Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version was the first in English. Believed lost for decades, it was recently rediscovered by the BFI and has now been restored. The film moves the action from Berlin to London, where Emil goes to stay with his grandmother and cousin. Thereafter, the tale of Emil’s adventures with a gang of streetwise London children faithfully follows the original plot.

A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.

When actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation.

In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the remote Jamaica Inn, where she discovers the inn is a front for a violent gang of wreckers who lure ships to their doom along the coast. As she becomes entangled in their crimes, Mary must fight to survive and uncover the truth behind the terror that haunts the moors.

A widow wants to marry, but her father will only consent if he is satisfied that a scandalous story about her is untrue.

A major and his wife return from abroad and pose as servants to observe their adolescent children.

A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance.

A clerk is suspected of committing a warehouse robbery and captures the real thieves aboard a pleasure boat.

A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.