# List of British films of 1951

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1951 (see 1951 in film):

## A–K

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| The Adventurers | David MacDonald | Jack Hawkins, Peter Hammond, Dennis Price | Adventure | |
| The African Queen | John Huston | Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley | Adventure | |
| Another Man's Poison | Irving Rapper | Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Anthony Steel | Crime drama | |
| Appointment with Venus | Ralph Thomas | David Niven, Glynis Johns, George Coulouris | War comedy | |
| Assassin for Hire | Michael McCarthy | Sydney Tafler, Ronald Howard, Katherine Blake | Crime | |
| Black Widow | Vernon Sewell | Christine Norden, Robert Ayres, Jennifer Jayne | Thriller | |
| Blackmailed | Marc Allégret | Mai Zetterling, Dirk Bogarde, Fay Compton | Drama | |
| The Browning Version | Anthony Asquith | Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick | Drama | |
| Calling Bulldog Drummond | Victor Saville | Walter Pidgeon, Margaret Leighton, David Tomlinson | Crime | |
| Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. | Raoul Walsh | Gregory Peck, Virginia Mayo, Robert Beatty | Adventure | |
| A Case for PC 49 | Francis Searle | Brian Reece, Joy Shelton, Christine Norden | Mystery | |
| Cheer the Brave | Kenneth Hume | Elsie Randolph, Geoffrey Keen, Jack McNaughton | Comedy | |
| Chelsea Story | Charles Saunders | Henry Mollison, Sydney Tafler, Ingeborg Wells | Crime | |
| Circle of Danger | Jacques Tourneur | Ray Milland, Patricia Roc, Marius Goring | Thriller | |
| Cloudburst | Francis Searle | Robert Preston, Harold Lang, Elizabeth Sellars | Drama | |
| Cry, the Beloved Country | Zoltan Korda | Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier, Joyce Carey | Drama | Entered into the 2nd Berlin International Film Festival |
| The Dark Light | Vernon Sewell | Albert Lieven, David Greene, Katharine Blake | Drama | |
| The Dark Man | Jeffrey Dell | Maxwell Reed, Natasha Parry, Edward Underdown | Thriller | |
| Death Is a Number | Robert Henryson | Terence Alexander, Lesley Osmond, Ingeborg Wells | Horror | |
| Encore | Pat Jackson, Harold French, Anthony Pelissier | Nigel Patrick, Glynis Johns, Kay Walsh | Drama | Anthology of stories by W. Somerset Maugham |
| Files from Scotland Yard | Anthony Squire | John Harvey, Moira Lister, Reginald Purdell | Crime | |
| Flesh and Blood | Anthony Kimmins | Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, Joan Greenwood | Drama | |
| Four Days | John Guillermin | Hugh McDermott, Kathleen Byron, Peter Reynolds | Drama | |
| The Franchise Affair | Lawrence Huntington | Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Marjorie Fielding | Thriller | |
| The Galloping Major | Henry Cornelius | Basil Radford, Jimmy Hanley, Janette Scott | Comedy | |
| Green Grow the Rushes | Derek N. Twist | Richard Burton, Honor Blackman, Roger Livesey | Comedy | |
| Happy Go Lovely | H. Bruce Humberstone | Vera Ellen, David Niven, Cesar Romero | Musical | |
| Hell Is Sold Out | Michael Anderson | Mai Zetterling, Herbert Lom, Richard Attenborough | Drama | |
| High Treason | Roy Boulting | Liam Redmond, André Morell, Patric Doonan | Crime | |
| Home to Danger | Terence Fisher | Guy Rolfe, Rona Anderson, Alan Wheatley | Crime | |
| The House in the Square | Roy Ward Baker | Tyrone Power, Ann Blyth, Michael Rennie | Drama, Romance | |
| Honeymoon Deferred | Mario Camerini | Sally Ann Howes, Griffith Jones, Kieron Moore | Comedy | Co-production with Italy |
| Hotel Sahara | Ken Annakin | Yvonne De Carlo, Peter Ustinov, David Tomlinson | Comedy | |
| I'll Get You for This | Joseph M. Newman | George Raft, Coleen Gray, Charles Goldner | Crime | |

## L–Z

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| Lady Godiva Rides Again | Frank Launder | Pauline Stroud, Stanley Holloway, Diana Dors | Comedy | |
| The Lady with a Lamp | Herbert Wilcox | Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Felix Aylmer | Biopic | |
| The Late Edwina Black | Maurice Elvey | David Farrar, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Roland Culver | Drama | |
| Laughter in Paradise | Mario Zampi | Alastair Sim, George Cole, Guy Middleton | Comedy | |
| The Lavender Hill Mob | Charles Crichton | Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sid James | Comedy | Number 17 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films; Ealing Studios |
| Let's Go Crazy | Alan Cullimore | Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Wallas Eaton | Comedy | |
| Life in Her Hands | Philip Leacock | Kathleen Byron, Bernadette O'Farrell, Joan Maude | Drama | |
| The Long Dark Hall | Reginald Beck, Anthony Bushell | Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Raymond Huntley | Crime | |
| Madame Louise | Maclean Rogers | Richard Hearne, Petula Clark, Garry Marsh | Comedy | |
| The Magic Box | John Boulting | Robert Donat, Margaret Johnston, Maria Schell | Biopic | |
| The Man in the White Suit | Alexander Mackendrick | Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker | Comedy | Number 58 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films; Ealing Studios |
| Mr. Denning Drives North | Anthony Kimmins | John Mills, Phyllis Calvert, Herbert Lom | Mystery | |
| Mister Drake's Duck | Val Guest | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Yolande Donlan, Wilfrid Hyde-White | Sci-fi comedy | |
| Murder in the Cathedral | George Hoellering | John Groser, Alexander Gauge, George Woodbridge | Historical | |
| Mystery Junction | Michael McCarthy | Sydney Tafler, Barbara Murray, Patricia Owens | Crime | |
| Never Take No for an Answer | Maurice Cloche, Ralph Smart | Denis O'Dea, Nerio Bernardi, Clelia Matania | Drama | Co-production with Italy |
| Night Was Our Friend | Michael Anderson | Elizabeth Sellars, Michael Gough, Ronald Howard | Drama | |
| Night Without Stars | Anthony Pelissier | David Farrar, Nadia Gray, Maurice Teynac | Crime | |
| No Highway in the Sky | Henry Koster | James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns | Drama | |
| No Resting Place | Paul Rotha | Michael Gough, Noel Purcell, Eithne Dunne | Drama | |
| Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure | Maclean Rogers | Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Garry Marsh | Comedy | |
| One Wild Oat | Charles Saunders | Robertson Hare, Stanley Holloway, Ingeborg Wells | Comedy | |
| Out of True | Philip Leacock | Jane Hylton, Muriel Pavlow, Mary Merrall | Drama | |
| Outcast of the Islands | Carol Reed | Trevor Howard, Ralph Richardson, Robert Morley | Drama | |
| 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 | |
| Pool of London | Basil Dearden | Bonar Colleano, Earl Cameron, Susan Shaw | Drama | |
| The Quiet Woman | John Gilling | Derek Bond, Jane Hylton, Dora Bryan | Crime | |
| The Rossiter Case | Francis Searle | Helen Shingler, Clement McCallin, Sheila Burrell | Mystery | |
| Scarlet Thread | Lewis Gilbert | Kathleen Byron, Laurence Harvey, Sydney Tafler | Crime | |
| Scrooge | Brian Desmond Hurst | Alastair Sim, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley | Literary drama | |
| The Six Men | Michael Law | Harold Warrender, Olga Edwardes, Avril Angers | Crime | |
| Smart Alec | John Guillermin | Peter Reynolds, Leslie Dwyer, Edward Lexy | Crime | |
| Take Me to Paris | Jack Raymond | Albert Modley, Bruce Seton, Richard Molinas | Comedy | |
| A Tale of Five Cities | Various | Bonar Colleano, Barbara Kelly, Anne Vernon | 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 |
| Talk of a Million | John Paddy Carstairs | Jack Warner, Barbara Mullen, Ronan O'Casey | Comedy | |
| There Is Another Sun | Lewis Gilbert | Maxwell Reed, Laurence Harvey, Susan Shaw | Drama | |
| The Third Visitor | Maurice Elvey | Sonia Dresdel, Guy Middleton, Hubert Gregg | Crime | |
| To Have and to Hold | Godfrey Grayson | Avis Scott, Patrick Barr, Ellen Pollock | Drama | |
| Tom Brown's Schooldays | Gordon Parry | Robert Newton, John Howard Davies, James Hayter | Drama | |
| Two on the Tiles | John Guillermin | Herbert Lom, Hugh McDermott, Brenda Bruce, | Comedy | |
| Valley of Eagles | Terence Young | Jack Warner, Nadia Gray, John McCallum | Thriller | |
| Where No Vultures Fly | Harry Watt | Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan, Meredith Edwards | Adventure | |
| White Corridors | Pat Jackson | Googie Withers, James Donald, Godfrey Tearle | Drama | |
| Worm's Eye View | Jack Raymond | Ronald Shiner, Diana Dors, Garry Marsh | Comedy | |
| Young Wives' Tale | Henry Cass | Joan Greenwood, Nigel Patrick, Audrey Hepburn | Comedy | |