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The Hippopotamus
2017 • Comedy
Disgraced poet Ted Wallace is summoned to his friend's country manor to investigate a series of unexplained miracles.
Why matched: genres Comedy
Endeavour
2013 • Drama • Mystery • Crime
The early days of a young Endeavour Morse, whose experiences as a detective constable with the Oxford City Police will ultimately shape his future.
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Tamara Drewe
2010 • Romance • Comedy
A young newspaper writer returns to her hometown in the English countryside, where her childhood home is being prepped for sale.
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
The Politician's Husband
2013 • War & Politics • Drama
A drama about the shifting power in a marriage when the personal and political collide.
Why matched: genres War & Politics, Drama
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
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
Parade's End
2012 • War & Politics • Drama
The story of a love triangle between a conservative English aristocrat, his mean socialite wife and a young suffragette in the midst of World War I and a Europe on the brink of…
Why matched: genres War & Politics, Drama
Mr. Holmes
2015 • Drama • Mystery • Crime
In 1947, long-retired and near the end of his life, Sherlock Holmes grapples with an unreliable memory and must rely on his housekeeper's son as he revisits the still-unsolved c…
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
The Queen
2006 • Drama • History
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana,…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
2003 • Drama • Romance • TV Movie
An aging actress' husband dies of a heart attack en route to Rome, where they'd planned to holiday. There, she rents an apartment and, through the Contessa, she meets a young ma…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Thick of It
2005 • Comedy
Set in the corridors of power and spin, the Minister for Social Affairs is continually harassed by Number 10's policy enforcer and dependent on his not-so-reliable team of civil…
Why matched: genres Comedy
Steve
2025 • Drama
Over one intense day, the devoted head teacher of a last-chance reform school strives to keep his students in line while facing pressures of his own.
Why matched: genres Drama
The Lady in the Van
2015 • Drama • Comedy
The true story of the relationship between Alan Bennett and the singular Miss Shepherd, a woman of uncertain origins who ‘temporarily’ parked her van in Bennett’s London drivewa…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Wilt
1989 • Crime • Comedy
Henry Wilt is a more or less failed teacher who fantasizes about murdering his dominant, non-attentive wife Eva. At a party who gets stuck in an inflatable doll and makes a comp…
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
V for Vendetta
2006 • Thriller • Science Fiction • Action
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as “V” conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When V r…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Science Fiction
The Book Thief
2013 • Drama
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Woman in Black
2012 • Drama • Thriller • Horror
The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
A Royal Night Out
2015 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
The re-imagining of VE Day in 1945, when Princess Elizabeth and her sister, Margaret were allowed out from Buckingham Palace for the night to join in the celebrations, and encou…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Tetris
2023 • Drama • Thriller • History
In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corrupt…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
RKO 281
1999 • Drama • History • TV Movie
In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the purpose of making his firs…
Why matched: genres Drama, History