Keep the films in alphabetical order, ignoring leading articles (The, A or An).
Please keep number of cast members down to 3 or 4.
Entries in the 'Notes' column should be outstanding details about this film in
relation to other films in the same period. Anything about the film itself can
be discovered by following the link to the film.
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| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
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| 1940 |
| 21 Days | Basil Dean | Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks | Drama | Filmed in 1937 |
| All at Sea | Herbert Smith | Sandy Powell, Kay Walsh | Comedy |
| At the Villa Rose | Walter Summers | Judy Kelly, Keneth Kent, Clifford Evans | Mystery |
| Band Waggon | Marcel Varnel | Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch | Comedy |
| Blind Folly | Reginald Denham | Clifford Mollison, Lilli Palmer | Comedy |
| The Briggs Family | Herbert Mason | Edward Chapman, Jane Baxter | Drama |
| Bulldog Sees It Through | Harold Huth | Jack Buchanan, Greta Gynt | Mystery | 18th (out of 26) film with Bulldog Drummond character |
| Busman's Honeymoon | Arthur B. Woods | Robert Montgomery, Constance Cummings, Leslie Banks | Mystery |
| The Case of the Frightened Lady | George King | Marius Goring, Helen Haye | Mystery |
| Cavalcade of Variety | Thomas Bentley | Billy Cotton, Eve Becke | Musical | [1] |
| Channel Incident | Anthony Asquith | Peggy Ashcroft, Gordon Harker | Short/drama |
| Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt | Walter Forde | Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch | Comedy | Based on the farce Charley's Aunt |
| The Chinese Bungalow | George King | Paul Lukas, Kay Walsh, Jane Baxter | Drama |
| Contraband | Michael Powell | Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson | War/spy |
| Convoy | Pen Tennyson | Clive Brook, John Clements, Judy Campbell | War |
| Crimes at the Dark House | George King | Tod Slaughter, Sylvia Marriott, Hilary Eaves | Drama |
| Dead Man's Shoes | Thomas Bentley | Leslie Banks, Judy Kelly, Wilfrid Lawson | Crime drama |
| Dr. O'Dowd | Herbert Mason | Shaun Glenville, Peggy Cummins | Drama |
| The Door with Seven Locks | Norman Lee | Leslie Banks, Lilli Palmer | Horror/mystery |
| An Englishman's Home | Albert de Courville | Edmund Gwenn, Mary Maguire | Drama |
| The Flying Squad | Herbert Brenon | Sebastian Shaw, Phyllis Brooks | Crime |
| For Freedom | Maurice Elvey | Will Fyffe, Anthony Hulme | Drama |
| Full Speed Ahead | John Hunt | Michael Osler, Frederick Peisley, Dinah Sheridan | Thriller |
| Garrison Follies | Maclean Rogers | Barry Lupino, Nancy O'Neil | Comedy | [2] |
| Gaslight | Thorold Dickinson | Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard | Mystery |
| George and Margaret | George King | Marie Lohr, Judy Kelly | Comedy |
| Girl in the News | Carol Reed | Margaret Lockwood, Barry K. Barnes | Thriller |
| The Girl Who Forgot | Adrian Brunel | Elizabeth Allan, Ralph Michael, Enid Stamp-Taylor | Comedy |
| Henry Steps Out | Widgey R. Newman | George Turner, Wally Patch | Comedy |
| His Brother's Keeper | Roy William Neill | Clifford Evans, Tamara Desni | Drama |
| Hoots Mon! | Roy William Neill | Max Miller, Florence Desmond, Hal Walters | Comedy |
| The House of the Arrow | Harold French | Kenneth Kent, Diana Churchill | Mystery |
| It Happened to One Man | Paul L. Stein | Wilfrid Lawson, Nora Swinburne | Drama |
| Jailbirds | Oswald Mitchell | Albert Burdon, Harry Terry | Comedy/crime |
| Just William | Graham Cutts | Richard Lupino, Fred Emney | Comedy |
| Laugh It Off | John Baxter | Tommy Trinder, Jean Colin | Musical comedy |
| Law and Disorder | David MacDonald | Barry K. Barnes, Diana Churchill | Comedy/crime |
| Let George Do It! | Marcel Varnel | George Formby, Phyllis Calvert | Comedy |
| Macushla | Alex Bryce | Liam Gaffney, Pamela Wood | Drama |
| Meet Maxwell Archer | John Paddy Carstairs | John Loder, Marta Labarr | Mystery | |
| The Midas Touch | David MacDonald | Barry K. Barnes, Judy Kelly, Frank Cellier | Thriller |
| The Middle Watch | Thomas Bentley | Jack Buchanan, Greta Gynt | Comedy |
| The Missing People | Jack Raymond | Will Fyffe, Kay Walsh | Mystery |
| Mrs. Pym of Scotland Yard | Fred Ellis | Mary Clare, Edward Lexy | Crime |
| Neutral Port | Marcel Varnel | Will Fyffe, Leslie Banks | War |
| Night Train to Munich | Carol Reed | Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison | Thriller |
| Old Mother Riley in Society | John Baxter | Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane | Comedy |
| Old Mother Riley Joins Up | Maclean Rogers | Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane | Comedy |
| Olympic Honeymoon | Alfred J. Goulding | Claude Hulbert, Monty Banks | Comedy |
| Pack Up Your Troubles | Oswald Mitchell | Reginald Purdell, Wylie Watson | Comedy |
| Pastor Hall | Roy Boulting | Wilfrid Lawson, Nova Pilbeam | Drama |
| The Proud Valley | Pen Tennyson | Paul Robeson, Edward Chapman | Drama |
| Return to Yesterday | Robert Stevenson | Clive Brook, Anna Lee | Drama |
| Room for Two | Maurice Elvey | Frances Day, Vic Oliver, Basil Radford | Comedy |
| Sailors Don't Care | Oswald Mitchell | Tom Gamble, Edward Rigby | Comedy |
| Sailors Three | Walter Forde | Tommy Trinder, Claude Hulbert | Comedy |
| Saloon Bar | Walter Forde | Gordon Harker, Elizabeth Allan | Thriller |
| The Second Mr. Bush | John Paddy Carstairs | Kay Walsh, Derrick De Marney | Comedy |
| Shadowed Eyes | Maclean Rogers | Basil Sydney, Patricia Hilliard | Crime |
| Somewhere in England | John E. Blakeley | Frank Randle, Dan Young | Comedy |
| Spare a Copper | John Paddy Carstairs | George Formby, Dorothy Hyson | Comedy |
| The Spider | Maurice Elvey | Derrick De Marney, Diana Churchill | Crime |
| Spies of the Air | David MacDonald | Edward Ashley, Felix Aylmer | Adventure |
| Spy for a Day | Mario Zampi | Douglas Wakefield, Albert Lieven | Comedy thriller |
| The Stars Look Down | Carol Reed | Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Emlyn Williams | Drama |
| Ten Days in Paris | Tim Whelan | Rex Harrison, Kaaren Verne | Thriller |
| That's the Ticket | Redd Davis | Sid Field, Hal Walters | Comedy | [3] |
| They Came by Night | Harry Lachman | Will Fyffe, Phyllis Calvert | Crime |
| The Thief of Bagdad | Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, Tim Whelan | Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez | Fantasy/adventure | Outbreak of World War II caused this to be finished in the US. |
| Three Silent Men | Daniel Birt | Sebastian Shaw, Derrick De Marney | Crime |
| Tilly of Bloomsbury | Leslie S. Hiscot | Sydney Howard, Jean Gillie | Comedy |
| Two for Danger | George King | Barry K. Barnes, Greta Gynt | Crime |
| Two Smart Men | Widgey R. Newman | Leslie Fuller, Wally Patch | Comedy |
| Under Your Hat | Maurice Elvey | Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge | Comedy |
| Where's That Fire? | Marcel Varnel | Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott | Comedy |
| A Window in London | Herbert Mason | Michael Redgrave, Patricia Roc | Thriller |
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1. ^http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69e56269
2. ^http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6aad6c2d
3. ^http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6b807049