# List of British films of 1952

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1952 (see 1952 in film): Leading British production or distribution companies included General Film Distributors, Associated British and British Lion. Hollywood studios also invested in British-based productions.

## A–H

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 13 East Street | Robert S. Baker | Patrick Holt, Sandra Dorne, Sonia Holm | Thriller | |
| 24 Hours of a Woman's Life | Victor Saville | Merle Oberon, Richard Todd, Leo Genn | Drama | |
| Angels One Five | George More O'Ferrall | Jack Hawkins, Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray | World War II | |
| The Armchair Detective | Brendan J. Stafford | Ernest Dudley, Hartley Power, Derek Elphinstone | Mystery | |
| Blind Man's Bluff | Charles Saunders | Zena Marshall, Sydney Tafler, Russell Napier | Crime | |
| Brandy for the Parson | John Eldridge | Kenneth More, James Donald, Jean Lodge | Comedy | |
| The Brave Don't Cry | Philip Leacock | John Gregson, Andrew Keir, Fulton Mackay | Drama | |
| The Card | Ronald Neame | Alec Guinness, Petula Clark, Glynis Johns | Romantic comedy | |
| Castle in the Air | Henry Cass | David Tomlinson, Helen Cherry, Margaret Rutherford | Comedy | |
| Circumstantial Evidence | Daniel Birt | Rona Anderson, Patrick Holt, John Warwick | Crime | |
| Come Back Peter | Charles Saunders | Patrick Holt, Peter Hammond, Humphrey Lestocq | Comedy | |
| The Crimson Pirate | Robert Siodmak | Burt Lancaster, Eva Bartok, Torin Thatcher | Adventure | |
| Crow Hollow | Michael McCarthy | Donald Houston, Natasha Parry, Patricia Owens | Drama | |
| Curtain Up | Ralph Smart | Robert Morley, Margaret Rutherford, Kay Kendall | Comedy | |
| Death of an Angel | Charles Saunders | Patrick Barr, Jane Baxter, Jean Lodge | Crime | |
| Derby Day | Herbert Wilcox | Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Googie Withers | Drama | |
| Distant Trumpet | Terence Fisher | Derek Bond, Derek Elphinstone Keith Pyott | Drama | |
| Down Among the Z Men | Maclean Rogers | Peter Sellers, Harry Secombe, Spike Milligan | Comedy | |
| Emergency Call | Lewis Gilbert | Jack Warner, Anthony Steel, Joy Shelton | Drama | |
| Escape Route | Seymour Friedman, Peter Graham Scott | George Raft, Sally Gray, Clifford Evans | Thriller | |
| Father's Doing Fine | Henry Cass | Richard Attenborough, Heather Thatcher, Virginia McKenna | Comedy | |
| The Floating Dutchman | Vernon Sewell | Dermot Walsh, Sydney Tafler, Mary Germaine | Crime | |
| Folly to Be Wise | Frank Launder | Alastair Sim, Elizabeth Allan, Roland Culver | Comedy | |
| The Frightened Man | John Gilling | Dermot Walsh, Barbara Murray, Charles Victor | Crime | |
| The Gentle Gunman | Basil Dearden | John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Elizabeth Sellars | Drama | |
| Ghost Ship | Vernon Sewell | Dermot Walsh, Hazel Court, Hugh Latimer | Horror, Thriller | |
| Gift Horse | Compton Bennett | Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, James Donald | War | |
| Girdle of Gold | Montgomery Tully | Esmond Knight, Maudie Edwards, Meredith Edwards | Comedy | |
| Hammer the Toff | Maclean Rogers | John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, Valentine Dyall | Crime | |
| The Happy Family | Muriel Box | Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison, Naunton Wayne | Comedy | |
| Hindle Wakes | Arthur Crabtree | Lisa Daniely, Brian Worth, Sandra Dorne | Drama | |
| His Excellency | Robert Hamer | Eric Portman, Cecil Parker, Susan Stephen | Drama | |
| The Holly and the Ivy | George More O'Ferrall | Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton | Drama | |
| Home at Seven | Ralph Richardson | Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton, Jack Hawkins | Drama | |
| Hot Ice | Kenneth Hume | John Justin, Barbara Murray, Ivor Barnard | Comedy crime | |
| The Hour of 13 | Harold French | Peter Lawford, Dawn Addams, Roland Culver | Mystery | |
| Hunted | Charles Crichton | Dirk Bogarde, Jon Whiteley, Elizabeth Sellars, Kay Walsh | Crime/drama | Golden Leopard winner at Locarno International Film Festival |

## I–Z

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| I Believe in You | Basil Dearden | Celia Johnson, Cecil Parker, Harry Fowler | Drama | |
| I'm a Stranger | Brock Williams | Greta Gynt, James Hayter, Hector Ross | Comedy | |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Anthony Asquith | Michael Redgrave, Michael Denison, Edith Evans | Comedy | Adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde |
| It Started in Paradise | Compton Bennett | Jane Hylton, Muriel Pavlow, Martita Hunt | Drama | |
| Ivanhoe | Richard Thorpe | Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine | Historical | |
| Judgment Deferred | John Baxter | Hugh Sinclair, Joan Collins Helen Shingler | Drama | |
| A Killer Walks | Ronald Drake | Laurence Harvey, Susan Shaw, Laurence Naismith | Crime | |
| King of the Underworld | Victor M. Gover | Tod Slaughter, Patrick Barr, Tucker McGuire | Crime | |
| Lady in the Fog | Sam Newfield | Cesar Romero, Lois Maxwell, Bernadette O'Farrell | Mystery | |
| The Last Page | Terence Fisher | George Brent, Marguerite Chapman, Diana Dors | Crime | |
| Little Big Shot | Jack Raymond | Ronald Shiner, Marie Lohr, Derek Farr | Comedy | |
| The Lost Hours | David MacDonald | Mark Stevens, Jean Kent, Garry Marsh | Mystery | |
| Love's a Luxury | Francis Searle | Hugh Wakefield, Derek Bond, Zena Marshall | Comedy | |
| Made in Heaven | John Paddy Carstairs | David Tomlinson, Petula Clark, Sonja Ziemann | Comedy | |
| The Man Who Watched Trains Go By | Harold French | Claude Rains, Marius Goring, Märta Torén | Crime | |
| Mandy | Alexander Mackendrick, Fred Sears | Phyllis Calvert, Jack Hawkins, Terence Morgan | Drama | Ealing Studios |
| Men Against the Sun | Brendan J. Stafford | John Bentley, Zena Marshall | Adventure | |
| Meet Me Tonight | Anthony Pelissier | Valerie Hobson, Nigel Patrick, Stanley Holloway | Comedy | |
| Miss Robin Hood | John Guillermin | Margaret Rutherford, Richard Hearne, Michael Medwin | Comedy | |
| Monte Carlo Baby | Jean Boyer | Audrey Hepburn, Cara Williams, Philippe Lemaire | Comedy | |
| Mother Riley Meets the Vampire | John Gilling | Arthur Lucan, Bela Lugosi, Dora Bryan | Comedy | |
| Moulin Rouge | John Huston | José Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Suzanne Flon | Biopic | |
| My Death Is a Mockery | Tony Young | Donald Houston, Kathleen Byron, Bill Kerr | Crime drama | |
| My Wife's Lodger | Maurice Elvey | Dominic Roche, Olive Sloane, Diana Dors | Comedy | |
| Never Look Back | Francis Searle | Rosamund John, Hugh Sinclair, Guy Middleton | Drama | |
| The Night Won't Talk | Daniel Birt | John Bailey, Hy Hazell, Mary Germaine | Crime | |
| Paul Temple Returns | Maclean Rogers | John Bentley, Patricia Dainton, Peter Gawthorne | Thriller | |
| Penny Princess | Val Guest | Yolande Donlan, Dirk Bogarde, Reginald Beckwith | Comedy | |
| The Pickwick Papers | Noel Langley | James Hayter, Hermione Baddeley, Nigel Patrick | Comedy | |
| The Planter's Wife | Ken Annakin | Claudette Colbert, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel | Adventure drama | |
| Private Information | Fergus McDonell | Jill Esmond, Jack Watling, Carol Marsh | Drama | |
| Reluctant Heroes | Jack Raymond | Ronald Shiner, Derek Farr, Christine Norden | Comedy | |
| The Ringer | Guy Hamilton | Herbert Lom, Mai Zetterling, Greta Gynt | Mystery | |
| Salute the Toff | Maclean Rogers | John Bentley, Carol Marsh, Valentine Dyall | Crime | |
| Saturday Island | Stuart Heisler | Linda Darnell, Tab Hunter, Donald Gray | Adventure romance | |
| The Second Mrs Tanqueray | Dallas Bower | Pamela Brown, Hugh Sinclair, Virginia McKenna | Drama | |
| Secret People | Thorold Dickinson | Audrey Hepburn, Valentina Cortese, Serge Reggiani | Spy thriller | |
| Sing Along with Me | Peter Graham Scott | Donald Peers, Dodo Watts, Dennis Vance | Musical | |
| So Little Time | Compton Bennett | Marius Goring, Maria Schell, Lucie Mannheim | Romance | |
| Something Money Can't Buy | Pat Jackson | Patricia Roc, Anthony Steel, Moira Lister | Comedy drama | |
| Song of Paris | John Guillermin | Dennis Price, Anne Vernon, Mischa Auer | Comedy | |
| The Sound Barrier | David Lean | Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick | Drama | |
| Stolen Face | Terence Fisher | Paul Henreid, Lizabeth Scott, André Morell | Drama | |
| The Story of Robin Hood | Ken Annakin | Richard Todd, Joan Rice, Peter Finch | Adventure | |
| The Stranger Left No Card | Wendy Toye | Alan Badel, Geoffrey Bayldon, Eileen Way | short Drama | |
| The Tall Headlines | Terence Young | Mai Zetterling, Michael Denison, André Morell | Crime | |
| Time Gentlemen, Please! | Lewis Gilbert | Eddie Byrne, Raymond Lovell, Hermione Baddeley | Comedy | |
| Top Secret | Mario Zampi | George Cole, Oskar Homolka, Nadia Gray | Comedy | |
| Tread Softly | David MacDonald | Frances Day, Patricia Dainton, John Bentley | Crime | |
| Treasure Hunt | John Paddy Carstairs | Martita Hunt, Jimmy Edwards, Naunton Wayne | Comedy | |
| Trent's Last Case | Herbert Wilcox | Michael Wilding, Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles | Detective | |
| Venetian Bird | Ralph Thomas | Richard Todd, Eva Bartok, John Gregson | Thriller | |
| The Voice of Merrill | John Gilling | Valerie Hobson, James Robertson Justice, Garry Marsh | Mystery | |
| The Wallet | Morton Lewis | John Longden, Chili Bouchier, Hilda Fenemore | Crime | |
| Where's Charley? | David Butler | Ray Bolger, Allyn Ann McLerie, Margaretta Scott | Musical | |
| Whispering Smith Hits London | Francis Searle | Richard Carlson, Greta Gynt, Herbert Lom | Mystery | |
| Who Goes There! | Anthony Kimmins | Nigel Patrick, Valerie Hobson, George Cole | Comedy | |
| Wide Boy | Ken Hughes | Sydney Tafler, Susan Shaw, Ronald Howard | Crime | |
| Wings of Danger | Terence Fisher | Zachary Scott, Robert Beatty, Kay Kendall | Thriller | |
| The Woman's Angle | Leslie Arliss | Edward Underdown, Cathy O'Donnell, Lois Maxwell | Drama | |
| Women of Twilight | Gordon Parry | René Ray, Lois Maxwell, Freda Jackson | Drama | |
| The Wonder Kid | Karl Hartl | Bobby Henrey, Elwyn Brook-Jones, Oskar Werner | Drama | |
| You're Only Young Twice | Terry Bishop | Duncan Macrae, Joseph Tomelty, Diane Hart | Comedy | |