Basil Dearden Movies

  • 1966
    Khartoum

    Khartoum

    Khartoum

    6.21966HD

    English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians...

    Khartoum
  • 1945
    Dead of Night

    Dead of Night

    Dead of Night

    7.1751945HD

    Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare....

    Dead of Night
  • 1964
    Woman of Straw

    Woman of Straw

    Woman of Straw

    6.11964HD

    Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he...

    Woman of Straw
  • 1960
    The League of Gentlemen

    The League of Gentlemen

    The League of Gentlemen

    7.11960HD

    Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the...

    The League of Gentlemen
  • 1970
    The Man Who Haunted Himself

    The Man Who Haunted Himself

    The Man Who Haunted Himself

    6.11970HD

    Executive Harold Pelham suffers a serious accident after which he faces the shadow of death. When, against all odds, he miraculously recovers, he...

    The Man Who Haunted Himself
  • 1969
    The Assassination Bureau

    The Assassination Bureau

    The Assassination Bureau

    6.41969HD

    In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organization that kills for justice. When its motives are...

    The Assassination Bureau
  • 1961
    Victim

    Victim

    Victim

    7.41961HD

    A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of...

    Victim
  • 1959
    Sapphire

    Sapphire

    Sapphire

    71959HD

    Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of...

    Sapphire
  • 1946
    The Captive Heart

    The Captive Heart

    The Captive Heart

    6.21946HD

    A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part...

    The Captive Heart
  • 1958
    Violent Playground

    Violent Playground

    Violent Playground

    71958HD

    A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.

    Violent Playground
  • 1956
    The Green Man

    The Green Man

    The Green Man

    71956HD

    Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing...

    The Green Man
  • 1951
    Pool of London

    Pool of London

    Pool of London

    6.41951HD

    Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.

    Pool of London
  • 1950
    The Blue Lamp

    The Blue Lamp

    The Blue Lamp

    6.5381950HD

    P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the...

    The Blue Lamp
  • 1944
    The Halfway House

    The Halfway House

    The Halfway House

    6.51944HD

    A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness...

    The Halfway House
  • 1963
    The Mind Benders

    The Mind Benders

    The Mind Benders

    6.31963HD

    A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might...

    The Mind Benders
  • 1957
    The Smallest Show on Earth

    The Smallest Show on Earth

    The Smallest Show on Earth

    6.61957HD

    Jean and Bill are a married couple trying to scrape a living. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them Bill's long-lost uncle has died...

    The Smallest Show on Earth
  • 1962
    All Night Long

    All Night Long

    All Night Long

    6.81962HD

    Over the course of one eventful evening, the anniversary celebration of the musical and romantic partners Aurelius Rex and Delia Lane, a jealous,...

    All Night Long
  • 1968
    Only When I Larf

    Only When I Larf

    Only When I Larf

    6.41968HD

    A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.

    Only When I Larf
  • 1947
    Frieda

    Frieda

    Frieda

    5.31947HD

    An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who...

    Frieda
  • 1941
    The Ghost of St. Michael's

    The Ghost of St. Michael's

    The Ghost of St. Michael's

    6.61941HD

    Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary...

    The Ghost of St. Michael's