Forbidden Territory is a 1934 British thriller film directed by Phil Rosen and starring Gregory Ratoff, Ronald Squire and Binnie Barnes.

[2] The film, about an Englishman and his son who travel to the Soviet Union to rescue a family member being held in prison.

[2] This was followed by the Maryport Community Party also requesting it to be withdrawn from cinema as it was "libel on the Soviet working man.

[1] Tony Shaw in his book British Cinema and the Cold War stated that Forbidden Territory provided the groundwork for the cycle of Cold War espionage melodramas that would be released in the 1950s.

Specifically, the "typical" Englishman fighting injustices in a foreign geographical and political environment.