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1. Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
TV-14 | 3,431 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Chief Inspector Morse has an ear for Western classical music, a taste for beer, and a nose for crime. He and Detective Sergeant Robert Lewis solve intriguing cases in and around the Oxford area.
Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, James Grout, Peter Woodthorpe
Votes: 14,392
2. The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1991)
TV-PG | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus and Euridyce.
Stars: Michael Gambon, Brian Henson, Steve Varnom, Derek Jacobi
Votes: 1,866
3. The Princess Bride (1987)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A bedridden boy's grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.
Director: Rob Reiner | Stars: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright, Chris Sarandon
Votes: 451,384 | Gross: $30.86M
4. Wit (2001 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 99 min | Drama
A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Director: Mike Nichols | Stars: Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd, Eileen Atkins, Audra McDonald
Votes: 11,409
5. Death of a Princess (1980 TV Movie)
115 min | Biography, Drama
A journalist investigates a newspaper story of the execution of an Arab princess.
Director: Antony Thomas | Stars: Sawsan Badr, Paul Freeman, Judy Parfitt, Samir Sabri
Votes: 274
6. The Search for Alexander the Great (1981)
Adventure, Biography, Drama
Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather to tell his tale through their eyes.
Stars: James Mason, Jane Lapotaire, Robert Stephens, Julian Glover
Votes: 51
7.
The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1991)
Episode:
Daedalus & Icarus
(1991)
TV-PG | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The inventor Daedalus and his son Icarus flee from the wicked King Minos with the aid of Daedalus's man-made wings, but will Icarus heed his father's advice?
Director: Paul Weiland | Stars: Michael Gambon, Brian Henson, Derek Jacobi, Ian Hawkes
Votes: 136
8.
The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1991)
Episode:
Perseus & the Gorgon
(1991)
TV-PG | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The hero Perseus faces the Gorgon, Medusa.
Director: David Garfath | Stars: Michael Gambon, Brian Henson, Frances Barber, Jeremy Gilley
Votes: 112
9. The Long Good Friday (1980)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.
Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Paul Freeman, Leo Dolan
Votes: 25,668
10. Scum (1979)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama
An uncompromising story of life in a British juvenile offender institution in the '70s.
Director: Alan Clarke | Stars: Ray Winstone, Mick Ford, Julian Firth, John Blundell
Votes: 13,102
11.
Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
Episode:
The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
(1987)
TV-14 | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The murder of a deaf university entrance examiner leads Morse and Lewis into a possible college cheating scandal.
Director: Brian Parker | Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Barbara Flynn, Michael Gough
Votes: 1,067
12. The Dresser (1983)
PG | 118 min | Drama
Personal assistant Norman struggles to get deteriorating veteran actor Sir through a difficult performance of King Lear.
Director: Peter Yates | Stars: Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox, Zena Walker
Votes: 5,707 | Gross: $5.31M
13. Play (2001)
16 min | Drama, Short, Fantasy
The land is filled with people in urns chattering at top speed, but only to themselves, not to one another. The focus goes to three people: a man, his mistress and his wife.
Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Alan Rickman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Juliet Stevenson, Ray Donn
Votes: 700
14.
Inspector Morse (1987–2000)
Episode:
The Dead of Jericho
(1987)
TV-14 | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Anne Stavely, a friend of Morse's, ostensibly commits suicide at her home in Jericho, though Morse isn't convinced this is what happened.
Director: Alastair Reid | Stars: John Thaw, Kevin Whately, Gemma Jones, Patrick Troughton
Votes: 1,277
15. Les Misérables (1998)
PG-13 | 134 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Valjean, a former criminal, has atoned for his past and now finds himself in the midst of the French Revolution, avoiding a law-obsessed policeman hell-bent on capturing him.
Director: Bille August | Stars: Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Christopher Adamson
Votes: 43,213 | Gross: $14.10M
16. 84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
PG | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.
Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Jean De Baer
Votes: 11,240 | Gross: $1.08M
17. War of the Buttons (1994)
PG | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles in which they cut off the buttons, shoelaces, and underwear of their captured opponents, in order to get the boys in trouble ... See full summary »
Director: John Roberts | Stars: Gregg Fitzgerald, Gerard Kearney, Darragh Naughton, Brendan McNamara
Votes: 4,596 | Gross: $0.01M
18.
The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1991)
Episode:
Theseus & the Minotaur
(1991)
TV-PG | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
Theseus, with help from a beautiful princess, versus the savage Minotaur, half-man half-bull.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Michael Gambon, Brian Henson, David Morrissey, Maggie O'Neill
Votes: 128
19. Mona Lisa (1986)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane
Votes: 18,738 | Gross: $5.79M
20. GoldenEye (1995)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
Years after a friend and fellow 00 agent is killed on a joint mission, a secret space based weapons program known as "GoldenEye" is stolen. James Bond is assigned to stop a Russian crime syndicate from using the weapon.
Director: Martin Campbell | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco, Famke Janssen
Votes: 270,407 | Gross: $106.60M
21.
The Storyteller: Greek Myths (1991)
Episode:
Orpheus & Eurydice
(1991)
TV-PG | 24 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
The musician Orpheus descends to Hades to bring back his dead wife, Eurydice.
Director: Tony Smith | Stars: Michael Gambon, Brian Henson, Art Malik, Gina Bellman
Votes: 118
22.
Lace (1984)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(1984)
Drama
Episode two picks up where episode one left off. And it then has flashbacks about each of the characters in the movie. It then picks up back for the conclusion. At the end all is revealed to Lily, and she now knows who her mom is.
Director: William Hale | Stars: Bess Armstrong, Brooke Adams, Arielle Dombasle, Phoebe Cates
Votes: 22
23.
Lace (1984)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(1984)
Drama
Lily (Phoebe Cates) try's to learn about her mother, and tries to find out who she is. Also she gives an interview providing backstory to the film. Also in this episode Lily does something ... See full summary »
Director: William Hale | Stars: Bess Armstrong, Brooke Adams, Arielle Dombasle, Phoebe Cates
Votes: 27
24. Lace (1984)
240 min | Drama
A young actress, thought to be easy and without morals, gathers three former schoolmates to find out who her mother is.
Stars: Bess Armstrong, Brooke Adams, Arielle Dombasle, Phoebe Cates
Votes: 1,528
25. Anna Lee: Headcase (1993 TV Movie)
120 min | Crime
A bright, pretty and determined young girl named Anna Lee quits the police department in search of adventure, and joins a small and somewhat stuffy detective agency, whose members don't ... See full summary »
Director: Colin Bucksey | Stars: Imogen Stubbs, Alan Howard, Michael Bryant, Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Votes: 121
26. Rob Roy (1995)
R | 139 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
In 1713 Scotland, Rob Roy MacGregor is wronged by a nobleman and his nephew, becomes an outlaw in search of revenge while fleeing the Redcoats, and faces charges of being a Jacobite.
Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth
Votes: 45,724 | Gross: $31.60M
27. Memphis Belle (1990)
PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Drama, War
In 1943, the crew of a B-17 based in the UK prepares for its 25th and final bombing mission over Germany before returning home to the USA.
Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: Matthew Modine, Eric Stoltz, Tate Donovan, D.B. Sweeney
Votes: 30,569 | Gross: $27.44M
28. Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
R | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Bridget Jones is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.
Director: Sharon Maguire | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Gemma Jones
Votes: 264,179 | Gross: $71.54M
29. Zoe (I) (2001)
Not Rated | 90 min | Action, Drama
Three runaway girls hijack a car.
Director: Deborah Attoinese | Stars: Vanessa Zima, Jenny Seagrove, Stephi Lineburg, Victoria Davis
Votes: 103
30. Anna and the King (1999)
PG-13 | 148 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story of the romance between the King of Siam and widowed British schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens, during the 1860s.
Director: Andy Tennant | Stars: Jodie Foster, Chow Yun-Fat, Bai Ling, Tom Felton
Votes: 39,019 | Gross: $39.26M
31. Lenny Henry: Lenny Live and Unleashed (1989 Video)
97 min | Comedy
It is very rare for a British comedian to be given a concert film all to themself but in 1989 Lenny Henry was given that honour. We start off with him been driven to the concert by Robbie ... See full summary »
Director: Andy Harries | Stars: Lenny Henry, Robbie Coltrane, Jeff Beck
Votes: 80
32. The Company of Wolves (1984)
R | 95 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A teenage girl in a country manor falls asleep while reading a magazine, and has a disturbing dream involving wolves prowling the woods below her bedroom window.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Sarah Patterson, Angela Lansbury, David Warner, Graham Crowden
Votes: 18,435 | Gross: $4.39M
33. Utz (1992)
94 min | Adventure, Drama
Fisher, a fine art dealer, goes to Prague after the death of a friend, the Baron von Utz, to see if he can obtain some of the pieces of the Baron's priceless Meissen porcelain collection. ... See full summary »
Director: George Sluizer | Stars: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brenda Fricker, Peter Riegert, Paul Scofield
Votes: 245
34. Spies Like Us (1985)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Comedy
Two bumbling government employees think they are U.S. spies, only to discover that they are actually decoys for Nuclear War.
Director: John Landis | Stars: Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Mark Stewart, Sean Daniel
Votes: 53,014 | Gross: $60.09M
35. The Jackal (1997)
R | 124 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An imprisoned I.R.A. fighter is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly "faceless" assassin from completing his next job.
Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora
Votes: 124,266 | Gross: $54.93M
36. Scandal (1989)
R | 106 min | Drama, History
Based on the Profumo Scandal of 1963, an affair between an exotic dancer and the Minister of War shakes up the British government.
Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Stars: John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen
Votes: 5,529 | Gross: $8.80M
37. Fool's Gold: The Story of the Brink's-Mat Robbery (1993 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama
A dramatized speculation of what happened in November 1983 when Micky McAvoy and some of his mates planned a heist and were surprised when they discovered they'd stumbled across a large ... See full summary »
Director: Terry Winsor | Stars: Sean Bean, Trevor Byfield, Larry Lamb, George Jackos
Votes: 219
38. Entrapment (1999)
PG-13 | 113 min | Action, Crime, Romance
An insurance agent is sent by her employer to track down and help capture an art thief.
Director: Jon Amiel | Stars: Sean Connery, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Ving Rhames, Will Patton
Votes: 123,999 | Gross: $87.70M
39. Black Joy (1977)
97 min | Comedy
A Guyanese immigrant is exposed to the hustle and bustle of life in Brixton, South West London.
Director: Anthony Simmons | Stars: Norman Beaton, Trevor Thomas, Dawn Hope, Floella Benjamin
Votes: 248
40. The Saint (1997)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Simon "The Saint" Templar (Val Kilmer), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija, Valeriy Nikolaev
Votes: 72,313 | Gross: $61.36M
41. The Raggedy Rawney (1988)
R | 103 min | Drama, Romance, War
During WWII a youth deserts his country's army after a combat experience, but not before wounding his commanding officer with a knife in order to escape. The young man, now very emotionally... See full summary »
Director: Bob Hoskins | Stars: Dexter Fletcher, Zoë Nathenson, Zoë Wanamaker, Bob Hoskins
Votes: 406
42. George and Mildred (1980)
93 min | Comedy
Mildred decides that she and George will celebrate their anniversary at a posh London hotel - whatever the cost. However, a shady businessman mistakes George for a hit man.
Director: Peter Frazer-Jones | Stars: Yootha Joyce, Brian Murphy, Stratford Johns, Norman Eshley
Votes: 773
43. High Spirits (1988)
PG-13 | 99 min | Comedy, Fantasy
When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Daryl Hannah, Steve Guttenberg, Donal McCann
Votes: 10,701 | Gross: $8.58M
44. Beyond the Limit (1983)
R | 104 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
During the Dirty War, a half-English doctor in Argentina befriends the police, the rebels and the alcoholic Honorary British Consul, whose Latino wife he seduces. When the consul is mistakenly kidnapped by the rebels, he must pick a side.
Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins, Elpidia Carrillo
Votes: 1,545 | Gross: $6.00M
45. The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)
Not Rated | 114 min | Comedy
Young Australian, Barry McKenzie, travels to England with his Aunt Edna after his father dies and a request is revealed in his will.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Dick Bentley, Peter Cook
Votes: 928
46. Absolute Beginners (1986)
PG-13 | 108 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In London in 1958, a young photographer seeks media stardom to keep the love of a beautiful, aspiring fashion designer.
Director: Julien Temple | Stars: Patsy Kensit, Eddie O'Connell, David Bowie, James Fox
Votes: 3,732 | Gross: $0.93M
47. Dealers (1989)
R | 92 min | Drama
The London branch of Whitney Paine, a major American investment bank, is in the midst of a crisis; after the loss of $100 million, one of their leading traders, Tony Eisner commits suicide ... See full summary »
Director: Colin Bucksey | Stars: Paul McGann, Rebecca De Mornay, Derrick O'Connor, John Castle
Votes: 416
48. The Bride (1985)
PG-13 | 118 min | Fantasy, Horror, Romance
After years of research, the doctor finally succeeds in creating the perfect woman, who gets the name "Eva".
Director: Franc Roddam | Stars: Sting, Jennifer Beals, Anthony Higgins, Clancy Brown
Votes: 3,564 | Gross: $3.60M
49. Voyage (1993 TV Movie)
R | 86 min | Thriller
Morgan (Rutger Hauer) and Catherine "Kit" Norvell (Karen Allen) have their future plans ready. In Monte Carlo, their sailboat is stocked. From there, they are going to sail to Malta and ... See full summary »
Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Eric Roberts, Karen Allen, Connie Nielsen
Votes: 818
50. The Haunting (1999)
PG-13 | 113 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Dr Marrow enlists Theo, Luke and Nell for a study of sleep disorders at the Hill House. As soon as the terrifying truth about the mansion is revealed, everyone is found fighting for their lives.
Director: Jan de Bont | Stars: Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson, Lili Taylor
Votes: 80,540 | Gross: $91.41M