To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.

Wasteland

2012

English

6.5

♡ 1

61%

Rowan Athale Director

Gerard Kearns as Charlie

Iwan Rheon as Dempsey

Timothy Spall as D I West

Vanessa Kirby as Nicola

A young man recently released from prison recruits his three best friends to rob the local drug kingpin who is responsible for his incarceration.

The Railway Children

1970

English

7.3

♡ 2

100%

Lionel Jeffries Director

Bernard Cribbins as Albert Perks

David Lodge as Bandmaster

Jenny Agutter as Bobbie Waterbury

Paddy Ward as Cart Man

After the enforced absence of their father, the three Waterbury children move with their mother to Yorkshire, where they find themselves involved in several unexpected dramas along the railway by their new home.

Four Lions

2010

English

7.3

♡ 34

Christopher Morris Director

Adeel Akhtar as Faisal

Craig Parkinson as Matt

Benedict Cumberbatch as Negotiator

Riz Ahmed as Omar

Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce.

The Moor

2023

English

5.2

♡ 11

77%

Chris Cronin Director

Mark Peachey as Alex

Sophia La Porta as Claire

Dexter Sol Ansell as Danny

Bernard Hill as Thornley

Claire is approached by the father of her murdered childhood friend to help investigate the haunted moor he believes is his son's final resting place.

The Secret Garden

2020

English

5.6

♡ 133

66%

42%

Action

based on children's book

Marc Munden Director

Maeve Dermody as Alice

Edan Hayhurst as Colin Craven

Colin Firth as Lord Archibald Craven

Julie Walters as Mrs. Medlock

Mary Lennox is born in India to wealthy British parents who never wanted her. When her parents suddenly die, she is sent back to England to live with her uncle. She meets her sickly cousin, and the two children find a wondrous secret garden lost in the grounds of Misselthwaite Manor.

Dark River

2017

English

5.9

♡ 16

81%

inspired by novel or book

Clio Barnard Director

Ruth Wilson as Alice

Joe Dempsie as David

Sean Bean as Richard Bell

Esme Creed-Miles as Young Alice

After her father dies, a young woman returns to her Yorkshire village for the first time in 15 years to claim the family farm she believes is hers.

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

1987

English

6.6

♡ 9

80%

older man younger woman relationship

sexual promiscuity

yorkshire

Alan Clarke Director

Kulvinder Ghir as Aslam

George Costigan as Bob

Lesley Sharp as Michelle

Laura Devon as Neighbour on Balcony

Rita and Sue are two teenagers living on a run-down council estate in Bradford, who both share a job babysitting for Bob and Michelle's children. Whilst giving them a lift home one night, Bob decides to take Rita and Sue up to a deserted, country-side landscape. Clearly knowing what he has in mind, Rita and Sue are only too happy to oblige and both have a sexual encounter with him that becomes a regular occurrence.

Shannon Matthews the Musical the Movie

2024

English

7.3

based on play or musical

Samantha Hindman Director

Rob Kirtley as Detective Inspector George Radgitt

Chris Clark as Interviewer

Samantha Hindman as Karen Matthews

Helen Lewis as The Prosecutor

Foul-mouthed mother-from-hell Karen Matthews is fed up being a nobody, until she hatches a cunning plan for a shot at the big time. Henpecked common-law husband Craig Meehan has an unhealthy obsession with his laptop. Simple-minded uncle Michael Donovan just wants to fill the void left by his two daughters getting taken into care. Stereotypical Yorkshire copper D.I. Radgitt faces a race against time to unravel the web of lies and find the missing girl, little Shannon Matthews, aged 9.

Brassed Off

1996

English

7.2

♡ 10

79%

Mark Herman Director

Ewan McGregor as Andy

Kenneth Colley as Greasley

Adrian Hood as Heavy 2

Stephen Moore as McKenzie

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 no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983

2009

English

7.1

♡ 12

Anand Tucker Director

Shaun Dooley as Dick Alderman

Andrew Garfield as Eddie Dunford

Sean Bean as John Dawson

Saskia Reeves as Mandy Wymer

Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of local boy Michael Myshkin. Washed-up local solicitor John Piggott becomes convinced of Myshkin's innocence and begins to fight on his behalf, unwittingly providing a catalyst for Jobson to start to right some wrongs.

Hepworth

2021

English

6.5

♡ 1

Richard Shaw Director

Eleanor Clayton as

Angela Conner as

Margaret Howell as

Sara Matson as

A portrait of sculptor Barbara Hepworth revisiting the Yorkshire landscapes that inspired her and her home studio in St Ives, Cornwall.

This Sporting Life

1963

English

7.5

♡ 10

96%

86%

Action

based on novel or book

Lindsay Anderson Director

Richard Harris as Frank Machin

Aileen Lewis as Lady at Party

Colin Blakely as Maurice Braithwaite

Glenda Jackson as Singer At Party

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.

When Saturday Comes

1996

English

6.1

♡ 3

65%

Maria Giese Director

Bill Stewart as Bullneck

Steve Huison as Jack

Sean Bean as Jimmy Muir

Pete Postlethwaite as Ken Jackson

Jimmy Muir comes from a typical gritty, northern town where there are only two options: working down the pit or in a factory. But Jimmy has other ideas - he dreams of becoming a professional footballer. Confronted by a bitter and unsupportive father, hard drinking friends and a lifetime of bad habits...has Jimmy the will to achieve his ultimate goal?

The Railway Children Return

2022

English

5.5

♡ 19

57%

Morgan Matthews Director

Hugh Quarshie as General Harrison

Beau Gadsdon as Lily

Christopher Messina as Military Police Officer

Jenny Agutter as Roberta 'Bobbie' Waterbury

Follow a group of children who are evacuated to a Yorkshire village during the Second World War, where they encounter a young soldier who, like them, is far away from home.