# List of British films of 1939

A list of British films released in 1939.

## 1939

| Title | Director | Cast | Genre | Notes |
| 1939 |||||||
| All Living Things | Andrew Buchanan | Catherine Lacey, Michael Gainsborough | Drama short | |
| The Arsenal Stadium Mystery | Thorold Dickinson | Leslie Banks, Greta Gynt, Ian McLean | Mystery | |
| Ask a Policeman | Marcel Varnel | Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott | Comedy | |
| Beyond Our Horizon | Norman Walker | Milton Rosmer, Josephine Wilson, Jimmy Hanley | Drama Short | |
| Black Eyes | Herbert Brenon | Otto Kruger, Mary Maguire, Walter Rilla | Drama | |
| Black Limelight | Paul L. Stein | Joan Marion, Raymond Massey, Henry Oscar | Crime | |
| Blind Folly | Reginald Denham | Clifford Mollison, Lilli Palmer, Leslie Perrins | Comedy | |
| The Body Vanished | Walter Tennyson | Anthony Hulme, C. Denier Warren, Ernest Sefton | Crime drama | |
| Cheer Boys Cheer | Walter Forde | Edmund Gwenn, Nova Pilbeam, Jimmy O'Dea | Comedy | |
| Come On George! | Anthony Kimmins | George Formby, Pat Kirkwood, Ronald Shiner | Comedy | |
| Confidential Lady | Arthur B. Woods | Stewart Rome, Jane Baxter, Ben Lyon | Drama | |
| The Dark Eyes of London | Walter Summers | Bela Lugosi, Greta Gynt, Hugh Williams | Horror | |
| Dead Men are Dangerous | Harold French | Robert Newton, John Warwick, Googie Withers | Thriller | |
| Discoveries | Redd Davis | Carroll Levis, Issy Bonn | Variety revue | |
| Down Our Alley | George A. Cooper | Hughie Green, Vivienne Chatterton, Wally Patch | Musical comedy | |
| The Face at the Window | George King | Tod Slaughter, Marjorie Taylor, John Warwick | Thriller | |
| Flying Fifty-Five | Reginald Denham | Derrick de Marney, Nancy Burne, Marius Goring | Drama | |
| The Four Feathers | Zoltan Korda | Ralph Richardson, John Clements, June Duprez | Adventure | |
| The Four Just Men | Walter Forde | Frank Lawton, Hugh Sinclair, Griffith Jones, Francis L. Sullivan | Thriller | |
| French Without Tears | Anthony Asquith | Ray Milland, Ellen Drew, Roland Culver | Comedy | |
| The Frozen Limits | Marcel Varnel | The Crazy Gang, Moore Marriott, Bernard Lee | Comedy | |
| The Gang's All Here | Thornton Freeland | Jack Buchanan, Googie Withers, Edward Everett Horton | Comedy | |
| A Gentleman's Gentleman | Roy William Neill | Eric Blore, Marie Lohr, Patricia Hilliard | Comedy | |
| A Girl Must Live | Carol Reed | Margaret Lockwood, Renée Houston, Lilli Palmer | Comedy | |
| The Good Old Days | Roy William Neill | Max Miller, Hal Walters, Kathleen Gibson | Comedy | |
| Goodbye, Mr. Chips | Sam Wood | Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Paul Henreid | Drama | Number 72 in the list of BFI Top 100 British films |
| Happy Event | Patrick Brunner | Diana Magwood, H. Seaton, Gordon Leslie | Drama short | |
| Hell's Cargo | Harold Huth | Walter Rilla, Kim Peacock, Robert Newton | Adventure | |
| Home from Home | Herbert Smith | Sandy Powell, René Ray, Kathleen Harrison | Comedy drama | |
| Hospital Hospitality | William Christie | Wally Patch, Finlay Currie, George Bass, Jr. | Comedy short | |
| I Killed the Count | Frederic Zelnik | Ben Lyon, Syd Walker, Antoinette Cellier | Comedy | |
| I Met a Murderer | Roy Kellino | James Mason, Pamela Mason, William Devlin | Thriller | |
| Inquest | Ray Boulting | Elizabeth Allen, Herbert Lomas, Hay Petrie | Crime | |
| Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday | Walter Forde | Gordon Harker, Alastair Sim, Linden Travers | Comedy crime |
| Jamaica Inn | Alfred Hitchcock | Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Emlyn Williams | Drama | |
| Just like a Woman | Paul L. Stein | John Lodge, Gertrude Michael, Jeanne De Casalis | Comedy | |
| The Lambeth Walk | Albert de Courville | Lupino Lane, Sally Gray, Enid Stamp-Taylor | Comedy | |
| Let's Be Famous | Walter Forde | Jimmy O'Dea, Betty Driver, Sonnie Hale | Comedy | |
| The Lion Has Wings | Various | Merle Oberon, Ralph Richardson, June Duprez | War | |
| Lucky to Me | Thomas Bentley | Stanley Lupino, Phyllis Brooks, Barbara Blair | Comedy | |
| Me and My Pal | Thomas Bentley | Dave Willis, Patricia Kirkwood, John Warwick | Comedy | |
| Men Without Honour | Widgey R. Newman | Ian Fleming, Grace Arnold, Charles Paton | Crime | |
| The Mikado | Victor Schertzinger | Kenny Baker, Martyn Green, Sydney Granville | Musical comedy | |
| The Mind of Mr. Reeder | Jack Raymond | Will Fyffe, Kay Walsh | Mystery | |
| Murder in Soho | Norman Lee | Jack La Rue, Bernard Lee | Crime | |
| Murder Will Out | Roy William Neill | John Loder, Jane Baxter | Crime | |
| Music Hall Parade | Oswald Mitchell | Richard Norris, Charles Sewell | Musical | |
| The Mysterious Mr. Davis | Claude Autant-Lara | Henry Kendall, Kathleen Kelly | Drama | |
| The Nursemaid Who Disappeared | Arthur B. Woods | Arthur Margetson, Peter Coke | Crime | |
| Oh Dear Uncle | Richard Llewellyn | Frank O'Brien, Syd Crossley | Comedy short | |
| Old Mother Riley, MP | Oswald Mitchell | Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane | Comedy | |
| On the Night of the Fire | Brian Desmond Hurst | Ralph Richardson, Diana Wynyard | Crime | |
| The Outsider | Paul L. Stein | George Sanders, Mary Maguire | Drama | |
| Over the Moon | Thornton Freeland | Rex Harrison, Ursula Jeans | Comedy | |
| Pandamonium | Widgey R. Newman | Hal Walters, Jane Griffiths | Comedy short | |
| Pathetone Parade of 1939 | Fred Watts | Robb Wilton, Mantovani | Variety short | |
| Pathetone Parade of 1940 | Fred Watts | Robb Wilton, Patrica Rossborough, Nosmo King | Variety short | |
| Poison Pen | Paul L. Stein | Flora Robson, Reginald Tate, Ann Todd | Drama | |
| Prince of Peace | Donald Carter | Pamela Kellino | Drama short | |
| Q Planes | Tim Whelan | Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Valerie Hobson | World War II | |
| Secret Journey | John Baxter | Basil Radford, Peter Gawthorne | Thriller | |
| Shadow of Death | Harry S. Marks | Donald Calthrop, Ellen Pollock | Drama short | |
| She Couldn't Say No | Graham Cutts | Tommy Trinder, Fred Emney | Comedy | |
| Shipyard Sally | Monty Banks | Gracie Fields, Sydney Howard | Comedy | |
| The Silent Battle | Herbert Mason | Rex Harrison, Valerie Hobson | Thriller | |
| So This Is London | Thornton Freeland | Robertson Hare, Alfred Drayton | Comedy | |
| Sons of the Sea | Maurice Elvey | Leslie Banks, Kay Walsh | Drama | |
| The Spy in Black | Michael Powell | Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Marius Goring | World War I | First collaboration between Powell and Pressburger |
| Stolen Life | Paul Czinner | Elisabeth Bergner, Michael Redgrave | Drama | |
| Sword of Honour | Maurice Elvey | Geoffrey Toone, Sally Gray | Drama | |
| There Ain't No Justice | Pen Tennyson | Jimmy Hanley, Edward Rigby | Drama | |
| This Man in Paris | David MacDonald, | Barry K. Barnes, Valerie Hobson, Alastair Sim | Comedy/mystery | Sequel to This Man Is News |
| Too Dangerous to Live | Anthony Hankey, Leslie Norman | Sebastian Shaw, Anna Konstam | Crime | |
| Traitor Spy | Walter Summers | Bruce Cabot, Marta Labarr, Tamara Desni | Drama | |
| Trouble Brewing | Anthony Kimmins | George Formby, Googie Withers | Comedy | |
| Trunk Crime | Roy Boulting | Manning Whiley, Barbara Everest | Thriller | |
| Two Minutes | Donald Taylor | Walter Hudd, Edana Romney | Drama short | |
| Wanted by Scotland Yard | Norman Lee | James Stephenson, Betty Lynne | Crime | |
| What Men Live By | Donald Taylor, Vernon Sewell | Esmond Knight, Eliot Makeham, Olga Lindo | Drama short | |
| What Would You Do, Chums? | John Baxter | Syd Walker, Jean Gillie | Drama | |
| Yes, Madam? | Norman Lee | Bobby Howes, Diana Churchill | Musical/comedy | |
| Young Man's Fancy | Robert Stevenson | Griffith Jones, Anna Lee | Comedy | |