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1. 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
2.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Dear Antonioni
(1997)
93 min | Documentary
Using a star-studded array of interviewees and taking its cue from a letter from the philosopher and critic Roland Barthes, this acclaimed Arena documentary offers a captivating portrait of an intriguing director.
Director: Gianni Massironi | Stars: Michelangelo Antonioni, Christine Boisson, Alain Cuny, Tonino Guerra
Votes: 61
3.
Brideshead Revisited (1981)
Episode:
The Bleak Light of Day
(1981)
TV-14 | 52 min | Drama, Romance
Charles and Sebastian return to Oxford but feel old and out of place. Sebastian feels that his mother is constantly watching him through her friends. In particular, both young men have to ... See full summary »
Directors: Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Charles Sturridge | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Anthony Andrews, John Grillo, Brian Hayes
Votes: 183
4. The Sweeney (1975–1978)
TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jack Regan and George Carter are hard-edged detectives in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan Police. They pursue villains by methods which are underhanded and often illegal, frequently violent and - more often than not - successful.
Stars: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Garfield Morgan, John Alkin
Votes: 2,643
5.
Lovejoy (1986–1994)
Episode:
The Real Thing
(1986)
TV-14 | 51 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Jane partners with an entrepreneur named Palmer to convert a warehouse into an Art Nouveau antiques centre, but Lovejoy suspects he's a con man.
Director: Roger Tucker | Stars: Ian McShane, Phyllis Logan, Dudley Sutton, Malcolm Tierney
Votes: 95
6.
Brideshead Revisited (1981)
Episode:
Julia
(1981)
TV-14 | 52 min | Drama, Romance
Charles returns to Paris to continue his art studies and is surprised with a visit from Rex Mottram. It would seem that he and Sebastian had stopped in Paris enroute to a sanatorium in ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Sturridge | Stars: Jeremy Irons, Susan Field, Charles Keating, Diana Quick
Votes: 169
7. The Optimist (1983–1985)
30 min | Comedy
Meet The Optimist. A guy who has big dreams in life yet creates problems and confusion wherever he goes. He means well, but in this dialogue-free comedy series he manages to leave a trail of chaos across Hollywood and London.
Stars: Enn Reitel, Christine Garner, Robert Sidaway, Me Me Lai
Votes: 20
8. Lovejoy (1986–1994)
TV-14 | 50 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Lovejoy is an irresistible rogue with a keen eye for antiques. The part-time detective scours the murky salerooms, auction halls and stately homes of Britain, always on the lookout for a find.
Stars: Ian McShane, Dudley Sutton, Chris Jury, Phyllis Logan
Votes: 3,884
9. 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
10.
Omnibus (1967–2003)
Episode:
Don Delillo/The Word, the Image, the Gun
(1991)
Not Rated | 51 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
About the American novelist Don Delillo who is obsessed by violent images and what they can do to the soul of a 20th century culture like his, is dazzlingly, nay blindingly, assembled.
Director: Kim Evans | Stars: Bob Sherman, Leonard Webster, Jenny Runacre, Nicholas Hewetson
Votes: 16
11.
The Sweeney (1975–1978)
Episode:
The Bigger They Are
(1978)
TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Tycoon Leonard Gold is being blackmailed by Harold Collins, who has a photo of him present at a massacre of civilians in Malaya when he was in the Army twenty-five years earlier. He appeals... See full summary »
Director: Mike Vardy | Stars: John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Colin Jeavons, Jenny Runacre
Votes: 113
12. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 319
13. L'évasion de Hassan Terro (1976)
115 min | Comedy
Hassan Terro is released from the prison of the French forces to lead them to Algerian rebels, because the authorities see him as an important man responsible for the revolution. Indeed, he... See full summary »
Director: Mustapha Badie | Stars: Rouiched, Sid Ali Kouiret, Chafia Boudraa, Paul Mercey
Votes: 24
14. The Passenger (1975)
PG-13 | 126 min | Drama, Thriller
Unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, a frustrated war correspondent takes the risky path of co-opting the identity of a dead arms-deal acquaintance.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre, Ian Hendry
Votes: 26,141 | Gross: $0.62M
15. Taggart (1983–2010)
TV-14 | 120 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Maryhill CID investigates gruesome murders against the bleak backdrop of the city of Glasgow.
Stars: Blythe Duff, James MacPherson, Robert Robertson, Iain Anders
Votes: 1,996
16. The Duellists (1977)
PG | 100 min | Drama, War
France, 1801. Due to a minor perceived slight, mild-mannered Lieutenant d'Hubert is forced into a duel with hot-headed irrational Lieutenant Feraud. The disagreement ultimately results in scores of duels spanning several years.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Edward Fox
Votes: 26,666 | Gross: $0.20M
17.
Taggart (1983–2010)
Episode:
Love Knot
(1990)
TV-14 | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A body is dredged up from the bottom of the Clyde, setting Taggart and Jardine off on an investigation which takes them beyond Glasgow into the Scottish Highlands.
Director: Peter Barber-Fleming | Stars: Mark McManus, James MacPherson, Jenny Runacre, David Robb
Votes: 83
18.
Call Me Mister (1986)
Episode:
Running Time
(1986)
Crime, Drama
Australian lawyer Ben Fisher asks Jack to help find Jimmy Matthews for his wife Sophie. They divorced and he got custody of their child and then vanished. Jack tells Fisher he's surfing in Falmouth without realising he's a hired killer.
Director: Peter Ellis | Stars: Steve Bisley, Dulice Liecier, David Bamber, Dermot Crowley
Votes: 12
19. The New Avengers (1976–1977)
60 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
Secret agent Steed, working for an unnamed branch of British intelligence, is teamed up with two partners to fight evil plots for world domination, dealing with suspended animation, biological warfare, robotics, and other threats.
Stars: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Maurice Marsac
Votes: 2,603
20. Omnibus (1967–2003)
Not Rated | 43 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Arts documentary series with concerts and experimental dramatizations.
Stars: Humphrey Burton, Kirsty Wark, David Collings, Michael Hordern
Votes: 293
21. Call Me Mister (1986)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Australian ex-cop Bartholomew (Bisley) goes to Britain when he discovers he is heir to a family title, not really getting on with his newly discovered family he starts working as a private Detective.
Stars: Steve Bisley, Dulice Liecier, David Bamber, Dermot Crowley
Votes: 42
22. The Island (1978 TV Movie)
30 min | Drama
Simmonds, a professional soldier, takes time out from the horrors of war to reunite with the girl he once loved. But the small island,on which she lives, is said to be haunted.
Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: John Hurt, Charles Gray, Graham Crowden, Ed Devereaux
Votes: 6
23. Husbands (1970)
PG-13 | 154 min | Comedy, Drama
After the death of a common friend, three married men leave their lives together, seeking pleasure and freedom and ultimately leaving for London.
Director: John Cassavetes | Stars: Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Jenny Runacre
Votes: 7,321 | Gross: $0.78M
24. The Alternative Miss World (1980)
90 min | Documentary
A filmed record of the 1978 "Alternative Miss World" beauty pageant held in a circus tent on Clapham Common in South London.
Director: Richard Gayer | Stars: Andrew Logan, Divine, Luciana Martínez, Sophie Parkin
Votes: 57
25. Dyn Amo (1972)
120 min | Drama
The film follows a series of striptease acts performed for an imaginary audience in a seedy club. This mesmerising and challenging film offers no hand to hold as we, the viewers, journey ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Dwoskin | Stars: Jenny Runacre, Pat Ford, Catherine Kessler, Linda Marlowe
Votes: 128
26. Battle of Soho (2017)
100 min | Documentary
In November 2014 the Iconic club Madame Jojos closed its doors. This event being interpreted by many as the death knell of Soho.The gentrification of Soho affects the LGBT community and its... See full summary »
Director: Aro Korol | Stars: Arkadius, Tim Arnold, Bethany Baderinwa, Elizabeth Baderinwa
Votes: 57
27. The Witches (1990)
PG | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse.
Director: Nicolas Roeg | Stars: Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher, Rowan Atkinson
Votes: 54,599 | Gross: $10.36M
28. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
G | 155 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Petula Clark, Michael Redgrave, George Baker
Votes: 3,808 | Gross: $2.55M
29. Meet Pursuit Delange: The Movie (2015)
131 min | Comedy
Three old school friends are forced by circumstance to live together in genteel poverty in an old groundsman's hut tacked onto the back of a ramshackle cricket pavilion.
Director: Howard Webster | Stars: Ray Adelaja, Keyah Beckford, Stefan Booth, Peter Bowles
Votes: 28
30. Restoration (1995)
R | 117 min | Biography, Drama, History
The exiled royal doctor to King Charles II devotes himself to helping Londoners suffering from the plague, and in the process falls in love with an equally poor woman.
Director: Michael Hoffman | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Sam Neill, David Thewlis, Polly Walker
Votes: 9,914 | Gross: $4.10M
31.
The New Avengers (1976–1977)
Episode:
The Tale of the Big Why
(1976)
50 min | Action, Mystery, Thriller
Bert Brandon is released from jail and several parties, including the New Avengers, follow him to get their hands on the information he has been keeping secret, whatever it may be.
Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Derek Waring
Votes: 82
32. The British Guide to Showing Off (2011)
98 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
British artist and living legend Andrew Logan, loved the world over by celebrities and misfits alike, takes us under his glittering wing and inside his outrageous, anarchic and spectacular ... See full summary »
Director: Jes Benstock | Stars: Andrew Logan, Brian Eno, Grayson Perry, Zandra Rhodes
Votes: 122
33. The Canterbury Tales (1972)
NC-17 | 111 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti
Votes: 8,211
34. All Creatures Great and Small (1975 TV Movie)
92 min | Biography, Drama
The story of a young veterinarian's apprenticeship to a somewhat eccentric older vet in the English countryside, and the young man's hesitating courtship of the daughter of a local farmer.
Director: Claude Whatham | Stars: Brenda Bruce, Christine Buckley, John Collin, Jane Collins
Votes: 929
35. The MacKintosh Man (1973)
PG | 98 min | Thriller
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason, Harry Andrews
Votes: 5,210 | Gross: $3.30M
36. The Edge of Love (2008)
R | 110 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Two feisty, free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant, charismatic poet who loves them both.
Director: John Maybury | Stars: Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller, Matthew Rhys, Simon Armstrong
Votes: 18,924 | Gross: $0.03M
37. The Creeping Flesh (1973)
PG | 92 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A Victorian-age scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, when exposed to water, flesh returns to the bones ... See full summary »
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Lorna Heilbron, George Benson
Votes: 4,433
38. Jubilee (1978)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Queen Elizabeth I travels 400 years into the future to witness the appalling revelation of a dystopian London overrun by corruption and a vicious gang of punk guerrilla girls led by the new Monarch of Punk.
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Adam Ant, Richard O'Brien, Ian Charleson, Jayne County
Votes: 3,694
39. The Lady Vanishes (1979)
PG | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery
While travelling by rail in interwar Nazi Germany, a young socialite finds that a fellow female passenger has disappeared from the train, but nobody else remembers her having been on board.
Director: Anthony Page | Stars: Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, Angela Lansbury, Herbert Lom
Votes: 2,987
40. Spectre (1977 TV Movie)
Unrated | 98 min | Horror
A criminologist and occult investigator recruits an old friend to assist in his current case. A sister of a prominent British businessman believes her brother dabbles in the black arts. The two investigate the matter.
Director: Clive Donner | Stars: Robert Culp, Gig Young, John Hurt, Gordon Jackson
Votes: 706
41. Jubilee: A Time Less Golden (2003 Video)
38 min | Documentary, Short
A documentary on Derek Jarman and 'Jubilee' made by Jarman actor Spencer Leigh.
Director: Spencer Leigh | Stars: Lee Drysdale, Christopher Hobbs, Derek Jarman, John Maybury
Votes: 31
42. Joseph Andrews (1977)
R | 99 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Lady Booby alias "Belle" (Ann-Margret), the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby (Peter Bull), has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews (Peter... See full summary »
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Ann-Margret, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern, Beryl Reid
Votes: 681 | Gross: $0.84M
43. The Final Programme (1973)
R | 81 min | Sci-Fi, Thriller
A trio of scientists plan to create a self-replicating, immortal, hermaphrodite using the Final Programme developed by a dead, Nobel Prize-winning scientist.
Director: Robert Fuest | Stars: Jon Finch, Jenny Runacre, Sterling Hayden, Harry Andrews
Votes: 1,078
44. Boogie Woogie (2009)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Drama
A comedy of manners set against the backdrop of contemporary London and the international art scene.
Director: Duncan Ward | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Alan Cumming, Heather Graham, Danny Huston
Votes: 4,179 | Gross: $0.00M
45. Hussy (1980)
R | 95 min | Drama
Beaty (Dame Helen Mirren) is a prostitute working out of a high-class London cabaret where Emory (John Shea) is a technician. They begin an affair encumbered by her job, his lack of money, ... See full summary »
Director: Matthew Chapman | Stars: Helen Mirren, John Shea, Paul Angelis, Murray Salem
Votes: 644
46. That Englishwoman: An Account of the Life of Emily Hobhouse (1990)
99 min | Drama, History, War
ONE WOMAN DARED TO DEFY THE MIGHT OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, HER NAME WAS EMILY HOBHOUSE.
Director: Dirk de Villiers | Stars: Veronica Lang, Terence Alexander, Jenny Runacre, Harvey Ashby
Votes: 27
47. Three Dangerous Ladies (1977)
88 min | Horror, Mystery
Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with three segments. Each story features a woman who willingly or unwillingly spreads evil.
Directors: Robert Fuest, Alvin Rakoff, Don Thompson | Stars: Ronee Blakley, Graham Crowden, Ed Devereaux, Keir Dullea
Votes: 120
48. Shadey (1985)
Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A young man discovers that not only has he the ability to read minds, but also that if he holds a camera next to his head he can transmit the thoughts he sees onto film. He strikes a deal ... See full summary »
Director: Philip Saville | Stars: Antony Sher, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Macnee, Katherine Helmond
Votes: 185
49. Son of Dracula (1973)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Due to be crowned King of the Netherworld by his mentor Merlin the Magician (Sir Ringo Starr) at a monster's convention, Count Downe (Harry Nilsson), the son of Count Dracula, falls in love... See full summary »
Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Harry Nilsson, Ringo Starr, Freddie Jones, Suzanna Leigh
Votes: 440
50. Perfect Piece (2020)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A private detective is hired t to track down a missing casanova and ends up falling head-over-heels for him.
Director: Charis Orchard | Stars: Okuwefunmbi Adeeagbo, Terence Anderson, Georgia Annable, Kate Batter
Votes: 68