Baby Love

1969

English

5.7

♡ 7

Alastair Reid Director

Timothy Carlton as Jeremy / The Admiral

Diana Dors as Liz / Luci's Mother

Marianne Stone as Manageress

Vernon Dobtcheff as Man in Cinema

When her mother dies, her attractive young daughter hungry for love moves into the dead woman's house as a quest to seduce its tenants in her desperate search for love.

Demon Eye

2019

English

3.2

♡ 7

12%

Ryan Simons Director

Nicola Jones as Barmaid

Noah Chebouli as Pub Demon

Joanne Coates as Villager

Heather Gant as Villager

A young woman returns to her father's country house in the moors following his mysterious death and finds a cursed amulet, connected to local witchcraft. She unlocks two deadly demons, who haunt her.

King John

2015

English

7.7

♡ 3

Barry Avrich Director

Wayne Best as Hubert, a citizen of Angiers

Tom McCamus as King John

Brigit Wilson as Lady Faulconbridge, widow to Sir Robert Faulconbridge

Daniel Brière as Robert Faulconbridge, son to Sir Robert Faulconbridge

When the King of France demands that John relinquish his crown in favor of his nephew, the young Prince Arthur, war is the inevitable result. Excommunication, attempted atrocity, rebellion, and assassination all contribute to political turmoil and personal grief for a mother who has lost her son.

Slaughterhouse Rulez

2018

English

5.3

♡ 64

38%

roommate relationship

Thriller

Crispian Mills Director

Margot Robbie as Audrey

Jo Hartley as Babs Wallace

Asa Butterfield as Willoughby Blake

Ben Wheeler as Xenephon Boy

An illustrious British boarding school becomes a bloody battleground when a mysterious sinkhole appears at a nearby fracking site unleashing unspeakable horror.

Brideshead Revisited

2008

English

6.6

♡ 10

62%

52%

Action

based on novel or book

Drama

england

new love

parent child relationship

Romance

sibling relationship

venice, italy

Julian Jarrold Director

Matthew Goode as Charles Ryder

Hayley Atwell as Julia Flyte

Tom Wlaschiha as Kurt

Emma Thompson as Lady Marchmain

Artist Charles Ryder runs into aristocrat Julia Flyte and recalls his friendship with her eccentric family prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.

Mrs. Miniver

1942

English

7.6

♡ 12

93%

84%

Action

based on novel or book

William Wyler Director

Ian Wolfe as Dentist

Tom Conway as Man

Sidney D'Albrook as Man in Store

Forrester Harvey as Mr. Huggins

Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.

6 Days

2017

English

6.2

♡ 151

65%

47%

Action

based on a true story

Toa Fraser Director

Tim Downie as Jimmy

Abbie Cornish as Kate Adie

Mark Strong as Max Vernon

Jamie Bell as Rusty Firmin

London, England, April 1980. Six terrorists assault the Embassy of Iran and take hostages. For six days, tense negotiations are held while the authorities decide whether a military squad should intervene.

Fire Over England

1937

English

6.5

♡ 2

50%

William K. Howard Director

Robert Newton as Don Pedro

Norma Varden as Elena's Governess

James Mason as Hillary Vane

Evelyn Ankers as Lady-in-Waiting

The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.

Of Time and the City

2008

English

7.2

♡ 5

93%

Terence Davies Director

John Lennon as Self

George Harrison as Self

Jack Hawkins as Self

Terence Davies as Self - Narrator

British director Terence Davies reflects on his birthplace of Liverpool - his memories of growing up there and how it has changed in the years since - in the process meditating on the internal struggles and conflicts that have wracked him throughout his life and the history of England during the second half of the 20th century.

Monarch

2000

English

5.8

♡ 1

Action

assassination

based on a true story

John Walsh Director

Mark Montgomerie as

Paul Breen as Guard #1

David Aldous as Guard #3

Jean Marsh as The Queens

From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and unfolds around one night when the injured ruler arrives at a manor house closed for the season.

Richard III

1995

English

7.3

♡ 11

96%

Richard Loncraine Director

Roger Hammond as Archbishop

Adrian Dunbar as James Tyrell

Robert Downey Jr. as Lord Rivers

Ian McKellen as Richard III - Duke of Gloucester

A murderous lust for the British throne sees Richard III descend into madness. Though the setting is transposed to the 1930s, England is torn by civil war, split between the rivaling houses of York and Lancaster. Richard aspires to a fascist dictatorship, but must first remove the obstacles to his ascension—among them his brother, his nephews and his brother's wife. When the Duke of Buckingham deserts him, Richard's plans are compromised.

Faintheart

2008

English

6.2

♡ 1

20%

Vito Rocco Director

Rasmus Hardiker as Comic Book Fan 1

Ewen Bremner as Julian

Bronagh Gallagher as Maggie

Eddie Marsan as Richard

A romantic comedy set in the world of battle re-enactments, about an irresponsible guy who has to shape up in order to win back his wife.

Peter's Friends

1992

English

7.0

♡ 13

65%

Kenneth Branagh Director

Kenneth Branagh as Andrew Benson

Emma Thompson as Maggie Chester

Hugh Laurie as Roger Charleston

Sylvester Stallone as Self

After inheriting a large country estate from his late father, Peter invites his friends from college: married couple Roger and Mary, the lonely Maggie, fashionable Sarah, and writer Andrew, who brings his American TV star wife, Carol. Sarah's new boyfriend, Brian, also attends. It has been 10 years since college, and they find their lives are very different.

Long Live Robin Hood

1971

Italian

6.2

♡ 4

Giorgio Ferroni Director

Mark Damon as Allan

Mario Adorf as Brother Tuck

Vittorio Fanfoni as (credit only)

Silvia Dionisio as Lady Marianne di Manson

John Lackland seizes the English throne, believing the rightful ruler, his brother Richard the Lionheart, to be dead. When he learns that Richard is being held captive by the German emperor and can be ransomed for a large sum of money, he refuses to pay and orders the messengers, including Sir Henry of Nottingham, to be killed. Sir Henry escapes to Sherwood Forest, which belongs to his estates. There he joins forces with a group of Anglo-Saxons and fights under the name Robin Hood against the regime of the king's traitors...

The Living and the Dead

2006

English

5.8

♡ 7

91%

Simon Rumley Director

Roger Lloyd Pack as Donald Brocklebank

Leo Bill as James Brocklebank

Kate Fahy as Nancy Brocklebank

Neil Conrich as Policeman

Lord Donald and Lady Nancy reside in the magnificent but run-down Longleigh House with James, their mentally disabled adult son. Nancy has fallen seriously ill and Donald is preparing to sell the house to raise enough money to pay for an operation. He arranges for the family nurse, Mary, to take care of Nancy while he leaves to tend to the sale. However, James wants to prove to his father that he can look after his mother on his own and decides to lock Mary out of the house. It isn't long before James starts mixing his mother's pills and forgetting to take his own medication, and as the stress of looking after his mother increases, so too does the severity of his own condition.

Henry V

1944

English

7.0

♡ 4

Action

based on a true story

based on play or musical

Laurence Olivier Director

Robert Newton as Ancient Pistol

Arthur Hambling as Bates - Soldier in the English Army

Robert Helpmann as Bishop of Ely

Niall MacGinnis as Macmorris - Captain in the English Army

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

A Canterbury Tale

1944

English

7.3

♡ 8

94%

Michael Powell Director

Michael Howard as Archie

Eric Horton as Bystander at Wheelwright's in Leather Jacket

Raymond Massey as Narrator

Dennis Price as Peter Gibbs

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbury.

Richard III

1955

English

7.3

♡ 6

81%

79%

Action

based on play or musical

Laurence Olivier Director

Norman Wooland as Catesby

Michael Ripper as Forrest, 2nd murderer

Stanley Baker as Henry, Earl of Richmond

Timothy Bateson as Ostler

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.

Shopping

1994

English

5.4

♡ 5

49%

Paul W.S. Anderson Director

Jude Law as Billy

Jonathan Pryce as Conway

Jason Isaacs as Market Trader

Sean Bean as Venning

A dark, hip, urban story of a barren and anonymous city where the underclass' sport of choice is ram-raiding. An exciting game in which stolen cars are driven through shop windows to aid large-scale looting before the police arrive. For Tommy, it's a business, but for Billy and Jo, it's a labour of love. As the competition between Tommy and Billy grows more fierce, the stakes become higher and the "shopping" trips increasingly risky.