Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Lesley Manville

1. Back to Black (2024)

R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The life and music of Amy Winehouse, through the journey of adolescence to adulthood and the creation of one of the best-selling albums of our time.

Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson | Stars: Marisa Abela, Eddie Marsan, Jack O'Connell, Lesley Manville

Votes: 8,391

2. The Crown (2016–2023)

TV-MA | 60 min | Biography, Drama, History

Follows the political rivalries and romances of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped Britain for the second half of the 20th century.

Stars: Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, Imelda Staunton, Matt Smith

Votes: 257,817

3. Midsomer Murders (1997– )

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

A veteran Detective Chief Inspector and his young Sergeant investigate murders around the regional community of Midsomer County.

Stars: John Nettles, Jane Wymark, Barry Jackson, Neil Dudgeon

Votes: 39,684

4. Poirot (1989–2013)

TV-14 | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Hercule Poirot, a famous Belgian detective, who has an impeccable knack for getting embroiled in a mystery, solves crimes along with Captain Hastings and Scotland Yard Chief Inspector James Japp.

Stars: David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Philip Jackson, Pauline Moran

Votes: 52,346

5. Silent Witness (1996– )

TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.

Stars: Emilia Fox, David Caves, William Gaminara, Tom Ward

Votes: 12,803

6. Harlots (2017–2019)

TV-MA | 45 min | Drama

Brothel owner Margaret Wells struggles to raise her daughters in London during the 18th century.

Stars: Lesley Manville, Kate Fleetwood, Holli Dempsey, Eloise Smyth

Votes: 10,594

7. Maleficent (2014)

PG | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A vengeful fairy is driven to curse an infant princess, only to discover that the child could be the one person who can restore peace to their troubled land.

Director: Robert Stromberg | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Lesley Manville

Votes: 401,097 | Gross: $241.41M

8. Queer (2024)

Drama | Post-production

Lee, who recounts his life in Mexico City among American expatriate college students and bar owners surviving on part-time jobs and GI Bill benefits. He is driven to pursue a young man named Allerton, who is based on Adelbert Lewis Marker.

Director: Luca Guadagnino | Stars: Daniel Craig, Jason Schwartzman, Drew Starkey, Lesley Manville

9. Coronation Street (1960– )

TV-PG | 30 min | Drama, Romance

The world's longest-running television soap, Coronation Street focuses on the everyday lives of working-class people in Manchester, England.

Stars: William Roache, Helen Worth, Barbara Knox, Sally Dynevor

Votes: 6,038

10. The Theory of Everything (2014)

PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

Stephen Hawking gets unprecedented success in the field of physics despite being diagnosed with motor neuron disease at the age of 21. He defeats awful odds as his first wife Jane aids him loyally.

Director: James Marsh | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior, Sophie Perry

Votes: 483,237 | Gross: $35.89M

11. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)

PG | 115 min | Comedy, Drama

A widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own.

Director: Anthony Fabian | Stars: Lesley Manville, Isabelle Huppert, Lambert Wilson, Alba Baptista

Votes: 26,669

12. Citadel (2023– )

TV-14 | 41 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Global spy agency Citadel has fallen, and its agents' memories were wiped clean. Now the powerful syndicate, Manticore, is rising in the void. Can the Citadel agents recollect their past and summon the strength to fight back?

Stars: Richard Madden, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Stanley Tucci, Lesley Manville

Votes: 33,681

13. Phantom Thread (2017)

R | 130 min | Drama, Romance

Set in 1950s London, Reynolds Woodcock is a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who becomes his muse and lover.

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Vicky Krieps, Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Julie Vollono

Votes: 146,015 | Gross: $21.02M

14. Romeo & Juliet (II) (2013)

PG-13 | 118 min | Drama, Romance

Romeo and Juliet secretly wed despite the sworn contempt their families hold for each other. It is not long, however, before a chain of fateful events changes the lives of both families forever.

Director: Carlo Carlei | Stars: Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth, Damian Lewis, Laura Morante

Votes: 12,660 | Gross: $1.16M

15. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019)

PG | 119 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies, and dark new forces at play.

Director: Joachim Rønning | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Harris Dickinson, Michelle Pfeiffer

Votes: 119,322 | Gross: $113.93M

16. Disclaimer (2024– )

Drama, Thriller | Post-production

Follows Catherine Ravenscroft, a television documentary journalist whose work has been built on revealing the transgressions of long-respected institutions.

Stars: Cate Blanchett, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Kevin Kline

17. Emmerdale Farm (1972– )

TV-PG | 30 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A soap opera set in a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales.

Stars: Christopher Chittell, Lucy Pargeter, Mark Charnock, Dominic Brunt

Votes: 3,549

18. North & South (2004)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Romance

North and South is a four-part adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's love story of Margaret Hale, a middle-class southerner who is forced to move to the northern town of Milton.

Stars: Daniela Denby-Ashe, Richard Armitage, Tim Pigott-Smith, Sinéad Cusack

Votes: 35,080

19. World on Fire (2019–2023)

TV-14 | 57 min | Drama, Romance, War

World War II-era drama centered on the lives of ordinary people affected by the war.

Stars: Jonah Hauer-King, Zofia Wichlacz, Lesley Manville, Eryk Biedunkiewicz

Votes: 8,192

20. Soldier Soldier (1991–1997)

TV-14 | 50 min | Drama

Drama following the life of the officers and men of the King's Own Fusiliers regiment, during their home lives, training exercises and battles.

Stars: Ben Nealon, Robson Green, Jerome Flynn, Rosie Rowell

Votes: 955

21. Sherwood (II) (2022– )

TV-MA | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Two shocking and unexpected murders shatter an already fractured community leading to one of the largest manhunts in British history.

Stars: Adam Hugill, Lorraine Ashbourne, Perry Fitzpatrick, Philip Jackson

Votes: 9,389

22. Cranford (2007–2009)

TV-PG | 469 min | Drama

In the 1840s, Cranford is ruled by the ladies. They adore good gossip, and romance and change is in the air, as the unwelcome grasp of the Industrial Revolution rapidly approaches their beloved rural market-town.

Stars: Judi Dench, Imelda Staunton, Julia McKenzie, Deborah Findlay

Votes: 10,674

23. River (2015)

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

John River is a brilliant police inspector whose genius lies side-by-side with the fragility of his mind. He is a man haunted by the murder victims whose cases he must lay to rest.

Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Nicola Walker, Adeel Akhtar, Lesley Manville

Votes: 27,351

24. Let Him Go (2020)

R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

A retired sheriff and his wife, grieving over the death of their son, set out to find their only grandson.

Director: Thomas Bezucha | Stars: Diane Lane, Kevin Costner, Kayli Carter, Ryan Bruce

Votes: 35,077

25. Grotesquerie (2024– )

Drama, Horror | Active

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Stars: Niecy Nash, Lesley Manville, Courtney B. Vance, Travis Kelce

26. Womb (2010)

Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi

A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.

Director: Benedek Fliegauf | Stars: Eva Green, Matt Smith, Lesley Manville, Peter Wight

Votes: 15,214

27. Secrets & Lies (1996)

R | 136 min | Comedy, Drama

Following the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contact with her biological mother -- a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London.

Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Timothy Spall, Brenda Blethyn, Phyllis Logan, Claire Rushbrook

Votes: 47,387 | Gross: $13.42M

28. Magpie Murders (2022– )

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

Editor Susan Ryeland gets drawn into a web of intrigue and murder when she receives Alan Conway's unfinished manuscript of an Atticus Pünd mystery.

Stars: Conleth Hill, Lesley Manville, Tim McMullan, Ian Lloyd Anderson

Votes: 7,059

29. Hampstead (2017)

PG-13 | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An American widow finds unexpected love with a man living wild on Hampstead Heath when they take on the developers who want to destroy his home.

Director: Joel Hopkins | Stars: James Norton, Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, Hugh Skinner

Votes: 7,233 | Gross: $0.14M

30. Life After Life (2022)

60 min | Drama, Fantasy

Ursula Todd dies one night in 1910 before she can draw her first breath. On that same night in 1910, Ursula is born and survives.

Stars: Lesley Manville, Isla Johnston, Thomasin McKenzie, Sian Clifford

Votes: 2,217

31. The Critic (II) (2023)

95 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The Critic is a story of ambition, blackmail and desire with a dazzling anti-hero at its dark heart. A whodunnit wrapped in a Faustian pact which winds tighter and tighter. Patrick Marber adapted the script from Anthony Quinn's novel.

Director: Anand Tucker | Stars: Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong, Ian McKellen, Beau Gadsdon

Votes: 110

32. Misbehaviour (2020)

Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, History

A group of women hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London.

Director: Philippa Lowthorpe | Stars: Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Greg Kinnear

Votes: 10,597

33. Love Life (2020–2021)

TV-MA | 35 min | Comedy, Romance

Anna Kendrick stars in a fresh take on a romantic comedy anthology series about the journey from first love to lasting

Stars: Anna Kendrick, Zoë Chao, Peter Vack, Sasha Compère

Votes: 16,819

34. Law & Order: UK (2009–2014)

TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

UK version of the long-running U.S. TV drama that tells the stories of two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the attorneys, who prosecute the offenders.

Stars: Bradley Walsh, Robert Glenister, Harriet Walter, Freema Agyeman

Votes: 4,875

35. Play for Today (1970–1984)

75 min | Comedy, Drama

A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984.

Stars: Alison Steadman, Nigel Hawthorne, Tony Caunter, David Daker

Votes: 401

36. Mum (2016–2019)

TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy

After the death of her husband, a woman attempts to rebuild her life while surrounded by her sometimes problematic family and friends.

Stars: Lesley Manville, Peter Mullan, Sam Swainsbury, Lisa McGrillis

Votes: 3,730

37. Topsy-Turvy (1999)

R | 160 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.

Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Dexter Fletcher, Sukie Smith

Votes: 13,505 | Gross: $6.20M

38. Mr. Turner (2014)

R | 150 min | Biography, Drama, History

An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner's life.

Director: Mike Leigh | Stars: Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey

Votes: 27,238 | Gross: $3.96M

39. The Graham Norton Show (2007– )

TV-14 | 60 min | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show

Irish comedian Graham Norton hosts his very own chat show, which includes chatting to A-list celebrities, the very famous Red Chair game, live music, lots of jokes and fun from Graham and the celebrities themselves.

Stars: Graham Norton, Ricky Gervais, Judi Dench, Jack Whitehall

Votes: 13,236

40. A Christmas Carol (2009)

PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Steve Valentine

Votes: 129,775 | Gross: $137.86M

41. Save Me (2018–2022)

TV-MA | 270 min | Drama, Mystery

Nelly hasn't rested trying to find his missing daughter Jody, he won't give up, and he will do anything to find out what happened. Discovering things about him and those around him, things he never imagined.

Stars: Lennie James, Stephen Graham, Suranne Jones, Camilla Beeput

Votes: 6,265

42. I Am... (2019– )

47 min | Drama

Anthology series that explores the experiences of women in personal and emotional moments.

Stars: Samantha Morton, Gemma Chan, Vicky McClure, Suranne Jones

Votes: 920

43. IMDb on the Scene - Interviews (2017– )

Not Rated | Talk-Show

IMDb takes you on the scene in interviews with the cast and filmmakers of upcoming films.

Stars: Alex Logan, Bret Federigan, Albert Lawrence, Ian de Borja

Votes: 653

44. Rupture (I) (2016)

Not Rated | 102 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller

A single mom tries to break free from a mysterious organization that has abducted her.

Director: Steven Shainberg | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Michael Chiklis, Kerry Bishé, Peter Stormare

Votes: 7,763

45. Loose Women (1999– )

60 min | Talk-Show

Lively daytime TV show, in which four "loose women" chat about news, issues and life in general.

Stars: Coleen Nolan, Andrea McLean, Carol McGiffin, Kaye Adams

Votes: 1,396

46. Kavanagh QC (1995–2001)

TV-MA | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A crusty barrister oversees difficult criminal cases while dealing with the demands of his family life.

Stars: John Thaw, Oliver Ford Davies, Nicholas Jones, Cliff Parisi

Votes: 1,101

47. Dangerous Liaisons (2022)

R | 60 min | Drama, History

A pair of scheming ex-lovers attempt to exploit others by using the power of seduction.

Stars: Alice Englert, Nicholas Denton, Kosar Ali, Nathanael Saleh

Votes: 1,027

48. Rose and Maloney (2002–2005)

TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Drama

Cases of a woman and her male assistant who work for the fictional CJRA (Criminal Justice Review Agency), an organization which seeks out miscarriages of justice.

Stars: Sarah Lancashire, Phil Davis, Nisha Nayar, Susan Brown

Votes: 996

49. Cold Storage (I)

Thriller | Post-production

A fungus stored in a government facility gets out and wreaks havoc on the world.

Director: Jonny Campbell | Stars: Liam Neeson, Joe Keery, Vanessa Redgrave, Georgina Campbell

50. Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (2009– )

TV-14 | 22 min | Talk-Show

Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.

Stars: Andy Cohen, Kyle Richards, Sonja Morgan, Kenya Moore

Votes: 895