| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | ||||||
| 36 Hours | Montgomery Tully | Dan Duryea, Elsie Albiin | Crime | |||
| Albert R.N. | Lewis Gilbert | Anthony Steel, Jack Warner, Robert Beatty | World War II/POW | |||
| Background | Daniel Birt | Valerie Hobson, Philip Friend | Drama | |||
| Beat the Devil | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones | Comedy/Thriller | |||
| The Beggar's Opera | Peter Brook | Laurence Olivier, Hugh Griffith | Musical | |||
| Black 13 | Ken Hughes | Peter Reynolds, Rona Anderson | Crime | |||
| Black Orchid | Charles Saunders | Ronald Howard, Olga Edwardes | Crime | |||
| Blood Orange | Terence Fisher | Tom Conway, Mila Parély | Crime | |||
| The Blue Parrot | John Harlow | Dermot Walsh, Jacqueline Hill | Crime | |||
| The Broken Horseshoe | Martyn C. Webster | Robert Beatty, Elizabeth Sellers | Crime | |||
| The Captain's Paradise | Anthony Kimmins | Alec Guinness, Celia Johnson, Yvonne De Carlo | Romantic comedy | |||
| The Conquest of Everest | George Lowe | Meredith Edwards (narrator) | Documentary | |||
| Cosh Boy | Lewis Gilbert | James Kenney, Joan Collins | Crime drama | |||
| Counterspy | Vernon Sewell | Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court | Drama | |||
| The Cruel Sea | Charles Frend | Jack Hawkins, Donald Sinden | World War II | |||
| Deadly Nightshade | John Gilling | Emrys Jones, Zena Marshall | Crime | |||
| Death Goes to School | Stephen Clarkson | Barbara Murray, Gordon Jackson | Mystery | |||
| Decameron Nights | Hugo Fregonese | Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan | Drama | |||
| Desperate Moment | Compton Bennett | Dirk Bogarde, Mai Zetterling | Thriller | |||
| The Divided Heart | Charles Crichton | Cornell Borchers, Yvonne Mitchell | Drama | |||
| The Dog and the Diamonds | Ralph Thomas | Kathleen Harrison, George Coulouris | Family | |||
| Escape by Night | John Gilling | Sid James, Bonar Colleano | Crime | |||
| The Fake | Godfrey Grayson | Dennis O'Keefe, Coleen Gray | Crime | |||
| The Final Test | Anthony Asquith | Jack Warner, Robert Morley | Sports | |||
| The Flanagan Boy | Reginald Le Borg | Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk | Drama | |||
| Folly to Be Wise | Frank Launder | Alastair Sim, Elizabeth Allan | Comedy | |||
| Four Sided Triangle | Terence Fisher | Barbara Payton, James Hayter | Sci-fi | |||
| Genevieve | Henry Cornelius | Dinah Sheridan, John Gregson, Kay Kendall | Comedy | Number 86 in the BFI Top 100 British films | ||
| The Genie | Lance Comfort, Lawrence Huntington | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sean Barrett | Drama | |||
| Glad Tidings | Wolf Rilla | Barbara Kelly, Raymond Huntley | Comedy/Drama | |||
| The Good Beginning | Gilbert Gunn | John Fraser, Eileen Moore | Drama | |||
| Grand National Night | Bob McNaught | Nigel Patrick, Moira Lister, Beatrice Campbell | Thriller | |||
| The Great Game | Maurice Elvey | James Hayter, Thora Hird, Diana Dors | Sports | |||
| The Heart of the Matter | George More O'Ferrall | Trevor Howard, Elizabeth Allan | Drama | |||
| House of Blackmail | Maurice Elvey | Mary Germaine, William Sylvester | Drama | |||
| The House of the Arrow | Michael Anderson | Oskar Homolka, Robert Urquhart | Mystery/Detective | |||
| Intimate Relations | Charles Frank | Harold Warrender, Marian Spencer, William Russell | Drama | Entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival | ||
| The Intruder | Guy Hamilton | Jack Hawkins, George Cole | Drama | |||
| Innocents in Paris | Gordon Parry | Alastair Sim, Jimmy Edwards | Comedy | |||
| Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? | Maurice Elvey | Diana Dors, Bonar Colleano | Comedy | |||
| It's a Grand Life | John E. Blakeley | Frank Randle, Diana Dors | Comedy | |||
| Johnny on the Run | Lewis Gilbert | Eugeniusz Chylek, Sydney Tafler | Adventure | |||
| Knights of the Round Table | Richard Thorpe | Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner | Adventure | Made by MGM-British | ||
| The Large Rope | Wolf Rilla | Donald Houston, Susan Shaw | Crime | |||
| Laughing Anne | Herbert Wilcox | Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood | Adventure | |||
| The Limping Man | Cy Endfield | Lloyd Bridges, Moira Lister | Drama | |||
| The Kidnappers | Philip Leacock | Duncan Macrae, Theodore Bikel, Adrienne Corri | Drama | |||
| Love in Pawn | Charles Saunders | Bernard Braden, Barbara Kelly | Comedy | |||
| Made in Heaven | John Paddy Carstairs | David Tomlinson, Petula Clark | Comedy | |||
| Malta Story | Brian Desmond Hurst | Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins | World War II | |||
| The Man Between | Carol Reed | James Mason, Claire Bloom | Thriller | |||
| Man of Africa | Cyril Frankel | Frederick Bijuerenda, Gordon Heath | Entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival | |||
| Mantrap | Terence Fisher | Paul Henreid, Lois Maxwell | Crime | |||
| The Master of Ballantrae | William Keighley | Errol Flynn, Roger Livesey | Adventure | |||
| Meet Mr. Lucifer | Anthony Pelissier | Stanley Holloway, Peggy Cummins | Comedy | |||
| Melba | Lewis Milestone | Patrice Munsel, Robert Morley | Biopic | |||
| Murder at 3am | Francis Searle | Dennis Price, Peggy Evans | Crime | |||
| Murder at Scotland Yard | Victor M. Gover | Tod Slaughter, Patrick Barr | Thriller | |||
| The Net | Anthony Asquith | James Donald, Phyllis Calvert, Herbert Lom | Thriller | |||
| Never Let Me Go | Delmer Daves | Clark Gable, Gene Tierney | Adventure | |||
| Noose for a Lady | Wolf Rilla | Dennis Price, Rona Anderson | Crime | |||
| O Dreamland | Lindsay Anderson | Documentary short subject | ||||
| Operation Diplomat | John Guillermin | Guy Rolfe, Lisa Daniely | Drama | |||
| The Oracle | C.M. Pennington-Richards | Robert Beatty, Michael Medwin | Comedy | |||
| Our Girl Friday | Noel Langley | Joan Collins, Kenneth More George Cole | Comedy | |||
| Park Plaza 605 | Bernard Knowles | Tom Conway, Eva Bartok | Crime | |||
| Personal Affair | Anthony Pelissier | Gene Tierney, Leo Genn | Drama | |||
| A Queen is Crowned | Narrated by Laurence Olivier | Documentary | ||||
| Recoil | John Gilling | Kieron Moore, Elizabeth Sellars | Crime | |||
| The Red Beret | Terence Young | Alan Ladd, Leo Genn | World War II | |||
| Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue | Harold French | Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice | Historical adventure | |||
| Rough Shoot | Robert Parrish | Joel McCrea, Evelyn Keyes | Thriller | |||
| Sea Devils | Raoul Walsh | Yvonne De Carlo, Rock Hudson | Adventure | Co-production with the United States | ||
| Small Town Story | Montgomery Tully | Donald Houston, Susan Shaw | Thriller | |||
| South of Algiers | Jack Lee | Van Heflin, Eric Portman | Adventure | |||
| Spaceways | Terence Fisher | Howard Duff, Eva Bartok | Sci-fi | |||
| The Square Ring | Basil Dearden | Sid James, Jack Warner, Joan Collins | Drama | |||
| The Steel Key | Robert S. Baker | Terence Morgan, Joan Rice | Thriller | |||
| The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan | Sidney Gilliat | Robert Morley, Maurice Evans | Musical | |||
| Street Corner | Muriel Box | Peggy Cummins, Terence Morgan | Drama | |||
| Street of Shadows | Richard Vernon | Cesar Romero, Kay Kendall | Crime | |||
| Stryker of the Yard | Arthur Crabtree | Clifford Evans, Susan Stephen | Crime | |||
| There Was a Young Lady | Lawrence Huntington | Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray | Comedy | |||
| Those People Next Door | John Harlow | Jack Warner, Charles Victor | Comedy | |||
| Three Steps in the Dark | Daniel Birt | Greta Gynt, Hugh Sinclair | Crime | |||
| Three Steps to the Gallows | John Gilling | Scott Brady, Mary Castle | Crime | |||
| Time Bomb | Ted Tetzlaff | Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon | Thriller | |||
| Time Is My Enemy | Don Chaffey | Dennis Price, Renée Asherson | Drama | |||
| The Titfield Thunderbolt | Charles Crichton | Stanley Holloway, Naunton Wayne | Comedy | |||
| Top of the Form | John Paddy Carstairs | Ronald Shiner, Harry Fowler | Comedy | |||
| Turn the Key Softly | Jack Lee | Yvonne Mitchell, Joan Collins, Kathleen Harrison | Drama | |||
| Trouble in Store | John Paddy Carstairs | Norman Wisdom, Moira Lister | Comedy | |||
| Twice Upon a Time | Emeric Pressburger | Hugh Williams, Elizabeth Allan | Comedy | |||
| Valley of Song | Gilbert Gunn | Mervyn Johns, Clifford Evans | Comedy | |||
| The Wedding of Lilli Marlene | Arthur Crabtree | Lisa Daniely, Hugh McDermott | Drama | |||
| Wheel of Fate | Francis Searle | Patric Doonan, Sandra Dorne | Drama | |||
| The Yellow Balloon | J. Lee Thompson | Andrew Ray, Kathleen Ryan, Kenneth More | Drama | |||
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