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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
IMDb: 6.8
108

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…

Genre: Drama
The Girl

The Girl

The Girl
IMDb: 6.2
91

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, beautiful and preferably…

Genre: Drama, TV Movie
Half Broken Things

Half Broken Things

Half Broken Things
IMDb: 7.3
N/A

A middle aged house-sitter meets two tearaways, and together they form a surrogate family

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Eternal Beauty

Eternal Beauty

Eternal Beauty
IMDb: 6.2
95

When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous consequences.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Summerland

Summerland

Summerland
IMDb: 7
100

A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
IMDb: 7.2
124

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 slowly begins to…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Alice Through the Looking Glass

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Alice Through the Looking Glass
IMDb: 5.3
83

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 by the…

Cry Freedom

Cry Freedom

Cry Freedom
IMDb: 7.4
157

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 journalist in…

Genre: Drama, History
Clockwise

Clockwise

Clockwise
IMDb: 6.6
96

An uncompromising British school headmaster finds himself beset by one thing going wrong after another.

Genre: Comedy
Shaun of the Dead

Shaun of the Dead

Shaun of the Dead
IMDb: 7.9
99

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 to life…

Genre: Comedy, Horror
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society

The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
IMDb: 7.3
124

Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they…

Carrington

Carrington

Carrington
IMDb: 6.8
121

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 they begin a…

Calendar Girls

Calendar Girls

Calendar Girls
IMDb: 6.9
108

Members of a Yorkshire branch of the Women’s Institute cause controversy when they pose nude for a charity calendar.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Zoo

Zoo

Zoo
IMDb: 6.5
96

Young Tom and his misfit friends fight to save ‘Buster’ the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast in 1941.

Genre: Family, History, War
Belle

Belle

Belle
IMDb: 7.3
105

BELLE is inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate mixed race daughter of a Royal Navy Admiral. Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord Mansfield and his…

Genre: Drama
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
IMDb: 6.5
122

As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy – posing a rooming predicament for two fresh arrivals – Sonny pursues his expansionist dream of opening a…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The BFG

The BFG

The BFG
IMDb: 6.3
117

The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It’s lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of…

Match Point

Match Point

Match Point
IMDb: 7.6
124

Match Point is Woody Allen’s satire of the British High Society and the ambition of a young tennis instructor to enter into it. Yet when he must decide between two…

Iris

Iris

Iris
IMDb: 7
91

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.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The French Lieutenant’s Woman

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

The French Lieutenant’s Woman
IMDb: 6.9
124

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 actors are involved in…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Blame It on the Bellboy

Blame It on the Bellboy

Blame It on the Bellboy
IMDb: 5.5
78

Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit man sent to take out a mobster. Another is a…

Genre: Comedy
King Lear

King Lear

King Lear
IMDb: 7.6
185

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly…

Genre: Drama
Laughterhouse

Laughterhouse

Laughterhouse
IMDb: 6.1
89

A farmer becomes an unintentional celebrity when, because of a strike, he has to walk his 5000 geese 100 miles to market.

Genre: Comedy
Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat
IMDb: 6.6
128

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 believing…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Downton Abbey: A New Era

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Downton Abbey: A New Era
IMDb: 7.6
125

The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess’s newly inherited villa.

Genre: Drama, Romance