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1. Lady Macbeth (2016)

R | 89 min | Drama, Romance

In 19th-century rural England, a young bride who has been sold into marriage discovers an unstoppable desire within herself as she enters into an affair with a worker on her estate.

Director: William Oldroyd | Stars: Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie

Votes: 27,290 | Gross: $1.13M

2. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968)

G | 144 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land.

Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Benny Hill

Votes: 50,727 | Gross: $7.50M

3. The Wedding Date (2005)

PG-13 | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

Single-girl anxiety causes Kat Ellis to hire a male escort to pose as her boyfriend at her sister's wedding. Her plan, an attempt to dupe her ex-fiancé, who dumped her a couple years prior, proves to be her undoing.

Director: Clare Kilner | Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Debra Messing, Jack Davenport, Amy Adams

Votes: 56,307 | Gross: $31.73M

4. Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)

PG | 143 min | Adventure, Drama

A missing heir of respected Scottish family, raised in African jungles by animals, finally returns to his estate only to realize that difference between the two worlds is really significant.

Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson, Ian Holm

Votes: 21,262 | Gross: $45.90M

5. Jude (1996)

R | 123 min | Drama, Romance

In late 1800s England, Jude plans to go to the city and attend university but marries early and becomes a stonemason. When his wife leaves, he moves to the city, where he befriends his liberal cousin Sue.

Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet, Liam Cunningham, Rachel Griffiths

Votes: 11,119 | Gross: $0.41M

6. The Trip (I) (2010)

Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Drama

Steve Coogan has been asked by The Observer to tour the country's finest restaurants, but after his girlfriend backs out on him he must take his best friend and source of eternal aggravation, Rob Brydon.

Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Rebecca Johnson, Elodie Harrod

Votes: 23,435 | Gross: $2.01M

7. A Month in the Country (1987)

PG | 96 min | Drama

Two soldiers (Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh) recover from World War I while spending a summer in a Yorkshire village.

Director: Pat O'Connor | Stars: Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, John Atkinson, Jim Carter

Votes: 1,957 | Gross: $0.44M

8. Children of the Stones (1977)

173 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Scientist Adam Brake and his son Matthew arrive in the sleepy English village of Milbury to find it under the grip of weird psychic powers unleashed by the sinister village squire, Hendrick, and whose power they struggle to break.

Stars: Gareth Thomas, Veronica Strong, Peter Demin, Ruth Dunning

Votes: 856

9. Went the Day Well? (1942)

Approved | 92 min | Thriller, War

An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion.

Director: Alberto Cavalcanti | Stars: Leslie Banks, C.V. France, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr

Votes: 4,340 | Gross: $0.02M

10. Prey (1977)

Unrated | 85 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi

A deadly shape-shifting alien infiltrates a country house occupied by two lesbians, and proceeds to study their behaviour, for a sinister purpose.

Director: Norman J. Warren | Stars: Barry Stokes, Sally Faulkner, Glory Annen, Sandy Chinney

Votes: 1,567

11. Silas Marner (1985 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 92 min | Drama

When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep.

Director: Giles Foster | Stars: Ben Kingsley, Jenny Agutter, Patrick Ryecart, Freddie Jones

Votes: 701

12. Christmas on Mistletoe Farm (2022)

102 min | Comedy, Family

After inheriting a farm at Christmas time, a widowed father makes a bumpy adjustment to village life - while his kids hatch a plan to stay there forever.

Director: Debbie Isitt | Stars: Scott Garnham, Scott Paige, Kathryn Drysdale, Ashley Jensen

Votes: 1,914

13. The More You Ignore Me (2018)

90 min | Comedy

Set in 1980's Britain, the mentally ill matriarch of a dysfunctional family finds a plan for happiness with the help of her daughter and friend Morrisey.

Director: Keith English | Stars: Tom Davis, Sheridan Smith, Mark Addy, Sally Phillips

Votes: 835

14. A Place of One's Own (1945)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the ... See full summary »

Director: Bernard Knowles | Stars: Margaret Lockwood, James Mason, Barbara Mullen, Dennis Price

Votes: 958

15. The Strange World of Planet X (1958)

Approved | 75 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Horror

A friendly visitor from outer space warns against conducting experiments with the Earth's magnetic field, that could mutate insects into giant monsters.

Director: Gilbert Gunn | Stars: Forrest Tucker, Gaby André, Martin Benson, Alec Mango

Votes: 1,361

16. A Bunch of Amateurs (2008)

96 min | Comedy

A sleazy Hollywood agent tricks one of his clients, a faded action star, into playing King Lear in an amateur charity production in England.

Director: Andy Cadiff | Stars: Burt Reynolds, Alexandra Weaver, Elesia Marie, Sarah Goldberg

Votes: 1,154

17. The Franchise Affair (1951)

88 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Michael Denison plays a lawyer investigating kidnapping charges against Dulcie Gray. Based on a novel of Josephine Tey.

Director: Lawrence Huntington | Stars: Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Anthony Nicholls, Marjorie Fielding

Votes: 392

18. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 74 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson, try to solve the murder of the heir to the Baskerville fortune.

Director: Barry Crane | Stars: Stewart Granger, Bernard Fox, William Shatner, Anthony Zerbe

Votes: 385

19. The Rector's Wife (1994– )

203 min | Drama

Anna Bouverie (Lindsay Duncan, Rome) chafes at her limited life as a vicar's wife in a small English town. When her husband Peter (Jonathan Coy, from the Horatio Hornblower series) is ... See full synopsis »

Stars: Lindsay Duncan, Jonathan Coy, Miles Anderson, Lucy Dawson

Votes: 135

20. A Congregation of Ghosts (2009)

93 min | Drama

After accepting the job as vicar at a remote parish, eccentric cleric Frederick Densham promptly alienates his conservative congregation. Subsequently shunned by the whole community, he ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Collicott | Stars: Chris Batters, Bill Bingham, Andrew Dinner, Susannah Doyle

Votes: 32

21. Life in Danger (1959)

Not Rated | 63 min | Crime, Drama

The inhabitants of a small village, led by a war veteran, try to catch a vagrant, who they suspect to be an escaped mental patient.

Director: Terry Bishop | Stars: Derren Nesbitt, Julie Hopkins, Howard Marion-Crawford, Victor Brooks

Votes: 204

22. Jane Austen: Behind Closed Doors (2017 TV Movie)

59 min | Documentary

Historian Lucy Worsley visits the places and houses in England. where Jane Austen spent time and which served as inspiration for the settings of her novels.

Director: Rachel Jardine | Stars: Lucy Worsley, Debbie Charlton, Jeanice Brooks, Judith Hawley

Votes: 147

23. A Parcel of Time (2021)

87 min | Documentary

A portrait of a village at a time of change, an exploration of a rural community.

Director: Ian Lewis

24. Nothing Is Easy: Jethro Tull Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 (2005)

Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, Music

The year is 2004 and Ian Anderson is reflecting on the night he performed with Jethro Tull at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970.

Director: Murray Lerner | Stars: Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, Clive Bunker, Glenn Cornick

Votes: 41

25. Ballerinas Lullaby (2009)

8 min | Short, Drama

During an air raid, 10 year old Emily must protect her baby sister Greta and make it to the safety of the cupboard under the stairs to a startling discovery.

Director: Craig Rutherford | Stars: Gwen Doran, Tim Lienert, Jean Southern, Georgina Watkiss

26. Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)
Episode: The Orchard Walls (1998)

TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A bright young teenage girl is 'farmed out' to relatives in the rural West Country during the Battle of Britain and makes many astute observations about life there.

Director: Gwennan Sage | Stars: Honeysuckle Weeks, Marsha Fitzalan, John McGlynn, Sylvia Syms

Votes: 66

27. Thriller (1973–1976)
Episode: Screamer (1974)

TV-14 | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy

A young American girl on her way to visit friends in rural England is brutally attacked and raped. After spending the next few months in a mental institution trying to recover from her ... See full summary »

Director: Shaun O'Riordan | Stars: Pamela Franklin, Donal McCann, Frances White, Jim Norton

Votes: 206

28. The Elgin Hour (1954–1955)
Episode: Sting of Death (1955)

Approved | Drama

A man with a taste for fresh honey discovers that the bees making it in the rural area of England where he lives have turned deadly.

Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Boris Karloff, Robert Flemyng, Hermione Gingold, Martyn Green

Votes: 56

29. Chemistry of Death (2023– )
Episode: Fallen Angel (2023)

44 min | Crime, Thriller

When a body is found in the woods, the police call on local doctor and forensic anthropologist, Dr David Hunter, for assistance. The stakes get even higher when a second woman goes missing ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Clark | Stars: Harry Treadaway, Samuel Anderson, Jefferson Hall, Jeanne Goursaud

Votes: 240

30. Chemistry of Death (2023– )
Episode: Only 48 Hours (2023)

41 min | Crime, Thriller

The investigation becomes more complicated when another, older, set of remains are discovered in the woods by police. When someone he cares for is threatened, Dr David Hunter has to use all... See full summary »

Director: Richard Clark | Stars: Harry Treadaway, Samuel Anderson, Jefferson Hall, Jeanne Goursaud

Votes: 201

31. Chemistry of Death (2023– )
Episode: Where the Wind Blows (2023)

44 min | Crime, Thriller

With Hunter and Jenny both in danger, they must work together to outsmart the killer if they hope to survive. After the events in Manham, Hunter is called onto a new case on a remote ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Clark | Stars: Harry Treadaway, Samuel Anderson, Lucian Msamati, Jeanne Goursaud

Votes: 174

32. Inspector George Gently (2007–2017)
Episode: The Lost Child (2012)

TV-MA | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Gently and Bacchus are given an insight into the complexities of the emotionally wrought world when the adopted child of a middle-class couple is kidnapped.

Director: Nicholas Renton | Stars: Martin Shaw, Lee Ingleby, Simon Hubbard, Mark Gatiss

Votes: 375

33. New Release (1965–1967)
Episode: A Fortunate Man/Raoul Coutard (1967)

40 min | Family

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Directors: Gavin Millar, Tristram Powell | Stars: Alex Glasgow, John Berger, Jean Mohr, Raoul Coutard

34. Secrets of the Dead (1999– )
Episode: Riddle of the Plague Survivors (2002)

Documentary, History, Mystery

Geneticist Steven O'Brien investigates whether a genetic mutation that helped the inhabitants of a village called Eyam in Derbyshire survive the Black Death pandemic in the 14th century help scientists find a cure for AIDS.

Director: Emma Whitlock | Stars: Sanjeev Bhaskar, Justin Champion, John Clifford, Steven O'Brian