List of the best Sidney Gilliat movies: Green for Danger(1946), She Played With Fire(1958), Only Two Can Play(1962), Waterloo Road(1945), Notorious Gentleman(1945), The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery(1965), Endless Night(1972), The Great Gilbert and Sullivan(1953), The Constant Husband(1955), State Secret(1950), London Belongs to Me(1948) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1946
93 Minutes
Director
Alastair Sim Trevor Howard Sally Gray Rosamund John Leo Genn Judy Campbell Megs Jenkins Moore Marriott Henry Edwards Ronald Adam George Woodbridge
doctor nun nurse detective patient chilling engaging suspenseful hospital england murder betrayal war mystery 1940s
After the nurse who declares that a recent surgical death was a murder dies also, an enigmatic Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
1958
95 Minutes
Director
Jack Hawkins Arlene Dahl Dennis Price Violet Farebrother Ian Hunter Christopher Lee Bernard Miles Greta Gynt
insurance investigator old flame blackmailer suspenseful passionate uneasy manor fire love mystery love 1950s
An insurance investigator runs into an ex-girlfriend, who is still as beautiful as he remembered her, but is now married. He soon finds himself involved in arson, blackmail, and murder.
Comedy
UK
1962
106 Minutes
Director
Peter Sellers Mai Zetterling Virginia Maskell Richard Attenborough Kenneth Griffith Maudie Edwards Frederick Piper Graham Stark John Arnatt Sheila Manahan John Le Mesurier
librarian wife playwright councilor designer best friend amusing passionate uneasy wales small town library apartment household adultery unhappy marriage friendship career betrayal secret plans
John Lewis is bored by his librarian's job and henpecked at home. Then Liz, wife of a local counciller, sets her sights on him. But this is risky stuff in a Welsh valleys town - if he and ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
UK
1945
76 Minutes
Director
John Mills Stewart Granger Alastair Sim Joy Shelton Alison Leggatt Beatrice Varley
soldier draft dodger wife doctor ex-girlfriend air raid warden spirited cheeky engaging intense heartwarming london train station air-raid shelter office street household world war ii marriage deception
A drama set during World War II. A tale of adultery and desertion.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1945
109 Minutes
Director
Rex Harrison Lilli Palmer Godfrey Tearle Griffith Jones Margaret Johnston Guy Middleton Jean Kent
playboy student secretary colonel best friend wife cool crafty engaging college england oxford university self-discovery seduction world war ii relationships bad behavior redemption discovery pursuit
Vivian Kenway (Sir Rex Harrison), a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, ... See full summary »
Comedy, Action
UK
1965
94 Minutes
Sidney Gilliat Frankie Howerd Dora Bryan Reg Varney Desmond Walter-Ellis Cyril Chamberlain Arthur Mullard Stratford Johns Raymond Huntley Richard Wattis Peter Gilmore
train robber girl school principal schoolgirl cheeky amusing airy witty all-girls school england train robbery robbery attempt comedy female bonding school adventure discovery 1960s
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1972
99 Minutes
Director
Hayley Mills Hywel Bennett Britt Ekland George Sanders Per Oscarsson Peter Bowles Lois Maxwell
A working-class young Englishman marries an affable American heiress, but their marital bliss is soon interrupted when they begin constructing a home on land alleged to be cursed.
Biography
USA
1953
105 Minutes
Director
Robert Morley Maurice Evans Eileen Herlie Martyn Green Peter Finch Dinah Sheridan Wilfrid Hyde-White Isabel Dean Michael Ripper Bernadette O'Farrell
composer writer impresario wife engaging spirited england london theater theater partnership opera william s. gilbert arthur sullivan musical performance rivalry discovery 1890s
The seafaring adventures of French privateer Kit 'The Hawk' Gerardo during the Franco-Spanish-English war of the 17th century.
Comedy
1955
84 Minutes
Director
Rex Harrison Margaret Leighton Kay Kendall Cecil Parker Nicole Maurey George Cole Raymond Huntley Michael Hordern Robert Coote Eric Pohlmann
man wife specialist doctor charming emotional airy amusing hilarious wales hotel room doctor's office london amnesia fake identity marriage humor love forbidden love quest
An amnesiac (Rex Harrison) wakes up one morning in Wales and learns, through a psychiatrist, he has seven wives.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
1950
104 Minutes
Director
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Glynis Johns Jack Hawkins Walter Rilla Karel Stepanek Herbert Lom Hans Moser
surgeon singer dictator intelligence officer spy thrilling melodramatic suspenseful balkans hotel government building operating room cabaret politics surgery kidnapping death americans abroad pursuit escape
Comedy, Drama
1948
112 Minutes
Director
Richard Attenborough Alastair Sim Stephen Murray Fay Compton Wylie Watson Susan Shaw Ivy St. Helier Joyce Carey Andrew Crawford Eleanor Summerfield Gladys Henson
The residents of a South London boarding house rally to the defense of a young neighbor accused of murder.