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• Movie7.6

  ComedyWar

  Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.

  Sailors Three

  1940 · 5 votes

• Movie6.6

  DramaCrime

  In Britain, a man with a shady past uses his antiquities shop as a front for smuggled diamonds but his young shop-assistant starts blackmailing him, leading to murder and to a police investigation.

  The Shop at Sly Corner

  1947 · 15 votes

• Movie7.1

  AdventureDrama

  Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.

  "Pimpernel" Smith

  1941 · 32 votes

• Movie7.1

  ThrillerWar

  During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.

  Contraband

  1940 · 22 votes

• Movie6.6

  MusicDrama

  A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.

  The Seventh Veil

  1945 · 46 votes

• Movie7.0

  DramaWar

  Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.

  Freedom Radio

  1941 · 4 votes

• Movie5.8

  MysteryCrime

  While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.

  The Saint's Vacation

  1941 · 11 votes

• Movie4.0

  Two sisters encounter a German spy. A public service film showing how to thwart the enemy.

  Miss Grant Goes to the Door

  1940 · 2 votes

• Movie6.8

  Comedy

  Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Hay, assisted by Claude Hulbert and Charles Hawtrey, has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim.

  The Ghost of St. Michael's

  1941 · 12 votes

• Movie9.0

  Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter.

  Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light

  1941 · 1 votes

• Movie5.9

  DramaHorror

  Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.

  Uncle Silas

  1947 · 17 votes

• Movie6.7

  ThrillerMystery

  The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.

  The Four Just Men

  1939 · 6 votes

• Movie6.4

  Crime

  When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...

  Trunk Crime

  Design for Murder

  1939 · 5 votes

• Movie7.0

  Thriller

  A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.

  Saloon Bar

  1940 · 6 votes

• Movie6.6

  ComedyWar

  Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!

  Old Bill and Son

  1941 · 5 votes

• Movie8.0

  Drama

  The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.

  Pastor Hall

  1940 · 10 votes

• Movie6.1

  WarAdventure

  It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.

  Gasbags

  1941 · 8 votes

• Movie6.8

  Comedy

  Harry Hawkwood is the son of 'Pa' Hawkwood, one of England's greatest crooks, and it's Harry's ambition to follow in father's footsteps and be as good as Dad. Alas! Harry has a kind heart, and it is only out of respect for the old man that his father's gang tolerates him. When the gang decides to go for the Maddox jewels, Harry is given the job of "inside man" will his good nature get the better of him once again?

  Little Big Shot

  1952 · 2 votes

• Movie6.7

  DramaWar

  Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

  The Big Blockade

  1942 · 6 votes

• Movie6.2

  Crime

  Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.

  The Flying Squad

  1940 · 4 votes

• Movie9.0

  ComedyMusic

  Garage owner Tommy and ventriloquist friend Eric join the army and go to France, where they are captured by the Nazis. However, Eric's voice-throwing skills come in handy in engineering their escape and obtaining top secret information.

  Pack Up Your Troubles

  1940 · 1 votes

• Movie7.0

  DramaMusic

  Wartime romantic melodrama, suggested by a popular song of the same title, with a young woman torn between her love for a naval officer and duty to an injured admirer.

  For You Alone

  1945 · 1 votes

• Movie5.4

  MysteryComedy

  An operation of counterfeit five pound notes is discovered at a variety theater, leading to murder during the performance.

  The Dummy Talks

  1943 · 8 votes

• Movie8.0

  ThrillerCrime

  A British secret service agent and his sister travel to Berlin to recover a top secret RAF invention which was stolen from the French government.

  Secret Journey

  1939 · 1 votes