
5.3
The Baby and the Battleship
IMDb: 5.3 1956 96 min
After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable ...

6.7
The Ship That Died of Shame
IMDb: 6.7 1955 95 min
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a ...

6.3
Gift Horse
IMDb: 6.3 1952 95 min
Compton Bennett’s war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come ...

5
Father’s Doing Fine
IMDb: 5 1952 80 min
Lady Buckering, an English widow, has four daughters; Doreen, married to Dougall and about to give birth at home, and Gerda, Bicky and Catherine. ...

6.7
Eight O’Clock Walk
IMDb: 6.7 1954 87 min
Only a British cabdriver’s (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O’Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a ...

7
The Magic Box
IMDb: 7 1952 118 min
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name ...

7
Morning Departure
IMDb: 7 1950 102 min
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?

6.1
Boys in Brown
IMDb: 6.1 1949 84 min
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years ...

6.8
The Guinea Pig
IMDb: 6.8 1948 97 min
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social ...

6.5
Dancing with Crime
IMDb: 6.5 1947 83 min
When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover ...

7.3
Brighton Rock
IMDb: 7.3 1948 92 min
Centring on the activities of a gang of assorted criminals and, in particular, their leader – a vicious young hoodlum known as ...

8
A Matter of Life and Death
IMDb: 8 1946 104 min
When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. ...

6.5
Journey Together
IMDb: 6.5 1945 95 min
Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.