After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and various other famous female singers. But at night time, LV sings, imitating these great singers with surprising accuracy. One night she is overheard by one of her mother's boyfriends, who happens to be a talent agent. He manages to convince her that her talent is special and arranges for her to perform at the local night club, but several problems arise.

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

1960

English

7.5

♡ 2

87%

Karel Reisz Director

Albert Finney as Arthur Seaton

Avis Bunnage as Blousy Woman

Colin Blakely as Loudmouth

Robert Cawdron as Robboe

A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.

East Is East

1999

English

6.9

♡ 9

78%

Damien O'Donnell Director

Rosalind March as Helen Karim

Muzz Khan as Kid

Gary Lewis as Mark

Ian Aspinall as Nazir Khan

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.

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.

Wuthering Heights

2011

English

♡ 22

69%

47%

Action

based on novel or book

Andrea Arnold Director

Amy Wren as Frances

Steve Evets as Joseph

Kaya Scodelario as Older Cathy

Richard Waring as Village Elder

Yorkshire moorlands, northern England, in the late 18th century. Young Heathcliff, rescued from the streets of Liverpool by Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights, an isolated farm, develops over the years an insane passion for Cathy, his foster sister, a sick obsession destined to end tragically.

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.

My Summer of Love

2004

English

6.7

♡ 22

90%

Pawel Pawlikowski Director

Natalie Press as Mona

Paddy Considine as Phil

Emily Blunt as Tamsin

Lynette Edwards as Tamsin's Mother

In the Yorkshire countryside, working-class tomboy Mona meets the exotic, pampered Tamsin. To seal their friendship, Mona introduces Tamsin to her born-again Christian brother and helps her spy on her adulterous father. Bound together by their secrets, the two girls see their friendship deepen and enter into dangerous waters.

Three Day Millionaire

2022

English

4.9

♡ 5

65%

Jack Spring Director

Melissa Batchelor as Demi

Colm Meaney as Mr Barr

Daniel Thrace as Nathan Banker

Adrian Hood as Securicor Guard

A raucous black comedy about a gang of Grimsby Trawler-men who carry out the heist of a lifetime.

The History Boys

2006

English

6.8

♡ 8

66%

Nicholas Hytner Director

Dominic Cooper as Dakin

Stephen Campbell Moore as Irwin

Frances de la Tour as Mrs. Lintott

Clive Merrison as The Headmaster

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

Hell Is a City

1960

English

7.0

♡ 4

67%

74%

based on novel or book

Val Guest Director

Warren Mitchell as Commercial Traveller

Stanley Baker as Det. Inspector Harry Martineau

John Harvey as Fingerprint Officer

Marianne Stone as (uncredited)

Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to an explosive climax high on the rooftops of the city.

Get Carter

1971

English

7.3

♡ 29

85%

Mike Hodges Director

Britt Ekland as Anna

Godfrey Quigley as Eddie

Terence Rigby as Gerald Fletcher

Michael Caine as Jack Carter

Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.

Hobson's Choice

1954

English

7.7

♡ 14

91%

Action

based on play or musical

marriage of convenience

northern england

parent child relationship

Romance

David Lean Director

Shirley Stelfox as

Daphne Anderson as Alice Hobson

Julien Mitchell as Sam Minns

Prunella Scales as Vicky Hobson

Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be ‘no marriages’ to avoid the expense of marriage settlements at £500 each, his eldest daughter Maggie rebels.

I, Daniel Blake

2016

English

7.8

♡ 76

92%

Ken Loach Director

Dave Johns as Daniel

Micky McGregor as Ivan

Mark Burns as Job seeker Dan Li

Dan Li as Stan Li

A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.

Calendar Girls

2003

English

6.9

♡ 13

73%

67%

Action

based on a true story

Nigel Cole Director

Celia Imrie as Celia

Helen Mirren as Chris

Matt Malloy as Hotel Manager

Ciarán Hinds as Rod

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

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.

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

2005

English

7.3

♡ 18

95%

Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.

Chicken Run

2000

English

7.1

♡ 123

97%

Peter Lord Director

Jane Horrocks as Babs

Mel Gibson as Rocky

Danny Mann as Various

Olivia Hack as Various

The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to fly the coop–even if they can’t fly! It’s hardly poultry in motion when Rocky attempts to teach Ginger and her feathered friends to fly…but, with teamwork, determination and a little bit o’ cluck, the fearless flock plots one last attempt in a spectacular bid for freedom.

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.

Kes

1969

English

7.9

♡ 27

100%

91%

Action

based on novel or book

Ken Loach Director

Ted Carroll as

David Bradley as Billy

Duggie Brown as Milkman

Brian Glover as Mr. Sugden

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.

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Little Voice

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

East Is East

Wasteland

Wuthering Heights

The Railway Children

Four Lions

My Summer of Love

Three Day Millionaire

The History Boys

Hell Is a City

Get Carter

Hobson's Choice

I, Daniel Blake

Calendar Girls

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Chicken Run

Brassed Off

Kes