Ill Manors

2012

English

7.1

♡ 12

77%

Ben Drew Director

Riz Ahmed as Aaron

Jo Hartley as Carol

Lee Whitlock as Vince

Amelia Eve as Woman outside station

Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.

Interview with a Hitman

2012

English

5.8

♡ 69

43%

Perry Bhandal Director

Ray Panthaki as Franco

Mark Burns as Gangster

Philip Whitchurch as Tosca

Luke Goss as Viktor

An elite hitman returns to erase his past only to find that somebody has messed with his future.

The Flood

2019

English

5.7

♡ 35

67%

Anthony Woodley Director

Arsher Ali as Nasrat

Iain Glen as Philip

Mandip Gill as Reema

Lena Headey as Wendy

Wendy, a hardened immigration officer is offered a high-profile asylum case, judged on her ability to quickly and clinically reject applicants. Through her interrogation, she must uncover whether Haile is lying and has a more sinister reason for seeking asylum.

Brexit

2019

English

7.0

♡ 86

80%

Toby Haynes Director

Richard Durden as Bill Cash

Benedict Cumberbatch as Dominic Cummings

Bob Geldof as Himself

Malcolm Freeman as Male Consultant

Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.

Six Rounds

2017

English

6.4

♡ 3

Marcus Flemmings Director

Carolyn English as Chris' Mum

Marcus Adjmul as Man on Bench

Rob Peacock as Pencil

Chris Rochester as Preacher

Amongst the 2011 London riots, a former boxer needs must choose between his past or a new future.

The House of Usher

1989

English

4.6

♡ 4

29%

Alan Birkinshaw Director

Lenorah Ince as Child

Romy Windsor as Molly McNulty

Oliver Reed as Roderick Usher

Donald Pleasence as Walter Usher

An updated version of the classic horror tale by Edgar Allen Poe. Ryan and his girlfriend Molly are going to visit Ryan's uncle, Roderick Usher, at his mansion. They find, however, that Roderick's brother Walter has gone insane, and Roderick himself isn't far behind. Can Ryan and Molly escape from the doomed mansion before the curse of Usher claims them as well?

William & Kate

2011

English

4.9

♡ 2

39%

Mark Rosman Director

Serena Scott Thomas as Carole Middleton

Jonathan Patrick Moore as Ian Musgrave

Christopher Cousins as Mike Middleton

Nico Evers-Swindell as Prince William

Inspired by the royal wedding and retelling the highs and lows of the nine-year courtship of Kate Middleton and Prince William. The couple struggles to keep their relationship together in the face of intense media scrutiny and family pressures, but the story ultimately ends in a fairytale wedding.

Being the Queen

2020

English

6.6

♡ 6

Tom Jennings Director

Prince Harry as Self

Prince Charles as Self

Sarah Ferguson as Self

Princess Diana as Self

The story of Queen Elizabeth II from those who know her best.

Danny Boy

2021

English

6.0

♡ 1

70%

Sam Miller Director

Anthony Boyle as Brian Wood

Alex Ferns as Gavin Wood

Pauline Turner as Margaret Wood

Toby Jones as Phil Shiner

Soldier Brian Wood, is accused of war crimes in Iraq by the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner. The two men go head to head in a legal and moral conflict that takes us from the battlefield, at so-called Checkpoint Danny Boy, to the courtroom and one of Britain’s biggest ever public inquiries, the Al-Sweady Inquiry.

All Is True

2018

English

6.3

♡ 18

73%

husband wife relationship

london, england

united kingdom

Kenneth Branagh Director

Judi Dench as Anne Hathaway

Ian McKellen as Henry Wriothesley

Harry Lister Smith as Jack Cade

Kenneth Branagh as William Shakespeare

London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where his wife Anne and daughters Judith and Susanna get surprised to hear he intends to stay there definitively, after two decades working in the capital, neglecting his sincere affections for them.

The Spirit of '45

2013

English

7.1

♡ 1

67%

Ken Loach Director

Mark Womack as (voice)

Kate Hardie as (voice)

Trevor Fox as (voice)

Jamie Michie as (voice)

How the spirit of unity, which buoyed Britain during the war years, carried through to create a vision of a fairer, united society.

Rebellion

2021

English

6.7

88%

Action

activism

climate change

climate change activism

Documentary

extinction rebellion

united kingdom

Maia Kenworthy Director

Sam Knights as

Roger Hallam as Self

Gail Bradbrook as Self

Sophie Cowen as Self

In April 2019, Extinction Rebellion blocks strategic traffic points in London for days, leading to the arrest of hundreds of nonviolent protesters. Rebellion works, responds international climate lawyer Farhana Yamin, seeming almost surprised when the government agrees to their demand to declare a climate emergency.

Damascus Cover

2017

English

5.3

♡ 35

14%

Daniel Zelik Berk Director

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Ari Ben-Sion / Hans Hoffmann

Wolf Kahler as Colonel Ludwig Streicher

Olivia Thirlby as Kim

John Hurt as Miki

A spy navigates the precarious terrain of love and survival during an undercover mission in Syria.

This Beautiful Fantastic

2016

English

6.9

♡ 13

61%

75%

Action

adult child friendship

Simon Aboud Director

Tom Wilkinson as Alfie Stephenson

Jeremy Irvine as Billy Tranter

Sheila Hancock as Mother Superior

Andrew Scott as Vernon

Set against the backdrop of a beautiful garden in the heart of London, this contemporary fairy tale revolves around the unlikely friendship between a reclusive young woman and a cantankerous old widower. Bella Brown is a beautifully quirky young woman who dreams of writing and illustrating a successful children’s book. After she is forced by her landlord to deal with her neglected garden or face eviction, she meets her match, nemesis, and unlikely mentor in Alfie Stephenson, a grumpy, loveless, old man who lives next door who happens to be an amazing horticulturalist.

Dua Lipa: Elevating

2022

English

5.3

♡ 7

Danielle Winter Director

Dua Lipa as Self

One of the most recognizable voices in all of modern day music, Dua Lipa quickly rose to fame. Her catchy tunes and sultry vocals make her music appeal to a global audience.

Confessions of a Psycho Killer

5.9

When the body of 63-year-old vicar, Anthony Crean, was discovered in the quiet village of Shorne, Kent in March 1975, the community were shocked. Father Crean hadn’t died of natural causes; he had been hacked to death with an axe and left in a bath of blood. One detective was certain the killer was 22-year-old career criminal named Patrick Mackay, but he had no proof.

The Divide

2015

English

6.8

92%

Katharine Round Director

Keith Thomas as Self

Leah Taylor as Self

Jennifer Cooper as Self

Noam Chomsky as Self - Professor - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Divide tells the story of 7 individuals striving for a better life in modern day US and UK - where the top 0.1% owns as much wealth as the bottom 90%. By plotting these tales together, we uncover how virtually every aspect of our lives is controlled by one factor: the size of the gap between rich and poor.The film is inspired by "The Spirit Level" by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett.

The Great Hack

2019

English

7.0

♡ 10

85%

66%

Action

behavior modification

Karim Amer Director

Hillary Clinton as Self

Donald Trump as Self

Seth Meyers as Self

Nigel Farage as Self - Pro-Brexit Politician

Data—arguably the world’s most valuable asset—is being weaponized to wage cultural and political wars. The dark world of data exploitation is uncovered through the unpredictable, personal journeys of players on different sides of the explosive Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data story.

97% Owned

2012

English

7.6

♡ 3

Michael Oswald Director

Sargon Nissan as Self

Nick Dearden as Self

Ciaran Mundy as Self

Simon Dixon as Self

97% owned present serious research and verifiable evidence on our economic and financial system. This is the first documentary to tackle this issue from a UK-perspective and explains the inner workings of Central Banks and the Money creation process. When money drives almost all activity on the planet, it's essential that we understand it. Yet simple questions often get overlooked, questions like; where does money come from? Who creates it? Who decides how it gets used? And what does this mean for the millions of ordinary people who suffer when the monetary, and financial system, breaks down? Produced by Queuepolitely and featuring Ben Dyson of Positive Money, Josh Ryan-Collins of The New Economics Foundation, Ann Pettifor, the "HBOS Whistleblower" Paul Moore, Simon Dixon of Bank to the Future and Nick Dearden from the Jubliee Debt Campaign.

The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire

2017

English

7.7

♡ 2

britain

Documentary

finance

political documentary

united kingdom

Michael Oswald Director

Andrew Piper as Narrator

Nicholas Shaxson as Self

Prem Sikka as Self

Ronen Palan as Self

At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it behind obscure financial structures in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth may be hidden in British offshore jurisdictions and Britain and its offshore jurisdictions are the largest global players in the world of international finance. How did this come about, and what impact does it have on the world today? This is what the Spider's Web sets out to investigate.

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This Beautiful Fantastic

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