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BFI Most Wanted
The Ten Most Wanted
The Mountain Eagle (1926)
Hitchcock's second film as director: the Most Wanted's most wanted
Two Crowded Hours (1931)
Michael Powell's first film: a "very good little murder drama"
Squadron Leader X (1943)
Thrilling war escape drama directed by the recently re-evaluated Lance Comfort
Sleep is Lovely (1968)
Intriguing late-60s London-set kidnap-and-ransom drama from a director hailed as an 'English Godard'
Symptoms (1973)
Stylish cult 1970s horror about a disturbed female killer
Somewhere in Politics (1948)
Knockabout comedy with madcap music hall star Frank Randle
The Last Post (1929)
The directorial debut of Britain's only 1920s female filmmaker
Linda (1960)
Teen drama from cult director Don Sharp, with Cathy Come Home's Carol White
A Study in Scarlet (1914)
The immortal Sherlock Holmes takes his first bow in a British feature
Maria Marten or the Mystery of the Red Barn (1913)
True crime thriller - an early staging-post in British horror
The Rest
The Adventures of Mr Pickwick (1921)
Silent Dickens, described as "exceptionally good"
Alive on Saturday (1957)
Mistaken-identity thriller involving communists and royalty
The Amazing Quest of Mr Ernest Bliss (1920)
A millionaire accepts a bet that he can't earn his own living
The Arcadians (1927)
Victor Saville's directorial debut: a silent (!) adaptation of a popular stage musical
Badger's Green (1934)
A contentious planning issue is resolved via a village cricket match
Bless 'Em All (1948)
Max Bygraves' screen debut: a boisterous army comedy
But Not In Vain (1948)
Anglo-Dutch WWII drama about a man's terrible moral choice
Castle Sinister (1932)
Mad Devon-based doctor attempts a brain transplant
The Cherry Picker (1972)
Sexploitation comedy with Lulu heading an improbably starry cast
Counsel's Opinion (1933)
A barrister is seduced by a widow posing as a lord's unfaithful wife
The Crooked Billet (1929)
Thriller regarded by Adrian Brunel as his best silent film
Crosstrap (1961)
Brutal, claustrophobic thriller from the director of Corruption
Deadlock (1931)
Murder mystery: the first British talkie with a film-studio setting
Deadlock (1943)
A murderous twin gets his come-uppance in this twisted thriller
The Diamond (1954)
This counterfeit-diamonds thriller was Britain's first 3-D feature
Double Confession (1950)
Blackmail thriller whose stellar cast includes Peter Lorre
Dr O'Dowd (1940)
Irish melodrama that was the young Peggy Cummins' film debut
Educated Evans (1936)
Max Miller comedy about a racing tipster turned social climber
Farewell Performance (1963)
Variety-theatre thriller enlivened by various Joe Meek pop acts
The First Men in the Moon (1919)
The first H.G. Wells film: pioneering sci-fi or campy nonsense?
Flight From Folly (1945)
Lively musical comedy showcase for stage star Pat Kirkwood
For You Alone (1945)
Love-versus-duty romantic melodrama: a huge hit at the time
Golden Madonna (1949)
Phyllis Calvert goes to Italy in search of a lost painting
The Good Old Days (1939)
Max Miller costume comedy about an 1840s theatrical troupe
Hammer the Toff (1952)
Sequel to Salute the Toff in which our hero foils a master criminal
Hobson's Choice (1931)
First sound version of Harold Brighouse's stage warhorse
It's In the Bag (1943)
Riotous missing-cash farce with Cockney housewives Gert & Daisy
Kiss the Bride Goodbye (1944)
Romantic melodrama about a woman with an interfering mother
Lily of the Alley (1924)
Groundbreaking silent feature told entirely without intertitles
Lloyd of the C.I.D. (1931)
Talkie serial pitting Scotland Yard's finest against 'The Panther'
London (1926)
Melodrama in which Dorothy Gish's Limehouse waif is adopted by a rich woman
Lord Richard in the Pantry (1930)
Knockabout caper from leading comedy director Walter Forde
Love, Life and Laughter (1923)
An impoverished writer and aspiring chorus-girl have much in common
Mademoiselle from Armentieres (1926)
A Frenchwoman deceives the German army during WWI
The Man Behind the Mask (1936)
Michael Powell's last quota quickie: another melodramatic thriller
Men of Tomorrow (1932)
Robert Donat's screen debut, by the director of Mädchen in Uniform
Milestones (1916)
Ambitious family saga about several generations of shipbuilders
Murder at Monte Carlo (1935)
Errol Flynn's screen debut: rival journalists chase a scoop
Murder Will Out (1939)
A rare Chinese jade triggers mysterious disappearances
The Narrow Valley (1921)
Pictorially beautiful romantic melodrama by Cecil M. Hepworth
Nobody Ordered Love (1971)
Filming of a WWI drama is interrupted by star misbehaviour
The Path of Glory (1934)
Political satire that might have been Britain's answer to Duck Soup
The Price of a Song (1935)
Michael Powell thriller with a song-publishing setting
The Promise (1969)
Three young Russians experience WWII and the space race
The Public Life of Henry the Ninth (1935)
Hammer's debut: a feelgood story about a street musician
Reveille (1923)
Ambitious saga of post-WWI disillusionment from silent master George Pearson
Salute the Toff (1952)
The first of two films showcasing John Creasey's upper-class sleuth
The Scarab Murder Case (1936)
Philo Vance proves that an archaeologist killed his brother
The School for Scandal (1930)
Sheridan classic headlined by Madeleine Carroll
Second Fiddle (1957)
Lively comedy about gender relations in the workplace
Small Town Story (1953)
Football-themed thriller with big-name cameos from the sporting world
The Story of the Flag (1927)
This survey of national symbols was Britain's first animated feature
This Man is Dangerous (1941)
A thrilling melodrama starring the dashing young James Mason
Three Steps in the Dark (1953)
A country-house will-reading is followed by murder
Tip Toes (1928)
Dorothy Gish and Will Rogers play penniless music-hall artistes
To Be a Lady (1934)
Early talking role for Chili Bouchier, as a country girl in the city
Too Many Crooks (1930)
Laurence Olivier's first all-British film, about a playboy safecracker
The Viper (1938)
Bumbling detective Cedric Gull in a sequel to The Vulture
The Vulture (1937)
Slapstick comedy about over-keen amateur detective Cedric Gull
Welcome Mr Washington (1944)
Wartime caper about US soldiers in a sleepy English village
Where is Parsifal? (1983)
Bizarre comedy whose starry cast included Orson Welles
Who is the Man? (1924)
Romantic melodrama with debutant John Gielgud as a tormented artist
Woman to Woman (1923)
A British dancer and French officer meet during WWI but are accidentally parted
The World Owes Me a Living (1945)
An injured RAF pilot recalls life before and during WWII
Yes Mr Brown (1933)
Comedy in which Jack Buchanan has to impress his new boss