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

1. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller

James Bond sets out to stop a media mogul's plan to induce a war between China and the United Kingdom.

Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher

Votes: 205,019 | Gross: $125.33M

2. The History Boys (2006)

R | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An unruly class of gifted and charming teenage boys are taught by two eccentric and innovative teachers, as their headmaster pushes for them all to get accepted into Oxford or Cambridge.

Director: Nicholas Hytner | Stars: Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Clive Merrison, Samuel Anderson

Votes: 21,516 | Gross: $2.71M

3. 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: 72,390 | Gross: $61.36M

4. I Can't Think Straight (2008)

PG-13 | 82 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman engaged to be married finds her life changed forever when she meets her best friend's girlfriend.

Director: Shamim Sarif | Stars: Lisa Ray, Sheetal Sheth, Antonia Frering, Dalip Tahil

Votes: 9,383 | Gross: $0.04M

5. The Oxford Murders (2008)

R | 108 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try to stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symbols.

Director: Álex de la Iglesia | Stars: Elijah Wood, John Hurt, Leonor Watling, Jim Carter

Votes: 30,733 | Gross: $0.00M

6. Shadowlands (1993)

PG | 131 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned Christian theologian, writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited poet Joy Gresham from the U.S.

Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Julian Fellowes, Roddy Maude-Roxby

Votes: 20,493 | Gross: $25.84M

7. The Most Reluctant Convert (2021)

73 min | Biography, Drama, History

Spanning C.S. Lewis' bitter childhood, WWI and his life-changing friendships at Oxford, The Most Reluctant Convert depicts the events that shaped Lewis' early life and journey from hard-boiled atheism to prolific Christianity.

Director: Norman Stone | Stars: Max McLean, Nicholas Ralph, Eddie Ray Martin, Richard Harrington

Votes: 1,094

8. The Lady (2011)

R | 132 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett, Jonathan Woodhouse

Votes: 11,308 | Gross: $0.36M

9. Basil (1998)

R | 113 min | Drama, Romance

A lonely young aristocrat in turn-of the century England stuggles to meet the approval of his over-bearing, class-conscious father while trying to please the selfish woman he loves.

Director: Radha Bharadwaj | Stars: Christian Slater, Jared Leto, Claire Forlani, Derek Jacobi

Votes: 2,106

10. A Chump at Oxford (1940)

Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Family

As a reward for capturing a bank robber, Stan and Ollie get scholarships to Oxford, but are met with resentment by other students.

Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Forrester Harvey, Wilfred Lucas

Votes: 4,312

11. A Dance to the Music of Time (1997– )

Not Rated | 416 min | Drama

Anthony Powell's twelve volume novel sequence "A Dance to the Music of Time" has been dramatized for television.

Stars: Gillian Barge, Nicholas Jones, Simon Russell Beale, Robin Bailey

Votes: 520

12. A Month by the Lake (1995)

PG | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

At a Lake Como resort, Miss Bentley, an attractive older guest, meets a handsome, well-to-do bachelor. But when he's more interested in a beautiful young flirt, the mischievous Miss Bentley goes to outrageous lengths to reel in her catch.

Director: John Irvin | Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox, Uma Thurman, Alida Valli

Votes: 2,626 | Gross: $2.20M

13. Family Ties Vacation (1985 TV Movie)

90 min | Comedy, Family

The Keaton Family goes on a Family Vacation.

Director: Will Mackenzie | Stars: Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman

Votes: 609

14. Above Suspicion (1943)

Passed | 90 min | Drama, Thriller, War

Oxford Professor Richard Myles and his new bride Frances are off on a European honeymoon. It isn't the typical honeymoon: they are on a spying mission for British Intelligence on the eve of World War II.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt, Basil Rathbone

Votes: 2,449

15. Alice in Wonderland (1949)

Not Rated | 83 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

This exceptional theatrical version of Lewis Carroll's 1865 classic features a combination of live characters and stop-motion animation.

Director: Dallas Bower | Stars: Stephen Murray, Ernest Milton, Pamela Brown, Felix Aylmer

Votes: 882

16. Three Men in a Boat (1956)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Romance

Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.

Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Jimmy Edwards, David Tomlinson, Shirley Eaton

Votes: 422

17. Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets (1995)

R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

Sir Hugo (Sir Alan Bates) is more interested in reconstructing dinosaur bones than in paying attention to his wife, Lady Harriet (Theresa Russell). He's not thrilled when daughter Cleo (... See full summary »

Director: John-Paul Davidson | Stars: Alan Bates, Theresa Russell, Sting, Lena Headey

Votes: 683

18. Privileged (1982)

96 min | Drama, Comedy

A story about a group of Oxford undergraduate acting students and their troubled lives while producing (and competing between themselves for a role in) a different version of the classic ... See full summary »

Director: Michael Hoffman | Stars: Robert Woolley, Diana Katis, Hugh Grant, Victoria Studd

Votes: 123

19. Master Keaton (1998–2000)

30 min | Animation, Action, Adventure

Taichi Keaton is a half-British half-Japanese archaeologist and SAS veteran of the Falklands War. He solves mysteries and investigates insurance fraud for Lloyd's around the world.

Stars: Norihiro Inoue, Keaton Yamada, Shinpachi Tsuji, Houko Kuwashima

Votes: 247

20. Operation Julie (1985 TV Movie)

180 min | Crime

The real-life story of a famous police operation which resulted in a major drugs bust.

Director: Bob Mahoney | Stars: Colin Blakely, Kay Adshead, John Ainley, Peter Baldwin

Votes: 45

21. Hawking (2013)

TV-PG | 86 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy

Hawking is the extraordinary story of the planet's most famous living scientist, told for the first time in his own words and by those closest to him. Made with unique access to Hawking's ... See full summary »

Director: Stephen Finnigan | Stars: Stephen Hawking, Arthur Pelling, Finlay Macrae, Nathan Chapple

Votes: 1,716

22. Milk and Honey: The Movie (2018)

102 min | Action, Crime, Drama

When the biggest player in British cyber-crime faces destruction by some deadly serious Islamic extremists, he knows it's time to settle old scores and play the biggest scam of his life - before bailing out fast.

Director: Matt Gambell | Stars: Mark Wingett, Claire King, Rachel Bright, Nicholas Brendon

Votes: 134

23. 56 Up (2012)

Not Rated | 144 min | Documentary, Biography

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a seven-year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

Directors: Michael Apted, Paul Almond | Stars: Michael Apted, Bruce Balden, Jacqueline Bassett, Symon Basterfield

Votes: 2,476 | Gross: $0.70M

24. True Blue (1996)

R | 118 min | Drama, Sport

The story of the year the Oxford and Cambridge boat race changed from a gentleman's race to one where winning was everything.

Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Johan Leysen, Dominic West, Dylan Baker, Geraldine Somerville

Votes: 439

25. Notorious Gentleman (1945)

110 min | Drama, Romance

Vivian Kenway (Sir Rex Harrison), a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, ... See full summary »

Director: Sidney Gilliat | Stars: Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Godfrey Tearle, Griffith Jones

Votes: 391

26. Dirty Tricks (2000 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 162 min | Comedy, Drama

Edward fancies himself to be a cunning manipulator, but is so tragically self-deluded that he can't see he's being used by his wealthy friends as a sex-tool and a dupe. Banality ensues.

Director: Paul Seed | Stars: Martin Clunes, James Bolam, George Potts, Julie Graham

Votes: 188

27. John Wycliffe: The Morning Star (1984)

Not Rated | 75 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of 14th century John Wycliffe, AKA "The Morning Star of the Reformation", who was the first to translate the Bible into English.

Director: Tony Tew | Stars: Michael Bertenshaw, James Downie, Peter Howell, Barrie Cookson

Votes: 161

28. Whiskers (1997 TV Movie)

G | 95 min | Family, Comedy, Fantasy

A friendless youngster (Michael Caloz) asks a cat goddess to help his feline friend.

Director: Jim Kaufman | Stars: Steve Adams, Goûchy Boy, Mark Bromilow, Michael Caloz

Votes: 196

29. Who Killed Lamb? (1974 TV Movie)

65 min | Mystery, Thriller

A popular member of the Oxford community is killed, and nobody can think why, so a police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard, and discovers they may be more to the victim than met anyone's eye.

Director: David Cunliffe | Stars: Stanley Baker, Denis Lill, David Swift, Derek Francis

Votes: 98

30. Charley's Aunt (1930)

Unrated | 88 min | Comedy

Charley Wyckham and Jack Chesney pressure fellow student Fancourt Babberly to pose as Charley's Brazilian Aunt Donna Lucia. Their purpose is to have a chaperone for their amorous visits ... See full summary »

Director: Al Christie | Stars: Charles Ruggles, June Collyer, Doris Lloyd, Halliwell Hobbes

Votes: 145

31. A Likeness in Stone (2000 TV Movie)

150 min | Drama, Mystery

A thriller about dark secret of three old college friends brought to the surface after divers find a body secreted in a house at the bottom of a reservoir.

Director: Charles Beeson | Stars: Liam Cunningham, Jonathan Firth, Andrew Lincoln, Ruth Jones

Votes: 48

32. The Importance of Being Miriam (2015 TV Special)

120 min | Comedy

In this hilarious, heart-warming and thought-provoking show, Miriam Margolyes reveals the full range of her immense talent.

Directors: Ian Lumsden, Peter J. Adams | Stars: Miriam Margolyes, John Martin

Votes: 6

33. John Wesley (1954)

Approved | 77 min | Biography, Drama, History

When young John Wesley is saved from the flames burning his family's home, he believes God has chosen him for a higher mission. He grows up to become a minister in the Church of England but... See full summary »

Director: Norman Walker | Stars: Leonard Sachs, Gerard Lohan, Neil Heayes, Keith Pyott

Votes: 55

34. Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940)

TV-G | 75 min | Comedy

Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.

Director: Walter Forde | Stars: Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott

Votes: 183

35. Privateer (1993 Video Game)

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Play as a Privateer trying to make a living in space defending bases, fighting off pirates, delivering stock goods or helping the government's scouts.

Director: Chris Roberts

Votes: 174

36. Shakespeare: The Truth Behind the Name (2021)

99 min | Documentary

Literary history's greatest mystery? Who created the greatest works of iambic thunder in the English language, and who lived the courtly life that is written about in the works of Shakespeare. An uneducated tradesman from Stratford?

Director: Robin K. Phillips | Star: Robin K. Phillips

Votes: 39

37. There's Something About Alice (2022)

65 min | Documentary

A comprehensive documentary about Lewis Carroll's 'Alice' books and how the character has permeated all areas of popular culture. Featuring original interviews with experts, artists, writers and enthusiasts.

Director: Wendy Rowland | Stars: Susan Archer, Graham Arnold, Frank Beddor, Will Brooker

38. The Stained Stainlessman

Short, Comedy, Drama | Pre-production

A young man's life is abruptly thrown into disarray when the girl he loses his virginity to accuses him of rape.

Director: Dan Lowenstein | Stars: Will Gibson, Christian Stevens

39. The Isis (2011)

20 min | Short, Drama

Three college students agree to cover up their involvement in the disappearance of a girl, with consequences that will test the limits of their friendship.

Director: Andrew Saunders | Stars: Kerr Logan, Jack Laskey, Victoria Ross, Rosaline Elbay

Votes: 11

40. I Archimedes (2017)

50 min | Documentary

The story of the Archimedes Palimpsest told by the team of scholars that restored it.

Director: Vittorio Muscia | Stars: Leslie La Penna, Felix De Marez Oyens, Francis J. Wahlgren, Roger Easton

Votes: 12

41. Alice: A look into Alice's adventures in Wonderland and at the curious relationship between Alice Liddell and Lewis Carroll (2010)

Documentary

'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' was published in 1865, and revolutionized children's writing. It made a mockery of much that had preceded it; the cautionary tales where young mischievous... See full summary »

Director: Gerry Malir

42. The Whirlwind of Youth (1927)

60 min | Romance, Drama

Impulsive 18-year-old Nancy Hawthorne falls hard for Bob Whittaker and a lovers carousel begins. At first refusing to take Nancy seriously, Bob changes his mind when he realizes that he, ... See full summary »

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Lois Moran, Vera Voronina, Donald Keith, Alyce Mills

43. The Life of Lewis Carroll (2009)

76 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Lewis Carroll (1832-98) was an English writer, logician, mathematician, Anglican deacon and photographer. He excelled in two of these fields, photography and writing. As a photographer, he ... See full summary »

Star: Lewis Carroll

44. The White Man's Law (1918)

50 min | Drama

The story is simply that of misplaced confidence, that of deception practiced by a renegade Englishman of attractive personality and high social training upon characters more simple and ... See full summary »

Director: James Young | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Florence Vidor, Jack Holt, Herbert Standing

45. The Blitz: Days That Changed WWII (2020 TV Special)

44 min | Documentary, History, War

From Black Saturday in the East End, to the ruins of Coventry Cathedral, to the all-out assault on St. Pauls, they filmed the Blitz and the everyday people who defied it.

Stars: Gavin Brocker, Stephan Bachenheimer, Robert Bass, Richard Cotton

46. 13 Burmese Days (2016 TV Movie)

49 min | Documentary

Oxford University students explore Burma and meet the people fighting for social change.

Director: Garlen Lo

47. Wing Commander: Privateer Expansion Pack: Righteous Fire (1994 Video Game)

Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Mercenary space pilot Grayson Burrows is taking a breather after his adventures in the original game, when someone steels an alien weapon from his ship. Grayson suspects a dangerous Luddite religious cult, but info on them is expensive.

Director: Chris Roberts

Votes: 18

48. Bronze Eyes (2008)

5 min | Short

During the redevelopment in 2005, bronze castings appeared up and down the Cowley Road, These bronze Ingots have often been the subject of many a conversation in the area though very few ... See full summary »

Director: Owen Edwards | Stars: Claire Cox, Eric Edwards, Ulfat Kiani, Stanford Robinson

49. The Ultimate Survivor (2011)

60 min | Documentary, History

The untold story of a legendary cinema.

Director: Philip Hind | Stars: Brian Aldiss, John Buckley, Jane Derricott, Philippa Farrow

50. Ale (2010)

4 min | Short

A short film exploring how locally brewed craft ales may help pubs with a strong community focus survive in an increasingly difficult market. Featuring interviews with local craft brewer Ed... See full summary »

Directors: Tim Archwood, Alex Dunsmore, Philip Hind, Martin Lipson, Rupert Masefield | Stars: Tony Goulding, Tony Meeson, Ed Murray