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The Great Train Robbery
2013 • Drama
8 August 1963: Britain wakes up to news of the biggest robbery in the country’s history. A train has been hijacked and robbed, 35 miles from its arrival in central London. The c…
Why matched: genres Drama
Topsy-Turvy
1999 • Music • Drama • Comedy
For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, their latest work,…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
The Sense of an Ending
2017 • Drama • Mystery
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Princess Caraboo
1994 • Drama • Mystery • Comedy
Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her d…
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Longford
2006 • Drama • Crime • TV Movie
A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Another Year
2010 • Drama • Comedy
During a year, a very content couple approaching retirement are visited by friends and family less happy with their lives.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
The Duke
2021 • Drama • Comedy • History
In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gal…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Ethel & Ernest
2016 • Drama • Animation • History
This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two or…
Why matched: genres Drama, Animation
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
2023 • Drama
Harold Fry is an unremarkable man who has made mistakes with all the important things: being a husband, a father and a friend. And now, well into his 60s, he is content to fade…
Why matched: genres Drama
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
2007 • Drama
The story of a son's conflicting memories of his dying father.
Why matched: genres Drama
Le Week-End
2013 • Drama • Comedy
Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Get Santa
2014 • Comedy • Family
A father and son must team up to save Christmas when they discover Santa Claus sleeping in their garage, having crashed his sleigh and found himself on the run from the police.
Why matched: genres Comedy, Family
A Sense of History
1992 • Drama • Comedy
Jim Broadbent wrote and starred in this short film directed by none other than Mike Leigh. As a member of the landed gentry, the 23rd Earl of Leete has a duty to maintain and ex…
Matched on: Broadbent
Exile
2011 • Drama • Mystery
Exile is a British psychological thriller television series created by Paul Abbott and Danny Brocklehurst for BBC One. The three-part serial stars John Simm as London journalist…
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
King of Thieves
2018 • Drama • Crime
London, England, April 2015. Brian Reader, a retired thief, gathers an unlikely gang of burglars to perpetrate the biggest and boldest heist in British history. The thieves assa…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
The Iron Lady
2011 • Drama • History
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Life Is Sweet
1990 • Drama • Comedy
Just north of London live Wendy, Andy, and their twenty-something twins, Natalie and Nicola. Wendy clerks in a shop, Andy is a cook who forever puts off home remodeling projects…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Postman Pat: The Movie
2014 • Animation • Comedy • Family
Like always, Postman Pat is happily going about his duty delivering letters and parcels around the fictional town of Greendale. One day, auditions for the TV talent show, "You'r…
Why matched: genres Animation, Comedy
The Phone Call
2013 • Drama
Heather is a shy lady who works in a helpline call centre. When she receives a phone call from a mystery man, she has no idea that the encounter will change her life forever.
Why matched: genres Drama
London Spy
2015 • Drama
A chance romance between two men from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from a world of clubbing and youthful excess…
Why matched: genres Drama