Best Movies from UK by Year
2809
678
1943
Vernon Sewell, Gordon Wellesley
Ralph Richardson, Googie Withers, Esmond Knight, Beresford Egan, Frederick Burtwell
Drama / War
UK
English
1320
210
1942
Noel Coward, David Lean
Noel Coward, John Mills
Drama / War
UK
English
1683
289
1942
Alberto Cavalcanti
Leslie Banks, Basil Sydney, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Valerie Taylor
Thriller / War / Drama
UK
English
1960
368
1942
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Godfrey Tearle, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams, Bernard Miles
Drama / War
UK
English
2742
647
1942
Thorold Dickinson
Basil Sydney, Frederick Leister, Reginald Tate, Jack Hawkins
Drama / Spy / Action / War
UK
English
2822
687
1942
Humphrey Jennings, Stewart McAllister
Chesney Allen, Bud Flanagan, Leonard Brockington, Myra Hess
Documentary / Short / War
UK
English
1047
165
1941
Gabriel Pascal, Harold French, David Lean
Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton
Comedy
UK
English
1158
182
1941
Michael Powell
Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey, Anton Walbrook
Drama / War / Thriller
UK
English
2011
377
1941
Carol Reed
Philip Frost, Michael Redgrave, Diana Wynyard, Diana Calderwood, Phyllis Calvert
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2332
487
1941
Anthony Asquith
Margaret Lockwood, Derek Farr, Marjorie Fielding, A.E. Matthews, Athene Seyler
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
2343
492
1941
John Baxter
Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, George Carney, Mary Merrall, Geoffrey Hibbert
Drama
UK
English
2366
503
1941
Alexander Korda
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper
Drama / History / Romance / War / Biography
UK
English
527
61
1940
Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, Alexander Korda, Zoltan Korda, William Cameron Menzies
Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin, Rex Ingram
Adventure / Family / Fantasy
UK / USA
English
1501
244
1940
Thorold Dickinson
Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell, Robert Newton
Thriller
UK
English
1943
361
1940
Carol Reed
Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne
Thriller / War / Spy
UK
English
2608
593
1940
Michael Powell
Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Joss Ambler, Raymond Lovell
Adventure / Romance / Spy
UK
English
2692
627
1940
Humphrey Jennings, Harry Watt
Quentin Reynolds, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
Documentary / War / Short
UK
English
1036
161
1939
Carol Reed
Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Emlyn Williams, Nancy Price
Drama
UK
English
1605
270
1939
Zoltan Korda
John Clements, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, June Duprez
Adventure / War
UK
English
2692
627
1939
Pat Jackson, Humphrey Jennings, Harry Watt
Short / Documentary / War
UK
English
2742
647
1939
Michael Powell
Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw, Marius Goring
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Thriller / War / Spy
UK
English
545
64
1938
Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard
Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller
Drama / Comedy / Romance
UK
English
703
92
1938
Alfred Hitchcock
Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy / Comedy
UK
English
2486
550
1938
Zoltan Korda
Sabu, Raymond Massey, Roger Livesey, Valerie Hobson
Adventure / War / Drama
UK
English
2636
601
1938
Len Lye, Norman McLaren, William Coldstream, Pat Jackson, Lotte Reiniger, Harry Watt, Basil Wright
John Grierson, Stuart Legg, Evelyn Corbett, Dwight Godwin, Charlotte Leigh
Documentary / Musical / Animation / Short / Experimental / Comedy / Romance
UK / Canada
English
2692
627
1938
Carol Reed
John Lodge, Margaret Lockwood, Hugh Williams, René Ray, Merle Tottenham
Drama / Romance / Comedy
UK
English
2692
627
1938
Jack Conway
Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Vivien Leigh, Edmund Gwenn
Drama / Comedy / Sports
UK
English
2742
647
1938
Erich Pommer, Bartlett Cormack
Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Robert Newton, Tyrone Guthrie
Drama / Romance
UK
English
2742
647
1938
Victor Saville
Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn, Ann Todd
Drama
UK
English
2742
647
1938
Robert Stevenson
Will Fyffe, John Loder, Margaret Lockwood, Graham Moffatt
Drama
UK
English
2809
678
1938
unknown
Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli
Short / Documentary / Biography / Music
UK
English
2015
379
1937
William K. Howard
Flora Robson, Raymond Massey, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh
Adventure / History / Romance / War
UK
English
2218
441
1937
Marcel Varnel
Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Sebastian Smith, Agnes Lauchlan
Comedy / Crime
UK
English
2308
474
1937
Michael Powell
Belle Chrystall, Niall MacGinnis, John Laurie, Eric Berry
Drama / Documentary
UK
English
2486
550
1937
Herbert Wilcox
Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilla, H.B. Warner, Mary Morris
Drama / History / Romance / Biography
UK
English
2557
576
1937
Robert J. Flaherty, Zoltan Korda
Sabu, W.E. Holloway, Walter Hudd, Allan Jeayes
Drama / Adventure
UK
English
2692
627
1937
Harold D. Schuster
Annabella, Henry Fonda, Leslie Banks, Stewart Rome, Irene Vanbrugh, Harry Tate
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Sports
UK
English
2694
629
1937
Jacques Feyder
Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh, Herbert Lomas, Austin Trevor
Adventure / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film / Romance
UK
English
2809
678
1937
Geoffrey Barkas, Milton Rosmer
Richard Arlen, Lilli Palmer, Antoinette Cellier, Barry MacKay, Roy Emerton
Action / Drama / Adventure / Romance
UK
English
2809
678
1937
Alfred Hitchcock
Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare
Crime / Thriller / Romance
UK
English
2862
700
1937
Marcel Varnel
Will Hay, Martita Hunt, Peter Gawthorne, Graham Moffatt
Drama
UK
English
898
139
1936
William Cameron Menzies
Raymond Massey, Edward Chapman, Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott
Sci-Fi
UK
English
1350
216
1936
Alexander Korda
Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester
Drama / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
1534
251
1936
Alfred Hitchcock
Sylvia Sidney, Oskar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder, Joyce Barbour
Drama / Thriller / Spy
UK
English
1937
359
1936
Lothar Mendes
Roland Young, Ralph Richardson, Edward Chapman, Ernest Thesiger, Joan Gardner
Comedy / Sci-Fi / Fantasy
UK
English
2396
515
1936
Alfred Hitchcock
John Gielgud, Madeleine Carroll, Peter Lorre, Robert Young
Mystery / Thriller / Romance / Drama / Spy / Action / Comedy
UK
English
2566
579
1936
Harry Watt, Basil Wright
John Grierson, Stuart Legg
Short / Documentary
UK
English
2742
647
1936
Robert Stevenson
Cedric Hardwicke, Nova Pilbeam, John Mills, Felix Aylmer
Drama / History / Biography
UK
English
293
26
1935
Alfred Hitchcock
Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft
Mystery / Thriller / Drama / Spy
UK
English
1549
255
1935
René Clair
Robert Donat, Jean Parker, Eugene Pallette, Elsa Lanchester
Comedy / Romance / Fantasy
UK
English
2483
548
1935
Zoltan Korda
Leslie Banks, Paul Robeson, Nina Mae McKinney, Martin Walker
Adventure / Drama
UK
English
2809
678
1935
Milton Rosmer
Tod Slaughter, Sophie Stewart, D.J. Williams, Eric Portman, Clare Greet
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English
1378
225
1934
Harold Young
Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Raymond Massey, Nigel Bruce, Bramwell Fletcher
Adventure / Comedy / Period Film / Family
UK
English
1438
233
1934
Alfred Hitchcock
Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper
Thriller / Spy
UK
English
1638
277
1934
Robert J. Flaherty
Colman 'Tiger' King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane
Documentary
UK
English
2339
490
1934
Basil Dean
Gracie Fields, Arthur Sinclair, Frank Pettingell, Evelyn Roberts, Olive Sloane
Comedy / Musical
UK
English
2742
647
1934
Paul Czinner
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
2742
647
1934
Nicolas Farkas, Viktor Tourjansky
Charles Boyer, Merle Oberon, John Loder, Betty Stockfeld
Romance / Drama / Period Film / War
France / UK
English
2790
667
1934
Alexander Korda
Douglas Fairbanks, Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes, Joan Gardner
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English
735
100
1933
Alexander Korda
Charles Laughton, Robert Donat
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
UK
English
2336
489
1933
Victor Saville
Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Muriel Aked, Cyril Smith, Richard Hulton
Comedy / Drama
UK
English
2694
629
1933
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Feodor Chaliapin Sr., George Robey, René Donnio, Renée Valliers
Adventure / Musical / Comedy / Drama / Romance
France / UK
French
2742
647
1933
Basil Dean
Victoria Hopper, Brian Aherne, Leonora Corbett, Lyn Harding
Romance / Drama
UK
English
2809
678
1933
Victor Saville
Madeleine Carroll, Herbert Marshall, Conrad Veidt, Edmund Gwenn, Gerald du Maurier
Biography / War / Spy
UK
English
1764
304
1932
Walter Forde
Conrad Veidt, Esther Ralston, Hugh Williams, Donald Calthrop
Thriller / Mystery / Drama / Detective
UK
English
2692
627
1932
Anthony Asquith
Ann Casson, Carl Harbord, Michael Hogan, Moore Marriott, Flora Robson
Drama / Romance
UK
English
2742
647
1932
Alexander Korda
Leslie Howard, George Grossmith, Benita Hume, Elizabeth Allan
Comedy / Romance
UK
English
2692
627
1931
Victor Saville
Brian Aherne, Madeleine Carroll, Gordon Harker, Gibb McLaughlin, George Merritt
War / Drama
UK
English
2694
629
1931
F.W. Kraemer, Milton Rosmer
Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Carson, George Merritt, Sam Livesey, Beatrix Thompson
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2742
647
1931
Anthony Asquith
Fay Compton, Tony Bruce, Carl Harbord, Dennis Hoey
War / Epic
UK
English
2809
678
1931
Alfred Hitchcock
Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont, Betty Amann, Elsie Randolph
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Adventure
UK
English
2809
678
1931
Alfred Hitchcock
C.V. France, Helen Haye, Jill Esmond, Edmund Gwenn, John Longden, Phyllis Konstam
Drama
UK
English
2135
415
1930
Alfred Hitchcock
Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Edward Chapman, Miles Mander
Crime / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Drama
UK
English
2799
673
1930
James Whale
Colin Clive, Ian Maclaren, David Manners, Billy Bevan, Anthony Bushell
Drama / War
UK / USA
English
820
119
1929
Alfred Hitchcock
Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton
Thriller / Drama
UK
English
2035
383
1929
E.A. Dupont
Gilda Gray, Anna May Wong, Jameson Thomas
Drama / Crime
UK
English (Semi-Silent)
2692
627
1929
Anthony Asquith
Norah Baring, Uno Henning, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Judd Green
Drama / Crime
Sweden / UK
English (Semi-Silent)
2809
678
1929
Richard Eichberg
Anna May Wong, Alexander Granach, Nien Soen Ling, Elwood Fleet Bostwick
Drama / Romance
Germany / UK
German (Silent)
2809
678
1929
Alfred Hitchcock
Carl Brisson, Malcolm Keen, Anny Ondra, Randle Ayrton, Clare Greet
Drama / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
2809
678
1929
Victor Saville
Estelle Brody, Ray Bauduc, Vic Breidis, Benny Goodman, Jimmy McPartland
Short / Music
UK
English
2692
627
1928
Herbert Wilcox
Sybil Thorndike, Marie Ault, Mary Brough, Ada Bodart, Dacia Deane, Haddon Mason
Drama / War
UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1928
Anthony Asquith
Brian Aherne, Elissa Landi, Cyril McLaglen, Norah Baring
Drama / Crime / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
2809
678
1928
Alfred Hitchcock
Betty Balfour, Jean Bradin, Ferdinand von Alten, Gordon Harker
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
2809
678
1928
Alfred Hitchcock
Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker, Gibb McLaughlin, Maud Gill
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
1559
258
1927
Alfred Hitchcock
Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June, Malcolm Keen
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English (Silent)
2296
471
1927
Alfred Hitchcock
Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter, Forrester Harvey
Drama / Romance / Sports
UK
English (Silent)
2514
563
1927
A.V. Bramble, Anthony Asquith
Brian Aherne, Annette Benson, Chili Bouchier, David Brooks, Donald Calthrop
Drama / Crime
UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1925
Alfred Hitchcock
Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty, Miles Mander, John Stuart, Ferdinand Martini
Drama / Crime
UK / Germany
English (Silent)
2692
627
1924
Herbert Wilcox
Lionel Barrymore, Ivy Duke, Werner Krauss, Bernhard Goetzke, Randle Ayrton
Drama / Romance
UK / Germany
English (Silent)
2809
678
1924
Herbert G. Ponting
Robert Falcon Scott, Herbert G. Ponting
Documentary / Biography
UK
English (Silent)
2809
678
1924
Graham Cutts
Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Henry Victor, A.B. Imeson, Olaf Hytten, Daisy Campbell
Drama
UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1923
Graham Cutts
Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Josephine Earle, Marie Ault, Myrtle Peter
Drama / Romance / War
UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1921
Harold M. Shaw
George K. Arthur, Edna Flugrath, Christine Rayner, Teddy Arundell, Norman Thorpe
Comedy
UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1921
George Pearson
Betty Balfour, Hugh E. Wright, Fred Groves, Mary Brough, W. Cronin Wilson
Comedy / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1920
Cecil M. Hepworth
Leslie Henson, Alma Taylor, Gerald Ames, James Carew, Eileen Dennes, John McAndrews
Comedy
UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1920
George Pearson
Hugh E. Wright, Moyna MacGill, Betty Balfour, George Keene, Mabel Poulton
Drama
UK
English (Silent)
2229
445
1919
Frank Hurley
Ernest Shackleton, Captain F. Worsley, Lieutenant J. Stenhouse, Captain L. Hussey
Documentary / Adventure
Australia / UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1917
Fred Paul
Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Irene Vanbrugh, Henry S. Irving, Gerald du Maurier
Drama / Romance / Biography
UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1916
George Loane Tucker
Gerald Ames, Manora Thew, Kenelm Foss, Douglas Munro, Marga La Rubia
Crime / Detective
UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1916
William G.B. Barker, Horace Lisle Lucoque
Alice Delysia, Henry Victor, Sydney Bland, Blanche Forsythe, Jack Denton
Fantasy
UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1916
George Pearson
Aurelio Sidney, J.L.V. Leigh, A. Caton Woodville, Marjorie Dunbar, M. Goujet
Adventure / Fantasy
UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1915
Bert Haldane, F. Martin Thornton
Blanche Forsythe, Roy Travers, Robert Purdie, Thomas H. MacDonald, Dora De Winton
Drama
UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1915
Cecil M. Hepworth
Henry Ainley, J.V. Bryant, Stewart Rome, Alma Taylor, Chrissie White
Drama / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1914
unknown
Fred Evans
Comedy / Short
UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1914
George Pearson
James Bragington, Fred Paul, Agnes Glynne, Henry Paulo, James Le Fre
Mystery / Crime / Detective
UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1913
Thomas Bentley
Len Bethel, Jamie Darling, Reginald Sheffield, Alma Taylor
Drama / Animation / Family
UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1913
Hay Plumb
Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude Elliot, Walter Ringham, Adeleine Bourne
Drama
UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1913
Laurence Trimble
John Bunny, James Prior, Sidney Hunt, Fred Hornby, Arthur Ricketts, H.P. Owen
Comedy / Short
UK / USA
English (Silent)
2692
627
1911
William G.B. Barker
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Arthur Bourchier, Violet Vanbrugh, Laura Cowie
Drama / History / Biography
UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1911
Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro
Salvatore Papa, Arturo Pirovano, Giuseppe de Liguoro, Augusto Milla, Attilio Motta
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy
Italy / UK
Italian (Silent)
2692
627
1905
Lewin Fitzhamon, Cecil M. Hepworth
May Clark, Barbara Hepworth, Cecil M. Hepworth, Mrs. Hepworth, Rover
Short / Drama / Family
UK
English (Silent)
2692
627
1903
Cecil M. Hepworth, Percy Stow
May Clark, Cecil M. Hepworth, Geoffrey Faithfull, Stanley Faithfull, Mrs. Hepworth
Fantasy / Short
UK
English (Silent)
