Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "phone-box"

1. The Courier (2020)

PG-13 | 112 min | Drama, History, Mystery

Businessman Greville Wynne is asked by a Russian source to try to help put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Director: Dominic Cooke | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan, Vladimir Chuprikov

Votes: 74,026 | Gross: $6.61M

2. The Invisible Guest (2016)

TV-MA | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A successful entrepreneur accused of murder and a witness preparation expert have less than three hours to come up with an impregnable defense.

Director: Oriol Paulo | Stars: Mario Casas, Ana Wagener, Jose Coronado, Bárbara Lennie

Votes: 193,207

3. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office.

Director: James Foley | Stars: Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin

Votes: 116,664 | Gross: $10.73M

4. The Ladykillers (1955)

Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Crime

Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom

Votes: 31,533

5. Blithe Spirit (1945)

96 min | Comedy, Fantasy

A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.

Director: David Lean | Stars: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford

Votes: 8,059

6. Next of Kin (1982)

Not Rated | 89 min | Horror, Mystery

In a rest home for elderly people, a daughter reads her mother's diary. Soon events that are mentioned in the mother's diary begin to happen to the daughter.

Director: Tony Williams | Stars: Jacki Kerin, John Jarratt, Alex Scott, Gerda Nicolson

Votes: 4,265

7. Stan & Ollie (2018)

PG | 98 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Laurel and Hardy, the world's most famous comedy duo, attempt to reignite their film careers as they embark on what becomes their swan song: a grueling theatre tour of post-war Britain.

Director: Jon S. Baird | Stars: Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson, Nina Arianda

Votes: 39,895 | Gross: $5.47M

8. Clockwise (1986)

PG | 96 min | Comedy

An obsessively punctual comprehensive school headmaster sets out to give an important speech at the annual Headmasters' Conference.

Director: Christopher Morahan | Stars: John Cleese, Penny Leatherbarrow, Howard Lloyd-Lewis, Jonathan Bowater

Votes: 13,638 | Gross: $1.48M

9. Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)

R | 89 min | Drama, Thriller

The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.

Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Liam Neeson, James Nesbitt, Anamaria Marinca, Mark Ryder

Votes: 13,263 | Gross: $0.01M

10. 23 (1998)

99 min | Drama, Thriller

When the orphaned Karl Koch and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers, an acquaintance senses that there is money in computer cracking - and travels to east Berlin to try to contact the KGB.

Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | Stars: August Diehl, Fabian Busch, Dieter Landuris, Jan-Gregor Kremp

Votes: 7,300

11. The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988)

Not Rated | 128 min | Drama

An alcoholic homeless man is given two hundred francs by a stranger, who requests that when he can he will return the money to Saint Therese in the cathedral.

Director: Ermanno Olmi | Stars: Rutger Hauer, Anthony Quayle, Sandrine Dumas, Dominique Pinon

Votes: 2,186

12. The Confessional (1976)

R | 104 min | Horror

The story follows a young woman, who seeks out his church. There, she is manipulated into giving confession to Father Xavier Meldrum. Meldrum uses his status and crazed persistence to work his way into Jenny's life by any means necessary.

Director: Pete Walker | Stars: Anthony Sharp, Susan Penhaligon, Stephanie Beacham, Norman Eshley

Votes: 1,244

13. I Could Go on Singing (1963)

Approved | 100 min | Drama, Music

Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she never had.

Director: Ronald Neame | Stars: Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman, Aline MacMahon

Votes: 1,716

14. Satan's Brew (1976)

112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A famous poet who hasn't written a word in two years unconsciously plagiarizes the work of Stefan George, while dealing with several mistresses, his dim-witted brother, and a murder investigation.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Kurt Raab, Margit Carstensen, Helen Vita, Volker Spengler

Votes: 2,141

15. I Only Want You to Love Me (1976 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 104 min | Drama

A man is interviewed by a sympathetic woman. His tale unfolds, of hard work that never pleases his parents, of a father who denigrates his efforts, of an indifferent mother. He builds them ... See full summary »

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Vitus Zeplichal, Elke Aberle, Alexander Allerson, Erni Mangold

Votes: 1,461

16. Don't Talk to Strange Men (1962)

Not Rated | 65 min | Crime, Drama

An innocent girl is "groomed" over the telephone and nearly becomes the victim of the attacker, only to put her younger sister's life in grave danger.

Director: Pat Jackson | Stars: Christina Gregg, Janina Faye, Cyril Raymond, Gillian Lind

Votes: 471

17. Doctor Who: Devious (2018– )

TV-PG | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Something has gone wrong, at the moment of regeneration from his Second to his Third incarnation The Doctor is pulled out of time by a group of timelords.

Stars: Tony Garner, David V. Clarke, Lynette East, Stephen Cranford

Votes: 63

18. A Film Johnnie (1914)

Not Rated | 15 min | Short, Comedy

Charlie attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.

Director: George Nichols | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Peggy Pearce, Mabel Normand

Votes: 1,733

19. Rio das Mortes (1971 TV Movie)

84 min | Comedy

Michel and Guenther, working in dead-end jobs, are obsessed with going to Peru to find buried treasure, using a map of the Rio das Mortes. Michel's girlfriend, Hanna, humors their plan, but really just wants to get married.

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Stars: Hanna Schygulla, Michael König, Günther Kaufmann, Katrin Schaake

Votes: 748

20. The Price of Fame (2014)

110 min | Comedy, Drama

Two friends decide to steal Charlie Chaplin's body, right after his death, for ransom.

Director: Xavier Beauvois | Stars: Benoît Poelvoorde, Roschdy Zem, Séli Gmach, Chiara Mastroianni

Votes: 916

21. A White Horse (2019)

11 min | Short, Drama

1970s Ireland. A young female patient has escaped a psychiatric hospital and rings home from a telephone box - but her parents are waiting for the call.

Director: Shaun O'Connor | Stars: Amber Deasy, Cora Fenton, Jack Healy, Darren O'Connell

Votes: 24

22. Crofters (1945)

24 min | Documentary, Short

The story of a crofting community in Sutherland in the 1940s.

Director: Ralph Keene

Votes: 19

23. Phone Box (2013)

Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Crime, Drama

For the past 40 minutes, Toshiro has been running around phone boxes, answering calls from a man claiming to have kidnapped his daughter. As he picks up the last phone, the purpose of the ... See full summary »

Director: Marcos Villaseñor | Star: Junichi Kajioka

24. Ever Decreasing Circles (1984–1989)
Episode: Moving On (1989)

80 min | Comedy, Drama

Everything looks rosy, despite the big changes.

Director: Harold Snoad | Stars: Richard Briers, Penelope Wilton, Peter Egan, Stanley Lebor

Votes: 87

25. Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995)
Episode: A Barbecue at Violet's (1995)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Insisting that she is the perfect person to play the lead in Emmet's musical, Hyacinth interrupts Emmet's rehearsals at the church hall in order to show off her musical talents. Then, she ... See full summary »

Director: Harold Snoad | Stars: Patricia Routledge, Josephine Tewson, Judy Cornwell, Geoffrey Hughes

Votes: 231

26. Minder (1979–1994)
Episode: Sorry Pal, Wrong Number (1984)

TV-14 | 45 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Arthur's latest money-making scheme, in partnership with veteran con artist J.J. Mooney, involves a race tipping scam with an imaginary office. They hire a postal address and use three ... See full summary »

Director: Terry Green | Stars: Dennis Waterman, George Cole, T.P. McKenna, Patrick Malahide

Votes: 85

27. The Sweeney (1975–1978)
Episode: Hard Men (1978)

TV-14 | 51 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Dour Scots sergeant Davy Freeth arrives from Glasgow in pursuit of three villains who, he claims, have come to kidnap somebody, but he will say no more, even when one of them is found dead.... See full summary »

Director: Graham Baker | Stars: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, James Cosmo, James Warrior

Votes: 130

28. Beck (1997– )
Episode: I Guds namn (2007)

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

A paparazzi photographer is found dead, his apartment ransacked. When Beck's superior Margareta Oberg goes through the evidence, she reacts very strongly to two of the images left behind, ... See full summary »

Director: Kjell Sundvall | Stars: Peter Haber, Marie Göranzon, Mikael Persbrandt, Stina Rautelin

Votes: 1,281

29. The Gold (2023–2024)
Episode: There's Something Going on in Kent (2023)

59 min | Crime, Drama, History

A chain is set up to for the stolen Brink's-Mat gold. The police investigation leads them to Kent and Kenneth Noye.

Director: Lawrence Gough | Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Jack Lowden, Emun Elliott, Charlotte Spencer

Votes: 237

30. Walk on the Wild Side (1994– )
Episode: Hackers and Phreakers (1994)

Documentary

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Director: Paul McGuigan

31. This Morning (1988– )
Episode: Episode #35.50 (2023)

115 min | Comedy, Drama, Game-Show

Nile and Olivia react to being crowned this year's Dancing on Ice champions; James Haskell and Mike Tindall discuss swapping line-outs for laughs on their podcast live tour.

Stars: Phillip Schofield, Holly Willoughby, Gino D'Acampo, Ronald Mallett

32. Eye Spy (2013)
Episode: Builder vs. Banker, Racist Waiter & Stolen Bike (2013)

Hidden-camera show that tests the nation's moral compass by playing out various dilemmas and psychological conundrums in public to see how people react. Diners from the North and South are ... See full summary »

Director: Jon Richards | Stars: Rick Edwards, Barry Castagnola, Adam Dobson, Collet Collins

33. Partners in Crime (2015)
Episode: The Secret Adversary: Part 3 (2015)

54 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The Beresfords' search for Jane Finn comes to a close as they finally uncover the identity of Mr. Brown.

Director: Edward Hall | Stars: Jessica Raine, Clarke Peters, David Walliams, Jonny Phillips

Votes: 255

34. Celebrity Big Brother (2001– )
Episode: Live Eviction (2016)

Reality-TV

16 Celebrity Big Brother contestants are isolated from the outside world for 32 days in a custom built house. Watching over these Housemates is Big Brother - heard only via a voice. He is ... See full summary »

Stars: Emma Willis, Gemma Collins, Stephanie Davis, Darren Day

Votes: 7

35. Grantchester (2014–2025)
Episode: Episode #3.5 (2017)

TV-14 | 53 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Sidney arrives at a Romany camp, but when someone is killed, he is prime suspect.

Director: Rob Evans | Stars: James Norton, Robson Green, Morven Christie, Al Weaver

Votes: 367

36. Criminals: Caught on Camera (2013–2015)
Episode: Drunken Chaos (2013)

TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Crime

Police use Huntingdon's CCTV to monitor drunken and violent behaviour, including lewd acts and brawls, and launch an initiative against such crimes.

Director: Philip Shotton | Stars: Nick Wallis, Richard Burnett, Andy Burrage, Sim Cryer

Votes: 12