Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Karl Theobald

1. Midsomer Murders (1997– )

TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A veteran Detective Chief Inspector and his young Sergeant investigate murders around the regional community of Midsomer County.

Stars: John Nettles, Jane Wymark, Barry Jackson, Neil Dudgeon

Votes: 39,395

2. Death in Paradise (2011– )

TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Cultures collide when British Detective Inspector is transferred from England to the Caribbean island of Saint Marie to head the island's police department.

Stars: Elizabeth Bourgine, Don Warrington, Danny John-Jules, Joséphine Jobert

Votes: 27,952

3. Skins (2007–2013)

TV-MA | 46 min | Drama

The story of a group of British teens who are trying to grow up and find love and happiness despite questionable parenting and teachers who would rather be friends (and lovers) than authority figures.

Stars: Kaya Scodelario, Nicholas Hoult, Joe Dempsie, Hannah Murray

Votes: 93,057

4. Doc Martin (2004–2022)

TV-14 | 46 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The trials and tribulations of Martin Ellingham, a brilliant but socially challenged doctor who moves from London to the picturesque village of Port Wenn in Cornwall.

Stars: Martin Clunes, Caroline Catz, Ian McNeice, Joe Absolom

Votes: 20,201

5. Yesterday (III) (2019)

PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Music

A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles after waking up in an alternate reality where they never existed.

Director: Danny Boyle | Stars: Himesh Patel, Lily James, Sophia Di Martino, Ellise Chappell

Votes: 167,621 | Gross: $73.29M

6. The Chelsea Detective (2022– )

TV-14 | 90 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Arnold, whose lifestyle on a battered houseboat in Chelsea's Cheyne Walk contrasts sharply with the affluent elite whose crimes he helps solve alongside partner D.C. Priya Shamsie.

Stars: Adrian Scarborough, Peter Bankolé, Lucy Phelps, Sophie Stone

Votes: 5,079

7. Sister Boniface Mysteries (2022– )

TV-PG | 45 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

The investigations of Sister Boniface of St Vincent's Convent - nun, moped rider, wine maker and part-time forensic scientist.

Stars: Lorna Watson, Max Brown, Jerry Iwu, Ami Metcalf

Votes: 3,342

8. Primeval (2007–2011)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

When strange anomalies start to appear all over England, Professor Cutter and his team must track down and capture all sorts of dangerous prehistoric creatures from Earth's distant past and near future.

Stars: Andrew Lee Potts, Hannah Spearritt, Ben Miller, Juliet Aubrey

Votes: 15,432

9. Plebs (2013–2019)

TV-14 | 25 min | Comedy, History

"Plebs" follows three desperate young men from the suburbs as they try to get laid, hold down jobs, and climb the social ladder in the big city--that happens to be Ancient Rome.

Stars: Tom Rosenthal, Ryan Sampson, Tom Basden, Karl Theobald

Votes: 9,050

10. Upstart Crow (2016–2020)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy, History

Satirical Blackadderesque sitcom about how friends, family, historical circumstances, and his arch-rival Robert Greene, who first coined the derogatory term "upstart crow", influenced William Shakespeare to write his famous plays.

Stars: David Mitchell, Gemma Whelan, Rob Rouse, Liza Tarbuck

Votes: 3,913

11. Get Him to the Greek (2010)

R | 109 min | Comedy, Music

A record company intern is hired to accompany out-of-control British rock star Aldous Snow to a concert at L.A.'s Greek Theater.

Director: Nicholas Stoller | Stars: Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Elisabeth Moss, Rose Byrne

Votes: 185,598 | Gross: $60.97M

12. Trollied (2011–2018)

PG-13 | 26 min | Comedy

Set in Valco, a fictional supermarket in Warrington in northwestern England, Trollied is a sitcom that puts a comic twist on one of our most familiar everyday surroundings.

Stars: Rita May, Jason Watkins, Faye McKeever, Carl Rice

Votes: 2,788

13. Green Wing (2004–2007)

TV-14 | 65 min | Comedy, Drama

Funky hospital-based sketch-comedy-drama type show.

Stars: Sally Bretton, Oliver Chris, Olivia Colman, Michelle Gomez

Votes: 12,775

14. Mortdecai (2015)

R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Juggling angry Russians, the British Mi5, and an international terrorist, debonair art dealer and part-time rogue Charlie Mortdecai races to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain a code that leads to lost gold.

Director: David Koepp | Stars: Johnny Depp, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ewan McGregor, Olivia Munn

Votes: 76,826 | Gross: $7.61M

15. Malory Towers (2020– )

30 min | Drama, Family

Set in post-World War II Britain, the show follows the adventures of 12-year-old Darrell Rivers.

Stars: Ella Bright, Danya Griver, Natasha Raphael, Beth Bradfield

Votes: 500

16. Sick Note (2017–2018)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy, Crime

When Daniel Glass is misdiagnosed with a fatal disease he begins to notice how everyone around him treats him better, so he decides to keep pretending that he really is sick. This leads to more lies, and, eventually, crimes.

Stars: Rupert Grint, Nick Frost, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Marama Corlett

Votes: 8,772

17. Still Up (2023– )

TV-14 | Comedy

An impulsive and free-spirited aspiring illustrator whose questions over her daughter's future start keeping her up at night, and the socially anxious yet gifted journalist Danny.

Stars: Antonia Thomas, Craig Roberts, Blake Harrison, Luke Fetherston

Votes: 1,692

18. Alan Partridge (2013)

R | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

When famous DJ Alan Partridge's radio station is taken over by a new media conglomerate, it sets in motion a chain of events which see Alan having to work with the police to defuse a potentially violent siege.

Director: Declan Lowney | Stars: Steve Coogan, Colm Meaney, Tim Key, Karl Theobald

Votes: 32,968 | Gross: $0.15M

19. Nativity! (2009)

PG | 105 min | Comedy, Family

An uptight but secretly heartbroken primary school teacher's little white lie about Hollywood coming to see his class' nativity play grows like wildfire in his rag-tag school low on self-esteem.

Director: Debbie Isitt | Stars: Martin Freeman, Marc Wootton, Jason Watkins, Ashley Jensen

Votes: 12,456

20. The Virgin Queen (2005–2006)

59 min | Biography, Drama, History

From teenage princess to accomplished queen, torn between duty and personal longing, the reign of Elizabeth I is exposed in this lavish drama filmed against a backdrop of some of Great Britain's most beautiful houses and landscapes.

Stars: Anne-Marie Duff, Sienna Guillory, Ian Hart, Tom Hardy

Votes: 3,277

21. Plebs: Soldiers of Rome (2022 TV Movie)

86 min | Adventure, Comedy, War

Three Plebs join the army in peace-time, hoping to win respect, romance and military discounts at selected restaurants. But when war's declared they're sent to fight on the front line of a ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Leifer | Stars: Jon Pointing, Tom Rosenthal, Ryan Sampson, Ellie Haddington

Votes: 1,074

22. Torchwood: Monthly Range (2015 Podcast Series)

Action, Sci-Fi

Torchwood - a clandestine organisation outside the government, beyond the police. An elite team of operatives defending Cardiff and the world from alien menaces and terrible forces, keeping... See full summary »

Stars: Gareth David-Lloyd, Tom Price, Kai Owen, John Barrowman

Votes: 16

23. Twenty Twelve (2011–2012)

30 min | Comedy

The team responsible for organizing the 2012 Olympics in London faces many challenges.

Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Amelia Bullmore, Jessica Hynes, Karl Theobald

Votes: 2,274

24. Life (2020)

355 min | Drama

Gail, Belle, David, and Hannah all encounter new and disruptive influences in their lives, kicking off interweaving stories set in a house in Manchester, England, UK, divided into four flats.

Stars: Peter Davison, Rachael Stirling, Adrian Lester, Victoria Hamilton

Votes: 2,378

25. Jo (2013)

366 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Joachim Jo Saint-Clair is a veteran detective in Paris elite Criminal Brigade tackling the city's most challenging murder cases.

Stars: Jean Reno, Jill Hennessy, Tom Austen, Orla Brady

Votes: 1,716

26. The Witchfinder (2022)

30 min | Comedy

A failing witchfinder transports a suspected witch to a trial that could change his fortunes, but first he must deal with the worst possible travel companion and road-free trip across the country gripped by civil war, famine, and plague.

Stars: Tim Key, Daisy May Cooper, Jessica Hynes, Daniel Rigby

Votes: 2,023

27. The Weakest Link (2000–2017)

45 min | Game-Show

British general knowledge quiz show which spawned imitations around the world, notably in the USA.

Stars: Anne Robinson, Jon Briggs, Adam Woodyatt, Neil Hamilton

Votes: 1,827

28. Carnage (2017)

68 min | Comedy

It's 2067, the U.K. is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Writer and Director Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.

Director: Simon Amstell | Stars: Racheal Ofori, Myles Sembi, Robert Wilde, Alex Lawther

Votes: 1,562

29. GameFace (2017–2019)

24 min | Comedy

Marcella is an aspiring actress recovering from a relationship break up. Despite her optimistic attempts, and with help from her friends, therapist and driving instructor, she is unable to get her life back on track.

Stars: Roisin Conaty, Damien Molony, Caroline Ginty, Dylan Edwards

Votes: 2,400

30. Fable III (2010 Video Game)

M | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Your journey to rule the throne of Albion begins fifty years after the events of the last chapter, and you play as the child of your hero from Fable II (2008).

Stars: John Cleese, Michael Fassbender, Stephen Fry, Naomie Harris

Votes: 2,949

31. Pramface (2012–2014)

Comedy

A girl from a middle-class family gets drunk one night, sleeps with a younger working-class boy, and gets pregnant.

Stars: Sean Verey, Scarlett Alice Johnson, Yasmin Paige, Dylan Edwards

Votes: 2,668

32. Jerk (2019– )

30 min | Comedy

Tim has cerebral palsy, which means that people judge him, and his crumpled tissue of a body. But usually they judge him wrongly. Because what they don't realise is that inside that severely disabled, fragile body is a bit of an asshole.

Stars: Tim Renkow, Sharon Rooney, Rob J Madin, Lorraine Bracco

Votes: 240

33. The Sketch Show (2001–2003)

30 min | Comedy

Sketch comedy series featuring a range of different humour styles.

Stars: Lee Mack, Jim Tavaré, Tim Vine, Karen Taylor

Votes: 650

34. Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Adventures (2012 Podcast Series)

Sci-Fi

Tom Baker returns as The Fourth Doctor for the first time in 31 years in all new adventures. Encountering new and old foes and reuniting with old friends such as Harry, Leela, K9, Romana ... See full summary »

Stars: Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, John Leeson, Jane Slavin

35. Doll & Em (2013–2015)

TV-14 | 22 min | Comedy

A sitcom in which English actress Emily Mortimer heads to Hollywood, closely followed by best friend Dolly Wells as her assistant

Stars: Emily Mortimer, Dolly Wells, Jonathan Cake, Elsie Richter

Votes: 1,286

36. AD/BC: A Rock Opera (2004 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy, Musical

An all-singing, all-dancing, star-spangled musical leap around the biblical story of the Nativity, set in 1972. With a comic twist, this familiar story is brought to life through the eyes ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Ayoade | Stars: Matt Berry, Julia Davis, Julian Barratt, Richard Ayoade

Votes: 914

37. Hang Ups (2018)

30 min | Comedy

After the collapse of his previous group-therapy practice, Richard is no longer able to conduct the traditional 50-minute sessions most therapists have with their patients. Instead, he's ... See full summary »

Stars: Stephen Mangan, Bebe Cave, Fionn O'Shea, Karl Theobald

Votes: 924

38. Common Ground (2013– )

10 min | Short, Comedy

A set of ten 11-minute shorts from Baby Cow Productions. Shot in mock documentary style, each follows a set of characters.

Stars: Paul Kaye, Tom Davis, Rachel Stubbings, Tom Stourton

Votes: 58

39. Swing Away (2016)

PG | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy

When an American pro is suspended from the LPGA tour, her escape to Greece and the village of her grandparents leads to a showdown against a greedy American developer that changes the lives of the villagers and herself forever.

Director: Michael A. Nickles | Stars: Shannon Elizabeth, John O'Hurley, Karl Theobald, Manos Gavras

Votes: 568

40. The Queen and I (2018 TV Movie)

74 min | Comedy, Drama

A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets and forces them to live on a rundown council estate.

Director: Dan Zeff | Stars: Samantha Bond, Oliver Chris, Amanda Abbington, Julia McKenzie

Votes: 410

41. Kelsey Grammer Presents: The Sketch Show (2005)

30 min | Comedy

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Stars: Malcolm Barrett, Kaitlin Olson, Lee Mack, Mary Lynn Rajskub

Votes: 263

42. Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle (2016)

Not Rated | 44 min | Short, Comedy

Alan leaves behind his comfortable existence and heads north to ask whether, in this once United Kingdom, a `schasm` has formed between north and south.

Directors: Neil Gibbons, Rob Gibbons | Stars: Steve Coogan, John Thomson, Ben Rufus Green, Jean Ellwood

Votes: 1,814

43. Downhill (2014)

98 min | Comedy, Drama

Four old school friends reunite to attempt the epic coast to coast walk, across the United Kingdom. As their journey unfolds, this comically incompatible foursome walk full tilt into their mid-life crises.

Director: James Rouse | Stars: Ned Dennehy, Richard Lumsden, Jeremy Swift, Karl Theobald

Votes: 165

44. Legs (I) (2022)

16 min | Short, Fantasy

Joy and Harry are trying to have a baby. One night, Joy swallows a spider in her sleep. When Joy subsequently develops an insatiable appetite for flies, it dawns on her that there may be more than one way of becoming a mother.

Director: Celine Cotran | Stars: Amit Shah, Sarah Kameela Impey, Karl Theobald

Votes: 10

45. The Truth (2006)

114 min | Comedy

An outrageous murder-mystery for the 'Me Generation'. Seven young strangers go to a spiritual retreat for a journey of personal growth, taking in jealousy, hatred, sexual perversion and a little murder on the way.

Director: George Milton | Stars: William Beck, Amelia Bullmore, David Cann, Elaine Cassidy

Votes: 168

46. Brand: A Second Coming (2015)

R | 100 min | Documentary, Biography

Follows comedian/author/activist Russell Brand as he dives headlong into drugs, sex & fame in an attempt to find happiness, only to realize that our culture feeds us bad ideas & empty idols... See full summary »

Director: Ondi Timoner | Stars: Russell Brand, Simon Amstell, Andrew Antonio, Barbara Brand

Votes: 947

47. Song (II) (2014)

18 min | Short, Drama, Thriller

A husband and the lover of his wife go into the woods to dig up a grave for the one that doesn't get chosen by the wife, as she is going to text both, saying who she chooses over the other.

Director: Jamie Sives | Stars: Darrell D'Silva, Aidan Gillen

Votes: 36

48. Clive Hole (2008 TV Movie)

35 min | Comedy

Clive Hole is the head of commissioning at the BBC, but the pressure is getting to him, so he decides not to make any more television. Incredibly he seems to be getting away with it, until ... See full summary »

Director: James Carter-Johnson | Stars: Alakija Ayodeji, Christian Boorman, Kenneth Collard, Clive Dancey

49. Rekindle (I) (2011)

38 min | Short, Comedy

Phil's misadventure to reconnect with his first girlfriend from school lead to an interaction with her father the DR that he didn't bargain for.

Director: Marios Hamboulides | Stars: David Whitney, Tom Conti, Daniela Denby-Ashe, Isabel Fay

Votes: 18

50. Moonmonkeys (2007 TV Movie)

30 min | Comedy

Comedy pilot about two petrol station workers, and the daily hijinks they get up to.

Director: George Milton | Stars: Dan Antopolski, Delroy Atkinson, David Cann, Gary Dobbs

Votes: 6