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1. Professor T (2021– )
46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Professor Jasper Tempest, a genius Cambridge University criminologist with OCD and an overbearing mother, assists the police in solving crime.
Stars: Barney White, Ben Miller, Frances de la Tour, Emma Naomi
Votes: 5,519
2. Cloud Atlas (2012)
R | 172 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution.
Directors: Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Stars: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Hugo Weaving
Votes: 374,638 | Gross: $27.11M
3. The Theory of Everything (2014)
PG-13 | 123 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Stephen Hawking gets unprecedented success in the field of physics despite being diagnosed with motor neuron disease at the age of 21. He defeats awful odds as his first wife Jane aids him loyally.
Director: James Marsh | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior, Sophie Perry
Votes: 482,612 | Gross: $35.89M
4. The Good Shepherd (2006)
R | 167 min | Drama, History, Thriller
The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life.
Director: Robert De Niro | Stars: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro, Alec Baldwin
Votes: 108,645 | Gross: $59.95M
5. Chariots of Fire (1981)
PG | 125 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.
Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers
Votes: 65,965 | Gross: $58.97M
6. 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: 23,621 | Gross: $3.13M
7. An Education (2009)
PG-13 | 100 min | Drama
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
Director: Lone Scherfig | Stars: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina, Olivia Williams
Votes: 138,198 | Gross: $12.57M
8. The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)
PG-13 | 108 min | Biography, Drama
The story of the life and academic career of the pioneer Indian mathematician, Srinivasa Ramanujan, and his friendship with his mentor, Professor G.H. Hardy.
Director: Matt Brown | Stars: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Malcolm Sinclair, Raghuvir Joshi
Votes: 62,237 | Gross: $3.87M
9. The Duchess (2008)
PG-13 | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was revered for her extravagant political and personal life.
Director: Saul Dibb | Stars: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Dominic Cooper, Charlotte Rampling
Votes: 87,352 | Gross: $13.82M
10. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
R | 126 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, popularly known as Che, along with his friend Alberto Granado, decides to take a road trip across South America. His experiences on the journey transform him.
Director: Walter Salles | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Mía Maestro, Mercedes Morán
Votes: 104,830 | Gross: $16.78M
11. 24 Hour Party People (2002)
R | 117 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.
Director: Michael Winterbottom | Stars: Steve Coogan, Lennie James, John Thomson, Paul Popplewell
Votes: 39,735 | Gross: $1.13M
12. A Brilliant Young Mind (2014)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama, Romance
A socially awkward teenage maths prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.
Director: Morgan Matthews | Stars: Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan
Votes: 30,339 | Gross: $0.14M
13. Amazing Grace (2006)
PG | 118 min | Biography, Drama, History
The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon, Romola Garai
Votes: 25,706 | Gross: $21.21M
14. The Deceived (2020)
45 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Ophelia falls for her married lecturer Michael. When he mysteriously disappears, she tracks him down and discovers that his wife has died in a fire.
Stars: Emmett J Scanlan, Catherine Walker, Paul Mescal, Eleanor Methven
Votes: 2,096
15. Red Joan (2018)
R | 101 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of Joan Stanley, who was exposed as the K.G.B.'s longest-serving British spy.
Director: Trevor Nunn | Stars: Judi Dench, Sophie Cookson, Stephen Campbell Moore, Tom Hughes
Votes: 14,444 | Gross: $1.58M
16. The Best of Youth (2003)
R | 374 min | Drama, Romance
An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Director: Marco Tullio Giordana | Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Adriana Asti
Votes: 23,228 | Gross: $0.27M
17. Random Harvest (1942)
Passed | 126 min | Drama, Romance
An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Ronald Colman, Greer Garson, Philip Dorn, Susan Peters
Votes: 8,431 | Gross: $10.14M
18. Head in the Clouds (2004)
R | 132 min | Drama, Romance, War
From the roaring 1920s to the ruinous Spanish Civil War and Adolf Hitler's rise into power, the lives of an Irish schoolteacher, a provocative heiress and her Spanish muse are intricately interlaced, sharing the same destiny and passion.
Director: John Duigan | Stars: Charlize Theron, Stuart Townsend, Penélope Cruz, Thomas Kretschmann
Votes: 15,793 | Gross: $0.40M
19. Cambridge Spies (2003)
59 min | Drama, History
The true story of a group of Cambridge University Students who are recruited to spy for the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.
Stars: Tom Hollander, Toby Stephens, Rupert Penry-Jones, Samuel West
Votes: 2,209
20. The Company (2007)
TV-14 | 48 min | Drama, History, Romance
Real-life figures from the Cold War-era mix with a fictional story based on a group of C.I.A. operatives and their counterparts in the K.G.B., MI6, and the Mossad.
Stars: Chris O'Donnell, Alfred Molina, Michael Keaton, Rory Cochrane
Votes: 4,967
21. The Land Girls (1998)
R | 111 min | Drama, Romance, War
Three young women from very different walks of life join the women's land army during World War II, and are sent to work together on a farm in Dorset, where the experience changes their lives forever.
Director: David Leland | Stars: Catherine McCormack, Rachel Weisz, Anna Friel, Steven Mackintosh
Votes: 2,176 | Gross: $0.15M
22. Pygmalion (1938)
89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.
Directors: Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard | Stars: Leslie Howard, Wendy Hiller, Wilfrid Lawson, Marie Lohr
Votes: 9,675 | Gross: $3.05M
23. To End All Wars (2001)
R | 117 min | Action, Drama, War
During World War II, four Allied POWs endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle.
Director: David L. Cunningham | Stars: Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland, Ciarán McMenamin, Mark Strong
Votes: 11,654
24. Wittgenstein (1993)
Not Rated | 72 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
A dramatization, in modern theatrical style, of the life and thought of the Viennese-born, Cambridge-educated philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), whose principal interest was the ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Jarman | Stars: Clancy Chassay, Jill Balcon, Sally Dexter, Gina Marsh
Votes: 2,939
25. 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: 6,367
26. Le Week-End (2013)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A British couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage.
Director: Roger Michell | Stars: Lindsay Duncan, Jim Broadbent, Jeff Goldblum, Igor Gotesman
Votes: 8,693 | Gross: $2.22M
27. Micro Men (2009 TV Movie)
84 min | Biography, Drama
In 1979 Clive Sinclair, British inventor of the pocket calculator, frustrated by the lack of home investment in his project,the electric car, also opposes former assistant Chris Curry's ... See full summary »
Director: Saul Metzstein | Stars: Alexander Armstrong, Martin Freeman, Edward Baker-Duly, Sam Phillips
Votes: 933
28. Chemical Wedding (2008)
Not Rated | 109 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A shy, stuttering professor brings Aleister Crowley back to life.
Director: Julian Doyle | Stars: Simon Callow, Kal Weber, Lucy Cudden, Jud Charlton
Votes: 1,685
29. Hawking (2013)
TV-PG | 86 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy
Hawking is the extraordinary story of the planet's most famous living scientist, told for the first time in his own words and by those closest to him. Made with unique access to Hawking's ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Finnigan | Stars: Stephen Hawking, Arthur Pelling, Finlay Macrae, Nathan Chapple
Votes: 1,716
30. Philby, Burgess and Maclean (1977 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
Recruited by the Russians during their days at Cambridge, three young Englishmen rise to become high-ranked MI5 agents until their exposure in 1949.
Director: Gordon Flemyng | Stars: Anthony Bate, Derek Jacobi, Michael Culver, Ingrid Hafner
Votes: 72
31. The Highest Honor (1982 TV Movie)
R | 144 min | Drama, War
The true story of a daring raid on Japanese-occupied Singapore Harbour by Australian and British troops during WWII.
Directors: Peter Maxwell, Seiji Maruyama | Stars: John Howard, Atsuo Nakamura, Stuart Wilson, Steve Bisley
Votes: 168
32. Four Minutes (2005 TV Movie)
90 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of the four minute mile-breaker Roger Bannister.
Director: Charles Beeson | Stars: Jamie Maclachlan, Christopher Plummer, Shaun Smyth, Amy Rutherford
Votes: 381
33. Kim Philby: His Most Intimate Betrayal (2014– )
Not Rated | 118 min | Documentary, Drama, History
The story of Kim Philby, one of the famous Cambridge spies, who was a double agent for the KGB while working in a position of trust for the British secret service. The person he betrayed ... See full summary »
Stars: Ben Macintyre, David Oakes, William Beck, Mark Elliott
Votes: 81
34. Chris & Don: A Love Story (2007)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, Romance
The love story between British writer, Christopher Isherwood (whose book 'The Berlin Stories' inspired the musical and film Cabaret) and Don Bachardy, American portrait artist.
Directors: Tina Mascara, Guido Santi | Stars: W.H. Auden, Don Bachardy, Ted Bachardy, James Berg
Votes: 990 | Gross: $0.21M
35. A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake (2002)
48 min | Documentary, Biography
A study, mostly chronological, of the life of Nick Drake (1948-1974). Gabrielle, his older sister, tells us of her brother's birth in Burma, childhood in Warwickshire, life at Cambridge and... See full summary »
Director: Jeroen Berkvens | Stars: Nick Drake, Paul Weller, Gabrielle Drake, Rodney Drake
Votes: 752
36. Beauty and the Geek (2006)
48 min | Comedy, Reality-TV
Seven male geeks are paired up with seven beautiful women.
Stars: David Mitchell, Alex Purves, John Gethin, Sam Wyness
Votes: 190
37. SHOT! The Psycho-Spiritual Mantra of Rock (2016)
Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A joyride that delves deep into the mind of rock and roll's greatest living photographer: Mick Rock.
Director: Barnaby Clay | Stars: Mick Rock, TV on the Radio, Karen O, Tunde Adebimpe
Votes: 786 | Gross: $0.01M
38. Gender Wars (2023 TV Special)
Documentary
Stars: Linda Bellos, Julie Bindel, Finn Mackay, Kathleen Stock
Votes: 19
39. Much Ado About Something (2001)
70 min | Documentary, Mystery
Did Christopher Marlowe write the works of Shakespeare?
Director: Michael Rubbo | Stars: Michael Rubbo, Bill Browning, Jonathan Bate, John Michell
Votes: 84
40. Volcano: An Inquiry Into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976)
100 min | Documentary
A documentary on the life of the alcoholic writer Malcolm Lowry, interspersed with readings of Lowry's work by Richard Burton. Lowry was born and educated in England. He moved to Mexico in ... See full summary »
Directors: Donald Brittain, John Kramer | Stars: Marjorie Bonner, Donald Brittain, John Buchan, Richard Burton
Votes: 212
41. Scholastic England (1948)
Approved | 9 min | Documentary, Short
This Traveltalks entry visits British institutions of higher learning at Cambridge, Oxford, and Eton.
Star: James A. FitzPatrick
Votes: 104
42. Out at Lunch (2010)
41 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
Out at Lunch introduces a group of gay friends during their last few days at Cambridge University as they prepare to leave the comfort and security of their tight-knit group for life in the 'real world'.
Directors: Alisa Arnah, Emma Brogen
43. The Boast of Kings (1981)
90 min | Documentary
Documentary on the Choir and Chapel of King's College in Cambridge, UK. Features live footage of the Choir in performance, expansive views of the Chapel's architecture and interviews with key people on the Chapel's founding and history.
Director: Robert Chesterman
46. The Questioning City (1959)
20 min | Documentary, Short
Narrated by Sir Michael Redgrave, this film shows the colleges and student life of Cambridge in 1963. From British Pathé TV's Arts Collection.
Director: Eric Fullilove | Star: Michael Redgrave
47. Ten Thousand Talents (1960)
24 min | Short
An expose of the pretensions and perversions of British academia.
Director: Don Levy | Stars: David Cohen, Peter Cook, Alan Daiches, Charles Gross
Votes: 28
48.
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (2001–2007)
Episode:
For the Sake of Elena
(2002)
TV-PG | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When the deaf daughter of a Cambridge professor is found brutally murdered while jogging, Lynley finds she has led a promiscuous lifestyle.
Director: Richard Laxton | Stars: Samantha Baker, Cherie Lunghi, Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small
Votes: 430
49.
Kavanagh QC (1995–2001)
Episode:
Innocency of Life
(1998)
TV-MA | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a young vicar is accused of seducing a grieving young widow. Kavanagh defends him, but suddenly charges are dropped and the couple become engaged.
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax | Stars: Robert Ashby, Matt Bardock, Daisy Bates, Tom Brodie
Votes: 61
50.
Lovejoy (1986–1994)
Episode:
Never Judge a Book by Its Cover
(1993)
TV-14 | 50 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two aging spinster sisters ask Lovejoy to sell their family Bible, a rare historic edition that's worth 20,000 pounds.
Director: Jim Hill | Stars: Ian McShane, Dudley Sutton, Caroline Langrishe, Diane Parish
Votes: 50