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Cranford
2007 • Drama
A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.
Why matched: genres Drama
Cold Comfort Farm
1995 • Romance • Comedy
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of C…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
Vanity Fair
2004 • Drama • Romance
In early 19th century England, orphaned Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Scenes of a Sexual Nature
2006 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
Sex and love. Some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it. Set on one afternoon on Hampstead Heath in north-west London, the fil…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
I Don't Want to Be Born
1976 • Thriller • Horror
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary one. The child is seemingly possessed by the Devil.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Horror
The Lost Language of Cranes
1992 • Drama
When a young gay man comes out of the closet, his friends support him, but when he comes out to his parents, he stirs up a wealth of hidden feelings and secrets in their relatio…
Why matched: genres Drama
Last Chance Harvey
2008 • Drama • Romance
In London for his daughter's wedding, a struggling jingle-writer, Harvey Shine, misses his plane to New York, and thus loses his job. While drowning his sorrows in the airport p…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Women Talking Dirty
2001 • Comedy
A lively, outspoken single mother develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.
Why matched: genres Comedy
Nothing Like a Dame
2018 • Documentary
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as th…
Matched on: Atkins
The Scapegoat
2012 • Drama • Mystery • Adventure
In 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, two very different men have one thing in common—a face.
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Cold Mountain
2003 • Romance • Adventure • History
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across…
Why matched: genres Romance, Adventure
What a Girl Wants
2003 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, she learns the love of her mo…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Jack & Sarah
1995 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
Jack always lands on his feet. He lands on his feet when he marries the beautiful Sarah. He lands on his feet when he buys a luxurious new home. However, when Sarah goes into la…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Ask the Dust
2006 • Drama • Romance
Mexican beauty Camilla hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini, a first-generation Italian hoping to land a…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Let Him Have It
1991 • Drama
In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek'…
Why matched: genres Drama
Carnage: Swallowing the Past
2017 • Science Fiction • Comedy
It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Comedy
Psychoville
2009 • Mystery • Comedy
Psychoville is a British dark comedy television . Pemberton and Shearsmith each play numerous characters, with Dawn French and Jason Tompkins in additional starring roles.
Why matched: genres Mystery, Comedy
Wit
2001 • Drama • TV Movie
A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Why matched: genres Drama, TV Movie
Wild Target
2010 • Comedy • Action
Victor Maynard is a middle-aged, solitary assassin who lives to please his formidable mother, despite his own peerless reputation for lethal efficiency. His professional routine…
Why matched: genres Comedy, Action
The Dresser
1983 • Drama
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand - the dresser - is devoted to the brilliant but tyrannical head of the company. He struggles to support the deteriorat…
Why matched: genres Drama