# List of British films of 1949

A list of films produced in the United Kingdom in 1949 (see 1949 in film):

## 1949

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1949 |||||||
| Adam and Evelyne | Harold French | Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons | Romance | |
| The Adventures of Jane | Edward G. Whiting | Chrystabel Leighton-Porter | Comedy based on comic strip | |
| The Adventures of PC 49 | Godfrey Grayson | Hugh Latimer, John Penrose | Crime | |
| All Over the Town | Derek N. Twist | Norman Wooland, Sarah Churchill | Comedy | |
| The Bad Lord Byron | David MacDonald | Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling | Historical | |
| Badger's Green | John Irwin | Barbara Murray, Brian Nissen | Comedy | |
| The Blue Lagoon | Frank Launder | Jean Simmons, Donald Houston | Drama | |
| Blue Scar | Jill Craigie | Emrys Jones, Gwynneth Vaughan | Drama | |
| A Boy, a Girl and a Bike | Ralph Smart | John McCallum, Honor Blackman | Comedy | |
| Boys in Brown | Montgomery Tully | Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough | Drama | |
| Cardboard Cavalier | Walter Forde | Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood | Comedy | |
| The Case of Charles Peace | Norman Lee | Michael Martin Harvey, Chili Bouchier | Crime | |
| Celia | Francis Searle | Hy Hazell, Bruce Lester | Comedy thriller | |
| Children of Chance | Luigi Zampa | Patricia Medina, Yvonne Mitchell | Drama | |
| The Chiltern Hundreds | John Paddy Carstairs | Cecil Parker, A. E. Matthews, David Tomlinson | Comedy | |
| Christopher Columbus | David MacDonald | Fredric March, Florence Eldridge | Historical | |
| Conspirator | Victor Saville | Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Taylor | Thriller | |
| The Cure for Love | Robert Donat | Robert Donat, Renée Asherson | Comedy | |
| Dark Secret | Maclean Rogers | Dinah Sheridan, Emrys Jones | Crime | |
| Dear Mr. Prohack | Thornton Freeland | Cecil Parker, Glynis Johns | Comedy | |
| Diamond City | David MacDonald | David Farrar, Honor Blackman, Diana Dors | South African western | |
| Dick Barton Strikes Back | Godfrey Grayson | Don Stannard | Action based on radio serial | |
| Doctor Morelle | Godfrey Grayson | Valentine Dyall, Peter Drury | Mystery | |
| Don't Ever Leave Me | Arthur Crabtree | Petula Clark, Jimmy Hanley | Romantic comedy | |
| Edward, My Son | George Cukor | Spencer Tracy, Deborah Kerr | Drama | Kerr's first time Oscar nomination |
| Eureka Stockade | Harry Watt | Chips Rafferty, Jane Barrett | Drama | Filmed in Australia |
| Floodtide | Frederick Wilson | Gordon Jackson, Rona Anderson | Drama | |
| Fools Rush In | John Paddy Carstairs | Sally Ann Howes, Guy Rolfe | Comedy | |
| For Them That Trespass | Alberto Cavalcanti | Richard Todd, Patricia Plunkett, Stephen Murray | Crime | |
| Forbidden | George King | Douglass Montgomery, Hazel Court | Thriller | |
| The Forbidden Street | Jean Negulesco | Dana Andrews, Maureen O'Hara | Drama | |
| Give Us This Day | Edward Dmytryk | Sam Wanamaker, Lea Padovani | Drama | |
| The Glass Mountain | Edoardo Anton, Henry Cass | Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray | Drama | |
| Golden Arrow | Gordon Parry | Burgess Meredith, Jean-Pierre Aumont | Comedy | |
| Golden Madonna | Ladislao Vajda | Phyllis Calvert, Tullio Carminati | Drama | |
| The Hasty Heart | Vincent Sherman | Ronald Reagan, Richard Todd, Patricia Neal | World War II drama | |
| Helter Skelter | Ralph Thomas | Carol Marsh, David Tomlinson | Comedy | |
| High Jinks in Society | John Guillermin, Robert Jordan Hill | Ben Wrigley, Barbara Shaw | Comedy | |
| The History of Mr. Polly | Anthony Pelissier | John Mills, Sally Ann Howes | Drama | |
| The Huggetts Abroad | Ken Annakin | Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Dinah Sheridan, Jimmy Hanley | | ' |
| The Interrupted Journey | Daniel Birt | Valerie Hobson, Richard Todd | Thriller | |
| It's Not Cricket | Alfred Roome | Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne | Comedy | |
| The Jack of Diamonds | Vernon Sewell | Nigel Patrick, Cyril Raymond | Adventure | |
| Kind Hearts and Coronets | Robert Hamer | Dennis Price, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Alec Guinness | Black comedy | Number 6 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films |
| Landfall | Ken Annakin | Michael Denison, Patricia Plunkett | War | |
| The Last Days of Dolwyn | Emlyn Williams, Russell Lloyd | Edith Evans, Richard Burton | Drama | |
| The Lost People | Muriel Box | Richard Attenborough, Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling | Drama | |
| Madness of the Heart | Charles Bennett | Margaret Lockwood, Kathleen Byron | Drama | |
| A Man's Affair | Jay Lewis | Diana Decker, Joan Dowling | Comedy | |
| The Man from Yesterday | Oswald Mitchell | John Stuart, Henry Oscar | Thriller | |
| The Man in Black | Francis Searle | Betty Ann Davies, Sheila Burrell | Thriller | |
| Man on the Run | Lawrence Huntington | Derek Farr, Joan Hopkins | Thriller | |
| Marry Me! | Terence Fisher | Derek Bond, Susan Shaw | Comedy | |
| A Matter of Murder | John Gilling | Maureen Riscoe, John Barry | Crime | |
| Maytime in Mayfair | Herbert Wilcox | Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding | Musical comedy | |
| Meet Simon Cherry | Godfrey Grayson | Hugh Moxey, Jeanette Tregarthen | Mystery | |
| Melody Club | Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman | Terry-Thomas, Arthur Gomez | Comedy | |
| Melody in the Dark | Robert Jordan Hill | Ben Wrigley, Eunice Gayson | Musical | |
| Miss Pilgrim's Progress | Val Guest | Michael Rennie, Yolande Donlan | Comedy | |
| Murder at the Windmill | Val Guest | Garry Marsh, Jon Pertwee | Crime | |
| No Way Back | Stefan Osiecki | Terence De Marney, Eleanor Summerfield | Crime | |
| Now Barabbas | Gordon Parry | Richard Greene, Cedric Hardwicke | Drama | |
| Obsession | Edward Dmytryk | Robert Newton, Sally Gray | Crime | |
| Old Mother Riley's New Venture | John Harlow | Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Chili Bouchier | Comedy | |
| Once a Jolly Swagman | Jack Lee | Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano | Drama | |
| Once Upon a Dream | Ralph Thomas | Googie Withers, Guy Middleton | Comedy | |
| Paper Orchid | Roy Ward Baker | Hugh Williams, Hy Hazell, Sid James | Mystery | |
| The Passionate Friends | David Lean | Ann Todd, Claude Rains, Trevor Howard | Drama | Based on the H. G. Wells novel |
| Passport to Pimlico | Henry Cornelius | Margaret Rutherford, Stanley Holloway, Hermione Baddeley | Comedy | Number 63 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films |
| The Perfect Woman | Bernard Knowles | Patricia Roc, Stanley Holloway | Comedy | |
| Poet's Pub | Frederick Wilson | Derek Bond, Rona Anderson | Comedy | |
| Private Angelo | Michael Anderson, Peter Ustinov | Godfrey Tearle, Maria Denis | Comedy/war | |
| The Queen of Spades | Thorold Dickinson | Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans | Fantasy | |
| The Rocking Horse Winner | Anthony Pelissier | Valerie Hobson, John Howard Davies | Fantasy | |
| The Romantic Age | Edmond T. Gréville | Hugh Williams, Mai Zetterling, Petula Clark | Comedy | |
| A Run for Your Money | Charles Frend | Donald Houston, Meredith Edwards, Alec Guinness | Comedy | |
| Saints and Sinners | Leslie Arliss | Kieron Moore, Christine Norden | Comedy/drama | |
| School for Randle | John E. Blakeley | Frank Randle, Dan Young | Comedy | |
| Silent Dust | Lance Comfort | Nigel Patrick, Sally Gray, Stephen Murray | Drama | |
| Skimpy in the Navy | Stafford Dickens | Hal Monty, Max Bygraves | Comedy | |
| The Spider and the Fly | Robert Hamer | Eric Portman, Guy Rolfe | Crime | |
| Stop Press Girl | Michael Barry | Sally Ann Howes, Gordon Jackson | Comedy | |
| The Temptress | Oswald Mitchell | Joan Maude, Arnold Bell | Drama | |
| That Dangerous Age | Gregory Ratoff | Myrna Loy, Roger Livesey, Peggy Cummins | Romance | |
| The Third Man | Carol Reed | Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Trevor Howard | Mystery | Number 1 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films |
| Third Time Lucky | Gordon Parry | Glynis Johns, Dermot Walsh | Crime | |
| Train of Events | Sidney Cole, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden | Jack Warner, Peter Finch, Valerie Hobson | Drama | |
| Traveller's Joy | Ralph Thomas | Googie Withers, John McCallum | Comedy | |
| Trottie True | Brian Desmond Hurst | Jean Kent, Hugh Sinclair, James Donald | Musical/comedy | |
| Under Capricorn | Alfred Hitchcock | Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding | Drama | Filmed in Australia |
| Vengeance Is Mine | Alan Cullimore | Valentine Dyall, Anne Firth, Richard Goolden | Crime | |
| Vote for Huggett | Ken Annakin | Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison, Susan Shaw, Diana Dors | Comedy | |
| Warning to Wantons | Donald B. Wilson | Harold Warrender, Anne Vernon | Romantic comedy | |
| What a Carry On! | John E. Blakeley | Jimmy Jewel, Ben Warriss | Comedy | |
| Whisky Galore! | Alexander Mackendrick | Basil Radford, Bruce Seton, Joan Greenwood, Gordon Jackson | Comedy | Number 24 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films |