead End Street (1966 Music Video)
4 min | Short, Music
Director: Ray Davies | Stars: Ray Davies, The Kinks
Votes: 23
11.
Gideon C.I.D. (1964–1966)
Episode:
The Firebug
(1964)
48 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Fires are being set at random in south London, all in abandoned properties, until one kills some squatters,and C.I.D. looks into it. The arsonist is a quiet, seemingly normal man who's gone psycho after a fire killed his loved ones.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: John Gregson, Alexander Davion, Daphne Anderson, George Cole
Votes: 56
12.
Gideon C.I.D. (1964–1966)
Episode:
State Visit
(1964)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
An elderly Jewish man, a survivor of the German concentration camps, becomes obsessed with the arrival of the West German President for a state reception in London. His desire for revenge leads to an assassination plot.
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey | Stars: John Gregson, Alexander Davion, Daphne Anderson, Alfie Bass
Votes: 60
13. His Brave Defender (1900)
2 min | Short, Comedy
A burglar ties up a woman while the husband hides under the bed.
Votes: 86
14. Crimes at the Dark House (1940)
Not Rated | 69 min | Drama
A madman kills a man who has just inherited a large estate, then impersonates his victim to gain entrance to the estate so he can murder his enemies.
Director: George King | Stars: Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott, Hilary Eaves, Geoffrey Wardwell
Votes: 610
15. Trapped by the London Sharks (1916)
Crime, Drama
Cardsharpers gas a drunkard and make him think he has killed his wife, so that he helps them plan a bank raid.
Director: L.C. MacBean | Stars: Humberston Wright, Blanche Forsythe, Bertram Burleigh, Maud Yates
Votes: 18
16. The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
Approved | 62 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In Britain, a group of survivors fights off a deadly alien invasion that uses robots and a poisonous gas to take over the Earth.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Willard Parker, Virginia Field, Dennis Price, Thorley Walters
Votes: 2,402
17. Terror Street (1953)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An American pilot AWOL from the states is framed for his wife's murder and has just 36 hours to prove his innocence.
Director: Montgomery Tully | Stars: Dan Duryea, Elsie Albiin, Gudrun Ure, Eric Pohlmann
Votes: 387
18. East of Shanghai (1931)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Believing that an unexpected inheritance will bring them happiness, a married couple instead finds their relationship strained to the breaking point.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont, Betty Amann
Votes: 4,901
19. The Torture Cage (1928)
30 min | Short, Crime
An evil criminal doctor entraps and tortures a greedy trader in this only surviving episode of silent adventure serial Dr Sin Fang.
Director: Fred Paul | Stars: H. Agar Lyons, Fred Paul, Evelyn Arden, Wally Patch
Votes: 8
20. The Shrine of the Seven Lamps (1923)
24 min | Short, Crime, Drama
In this 15th and final episode, evil Fu-Manchu's pet marmoset leads Dr. Petrie to a secret Si-Fan ceremony. Is the Devil Doctor's game now up?
Director: A.E. Coleby | Stars: H. Agar Lyons, Fred Paul, Joan Clarkson, Humberston Wright
Votes: 6
21. The Sacred Order (1923)
27 min | Short, Crime, Drama
In this 14th episode, Nayland Smith steals evil Dr Fu-Manchu's 'Sacred Order', so the Devil Doctor himself faces death at the hands of the Si-Fan organization.
Director: A.E. Coleby | Stars: H. Agar Lyons, Fred Paul, Joan Clarkson, Humberston Wright
Votes: 6
22. The Queen of Hearts (1923)
32 min | Short, Crime, Drama
In this 12th episode, Dr. Petrie is kidnapped and forced to perform a delicate operation on the Devil Doctor. His ultimate fate is decided on the turn of a playing card.
Director: A.E. Coleby | Stars: H. Agar Lyons, Fred Paul, Joan Clarkson, Humberston Wright
Votes: 8
23. The Silver Buddha (1923)
26 min | Short, Crime, Drama
In this 13th episode, Dr Petrie is caught by evil Fu-Manchu and imprisoned near the British Museum, where he risks a daring escape, high above the London streets
Director: A.E. Coleby | Stars: H. Agar Lyons, Fred Paul, Joan Clarkson, Humberston Wright
Votes: 6
24. The West Case (1923)
28 min | Short, Crime, Drama
In this 2nd episode, inventor F. N. West calls for the police in the middle of the night, saying china-men invaded his house before collapsing in a strange narcoleptic state. Has Fu-Manchu stolen his plans?
Director: A.E. Coleby | Stars: H. Agar Lyons, Fred Paul, Joan Clarkson, Humberston Wright
Votes: 6
25. The Man with the Limp (1923)
33 min | Short, Crime, Drama
In this 11th episode, as evil Dr Fu-Manchu is thought dead, his murderous secret Si-Fan society continues its awful work, using the dreaded Flower of Silence.
Director: A.E. Coleby | Stars: H. Agar Lyons, Fred Paul, Joan Clarkson, Humberston Wright
Votes: 9
26. The Knocking on the Door (1923)
36 min | Short, Crime, Drama
In this 7th episode, evil Dr Fu-Manchu visits London's historic waxworks, while a country cottage is plagued by odd knocking, awful groans and fiendish laughter.
Director: A.E. Coleby | Stars: H. Agar Lyons, Fred Paul, Joan Clarkson, Humberston Wright
Votes: 9
27. The Miracle (1923)
34 min | Short, Crime, Drama
In this 5th episode, elusive evil genius Fu-Manchu holds sinister sway over the forces of life and death, thanks to a strange drug of his own devising.
Director: A.E. Coleby | Stars: H. Agar Lyons, Fred Paul, Joan Clarkson, Humberston Wright
Votes: 7
28. The Skin Game (1931)
TV-G | 85 min | Drama
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Jill Esmond, C.V. France, Helen Haye
Votes: 3,558
29. The Phantom Light (1935)
76 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A lighthouse keeper has been murdered in mysterious circumstances and, during the ensuing investigation a Phantom Light keeps appearing at the scene of his death.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Binnie Hale, Gordon Harker, Donald Calthrop, Milton Rosmer
Votes: 656
30. Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror (1938)
Not Rated | 70 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by "famous stamp collector" and millionaire.
Director: George King | Stars: George Curzon, Tod Slaughter, Greta Gynt, Tony Sympson
Votes: 261
31. Trilby (1914)
45 min | Drama
A hypnotist makes an artist's model sing, but cannot force her love.
Director: Harold M. Shaw | Stars: Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Viva Birkett, Ian Swinley, Charles Rock
Votes: 33
32. The Face at the Window (1939)
Approved | 65 min | Drama, Horror
Set in France in 1880. A series of murders is attributed to a Wolf Man.
Director: George King | Stars: Tod Slaughter, John Warwick, Aubrey Mallalieu, Marjorie Taylor
Votes: 759
33. Time Without Pity (1957)
85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The day before a young man is to be executed for killing his girlfriend, his alcoholic father shows up to try to prove his innocence.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern, Paul Daneman
Votes: 1,890
34. X the Unknown (1956)
Approved | 81 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A radioactive, mud-like creature terrorizes a Scottish village.
Directors: Leslie Norman, Joseph Losey | Stars: Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern, Anthony Newley
Votes: 3,268
35. The Trouble with Harry (1955)
PG | 99 min | Comedy, Mystery
Harry's dead and, while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. After Harry's body is found in the woods, several locals must determine not only how and why he was killed but what to do with the body.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn, Mildred Natwick
Votes: 41,281
36. The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
An ordinary British couple vacationing in Switzerland suddenly find themselves embroiled in a case of international intrigue when their daughter is kidnapped by spies plotting a political assassination.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper
Votes: 21,166
37. Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
Approved | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
An uptight, leather-clad female alien, armed with a ray gun and accompanied by a menacing robot, comes to Earth to collect Earth's men as breeding stock.
Director: David MacDonald | Stars: Hugh McDermott, Hazel Court, Peter Reynolds, Adrienne Corri
Votes: 2,105
38. The Green Cockatoo (1937)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing.
Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: John Mills, Rene Ray, Robert Newton, Charles Oliver
Votes: 315
39. Phantom Ship (1935)
Approved | 62 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.
Director: Denison Clift | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Shirley Grey, Arthur Margetson, Edmund Willard
Votes: 1,054
40. The Electronic Monster (1958)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
An insurance investigator finds there's more to electronic dream therapy than meets the eye.
Directors: Montgomery Tully, David Paltenghi | Stars: Rod Cameron, Mary Murphy, Meredith Edwards, Peter Illing
Votes: 221
41. Fiend Without a Face (1958)
Approved | 74 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist's thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in this nightmarish chiller.
Director: Arthur Crabtree | Stars: Marshall Thompson, Terry Kilburn, Michael Balfour, Gil Winfield
Votes: 4,804
42. Vampire Over London (1952)
Not Rated | 74 min | Comedy, Horror
The mysterious figure known as the Vampire comes to England to complete experiments in his mad bid to gain control of the world. When the radar-controlled Robot which he had ordered shipped... See full summary »
Director: John Gilling | Stars: Arthur Lucan, Bela Lugosi, Dora Bryan, Philip Leaver
Votes: 984
43. Unearthly Stranger (1963)
78 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Mysterious woman marries government scientist Davidson despite his lack of knowledge about her past. His bosses are suspicious of her unusual traits. After it's clear she does love Davidson, the pair come under attack.
Director: John Krish | Stars: John Neville, Philip Stone, Gabriella Licudi, Patrick Newell
Votes: 958
44. Quatermass 2 (1957)
Approved | 85 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
Professor Quatermass, trying to gather support for his Lunar colonisation project, is intrigued by mysterious traces that have been showing up.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sidney James, Bryan Forbes
Votes: 4,658
45. No Escape (1936)
83 min | Mystery
For a bet a man attempts to hide his friend for a month. The police soon believe he has murdered him.
Director: Norman Lee | Stars: Valerie Hobson, Leslie Perrins, Robert Cochran, Billy Milton
Votes: 37
46. Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime
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.
Director: Robert Hamer | Stars: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
Votes: 39,727
47. Odd Man Out (1947)
Approved | 116 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, F.J. McCormick
Votes: 11,423
48. Scream of Fear (1961)
Approved | 81 min | Horror, Thriller
A wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father's estate after 10 years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
Director: Seth Holt | Stars: Susan Strasberg, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis, Christopher Lee
Votes: 5,499
49. The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
76 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A Fleet Street barber recounts the story of Sweeney Todd, a notorious barber who in the last century murdered many customers for their money.
Director: George King | Stars: Tod Slaughter, Stella Rho, John Singer, Eve Lister
Votes: 1,451
50. The Crimes of Stephen Hawke (1936)
69 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A crazed killer known as "The Spinebreaker" is terrorizing London with a series of grisly murders. The police seem powerless to stop him.
Director: George King | Stars: Tod Slaughter, Marjorie Taylor, D.J. Williams, Eric Portman
Votes: 336
51. The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu (1925)
Crime, Drama
A killer kitty with poison-tipped claws, giant noxious mushrooms and aphonia-inducing flowers are just some of the challenges faced by Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie in their battles against arch-villain Fu Manchu.
Director: A.E. Coleby | Stars: H. Agar Lyons, Fred Paul, Joan Clarkson, Humberston Wright
Votes: 12
52. The Call of Siva (1923)
27 min | Short, Crime, Drama
In this 4th episode, in the dastardly clutches of evil Dr Fu-Manchu, Nayland Smith and Petrie are threatened with pythons, spiders and the ghastly 'wire jacket' torture.
Director: A.E. Coleby | Stars: H. Agar Lyons, Fred Paul, Joan Clarkson, Humberston Wright
Votes: 9
53. The Clue of the Pigtail (1923)
Short, Crime, Drama
In this 3rd episode, a dead detective washed up in the River Thames, with a bald wig that has a pigtail attached and lacking three fingers from one hand. Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie search... See full summary »
Director: A.E. Coleby | Stars: H. Agar Lyons, Fred Paul, Joan Clarkson, Humberston Wright
Votes: 11
54. The Cry of the Nighthawk (1923)
29 min | Short, Crime, Drama
In this 8th episode, a deadly cat with poisoned claws, meant for Nayland Smith, is hurled from a tree. Could that master of evil Dr Fu-Manchu be responsible?
Director: A.E. Coleby | Stars: H. Agar Lyons, Fred Paul, Joan Clarkson, Humberston Wright
Votes: 11
55. The Fiery Hand (1923)
36 min | Short, Crime, Drama
In this 10th episode, Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie investigate by night 'The Gables' house where two mysterious deaths happened: two servants died of fear. Inspector Weymouth thinks they are connected to Fu-Manchu.
Director: A.E. Coleby | Stars: H. Agar Lyons, Fred Paul, Joan Clarkson, Humberston Wright
Votes: 17
56. The Fungi Cellars (1923)
27 min | Short, Crime, Drama
In this 6th episode, the dastardly Dr Fu-Manchu, in one of his most fiendish schemes yet, entombs his pursuers Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie in an underground chamber full of deadly giant mould spores.
Director: A.E. Coleby | Stars: H. Agar Lyons, Fred Paul, Joan Clarkson, Humberston Wright
Votes: 15
57. Village of the Damned (1960)
Not Rated | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
In the English village of Midwich, the blonde-haired, glowing-eyed children of uncertain paternity prove to have frightening powers.
Director: Wolf Rilla | Stars: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens, Michael Gwynn
Votes: 19,142
58. The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
Not Rated | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth, Margia Dean
Votes: 7,184
59. Blackmail (1929)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton
Votes: 11,970
60. The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Not Rated | 96 min | Mystery, Thriller
While travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, May Whitty
Votes: 57,184
61. The Woman Eater (1958)
Not Rated | 70 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A mad scientist captures women and feeds them to a flesh-eating tree, which in turn gives him a serum that helps bring the dead back to life.
Director: Charles Saunders | Stars: George Coulouris, Vera Day, Peter Forbes-Robertson, Joyce Gregg
Votes: 666
62. The Crawling Eye (1958)
Not Rated | 84 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A series of decapitations on a Swiss mountainside appear to be connected to a mysterious radioactive cloud.
Director: Quentin Lawrence | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne, Janet Munro
Votes: 4,821
63. Chamber of Horrors (1940)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A murder is found to be connected to a false heir and a secret underground torture chamber.
Director: Norman Lee | Stars: Leslie Banks, Lilli Palmer, Romilly Lunge, Gina Malo
Votes: 712
64. The Monkey's Paw (1948)
64 min | Horror, Thriller
A mother wishes for the return of her dead son, and that wish is granted by a charm made from a severed monkey's paw.
Director: Norman Lee | Stars: Milton Rosmer, Megs Jenkins, Michael Martin Harvey, Eric Micklewood
Votes: 422
65. The Haunted Curiosity Shop (1901)
2 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
An old proprietor is startled by the sudden appearance of a skull. Just as he draws back from the uncanny object, the doors of a mediaeval wardrobe fly back and a hand prods him with a ... See full summary »
Director: Walter R. Booth
Votes: 506
66. John Smith & Son (1932)
11 min | Short, Drama
Don't come home with the clap. John Smith does, and infects his unsuspecting wife with gonorrhea. Then their baby is born with it, leading to tragedy.
Stars: Rene Ray, Paul Kelly
Votes: 8
67. A Photographic Contortion (1901)
1 min | Comedy, Short
A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera and cinematographer. He steps back, chews, and grins.
Director: James Williamson | Star: Sam Dalton
Votes: 2,092
68. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: June Tripp, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney
Votes: 13,394
69. Number 17 (1932)
TV-PG | 66 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Leon M. Lion, Anne Grey, John Stuart, Donald Calthrop
Votes: 5,439
70. The Third Man (1949)
Approved | 93 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard
Votes: 181,884 | Gross: $0.45M
71. Young and Innocent (1937)
Not Rated | 83 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
A man on the run from a murder charge enlists the help of a beautiful stranger who must put herself at risk for his cause.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby
Votes: 10,863
72. Secret Agent (1936)
Not Rated | 86 min | Mystery, Thriller
After three British Agents are assigned to assassinate a mysterious German spy during World War I, two of them become ambivalent when their duty to the mission conflicts with their consciences.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: John Gielgud, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young, Peter Lorre
Votes: 9,045
73. The 39 Steps (1935)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
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.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle
Votes: 61,566
74. The Human Monster (1939)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Horror
Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.
Director: Walter Summers | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Hugh Williams, Greta Gynt, Edmon Ryan
Votes: 1,530
75. Maria Marten, or the Murder in the Red Barn (1935)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama
In 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by a villainous Squire's promises of marriage, and when she becomes pregnant and disappears, a gypsy lad is blamed.
Director: Milton Rosmer | Stars: Tod Slaughter, Sophie Stewart, D.J. Williams, Clare Greet
Votes: 444
76. Dr. Wise on Influenza (1919)
18 min | Documentary, Short, Drama
Dr Wise is here to advise. As Britain fell under the grip of the Great Influenza of 1918-19, the Local Government Board (later the Ministry of Health) commissioned this dramatized public ... See full summary »
Votes: 13
77. The Dying Detective (1921)
28 min | Drama, Crime, Mystery
The great detective Sherlock Holmes, near death after having contracted a rare and usually fatal Asiatic disease, is determined to solve one last murder case before he passes on.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Eille Norwood, Hubert Willis, Cecil Humphreys, Joseph R. Tozer
Votes: 53
78. The Ghoul (1933)
Approved | 77 min | Action, Drama, Horror
An Egyptologist returns from the dead to take revenge on those who have violated his tomb.
Director: T. Hayes Hunter | Stars: Boris Karloff, Cedric Hardwicke, Ernest Thesiger, Dorothy Hyson
Votes: 3,249
79. To the Public Danger (1948)
43 min | Short, Drama
Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in an alcohol-lubricated bout of thrill-seeking (so far as that was possible ... See full summary »
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Dermot Walsh, Susan Shaw, Barry Letts, Roy Plomley
Votes: 155
80. The Spell of Amy Nugent (1941)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Horror
A young man's fiancée dies after contracting a terminal illness and, in his efforts to contact her, he gets involved with a group of spiritualists.
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Derek Farr, Vera Lindsay, Hay Petrie, Felix Aylmer
Votes: 198
81. Double Confession (1950)
80 min | Crime, Drama
After his wife is murdered, the husband tries to divert suspicion from himself to someone else. Unfortunately, his scheme winds up getting him mixed up with some real murderers.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins, Peter Lorre, William Hartnell
Votes: 424
82. After Dark (1932)
45 min | Crime, Drama
Richard Morton brought back valuable emeralds from a trip. He has met on the boat a beautiful girl and her uncle. They all take the train together, and the emeralds disappear. Morton has reasons to suspect the uncle.
Director: Albert Parker | Stars: Horace Hodges, Hugh Williams, Grethe Hansen, George Barraud
Votes: 63
83. Things to Come (1936)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, War
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.
Director: William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott
Votes: 9,071
84. Thunder Over Tangier (1957)
66 min | Crime, Drama
International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates. International crook Voss sends pretty Michele after him. Arriving in London, Armstrong accidentally swaps... See full summary »
Director: Lance Comfort | Stars: Robert Hutton, Lisa Gastoni, Martin Benson, Derek Sydney
Votes: 132
85. Jamaica Inn (1939)
Passed | 98 min | Adventure, Crime
In Cornwall, 1819, a young woman discovers she's living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Maureen O'Hara, Robert Newton, Charles Laughton, Horace Hodges
Votes: 11,198
86. Ghost Ship (1952)
Approved | 74 min | Horror
A luxury ship is haunted by the ghosts of a crew that had disappeared off the ship years before.
Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hugh Burden, John Robinson
Votes: 928
87. The Mummy (1959)
Unrated | 88 min | Adventure, Horror
In 1895, British archaeologists find and open the tomb of Egyptian Princess Ananka with nefarious consequences.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux, Eddie Byrne
Votes: 11,007
88. The Abominable Snowman (1957)
85 min | Adventure, Horror
A kindly English botanist and a gruff American scientist lead an expedition to the Himalayas in search of the legendary Yeti.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Peter Cushing, Maureen Connell, Richard Wattis
Votes: 4,963
89. Man Bait (1952)
Not Rated | 78 min | Crime, Drama
The married owner of a bookstore is attracted to his sexy blonde clerk. He finally gives in to temptation and makes a pass at her, but that only results in him getting enmeshed in blackmail and murder.
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: George Brent, Marguerite Chapman, Raymond Huntley, Peter Reynolds
Votes: 876
90. The Man Behind the Mask (1936)
79 min | Drama
A young couple attends a masked ball before their planned secret elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is abducted and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Hugh Williams, Jane Baxter, Ronald Ward, Maurice Schwartz
Votes: 77
91. Curse of the Fly (1965)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Motorist Martin Delambre attempts to keep evidence of his family's bizarre experiments in teleportation hidden from his wife, who is hiding secrets of her own.
Director: Don Sharp | Stars: Brian Donlevy, George Baker, Carole Gray, Yvette Rees
Votes: 2,449
92. Bleak House (1922)
Short, Crime, Drama
A suspenseful tale about the injustices of the 19th Century English legal system.
Director: Harry B. Parkinson | Stars: Sybil Thorndike, Betty Doyle, Stacey Gaunt, Harry Worth
Votes: 18
93. The Man with the Twisted Lip (1921)
28 min | Mystery, Crime, Drama
Holmes finds that the disappearance of respectable middle class Neville St. Clair may be linked to a filthy beggar living above an opium den.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Eille Norwood, Hubert Willis, Robert Vallis, Paulette del Baze
Votes: 74
94. The Sign of Four (1923)
83 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A convict seeks revenge on the partners who cheated him of his treasure share.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Eille Norwood, Isobel Elsom, Fred Raynham, Arthur M. Cullin
Votes: 88
95. The Devil's Foot (1921)
29 min | Mystery, Crime, Drama
A family is at their dining room table, sitting upright and dressed for dinner--except they're all dead. Sherlock Holmes must figure out how--and, more importantly, why--they were murdered.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Eille Norwood, Hubert Willis, Harvey Braban, Hugh Buckler
Votes: 60
96. The Hour of 13 (1952)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
A jewel thief tries to mislead police who suspect that his theft of a valuable emerald is related to the serial murder of 11 policemen.
Director: Harold French | Stars: Peter Lawford, Dawn Addams, Roland Culver, Derek Bond
Votes: 388
97. So Evil My Love (1948)
Approved | 112 min | Crime, Drama
Olivia Harwood, missionary's widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. After Olivia opens a lodging house, Mark becomes her ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Ray Milland, Ann Todd, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Leo G. Carroll
Votes: 956
98. Spaceways (1953)
74 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A small group of closely-guarded British scientists test their first rocket amidst indications of matrimonial strife in the community. After the partial failure of the firing, a couple go ... See full summary »
Director: Terence Fisher | Stars: Howard Duff, Eva Bartok, Alan Wheatley, Philip Leaver
Votes: 532
99. The Copper Beeches (1912)
25 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
An adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes story about a father trying to gain control of his daughter's inheritance does not include Watson.
Director: Adrien Caillard | Star: Georges Tréville
Votes: 97
100. The Musgrave Ritual (1912)
18 min | Short, Mystery
The strained expression on the face of one maid servant in a group of six, gives to the mind of Sherlock Holmes, the master of all detectives, the clue to the unraveling of this remarkable ... See full summary »
Director: Georges Tréville | Stars: Georges Tréville, Mr. Moyse
Votes: 62
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