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51. Jack & Sarah (1995)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young American woman becomes a nanny in the home of a recent British widower.
Director: Tim Sullivan | Stars: Richard E. Grant, Samantha Mathis, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins
Votes: 5,566 | Gross: $0.22M
52. BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
120 min | Drama
Monthly anthology series featuring televised versions of plays.
Stars: Charles Gray, Eric Porter, Jeremy Brett, Lally Bowers
Votes: 178
53. Let Him Have It (1991)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama, History
This drama reveals the controversial postwar 1950's London murder trial that sent an intellectually challenged young man to the gallows for a murder he did not commit.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Tom Courtenay, Christopher Eccleston, Eileen Atkins, Rebecca Eccleston
Votes: 3,811
54. Sharon's Baby (1975)
R | 95 min | Horror
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary one. The child is seemingly possessed by the Devil.
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Joan Collins, Eileen Atkins, Ralph Bates, Donald Pleasence
Votes: 1,432
55. The One Show (2006– )
30 min | Documentary, News, Talk-Show
A live magazine programme featuring topical stories and big name studio guests.
Stars: Alex Jones, Matt Baker, Christine Lampard, Adrian Chiles
Votes: 626
56. Women Talking Dirty (1999)
Not Rated | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
A lively, outspoken single mother in Edinburgh, Scotland, develops an unlikely friendship with a shy cartoonist.
Director: Coky Giedroyc | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Gina McKee, Eileen Atkins, Kenneth Cranham
Votes: 831
57. The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)
75 min | Drama
Series of one-off plays made by BBC television, which gave breaks to a wide range of writers and directors in the late 1960s, such as Dennis Potter, Ken Loach, David Mercer, and John ... See full summary »
Stars: Edwin Brown, Neville Smith, Tony Selby, Ken Jones
Votes: 133
58. Bertie and Elizabeth (2002 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
A chronicle of the life of George VI, who was forced to become King following the abdication of his brother Edward VIII, and his relationship with his wife, Elizabeth.
Director: Giles Foster | Stars: James Wilby, Alan Bates, Eileen Atkins, Dolly Wells
Votes: 707
59. Madame Bovary (2000 TV Movie)
180 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman in her late teens, a reader of novels and with high hopes of romance and passion, marries a widowed country doctor. Although he dotes on her, she is soon bored and discontent.... See full summary »
Director: Tim Fywell | Stars: Frances O'Connor, Greg Wise, Eileen Atkins, Hugh Bonneville
Votes: 1,012
60. 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
61. Jackanory (1965–1996)
15 min | Family, Fantasy
A celebrity reads a story, enhancing it in ways that will entice the most restless of children.
Stars: Bernard Cribbins, Kenneth Williams, Martin Jarvis, John Grant
Votes: 424
62. Oliver Twist (I) (1982 TV Movie)
103 min | Crime, Drama
The classic Charles Dickens tale of an orphan boy who escapes the horrors of the orphanage only to be taken in by a band of thieves and pickpockets.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: George C. Scott, Tim Curry, Michael Hordern, Timothy West
Votes: 567
63. David Copperfield (2000 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 180 min | Drama
A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Hugh Dancy, Michael Richards, Eileen Atkins, Anthony Andrews
Votes: 1,174
64. Chillers (1990)
53 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
"Chillers" was a 1990 series based on Patricia Highsmith's short stories: displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving in to the darkest depths of human nature.
Stars: Anthony Perkins, Doug Rollins, Assumpta Serna, Stéphane Freiss
Votes: 146
65. The Dick Cavett Show (1968–1988)
TV-G | 90 min | Music, Talk-Show
This particular series combines several "The Dick Cavett Show" on ABC: ABC This Morning/The Dick Cavett Show ABC Daytime March 1968 - January 1969 The Dick Cavett Show ABC Primetime May 1969 - September 1969 The Dick Cavett Show ABC Late Night December 1969 - January 1975 The Dick Cavett Show ABC Late Night September - December 1986
Stars: Dick Cavett, Bobby Rosengarden, Fred Foy, Mort Sahl
Votes: 947
66. Performance (1991–1998)
180 min | Drama
An anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
Stars: Ian Holm, Elizabeth McGovern, Ronald Pickup, Jane Horrocks
Votes: 93
67. ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
An anthology series from the U.K., from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television.
Stars: Derek Francis, Alfred Burke, Arthur Hewlett, Esther Lawrence
Votes: 95
68. The Queen of Sheba's Pearls (2004)
131 min | Drama
Set in post-war England, a mysterious woman arrives at the Prettys' rural family home on the eve of young Jack Bradley's (Rollo Weeks') sixteenth birthday. Her remarkable likeness to a ... See full summary »
Director: Colin Nutley | Stars: Helena Bergström, Lorcan Cranitch, Lindsay Duncan, Tim Dutton
Votes: 525
69. Charlie Rose (1991–2017)
60 min | News, Talk-Show
Charlie Rose interviews noteworthy people in fields including politics and government, business and economics, science and technology, media, sports and the arts.
Stars: Charlie Rose, Mark Halperin, Al Hunt, Thomas Friedman
Votes: 1,171
70. Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh (2020– )
120 min | Talk-Show
Alan Titchmarsh celebrates the great British countryside in the company of special guests.
Stars: Alan Titchmarsh, Lesley Joseph, David Domoney, Camilla Bassett-Smith
Votes: 25
71. Talking Heads 2 (1998)
230 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Six monologues: a lonely store clerk, a covetous antiques dealer, a reformed pedophile, a wife of a dangerous criminal, a murderer's friend, and a confused older woman.
Stars: Julie Walters, Penelope Wilton, Eileen Atkins, Patricia Routledge
Votes: 209
72. La fiesta del Chivo (2005)
Not Rated | 132 min | Drama
Urania Cabral (Isabella Rossellini) returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Leonidas Trujillo (Tomas Milian), the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.
Director: Luis Llosa | Stars: Tomas Milian, Isabella Rossellini, Paul Freeman, Juan Diego Botto
Votes: 891
73. Shades of Darkness (1983–1986)
60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
"Shades of Darkness" was an anthology of short mysterious dramas, each with a supernatural twist.
Stars: Norma West, Annette Wilkie-Miller, Francesca Annis, Eileen Atkins
Votes: 332
74. Carnage (2017)
68 min | Comedy
It's 2067, the U.K. is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Writer and Director Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.
Director: Simon Amstell | Stars: Racheal Ofori, Myles Sembi, Robert Wilde, Alex Lawther
Votes: 1,563
75. Emergency-Ward 10 (1957–1967)
30 min | Drama
Set in Oxbridge General Hospital, this soap opera focused equally on the lives and loves of its medical staff and the pressure of their work.
Stars: Jill Browne, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Frederick Bartman, Desmond Carrington
Votes: 71
76. The Lost Language of Cranes (1991)
87 min | Drama, Romance
A young gay man comes out to his middle-class parents, which has repercussions for his father who has long since been trying to repress his own sexuality.
Director: Nigel Finch | Stars: Brian Cox, Eileen Atkins, Angus Macfadyen, Corey Parker
Votes: 620
77. This September (2010– )
Drama
The trials and tribulations of a Scottish Laird, his family with all their wealth, secrets, and heartbreak.
Stars: Rebecca Night, Charles Dance, Susanna Simon, Eleonore Weisgerber
Votes: 131
78. Getting Away with Murder(s) (2021)
175 min | Documentary
99% of those who carried out the murders in the Holocaust were never prosecuted. Why not?
Director: David Wilkinson | Stars: Julian Glover, Eileen Atkins, David Wilkinson, Hermann Göring
Votes: 318
79. This Is Jinsy (2010– )
30 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
The series follows Arbiter Maven (Justin Chubb) (the 17th Arbiter and "Wearer of the Hat") and Operative Sporall (Chris Bran) (nice hair and "Wearer of the Beige Suit") as they keep a close... See full summary »
Stars: Justin Chubb, Chris Bran, Geoffrey McGivern, Alice Lowe
Votes: 768
80. The South Bank Show (1978– )
53 min | Documentary
ITV's long-running arts series presented by Melvyn Bragg.
Stars: Melvyn Bragg, Ian McKellen, David Hockney, Victoria Wood
Votes: 218
81. Roman Holiday (1987 TV Movie)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Remake of the 1953 original. Princess Elysa (Catherine Oxenberg) is touring Rome, and decides to get "out and about" away from her normal life. She meets with an American reporter and his ... See full summary »
Director: Noel Nosseck | Stars: Tom Conti, Catherine Oxenberg, Ed Begley Jr., Paul Daneman
Votes: 163
82. ChickLit (2016)
TV-MA | 96 min | Comedy
Four friends try to save their pub by writing a 'ChickLit' novel, with potentially disasterous consquences!
Director: Tony Britten | Stars: Christian McKay, Dakota Blue Richards, Caroline Catz, David Troughton
Votes: 434
83. Affairs of the Heart (1974–1975)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A series of TV plays based on stories or novels by Henry James.
Stars: Georgina Hale, Anton Rodgers, Diana Rigg, Sinéad Cusack
Votes: 63
84. ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1967)
60 min | Drama
Richard O. Sullivan as a child genius in the play "Honour Bright".
Stars: Campbell Singer, Thomas Heathcote, Richard Caldicot, June Brown
Votes: 67
85. BBC2 Play of the Week (1977–1979)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length movies.
Stars: Judi Dench, Richard O'Callaghan, Frederick Treves, Clive Swift
Votes: 47
86. An Age of Kings (1960)
60 min | Drama, History
A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over the eighty-six years between Richard II and Richard III.
Stars: John Murray Scott, Frank Windsor, David Andrews, John Ringham
Votes: 168
87. Theatre 625 (1964–1968)
90 min | Drama
Drama anthology series transmitted on BBC Two.
Stars: Michael Bryant, Judi Dench, Maurice Denham, Margery Mason
Votes: 49
88. Omnibus (1967–2003)
Not Rated | 43 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Arts documentary series with concerts and experimental dramatizations.
Stars: Humphrey Burton, Kirsty Wark, David Collings, Michael Hordern
Votes: 295
89. The Lady's Not for Burning (1974 TV Movie)
120 min | Comedy, Romance
A war-weary soldier who wants to die tries to convince a zealous cleric to accuse him of witchcraft and hang him instead of a beautiful condemned woman already accused of witchcraft who wants to live.
Director: Joseph Hardy | Stars: Eileen Atkins, Jacques Aubuchon, John Carradine, Richard Chamberlain
Votes: 120
90. Farewell Doc Martin (2022 TV Special)
Documentary
Doc Martin, one of UK's iconic TV characters played by Martin Clunes (Manhunt), hangs up his stethoscope as the long-running titular series comes to an end after 10 seasons and 18 years ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Orme | Stars: Caroline Catz, Joe Absolom, Robyn Addison, Anthony Ainsworth
Votes: 54
91. Titus Andronicus (1985 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 168 min | Drama, Horror
Roman warrior Titus Andronicus finds himself trapped in a nightmarish cycle of vengeance, misery, and bloodshed.
Director: Jane Howell | Stars: Paul Davies Prowles, Edward Hardwicke, Walter Brown, Brian Protheroe
Votes: 194
92. Friday Night with Jonathan Ross (2001–2010)
60 min | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
A mix of music, comedy and celebrity chat hosted by fast-witted comic Jonathan Ross.
Stars: Jonathan Ross, Stephen de Martin, David Wickenden, Ian Parkin
Votes: 2,712
93. Working in the Theatre (1976– )
60 min | Documentary, Talk-Show
Bringing together performers, directors, playwrights, designers, choreographers, producers and behind-the-scenes personnel from the American and international theatre, the program offers a ... See full summary »
Stars: Jean Dalrymple, George White, Brendan Gill, Ted Chapin
Votes: 46
94. Call My Bluff (II) (1965–1988)
30 min | Family, Game-Show
Two teams of three alternate between giving and guessing the meanings of obscure English words.
Stars: Robert Robinson, Frank Muir, Patrick Campbell, Arthur Marshall
Votes: 86
95. W. Somerset Maugham (1969–1970)
50 min | Drama
An anthology series based on the varied stories by W. Somerset Maugham divided into three categories: "Rule Britannia" about colonial life, "Women of the World" which focus on female characters, and "Victims of Fate".
Stars: Kim Kee Lim, Ken Nazarin, Ahmad Jamal, Eileen Atkins
Votes: 19
96. Everyman (1977– )
50 min | Documentary
Long-running BBC documentary series, often focussing on issues of a religious nature.
Stars: Peter France, Vanya Kewley, Jenni Murray, David Jessel
Votes: 33
97. Hilda Lessways (1959– )
30 min | Drama
Stars: Judi Dench, Brian Smith, Violet Carson, Eileen Atkins
Votes: 30
98. The Lady from the Sea (1974 TV Movie)
110 min | Drama
A lighthouse keeper's daughter, lives her opportunist marital life, until her past lover appears in her life.
Director: Basil Coleman | Stars: Eileen Atkins, Denholm Elliott, Carole Nimmons, Lynne Frederick
Votes: 53
99. Given for christmas (2013 Podcast Series)
Drama
Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet, Damian Lewis, Eileen Atkins
100. Masterpiece Theatre: Sons and Lovers (1981– )
Drama
BBC adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel about a sensitive young man growing up in a Nottinghamshire mining community.
Stars: Eileen Atkins, Tom Bell, Karl Johnson, Amanda Parfitt
Votes: 31