| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | ||||||
| The Adventurers | David MacDonald | Jack Hawkins, Peter Hammond | Adventure | |||
| The African Queen | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn | African Adventure | |||
| Another Man's Poison | Irving Rapper | Bette Davis, Gary Merrill | Crime drama | |||
| Appointment with Venus | Ralph Thomas | George Coulouris, David Niven, Glynis Johns | World War II/Comedy | |||
| Assassin for Hire | Michael McCarthy | Sydney Tafler, Ronald Howard | Crime | |||
| The Black Widow | Vernon Sewell | Christine Norden, Robert Ayres | Thriller | |||
| Blackmailed | Marc Allégret | Mai Zetterling, Dirk Bogarde | Drama | |||
| The Browning Version | Anthony Asquith | Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick | Drama | |||
| Calling Bulldog Drummond | Victor Saville | Walter Pidgeon, Robert Beatty | Crime | |||
| Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. | Raoul Walsh | Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo | Adventure | |||
| A Case for PC 49 | Francis Searle | Brian Reece, Joy Shelton | Mystery | |||
| Circle of Danger | Jacques Tourneur | Ray Milland, Patricia Roc | Thriller | |||
| Cloudburst | Francis Searle | Robert Preston, Harold Lang, Elizabeth Sellars | Drama | |||
| The Clouded Yellow | Ralph Thomas | Trevor Howard, Jean Simmons | Thriller | |||
| The Court Martial of Major Keller | Ernest Morris | Laurence Payne, Susan Stephen | Drama | |||
| Cry, the Beloved Country | Zoltan Korda | Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier | African Drama | Entered into the 2nd Berlin International Film Festival | ||
| The Dark Man | Jeffrey Dell | Maxwell Reed, Edward Underdown | Thriller | |||
| Encore | Pat Jackson, Harold French, Anthony Pelissier | Nigel Patrick, Kay Walsh | Drama | Anthology of stories by W. Somerset Maugham | ||
| Files from Scotland Yard | Anthony Squire | John Harvey, Moira Lister | Crime | |||
| Flesh & Blood | Anthony Kimmins | Richard Todd, Glynis Johns | Drama | |||
| Four Days | John Guillermin | Hugh McDermott, Kathleen Byron | Drama | |||
| The Franchise Affair | Lawrence Huntington | Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray | Thriller | |||
| The Galloping Major | Henry Cornelius | Basil Radford, Jimmy Hanley, Janette Scott | Comedy | |||
| Green Grow the Rushes | Derek N. Twist | Roger Livesey, Honor Blackman | Comedy | |||
| Happy Go Lovely | H. Bruce Humberstone | Vera Ellen, David Niven | Romance | |||
| High Treason | Roy Boulting | Liam Redmond, André Morell | Crime | |||
| Home to Danger | Terence Fisher | Guy Rolfe, Rona Anderson | Crime | |||
| Hotel Sahara | Ken Annakin | Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Ustinov | Comedy | |||
| I'll Get You for This | Joseph M. Newman | George Raft, Coleen Gray | Crime | |||
| The Lady with the Lamp | Herbert Wilcox | Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding | Biopic | |||
| Lady Godiva Rides Again | Frank Launder | Diana Dors, Alastair Sim | Comedy | |||
| The Late Edwina Black | Maurice Elvey | David Farrar, Geraldine Fitzgerald | Drama | |||
| Laughter in Paradise | Mario Zampi | Alastair Sim, George Cole | Comedy | |||
| The Lavender Hill Mob | Charles Crichton | Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James | Comedy | Number 17 in the BFI Top 100 British films. Ealing Studios | ||
| Let's Go Crazy | Alan Cullimore | Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers | Comedy | |||
| The Long Dark Hall | Reginald Beck, Anthony Bushell | Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer | Crime | |||
| Madame Louise | Maclean Rogers | Richard Hearne, Petula Clark, Garry Marsh | Comedy | |||
| The Magic Box | John Boulting | Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston | Biopic | |||
| The Man in the White Suit | Alexander Mackendrick | Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker | Comedy | Number 58 in the BFI Top 100 British films. Ealing Studios | ||
| Mister Drake's Duck | Val Guest | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Yolande Donlan | Science Fiction/Comedy | |||
| Monte Carlo Baby | Jean Boyer, Lester Fuller | Audrey Hepburn | Comedy | |||
| Murder in the Catherdral | George Hoellering | John Groser, Alexander Gauge | Historical | |||
| Mystery Junction | Michael McCarthy | Sydney Tafler, Barbara Murray | Crime | |||
| Night Without Stars | Anthony Pelissier | David Farrar, Nadia Gray | Crime | |||
| No Highway in the Sky | Henry Koster | James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich | Drama | |||
| No Resting Place | Paul Rotha | Michael Gough | Drama | |||
| Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure | Maclean Rogers | Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane | Comedy | |||
| One Wild Oat | Charles Saunders | Robertson Hare, Stanley Holloway, Sam Costa | Comedy | |||
| Out of True | Philip Leacock | Jane Hylton, Muriel Pavlow | Drama documentary | |||
| Pandora and the Flying Dutchman | Albert Lewin | Ava Gardner, James Mason, Nigel Patrick | Drama | |||
| Penny Points to Paradise | Tony Young | Harry Secombe, Alfred Marks, Peter Sellers | Comedy | |||
| The Quiet Woman | John Gilling | Derek Bond, Jane Hylton | Crime | |||
| Pool of London | Basil Dearden | Bonar Colleano, Earl Cameron, Susan Shaw | Drama | |||
| The Rossiter Case | Francis Searle | Helen Shingler, Clement McCallin | Mystery | |||
| Scarlet Thread | Lewis Gilbert | Kathleen Byron, Laurence Harvey | Drama | |||
| Scrooge | Brian Desmond Hurst | Alastair Sim, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley | Literary drama | |||
| The Six Men | Michael Law | Harold Warrender, Olga Edwardes | Crime | |||
| The Small Miracle | Maurice Cloche, Ralph Smart | Vittorio Manunta, Denis O'Dea | Drama | |||
| The Smart Aleck | John Guillermin | Peter Reynolds, Mercy Haystead | Crime | |||
| A Tale of Five Cities | Various | Bonar Colleano, Barbara Kelly | Mystery | |||
| The Tales of Hoffmann | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Robert Rounseville, Moira Shearer, Ludmilla Tchérina | Ballet | Two Academy Award nominations. Entered at Cannes and Berlin | ||
| There Is Another Sun | Lewis Gilbert | Maxwell Reed, Laurence Harvey | Drama | |||
| The Third Visitor | Maurice Elvey | Sonia Dresdel, Guy Middleton | Crime | |||
| Tom Brown's Schooldays | Gordon Parry | Robert Newton, John Howard Davies, James Hayter | Drama | |||
| Two on the Tiles | John Guillermin | Herbert Lom, Brenda Bruce | Comedy | |||
| Where No Vultures Fly | Harry Watt | Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan | African Adventure | |||
| White Corridors | Pat Jackson | Googie Withers, James Donald | Drama | |||
| Young Wives' Tale | Henry Cass | Joan Greenwood, Nigel Patrick, Audrey Hepburn | Comedy | |||
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