Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "british-expatriate"

1. The Bounty (1984)

PG | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Fed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action.

Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox

Votes: 30,421 | Gross: $8.60M

2. White Mischief (1987)

R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In 1940s Kenya, a married couple join other affluent British expatriates in a lifestyle of recklessness and excess, but soon find themselves in a troubling situation.

Director: Michael Radford | Stars: Sarah Miles, Joss Ackland, John Hurt, Greta Scacchi

Votes: 3,214 | Gross: $3.11M

3. Double Whammy (2001)

R | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A world-weary police detective who fails to stop a fast-food restaurant massacre struggles to regain his departmental reputation, public image and self-worth.

Director: Tom DiCillo | Stars: Denis Leary, Elizabeth Hurley, Luis Guzmán, Victor Argo

Votes: 3,934

4. Under the Volcano (1984)

R | 112 min | Drama

A day in the life of a self-destructive British consul in Mexico on the eve of World War II.

Director: John Huston | Stars: Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset, Anthony Andrews, Ignacio López Tarso

Votes: 6,237 | Gross: $2.56M

5. Nowhere in Africa (2001)

R | 141 min | Biography, Drama, History

Due to Hitler's threat, Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer, immigrates to Kenya with his wife Jettel and daughter Regina. Things take a turn when the family is ordered to move by the British officers.

Director: Caroline Link | Stars: Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, Matthias Habich, Sidede Onyulo

Votes: 13,959 | Gross: $6.17M

6. Pulp (1972)

PG | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.

Director: Mike Hodges | Stars: Michael Caine, Mickey Rooney, Lionel Stander, Lizabeth Scott

Votes: 2,905

7. Sea Fury (1958)

84 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Off the Spanish coast, two tug-boat captains are caught in a violent feud over a woman but their rivalry is set aside when a sinking freighter carrying explosives must be salvaged and towed to port.

Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Stanley Baker, Victor McLaglen, Luciana Paluzzi, Grégoire Aslan

Votes: 234

8. High Season (1987)

R | 90 min | Comedy, Romance

The lives of an English expat photographer, her daughter, her player ex, a commie spy, a "00" agent and other English in Lindos, Rhodes, Greece.

Director: Clare Peploe | Stars: Jacqueline Bisset, James Fox, Irene Papas, Sebastian Shaw

Votes: 468 | Gross: $1.13M

9. The Road to Singapore (1931)

Approved | 69 min | Drama, Romance

Gossip, snobbery, mistrust, divorce and a mail-order engagement dominate the lives of the British upper class living in the plantation colonies of Southeast Asia.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: William Powell, Doris Kenyon, Marian Marsh, Louis Calhern

Votes: 498

10. Eureka Stockade (1949)

Approved | 103 min | Drama, History, Western

In 1854, Australian gold rush miners struggle for their rights against an oppressive government.

Director: Harry Watt | Stars: Chips Rafferty, Jane Barrett, Jack Lambert, Peter Illing

Votes: 209

11. Legacy of the Incas (1965)

100 min | Adventure, Western

During the 1800s, Peru's government sends 2 envoys to negotiate peace with the rebellious Incas but a treasure-hunter bandit shoots the Inca ruler and his son, leaving the 2 envoys to take the blame for it.

Director: Georg Marischka | Stars: Guy Madison, Rik Battaglia, Heinz Erhardt, Chris Howland

Votes: 229

12. Chaos at the Chateau (2007– )

30 min | Documentary

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Stars: Mark Chapman, Ann Darrell, David Darrell, Gerhard Pruegger

Votes: 14

13. Buckskin (1958–1959)
Episode: The Ghost of Balaclava (1958)

30 min | Western

A veteran of the Crimean War is entertaining the town folk with his tales of war heroics. Jody asks him for help in preparing a school paper but the facts given may or may not be true.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Tom Nolan, Sallie Brophy, Alan Marshal, Patrick Westwood

14. Coach (1989–1997)
Episode: Dresswreckers (1992)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Sport

Christine is thrilled with her wedding dress - but going out of town to visit her mother, she asks Hayden to pick up the dress one week before the wedding. However, he and the British dressmaker can't help but get on each other's nerves.

Director: Andre Belgrader | Stars: Craig T. Nelson, Jerry Van Dyke, Clare Carey, Bill Fagerbakke

Votes: 62

15. Coronet Blue (1967)
Episode: Man Running (1967)

60 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

A marked man, a refugee from a South American revolution, needs Alden's help, to hide out in his apartment and find his daughter at an American university.

Director: Sam Wanamaker | Stars: Frank Converse, Denholm Elliott, Carlos Montalbán, Bramwell Fletcher

Votes: 14

16. Friends (1994–2004)
Episode: The One with All the Rugby (1998)

TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy, Romance

Chandler runs into Janice, and finds her more irritating than ever. Meanwhile, Ross attempts to learn how to play rugby to impress Emily and Monica obsesses over a electric switch.

Director: James Burrows | Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc

Votes: 5,106

17. Britain's Underworld (2010– )
Episode: Costa Del Crime (2011)

Documentary, Crime, History

The gripping story of the arrest of the five six million pound Security Express robbers, who, like many British crooks, sought sunny retirement on the Costa del Sol.

Director: Hugo Smith | Stars: John Knight, Freddie Foreman, Wensley Clarkson, Roy Hamm

18. Mad Men (2007–2015)
Episode: Signal 30 (2012)

TV-14 | 48 min | Drama

While Lane needs some help closing with a potential new client, Peter begins to crack under the pressure of both his home life and work life.

Director: John Slattery | Stars: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones

Votes: 3,090

19. Wanted Down Under Revisited (2008– )
Episode: Mills (2019)

44 min | Reality-TV

Back in 2009 (S.5 Ep.20) Sally Mills wanted to bring her family to Australia but were surprised by the harsh employment realities and cost of living. 9 years later are they now living in the UK or Australia?

Director: Gareth Lee | Star: Nicki Chapman