BAFTA 1949-1959

In Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home.

Factory worker Bill Fox (Sir Dirk Bogarde) is fired from a reliable job and becomes a successful motorbike racer, until his wife threatens to leave him unless he comes to his senses.

The story of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott's 1912 expedition and his quest to be the first to reach the South Pole.

A husband and wife stop to help two men in a car crash only to find they are criminals on the run.

Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.

A butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being an impressionable young boy.

St. Vincent de Paul struggles to bring about peace and harmony among peasants and nobles in the midst of the Black Death in Europe, carrying on his charitable work in the face of all obstacles.

In pre-WWI England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, and his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

Brothers from a Welsh village take their first trip to London to collect a prize, and meet a con artist and various other urban distractions.

A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.

Residents of a part of London declare independence after they discover an old treaty, which leads to the need for a "Passport to Pimlico".

An army officer becomes obsessed with learning the secret to a card game for which an elderly countess sold her soul years earlier.

As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on Britain in 1943, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.

Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.

After he has luckily survived the war, Otto tries to build up his new life in the remains of Berlin.

Female prisoners of various ethnic background struggle to survive the hardships of Auschwitz Concentration Camp.

The daily routine of two London policemen is interrupted by a killer.

The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.

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?

When a scientist threatens to detonate a powerful bomb in the heart of London, Scotland Yard has just seven days to find him before it is too late.

In post-WW2 Europe, when the dictator of a small police state dies during surgery, the operating surgeon, who's a visiting American doctor, is held captive in order to preserve the terrible state secret.

True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany.

A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.

The Faust story retold, with an aged alchemist accepting the gift of renewed youth from the devilish Mephistopheles.