# List of British Lion films

This is a list of films released by the British studio British Lion Films which was established in 1927 during the silent era. In its early years the company produced adaptations of Edgar Wallace crime novels, and later focused mainly on quota quickies. After the Second World War British Lion was acquired by Alexander Korda and it became a distribution outlet for independent British films with government backing.
While British Lion distributed many foreign films in Britain, such as a large number of Republic Pictures productions, these are not included in the list,

## 1920s

| Title | Release Date | Director |
| The Man Who Changed His Name | 1928 | A.V. Bramble |
| The Ringer | August 1928 | Arthur Maude |
| Chick | August 1928 | A.V. Bramble |
| The Valley of Ghosts | December 1928 | G.B. Samuelson |
| The Forger | December 1928 | G.B. Samuelson |
| The Flying Squad | January 1929 | Arthur Maude |
| The Clue of the New Pin | March 1929 | Arthur Maude |

## 1930s

| Title | Release Date | Director |
| The Squeaker | June 1930 | Edgar Wallace |
| Should a Doctor Tell? | September 1930 | Manning Haynes |
| Red Aces | November 1930 | Edgar Wallace |
| To Oblige a Lady | February 1931 | Manning Haynes |
| The Ringer | April 1931 | Walter Forde |
| The Calendar | October 1931 | T. Hayes Hunter |
| The Old Man | December 1931 | Manning Haynes |
| The Beggar Student | December 1931 | Victor Hanbury |
| Where Is This Lady? | 1932 | Victor Hanbury, Ladislao Vajda |
| The Frightened Lady | March 1932 | T. Hayes Hunter |
| White Face | May 1932 | T. Hayes Hunter |
| The Flying Squad | July 1932 | F.W. Kraemer |
| Sally Bishop | October 1932 | T. Hayes Hunter |
| There Goes the Bride | October 1932 | Albert de Courville |
| I'll Stick to You | 1933 | Leslie S. Hiscott |
| Yes, Madam | February 1933 | Leslie S. Hiscott |
| That's My Wife | March 1933 | Leslie S. Hiscott |
| King of the Ritz | March 1933 | Carmine Gallone, Herbert Smith |
| Cleaning Up | May 1933 | Leslie S. Hiscott |
| The Stickpin | June 1933 | Leslie S. Hiscott |
| Great Stuff | June 1933 | Leslie S. Hiscott |
| This Is the Life | September 1933 | Leslie S. Hiscott |
| Strike It Rich | November 1933 | Leslie S. Hiscott |
| Marooned | November 1933 | Leslie S. Hiscott |
| Flat Number Three | January 1934 | Leslie S. Hiscott |
| On the Air | January 1934 | Herbert Smith |
| Keep It Quiet | March 1934 | Leslie S. Hiscott |
| The Man I Want | March 1934 | Leslie S. Hiscott |
| Passing Shadows | May 1934 | Leslie S. Hiscott |
| Warn London | May 1934 | T. Hayes Hunter |
| Without You | July 1934 | John Daumery |
| Gay Love | September 1934 | Leslie S. Hiscott |
| The Green Pack | October 1934 | T. Hayes Hunter |
| Crazy People | October 1934 | Leslie S. Hiscott |
| The Big Splash | 1935 | Leslie S. Hiscott |
| Marry the Girl | 1935 | Maclean Rogers |
| Charing Cross Road | 1935 | Albert de Courville |
| Ten Minute Alibi | January 1935 | Bernard Vorhaus |
| In Town Tonight | January 1935 | Herbert Smith |
| The Case of Gabriel Perry | May 1935 | Albert de Courville |
| Night Mail | May 1935 | Herbert Smith |
| Line Engaged | November 1935 | Bernard Mainwaring |
| The Happy Family | 1936 | Maclean Rogers |
| It's You I Want | 1936 | Ralph Ince |
| Jury's Evidence | January 1936 | Ralph Ince |
| A Wife or Two | January 1936 | Maclean Rogers |
| Soft Lights and Sweet Music | February 1936 | Herbert Smith |
| They Didn't Know | April 1936 | Herbert Smith |
| Sporting Love | May 1936 | J. Elder Wills |
| The Interrupted Honeymoon | June 1936 | Leslie S. Hiscott |
| Song of Freedom | August 1936 | J. Elder Wills |
| Treachery on the High Seas | December 1936 | Emil E. Reinert |
| Skylarks | December 1936 | Thornton Freeland |
| A Romance in Flanders | 1937 | Maurice Elvey |
| The Live Wire | 1937 | Herbert Brenon |
| Leave It to Me | 1937 | Herbert Smith |
| It's a Grand Old World | January 1937 | Herbert Smith |
| Fine Feathers | 1937 | Leslie S. Hiscott |
| Calling All Stars | March 1937 | Herbert Smith |
| Big Fella | April 1937 | J. Elder Wills |
| Melody and Romance | December 1937 | Maurice Elvey |
| Around the Town | 1938 | Herbert Smith |
| Blondes for Danger | 1938 | Jack Raymond |
| Stardust | March 1938 | Melville W. Brown |
| No Parking | July 1938 | Jack Raymond |
| I've Got a Horse | September 1938 | Herbert Smith |
| The Return of the Frog | November 1938 | Maurice Elvey |
| Old Iron | December 1938 | Tom Walls |
| What a Man! | December 1938 | Edmond T. Gréville |
| The Face at the Window | April 1939 | George King |
| Home from Home | April 1939 | Herbert Smith |
| Riding High | December 1939 | David MacDonald |

## 1940s

| Title | Release Date | Director |
| All at Sea | February 1940 | Herbert Smith |
| Crimes at the Dark House | March 1940 | George King |
| The Chinese Bungalow | April 1940 | George King |
| Under Your Hat | September 1940 | Maurice Elvey |
| The Case of the Frightened Lady | September 1940 | George King |
| You Will Remember | February 1941 | Jack Raymond |
| Alibi | August 1942 | Brian Desmond Hurst |
| In Which We Serve | September 1942 | Noël Coward, David Lean |
| Tomorrow We Live | April 1943 | George King |
| Candlelight in Algeria | March 1944 | George King |
| A Girl in a Million | October 1946 | Francis Searle |
| The Grand Escapade | January 1947 | John Baxter |
| Code of Scotland Yard | March 1947 | George King |
| White Cradle Inn | March 1947 | Harold French |
| The Courtneys of Curzon Street | April 1947 | Herbert Wilcox |
| A Man About the House | October 1947 | Leslie Arliss |
| An Ideal Husband | November 1947 | Alexander Korda |
| Mine Own Executioner | November 1947 | Anthony Kimmins |
| Night Beat | December 1947 | Harold Huth |
| Anna Karenina | January 1948 | Julien Duvivier |
| Nothing Venture | January 1948 | John Baxter |
| Call of the Blood | February 1948 | John Clements, Ladislao Vajda |
| Spring in Park Lane | March 1948 | Herbert Wilcox |
| House of Darkness | June 1948 | Oswald Mitchell |
| The Fallen Idol | October 1948 | Carol Reed |
| Bonnie Prince Charlie | October 1948 | Anthony Kimmins |
| The Winslow Boy | November 1948 | Anthony Asquith |
| The Small Voice | November 1948 | Fergus McDonell |
| Elizabeth of Ladymead | December 1948 | Herbert Wilcox |
| Forbidden | February 1949 | George King |
| The Last Days of Dolwyn | April 1949 | Emlyn Williams |
| That Dangerous Age | April 1949 | Gregory Ratoff |
| Saints and Sinners | August 1949 | Leslie Arliss |
| The Third Man | September 1949 | Carol Reed |
| Maytime in Mayfair | September 1949 | Herbert Wilcox |
| The Interrupted Journey | October 1949 | Daniel Birt |
| Children of Chance | October 1949 | Luigi Zampa |
| The Cure for Love | December 1949 | Robert Donat |

## 1950s

| Title | Release Date | Director |
| The Happiest Days of Your Life | March 1950 | Frank Launder |
| The Angel with the Trumpet | March 1950 | Anthony Bushell |
| Chance of a Lifetime | April 1950 | Bernard Miles |
| My Daughter Joy | August 1950 | Gregory Ratoff |
| State Secret | September 1950 | Sidney Gilliat |
| Odette | October 1950 | Herbert Wilcox |
| The Wooden Horse | October 1950 | Jack Lee |
| Seven Days to Noon | October 1950 | Boulting Brothers |
| Gone to Earth | November 1950 | Powell and Pressburger |
| The Elusive Pimpernel | November 1950 | Powell and Pressburger |
| The Naked Heart | November 1950 | Marc Allégret |
| Into the Blue | December 1950 | Herbert Wilcox |
| The Wonder Kid | January 1951 | Karl Hartl |
| The Long Dark Hall | February 1951 | Reginald Beck, Anthony Bushell |
| Flesh and Blood | April 1951 | Anthony Kimmins |
| The Tales of Hoffmann | April 1951 | Powell and Pressburger |
| The Magic Box | September 1951 | Boulting Brothers |
| The Lady with a Lamp | September 1951 | Herbert Wilcox |
| Lady Godiva Rides Again | October 1951 | Frank Launder |
| Green Grow the Rushes | November 1951 | Derek Twist |
| Mr. Denning Drives North | December 1951 | Anthony Kimmins |
| Outcast of the Islands | January 1952 | Carol Reed |
| Sing Along with Me | February 1952 | Peter Graham Scott |
| Home at Seven | March 1952 | Ralph Richardson |
| Cry, the Beloved Country | April 1952 | Zoltan Korda |
| Derby Day | May 1952 | Herbert Wilcox |
| Who Goes There! | June 1952 | Anthony Kimmins |
| The Sound Barrier | July 1952 | David Lean |
| Folly to Be Wise | December 1952 | Frank Launder |
| The Ringer | December 1952 | Guy Hamilton |
| The Holly and the Ivy | December 1952 | George More O'Ferrall |
| Moulin Rouge | December 1952 | John Huston |
| The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan | February 1953 | Sidney Gilliat |
| Appointment in London | February 1953 | Philip Leacock |
| The Captain's Paradise | June 1953 | Anthony Kimmins |
| The Beggar's Opera | June 1953 | Peter Brook |
| Twice Upon a Time | July 1953 | Emeric Pressburger |
| The Man Between | October 1953 | Carol Reed |
| The Intruder | October 1953 | Guy Hamilton |
| The Heart of the Matter | November 1953 | George More O'Ferrall |
| The Stranger's Hand | January 1954 | Mario Soldati |
| Front Page Story | January 1954 | Gordon Parry |
| They Who Dare | February 1954 | Lewis Milestone |
| An Inspector Calls | March 1954 | Guy Hamilton |
| Eight O'Clock Walk | March 1954 | Lance Comfort |
| Bang! You're Dead | March 1954 | Lance Comfort |
| Devil on Horseback | March 1954 | Cyril Frankel |
| Conflict of Wings | March 1954 | John Eldridge |
| Hobson's Choice | April 1954 | David Lean |
| Devil Girl from Mars | May 1954 | David MacDonald |
| Malaga | June 1954 | Richard Sale |
| Twist of Fate (1954 film) (U.S. Beautiful Stranger) | July 1954 | David Miller |
| The Green Scarf | August 1954 | George More O'Ferrall |
| The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp | September 1954 | Alan Bromly |
| The Belles of St. Trinian's | September 1954 | Frank Launder |
| The Teckman Mystery | October 1954 | Wendy Toye |
| Orders Are Orders | October 1954 | David Paltenghi |
| Aunt Clara | November 1954 | Anthony Kimmins |
| The Colditz Story | January 1955 | Guy Hamilton |
| The Man Who Loved Redheads | February 1955 | Harold French |
| Raising a Riot | February 1955 | Wendy Toye |
| Three Cases of Murder | February 1955 | Various |
| The Love Match | February 1955 | David Paltenghi |
| The Constant Husband | April 1955 | Sidney Gilliat |
| Make Me an Offer | May 1955 | Cyril Frankel |
| See How They Run | June 1955 | Leslie Arliss |
| John and Julie | July 1955 | William Fairchild |
| Stolen Assignment | July 1955 | Terence Fisher |
| Geordie | September 1955 | Frank Launder |
| King's Rhapsody | October 1955 | Herbert Wilcox |
| Stolen Time | October 1955 | Charles Deane |
| Josephine and Men | November 1955 | Boulting Brothers |
| The Blue Peter | November 1955 | Wolf Rilla |
| Alias John Preston | December 1955 | David MacDonald |
| Fun at St. Fanny's | December 1955 | Maurice Elvey |
| Private's Progress | February 1956 | Boulting Brothers |
| The Secret Tent | February 1956 | Don Chaffey |
| Doublecross | February 1956 | Anthony Squire |
| The March Hare | April 1956 | George More O'Ferrall |
| Charley Moon | May 1956 | Guy Hamilton |
| Ramsbottom Rides Again | May 1956 | John Baxter |
| Pacific Destiny | June 1956 | Wolf Rilla |
| My Teenage Daughter | June 1956 | Herbert Wilcox |
| Thunderstorm | June 1956 | John Guillermin |
| The Extra Day | June 1956 | William Fairchild |
| The Baby and the Battleship | July 1956 | Jay Lewis |
| The Green Man | September 1956 | Robert Day, Basil Dearden |
| A Hill in Korea | September 1956 | Julian Amyes |
| Loser Takes All | September 1956 | Ken Annakin |
| Stars in Your Eyes | December 1956 | Maurice Elvey |
| The Passionate Stranger | February 1957 | Muriel Box |
| Brothers in Law | March 1957 | Boulting Brothers |
| Yangtse Incident | April 1957 | Michael Anderson |
| The Smallest Show on Earth | April 1957 | Basil Dearden |
| Second Fiddle | June 1957 | Maurice Elvey |
| Lucky Jim | September 1957 | Boulting Brothers |
| The Truth About Women | October 1957 | Muriel Box |
| The Birthday Present | October 1957 | Pat Jackson |
| Blue Murder at St Trinian's | December 1957 | Frank Launder |
| The Man Who Wouldn't Talk | January 1958 | Herbert Wilcox |
| Happy Is the Bride | March 1958 | Boulting Brothers |
| Law and Disorder | June 1958 | Charles Crichton |
| Orders to Kill | July 1958 | Anthony Asquith |
| Next to No Time | August 1958 | Henry Cornelius |
| Chain of Events | September 1958 | Gerald Thomas |
| The Man Upstairs | September 1958 | Don Chaffey |
| Behind the Mask | October 1958 | Brian Desmond Hurst |
| Virgin Island | October 1958 | Pat Jackson |
| Sally's Irish Rogue | November 1958 | George Pollock |
| The Solitary Child | December 1958 | Gerald Thomas |
| Passport to Shame | February 1959 | Alvin Rakoff |
| Danger Within | February 1959 | Don Chaffey |
| Subway in the Sky | February 1959 | Muriel Box |
| Make Mine a Million | February 1959 | John Baxter |
| Model for Murder | February 1959 | Terry Bishop |
| Broth of a Boy | February 1959 | George Pollock |
| Carlton-Browne of the F.O. | March 1959 | Boulting Brothers |
| Left Right and Centre | June 1959 | Sidney Gilliat |
| The Treasure of San Teresa | July 1959 | Alvin Rakoff |
| The Bridal Path | August 1959 | Frank Launder |
| I'm All Right Jack | August 1959 | Boulting Brothers |
| Jet Storm | September 1959 | Cy Endfield |
| Friends and Neighbours | November 1959 | Gordon Parry |
| Expresso Bongo | December 1959 | Val Guest |

## 1960s

| Title | Release Date | Director |
| Two-Way Stretch | January 1960 | Robert Day |
| Life Is a Circus | February 1960 | Val Guest |
| The Battle of the Sexes | February 1960 | Charles Crichton |
| The Angry Silence | March 1960 | Guy Green |
| Dead Lucky | June 1960 | Montgomery Tully |
| The Entertainer | July 1960 | Tony Richardson |
| A French Mistress | August 1960 | Boulting Brothers |
| The City of the Dead | September 1960 | John Llewellyn Moxey |
| Foxhole in Cairo | October 1960 | John Llewellyn Moxey |
| Suspect | November 1960 | Boulting Brothers |
| The Pure Hell of St Trinian's | December 1960 | Frank Launder |
| Two Letter Alibi | 1961 | Robert Lynn |
| Offbeat | 1961 | Cliff Owen |
| The Night We Got the Bird | February 1961 | Darcy Conyers |
| Two Living, One Dead | March 1961 | Anthony Asquith |
| Nearly a Nasty Accident | May 1961 | Don Chaffey |
| The Impersonator | May 1961 | Alfred Shaughnessy |
| The Devil's Daffodil | May 1961 | Ákos Ráthonyi |
| The Kitchen | August 1961 | James Hill |
| A Taste of Honey | September 1961 | Tony Richardson |
| Nothing Barred | October 1961 | Darcy Conyers |
| The Day the Earth Caught Fire | November 1961 | Val Guest |
| Part-Time Wife | December 1961 | Max Varnel |
| The Barber of Stamford Hill | January 1962 | Caspar Wrede |
| Only Two Can Play | January 1962 | Sidney Gilliat |
| Mrs. Gibbons' Boys | April 1962 | Max Varnel |
| Mix Me a Person | August 1962 | Leslie Norman |
| Dead Man's Evidence | August 1962 | Francis Searle |
| The Devil's Agent | September 1962 | John Paddy Carstairs |
| The L-Shaped Room | November 1962 | Bryan Forbes |
| The Wrong Arm of the Law | March 1963 | Cliff Owen |
| The Very Edge | April 1963 | Cyril Frankel |
| The Small World of Sammy Lee | April 1963 | Ken Hughes |
| Heavens Above! | May 1963 | Boulting Brothers |
| Lord of the Flies | May 1963 | Peter Brook |
| A Place to Go | July 1963 | Basil Dearden |
| It's All Happening | August 1963 | Don Sharp |
| Station Six-Sahara | September 1963 | Seth Holt |
| The Man Who Finally Died | December 1963 | Quentin Lawrence |
| The Silent Playground | December 1963 | Stanley Goulder |
| Mystery Submarine | December 1963 | C.M. Pennington-Richards |
| It's All Over Town | January 1964 | Douglas Hickox |
| Ladies Who Do | January 1964 | C.M. Pennington-Richards |
| Hide and Seek | March 1964 | Cy Endfield |
| A Jolly Bad Fellow | May 1964 | Don Chaffey |
| Ring of Spies | May 1964 | Robert Tronson |
| Just for You | June 1964 | Douglas Hickox |
| Do You Know This Voice? | June 1964 | Frank Nesbitt |
| Victim Five | July 1964 | Robert Lynn |
| The Comedy Man | September 1964 | Alvin Rakoff |
| Walk a Tightrope | October 1964 | Frank Nesbitt |
| Troubled Waters | December 1964 | Stanley Goulder |
| Mozambique | December 1964 | Robert Lynn |
| The Uncle | 1965 | Desmond Davis |
| Joey Boy | 1965 | Frank Launder |
| A Home of Your Own | January 1965 | Jay Lewis |
| Catacombs | May 1965 | Gordon Hessler |
| Two Left Feet | May 1965 | Roy Ward Baker |
| Rotten to the Core | July 1965 | Boulting Brothers |
| San Ferry Ann | July 1965 | Jeremy Summers |
| He Who Rides a Tiger | October 1965 | Charles Crichton |
| Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment | January 1966 | Karel Reisz |
| The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery | March 1966 | Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder |
| The Boy Cried Murder | November 1966 | George Breakston |
| The Family Way | December 1966 | Boulting Brothers |
| Ulysses | June 1967 | Joseph Strick |
| The Girl on a Motorcycle | October 1968 | Jack Cardiff |
| Twisted Nerve | December 1968 | Boulting Brothers |
| Till Death Us Do Part | January 1969 | Norman Cohen |
| A Touch of Love | September 1969 | Waris Hussein |

## 1970s

| Title | Release Date | Director |
| Every Home Should Have One | March 1970 | Jim Clark |
| Three Sisters | November 1970 | Laurence Olivier, John Sichel |
| Bartleby | November 1970 | Anthony Friedman |
| Loot | December 1970 | Silvio Narizzano |
| Melody | April 1971 | Waris Hussein |
| Fright | November 1971 | Peter Collinson |
| I, Monster | November 1971 | Stephen Weeks |
| Kidnapped | December 1971 | Delbert Mann |
| Mr. Forbush and the Penguins | December 1971 | Roy Boulting |
| Endless Night | October 1972 | Sidney Gilliat |
| Ooh… You Are Awful | December 1972 | Cliff Owen |
| The Love Ban | January 1973 | Ralph Thomas |
| The Lovers! | May 1973 | Herbert Wise |
| A Doll's House | October 1973 | Joseph Losey |
| Don't Look Now | October 1973 | Nicolas Roeg |
| The Wicker Man | December 1973 | Robin Hardy |
| Who? | April 1974 | Jack Gold |
| The Beast Must Die | April 1974 | Paul Annett |
| The Internecine Project | September 1974 | Ken Hughes |
| The Land That Time Forgot | November 1974 | Kevin Connor |
| Ransom | February 1975 | Caspar Wrede |
| Conduct Unbecoming | September 1975 | Michael Anderson |
| The Man Who Fell to Earth | March 1976 | Nicolas Roeg |
| At the Earth's Core | July 1976 | Kevin Connor |
| Nickelodeon | December 1976 | Peter Bogdanovich |

## 1980s

| Title | Release Date | Director |
| Britannia Hospital | May 1982 | Lindsay Anderson |

## 2010s

| Title | Release Date | Director |
| The Wicker Tree | August 2011 | Robin Hardy |