2001 • Comedy

After England's football (soccer) manager has a heart attack, Mike Bassett is hired as the new manager and promptly announces the team will win the World Cup.

Why matched: genres Comedy

1989 • Drama • Comedy

Working-class couple Shirley and Cyril are in conflict over whether they should have children, their problems with 'yuppies' moving into the neighbourhood and outpricing them, a…

Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy

2011 • Drama • Romance

London, 1956. Genius actor and film director Laurence Olivier is about to begin the shooting of his upcoming movie, premiered in 1957 as The Prince and the Showgirl, starring Ma…

Why matched: genres Drama, Romance

2020 • History • TV Movie • Documentary

British writer Agatha Christie (1890-1976) published her first novel in 1920, in which the eccentric Belgian private sleuth Hercule Poirot made his debut. Later, in 1927, the fi…

Why matched: genres History, TV Movie

1996 • Drama • Romance • Comedy

A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have…

Why matched: genres Drama, Romance

2005 • Romance • Comedy

When writer's block derails the literary dreams of Olly Pickering, he has to move in with his friend Murray after losing all his money. Things start to look up when Olly's colle…

Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy

2013 • Drama

A young, gifted soccer player who gets into trouble for a petty crime is brought to the attention of former Manchester United coach Matt Busby, who comes out of retirement to he…

Why matched: genres Drama

1979 • Drama • Crime

Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.

Why matched: genres Drama, Crime

2015 • Comedy

Set on a Wolverhampton council estate, Raised By Wolves is modern day reimagining of the childhood of Caitlin Moran and her brothers and sisters. Single-mum Della lives in a th…

Why matched: genres Comedy

1998 • Music • Drama • Comedy

After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father'…

Why matched: genres Music, Drama

2005 • Drama • Thriller

Insurance investigator Abraham Holt travels to a tiny town in rural Minnesota to look into a particularly unusual insurance claim stemming from a horrific car accident. As Holt…

Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller

2007 • Drama • Comedy

Two hopeful lads from Leatherhead trying to break into the movies stumble upon the opportunity of a lifetime. Frustrated by their arty film teacher, wannabe producer Joe and his…

Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy

2010 • Science Fiction • TV Movie

Mark Gatiss's adaptation of HG Wells's science fiction classic. July 1969, and as the world waits with bated breath for the Apollo astronauts to land on the Moon, a young boy me…

Why matched: genres Science Fiction, TV Movie

2022 • Mystery • Crime

Old grudges, new rivalries. A tangled web of murder and revenge spirals in a fractured Nottinghamshire mining community. Powerful drama with Lesley Manville and David Morrissey.

Why matched: genres Mystery, Crime

1985 • History • Horror

In Victorian England, graverobbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to seek an easier means of getting the job done.

Why matched: genres History, Horror

1984 • Music • Drama • Mystery

When the mastertape of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or else risk losing his recording company to the lowlife Mr.…

Why matched: genres Music, Drama

2007 • Drama

Orphaned by smallpox, young Lancashire country lady Fanny Hill cheerfully accepts her friend Esther Davies's offer to join the London 'working girls' with Mrs. Brown, a madam wh…

Why matched: genres Drama

1984 • Drama • Action & Adventure • Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Herne the Hunter picks Robin of Loxley as his successor in his mission to support the oppressed. Robin builds his army and leads a guerrilla attack to suppress the exploited's N…

Why matched: genres Drama, Action & Adventure

1998 • Drama • Romance • Comedy

In 19th century Paris, Bette Fischer, a poor and homely spinster, forms an alliance with the seductive courtesan Valerie Marneffe to orchestrate revenge on her handsome and weal…

Why matched: genres Drama, Romance

2002 • Drama

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles betwe…

Why matched: genres Drama