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- A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
- Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past.
- When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes an amateur sleuth after developing the film, and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph.
- Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean old miser who wants nothing to do with Christmas. The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come visit Scrooge on Christmas Eve, taking him on a journey into the very spirit and magic of Christmas itself.
- Sherlock Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.
- Conrad Veidt stars as the Jew who urges Roman authorities to crucify Jesus and release Barabbas. As a punishment, he is condemned by God to wander the Earth for many centuries, enduring innumerable trials and tribulations on several continents.
- A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
- A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail, vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang, he keeps his word, only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try to put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort, his problems are just beginning.
- A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
- A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.
- A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.
- A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarty.
- Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.
- Aristocrat's inheritance issues. Marries heiress expecting wealth, but she's disinherited too. Cousin arrives, complicating their financial struggles further amid societal pressures.
- A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's "Masterpiece".
- An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.
- A pair of friends robs from a jewelry shop, and buries their loot in a field out in the country before they get caught. They spend ten years in prison, and when they're let out they go back to the burial ground, only to find out that it's no longer a bucolic pasture but the site of a large department store. Despite that setback, they're still determined to dig up their stash.
- A housewife bored with her marriage and her life falls for a sinister man and is persuaded to help him kill her husband.
- A young London woman meets an impoverished Russian prince. She brings him home to live with her middle-class family. The prince has diamonds from the last czar to sell. The money and his royal fame transform the family's lives.
- A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.
- A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him, she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty old barge Captain.
- A poor, unemployed woman is made housekeeper at the estate of a wealthy duchess.
- Deep in debt, the Honorable James Mallory plots to murder his cousin, Lord Rollestone, so he claim the earldom and inheritance.
- The relatives of a millionaire--the victim of a mysterious murder--get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record. However, one of them is actually the person who killed him, and will let nothing--or no one--stand in the way of finding that record.
- A doctor proves his wife's first husband was killed by a neighbour posing as a tramp.
- Sherlock Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.
- A clerk embezzles to pay for a girl's singing lessons in Rome.
- A Cockney flower girl is in love with a policeman whom she wants to marry, while her father opposes the union because he is involved in a little crooked investing.
- 1935. Crime drama made at Twickenham Film Studios. Starring Michael Hogan, Dorothy Boyd and Richard Cooper. A man is accused of murder based on evidence written on a playing card.
- Bob, a railroad engineer on his final trip before retiring, deals with suspicions about his wife and fireman while transporting peculiar passengers. Unanticipated occurrences lead to unforeseen character interactions and resolutions.
- A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
- A Mandarin takes the blame when the wife of his friend's son steals secret papers.
- Two thieves are released from prison; one of them has an umbrella with jewels hidden in its handle.
- Slippery Rodney Haines runs a high-class gambling joint in Hampstead, while elsewhere in London Lamberti's Fair for the less-well-off is on its last legs. The only link between them seems to be Tommy Blyth, whose betting has put him in serious debt with Haines and who fancies Mary, the Lamberti's adopted daughter. In fact, there is a further unexpected link between the two worlds.
- A medium is found murdered and suspicion falls on his niece.
- A murder at a country house centres around the whereabouts of a horde of stolen diamonds and the unmasking of people who are not as they at first seem.
- Exiled French patriot helps to find the men who want to betray emperor Napoleon III by selling military secrets to the German government.
- The heir to a London department store must learn the business, but he must start off by working his way through the various menial jobs incognito first. However, a crooked manager has arranged, for a cracksman, just out of gaol, to join the staff. Each is mistaken for the other.
- Paul Verlaine is a struggling composer whose assistant Germaine is secretly in love with him. Starring John Garrick and Merle Oberon.
- When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to reveal that Peggy's brother Ralph was shot for cowardice during World War One.
- Set in Ireland, a poor knight's rival frames him for murder.
- Musical set in the Civil War period about a vicar who, by adjusting his policies, manages to retain his living under both king and Cromwell. Based on a traditional story and song.
- An ex-con searching for a hidden jewel is assumed, by various parties, to be investigating their indiscretions.
- Jewel thieves kill a rich widow and frame a fake medium.