Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
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1959 | ||||||
The 39 Steps | Ralph Thomas | Kenneth More, Taina Elg | Thriller | |||
Alive and Kicking | Cyril Frankel | Sybil Thorndike, Kathleen Harrison | Comedy | |||
The Bandit of Zhobe | John Gilling | Victor Mature, Anne Aubrey | Adventure | |||
The Battle of the Sexes | Charles Crichton | Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings | Comedy | |||
Behemoth, the Sea Monster | Eugène Lourié, Douglas Hickox | Gene Evans, André Morell | Sci-fi | |||
Blind Date | Joseph Losey | Hardy Krüger, Micheline Presle | Crime | |||
Bobbikins' | Robert Day | Shirley Jones, Max Bygraves | Comedy | |||
The Boy and the Bridge | Kevin McClory | Ian Maclaine, Liam Redmond | Drama | |||
Breakout | Peter Graham Scott | Lee Patterson, Hazel Court | Drama | |||
The Bridal Path | Frank Launder | Bill Travers, George Cole | Comedy | |||
The Captain's Table | Jack Lee | John Gregson, Peggy Cummins | Comedy | |||
Carlton-Browne of the F.O. | Roy Boulting, Jeffrey Dell | Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers | Comedy | |||
Carry On Nurse | Gerald Thomas | Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims | Comedy | |||
Carry On Teacher | Gerald Thomas | Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor | Comedy | |||
The Cat Gang | Darrell Catling | Francesca Annis, John Pike | Family/Adventure | |||
Crash Drive | Max Varnel | Dermot Walsh, Wendy Williams | Drama | |||
The Crowning Touch | David Eady | Ted Ray, Greta Gynt | Comedy | |||
Danger List | Leslie Arliss | Philip Friend, Honor Blackman | Drama | Short film | ||
Danger Within | Don Chaffey | Richard Todd, Bernard Lee | World War II | |||
The Dawn Killer | Donald Taylor | Jeremy Bulloch, Sally Bulloch | Thriller | |||
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England | John Guillermin | Aldo Ray, Elizabeth Sellars | Crime drama | |||
Deadly Record | Lawrence Huntington | Lee Patterson, Barbara Shelley | Mystery | |||
Desert Mice | Michael Relph | Alfred Marks, Sid James | World War II Comedy | |||
The Desperate Man | Peter Maxwell | Conrad Phillips, Jill Ireland | Crime | |||
The Devil's Disciple | Guy Hamilton | Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier | Drama | Adaption of the play by George Bernard Shaw | ||
Don't Panic Chaps! | George Pollock | Dennis Price, George Cole | Comedy | |||
Expresso Bongo | Val Guest | Laurence Harvey, Cliff Richard | Musical | |||
Ferry to Hong Kong | Lewis Gilbert | Curd Jürgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms | Adventure | |||
First Man into Space | Robert Day | Marshall Thompson, Marla Landi | Sci Fi/Horror | |||
Floods of Fear | Charles Crichton | Howard Keel, Anne Heywood | Thriller | |||
Follow a Star | Robert Asher | Norman Wisdom, June Laverick | Comedy/Musical | |||
Friends and Neighbours | Gordon Parry | Arthur Askey, Megs Jenkins | Comedy | |||
The Heart of a Man | Herbert Wilcox | Frankie Vaughan, Anne Heywood | Drama | |||
Hidden Homicide | Tony Young | Griffith Jones, Patricia Laffan | Mystery | |||
Honeymoon | Michael Powell | Anthony Steel, Ludmilla Tchérina | Drama | |||
Horrors of the Black Museum | Arthur Crabtree | Michael Gough, June Cunningham | Horror | |||
The Hound of the Baskervilles | Terence Fisher | Peter Cushing, André Morell | Mystery | |||
The House of the Seven Hawks | Richard Thorpe | Robert Taylor, Nicole Maurey | Mystery | |||
Idol on Parade | John Gilling | Anthony Newley, Sid James | Comedy | |||
I'm All Right Jack | John Boulting | Ian Carmichael, Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough | Comedy | Number 47 in the BFI Top 100 British films | ||
In the Wake of a Stranger | David Eady | Tony Wright, Shirley Eaton | Thriller | |||
Innocent Meeting | Godfrey Grayson | Sean Lynch, Beth Rogan, Raymond Huntley | Crime | |||
Jack the Ripper | Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman | Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne | Crime | |||
Jet Storm | Cy Endfield | Richard Attenborough, Stanley Baker, Diane Cilento | Thriller | |||
Killers of Kilimanjaro | Richard Thorpe | Robert Taylor, Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey | African Adventure | |||
The Lady Is a Square | Herbert Wilcox | Anna Neagle, Frankie Vaughan, Janette Scott | Musical/Romance | |||
Left Right and Centre | Sidney Gilliat | Ian Carmichael | Comedy/Romance | |||
Libel | Anthony Asquith | Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland | Drama | |||
Life in Emergency Ward 10 | Robert Day | Michael Craig, Wilfrid Hyde-White | Drama | |||
Look Back in Anger | Tony Richardson | Richard Burton, Claire Bloom | Drama | |||
Make Mine a Million | Lance Comfort | Arthur Askey, Sid James | Comedy | |||
The Man Who Could Cheat Death | Terence Fisher | Anton Diffring, Christopher Lee | Horror | |||
The Man Who Liked Funerals | David Eady | Leslie Phillips, Susan Beaumont | Comedy | |||
Model for Murder | Terry Bishop | Keith Andes, Hazel Court | Crime | |||
The Mouse That Roared | Jack Arnold | Peter Sellers, Jean Seberg, William Hartnell, Leo McKern | Comedy | |||
The Mummy | Terence Fisher | Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee | Horror | |||
The Navy Lark | Gordon Parry | Cecil Parker, Ronald Shiner, Leslie Phillips | Comedy | |||
The Night We Dropped a Clanger | Darcy Conyers | Brian Rix, Cecil Parker | Comedy | |||
No Trees in the Street | J. Lee Thompson | Sylvia Syms, Herbert Lom | Thriller | |||
North West Frontier | J. Lee Thompson | Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall | Adventure | |||
Operation Amsterdam | Michael McCarthy | Peter Finch, Eva Bartok | World War II Action | |||
Operation Bullshine | Gilbert Gunn | Donald Sinden, Barbara Murray | World War II Comedy | |||
Our Man in Havana | Carol Reed | Alec Guinness, Maureen O'Hara | Spy/Comedy | |||
Please Turn Over | Gerald Thomas | Ted Ray, Leslie Phillips, Julia Lockwood | Comedy | |||
The Price of Silence | Montgomery Tully | Gordon Jackson, June Thorburn | Crime | |||
Room at the Top | Jack Clayton | Simone Signoret, Laurence Harvey, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit | Drama | Number 32 in the BFI Top 100 British films, winner of two Academy Awards, three BAFTA's and an award at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival | ||
The Rough and the Smooth | Robert Siodmak | Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton | Drama | |||
Sapphire | Basil Dearden | Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell | Drama | |||
The Scapegoat | Robert Hamer | Alec Guinness, Bette Davis | Crime | |||
Serious Charge | Terence Young | Anthony Quayle, Sarah Churchill | Drama | |||
The Shakedown | John Lemont | Terence Morgan, Hazel Court | Crime | |||
The Siege of Pinchgut | Harry Watt | Aldo Ray, Heather Sears | Action | Filmed in Austalia/Entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival | ||
SOS Pacific | Guy Green | Bryan Forbes, Richard Attenborough | Thriller | |||
The Square Peg | John Paddy Carstairs | Norman Wisdom, Edward Chapman | World War II Comedy | |||
Strictly Confidential | Charles Saunders | Richard Murdoch, William Kendall | Comedy | |||
Subway in the Sky | Muriel Box | Van Johnson, Hildegard Knef | Crime | |||
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll | Leslie Norman | Ernest Borgnine, Anne Baxter | Comedy/Drama | Co-production with Australia | ||
Tarzan's Greatest Adventure | John Guillermin | Gordon Scott, Anthony Quayle, Sara Shane | African adventure | |||
Tiger Bay | J. Lee Thompson | John Mills, Hayley Mills, Horst Buchholz | Crime/Thriller | |||
Tommy the Toreador | John Paddy Carstairs | Tommy Steele, Janet Munroe | Musical Comedy | |||
Too Many Crooks | Mario Zampi | Terry-Thomas, George Cole | Comedy | |||
Top Floor Girl | Max Varnel | Kay Callard, Neil Hallett | Drama | |||
A Touch of Larcenry | Guy Hamilton | James Mason, George Sanders | Comedy | |||
The Treasure of San Teresa | Alvin Rakoff | Eddie Constantine, Dawn Addams | Thriller | Also known as Hot Money Girl | ||
Upstairs and Downstairs | Ralph Thomas | Michael Craig, Anne Heywood | Comedy | |||
The Ugly Duckling | Lance Comfort | Bernard Bresslaw, Jon Pertwee | Comedy | |||
Violent Moment | Sidney Hayers | Lyndon Brook, Jane Hylton | Drama | |||
Virgin Island | Pat Jackson | John Cassavetes, Virginia Maskell, Sidney Poitier | Drama | |||
Web of Evidence | Jack Cardiff | Van Johnson, Vera Miles | Thriller | |||
Whirlpool | Lewis Allen | Juliette Gréco, Muriel Pavlow | Drama | |||
The Witness | Geoffrey Muller | Dermot Walsh, Greta Gynt | Crime | |||
A Woman's Temptation | Godfrey Grayson | Patricia Driscoll, Robert Ayres | Crime | |||
The Wreck of the Mary Deare | Michael Anderson | Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave | Thriller | |||
Yesterday's Enemy | Val Guest | Stanley Baker, Leo McKern | World War II |
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