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1950s
British films of 1951
86 films, in order of release. 74 with no exact release date are listed after them.
Films released in 1951
Released
Title
Director
Certificate
February
Files from Scotland Yard
Anthony Squire
16 April
Flesh and Blood
Anthony Kimmins
17 April
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Gordon Parry
23 April
The Dark Light
Vernon Sewell
June
Life in Her Hands
Philip Leacock
August
Cheer the Brave
Kenneth Hume
August
The Six Men
Michael Law
7 August
The Man in the White Suit
Alexander Mackendrick
November
Where No Vultures Fly
Harry Watt
December
Night Was Our Friend
Michael Anderson
16 December
Under the Frozen Falls
26 December
The African Queen
John Huston
—
The Adventurers
David MacDonald
—
Another Man's Poison
Irving Rapper
—
Appointment with Venus
Ralph Thomas
—
Assassin for Hire
Michael McCarthy
—
The Black Widow
Black Widow
Vernon Sewell
—
Blackmailed
Marc Allégret
—
The Browning Version
Anthony Asquith
—
Calling Bulldog Drummond
Victor Saville
—
Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N.
Captain Horatio Hornblower
Raoul Walsh
—
A Case for PC 49
Francis Searle
—
Chelsea Story
Charles Saunders
—
Circle of Danger
Jacques Tourneur
—
Cloudburst
Francis Searle
—
The Clouded Yellow
Ralph Thomas
—
Cry, the Beloved Country
Zoltan Korda
—
The Dark Man
Jeffrey Dell
—
Death Is a Number
—
Encore
Pat Jackson
,
Anthony Pelissier
and others
—
Four Days
John Guillermin
—
The Franchise Affair
Lawrence Huntington
—
The Galloping Major
Henry Cornelius
—
Green Grow the Rushes
Derek Twist
—
Happy Go Lovely
H. Bruce Humberstone
—
Hell is Sold Out
Michael Anderson
—
High Treason
Roy Boulting
—
Home to Danger
Terence Fisher
—
Hotel Sahara
Ken Annakin
—
I'll Get You for This
Joseph M. Newman
—
I'll Never Forget You
Roy Ward Baker
—
Lady Godiva Rides Again
Frank Launder
—
The Lady with the Lamp
The Lady with a Lamp
Herbert Wilcox
—
The Late Edwina Black
Maurice Elvey
—
Laughter in Paradise
Mario Zampi
—
The Lavender Hill Mob
Charles Crichton
—
London Entertains
Edwin J. Fancey
—
The Long Dark Hall
Reginald Beck
,
Anthony Bushell
—
Madame Louise
Maclean Rogers
—
The Magic Box
John Boulting
—
Mister Drake's Duck
Mr Drake's Duck
Val Guest
—
Monte Carlo Baby
Jean Boyer
,
Lester Fuller
—
Murder in the Cathedral
George Hoellering
—
Murder Without Crime
J. Lee Thompson
—
Mystery Junction
Michael McCarthy
—
Night Without Stars
Anthony Pelissier
—
No Highway in the Sky
Henry Koster
—
No Resting Place
Paul Rotha
—
Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure
Maclean Rogers
—
One Good Turn
Arthur Maude
—
One Wild Oat
Charles Saunders
,
Jack Buchanan
—
Out of True
Philip Leacock
—
Outcast of the Islands
Carol Reed
—
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
Albert Lewin
—
Penny Points to Paradise
Tony Young
—
Pool of London
Basil Dearden
—
The Quiet Woman
John Gilling
—
Reluctant Heroes
Jack Raymond
—
The Rossiter Case
Francis Searle
—
Rush Job
—
Scarlet Thread
Lewis Gilbert
—
Scrooge
Brian Desmond Hurst
U
—
The Singing Street
—
Smart Alec
John Guillermin
—
Take Me to Paris
Jack Raymond
—
The Tales of Hoffmann
Michael Powell
,
Emeric Pressburger
—
Talk of a Million
John Paddy Carstairs
—
There Is Another Sun
Lewis Gilbert
—
The Third Visitor
Maurice Elvey
—
To Have and to Hold
Godfrey Grayson
—
Two on the Tiles
John Guillermin
—
Valley of Eagles
Terence Young
—
White Corridors
Pat Jackson
—
Work in Progress
—
Worm's Eye View
Jack Raymond
—
Young Wives' Tale
Henry Cass
1950
1952