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Einstein and the Bomb
2024 • Drama • Documentary
What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docudrama dives into the mind of a tortured genius.
Why matched: genres Drama, Documentary
Sylvia
2003 • Drama • Romance
Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Daphne
2007 • Drama • Romance • TV Movie
Set during the years between the "Rebecca" trial and the writing of Du Maurier's short story "The Birds", including her relationship with her husband Frederick 'Boy' Browning, a…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
D-Day 6.6.1944
2004 • War • Documentary
On June 6th, 1944 the largest military invasion and defence the world has ever seen occurred. D-Day tells the epic story of the preparation and execution of the Allied invasion…
Why matched: genres War, Documentary
The Last Vermeer
2019 • Drama • History
A soldier and member of the Dutch resistance investigates stolen art in the wake of the Second World War, including a Vermeer sold to the Nazis by a flamboyant forger.
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Censor
2021 • Mystery • Horror
A screener at the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), who has earned an unsavory reputation for being the strictest censor of violent films, begins to spiral out of con…
Why matched: genres Mystery, Horror
The Carer
2016 • Comedy
Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor, Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an incurable disease, and has one…
Why matched: genres Comedy
The Heart of Me
2004 • Drama • Romance
Drama set in 1930s London with two sisters, Madeleine married to Rickie, and Dinah, who falls in love with him. Rickie and Dinah begin an affair which is to have repercussions t…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The King
2019 • Drama • History • War
England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Hyde Park on Hudson
2012 • Drama • Comedy • History
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upst…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Nicholas Nickleby
2002 • Drama • Adventure
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
Why matched: genres Drama, Adventure
My Cousin Rachel
2017 • Drama • Romance
A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself fall…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned
2007 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
When disaster hits the Titanic, the Doctor uncovers a threat to the whole human race. Battling alongside aliens, saboteurs, robot Angels and a new friend called Astrid, can he s…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Casanova
2005 • Drama • Comedy
Castle Dux, Bohemia, 1798. Casanova, now a penniless librarian in his seventies, tells Edith, a young kitchen maid in the castle, his remarkable life story, and about falling in…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Wilde
1997 • Drama • History
Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. After much toil, Wilde debuts 'The Importance of Being Earnest' in London, and a…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Awakening
2011 • Thriller • Mystery • Horror
In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
Restoration
1995 • Drama • Romance
An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and l…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The King's Speech
2010 • Drama • History
The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Into the Storm
2009 • Drama • History • TV Movie
This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of the war years--even as his marri…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Partners in Crime
2015 • Drama • Mystery • Crime
Set in a 1950s Britain rising from the ashes of the Blitz into the grip of a new Cold War, our beekeeping duo stumble into a world of murder, undercover agents and cold war cons…
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery