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- On her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
- A rookie trucker tries to expose his boss' rackets.
- An idiosyncratic group of patients wreak havoc in the men's surgical ward of Haven Hospital. They decide to take their revenge on the frosty Matron, and there is even a spot of DIY surgery!
- A cocky German fighter pilot is shot down over England in 1940 and makes numerous attempts to escape to fight again.
- Set on the North West Frontier of colonial India in 1905. A British Army Officer, Captain Scott is sent to rescue a five year old Indian Prince and his American governess, Catherine Wyatt from certain death at the hands of rebel tribesman.
- In the first major naval battle of World War II, the British Navy must find and destroy a powerful German warship.
- In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
- The murder of a young woman in London exposes deep racial tensions and prejudices inherent in the area.
- Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But what a motley bunch they turn out to be.
- During King Arthur's time, a sword maker wishes to win Lady Linet's heart but first he must become a noble knight.
- Biopic of RAF Group Captain Douglas Bader who, after having lost both legs, flew a British fighter plane during WWII.
- Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo, Egypt to embarrass the occupiers.
- During the turbulent days of the French Revolution, Frenchwoman Lucie Manette falls in love with Englishman Charles Darnay, who's hiding his true identity and purpose.
- When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplies to England.
- Pupils run amok at Maudlin Street School in an attempt to hang on to their headmaster. He has applied for a new job, but the students like him and don't want to lose him.
- A newly wealthy English woman returns to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war. Thinking back, she recalls the Australian man who made a great sacrifice to aid her and her fellow prisoners of war.
- During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.
- A British road repairman gets into a feud with the army, gets drafted, and is mistakenly parachuted into German-occupied France where his physical resemblance to the local German commandant triggers a hilarious chain reaction.
- The attack by British submarines on the German battleship "Tirpitz" in a Norwegian fjord during World War II.
- The struggle between a Liverpool Juvenile Liaison officer and a dangerous young pyromaniac.
- In this spoof on crime films, four would-be criminals manage to botch every job they plan. When they try to rob wealthy Billy Gordon (Terry-Thomas) they fail again. But the gang decides to kidnap his daughter.
- In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
- In the Indian Ocean, the new British Resident of the Welcome Islands tangles with loneliness, angry natives, a drunken troublemaker and a sudden outbreak of cholera.
- Englishman Bruce Campbell (Dirk Bogarde) takes possession of his grandfather's Canadian land, but he faces various challenges such as disgruntled locals, a ruthless contractor, a new power dam, and his own bad health.
- A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.
- Lucy Church, the sole witness to a fatal robbery, is struck by a passing bus and her life lies in the balance as the thieves wait for a chance to finish her off.
- When an 18 month old baby disappears in London, a police investigation ensues, though there are few leads.
- Bachelor Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Hélène Colbert (Brigitte Bardot) is around.
- In the African desert, a British soldier romances a native chief's daughter and helps the tribe fight off a German attack.
- Two inmates working to shore up a dike during a severe flood are swept away in the current along with their guard. The three of them wind up in an isolated house whose flooded interior contains a frightened woman.
- Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) graduates and sets out into the world. Hilarious internships follow - with a miserly doctor and his young wife, a country doctor paid in kind not cash, and a quack specializing in rich neurotic women. He applies for a surgery position at a hospital, insults the senior surgeon, then rescues one of the hospital's Governors and finally gets his place on the staff.
- Two brothers join their father in Captain Starlight's bush ranger gang in 19th Century Australia.
- A ship's captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties the new position involves, not least the way he becomes the target for all the comely unattached women on board.
- Norman works in a high-class jewellers and dreams of buying an expensive necklace for a shop girl who works across the street. His chance comes when he places a £1 accumulator on the horse races at Goodwood.
- An Englishman is left with an abandoned, very tame, and domesticated pet alligator, who helps him develop a bond with a young Irishwoman. Plans to get rid of the animal cause mayhem and produce a surprising outcome for all.
- Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have all been given the same serial number. But this is only the start of his troubles: now he must find a way of changing the notes so he can impress the barmaid of his local pub.
- A young girl in a bombed-out part of London wants to make something beautiful, so she plants a garden in a ruined church with help from her friend. None of the adults in her life understand why she wants to do this.
- A friendly window cleaner works at an English country estate where he saves the owner's son from kidnappers.
- On the run from her murderous wartime partner in crime Hermann, Lora hides on a Rhine barge captained by heroic Rolf. The crew of three, Georg, Dina and Braun, quickly accepts her. But, both Hermann and the police are on her trail.
- In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord's daughter. After the two come down with chicken pox, they are put in the charge of fellow guest Miss Cartwright, who turns out to be Humpy's old nanny. The two Englishmen unite not only against her tyranny but against a dense Greek who is also after Mary.
- A middle-aged widower takes his son on a trip to Paris, where they try to find wives for each other.
- Civil Servant Norman becomes the favourite of the rulers of a South Seas island that the British have an interest in.
- A doctor's sophisticated wife joins him at his remote Asian practice to try and patch up their marriage. Increasingly violent friction between local rubber plantation workers and the authorities force both parties to make decisions.
- The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.
- A sideshow owner and his main attraction, a midget, fall for the same woman.
- A cargo ship takes on a female passenger. Can the Captain contain the crew and himself as they hit stormy conditions and emotions explode?
- In London's colourful but seedy Soho of the 1950's, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, with little hope of finding happiness. Then he meets Julia Gozzi, a conservative catholic girl making plans for a new life in Canada, and "The Miracle" happens.