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- A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
- A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.
- Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean old miser who wants nothing to do with Christmas. The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come visit Scrooge on Christmas Eve, taking him on a journey into the very spirit and magic of Christmas itself.
- Sherlock Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.
- Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past.
- When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes an amateur sleuth after developing the film, and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph.
- A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
- A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarty.
- Bob, a railroad engineer on his final trip before retiring, deals with suspicions about his wife and fireman while transporting peculiar passengers. Unanticipated occurrences lead to unforeseen character interactions and resolutions.
- A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.
- Conrad Veidt stars as the Jew who urges Roman authorities to crucify Jesus and release Barabbas. As a punishment, he is condemned by God to wander the Earth for many centuries, enduring innumerable trials and tribulations on several continents.
- A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail, vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang, he keeps his word, only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try to put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort, his problems are just beginning.
- An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.
- Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.
- 1935. Crime drama made at Twickenham Film Studios. Starring Michael Hogan, Dorothy Boyd and Richard Cooper. A man is accused of murder based on evidence written on a playing card.
- A housewife bored with her marriage and her life falls for a sinister man and is persuaded to help him kill her husband.
- A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's "Masterpiece".
- A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
- A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him, she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty old barge Captain.
- Aristocrat's inheritance issues. Marries heiress expecting wealth, but she's disinherited too. Cousin arrives, complicating their financial struggles further amid societal pressures.
- A poor, unemployed woman is made housekeeper at the estate of a wealthy duchess.
- A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
- A young London woman meets an impoverished Russian prince. She brings him home to live with her middle-class family. The prince has diamonds from the last czar to sell. The money and his royal fame transform the family's lives.
- A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison, and when they're let out they go back to the burial ground, only to find out that it's no longer a bucolic pasture but the site of a large department store. Despite that setback, they're still determined to dig up their stash.
- A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.
- Sherlock Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.
- Warm-hearted Cockneys stage a show to help a sick flower-seller.
- A doctor proves his wife's first husband was killed by a neighbour posing as a tramp.
- When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to reveal that Peggy's brother Ralph was shot for cowardice during World War One.
- An escaped convict blackmails a murderous doctor into helping him.
- Set in Ireland, a poor knight's rival frames him for murder.
- A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.
- The relatives of a millionaire--the victim of a mysterious murder--get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record. However, one of them is actually the person who killed him, and will let nothing--or no one--stand in the way of finding that record.
- The heir to a London department store must learn the business, but he must start off by working his way through the various menial jobs incognito first. However, a crooked manager has arranged, for a cracksman, just out of gaol, to join the staff. Each is mistaken for the other.
- A group of theatre workers and artistes come together to organize a Variety Benefit evening for an ailing Music Hall.
- A murder at a country house centres around the whereabouts of a horde of stolen diamonds and the unmasking of people who are not as they at first seem.
- Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
- (1935) Henry Kendall, Eve Gray, Jeanne Stuart, Garry Marsh, Wally Patch. A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed. A Gritty British crime film. From 16mm.
- Sentenced to death, a murderer uses hypnotism skills to make a judge go out and kill the people who had accused him of the crime.
- Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs. The only link between them seems to be Tommy Blyth, whose betting has put him in serious debt with Haines and who fancies Mary, the Lamberti's adopted daughter. In fact, there is a further unexpected link between the two worlds.
- A crime story about a detective's efforts to expose a Paris nobleman as a bank robber.
- A clerk embezzles to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.
- Complications ensue when Frank pretends to be a Freemason in order to clear his gambling debts.
- In France, an inspector solves the poisoning of his rich aunt.
- A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.
- At a firm of contractors a partner is accused of murdering his brother following a takeover bid.
- A boxer sees the error of his ways after deserting his true love.
- Paul Verlaine is a struggling composer whose assistant Germaine is secretly in love with him. Starring John Garrick and Merle Oberon.
- Anton (Frank Vosper) is an exiled Russian Grand-duke but works in a hotel as a night manager with tragic consequences. Also starring Lessee Perrin and Margaret Vines.
- A Cockney flower girl is in love with a policeman whom she wants to marry, while her father opposes the union because he is involved in a little crooked investing.