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1. What a Girl Wants (2003)
PG | 105 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
An American teenager learns that her father is a wealthy British politician running for office. Although she is eager to find him, she realizes it could cause a scandal and cost him the election.
Director: Dennie Gordon | Stars: Amanda Bynes, Colin Firth, Kelly Preston, Soleil McGhee
Votes: 66,548 | Gross: $35.99M
2. Damage (1992)
R | 111 min | Drama, Romance
A Member of Parliament falls passionately in love with his son's girlfriend despite the obvious dangers.
Director: Louis Malle | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson, Rupert Graves
Votes: 20,564 | Gross: $7.53M
3. The Duchess (2008)
PG-13 | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was revered for her extravagant political and personal life.
Director: Saul Dibb | Stars: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Rampling
Votes: 87,334 | Gross: $13.82M
4. 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
5. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
Director: Albert Lewin | Stars: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 14,459
6. The Iron Lady (2011)
PG-13 | 105 min | Biography, Drama
An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband as she struggles to come to terms with his death while scenes from her past life, from girlhood to British prime minister, intervene.
Director: Phyllida Lloyd | Stars: Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant, Susan Brown
Votes: 113,655 | Gross: $30.02M
7. Appointment with Death (1988)
PG | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a former prison wardress who dominates the lives of her three adult stepchildren and her daughter is found dead at an archaeological dig near the Dead Sea, there are a great many suspects.
Director: Michael Winner | Stars: Peter Ustinov, Lauren Bacall, Carrie Fisher, John Gielgud
Votes: 6,062 | Gross: $0.96M
8. Random Harvest (1942)
Passed | 126 min | Drama, Romance
An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters
Votes: 8,427 | Gross: $10.14M
9. Veronica Guerin (2003)
R | 98 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An Irish journalist writes a series of stories about drug dealers.
Director: Joel Schumacher | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Brenda Fricker, Ciarán Hinds
Votes: 21,904 | Gross: $1.57M
10. Glorious 39 (2009)
R | 129 min | Drama, History, Mystery
The adopted daughter of a privileged British politician uncovers a family secret in the weeks leading up to World War II.
Director: Stephen Poliakoff | Stars: Romola Garai, Eddie Redmayne, Juno Temple, Toby Regbo
Votes: 5,704
11. Some Mother's Son (1996)
R | 112 min | Drama, History
The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.
Director: Terry George | Stars: Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, David O'Hara
Votes: 2,992 | Gross: $0.61M
12. Christopher Strong (1933)
Passed | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A famous female flier and a member of Parliament drift into a potentially disastrous affair.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Colin Clive, Billie Burke, Helen Chandler
Votes: 1,672
13. Potiche (2010)
R | 103 min | Comedy
A housewife and grandma takes over the family business 1977, after her husband is hurt during a strike.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Fabrice Luchini, Karin Viard
Votes: 11,364 | Gross: $1.62M
14. Your Past Is Showing (1957)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy
A very British comedy about a blackmailer and his victims.
Director: Mario Zampi | Stars: Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton
Votes: 2,045
15. In Love with Barbara (2008 TV Movie)
Drama
In the 1970s the redoubtable and eccentric Barbara Cartland, prolific author of hundreds of romantic novels, is interviewed on television, where she expresses anti-feminist views. Despite ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Whitby | Stars: Julie Barclay, India Skye Beale, Sarah Buckland, Tom Burke
Votes: 44
16. Old Mother Riley M.P. (1939)
77 min | Comedy
Old Mother Riley loses her laundry job and then battles her ex-boss in a parliamentary election.
Director: Oswald Mitchell | Stars: Arthur Lucan, Kitty McShane, Torin Thatcher, Henry B. Longhurst
Votes: 76
17. Woman Rebel (2010)
37 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
40% of the rebel army over the course of a ten year revolution in Nepal were women. Woman Rebel follows the incredible story of one such woman (codename 'Silu') from the jungles all the way to the halls of Parliament.
Director: Kiran Deol
Votes: 25
18.
Upstairs, Downstairs (1971–1975)
Episode:
The Fruits of Love
(1973)
TV-14 | 51 min | Drama
Sweet pillow talk is very useful to Elizabeth's new lover, wealthy businessman Julius Karekin and Lady Marjorie and Richard are in the throes of losing their beloved Eaton Place.
Director: Christopher Hodson | Stars: Gordon Jackson, Jean Marsh, Nicola Pagett, Rachel Gurney
Votes: 100
19.
Alan Bennett's Talking Heads (2020)
Episode:
A Lady of Letters
(2020)
TV-14 | 32 min | Comedy, Drama
Spinster Irene puts pen to paper to complain about the many, many wrongs she sees around her. However, she ends up on the wrong side of the law when she misreads completely the situation of the family living in the house opposite.
Director: Jonathan Kent | Star: Imelda Staunton
Votes: 175
20.
Downton Abbey (2010–2015)
Episode:
Episode #4.7
(2013)
TV-14 | 51 min | Drama, Romance
Cora's playboy brother, Harold, is in trouble, so Robert must travel to America to help bail him out; a new farming venture at Downton sees Blake and Mary putting aside their differences.
Director: Edward Hall | Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Laura Carmichael, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle
Votes: 1,570
21.
Million Dollar American Princesses (2015– )
Episode:
Movers & Shakers
(2015)
TV-PG | 49 min | History
Featured in this installment: Wallis Simpson, Nancy Astor, and Maud Cunard.
Stars: Clive Aslet, Nancy Astor, William Astor, Stanley Baldwin
Votes: 21