Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Nigel Terry

1. Doctor Who (2005–2022)

TV-PG | 45 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi

The further adventures in time and space of the alien adventurer known as the Doctor and his companions from planet Earth.

Stars: Jodie Whittaker, Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie, Matt Smith

Votes: 246,845

2. 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: 12,757

3. Troy (2004)

R | 163 min | Adventure, Drama

An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.

Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Julian Glover

Votes: 571,299 | Gross: $133.38M

4. 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: 18,442

5. Excalibur (1981)

PG | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart.

Director: John Boorman | Stars: Nigel Terry, Helen Mirren, Nicholas Clay, Cherie Lunghi

Votes: 67,255 | Gross: $34.97M

6. Marple (2004–2013)

TV-14 | 2,090 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An elderly spinster living in the village of St. Mary Mead helps her friends and relatives solve mysterious murders.

Stars: Geraldine McEwan, Julia McKenzie, Stephen Churchett, Isabella Parriss

Votes: 10,723

7. 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: 18,306

8. Casualty (1986– )

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama

The everyday lives of the people frequenting the frenetic Accident and Emergency department of Holby City Hospital.

Stars: Derek Thompson, Tony Marshall, Suzanne Packer, Ian Bleasdale

Votes: 3,697

9. The Bill (1984–2010)

TV-14 | Crime, Drama

Police drama series following officers and detectives from Sun Hill Police Station in East London.

Stars: Graham Cole, Jeff Stewart, Trudie Goodwin, Simon Rouse

Votes: 4,116

10. Highlander (1992–1998)

TV-14 | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Duncan MacLeod is Immortal, and must live in modern society, concealing his true nature while fighting other Immortals.

Stars: Adrian Paul, Stan Kirsch, Jim Byrnes, Peter Wingfield

Votes: 17,835

11. Waking the Dead (2000–2011)

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

Drama series following a team of detectives who investigate unsolved murders using modern technology.

Stars: Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson, Tara Fitzgerald

Votes: 6,446

12. Holby City (1999–2022)

TV-PG | 60 min | Drama

The everyday lives, professional and personal, of the doctors, nurses and patients who find themselves, for various reasons, in the wards of the frenetic cardiac unit of Holby City General Hospital.

Stars: Hugh Quarshie, Rosie Marcel, Jaye Jacobs, Bob Barrett

Votes: 2,646

13. 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: 694

14. Pie in the Sky (1994–1997)

TV-14 | 50 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

DI Crabbe retires from the police force after being shot and sets up his own restaurant. However, his ex-boss, Assistant Chief Constable Fisher constantly calls Crabbe back on duty.

Stars: Richard Griffiths, Maggie Steed, Malcolm Sinclair, Nick Raggett

Votes: 2,078

15. The Lion in Winter (1968)

PG | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History

1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. When he allows his imprisoned wife Eleanor of Aquitaine out for a Christmas visit, they all variously plot to force him into a decision.

Director: Anthony Harvey | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle

Votes: 34,240 | Gross: $22.28M

16. Feardotcom (2002)

R | 101 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller

A New York City detective investigates mysterious deaths occurring 48 hours after users log onto a site named feardotcom.

Director: William Malone | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Rea, Udo Kier

Votes: 22,719 | Gross: $13.21M

17. Wycliffe (1993–1998)

TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Set in Cornwall, Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe, who works along with his colleagues DI Doug Kersey and DI Lucy Lane, investigates murder cases with his trademark determination and clinical accuracy.

Stars: Jack Shepherd, Helen Masters, Jimmy Yuill, Tim Wylton

Votes: 1,098

18. Caravaggio (1986)

93 min | Biography, Drama, History

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Noam Almaz, Dexter Fletcher, Nigel Terry, Sean Bean

Votes: 7,024 | Gross: $0.00M

19. Zorro (1990–1993)

TV-G | 30 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

In nineteenth century Spanish California, heroic masked swordsman Zorro, who's actually a local nobleman, must protect his friends and small town (or pueblo) of Los Angeles from its corrupt magistrate (or alcalde) and other menaces.

Stars: Patrice Martinez, Duncan Regehr, James Victor, Juan Diego Botto

Votes: 1,990

20. My Partner the Ghost (1969–1971)

Not Rated | 60 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

When Hopkirk gets killed, he reappears as a ghost - pretty handy to have around in this line of work.

Stars: Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope, Annette Andre, Ivor Dean

Votes: 1,512

21. 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: 247

22. Cutting It (2002–2005)

TV-14 | 59 min | Drama, Romance

Drama about the bitter rivalries, professional and personal, between the workers of the Henshall-Ferraday hair salon in Manchester.

Stars: Sarah Parish, Jason Merrells, Angela Griffin, Sian Reeves

Votes: 565

23. The Hunchback (1997 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Romance

Based on the novel, a young gypsy becomes a Minister's obsession in 1483. Only the bell ringer and her husband and the court of miracles can save her.

Director: Peter Medak | Stars: Mandy Patinkin, Richard Harris, Salma Hayek, Edward Atterton

Votes: 1,854

24. Edward II (1991)

R | 87 min | Drama, History, Romance

In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands the power-craving nobility the perfect excuse by ... See full summary »

Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Steven Waddington, Kevin Collins, Andrew Tiernan, John Lynch

Votes: 3,039 | Gross: $0.69M

25. The Vice (1999–2003)

TV-MA | 90 min | Crime, Drama

Veteran Detective Inspector Pat Chappel (Ken Stott) heads up the Metropolitan vice squad as he and his team investigate prostitution and pornography in the London sex trade.

Stars: Caroline Catz, David Harewood, Ken Stott, Rosie Marcel

Votes: 613

26. Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992)

PG-13 | 120 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Genoese navigator overcomes intrigue in the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain and gains financing for his expedition to the East Indies.

Director: John Glen | Stars: Marlon Brando, Tom Selleck, Georges Corraface, Rachel Ward

Votes: 3,227 | Gross: $8.25M

27. In Suspicious Circumstances (1991– )

Drama

A series of murders from all periods introduced by Edward Woodward

Stars: Edward Woodward, Martin Reeve, Michael Wardle, Saskia Abbott

Votes: 78

28. Blue (1993)

Not Rated | 79 min | Biography, Drama

In his final - and most daring - cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen, laying bare his physical and spiritual state.

Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, John Quentin, Nigel Terry

Votes: 2,739 | Gross: $1.72M

29. Sherlock Holmes (1964–1968)

50 min | Crime, Drama, History

A series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations, based on the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Stars: Nigel Stock, Peter Cushing, Douglas Wilmer, Peter Madden

Votes: 591

30. Blackbeard (2006)

170 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

In 1717, Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard is sent to the West Indies on a secret mission to destroy notorious pirate ship The Queen Anne's Revenge and its crew.

Stars: Angus Macfadyen, Mark Umbers, Richard Chamberlain, Jessica Chastain

Votes: 1,478

31. 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

32. Spender (1991–1993)

50 min | Action, Drama

Jimmy Nail plays Spender, a Northeast England police detective with marital problems.

Stars: Jimmy Nail, Sammy Johnson, Berwick Kaler, Denise Welch

Votes: 357

33. War Requiem (1989)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, War

A movie with no spoken dialogue, it is set against the music and lyrics of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" which includes poetry by World War I soldier Wilfred Owen reflecting the horrors ... See full summary »

Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Laurence Olivier, Patricia Hayes

Votes: 946

34. Crime & Punishment (2002 TV Movie)

200 min | Crime, Drama

Living in squalor, a former student and loner (Raskolnikov) murders an old pawnbroker woman in order to confirm his hypothesis that certain individuals can pretermit morality in the pursuit of something greater.

Director: Julian Jarrold | Stars: John Simm, Ian McDiarmid, Shaun Dingwall, Geraldine James

Votes: 940

35. Far from the Madding Crowd (1998 TV Movie)

54 min | Drama, Romance

A vain, pretty girl has recently taken over her uncle's farm. Her independent, naïve personality leaves her torn between the three men who wish to marry her.

Director: Nicholas Renton | Stars: Paloma Baeza, Jonathan Firth, Nigel Terry, Gwynn Beech

Votes: 964

36. Genghis Khan: The Story of a Lifetime

120 min | Biography, History

The fate of a legendary boy, Temudjin, later the Genghis Khan, who became the most powerful emperor of Mongolia. With his army created one of the largest empires of all time.

Directors: Ken Annakin, Peter Duffell | Stars: Richard Tyson, Daming Chen, Bekim Fehmiu, Rodney A. Grant

37. Sea of Souls (2004–2007)

120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

A group of faculty and staff at a Glasgow university studies the paranormal.

Stars: Bill Paterson, Dawn Steele, Iain Robertson, Louise Irwin

Votes: 477

38. The Last of England (1987)

Unrated | 92 min | Drama, Fantasy

The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.

Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, 'Spring' Mark Adley, Gerrard McArthur

Votes: 1,493

39. 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: 423

40. 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: 94

41. The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story (2003)

127 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

The first of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper in three distinct episodes: as a child during the first World War, as an explorer in Mormon Utah, and as a writer in Belgium during the rise ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Greenaway | Stars: JJ Feild, Raymond J. Barry, Michèle Bernier, Valentina Cervi

Votes: 1,255

42. The Emperor's New Clothes (2001)

PG | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

During Napoleon's exile on St. Helena, some loyalists hire a look-alike to swap places with the deposed Emperor. While the impostor lives in luxury on the island, the real Napoleon returns to Paris in order to retake the throne.

Director: Alan Taylor | Stars: Ian Holm, Iben Hjejle, Tim McInnerny, Tom Watson

Votes: 2,757 | Gross: $0.66M

43. Covington Cross (1992)

60 min | Adventure, History

In 14th-century England, the Grey family--widower Thomas Grey and his children--deal with romance, political intrigue, and war.

Stars: Nigel Terry, Cherie Lunghi, James Faulkner, Jonathan Firth

Votes: 324

44. A History of Britain (2000–2002)

60 min | Documentary, History

A comprehensive historical survey of the British Isles.

Stars: Simon Schama, Michael Kitchen, Samuel West, Lindsay Duncan

Votes: 945

45. Slade in Flame (1975)

91 min | Drama, Music, Musical

Light the Rock n' Roll spark with a Flame in the guise of Dave, Noddy, Jim and Don and their showcase of the rise and demise of rock band Flame.

Director: Richard Loncraine | Stars: Don Powell, Jim Lea, Noddy Holder, Dave Hill

Votes: 664

46. Devil's Advocate (1995 TV Movie)

151 min | Drama, Crime

Young English girl Clare Rigby is working as an au pair in Italy. When her employer's house catches fire, Clare is blamed and imprisoned. Top-lawyer Alessandra Locatelli decides to try and ... See full summary »

Director: Adrian Shergold | Stars: Alice Krige, Lena Headey, Peter Wight, David Morrissey

Votes: 173

47. Sensitive Skin (2005–2007)

29 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A 61-year-old woman copes with her life's unexpected problems.

Stars: Joanna Lumley, Nicholas Jones, Oliver Cotton, James Lance

Votes: 326

48. Theatre 625 (1964–1968)

90 min | Drama

Drama anthology series transmitted on BBC Two.

Stars: Michael Bryant, Judi Dench, Maurice Denham, Margery Mason

Votes: 48

49. The Time of Your Life (2007– )

60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A 35 year old woman, Kate, awakes from an eighteen year coma following a tragic accident to an unfamiliar world. As she tries to make sense of what has happened her family and old school friends are reluctant to dig up the past.

Stars: Genevieve O'Reilly, Geraldine James, Robert Pugh, Joe Duttine

Votes: 103

50. The Search for John Gissing (2001)

Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy

Matthew Barnes is a young exec on the move up who finds himself a pawn in corporate in-fighting when he's sent to London to oversee a merger. He's to replace John Gissing; Gissing's gotten ... See full summary »

Director: Mike Binder | Stars: Mike Binder, Tim Briggs, Allan Corduner, Janeane Garofalo

Votes: 963