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1. Notes on a Scandal (2006)
R | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her fifteen-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond a platonic friendship.
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Cate Blanchett, Judi Dench, Andrew Simpson, Tom Georgeson
Votes: 84,636 | Gross: $17.51M
2. Miss Potter (2006)
PG | 88 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness, and success.
Director: Chris Noonan | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Ewan McGregor, Emily Watson, Barbara Flynn
Votes: 32,041 | Gross: $2.98M
3. St. Trinian's (2007)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy, Family
In order to save their bankrupt school, a group of troublesome girls stage a robbery with a group of geniuses on their backs
Directors: Oliver Parker, Barnaby Thompson | Stars: Talulah Riley, Rupert Everett, Gemma Arterton, Jodie Whittaker
Votes: 23,637
4. The Madness of King George (1994)
PG-13 | 110 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
When King George III goes mad, his Lieutenants try to adjust the rules to run the country without his participation.
Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Rupert Graves, Amanda Donohoe
Votes: 18,416 | Gross: $15.24M
5. Wilde (1997)
R | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality.
Director: Brian Gilbert | Stars: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle
Votes: 18,130 | Gross: $2.16M
6. The League of Gentlemen (1999–2017)
TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy, Horror
An interweaving narrative chronicling the antics of such diverse characters as: a transgender taxi driver, a family obsessed with hygiene and toads, a fiery reverend, a carnival owner who kidnaps women into marriage, and a xenophobic couple who run a local shop for local people.
Stars: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Jeremy Dyson
Votes: 12,232
7. Stage Beauty (2004)
R | 106 min | Drama
A female theatre dresser creates a stir and sparks a revolution in seventeenth century London theatre by playing Desdemona in Othello. But what will become of the male actor she once worked for and eventually replaced?
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Rupert Everett, Derek Hutchinson
Votes: 10,745 | Gross: $0.78M
8. New Tricks (2003–2015)
TV-14 | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Three retired police officers are drafted in to solve cold cases, with a touch of comedy and drama
Stars: Dennis Waterman, Amanda Redman, Alun Armstrong, James Bolam
Votes: 8,792
9. Twelfth Night (1996)
PG | 134 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.
Director: Trevor Nunn | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant, Imogen Stubbs, Steven Mackintosh
Votes: 6,407 | Gross: $0.59M
10. Immortality (1998)
R | 98 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
Vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to redeem him.
Director: Po-Chih Leong | Stars: Jude Law, Elina Löwensohn, Timothy Spall, Jack Davenport
Votes: 6,151 | Gross: $0.02M
11. Funny Bones (1995)
R | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
An unsuccessful comedian uncovers a family secret and learns the true price of letting inherent talent shine.
Director: Peter Chelsom | Stars: Jerry Lewis, Oliver Platt, Lee Evans, Leslie Caron
Votes: 3,890 | Gross: $0.53M
12. 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
13. Tea With the Dames (2018)
Unrated | 84 min | Documentary
Dames Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright, and Maggie Smith get together for tea to reminisce and discuss their acting careers.
Director: Roger Michell | Stars: Maggie Smith, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright
Votes: 2,840 | Gross: $0.87M
14. Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking (2004 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A serial killer stalking the teen-aged daughters of the aristocracy brings Sherlock Holmes out of his drug-filled semi-retirement.
Director: Simon Cellan Jones | Stars: Rupert Everett, Nicholas Palliser, Neil Dudgeon, Ian Hart
Votes: 2,795
15. War Bride (2001)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Romance
In London during World War II, Lily marries a Canadian soldier who immediately goes off to war. She and her newborn daughter are invited to come and live with his family in Canada, where ... See full summary »
Director: Lyndon Chubbuck | Stars: Anna Friel, Brenda Fricker, Aden Young, Loren Dean
Votes: 1,548
16. Victoria & Albert (2001)
200 min | Biography, Drama, History
The marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, a longtime royal love story.
Stars: Victoria Hamilton, Jonathan Firth, James Callis, Diana Rigg
Votes: 1,040
17.
The League of Gentlemen (1999–2017)
Episode:
The League of Gentlemen Christmas Special
(2000)
TV-14 | 60 min | Comedy, Horror
Alone in the chapel of hope on Christmas Eve Reverend Bernice hates Christmas,since her mother was carried off by Papa Lazarou disguised as Santa Claus when she was a child. She has three ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Bendelack | Stars: Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith
Votes: 392
18.
The League of Gentlemen (1999–2017)
Episode:
Destination: Royston Vasey
(2000)
TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Horror
Now unemployed Pauline has to face the scorn of her successor Cathy Carter- Smith. Meanwhile Papa Lazarou brings his Pandemonium Circus to Royston Vasey. He has a disconcerting habit of ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Bendelack | Stars: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Frances Cox
Votes: 247
19. Screen Two (1985–1998)
TV-14 | 120 min | Drama
In 1984 Kenith Trodd joined BBC team responding to Channel 4 releases, leading to transition from BBC studio plays to Screen One/Two anthology series. Trodd oversaw first group of titles in these series in 1985.
Stars: Jude North, Roger Brierley, Geoffrey Chater, Norman Jones
Votes: 246
20.
New Tricks (2003–2015)
Episode:
The Truth Is Out There
(2009)
TV-14 | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Jack attends the funeral of ex-cop Derek Brooker who went to his grave trying to prove that journalist Peter Edelmann was killed by the American Air Force to stop him exposing an alleged ... See full summary »
Director: Julian Simpson | Stars: Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman
Votes: 246
21.
New Tricks (2003–2015)
Episode:
The Last Laugh
(2009)
TV-14 | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The team meets a girl called Jo, who is heckling Right Wing comedian Ray Harris. Her aunt Sarah Jones and Sarah's partner Daniel disappeared twenty-five years earlier whilst engaged in a ... See full summary »
Director: Robin Sheppard | Stars: Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman
Votes: 239
22. Interview Day (1996 TV Movie)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge University.
Director: Piers Haggard | Stars: Maureen Lipman, David Ross, Benedict Sandiford, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 234
23.
New Tricks (2003–2015)
Episode:
The War Against Drugs
(2009)
TV-14 | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Having lapsed into alcoholism, Brian is booked into a rehabilitation clinic run by an order of monks. A chance remark by Father Bernard leads Brian to telephone Sandra late at night to tell... See full summary »
Director: Martyn Friend | Stars: Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman
Votes: 219
24. In the Red (1998)
60 min | Crime, Thriller
A series of killings of bank managers has London in a turmoil, all the way up to Parliament. And the killer regularly calls about his handiwork, but only to a street-wise, and usually ... See full summary »
Stars: Alun Armstrong, Victoria Carling, Richard Griffiths, Sally Phillips
Votes: 217
25.
New Tricks (2003–2015)
Episode:
Magic Majestic
(2008)
TV-14 | 58 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
At Brian's insistence, the UCOS team investigates a bizarre case from ten years before where a hypnotized woman subsequently killed her husband. Although the woman, Katie Briers, was found ... See full summary »
Director: Julian Simpson | Stars: Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman
Votes: 217
26.
New Tricks (2003–2015)
Episode:
Communal Living
(2008)
TV-14 | 57 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A new witness comes forward in the murder of 18 year-old Justin King. Justin had been missing for several months before his body was found but the pathologist determined he had been dead ... See full summary »
Director: Dermot Boyd | Stars: Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman
Votes: 216
27.
New Tricks (2003–2015)
Episode:
Mad Dogs
(2008)
TV-14 | 58 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The UCOS team investigates the death of Eric Trimble, a soldier who was beaten to death in 1991. Their informant tells them that he and Eric, while still in the Army, were part of secret ... See full summary »
Director: Dermot Boyd | Stars: Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman
Votes: 215
28.
New Tricks (2003–2015)
Episode:
Final Curtain
(2008)
TV-14 | 58 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
With Jack Halford away following the acquittal of Ricky Hanson, Sandra, Gerry and Brian investigate the death of actor Michael Austin, who was shot dead during the performance of a play. ... See full summary »
Director: Julian Simpson | Stars: Alun Armstrong, Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman, Anthony Calf
Votes: 214
29.
New Tricks (2003–2015)
Episode:
Fresh Starts
(2009)
TV-14 | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Gerry has a run-in with David Fleeting who he practically accuses of being a pervert before realizing the man is desperately looking for his wife. The only complication is that she is ... See full summary »
Director: Robin Sheppard | Stars: Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman
Votes: 213
30.
New Tricks (2003–2015)
Episode:
Shadow Show
(2009)
TV-14 | 58 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Ex-actress Gloria Gransford draws the team's attention to a clip, posted on the Internet, from a film she made in 1990 called 'Shadow Show', after which the producer Max Stone was stabbed ... See full summary »
Director: Julian Simpson | Stars: Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman
Votes: 213
31.
New Tricks (2003–2015)
Episode:
Meat Is Murder
(2009)
TV-14 | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Thirty-three years after the corpse of Dr. Simon Lockhart was found in his butcher's shop at Smithfield the body of Harry Eldridge is discovered - cut into pieces. The doctor used to gamble... See full summary »
Director: Martyn Friend | Stars: Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman
Votes: 208
32.
The League of Gentlemen (1999–2017)
Episode:
Lust for Royston Vasey
(2000)
TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Horror
Herr Lipp, a German teacher who seems to have a taste for young boys, brings his students to Royston Vasey and is delighted to be billeted with young Justin. Chinnery's efforts to practice ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Bendelack | Stars: Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith
Votes: 207
33.
The League of Gentlemen (1999–2017)
Episode:
A Plague on Royston Vasey
(2000)
TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Horror
Charlie and Stella baby-sit their niece Jade but frighten her with their arguing. Gary and Lynne rent a room from Pop. Edward and Tubbs decide that David should marry in order to keep the ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Bendelack | Stars: Mark Gatiss, Jeremy Dyson, Chris Freeney, Laurel Gibb
Votes: 204
34.
New Tricks (2003–2015)
Episode:
Death of a Timeshare Salesman
(2009)
TV-14 | 58 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Five years earlier Dean Scott was found dead of shot-gun wounds and suicide was the verdict. Now ex-hooker Alice Hill tells the team she was at Dean's house at the time and believes he was ... See full summary »
Director: Martyn Friend | Stars: Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman
Votes: 198
35.
The League of Gentlemen (1999–2017)
Episode:
Royston Vasey and the Monster from Hell
(2000)
TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Horror
As Royston Vasey is put under martial law and Legz Akimbo are hired to put on a play as a diversion the police arrest Eunice as the cause of the outbreak though Hilary escapes. Chinnery has... See full summary »
Director: Steve Bendelack | Stars: Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith
Votes: 196
36.
The League of Gentlemen (1999–2017)
Episode:
Death in Royston Vasey
(2000)
TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Horror
Harvey and Val trick Benjamin into answering the door to the doctor by telling him that it is Nude Day but the doctor tells him it's on the fifteenth and wonders about the lad's sanity. ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Bendelack | Stars: Mark Gatiss, Roy 'Chubby' Brown, Martin Crocker, Jeremy Dyson
Votes: 194
37.
The League of Gentlemen (1999–2017)
Episode:
Anarchy in Royston Vasey
(2000)
TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Horror
Les McQueen, former pop star with the band Creme Brulee, sees a sign announcing the band's reunion and parts with his savings to lead singer Tony Cluedo in order to finance a come-back but ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Bendelack | Stars: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Jeremy Dyson
Votes: 191
38.
The League of Gentlemen (1999–2017)
Episode:
The Lesbian and the Monkey
(2002)
TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Horror
Edward and Tubbs survive the fire and decide to leave Roston Vasey following - lines. Unfortunately they are railway lines and they are killed by a train. Barbara, meanwhile, has survived ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Bendelack | Stars: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Rosy Clayton
Votes: 190
39.
New Tricks (2003–2015)
Episode:
Blood Is Thicker Than Water
(2009)
TV-14 | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Whilst Strickland's friend Alistair Dudley is entertaining them on his cruiser at a marina, the team see Leanne Sweeting harangue another boat owner Lawrence Fisher. In 2001 a collision ... See full summary »
Director: Martyn Friend | Stars: Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Amanda Redman, Dennis Waterman
Votes: 189
40. Heavy Weather (1995 TV Movie)
95 min | Comedy
At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth cares only about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is willfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planning to publish a book which might ruin ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Gold | Stars: Judy Parfitt, Roy Hudd, Richard Briers, Peter O'Toole
Votes: 183
41.
The League of Gentlemen (1999–2017)
Episode:
How the Elephant Got Its Trunk
(2002)
TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Horror
Whilst magician Dean Tavoularis takes his magic show on the streets and Keith Harris's dog cinema faces competition Reenie has a new helper in the charity shop - Keith Drop,to replace ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Bendelack | Stars: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Isabelle Estelle Corbusier
Votes: 181
42.
The League of Gentlemen (1999–2017)
Episode:
Turn Again Geoff Tipps
(2002)
TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Horror
This episode shows how exactly Lance got hit by the Legz Akimbo van. They are in Camden Town preparing a particularly insensitive piece of street theatre about the disabled, entitled ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Bendelack | Stars: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Sally Armstrong
Votes: 181
43.
The League of Gentlemen (1999–2017)
Episode:
The One-Armed Man Is King
(2002)
TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Horror
Joke shop owner Lance only has one arm but is persuaded by hospital radio DJ Mike that he can get him a throwaway transplant at a cut price. Unfortunately the arm once belonged to a lady ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Bendelack | Stars: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Kevin Brannagan
Votes: 178
44.
The League of Gentlemen (1999–2017)
Episode:
The Medusa Touch
(2002)
TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Horror
At the 'Windermere' guest house Sunny and Alvin Steele are preparing for another swingers' sexploitation weekend, though, unlike Sunny, Alvin is not really enthusiastic, and goes off to the... See full summary »
Director: Steve Bendelack | Stars: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Bhudep Banarjee
Votes: 177
45.
The League of Gentlemen (1999–2017)
Episode:
Beauty and the Beast (or Come Into My Parlor)
(2002)
TV-Y | 30 min | Comedy, Horror
Professor Breastpinch'd arrives and conducts a street poll, asking people if they want their breasts pinched but, unsurprisingly, gets no takers. Knight Rider obsessive Neds shows his ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Bendelack | Stars: Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Neil Bell
Votes: 169
46. A Respectable Trade (1998)
240 min | Drama
The devastating consequences of the slave trade in 18th century Bristol are explored through the powerful but impossible attraction of well-born Frances and her Yoruban slave, Mehuru. ... See full summary »
Stars: Emma Fielding, Anna Massey, Warren Clarke, Ariyon Bakare
Votes: 150
47. Johnny and the Dead (1995)
30 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
After the dead hear their cemetery is going to be sold as a building site, they ask Johnny to stop it.
Stars: Brian Blessed, George Baker, Jane Lapotaire, Harry Landis
Votes: 77
48. Plastic Man (1999– )
120 min | Drama
A seemingly happily married, successful plastic surgeon embarks on a torrid affair with tragic consequences for his marriage and those close to him.
Stars: John Thaw, Sorcha Cusack, Frances Barber, Stuart Piper
Votes: 52
49.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
The Absence of War
(1995)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama
Adapted by David Hare from his own play, this British TV movie stars John Thaw as politician George Jones. Going against the grain of his bosses during a tough political contest, Jones ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: John Thaw, Richard Pasco, Nicholas Day, Michael Bryant
Votes: 34
50. Newman and Baddiel: Live and in Pieces (1993 TV Special)
67 min | Documentary, Comedy
Director: Steve Bendelack | Stars: Rob Newman, David Baddiel, Sean Lock
Votes: 28