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1. A Room with a View (1985)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama, Romance
Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Maggie Smith, Helena Bonham Carter, Denholm Elliott, Julian Sands
Votes: 47,890 | Gross: $20.97M
2. A Passage to India (1984)
PG | 164 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox
Votes: 20,888 | Gross: $27.19M
3. Maurice (1987)
R | 140 min | Drama, Romance
Two English school chums find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. To regain his place in society, Clive gives up Maurice and marries. While staying with Clive and his wife, Maurice discovers romance in the arms of the gamekeeper Alec.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: James Wilby, Rupert Graves, Hugh Grant, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 23,596 | Gross: $3.13M
4. Howards End (1992)
PG | 142 min | Drama, Romance
Set in the early 20th century, class distinctions and troubled relations affect the relationship between two families and the ownership of a cherished British estate known as Howards End.
Director: James Ivory | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter
Votes: 35,877 | Gross: $25.97M
5. Howards End (2017–2018)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance
The social and class divisions in early 20th century England through the intersection of three families - the wealthy Wilcoxes, the gentle and idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts.
Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, Hayley Atwell, Philippa Coulthard, Alex Lawther
Votes: 6,621
6. A Room with a View (2007 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
In the Edwardian era, Marian Honeychurch and her two just-of-age children Lucy and Freddy Honeychurch are a carefree, fun-loving family living on Summer Street in the country town of Surrey... See full summary »
Director: Nicholas Renton | Stars: Elaine Cassidy, Laurence Fox, Rafe Spall, Sophie Thompson
Votes: 1,368
7. Where Angels Fear to Tread (1991)
PG | 116 min | Drama, Romance
After a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English in-laws try to gain custody of the baby.
Director: Charles Sturridge | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Judy Davis, Rupert Graves, Helen Mirren
Votes: 2,443 | Gross: $1.40M
8. 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
9. 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: 93
10. Out of the Unknown (1965–1971)
60 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A classic anthology science fiction series which features adaptations of stories by famous authors including Isaac Asimov, J.G. Ballard, Frederik Pohl and John Wyndham.
Stars: John Gabriel, Charles 'Bud' Tingwell, Erik Chitty, Peter Copley
Votes: 175
11. Camera Three (1955–1980)
30 min | Drama
A weekly examination of the arts and literature, on Sunday mornings when there was more likely to be an audience interested in such matters and there was less competition for ratings.
Stars: James Macandrew, Faubion Bowers, Margaret Croyden, Alfredo Antonini
Votes: 63
12. Movements (2024– )
Drama | Pre-production
A series that focuses on immersing viewers deeper into the human experience, real or imagined, while featuring unique music combined with art-house elements.
Stars: Brianna Brugos, Edward Neequaye, Paisley Blackburn, Josh O'Marah
13. 4 Days in France (2016)
Unrated | 137 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A man leaves his home unannounced, and spends four days wandering around France.
Director: Jérôme Reybaud | Stars: Pascal Cervo, Arthur Igual, Fabienne Babe, Nathalie Richard
Votes: 601 | Gross: $0.01M
15. Premiere (1977–1980)
30 min | Drama
A series of anthologies highlighting the initial projects of directors venturing into television drama filmmaking.
Stars: Phil Daniels, Johnny Allan, David Parfitt, Brian Poyser
Votes: 9
16. The Machine Stops (2009 TV Short)
10 min | Short, Sci-Fi
Two people live in a dark technological utopia/dystopia - "the Machine". Kuno and Vashti, have differing opinions about the world which they live in and their interaction and conflict as ... See full summary »
Directors: Adam Freise, Nathan Freise | Stars: Mascha Moore, Erik VanderWal
Votes: 22
17. NBC Television Opera Theatre (1949– )
Family, Music
Televised broadcasts of performances by NBC Opera Theatre. an opera company owned and operated by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). The company had been formed for the purpose of ... See full summary »
Stars: Virginia Haskins, Ralph Herbert, Leon Lishner, Elaine Malbin
Votes: 24
18. A Diary for Timothy (1945)
40 min | Documentary, Short
This brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in September, 1944. Narration ... See full summary »
Director: Humphrey Jennings | Stars: Michael Redgrave, Myra Hess, John Gielgud, Frederick Allen
Votes: 752
20. Billy Budd (1988 TV Movie)
155 min | Drama, Music
An opera by Benjamin Britten, on a libretto by E.M. Forster and Eric Crozier, adapted from the story by Herman Melville. Billy Budd is a young sailor aboard a British man-o'-war, persecuted... See full summary »
Director: Barrie Gavin | Stars: Thomas Allen, Philip Langridge, Richard Van Allan, Phillip Guy Bromley
Votes: 28
21. Billy Budd (1998 TV Movie)
158 min | Music
A version of Benjamin Britten's opera about a young sailor who is unjustly hanged.
Director: Brian Large | Stars: Dwayne Croft, Philip Langridge, James Morris, Victor Braun
Votes: 13
22. Billy Budd (2010 TV Movie)
172 min | Music
Billy Budd is an innocent, naïve seaman in the British Navy in 1797. When the ship's sadistic master-at-arms is murdered, Billy is accused and tried.
Director: François Roussillon | Stars: John Mark Ainsley, Michael Wallace, John-Owen Miley-Read, Matthew Rose
Votes: 8
23. Where Angels Fear to Tread (1963 TV Movie)
45 min | Drama
A rich but unhappy widow has scandalized her in-laws by re-marrying to a much younger Italian. When she dies in childbirth, complications ensue.
Director: Glen Byam Shaw | Stars: Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Nan Munro, Violet Farebrother
24. Desire (II) (2000)
14 min | Drama, Short
A somewhat unhappy man and wife are touring New York's Prospect Park, when they encounter a pair of sailors on shore leave. The wife and one sailor give in to their desire and tarry a bit. ... See full summary »
Director: Jorge Torregrossa | Stars: William Short, Daniel Kruse, Bryan Close, Beverly Bullock
Votes: 114
25. Billy Budd (1966 TV Movie)
158 min | Drama, Music
A version of Benjamin Britten's opera based on the Melville story. Will the virtuous young sailor Billy Budd be hanged for murder?
Director: Basil Coleman | Stars: Peter Pears, Peter Glossop, Michael Langdon, John Shirley-Quirk
Votes: 10
27. Billy Budd (2017 TV Movie)
175 min | Drama, Musical
Director: Jérémie Cuvillier | Stars: Jacques Imbrailo, Toby Spence, Brindley Sherratt, Thomas Oliemans
29. Billy Budd (2001 TV Movie)
168 min | Music
Director: Claus Viller | Stars: Neil Shicoff, Bo Skovhus, Eric Halfvarson, Peter Weber
30. Plug (1998)
11 min | Animation, Sci-Fi, Short
A man suddenly finds himself removed from his virtual reality world when a plug falls out of a socket. When he and another person notice another socket, they start a race to reach it first.
Director: Meher Gourjian | Stars: Jamie Waese, Hazel Rhodes
Votes: 61
31. Benjamin Britten and His Festival (1967 TV Movie)
53 min | Documentary, Music
Director: Tony Palmer | Stars: Patrick Allen, Benjamin Britten, James Blades, James Bowman
32. Billy Budd, fra Den Norske Opera & Ballett (2019 TV Movie)
Drama, Musical
Britten's maritime masterpiece about repressed passions and the weight of guilt is performed in Norway for the very first time. Annilese Miskimmon sets Billy Budd in the claustrophobic, hard masculine environment of a submarine.
Director: Friedrich Gatz | Stars: Jens-Erik Aasbø, Marius Roth Christensen, Henrik Engelsviken, Martin Hatlo
33. BBC Radio 4: Love Stories (2023 Podcast Series)
Drama
Stars: Rakie Ayola, Stephen Bent, Will De Renzy-Martin, Tom Ward-Thomas
34.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
A Passage to India
(1965)
110 min | Drama
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Sybil Thorndike, Virginia McKenna, Cyril Cusack, Zia Mohyeddin
Votes: 44
35.
Out of the Unknown (1965–1971)
Episode:
The Machine Stops
(1966)
50 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
In the far future, the material needs of humankind are tended by the omnipresent Machine, which makes their environment, in vast tunnels beneath the earth, comfortable and safe. But safe ... See full summary »
Director: Philip Saville | Stars: Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Gothard, Nike Arrighi, Jonathan Hansen
Votes: 82
36.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
Howards End
(1970)
Drama
A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.
Director: Donald McWhinnie | Stars: Leo Genn, Rachel Kempson, Glenda Jackson, Sarah-Jane Gwillim
Votes: 21
37.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
A Room with a View
(1973)
Drama
Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman, makes her first visit to Florence, Italy in the early 1900's. There, she meets a quiet yet eccentric young man named George Emerson. Upon her return ... See full summary »
Director: Donald McWhinnie | Stars: Judy Geeson, Charles Gray, Tom Chadbon, John Sharp
Votes: 12
38.
Premiere (1977–1980)
Episode:
The Obelisk
(1977)
Drama
Director: Giles Foster | Stars: Rosemary Martin, Peter Sallis, Keith Drinkel, Nick Ellsworth
39.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
Where Angels Fear to Tread
(1966)
120 min | Drama
After a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English in-laws try to gain custody of the baby.
Director: Naomi Capon | Stars: Anna Massey, Wendy Hiller, Alec McCowen, Nora Swinburne
Votes: 12
40.
ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)
Episode:
A Room with a View
(1958)
Comedy, Drama
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperone Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting... See full summary »
Director: Robert Tronson | Stars: Joan Benham, Dorothy Bromiley, Winifred Evans, Trader Faulkner
41.
NBC Television Opera Theatre (1949– )
Episode:
Billy Budd
(1952)
90 min | Family, Music
Billy Budd is a young English seaman who has a lusty love of life and a deep devotion to his captain, the master of the ship on which he sails. When Claggert, master-at-arms on the vessel, ... See full summary »
Director: Kirk Browning | Stars: Theodore Uppman, Andrew McKinley, Leon Lishner, Warren Galjour
42.
Camera Three (1955–1980)
Episode:
E.M. Forster and the Longest Journey
(1959)
Drama
A short dramatization of a scene from Forster's "The Longest Journey" and a filmed monologue by the 80-year-old novelist himself.
Stars: E.M. Forster, James Macandrew
43.
Movements (2024– )
Episode:
A Room with a View
(2024)
Drama
In this short modern retelling of E.M. Foster's novel of the same name, Lucy Honeychurch does her best to suppress her feelings for the slightly eccentric George Emerson. In memory of Julian Sands (1958-2023)
Director: Michelle Dali | Star: Brianna Brugos
44.
Howards End (2017–2018)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2017)
TV-14 | 55 min | Drama, Romance
In the spring of 1905, the Schlegel family are drawn into the affairs of the Wilcox family via Helen Schlegel, who has fallen for Paul Wilcox. Helen's older sister Margaret gets involved in a mix-up at a concert.
Director: Hettie Macdonald | Stars: Hayley Atwell, Philippa Coulthard, Joe Bannister, Matthew Macfadyen
Votes: 368
45.
Howards End (2017–2018)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2017)
TV-14 | 56 min | Drama, Romance
The Wilcoxes are rocked by a death in the family and the Schlegels face an uncertain future when they are evicted from their home.
Director: Hettie Macdonald | Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, Bessie Carter, Joe Bannister, Yolanda Kettle
Votes: 281
46.
Howards End (2017–2018)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2017)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance
Searching for a new home, Margaret receives an offer of marriage from Henry. Helen is distraught to learn that Leonard Bast is on the brink of ruin after following the advice of the Schlegels'.
Director: Hettie Macdonald | Stars: Hayley Atwell, Philippa Coulthard, Matthew Macfadyen, Gavin Brocker
Votes: 255
47.
Howards End (2017–2018)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(2017)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance
Margaret is unwilling to punish Henry for his past transgressions, committed long before they met. Helen leaves for Europe without explanation, only returning when tragedy strikes.
Director: Hettie Macdonald | Stars: Matthew Macfadyen, William Belchambers, Hayley Atwell, Alex Lawther
Votes: 228
48.
Release (1967–1969)
Episode:
On Tour with the Living Theatre/E.M. Forster
(1969)
Documentary
Director: Nicholas Garnham | Stars: Julian Beck, E.M. Forster, Judith Malina