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Clockwise
1986 • Comedy
School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for an education conference. Wi…
Why matched: genres Comedy
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
South Riding
2011 • Drama
The lives and loves of a 1930s Yorkshire town explored in a passionate tale of politics in small places. South Riding charts the story of Sarah Burton's homecoming to Yorkshire…
Why matched: genres Drama
Five Days
2007 • Drama • Crime
Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Cry Freedom
1987 • Drama
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journal…
Why matched: genres Drama
Summerland
2020 • Drama • Romance
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Brief Encounters
2016 • Drama
In the early 1980s the lives of four ordinary women, their husbands, mothers, families and community are turned around when they become Ann Summers party plan saleswomen.
Why matched: genres Drama
Operation Mincemeat
2022 • Drama • History • War
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into b…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Girl
2012 • Drama • TV Movie
Director Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of cinema. Known for his psychological thrillers, Hitchcock’s leading ladies were cool,…
Why matched: genres Drama, TV Movie
Iris
2001 • Drama • Romance
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998 • Family • TV Movie • Fantasy
A modern adaptation of the classic children's story 'Alice through the Looking Glass', which continued on from the popular 'Alice in Wonderland' story. This time Alice is played…
Why matched: genres Family, TV Movie
Eternal Beauty
2020 • Drama • Comedy
When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous consequences.
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
The BFG
2016 • Adventure • Family • Fantasy
An orphan little girl befriends a benevolent giant who takes her to Giant Country, where they attempt to stop the man-eating giants that are invading the human world.
Why matched: genres Adventure, Family
Match Point
2005 • Drama • Thriller • Romance
Chris, a former tennis pro, takes a job as an instructor and befriends his wealthy young student, Tom. After being introduced to his family, Chris is soon engaged to Tom's siste…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
2012 • Drama • Comedy
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slo…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981 • Drama • Romance • History
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both a…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Zoo
2018 • History • Family • War
Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save 'Buster' the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.
Why matched: genres History, Family
Carrington
1995 • Drama • Romance • History
Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and th…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Shaun of the Dead
2004 • Comedy • Horror
Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return…
Why matched: genres Comedy, Horror
Belle
2013 • Drama
Dido Elizabeth Bell, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a Royal Navy admiral, plays an important role in the campaign to abolish slavery in England.
Why matched: genres Drama