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1. Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
TV-PG | 55 min | Comedy
Bertram Wooster, a well-intentioned, wealthy layabout, has a habit of getting himself into trouble and it's up to his brilliant valet, Jeeves, to get him out.
Stars: Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Richard Dixon, Robert Daws
Votes: 13,150
2. 84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
PG | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.
Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench, Jean De Baer
Votes: 11,228 | Gross: $1.08M
3. 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: 2,500
4. Longitude (2000)
200 min | Drama, History
In two parallel stories, the clockmaker John Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea in the 18th Century and the horologist Rupert Gould becomes obsessed with restoring it in the 20th Century.
Stars: Jeremy Irons, Anna Chancellor, Emma Kay, Samuel West
Votes: 2,431
5. A Handful of Dust (1988)
PG | 118 min | Drama, Romance
The wife's affair and a death in the family hasten the demise of an upper-class English marriage.
Director: Charles Sturridge | Stars: James Wilby, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Beale, Jackson Kyle
Votes: 2,316 | Gross: $1.56M
6. Betrayal (1983)
R | 95 min | Drama, Thriller
An affair between a literary agent and his best friend's wife. The story unfolds in reverse-chronological order.
Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Patricia Hodge, Avril Elgar
Votes: 1,745
7. Partners in Crime (1983–1984)
TV-PG | 631 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Agatha Christie's husband-and-wife sleuthing team take on a series of short whodunit mysteries.
Stars: Francesca Annis, James Warwick, Reece Dinsdale, Arthur Cox
Votes: 889
8. August (1996)
PG | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Chekov's Uncle Vanya, transposed to turn-of-the-century North Wales, where the peace and tranquility of a country house is disturbed by the arrival of the estate's tyrannical owner and his ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Hopkins | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Leslie Phillips, Kate Burton, Gawn Grainger
Votes: 870
9. Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil (1985 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 135 min | Drama, War
The story of Helmut and Karl Hoffmann. Both come of age at the start of Hitler's power in Germany. Helmut joins the SS and eventually becomes a successful flag rank officer. Karl joins the ... See full summary »
Director: Jim Goddard | Stars: John Shea, Bill Nighy, Lucy Gutteridge, David Warner
Votes: 869
10. The Sign of Four (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Mystery
Hired by a young lady, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the strange recent deaths of her missing father's friends from the army, as well as the whereabouts of the Great Mogul, the second-largest diamond in the world.
Director: Desmond Davis | Stars: Ian Richardson, David Healy, Thorley Walters, Cherie Lunghi
Votes: 842
11. A Doll's House (II) (1973)
G | 106 min | Drama
Nora Helmer, years earlier, committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband, Torvald. Now she is being blackmailed and lives in fear of her husband finding out ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: Jane Fonda, Edward Fox, Trevor Howard, Delphine Seyrig
Votes: 806
12. 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: 518
13. Porterhouse Blue (1987)
Not Rated | 200 min | Comedy
Social satire on life on Cambridge College - from the headmaster to the students and even one memorable bedder...
Stars: David Jason, Ian Richardson, Paul Rogers, John Woodnutt
Votes: 512
14. Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story (1987 TV Movie)
282 min | Biography, Drama
The true story of one of the richest women in America - heiress to the Woolworth fortune. She had vast wealth and seven husbands, but never found lasting love.
Director: Charles Jarrott | Stars: Farrah Fawcett, David Ackroyd, Stéphane Audran, Amadeus August
Votes: 501
15.
Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode:
Robin Redbreast
(1970)
76 min | Comedy, Drama
After a long-term relationship ends, Norah moves to a remote house in the country. The locals are friendly., if eccentric. She starts a flirtatious relationship with young gamekeeper, Rob. ... See full summary »
Director: James MacTaggart | Stars: Anna Cropper, Amanda Walker, Julian Holloway, Freda Bamford
Votes: 497
16.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
In Court After the Boat Race (or, Jeeves' Arrival)
(1990)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy
Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster returns home with a hangover when a valet named Jeeves rings the doorbell. He fixes Bertie his special hangover cure, and when it proves effective ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Young | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Mary Wimbush, Michael Siberry
Votes: 456
17.
Tales of the Unexpected (1979–1988)
Episode:
William and Mary
(1979)
TV-14 | 24 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
When her husband William dies Mary Pearl is shocked that his will stipulates that his brain should be kept alive and observing her from the lounge sideboard. She determines that, even though he is dead, she will continue to annoy him.
Director: Donald McWhinnie | Stars: Roald Dahl, Elaine Stritch, Marius Goring, Richard Hampton
Votes: 412
18. 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: 392
19.
Tales of the Unexpected (1979–1988)
Episode:
Royal Jelly
(1980)
TV-14 | 26 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Bee-keeper Albert Taylor and his wife Mabel are concerned that their baby daughter is underweight and seems reluctant to take any nourishment until, that is, Albert decides to feed her on ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Roald Dahl, Timothy West, Susan George, Andrew Ray
Votes: 378
20. Maigret (1959–1963)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Televisations of the Maigret novels by Georges Simenon.
Stars: Rupert Davies, Ewen Solon, Helen Shingler, Neville Jason
Votes: 375
21.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
Bertie Is in Love (or, Golf Tournament)
(1990)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy
Bertie's current love interest sets him up by giving both him and his rival Barmy the same idea for a practical joke, then gives away the terrier belonging to his Aunt Agatha which he is ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Young | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Mary Wimbush, Brenda Bruce
Votes: 358
22.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
The Village Sports Day at Twing (or, the Gambling Event)
(1990)
TV-PG | 50 min | Comedy
When Bertie is instructed by Aunt Agatha to break up his uncle's engagement to a young waitress, he arranges a luncheon for his uncle and the girl's aunt, a common, gaudy woman -- who turns... See full summary »
Director: Robert Young | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Mary Wimbush, Nicholas Selby
Votes: 328
23. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 320
24.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
How Does Gussie Woo Madeline? (or, Hunger Strike)
(1990)
TV-PG | 49 min | Comedy
Bertie tries to play Cupid without Jeeves' help. His friend Gussie is in love with Madeline, who happens to be staying at Bertie's Aunt Dahlia's house, so Bertie arranges for him to visit. ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Young | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Brenda Bruce, Ralph Michael
Votes: 300
25.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
Will Anatole Return to Brinkley Court? (or, the Matchmaker)
(1990)
TV-PG | 50 min | Comedy
Bertie is offended because Jeeves was dispatched to convince Anatole to return to Brinkley Court, so he continues to attempt to reunite Tuppy and Angela and bring Gussie and Madeline ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Young | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Brenda Bruce, Ralph Michael
Votes: 299
26.
Tales of the Unexpected (1979–1988)
Episode:
Skin
(1980)
TV-14 | 24 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
In post-war Paris Drioli, an elderly down-and-out, sees a painting for sale by his old friend Soutine, who is now a best-selling artist. Thirty years earlier Soutine tattooed a portrait of ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Roald Dahl, Derek Jacobi, Lucy Gutteridge, Boris Isarov
Votes: 296
27.
Tales of the Unexpected (1979–1988)
Episode:
My Lady Love, My Dove
(1980)
TV-14 | 24 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
The Beauchamps have invited a young couple stay with them and Pamela Beauchamp has an idea to spice up her life.
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Roald Dahl, Elaine Stritch, Shane Rimmer, Lisa Eichhorn
Votes: 284
28. Rosamunde Pilcher (1993– )
90 min | Drama, Romance
A series of television movies based on the works of Rosamunde Pilcher, a popular British writer of romance novels and short stories.
Stars: Stuart Davidson, Colin Matthews, Alexander-Klaus Stecher, Patrik Fichte
Votes: 283
29.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
Chuffy (or, Jeeves in the Country)
(1991)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy
Jeeves gives notice when Bertie plans to continue his less-than-inspired horn playing during a country vacation. Chuffy rents Bertie a country cottage and hires Jeeves as his new ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Matthew Solon, Sharon Holm
Votes: 283
30.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
The Silver Jug (or Jeeves Saves the Cow Creamer)
(1991)
TV-PG | 52 min | Comedy
Romantic entanglements are complicated by a unique silver cow creamer that is desired by both Bertie's Uncle Thomas and his rival, Judge Sir Watkyn Bassett. Sir Watkyn purchases the creamer... See full summary »
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, John Turner, John Woodnutt
Votes: 279
31.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
The Con (or, Pearls Mean Tears)
(1991)
TV-PG | 50 min | Comedy
First, Bertie is summoned to a seaside resort by Aunt Agatha, who has a suitable marriage candidate for him. It's just a coincidence that the pearls the young lady pledges as collateral for... See full summary »
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Mary Wimbush, Graham Seed
Votes: 269
32. The Gathering Storm (1974 TV Movie)
75 min | Biography, Drama
The story of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, focusing on his place in British life just prior to World War II.
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Richard Burton, Virginia McKenna, Angharad Rees, Lesley Dunlop
Votes: 268
33.
The Wednesday Play (1964–1970)
Episode:
Up the Junction
(1965)
72 min | Drama
Fragments of the life of three working-class women, and the people around them, in South London in the 1960s. Scenes in homes, streets, pubs, prison and their workplace cover family, friendship, romance, sex, and abortion.
Director: Ken Loach | Stars: Carol White, Geraldine Sherman, Vickery Turner, Tony Selby
Votes: 260
34.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
The Bassetts' Fancy Dress Ball (or, A Plan for Gussie)
(1991)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy
Gussie writes down quirks of Sir Watkyn and Spode in a little notebook to give him confidence, but he loses the notebook. Stephanie finds it but declines to give it back until Jeeves ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, John Turner, John Woodnutt
Votes: 257
35. Armchair Theatre (1956–1974)
60 min | Drama
This show was a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and from mid-1968 by Thames Television.
Stars: Harry H. Corbett, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Billie Whitelaw, Neil McCallum
Votes: 246
36. Love on a Branch Line (1994– )
198 min | Comedy, Drama
A civil servant is sent to dismantle a research unit at an eccentric lord's mansion. He meets the lord's daughters, who make him feel at home, causing him to reevaluate his future plans.
Stars: Michael Maloney, Leslie Phillips, Maria Aitken, Graham Crowden
Votes: 246
37.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
The Mysterious Stranger (or, Kidnapped)
(1991)
TV-PG | 49 min | Comedy
Barmy has put together a group of alleged musicians to play in blackface at his aunt's 50th anniversary party. Pauline, in London, is alarmed because a man is following her, so Bertie is ... See full summary »
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Matthew Solon, Sharon Holm
Votes: 245
38.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
Safety in New York (or, Bertie Sets Sail)
(1992)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy
Fleeing from the twin horrors of prospective marriage and the baleful Aunt Agatha, Bertie sails to New York with Jeeves, where he hopes to lie low but instead he is charged with minding the... See full summary »
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Robert Daws, John Fitzgerald Jay
Votes: 244
39. Dead Gorgeous (2002 TV Movie)
120 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Rose and Antonia are two old friends who meet up again after the second world war. Unhappy in their relationships, they plan to 'accidentally' murder each others husbands.
Director: Sarah Harding | Stars: Fay Ripley, Helen McCrory, Ron Cook, Lloyd Owen
Votes: 242
40.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
Wooster with a Wife (or, Jeeves the Matchmaker)
(1991)
TV-PG | 50 min | Comedy
Bertie decides he would like a child to brighten up his mundane life and considers adoption. After being mistaken for a burglar, he is coerced into giving a speech at a girls' school, which... See full summary »
Director: Simon Langton | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Robert Daws, Michael Siberry
Votes: 240
41. Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (1973–1974)
30 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
"Orson Welles' Great Mysteries" was a United Kingdom hosted anthology mystery and supernatural series, hosted by Orson Welles.
Stars: Orson Welles, Christopher Lee, Dean Stockwell, Joan Collins
Votes: 233
42.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
Bertie Ensures Bicky Can Continue to Live in Manhattan (or, the Full House)
(1992)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy
Bertie is faced with problems. One is how to allow the indolent 'Bicky' Bickersteth to remain in Manhattan and still receive an allowance from his luxury-hating father, the Duke of Chiswick... See full summary »
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Julian Firth, John Fitzgerald Jay
Votes: 231
43.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
The Ex's Are Nearly Married Off (or, the Ties That Bind)
(1993)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy
Overjoyed that Madeleine Bassett is to marry Spode and stop pursuing him Bertie goes to Totleigh Towers for the wedding, meeting another Drone, drippy Ginger Winship, whose bullying fiancee... See full summary »
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Elizabeth Spriggs, John Turner
Votes: 226
44.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
Cyril and the Broadway Musical (or, Introduction on Broadway)
(1992)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy
The latest misfit whom Aunt Agatha has short-sightedly ordered Bertie to take under his wing is Cyril Bassington-Bassington, a young aristocrat whose mother has sent him across the Atlantic... See full summary »
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Mary Wimbush, Nicholas Hewetson
Votes: 222
45.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
Bertie Takes Gussie's Place at Deverill Hall (or, Right Ho! Jeeves)
(1992)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy
Bossy Aunt Agatha orders Bertie to go to Deverill Hall and woo Gertrude Winkworth. Gussie Fink-Nottle is due to go to the hall to impress Dame Daphne, Gertrude's mother and godmother to his... See full summary »
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Mary Wimbush, Richard Braine
Votes: 221
46. Winter Solstice (2003 TV Movie)
130 min | Drama, Romance
Elfrida Phibbs thought she was retiring from her London life to a "geriatric bolthole" in the country. She soon finds herself compassionately tending to her neighbor Oscar, who has suffered... See full summary »
Director: Martyn Friend | Stars: Sinéad Cusack, Jan Niklas, Geraldine Chaplin, Emilia Streets
Votes: 219
47.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
Return to New York
(1993)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy
Bertie is back in New York and enamoured of portrait painter Gwladys Pendlebury but Aunt Agatha is not enamoured of the painting of her Bertie commissioned and she is even more annoyed when... See full summary »
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Elizabeth Spriggs, Robert Daws
Votes: 209
48. Celebration (2007 TV Movie)
42 min | Drama
Harold Pinter's play about a celebratory dinner at a top restaurant in town. Two couples meet for dinner to celebrate the wedding anniversary of one of the couples. Also joining into the ... See full summary »
Director: John Crowley | Stars: James Bolam, Janie Dee, Colin Firth, James Fox
Votes: 207
49.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
Aunt Dahlia, Cornelia and Madeline (or, Comrade Bingo)
(1992)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy
Wearing a false beard, Bingo Little pretends to be a friend of the workers to impress Charlotte Corday Rowbotham, daughter of a socialist orator, to the disgust of her other admirer Comrade... See full summary »
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, John Turner, Patricia Lawrence
Votes: 205
50.
Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993)
Episode:
Sir Watkyn Bassett's Memoirs (or, Hot Off the Press)
(1992)
TV-PG | 51 min | Comedy
Jeeves does not approve of Bertie's new betrothed, bossy Lady Florence Craye - author of 'Strength Through Willpower', particularly when, during a weekend party at Totleigh Court, she ... See full summary »
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, John Turner, John Woodnutt
Votes: 205