Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Phoebe Nicholls

1. 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: 39,313

2. Downton Abbey (2010–2015)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama, Romance

A chronicle of the lives of the British aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the early twentieth century.

Stars: Hugh Bonneville, Phyllis Logan, Elizabeth McGovern, Brendan Coyle

Votes: 224,543

3. MI-5 (2002–2011)

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

The missions of MI-5, the UK's domestic intelligence organization.

Stars: Peter Firth, Hugh Simon, Nicola Walker, Rupert Penry-Jones

Votes: 18,333

4. Endeavour (2012–2023)

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

Set from 1965 into the 1970s, the show follows Endeavour Morse in his early years as a police constable. Working alongside his senior partner DI Fred Thursday, Morse engages in a number of investigations around Oxford.

Stars: Shaun Evans, Roger Allam, James Bradshaw, Sean Rigby

Votes: 33,341

5. Inspector Lewis (2006–2015)

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

DI Robert Lewis and DS James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.

Stars: Kevin Whately, Laurence Fox, Clare Holman, Rebecca Front

Votes: 15,839

6. Foyle's War (2002–2015)

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

As WWII rages, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front; investigating crime on the south coast of England. Later series, see the retired detective working as an MI5 agent in the aftermath of the war.

Stars: Michael Kitchen, Honeysuckle Weeks, Anthony Howell, Ellie Haddington

Votes: 18,217

7. Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

PG-13 | 154 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

A deadly threat from Earth's history reappears and a hunt for a lost artifact takes place between Autobots and Decepticons, while Optimus Prime encounters his creator in space.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Josh Duhamel, Laura Haddock

Votes: 168,566 | Gross: $130.17M

8. New Tricks (2003–2015)

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

Three retired police officers are drafted in to solve cold cases, with a touch of comedy and drama

Stars: Dennis Waterman, Amanda Redman, Alun Armstrong, James Bolam

Votes: 8,754

9. Anatomy of a Scandal (2022)

TV-MA | 45 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A sexual consent scandal amongst British privileged elite and the women caught up in its wake.

Stars: Sienna Miller, Michelle Dockery, Rupert Friend, Sebastian Selwood

Votes: 36,066

10. The Elephant Man (1980)

PG | 124 min | Biography, Drama

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication.

Director: David Lynch | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud

Votes: 258,126

11. The Empty Man (2020)

R | 137 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

Director: David Prior | Stars: James Badge Dale, Marin Ireland, Sasha Frolova, Samantha Logan

Votes: 38,492

12. Fortitude (2015–2018)

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

Perched on the edge of the Arctic Circle, Fortitude is one of the safest towns on earth. There has never been a violent crime here. Until now.

Stars: Richard Dormer, Björn Hlynur Haraldsson, Sienna Guillory, Mia Jexen

Votes: 23,565

13. Eric (2024)

Crime, Drama, Thriller | Post-production

Vincent, a grief-stricken father whose son goes missing, finds solace through his friendship with Eric, the monster that lives under Edgar's bed.

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Gaby Hoffmann, Phoebe Nicholls, Jeff Hephner

14. Tales of the Unexpected (1979–1988)

TV-14 | 25 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror

Short dramas each with a twist of some kind; across the first four seasons most of these are from short stories by Roald Dahl.

Stars: Roald Dahl, Andrew Ray, Forbes Collins, Richard Johnson

Votes: 2,493

15. 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: 23,517 | Gross: $3.13M

16. The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)

PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History

English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings that seemed to reflect his declining sanity.

Director: Will Sharpe | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, Toby Jones

Votes: 20,381

17. Brideshead Revisited (1981)

TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Romance

The life, friendships and romances of the protagonist Charles Ryder-including his friendship with the Flytes, a family of wealthy English Catholics who live in a palatial mansion called Brideshead Castle.

Stars: Jeremy Irons, Diana Quick, Roger Milner, Phoebe Nicholls

Votes: 8,026

18. Ruth Rendell Mysteries (1987–2000)

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

From cold, rock-strewn moors to comfortable suburban estates, award-winning writer Ruth Rendell explores the dark fissures between friends and family members that motivate murder.

Stars: George Baker, Christopher Ravenscroft, Louie Ramsay, Ken Kitson

Votes: 692

19. Women in Love (1969)

R | 131 min | Drama, Romance

Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions.

Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson, Jennie Linden

Votes: 8,542 | Gross: $1.03M

20. I'm Alan Partridge (1997–2002)

TV-MA | 30 min | Comedy

A failed television presenter, now presenting a programme on local desperately tries to revive his broadcasting career.

Stars: Steve Coogan, Simon Greenall, Felicity Montagu, Phil Cornwell

Votes: 21,944

21. A Very British Scandal (2021)

TV-MA | 59 min | Drama, History

The story of events surrounding the notorious divorce of the Duke and Duchess of Argyll during the 1960s.

Stars: Claire Foy, Paul Bettany, Olwen May, Albertine Kotting McMillan

Votes: 6,956

22. FairyTale: A True Story (1997)

PG | 99 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy

In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies.

Director: Charles Sturridge | Stars: Paul McGann, Florence Hoath, Elizabeth Earl, Harvey Keitel

Votes: 6,342 | Gross: $14.04M

23. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (2015)

60 min | Fantasy, War

In an alternate history, during the time of real life Napoleonic Wars, two men of destiny, the gifted recluse Mr. Norrell and daring spellcasting novice Jonathan Strange, use magic to help England.

Stars: Bertie Carvel, Eddie Marsan, Marc Warren, Charlotte Riley

Votes: 13,765

24. Doctor Thorne (2016)

TV-G | 48 min | Drama

Penniless Mary Thorne grows up with her uncle, Doctor Thorne, and develops a friendship with the family at the nearby Greshamsbury Park estate.

Stars: Harry Richardson, Tom Hollander, Stefanie Martini, Rebecca Front

Votes: 5,228

25. Traitors (2019)

TV-MA | 60 min | History, Thriller

A British civil servant agrees to spy on her own government for the Americans in the aftermath of WWII.

Stars: Emma Appleton, Brandon P Bell, Keeley Hawes, Luke Treadaway

Votes: 3,913

26. Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)

Approved | 98 min | Horror

Aboard a British train, mysterious fortune teller Dr. Schreck uses tarot cards to read the futures of five fellow passengers.

Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Neil McCallum, Ursula Howells

Votes: 7,479

27. 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: 1,083

28. The Scapegoat (2012)

Not Rated | 108 min | Drama

Set in 1952, as England prepares for the coronation, this movie tells the story of two very different men who have one thing in common - a face.

Director: Charles Sturridge | Stars: Matthew Rhys, Eileen Atkins, Anton Lesser, Jodhi May

Votes: 5,345

29. Van der Valk (1972–1992)

120 min | Crime, Drama

Cynical Dutch Detective Commissaris and his colleagues investigate murders, kidnappings, and political corruption.

Stars: Barry Foster, Michael Latimer, Joanna Dunham, Susan Travers

Votes: 536

30. Berlin, I Love You (2019)

R | 120 min | Drama, Romance

Latest installment of the Cities of Love series (Paris, je t'aime / New York, I Love You / Rio, Eu Te Amo), this collective feature film is made of ten stories of romance set in the German capital.

Directors: Dianna Agron, Peter Chelsom, Claus Clausen, Fernando Eimbcke, Justin Franklin, Dennis Gansel, Dani Levy, Daniel Lwowski, Stephanie Martin, Josef Rusnak, Til Schweiger, Massy Tadjedin, Gabriela Tscherniak | Stars: Keira Knightley, Helen Mirren, Luke Wilson, Jim Sturgess

Votes: 3,920

31. Widow Clicquot (2023)

R | 89 min | Drama

The story behind the Veuve Clicquot champagne family and business that began in the late 18th century.

Director: Thomas Napper | Stars: Haley Bennett, Natasha O'Keeffe, Tom Sturridge, Phoebe Nicholls

Votes: 35

32. Screen Two (1985–1998)

TV-14 | 120 min | Drama

In 1984 Kenith Trodd joined BBC team responding to Channel 4 releases, leading to transition from BBC studio plays to Screen One/Two anthology series. Trodd oversaw first group of titles in these series in 1985.

Stars: Jude North, Roger Brierley, Geoffrey Chater, Norman Jones

Votes: 243

33. Chloe (2022)

58 min | Drama, Mystery

Still living with her mom and working a temporary job, Becky grapples with Instagram-perfect lives.

Stars: Erin Doherty, Billy Howle, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Jack Farthing

Votes: 4,033

34. Persuasion (1995 TV Movie)

Romance

A young couple's stormy romance scandalizes English society in this acclaimed adaptation of Jane Austen's classic love story. Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds of the Royal Shakespeare Company ... See full summary »

Director: Roger Michell | Stars: Simon Russell Beale, Judy Cornwell, Felicity Dean, Susan Fleetwood

Votes: 103

35. Gulliver's Travels (1996)

PG | 93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

An Englishman returns after nine years abroad and tells strange stories of the tiny people of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, the flying island Laputa and the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses.

Stars: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, James Fox, Robert Hardy

Votes: 7,148

36. Ordeal by Innocence (1984)

PG-13 | 90 min | Mystery, Thriller

Dr Calgary returns home from an expedition and goes looking for a hitchhiker whom he gave a lift to two years previously in order to return the man's address book. He discovers the man has been executed for his mother's murder.

Directors: Desmond Davis, Alan Birkinshaw | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Faye Dunaway, Christopher Plummer, Sarah Miles

Votes: 1,101

37. Clapham Junction (2007 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Romance

A chronicle of 36 hours in the lives of a number of interconnected gay men in Clapham, South London.

Director: Adrian Shergold | Stars: Tom Beard, James Bellamy, Robin Berry, Rachael Blake

Votes: 3,079

38. Prime Suspect: The Last Witness (2003)

195 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison's (Dame Helen Mirren's) investigation of the murder of a Bosnian refugee leads her to one, or possibly two, Serbian war criminals determined to silence the last witness to a massacre a decade before.

Stars: Helen Mirren, Liam Cunningham, Oleg Menshikov, Ben Miles

Votes: 3,204

39. Shackleton (2002)

206 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the South Pole, and his epic struggle to lead his twenty-eight man crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.

Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Eve Best, Mark Tandy, Embeth Davidtz

Votes: 3,090

40. Heart of Darkness (1993 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 100 min | Drama

A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers the depth of evil in humanity's soul.

Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Tim Roth, John Malkovich, Isaach De Bankolé, James Fox

Votes: 2,101

41. The Pumpkin Eater (1964)

Not Rated | 118 min | Drama

Beautiful Mother of five Jo leaves the banality of her marriage to second husband Giles to wed her passionate screenwriter lover, Jake Armitage. As suspicions of Husband Jake's philandering grows, Jo's sanity spirals.

Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason, Janine Gray

Votes: 2,836

42. The Missionary (1982)

R | 90 min | Comedy

In the early 20th Century, devout Reverend Charles Fortesque returns to England from his missionary work in Africa and, despite plans to marry his childhood sweetheart, receives a most unusual assignment: minister to the local prostitutes.

Director: Richard Loncraine | Stars: Michael Palin, Maggie Smith, Trevor Howard, Denholm Elliott

Votes: 2,589 | Gross: $7.24M

43. Starfish (2016)

95 min | Biography, Drama

"Starfish" tells the story of a couple whose love is tested to its limit after their perfect life falls apart in a single moment.

Director: Bill Clark | Stars: Joanne Froggatt, Phoebe Nicholls, Tom Riley, Michele Dotrice

Votes: 750

44. Hawking (2004 TV Movie)

TV-G | 90 min | Biography, Drama

Theoretical physicist/cosmologist Stephen Hawking's life and search for the beginning of time (1963-6).

Director: Philip Martin | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Brandon, Tom Hodgkins, Christian Rubeck

Votes: 6,360

45. Finding Your Feet (2017)

PG-13 | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

On the eve of retirement a middle class, judgmental snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate.

Director: Richard Loncraine | Stars: Imelda Staunton, Celia Imrie, Timothy Spall, Joanna Lumley

Votes: 7,212 | Gross: $1.42M

46. The Miracle Maker (1999)

G | 90 min | Animation, Biography, Drama

The story of Jesus Christ.

Directors: Derek W. Hayes, Stanislav Sokolov | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Michael Bryant, Julie Christie, Rebecca Callard

Votes: 1,776

47. Our Mother's House (1967)

Approved | 104 min | Drama, Thriller

British children hide Mother's death. Then, Father returns.

Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Leclere, Pamela Franklin, Louis Sheldon

Votes: 2,269

48. People Like Us (1999–2001)

30 min | Comedy

Before there was The Office, there was People Like Us. A mockumentary in the style of the "docusoap" British reality television shows popular at the time about regular people and their ... See full summary »

Stars: Chris Langham, Mark Hadfield, Mike Haley, Emma Kennedy

Votes: 626

49. The Brief (2004–2005)

90 min | Crime, Drama

Henry Farmer is a clever criminal law barrister whose every day is a juggling act between surviving his messy personal life and pleading cases that only he can win.

Stars: Alan Davies, Cherie Lunghi, Christopher Fulford, Linda Bassett

Votes: 481

50. BBC2 Playhouse (1973–1983)

60 min | Drama

BBC2 Playhouse was a British one-hour episode anthology television series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Stars: Ralph G. Morse, Gawn Grainger, John Bluthal, Trevor Laird

Votes: 137